It's taken me a while to get this one up, for numerous reasons: laziness most pressingly, but also some anxiety and indecision. My essay-ish thing on Emmett Kerrigan's painting (combined with some other Chicago-specific musings) was not the most well received of my writing so far in town, but it almost certainly got the most reads. I, for one, am more or less fine with it, but due to some misunderstandings, we were a little slack on the editing process. That is definitely my bad and, after the grief I received, will not let that happen again. If I'm going to be attacked (and there was more to it than the blog comments), I'd like to be attacked for my best work--that I am best able to defend myself. So, mea culpa, mistakes were made, in first-drafty fashion I let some writerly decisions interfere with strict reportage, not that I was going for strict reportage, but you know what I'm saying. Lesson learned.
PS: wrote a 3000 word piece last week called A response to several messages left in the comments section to a review of a painting show I wrote for the blog Art Talk Chicago, so yeah, I spent some time thinking about this (some might say obsessively). I may try to publish it at some point or just put it up here. Keep a look out.
