Certain people from a certain Midwest town have a certain way of saying their words – different from other folks around the country. (Reference to comic genius Bill Swerski’s Super Fans of Saturday Night Live fame, circa early 1990s.)
Chicagoans, we kinda really, actually, totally sound like these guys. Let me use myself as an example. [Press play, please!]
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1. After a certain point, my foot got very heavy and it was hard for me to keep from speeding through the massive plains. Barns, silos, great stretches of trains and the patchwork of fields laid before us. It seemed to never end. We were driving out to Iowa for the day to register people … Continue reading Four Years Later, Election Day Reflections in 3 Short Essays.
Before electronic communication, we wrote letters. Now that most of our communication is online, we can access old letters, sent or received, anytime with a simple search. But what happened to those real, physical letters you sent to friends, family and maybe even a few pen pals or chain letter recipients pre-1996? Where are those pieces of paper, those little frail histories of our lives? Continue reading “Museum of Letters & Manuscripts, Paris: Keepers of the Letters, Frail Histories of our Lives”
Reggae Gold w Dj Papa G courtesy of Ogún Pleas Films via Vimeo.
You’ll get three things out of Reggae Gold:
