Because of the McMansion Hell blog...

8459 South Michigan - Eric Allix Rogers

I've grown to appreciate mid-century modern architecture. There are plenty examples of these buildings on the south side. Not just Hyde Park/Kenwood, but further south. Perhaps here I will share my own observations with you.

Meanwhile you should read McMansion Hell to see what they have against these McMansions. We've seen them out there around the country. Surely you've seen them in the Chicago area and I know I've seen them in the suburbs of ATL.

BTW, if you've got the cash there is a mid-century modern revival. If you already own such a home this is what you can do to keep it maintained.

FTR, I'm posting this to lighten the mood just change subjects for a bit from the new administration in Washington. Perhaps the good times will roll again we shall see.

Kurt Angle is in the WWE Hall of Fame

[VIDEO] This is a clear sign Kurt Angle is returning to the WWE universe where he belongs since about 2006 he had been with the competing Total Nonstop Action Wrestling until his contract was up with them sometime in 2016.

What distiguishes Angle is that he is an Olympic gold medalist which is something he certainly played up during his time in WWE. In another era he'd have been the perfect baby face. But somehow they turned some of his baby face attributed into a very heel persona. As an Olympic hero/gold medalist he was not liked by the WWE universe however he still was able to put on a good match and had a legit amateur wrestling background as he was an Olympic wrestler and that was what he got in gold medal in.

I look forward to his eventual return even if he doesn't wrestle full-time again. He deserves one more run in WWE.

The man in the arena

This should be my charge going forward seen and heard in a number of places. This was a quote used when Extreme Championship Wrestling went bankrupt in 2001. Posted to the ECW website by owner Paul Heyman.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  

What will be your charge in 2017?

This is a quote from a speech made in 1910 by former President Theodore Roosevelt considered one of our greatest presidents.