Category Archives: Chicago

Aug 02

Photo-A-Day 2013: Week 25

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The week of June 17-23 started with a Monday date playing in a charity golf tournament in south Orange County and ended by spending the first full weekend of summer in one of my favorite places: Chicago. Let’s take a look at the week’s images!

17-JUN-2013: Not a bad view for a Monday afternoon, playing a charity golf tournament at Monarch Beach near Dana Point.

17-JUN-2013: Not a bad view for a Monday afternoon, playing a charity golf tournament at Monarch Beach near Dana Point.

18-JUN-2013: Working late in the home office. Some of the tools of the trade.

18-JUN-2013: Working late in the home office. Some of the tools of the trade.

19-JUN-2013: Looking south down Flower Street in DTLA from the rooftop of the apartment building.

19-JUN-2013: Looking south down Flower Street in DTLA from the rooftop of the apartment building.

20-JUN-2013: View from the window of The Lodge on Division Street. Only in Chicago: a cop smoking a cigar, sitting on the hood of his squad car, hitting on a cougar.

20-JUN-2013: View from the window of The Lodge on Division Street. Only in Chicago: an on-duty cop smoking a cigar, sitting on the hood of his squad car, hitting on a cougar.

21-JUN-2013: Love this image down the left field line at Wrigley Field. Check out the deep "foul pole" on the building across Waveland Ave., 460 feet from home plate.

21-JUN-2013: Love this image down the left field line at Wrigley Field. Check out the deep “foul pole” on the building across Waveland Ave., 460 feet from home plate.

22-JUN-2013: Waiting at the L stop in Chicago's Wicker Park, while a Saturday music festival takes place below.

22-JUN-2013: Waiting at the L stop in Chicago’s Wicker Park, while a Saturday afternoon music festival takes place below.

23-JUN-2013: One hot Sunday in Chicago. One great boat ride on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. One hell of a skyline.

23-JUN-2013: One hot Sunday in Chicago. One great boat ride on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. One hell of a slice of skyline.

May 02

#LOTD2013: March Playlist

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#LOTD2013: MarchA busy April means I’m still playing a little bit of catch-up with my two “A-Day” projects for 2013. I’m pretty close on the Photo-A-Day project, but with the calendar turning to May yesterday, I’m now officially way behind on my Lyric of the Day recaps.

But, good news! I was able to pull together the list of March’s Tweets (find the Spotify playlist I’ve created from these lyrics linked at the end of the post or on the clickable image at right), with some brief explanations (in italics) for a number of the lyrics. Remember, if you want to see the lyrics as they pop up daily, just give me a follow on Twitter!

