Monday's Storm, Viewed From El Train

Kind of a surprise when it hit, maybe there was no sense of barometer or temp change as I was sitting in the a/c train car for about ten minutes. I never got wet. On the way to my destination, at Roosevelt Street, I had to go underground to the subway. When I came aboveground, miles north, the storm was over Lake Michigan.

I Am The American Dream, illustrated

In 1993, Boneyard Press's Hart D. Fischer gave Damon Threet the print version of "I Am The American Dream", which was originally published in GRUE#7 and then reprinted in ALPHA GALLERY.

Sorry for the duplicate images. I was trying for a theme. Evan Shustak, The American Dream, appears in seven short stories as well as in my 1992 novel THE HOLY TERROR.

Police Batons From 1968 & the DNC

This season, MAD MEN is set in the year 1968, and a recent episode showed footage of the rioting during the Democratic National Convention in Grant Park.

Bathroom at Straw Dog Theater

After listening to Mort Castle and others talk about the late Ray Bradbury for an hour, I then took photos of a very strange bathroom.