People with Mohawks have feelings, too.

Another awesome discovery about the iPhone: no one can hear me texting when I'm taking a dump in a public restroom.

Saw a girl on the train this morning who had the kind eyes that you can fall in love with. Not sure why that was the first thing that popped into my head. Weird.

Telling a professional musician that you used to play saxophone is like telling a doctor that you once took a biology class.

Dear man with the poorly produced rap music blasting,

Why are you drawing attention to the fact that you're driving an old beat up Grand Prix?

Love,
The passerby

Enemy of the State: Man on train this morning who was a "talker".

All Americans love jazz. Most of them just don't know it yet.

I want a job and a home that puts me against the grain of rush hour. Leave the city in the morning and return at night.

I wonder what it is about holding an energy drink in the morning that makes kids waiting for class think that they have all the answers.

People talk about being scared of city drivers, but as a pedestrian, I'm WAY more worried about suburban drivers.

No new email, texts, or tweets. Natural first thought? I need more stuff to check.

Lots of sleeping people on this afternoon train. Government putting something in the water maybe?

People notice you when you get on the el wearing a tuxedo and carrying two large cases.

Man on train - "Can you please stop tapping your foot?"
Me - "I'd really like to, but it's physically impossible."

Some faucets don't have "hot" nor "cold" marked on them, yet we still know which way to turn the knob to get what we want.

I don't need to comment on everything said to me.

People get so angry at the CTA when it is running behind. And I know why. It's because getting angry makes the trains run faster.

? "I [have] received life like a wound, and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar. I want the Creator - every hour of his eternity - to contemplate i

? ts gaping crevasse. This is the punishment I inflict upon him."
- Comte de Lautreamont

I hope I die before I get to the point of having to do a series of Lamas type breathing exercises just to pee.

The conductor on this Metra train sounds like Morgan Freeman.

After the CTA voice asks people to keep their stuff of the seat next to them to allow for more seating, it's fun to find someone disobeying and glare at them.

"If you give me a fair chance, I will help you better understand Democracy."
- Jazz according to Stanley Crouch

A little walk around downtown with some feel-good music on the ol' iPhone makes everything better.

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- Guy on my train

x "Just because she says that she doesn't want to sleep with me doesn't mean that she doesn't want to fuck me. It just means she doesn't want to SLEEP with

Children learn life fast. Our society unlearns them as they get older.

E one night stands.

E Girls generally look for one night stands that make them feel like they're in a relationship, and guys look for relationships that feel like a string of

The new el trains are really quiet.

G texts on my iPhone in real life.

G One thing that is guaranteed to wake me up in the morning is dreaming about an iPhone with no new texts and knowing that if I wake up, there might be new

It must be rough to go through life without a chin.

The tighter your pants are the harder it is for someone to steal things out of your pocket.

Do I sometimes think, "Hm, maybe this won't work"? Absolutely. Do I ever let that stop me? Absolutely not.

I look forward to getting sick of things.

People will always tell you exactly what you need to know, if you just pay attention.

Never let anyone else determine who you are. At some point, you have to put your foot down and say, "Look, motherfuckers. This is who I am whether it's what you want or not." That's kind of what a great improvised solo is like.

Most musical fads retract before impact, but jazz says kill me with your first shot because I'll keep coming back if you don't.

While everyone else looks down the train platform to see if the train is coming, I look up the platform to look at all of the people.

It can be extremely freeing to leave your house with no particular destination in mind.

The only thing just about our judicial system are its inJUSTices.

Anyone can be an asshole and push quickly through a crowd, but it takes true confidence to saunter slowly and enjoy the stroll.

I just took one of the most beautiful photos of Chicago I've ever taken. Ironic that just off frame is one of the most disgusting housing projects in Chicago.

Walking barefoot through downtown Chicago is an extremely unique and freeing feeling.

Constipated people don't give a shit.

There sure are lots of interesting folks on the train this morning. Men, women, children, a priest, an amputee...

According to the weather app on my iPhone, rain is supposed to come out of the sun on Friday. Isn't that one of the ten plagues from the Bible?

I need to remember that, even though the woman next to me on the train has clearly pissed herself, she has a life that she's trying to live, too.

Since everyone was doing it, it must be worth the five years you take off of your life by riding my ass going 70mph on the highway.

Sometimes, you can climb halfway up a 100 ft. tree, get down, run a quarter mile through the forest, and back up to your grandparents' cabin without incident. Sometimes, you fall flat on your face walking across the deck.

When I wear the same shirt and pants two days in a row, I feel like everyone on the train knows it, too.

I'm on this crazy adventure because someone somewhere at some point convinced me to convince myself that I'm good enough to do this for a living.

Despite technical ability, the jazz musicians we consider to be the greatest are the most inclusive on the bandstand and in life.

In a room in the Hilton labeled "Business Center", there was a guy harvesting crops on Farmville.

People like this still exist in our nation.

If you can unravel something, can you also ravel it?

"Guiness is not a dark beer. It's a lifestyle."
-Scott Hall

I need to remember that the things that I hate most about other people are prevalent in me, too.

After seeing Manifest and graduation, Columbia College is greatest arts college in the world. Hands down.

I study jazz because it is the only music to ever make me cry, laugh, and get angry all in the same song.

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