I can't imagine anyone needing this page as I'm sure the near-dozen of you who have ever read anything published here know me in real life already. But, hey, "About" pages are de rigeur so here goes:
- i am smr
- i can generally be found in chicago
- i like (which i like more than others varies with the day):
- my wife
- my cats
- my guitars
- the chicago blackhawks
- whisky
- old style
- i write here, mostly about books, sometimes about the absurdities of my commute, sometimes about just random-assed shit, but i write here because, goddammit, i've had a personal website for two decades now (even if I dump it out and clear all the content in a fit every year or so) and i don't want _everything_ i write to be data-mined by Zuckerberg for free
shawn ritchie dot com 