The Impossible Year

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  • Nickd and Basil, 9 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Every year Nick and his partner Erin celebrate their dog Basil with a ‘Basil Day’ party and give him a steak. This year we needed to perform it at home so Nick cooked batches of food which we each swung by and picked up so…

  • Clark and Roscoe, 8 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Wrigleyville’s landscape continues to change as, despite everything else going on, the construction never stops. The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project, aka ‘RPM’ marches on, leveling buildings and building brutalist structure, as we march towards a faster, more efficient mass transit system. One…

  • Forty Acres, 7 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I have been trying to figure out a suitable way to get produce delivered semi-regularly. We started off with Imperfect Foods, but ultimately determined this was an opportunity to support local farmers and businesses owned by disenfranchised groups. Thats when we found ‘Forty…

  • Candlelight Dinner, 6 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann was having a tough day so I let her nap and surprised her with dinner by candlelight.

  • Goddamnit, 5 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Spent the 5th cleaning the house and listening to my favorite Alkaline Trio album on vinyl.

  • Fourth of July, 4 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Neither of us were in a particularly celebratory mood for the 4th of July this year but we still wanted to enjoy some grilled food so we bought some brats from Spoken Cafe and our neighbor Dan grilled them on his balcony and we…

  • Park Life Forever, 3 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I met up with Leslie and sat in Welles Park and had Taco In A Bag.

  • Brown Elephant Drop Off, 2 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We cleaned out our garage to make room for a pottery wheel and one of the things we had was A LOT of luggage. As is our norm, we took the unwanted stuff up to Brown Elephant. For those unaware, Brown Elephant is…

  • Patrick at Taco In A Bag, 1 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 ‘Taco In A Bag’ has to be one of my favorite local businesses. It’s a shop in Lincoln Square that is rife with personality, humor, and extremely creative takes on traditional fast food. The staff, head chef Patrick, especially have always…

  • The Gerber Building, 30 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 At the corner of Wilson and Broadway is arguably one of the most beautiful CTA building in the city. In recent years it has been remodeled and improved to it’s former glory and will one day wind up as the home of Chicago Market…