Back in Chicago again; family duties. This time I brought my son Max along, as it's his spring break. Beautiful day here, and we're poking around my old neighborhood of Hyde Park. We're at the University of Chicago's old Harper Library right now, gazing awestruck at the old high-ceilinged reading room. They don't make university libraries like they used to. We just went into Bond Chapel, on the UC campus, where I married my lovely wife in 1987. Elsewhere on campus, there are students dressed up in black lingerie and clunky high heels - the gothic hooker look, I guess - and posters up for lectures on Derrida and Deconstructionism. The latter being the theoretical framework under which white, racist, sexist cultural hegemonists are responsible for the global lack of transgendered bathrooms, plus Third World disease, fast food, reality TV, and affluenza.

Along with seeing a lot of my folks, I'm really looking forward to taking Max around my old city. I see a lot of ethnic neighborhoods and eats in the mix, and probably the Art Institute, too.

Ciao for now.

TECHNORATI TAGS: CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, DECONSTRUCTIONISM