  • “Once I get you up there/Where the air is rarefied/We’ll just glide/Starry-eyed” #FrankSinatra “Come Fly With Me” #LOTD2013 3/1 (One day home between flights from Miami and to Chicago.)
  • Chairman back2back “My kind of town, Chicago is/My kind of razmatazz/And it has all that jazz” #FrankSinatra “My Kind Of Town” #LOTD2013 3/2 (On to Chicago, perhaps the most American city.)
  • “Believe, believe in me, believe/That life can change, that you’re not stuck in vain” #SmashingPumpkins “Tonight, Tonight” #LOTD2013 3/3
  • “Will I catch the moon/Like a bird in a cage/It’s for you I swoon/I’m always in love” #Wilco “I’m Always In Love” #LOTD2013 3/4
  • “I’ll wait up in the dark/For you to speak to me/I’ll open up/Release me” #PearlJam “Release” #LOTD2013 3/5
  • “I’ve been runnin’/And I’ve been racin’/So many different towns/So many different places” #GLove “Home” #LOTD2013 3/6 (Finally home for a bit after a couple weeks on the road.)
  • “Little things amuse little minds/Well, nothin’s free except a little bit of bad advice” #Wallflowers “Laughing Out Loud” #LOTD2013 3/7
  • “I dreamed you/I saw your face/Caught my lifeline/Drifting through space” #TomPettyandtheHeartbreakers “Angel Dream (No. 4)” #LOTD2013 3/8
  • “They’re forming in a straight line/They’re going through a tight wind/Kids are losing their minds” #Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” #LOTD2013 3/9
  • “Hey, hey it’s okay to make/A little mess out of your life” #Cracker “This Is Cracker Soul” #LOTD2013 3/10
  • “We write songs about wrong cause it’s hard to see right/Look to the sky hoping it will bleed light” #Common “The Corner” #LOTD2013 3/11 (A favorite running song of mine, especially effective on this date.)
  • “In a parked car/A crowded street/You see your love/Made complete/Thread is ripping/Knot is slipping” #U2 “Love Is Blindness” #LOTD2013 3/12
  • “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss” #TheWho “Won’t Get Fooled Again” #LOTD2013 3/13 #newpope (Sorry, I’m not remotely religious and the supposed importance of picking this figurehead who ends up standing for so many outdated ideas always baffles me.)
  • “Who’s usin’ who? What should we do?/Well you can’t be a pimp and a prostitute too” #TheWhiteStripes “Icky Thump” #LOTD2013 3/14
  • “A million dead-end streets & every time I thought I’d got it made/It seemed the taste was not so sweet”#DavidBowie “Changes” #LOTD2013 3/15
  • “Don’t need convincing at all/I love this place enough to have no doubt” #SnowPatrol “Take Back The City” #LOTD2013 3/16
  • “I want to feel sunlight on my face/I see the dust cloud disappear/Without a trace” #U2 “Where The Streets Have No Name” #LOTD2013 3/17 (The best song by the best Irish rock band of all time. Happy St. Pat’s!)
  • “Success is a state of mind/With a little bit of follow thru/And then you failed at that too” #JennyLewis “Bad Man’s World” #LOTD2013 3/18
  • “What’s gonna set you free/Look inside and you’ll see/When you’ve got so much to say/It’s called…” #BeastieBoys “Gratitude” #LOTD2013 3/19
  • “It was just to see, just to see/All the things you knew I’d written about you/So many illustrations” #Morrissey “Suedehead” #LOTD2013 3/20
  • “The sparkle in your eyes/Keeps me alive/And the sparkle in your eyes/Keeps me alive” #TheCult “She Sells Sanctuary” #LOTD2013 3/21
  • “She’s well acquainted/With the touch of a velvet hand/Like a lizard on a window pane” #TheBeatles “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” #LOTD2013 3/22 (Dinner at El Coyote gets a lyric from the White Album. You figure out the connection. ;-))
  • “She gets confused/Flying over the dateline/Her hands turn red/Cause the days change at night” #X “Los Angeles” #LOTD2013 3/23 (An especially great L.A. Saturday.)
  • “Nothing short a’ dying/Half as lonesome as the sound/Of the sleeping city sidewalk” #JohnnyCash “Sunday Morning Coming Down” #LOTD2013 3/24
  • “Do you go to the country/It isn’t very far/There’s people there who will hurt you/Cos of who you are” #Blur “Coffee and TV” #LOTD2013 3/25 (Coachella wristbands were delivered. Weeks later, Blur would deliver, as well.)
  • “The frozen Tundra ain’t cold enough/And baby ain’t old enough/For this game I’m rollin’ up” #IceCube “Pushin’ Weight” #LOTD2013 3/26
  • “This is the springtime of my loving/The second season I am to know/You are the sunlight …” #LedZeppelin “The Rain Song” #LOTD2013 3/27
  • “There’s this store where the creatures meet/I wonder what they do in there” #TheDoors “Love Street” #LOTD2013 3/28
  • “The hwy is for gamblers/Better use your sense/Take what you’ve gathered from coincidence”#Dylan “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue”#LOTD2013 3/29 (The final day of preparation for Response Expo 2013.)
  • “Can you keep them in the dark for life/Can you hide them from the waiting world” #Danzig “Mother” #LOTD2013 3/30
  • “Remember what the dormouse said/’Feed your head/Feed your head'” #JeffersonAirplane “White Rabbit” #LOTD2013 3/31 #HappyEaster (Guess it’s clear this one goes hand-in-hand with March 13.)

Here’s the Spotify playlist if you’d like to listen along: #LOTD2013: March

Mar 20

Photo-a-Day 2013: Week 10

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The week started out with an extra day in Chicago thanks to a big snowstorm that canceled a flight back to L.A. However, by the end of the seven days, I was settled back into SoCal for the next few weeks, counting down to an annual three-day business event (April 2-4 this year) that I help plan and execute for my day job. Let’s take a look at the images!

5-MAR-2013: Great reflections of city lights as dusk hits during a big Chicago storm.

5-MAR-2013: Snow piling up and giving off great reflections of city lights as dusk hits during a big Chicago storm.

6-MAR-2013: Hotel laundry bags make it easier to unpack after 11 days on the road.

6-MAR-2013: Hotel laundry bags make it easier to unpack after 11 days on the road.

7-MAR-2013: This display work of Bailey Pillow Pets (yes, Pillow Pets is licensing to sports teams now) at a souvenir stand at Staples Center amused the heck out of me.

7-MAR-2013: This display work of Bailey Pillow Pets (yes, Pillow Pets is licensing to sports teams now) at a souvenir stand at Staples Center amused the heck out of me.

8-MAR-2013: Light wisps of clouds silhouetted against dark overcast with the thinnest sliver of clear skies made for one helluva OC sunset.

8-MAR-2013: Light wisps of clouds silhouetted against dark overcast with the thinnest sliver of clear skies made for one helluva OC sunset.

9-MAR-2013: Great seats+Kings throwbacks+early goal= good image.

9-MAR-2013: Great seats+Kings throwbacks+early goal= good image.

10-MAR-2013: Clear & warm Sunday means this DTLA view stretches all the way to the San Gabriels.

10-MAR-2013: A clear & warm Sunday means this DTLA view stretches all the way to the San Gabriels.

11-MAR-2013: After much travel and a cold, finally got back on the treadmill this evening for a good, hard run.

11-MAR-2013: After much travel and a cold, I finally got back on the treadmill this evening for a good, hard run.