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Category: A Month Of

A Month of Preview: Genius Gambler

Skills

This month’s theme is “Genius: Be an Inventor.” Unfortunately for me, no genius source of inspiration came readily, until I stopped wracking my brain for ways to make something original and new. I’m going to try to borrow from one of the oldest tropes associated with “The Genius” – as someone who games the system, …

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This Task Sucks

In which Duo gaslights himself.

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Gaslighting with Bonnie Fan

For “A Month of Gaslighting,” I went fishing for babies in the Chicago river.

What do you catch with babies, you ask?

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A Month Of Gaslighting… Group Completion

Pico's Letter to a stranger

A Month Of… 1225 West Belmont Wed. June 10th 7:30 Food 8:00 Stories @printersrow #litfest A photo posted by Story Luck (@storyluck) on Jun 6, 2015 at 2:36pm PDT Have you heard the term, reverse pick pocketing? It’s when you slip something into a person’s pocket, purse, or wallet without them knowing. It’s easier to …

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A Month Of… Genius!

Storyteller and host Bonnie Fan

The Next show will be a Month Of… Genius! 1225 West Belmont July 8th 7:30 Food 8:00 Stories Bring your genious stories, or just come to enjoy the food and listen to our wacky tales. This month I’ll be introducing a new cookie recipe that I really hope you like! A special kind of bite …

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20 Chicagoans Map Chicago

“Excuse me!” “Excuse– oh I’m so sorry ma’am, you’re eating.” “Yes, okay! I’m doing a quick little project here. Can you draw me a map of the Chicago neighborhoods?” For this month’s prompt, A Month of Maps, I briefly considered revisiting a Ghost Bikes of Chicago project, before I stumbled on this crowd-sourced world map, …

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Story Luck’s Map to Ideals and Emotions

Kids on the steps

Join us on Wed. the 13th where will discover all about maps through our special round table storytelling open Mic.

A Month Of… Maps.

This month I worked with Lynda Joy, Alexander, Bonnie Fan, and a slew of strangers to tackle the group task: Create your own Map. We built this map

This is the finished product.

A Map to emotions

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Destroying Things

This week, I’m going to highlight a piece of writing that was done for A Month Of… Moving On: Destroy something of Sentimental Value. This was written by Jacqueline Brogdon. Who worked for us last summer and runs a great travel blog. This task, and this show proved to be my favorite A Month Of… …

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Monday Storytelling Links

Since this is A Month Of… Maps: Create Your Own Map.

I thought I’d search out and link you to some collection of alternative maps.

The first I ran into was this short Esquire slide show.

Which despite what the above image might suggest, is predominately a collection of Data Maps.

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A Month Of… Maps!

Maps
Create your own map.

We had a good show last night, new folks came, and we welcomed a new host Bonnie Fan.

The stories varied wildly and it felt like a group of friends having a ruckus discussion gently guided by the joyous panda that is our fearless leader Duo.

After a debate, and several switching of votes, next month’s theme was decided.

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