Behold a photo of a rather small portion of the Chicago skyline, taken at night from across the bay at the planetarium. Downtown Chicago was a banquet of architectural delights.  The Great Chicago Fire meant the whole city had to start all over from scratch, and over the decades the tall buildings went up in […]

I’ve had this instrumental tune going through my head for the better part of a week.  I had no idea what the tune was or where I’d first heard it— because it was instrumental and full of brass, I assumed it was from the sound track of some movie I’d seen at some point in […]

  Indeed, many alert readers recognized the mystery pic in my last post as the Bean, in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Here are two more photos, of which I think the top offers a greater sense of mystery.      

Somewhere between the end of Bubonicon and packing for Chicon, I found time to watch a movie.  Lucky it was a good one. Gotta say, this little independent film brought out the heavyweights.  Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Paul Bettany, Mary McConnell, Zachary Quinto, Simon Baker, Demi Moore.   All acting the fuck out of […]