If you’re cutting the cake, your main responsibility is to not lick your fingers between pieces.
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All slopes are slippery.
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Not every offer to help is a passive-aggressive effort to assert control.
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It’s unfair that the burden is on employees to make ignorant bosses understand. But that burden is far greater if they don’t.
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For best results, attack the person and the problem.
Continue readingThe Western Avenue And Vicinity Gallery: Lincoln Avenue
Fine art and architecture on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago between Irving and Bryn Mawr.
Continue readingIt’s a Pretty Grim Life, Actually
Back in 1978 or so I wrote a college term paper about the increasing level of despair apparent in Frank Capra’s movies, through It’s a Wonderful Life. I revised it a bit for this Web site in 1995 or so, taking into account the film’s rise to holiday classic status in the intervening years. It’s sort of gratifying to see many of my same points made in the New York Times, though without the film history elements. At least I don’t feel quite so lonely in my crankdom: New York Times’ It’s a Wonderful Life My It’s a Wonderful Life
Continue readingMy Weekly Credo: Against Authenticity
A quest for the authentic is likely to turn up nothing so real as the hunger that inspired it.
Continue readingPulaski Road, Chicago
Signs and sights from Pulaski Road. This mosaic sign is one of the best. I’ve never seen another one like it.
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It’s best not to confuse actual moral authority with lording it over your kids.
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