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"You surely know what the great sportswriter Red Smith said about writing, that it was easy, that all you did was open a vein and bleed.
You bleed real good, and your heart is where the
blood comes from.
If you ever wonder what in hell you think you're doing with your life, let me remind you that you are telling people as reasonable and humane as yourself what they desperately need to hear, that others feel
as they do."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Magazine Articles
Each one of these essays treats an iconic Indiana subject. Taken together, they begin to
describe my particular Indiana sense of place.
Traces - A publication of the Indiana Historical Society
ArtsIndiana (Winter 2001)
NUVO newsweekly
- TURF's up (January 25, 2012)
- Are schools the problem (January 18 , 2012)
- The unmaking of the president (January 11, 2012)
- Mass transit and public education (December 28, 2011)
- Home from Iraq (December 21 , 2011)
- Not about bikes (December 14, 2011)
- Breadth, depth and downright beauty (December 7 , 2011)
- Occupy the Super Bowl (November 23, 2011)
- The Penn State scandal (November 16, 2011)
- Dear mayor (November 9, 2011)
- Maxwell Anderson's IMA (November 2, 2011)
- The Gallup poll and pot (October 26, 2011)
- IPS is done (October 19, 2011)
- What would Steve Jobs do? (October 12, 2011)
- Thank you, health insurers (October 5, 2011)
- Tar sands oil in Indiana (September 28, 2011)
- Human scale (September 21, 2011)
- Kennedy better kick it up (September 14, 2011)
- Dick Cheney's 9/11 book tour (September 7, 2011)
- Cutting the budget, cutting safety (August 31, 2011)
- Arts debacles (August 24, 2011)
- For the people, or profits (August 3, 2011)
- Seeing The Tree of Life (July 27, 2011)
- Free to be stupid (July 20, 2011)
- Here comes the mayor's race (July 13, 2011)
- Making love without making babies (July 6, 2011)
- Getting used to war (June 29, 2011)
- The Palladium's boffo budget (June 22, 2011)
- What is college for? (June 15, 2011)
- The house on Memory Lane (June 8, 2011)
- Peoples' art (June 1, 2011)
- Indiana in The New York Times (May 25, 2011)
- Mitch Daniels can count (May 18, 2011)
- Mayoral control of IPS (May 11, 2011)
- The high price of gas (May 4, 2011)
- Dump Trump (April 27, 2010)
- Paul Ryan's Gilded Age (April 20, 2010)
- Paul Ryan's wayback machine (April 20, 2011)
- Farewell to another Borders (April 13, 2011)
- Great to be straight or unborn (April 6, 2010)
- Our streets suck (March 30, 2010)
- Living in the future (March 23, 2010)
- Rahm Emanuel talks the arts (March 16, 2011)
- Government walk-outs (March 9, 2011)
- Saying yes to pot (March 2, 2010)
- These Republicans ain't no party (February 23, 2010)
- The opportunistic Mike Delph (February 16, 2010)
- The Palladium's failure of imagination (February 9, 2010)
- It's not about guns (February 2, 2011)
- Townships' time to go (January 26, 2011)
- Mitch Daniels' Indiana (January 19, 2010)
- Legislative food fight (January 12, 2010)
- Educational testing (January 5, 2010)
- The Caine Mutiny (December 29, 2010)
- When it is better to receive (December 22, 2010)
- High-speed rail blind-sided (December 15, 2010)
- Airport pat-downs and WikiLeaks (December 8, 2010)
- No waiting for Superman (December 1, 2010)
- If it’s Christmas, it must be The Beatles (November 24, 2010)
- Sticking it to Indy Connect (November 17, 2010)
- Rand Paul and the Me Party (November 10, 2010)
- Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum” (November 3, 2010)
- This election matters (October 27, 2010)
- The Livability Challenge (October 20, 2010)
- Christamore House down, Lilly up (October 13, 2010)
- The North of South development (October 6, 2010)
- Reforming health care reform (September 29, 2010)
- The parking meter gambit (September 22, 2010)
- Mayors Daley and Ballard (Septemeber 15, 2010)
- Yawn, election's coming (Septemeber 8, 2010)
- The Indianapolis Department of Cultural Affairs (Septemeber 1, 2010)
- Barack and Blago (August 25, 2010)
- The cost of climate change (August 18, 2010)
- The arts, or else! (August 11, 2010)
- Taxing the rich (August 4, 2010)
- Ballard over a barrel (July 21, 2010)
- Ringo is 70 (July 14, 2010)
- Carmel's Palladium (July 7, 2010)
- Our runaway military (June 30, 2010)
- Waiting on the oil spill (June 23,2010)
- Dan Coats' excellent lobbying adventure (June 16, 2010)
- High school is boring (June 9, 2010)
- Blooming algae (June 2, 2010)
- Raymond Chandler calling (May 26, 2010)
- Ballard gets it right (May19, 2010)
- BP is Indiana's problem, too (May 12, 2010)
- Taxes and aliens (May 5, 2010)
- The fight for public transit (April 28, 2010)
- Property tax caps = library closures (April 21, 2010)
- The Butler Way (April 14, 2010)
- Good times for gun owners (April 7, 2010)
- Spitting on health care reform (March 31, 2010)
- 20 years: A beautiful friendship (March 24, 2010)
- The Cubs and crocuses (March 17, 2010)
- There's a tea party in my head (March 10, 2010)
- The Tenth Amendment movement (March 3, 2010)
- Talking about pot (February 24, 2010)
- The Toyota-H1N1-Super Bowl blues (February 17, 2010)
- War is our drug of choice (February 10, 2010)
- Zoning in Indianapolis is broken (February 3, 2010)
- Bayh vs. Pence (January 27, 2010)
- Getting trimmed, tree-wise (January 20, 2010)
- ReLegalize it! (January 13, 2010)
- Change is us (January 1, 2010
Columns Archive: View Columns from 2009-2002
Read more of Hoppe's work for Nuvo.
On the outside, at least, suburban life seems built to defy whatever it is that makes narrative
compelling. So in life and art we resort to other, interior ways of escape. This swatch of
autobiography is about coming to terms with a time and place, in my case, Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
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