The Impossible Year

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  • Belmont Flyover Crane, 9 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking back from Chicago Comics I stopped to appreciate the clear blue sky we were having and how this crane for the CTA construction looked.

  • Dinner Table Workstation, 7 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Like many in COVID times I’ve spent countless hours using the dinner table as a desk. On the 7th in particular I had a big writing project I was trying to complete so I chained myself to the ‘desk’ and stayed here for almost…

  • Montrose Brown Line, 6 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I walk to the Brown line almost every morning to get my coffee and breakfast from Spoken, and yet I can’t remember the last time I rode the CTA. It’s truly surreal. I miss it like I miss a friend. Something I’d never…

  • Mysterious Children Statue, 5 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking by the Sulzer Regional Library on Lincoln Avenue I noticed the, already strange, statue of children on a log had been fitted with some books, to make it look like they were reading, so had to snap a photo. In researching for…

  • Ultimate Dunking Set, 4 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   One of the silliest things we own, a set of Oreo mugs with a holder and tongs specifically for dunking. Also, the Oreos in this are the ‘Trolls World Tour’ Oreos that have popping candy in them, which are truly a bizarre experience.

  • D-O, 3 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Beth Ann got me this D-O tiki mug for my birthday and while ‘Rise of Skywalker’ is far from my favorite film, a droid with PTSD/anxiety is just a little too relatable to pass up. I love him.

  • Web Orders, 1 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I tweeted out a link to this piece and wound up with a truly flattering number of web orders of my print work suddenly. A very nice surprise. I’m truly flattered by every sale.

  • Sugar Skull – Take 2, 30 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   A second pass of trying to photograph the sugar skull planter in the window. This time I overestimated the macro photo abilities of the SLR 680.

  • Uptown Pizza & BBQ, 28 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   At the corner of Wilson and Kenmore Avenues in Chicago you will find Uptown Pizza & BBQ. I’ve been meaning to check this place out for years and finally did it by ordering the ‘Thin Crust Taco’ pizza, which is a feast unto itself.…

  • Cherry Pie, 26 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Here is the delicious cherry pie from Café Selmarie that I was picking up the day prior. Maybe it’s the fact that I haven’t had pie in many months but it was possibly the best cherry pie I’ve ever had.