Last Wednesday I celebrated 25 years of spudart.org. Today, on the actual anniversary, I totally forgot. I was busy leaving a treasure chest behind the abandoned shopping carts at Jewel.

My first blog post on spudart.org went up on September 28, 2001. It was called "Long Live Long Tables." I proposed that long cafeteria tables are better for conversation than little round ones. This M...

A miniature desk trash can in the style of those found around Chicago | Download free 3D printable STL models

Wore a 1990 Topps Mitch Williams on my shoe for the walk to school pickup. Less than a block in, a passing car whistled at me. A few steps later the card popped in half. Wild Thing indeed.

I’ve lived in this town for nine years, and I’ve never left a treasure chest. So odd, considering I’ve left over 900 chests in the city. Today I figured I’d get it started again. Four years ago I decl...

I waited on the CTA Red Line to text my number-loving friend Tom on 09/09/09 at 09:09am. He texted me first. At exactly 9:09.

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Here's where we live in the vast universe: Earth -> Solar System -> Local Interstellar Cloud -> Local Bubble -> Orion-Cygnus Arm -> Milky Way Galaxy

I put the call out on Facebook and Bluesky asking if anyone wanted a letter. Within one day, I got 7 requests. Whoa! I was expecting maybe one or two. I have a lot of letters to write! Time to fulfill...

Since around 2002, I’ve been running the same small ritual: write “What is your treasure?” by hand on a scrap of paper. Fold it. Tuck it inside a tiny plastic treasure chest — the party-favor kind, th...

Jeddah Tower is only 3½ miles from an airport runway. That might be a problem.

The fact that I like this guy’s plastic bag collection must mean I have hoarding inclinations. I’ve always wanted to start a paper napkin collection. The various embossed patterns, the range of thickn...