I got a little too close to the action Friday night while on assignment for the Mooresville-Decatur Times. I'd just moved to this spot when... well, you know what's about to happen right after the shutter closed.
Author: jfigy
I'm a writer, vegetarian, musician, francophile, and student at UIndy. I have a beautiful GF/editor, a big family, two rabbits, and a devil cat.
The authorized biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. needs your help. The film, which has been thirty-some years in the making, launched a KickStarter campaign Tuesday to crowd-fund $250,000 to finish Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. Filmmaker extraordinaire Robert Weide was only twenty-two when he met Kurt, then sixty, in 1982. Yet the two struck up … Continue reading Longtime coming Vonnegut documentary needs support
When I wrote my profile of Holy Cross, I had to cut down to the essentials to capture the neighborhood as a whole. So, while I want folks to read my article (Click here: Holy Cross Neighborhood in Downtown Indy Resurges with New Homes, Businesses) I’d also like to share these stories. Society of Salvage + … Continue reading Holy Cross stories, pt. 2: Society of Salvage+Rewired Antiques
From the pinnacle of Highland Park you can see a lot. It’s the second highest point in Indianapolis, so Chase Tower and the downtown skyline are highly visible. But so are the 136-foot Holy Cross bell tower, a fence with three Rottweiler statues, a development of brand new $300,000 to $500,000 homes, a one-acre urban … Continue reading Holy Cross stories, pt. 1: Flat12 Bierwerks
My alarm clock is useless. At least, the electronic one I have to plug in and reset if the power goes out. But now, I don’t even need my phone alarm. I became a morning person. Granted, it helps that my cats want their breakfast earlier and earlier. Herman—the orange devil, as his friends call … Continue reading How I became a morning person
I wrote a review of The Decemberists' new album for It's All Dead! Stephanie read it and told me I write reviews like Rory Gilmore, referring of course to the episode in which Rory prints a scathing writeup of a ballet performance at Yale and in the end learns a valuable lesson. But you, of course, … Continue reading Review: The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
“Can you imagine not working?” my dad asked me yesterday. We’d just loaded hand tools, power tools back into my dad’s van, with its hardly latching doors and cracked windshield. We were driving away from the job, a home in great disrepair. Not a glamorous, forty-some thousand dollar kitchen remodel, but it was work. “Well,” … Continue reading The word of 2014: Work
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … Continue reading Blog stats: 2014 in review
Kurt Vonnegut, in a commencement speech at Syracuse University in 1994, recalled a bit of wisdom about being an artist. One of Vonnegut's high school teachers told him: "What is it artists do? ... They do two things," he said. "First, they admit they can't straighten out the whole universe. And then second, they make at least … Continue reading Reshaping the world in finite pieces
James Figy 