Gas!

Knob Creek, Kentucky. Topping up a Ford Excursion.

Rat-a-tat-tat

Knob Creek, Kentucky. Last weekend.

Louis Sullivan Wouldn't Like It

The colonnade, northwest corner of Millennium Park, Chicago, March 2006. Apparently it's a replica.

Bomb The Urburbs

A couple months ago as part of a series of Lizard-themed graffiti, I posted this picture:

At the time, I thought this tag was making reference to Wimsatt's "Bomb the Suburbs" book, and that maybe "urburbs" was a misspelling or abbreviation of "Suburbs". But I underestimated the sociological sophistication of the taggers. "Urburbs", it turns out, are

older neighborhoods within the typical American town or city. In most instances, these neighborhoods are the earliest suburbs; the tracts that were developed to house the more affluent families of America's white middle-class society shortly after World War II. The urburbs lie in rings around the outside of the central core of the "downtowns" and are not to be confused with historic urban housing, where the new suburban residents of the late 40's and 50's once lived, or with apartments for singles and newly married, or houses originally developed for the gentry.

(Quoted from "Redeveloping the Urburbs: Salvaging the Origins of Sprawl").

That definitely makes Hyde Park an urburb (though it predates WWII).

Working for the Clampdown

Bass Pro Shop, somewhere outside Harrisburg, PA. Sometime several weeks ago.

This was my first encounter with Harrisburg, which I thought might be something like Duisberg, based on the Clash's "Clampdown".

Wrapped Up In Books

Outside Ithaca, NY.


View of Cayuga Lake (?) from Jens Schellhammer's place.

Hyde Park Neon, Part II

More neon from the heart of Hyde Park: 53rd Street.

Ithaca is Gorges

Cornell University, March 4, 2006.

Ithaca is Cold

Hyde Park Neon

You-know-who has been posting a series of pictures of the neon in L.A. Time for Hyde Park to show its stuff.

Don't Catch Hammer Face

I found all of these tags between Kimbark and University on 57th Street. The Lizards seem to have adopted a post-office theme--maybe in the spirit of The Crying of Lot 49?

What are the "Urburbs"?







More of the Lizards.