au matin de sa vie

A Bicycle resting on E Jackson Blvd

“I’m more in love with Chicago than any boy.  That’s either healthy or unhealthy…”

Mine circa April 2010.  OK I’m done.  Multidimensional analysis commence!

Mine circa April 2010

Mine circa April 2010

fuckkyeahchicago:

anythingcouldhappen:

Sandor (Alexander Raymond Katz), Chicago World’s Fair, 1934

Chicago hosted the World’s Fair a couple times, first in 1893 and then in 1934. (I actually have some souvenirs from when my great-grandmother and her sisters attended the first one.) Most of the posters I’ve seen for the 1934 fair are an iconographic synthesis of the civic and patriotic. But there’s something off-message about this poster—red-light-district-promoting bizarre. Less “progress,” more “play” (ooh, who wants to do a Derridaen reading? joke.) Sandor was a WPA artist, and perhaps he was just really burned out on the uplifting and instructive at that point.

It’s not an excuse, but I’m 20.  And I want to respect you.  But sometimes it’s hard.

I’m sure.  But I’m willing to risk it, knowing that you’re not.

:D