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 11th, 2012
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

Short-term frustrations and the long-term view. Plus, sex and babies.

Today, a few thoughts on some short-term frustrations I've been having recently, and the importance of keeping the long-term view in mind during such times. Plus, at 43 I'm finally starting to have ...

posted on
September 3rd, 2012
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

Regarding my freakout at the science-fiction convention.

I had a major emotional freakout and ensuing anxiety attack this weekend, after attending my first science-fiction convention in literally 25 years and having all these long-forgotten memories of h ...

posted on
July 20th, 2012
from
Jason Pettus
based in
Chicago

The game of arts administration.

Today, some thoughts on my arts center finally being in the black, how running it often feels like playing a big game, how my time in Second Life in the mid-2000s led to this little theory of small ...

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 ...