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Mural Mythology

(Continued from this post) I’ve been going to Smart Bar for close to 10 years now, so it has a special place in my heart.  As such, I was sure to include lots of somewhat secret personal references throughout the mural. For instance, when a German yogi tells you to go deeper and deeper (“tiefer […]

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In November of 2009 I took a trip to San Francisco.  On the flight back to Chicago I started reading Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore”.  Not all that significant an event, but for the fact that in my immersion in learning French and German for about two years, I hadn’t so much as picked […]

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