clusterflock » crime http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Glass Jaw http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/02/glass-jaw.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/02/glass-jaw.html#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:40:34 +0000 Erica Braverman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=82084 Glass Jaw by Michael O’Reilly was first shown to me in art school. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since my recent hospital stay.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/02/glass-jaw.html/feed 2 Stolen Instruments (Public Service Announcement) http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/stolen-instruments-public-service-announcement.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/stolen-instruments-public-service-announcement.html#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:42:02 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81272 This is of primarily local (Chicago) import and is not your typical clusterflock post, but what happened makes me so blistering mad that I want everyone I know to know about it and to keep their eyes and ears open.

STOLEN INSTRUMENTS alert! Violin and 2 guitars stolen from trunk of car outside The Whistler on Milwaukee on Sat night:

VIOLIN — Handmade, bears label: “Samuel Giovanni Casco in Örebro Anno 2010 For Ethan Adelsman”. The back has these measurements: 35.2 cm, 16.5 cm, 11.1 cm, 20.3 cm. The linseed oil-based varnish is a warm orange-brown color on a golden ground. The bow: Handmade by E. Herrmann of Brazilian pernambuco wood with silver mounted hardware. The bow bears inscription: E. HERRMANN *** Violin & bow were in a Bam Lotus case, black with grayish stripes on the top and black backpack-style straps.

GUITARS –

FENDER MUSTANG, 1966 model. Pale blue with black pickguard. 1 pickup is black, the other is white. Had red strap with black lightning bolt pattern.

FENDER TELECASTER, black with white pickguard, made in Mexico. Has a chip in the finish near the bottom strap mount.

Instruments belong to Ethan Adelsman of Scotland Yard Gospel Choir. If you have info, please call Bloodshot Records.

It’s awful enough, but here is this from my good friend Alison (who plays keyboards with the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir):

Early this morning, Ethan Adelsman had a valuable violin, a pale blue 1966 Fender Mustang, and a black Telecaster stolen out of his car near Milwaukee and Fullerton. (SYGC had just played @ the Whistler.) Please keep your eyes/ears open! I know Ethan will be checking the local pawn shops but if you see anything please let him know. Especially heartbreaking is the loss of his violin. It was custom made for him to replace the violin that was destroyed in our van accident in ’09.

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I know a guy from Ohio who worked as a long-haul trucker for a good while after high school. Then he did other things and we wound up working at a library together and after a time he became a big wheel at the MacArthur Foundation.

He claims to have met Patty Hearst when she was on the lam, and he told me that she stole his drugs, but I know he was just spoofing me.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/from-the-comments-675.html/feed 0 The Mother Courage of Rock http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/the-mother-courage-of-rock.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/the-mother-courage-of-rock.html#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:36:57 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81211

She was skinny, quick-witted, disarmingly unprofessional, alternating between stand-up patter, bardic intonations, and the hypnotic emotional sway of a chanteuse, and she was sexy in an androgynous way I hadn’t encountered before. The elements cohered convincingly; she seemed both entirely new and somehow long-anticipated. For me at nineteen, the show was an epiphany.

Luc Sante on Patti Smith.

Springtime 1976, I was living in the cinderblock building on the glorified median strip there where they split Highway 13, and one day I went over to this one girl’s apartment, she lived right by the guy who dealt me speed, and she said, “Hey, you know who you remind me of? You remind me of Patti Smith!”

Gave her a possum grin I’m still grinning.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-ii-95.html/feed 3 Harry Potter and the New Year at Hand http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/harry-potter-and-the-new-year-at-hand.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/harry-potter-and-the-new-year-at-hand.html#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:16:08 +0000 Rick Neece http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80274 Just finished the marathon, a little while ago. Potter was Becky’s call, her birthday is the 31st. Doing such over New Year’s eve/day has been a tradition for four or five years. Potter won. In case you wonder. Ho-hum.

We said good-bye to our guests and watched an episode of The Riches. Only 20 episodes to watch, but it is delicious.

I don’t know what to expect of 2012, but I hope to lift my ass off the couch and start moving around tomorrow.

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