The Impossible Year

Tag: chicagostrong

  • Molly, 3 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Our friend Molly is moving and has no need for her patio umbrella or firepit any longer so she gave them to us. Here she is modeling with the umbrella.

  • Robots!, 2 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I really enjoy the toy robots in the windows of the Southport Avenue Cafe Tola.

  • North to Ravenswood, 9 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent Tuesday biking around listening to ‘Road to the Skeleton Coast’ with Brendan Kelly, as he explains the orgins of The Lawrence Arms and how deeply tied it is to Chicago’s punk movement, and influenced by inequity. Something about this empty lot alongside a…

  • Protests in Lincoln Square, 7 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Our neighborhood had a large protest on Sunday. Beth Ann came with me and we biked circles around the perimeter. Our community is overwhelmingly white and has had, at times, problems with white nationalist graffiti. I’m proud to see so many of my…

  • Cafe Tola, 3 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Cafe Tola is a small coffee and empanda shop on Southport Avenue that has expanded over the years into a chain of stores all over Chicago. This one however, is near and dear to my heart. In light of everything going on they’ve boarded up…

  • Uptown’s Black Lives Matter Protest, 1 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Uptown, the neighborhood immediately to the east of us that we sit on the border of, is one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, and was the site of one of the city’s largest Black Lives Matter protests yet. It has also been…

  • ‘The Sounds of the Friendly Confines’, 22 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film For the second time, in as many weeks they played the organ at Wrigley Field. It  created an atmosphere of normality during these deeply strange times. I met up with my friend Tomlinson and we biked around Wrigley in circles just taking…

  • Buzzy, 20 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Our friends Buzzy and CJ recently had a baby and bought a condo and now they’re faced with the problem of moving during this mess. To help we saved all of our Blue Apron, Imperfect Foods and other large boxes and got one of our fellow buildingmates…

  • Gman Tavern – Rory, 16 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film On Saturday the Gman Tavern was running $20 BOYG growler fills and I stopped by to support both my favorite local bar, and my friends who work there. Rory was working the door and it was great to see (half of) her face and…

  • A Virtual Gameday, 15 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film On Friday, despite their being no baseball for the foreseeable future. The Cubs brought in someone to play the organ at Wrigley Field. I spent upwards of 20 minutes just riding my bike in circles around the park enjoying the moment, and appreciating the smiling…