September 2009
10 posts
mado, wisco, midwo, uso. Oh hello college.
Spotted at grattan and porter in purple spraypaint: ‘dickchicken’
mega bus round trip nyc/dc $2.50. but then my slow/sleepy ass had to spend $2.25 for the train and $5 for a cab. still, not bad i say.
De ja vu? montrose: cut off tank top, morissey hair. Grand: cut off tank top, morissey hair. @rmr accidentally sent that to only you . ‘Ha.’
… Friends await, the city doesn’t miss a beat or notice. It’s good to be back.
Bus drops me off at penn at 10 and of course the streets are full. 20 something asks me if 125th is downtown…
… Asian mom asks me which a is dowtouwn. The a screams, the rats kick it, 14th smells like shit. Trains are comfortably full…
fuck them.
And in the wake of the crisis, the fault lines in the economics profession have yawned wider than ever. Lucas says the Obama administration’s stimulus plans are “schlock economics,” and his Chicago colleague John Cochrane says they’re based on discredited “fairy tales.” In response, Brad DeLong of the University of California, Berkeley, writes of the “intellectual collapse” of the Chicago...
September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a...
Um dc yo. Long term yo (?). recession proof yo (?). Fuckachicago yo (?).