Zapruder Point

As both of my regular blog readers already know, the Chicago Public Library has organized a contest looking for the best “Chicago song” written and performed by a local artist. I’ve entered a song called “Steps from the Lake,” and if you have a moment, I’d appreciate your voting for it at the contest site [...]

We sure had fun making this sucker. The voting will start in a few days, and I’ll be bugging everyone about it liberally. Until then, here’s a look-see at the ZP submission for the Chicago Public Library’s “Sound Off” contest… Zapruder Point: “Steps from the Lake” from Zapruder Point on Vimeo. On the technical aside [...]

So two or three weeks ago, I read in Gaper’s Block about a song contest the Chicago Public Library was putting on. Write a song about Chicago, post a video of it, and you could win maybe some money (I forget), and a chance to play a concert outdoors downtown. I had the song in [...]

If you didn’t know, Chicago has been screwing up its parking meter system for a while now. Turning it over to not-great private vendors, etc. On some streets, they’ve started that whole “pay at the machine” deal, and apparently on such streets, the now “old-school” parking meters remain “as a courtesy to cyclists.” I’d always [...]

Just so you know, I haven’t been posting with regularity due to some work drama.  To make a long story short, it looked like I was out of work for a minute…and then suddenly it didn’t.  And now I’m not really sure what my employment status is going to be past the next couple of [...]