Gate Checked Luggage

Our "gate checked" luggage is delivered as we disembark on the tarmac at O'Hare, in the sleet.

Z&H Marketcafe

Z&H Marketcafe up on 47th street stocks fancy cheese, varieties of paté, and coffee made from a Clover machine. If you go in a couple of times, the guys who work there will call you by name.




Like any good hangout in Hyde Park/Kenwood, there's lots of Foucault floating around. In this case, it's a copy of Le government de soi et des autres.

Color Adjectives

A representation of the meaning of the adjective "green", during a joint meeting of the Wittgenstein Workshop and the Semantics and Philosophy of Language Workshop.

Blindness--Significance?

Class on Oedipus Tyrannus, Cobb 430, University of Chicago.

The Scope of a Serious Birder

Keith's Leica Televid 77. With patina.

Fall in Hyde Park

Fall in Hyde Park, originally uploaded by Nat Hansen.

Last week, Hyde Park was in the grip of some extreme autumn weather, with piles of crunchy leaves, temperatures dipping into the 40s, and increased squirrel activity.

Now it's just cold.

Polling Place

Nov 4, 2008: Hyde Park Neighborhood Center, originally uploaded by Nat Hansen.

Hyde Park neighborhood club.

Melody spent her morning and afternoon defending the rule of law at some polling places up on the north side.

Holzer Halloween

The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art had an opening and book signing for Jenny Holzer's exhibit Protect Protect on Halloween. We got a catalog signed, saw some decent costumes, shared a table with a U of C grad student in English working on an 18th century travelogue, and watched the projection on the outside of the building. The SLR-carrying droog in the third shot took our picture without permission inside the gallery, so I retaliated out on the steps.