Over the past year I've been taking snapshots of strange, tought-provoking or memorable sights in my daily travel, so I recently dug up some images mouldering on my little Olympus digital camera/voice recorder. Here's one of a fading street mural painted on the Metra station overpass wall at the University of Chicago, at the east end of the Midway. The central character: a human with a snarling dog's head looking over his shoulder, holding a gasoline can and lit torch. Note the wad of green cash in Dogg's back pocket.

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