Jason Pettus

About Jason Pettus

Placed on September 2nd, 2008

located in Chicago

Personal journal of travel writer and arts administrator Jason Pettus. Includes lots of 'hyperlocal' information on the Uptown/Buena Park neighborhood of Chicago. http://www.jasonpettus.com/

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posted on
October 10th, 2011
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

The Jens Lekman Incident.

In which our humble narrator attends his first rock concert in a decade, buys his very first online ticket, and has a crying fit in the middle of a Jens Lekman show, over realizing that his decade- ...

posted on
May 29th, 2011
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

Greetings from Onlinistan.

It's been happening again -- after long online sessions, I've been feeling like I've left Chicago and am now in a fictional city called "Onlinistan" that doesn't really exist, bringing up the slipp ...

posted on
March 20th, 2011
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

Regarding the tricky process of artists making good decisions.

My arts center's newest original book is out, which as usual has me thinking about the subjects of aging, arts administration, and the trickier and trickier question as you get older of whether or ...

posted on
March 6th, 2011
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

Ghaddafi, Sheen and the Collective American Punishment.

What does Charlie Sheen have to do with civil war in Libya, the lasting legacy of Bush, payday loan centers in bad neighborhoods, France in the 1950s, and how the economic meltdown is all your faul ...

posted on
January 25th, 2011
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

Regarding eucatastrophes and Kevin Smith.

Today: The apocalypse is here -- JASON PETTUS NOW OWNS A CREDIT CARD. Click through for all the details, and why it reminds me of JRR Tolkien's concept of the "eucatastrophe," a suddenly great thin ...