This week’s art is a bit of a delayed-reaction piece. I was moving stuff around in the office and found a sketchbook with textured paper that I apparently bought in Chicago. I say “apparently” because there was only one drawing in it…a very rough pencil sketch of a view of Chicago’s River North district, probably done while I was looking out the hotel window at the Building formerly known as Hancock Tower.

I don’t recall which trip this was, and I’m not sure exactly which hotel (most likely the Hilton Garden Inn or the Homewood Suites on E. Grande Ave.), but I decided to finish the piece a few days ago with pastel crayons. I have have done the original sketch a decade ago (or any time since).

I had no color reference, so don’t expect a slavish recreation here. There may be a touch of my Hopper influence there, but it’s not intentional.  That’s just something that’s become ingrained to me now. I cropped it a bit after scanning. If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you an encore of a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear a classic episode of The Comedy Vault that delivers classic stand up from Lenny Bruce.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our newish Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute: Psychedelic Shack, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat and Prognosis.