Something to Put On My Office Wall

A big picture of my office, created using this thing.

The Intentionality All-Stars vs. The Astros

Pre-game discussion.


Noah makes a move.


The other team spent a lot of time on the floor.


Will and Dan.


Picking up blood.


Dan and Ben. Ben's grimacing because of all the blood all over the field.


The Intentionality All-Stars score.


Thomas makes a move.


I got yellow carded for slide tackling this guy.

The game ended as a 3-3 tie.

The Wire on BET

Unorthodox advertising campaign for the Wire on BET, undereath the Metra tracks on the north side of 55th street.

Inland Empire at the Music Box

Saw Inland Empire this afternoon at the Music Box with Melody, PJ, Jay, Colin, Dan and Erica. The movie benefitted greatly from seeing it with a group of friends, and from our attempt to make sense of it all.

The slightly creepy interior of the Music Box and the freezing temperature in the theater produced an ideal viewing experience. Altogether the afternoon was a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk.

Indoor Soccer

The Intentionality All-Stars play the "Astros" this Sunday at 2.15 in Henry Crown Field House. Most of the teams have names that indicate where their players come from: our first game (which ended up 1-3) was against the Graduate School of Business. Our last game is against some LLMs (foreign law students). I refereed a game between the Pritzker (Medical) School and the Social Administration School. Social administration had a deadly striker and won 5-4. I have no idea what department or school the Astros hail from.

Today's practice only resulted in one injury.

The Intentionality All-Stars

This afternoon at 2:15pm, the Intentionality All-Stars battle the Graduate School of Business.

Office Hours

Mondays, 9am-11am.

You have to leave the A/C on, even in the wintertime, because the radiator is broken and is on full-blast.

Mr. G's

The 53rd Street Co-op has closed. I was a little surprised, since there was no notice beforehand that it would close, and I was on my way to get some ingredients to make lasagna when I had to about-face and walk all the way to 55th street.

Before it was the 53rd Street Branch of the Co-op, this grocery store was called "Mr. G's", presumably named after its owners, Joel Gearring and Bill Gerstein. Zed still calls it Mr. G's, which is a better name than "the 53rd Street Co-op".

Closed shops induce a certain kind of melancholy in me, but that feeling is lessened in this case by the fact that Mr. G's was a pretty atrocious grocery store. It's only virtues were that it was one block away from my apartment and the staff was pretty universally nice and helpful. But it was frequently completely out of bread, which gave it a kind of Soviet-bloc feel. It would sometimes display raw seafood right as you walked into the store, which was shocking and unappetizing, but made sense when you walked by the meat aisle, which often smelled of something like formaldehyde. It only occasionally carried any parmesan cheese, stocking something called "parmesano reggianito" from Argentina instead. And it was always out of every kind of sparkling water except for flavored kinds, which would sit on the shelves for weeks. Only when people reluctantly bought up the remaining bottles did they restock with the regular, refreshing kind.

Apparently Mr. G's is being taken over by Hyde Park Produce, which will be a serious improvement. And it looks like the general manager of the Co-op resigned this week.

Metaphysical Graffiti

Someone else already had a post about these wall-based index entries, but I saw one in Eckhart the other day I thought worth posting.

The title of the post comes from Jay.