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Entries Tagged as 'Conversations and Encounters'

Kindness erases a city of strangers

November 7th, 2011 · 15 Comments

In Chicago: What separates us?, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This is a story about the afternoon I went to Target. And no, it is not about how I walked in to return a few items and buy some placemats and a pack of nails to hammer into the walls for my latest creative project, and somehow, […]

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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Rockstar and Crescent

We are crooked souls trying to stay up straight

October 18th, 2011 · 10 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Resident Rockstar

We’re all going to the end of the line: Open letters to my fellow commuters

July 30th, 2009 · 34 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Travels and Travails

But I don’t want to write a love song for the world

June 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments


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Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Conversations and Encounters · NineToFive outside the 925

I think the shade of you is on the brink/of changing all the ways I see the world

May 1st, 2009 · 28 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · NineToFive outside the 925 · Resident Rockstar

Nobody said it would be easy now/we live in a lucky town

October 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments


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Tags: Casa420 and Familia · Conversations and Encounters

Forks were invented for a purpose

June 12th, 2008 · 10 Comments


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Tags: All-Star Crackstar Squad · Conversations and Encounters

One morning, I woke up and I was suddenly twelve feet tall

March 22nd, 2008 · 24 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Resident Rockstar

Because if I’ve done nothing else in five years of blogging, I’ve at least indulged in drug references as a form of public service

March 17th, 2008 · 13 Comments


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Tags: All-Star Crackstar Squad · Conversations and Encounters

So, I’m taking the Mister from out in front of your name

November 11th, 2007 · 7 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · NaBloPoMo2007

Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin

November 6th, 2007 · 13 Comments


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Tags: All-Star Crackstar Squad · Conversations and Encounters · NaBloPoMo2007

City days: River, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place

May 4th, 2007 · 48 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Rhymes and unrhymed lines · Rockstar and Crescent · Salaam Namaste · Travels and Travails

I just opened up my eyes, and let the world come climbing in

March 26th, 2007 · 19 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Loss and laments and letting go

Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m standing in the wrong line

November 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Salaam Namaste

The street, and those who served themselves who only stood to wait

July 6th, 2006 · No Comments


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Tags: Conversations and Encounters