Went out this weekend with my cousin Jennifer and her two boys, Jack and Gavin. Some friends of mine are moving, so I let them borrow my van and the boys got to ride on the subway - or the “underground train” as they call it - for the first time. They were a little [...]
Recently, the Chicago police have killed 6 people and shot 12 within a period of four weeks. The corporate media in the city remains silent on this outrageous rampage unleashed on the people, instead focusing on the propaganda of the police in relation to youth violence. Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis announced an Iraq-esque militarized [...]
Another month, still not much in the way of clarity on any of these issues that have been holding me back from getting some concrete plans together for the next few months. The only thing that has been cleared up is the fact that I’m not off parole, and that means waiting another 4 months [...]
It’s quite an experience to go from reading a newspaper in a segregation cell in prison to sitting in the production offices of that paper and contributing to producing it. That sentiment would probably be the closest I can come to attempting to put some context around my weekend.
Interestingly, I was doing some stuff over [...]
Hahaha! Wow, I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since before I want to prison, so its been at least 13 years. And who would have possibly thought that the first movie I’d see in a theater would be… wait for it, you’ll never fucking guess Sex and the City *shudders*
Well that was [...]
[ Cue the music ] Well my Parole Officer just came here, gave me a drug test (which I passed, obviously), and is going to submit me to get off parole tomorrow. Once he submits me it kind of goes up the chain of command, to his supervisor, then like the regional supervisor, then [...]
I had a chance to make it down to Champaign-Urbana this weekend to see my friend Brian and meet some of the great people at the Independent Media Center there. I met Brian through the Books to Prisoners program they run while I was in Pontiac, and they published a few things I wrote in [...]
My old friend Peter and his wife Ariadne are in town again and we’ve spent most of the week together having a great time. We spent a lot of time just hanging out at his parents house with his sister’s kids, who are all so fun and lively. Had some great conversations and discussions as [...]
Yeah, today is my 30th birthday… This is probably the first time I actually “celebrated” my birthday in any way since I was like 15 years old. My cousin made me a big-ass cake - in response to the cake with 30 candles I got her for her 30th last year - a few [...]
Time ceaselessly slips slowly through my fingers as I strain to grasp hold of some tenuous meaning
Progeny of Isolation, born of that dark crypt wherein boys are cast and this unfinished man was molded
Brought forth in desolation, searching for some mysterious amorphous
Undefined
Elusive solutions evade resolution
Questions lie scattered along the path
As I set out once again [...]
