I should have filed six posts by now in my 25 in 12 series, but I’m still a bit behind. Thought not as much as it seems. I finished this book a couple weeks ago for a review I wrote for Time Out Chicago, which you can find here. Since then I’ve been finishing two … Continue reading 25 in 12: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hadju
I’ve been meaning to write about this post from Merlin at 43 Folders for a couple weeks now. In part, because I think it’s a great outline for how to find a voice and throughline for your own blog, but also because it helped crystallize a few things about what I’m trying to do here. … Continue reading Puzzlement
(A quick note: Yeah, yeah. The next 25 in 12 is late. Sorry.) CTA President Ron Huberman has done a lot of things right since he took control of the agency. With respect to funding, re-organization, and general upkeep and maintenance, he’s made the CTA a better public agency. But over the last week, we … Continue reading How will Google Transit help us when the Blue Line breaks again?
Two online biz topics today and a third at the end that’s just silly to encourage you to keep reading. For those of you who don’t have jobs like mine – or don’t much care for Web nerd talk – come back tomorrow for a new 25 in 12 post that’s been brewing for months. … Continue reading A post for people who have jobs like mine
Ugh, the guilt of a neglected blog. I’m in another one of those phases where I’ve got a handful of half-finished posts sitting in draft, and can’t work up the nerve to attack those pesky, unworkable words and fashion them into fully-grown expressions. Also, 25 in 12 has hit a snag because of a book … Continue reading What's going on