Hi Craig,
I've been taking pictures of Rogers Park for better or for worse for a few years now. I've decided to share them here. Have fun, and feel to use my pictures on your blog if you like.
Bill
BLOGNOTES: Question of the day. Wow, another couple blogs about Joe Moore's neglect to ward issues. I'm even having a hard time keeping up with what's being published. Are we flooding the market with bloggers in Rogers Park? Which blogs do you read daily?
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It's so nice for me to have found this blog of yours, it's so interesting. I sure hope and wish that you take courage enough to pay me a visit in my PALAVROSSAVRVS REX!, and plus get some surprise. My blog is also so cool! Don't think for a minute that my invitation is spam and I'm a spammer. I'm only searching for a public that may like or love what I write.
Feel free off course to comment as you wish and remember: don't take it wrong, don't think that this visitation I make is a matter of more audiences for my own blogg. No. It's a matter of making universal, realy universal, all this question of bloggs, all the essential causes that bring us all together by visiting and loving one another.
I think it's to UNITE MANKIND that we became bloggers! Don't see language as an obstacle but as a challenge (though you can use the translater BabelFish at the bottom of my page!) and think for a minute if I and the rest of the world are not expecting something like a broad cumplicity. Remenber that pictures talk also. Open your heart and come along!!!!!
There is no such a thing as too many neighborhood blogs.
That's like saying there are too many novels, or too many paintings, or too much music.
I looked at this new blog and I like it.
You need many thousands of works of art for there to be great ones. The blogosphere is like any other artistic scene- the more there are, the more food there is for all of them.
We will never hear most of the operas composed during the great period of opera, in nineteenth century Milan, but we can be grateful that there was at least one painter in every family in Florence, Italy, in the 15th and 16th century, and their stuff, unattributed,keeps turning up. Do you realize that this one small city of 50,000 people produced more truly significant art in the span of those two centuries than all of Europe put together for the next 300 years?
It would be fun if Rogers Park was to blogging what Florence was to painting.
Things that make me laugh. I blogged about your thoughts on blogging - and a Rogers Park blogger blogs about it.
You can leave your answer here or there.
NOTES: 35 active ( or somewhat active) blogs in Rogers Park. Can you say - Unbelievable.
I'm happy to read all of them. Rogers Park Bench has the most blogs listed for you to click on. Local stuff has the most charm and interest to me. I was talking to a lady who writes for the Tribune, she said they are looking to get into the blog "market" and I told her neighborhood blogs are the best because people are always interested in stuff that happens close to home... Turns out that's where the Tribune is going first, they can't cover all the neighborhood issues in print, so it makes sense to do it in blogs.
I don't know why you call it a market...
I like the ones that keep the comments active the best. This one is fantastic for that and the happenings, but I was getting depressed last night because you are frequently showing unflattering images of blacks in the neighborhood. It's such an easy target. I see plenty of flattering images, kids playing, people chatting outside the windows, on the corner, people taking a plate of food to the neighbor, people dressed up, ladies balancing laundry on their heads, guys waiting around for work outside businesses like the donut shop, the service office, people playing music and dancing a little, people don't dance enough around here, other neighborhoods, there's much more dancing, or maybe that was the old days, people cruise, that's cool now, cruising, stupid...
But that's not beat reporting...
So I don't like alot of what you are up to, blaming Joe for everything, but its an angle so I can appreciate that and being kept informed.
Rogers Park Rake is great because he talks to his commenters and has a good sense of things that appeal to the locals...
The Bench posts alot of links and he can be very funny, what a dickhead though, and the comments are sparse because people give up trying to comment, he controls evreything...
North Coast, Living Room, some smart women, the Neighbor is unabashed, all the diaries, opinions, interests, it's people, people are always interesting.
I have fun writing mine, I don't remember writing anything for at least ten years, I'm surprised I can write, but you can't write everything, things are much more amusing in my head than in print. I'd like to tell a long story, like I do with my friends and all the kids I know, where they finally get the message I got from all the little bits of life and find happiness as deep as a pool through and through. I have a lot of friends, but you can talk to more people if you write.
Each blog is great in its way, and each one adds to the "quilt" of a neighborhood's culture.
And these are all out there for the record. These ARE the fossil record. These are the kind of things historians love to discover-a fine historian will get past the official "history" with its landmark dates and events, and find all the "social" history, including the letters and other artifacts of people no one ever heard of. Things like that give you a much better picture of an era and the people who created it than officially sanctioned histories do.
Money can't buy the entertainment value around here.
At the risk of sounding silly, I often think of you -Craig --as Big Daddy Blogger with all us baby bloggers. I know it's silly, but I don't care. You definitely started something. I was already blogging my houseblog for a while before starting the neighborhood blogs, so it was not a big jump for me. I have to admit though, RP news is more lively than stripping paint off wood :o)
I read more than I should and I always read Westgards blog last so I keep it in perspective. haha.
I read this blog before I read the newspaper evey morning!
Thank you for the warm welcome to the RP blogging community !
I scan most of the other RP blogs, but usually take more time to read this one. I even directed a friend of mine who lives in the area to check it out. Her reaction was, "I didn't know all of this was going on in our neighborhood."
As an African-American who's lived in RP since 1982, it does concern me, as Paradise pointed out, that many of the posts about criminal activity always seem to show African-Americans as the alleged perpetrators. While I don't think your intent is to slam one group of people, some reading this blog will certainly take it that way. Others might use it to justify their own erroneous beliefs about people of color.
This blog certainly does serve its purpose of pointing out the things that some in the area wish to downplay, sweep under the rug, ignore, etc., and they should be brought to light.
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