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ART: JAKE VAUGHAN If the Southside of Chicago were to suffer a catastrophe like Katrina, news organizations would deploy and the wider nation would soon learn more about its art and spirit, its sense of decor, and the Southside’s many frames of reference. But without such catastrophe, the nation is now finding the ways of the Southside. And this includes the ways of pickup basketball. It is game different than the professional game, For one, the pickup game has no referees – it finds its morals and regulations in a heated scrum that becomes consensus. Barak Obama found his true home on the Southside of Chicago, and now as he comes to Washington, the U.S. is discovering more about this essential part of the Second City, and how it comes to view the world. Climbing up the political ladder in Chicago, Obama developed a certain degree of street savvy. There as well he came to understand the ways of basketball. As it is in parts of New York City, basketball is one of the essential elements ...

Remembering last March, a year ago ... Cecelia’s mother Westein Boston Estrada died March 14 in Pasadena. Of course, my great debt to Wes is that she brought Cecelia into the world. She also let me into her world, which was a hard working positive place. Thought we'd post to last year's site eulogy for Wes's marvellous spirit. You can Read the story .

We put a bunch of family fotos up in the Hall. I filmed them. So we had a motion picture as well as snapshots.

“Some truththing has burst fake and cold upon me” - Gregory Corso, Mutation of the Spirit A box of glass eyes At the Harvard museum Glass eyes look at me with all the tenderness of The glass Sea anemone Or the violent topor of the glass squid Or the hissing imperative Of the nitrous spew scorpion The dusty whimsy Of the visible golden rod As well I see the eyes Thinking about me Like the pacing Dingos caged or The butterflies cased before Jerry Lewis comes dustingWaiting. When the bones in the Valey jump up and start Dancing. When Sammy Davis Jr waddles agin. The glassine eyballs too will fly To their souls’ brilliant pyramids For now there is The pleasant rest of chocolates In a box residing Eyes Made by Von Meyer The pipette wizard Visage manifestor Alchemist maker of the glass flowers people will visit Mélange, transparent, fragile Until the great day of rumbling. Of great spirit dancing Day of glass eyes leaving their box Their case and t...

Rich and I had some days together. I can remember when we usta car pool in the early ‘80s. We would drive for two hours a day, a coupla days a week, and we would talk through that time. He is a basketballer from his heart.. he is down in Rhode Island now..not far from where Craig Robinson coached at Brown.. here’s his answer to the Obama BasketBall Ethics PickUp Question … … I thought about your question. Specifically, I thought what if I was checking out a guy for my sister. Two annoying things I've seen in pickup games that often may be indicative of character flaws: 1.) How a player uses his mouth as part of his game. The worst situation is with guys who never miss -- they either score or are fouled. Uggh. Since pick-up is self-officiated you occasionally get the worst of the worst, guys who'd rather argue than play. I have had the experience in a couple places of playing in leagues with refs where there are guys who I've also played pick-up. Quite often the guys that a...

During the inauguration hoopla, I read that Michelle Robinson Obama, back in Chicago in the day and before she had been too very long originally dating Barak, asked her brother to play basketball with him and give a report. The thinking was that if Obama had genuine character flaws of any kind they would probably surface in a pick up game. I think that is a sort of street smarts; I like the idea. The idea that you study a person this way - it's almost Shakespearian to ask your brother to run the ploy. With that in mind I asked old buddy pick-up game all stars of yore for their take on suspect traits in a pick-up game player - traits that could divulge deep inner traits of character - ugly ones - ones you wouldn’t want to endure for a lifetime. How did they gauge other players? I invited my b-ball buds to forward the question to their team mates too. Jim Haas says ... Allright jack, you're talking to a hoop fan and a player. I try to watch every Warriors game, in spite of their ...

During the inauguration hoopla, I read that Michelle Robinson Obama, back in Chicago in the day and before she had been too very long originally dating Barak, asked her brother to play basketball with him and give a report. The thinking was that if Obama had genuine character flaws of any kind they would probably surface in a pick up game. I think that is a sort of street smarts; I like the idea. The idea that you study a person this way - it's almost Shakespearian to ask your brother to run the ploy. With that in mind I asked old buddy pick-up game all stars of yore for their take on suspect traits in a pick-up game player - traits that could divulge deep inner traits of character - ugly ones - ones you wouldn’t want to endure for a lifetime. How did they gauge other players? I invited my b-ball buds to forward the question to their team mates too. Jake Widman says ... People who intentionally foul as a way of playing defense. There's this one guy I play with--if you're go...