random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
My friend had come to Chicago straight from the prairies of Oklahoma to attend Bible College. He was waiting for the Ravenswood train at the Chicago Avenue station when he noticed a man sitting next to him holding a new Bible. My friend asked the man if he read the book often.
Staring down, the man responded softly, 'Yes, I read it. I read it all the time. All the time.'
He then looked up at the sky, and his face contorted as he shouted, 'Especially when I'm waiting for the goddamned motherfucking el!'
tagged: public transportation, Chicago
— Unknown El Passenger, "Reader to Reader", Chicago Reader, 1995 Aug. 8 (v. 24 n. 44, Section 1, page 2).
Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
The Weekly World News is shutting down. The WWN was the source of many a headline or graphic I pasted at various workplaces over the years. This NYT article profiles the story, mostly from the perspective of right-wing (faux) commentator, Ed Anger. In the South, in the 80s, it wasn’t apparent to me that Ed [...]
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media,
culture, magazines, media, publishing industry, right-wing, satire, talk radio, the South, Weekly World News.
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Some of the art quilters have decided to sue the collectors who helped make them famous, alleging that they have been unfairly treated.
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copyright,
Alabama, art, art quilts, copyright, cultural appropriation, culture, litigation, quilts.
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