Weird because I thought I would pay money to Disney+ to in turn pay professional actors, writers, and tradespeople to make interesting stories that some random dipshit would not be as good at

Lake Michigan, oil on panel, 8"x10", 2025 #art #painting

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Martin Parr, a photographer known for his humor who captured the quirkiness of English life in a wide-ranging career that spanned decades, died on Saturday. He was 73.

How ’bout some coffee? Don’t mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

My contribution to world pear day

Growing up in Wisconsin is telling your doctor you only smoke when you go out drinking and he says eh, as your doctor don't do that, but that's fine

As immigration agents swooped into Chicago this fall, communities stepped up to get kids to school safely chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

"So what's the best wine?"

Watching Muppet Christmas Carol with the kid

if you ate a costco hotdog, you may be entitled to compensation

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

Ok, check one Right, two for two Oh, I see my mistake here

Whale fall pins are now back in stock, just in time for the holidays!! The perfect gift for deep sea lovers & marine biology fans 🐋🦀 Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art

Saturday was the snowiest November day ever recorded in Chicago, according to the National Weather Service. The storm dumped over 8 inches of snow on parts of the city.

We have somehow, in the last couple of years, created an entire mini autistic comedy industry that is completely funded by other, more successful autistics paying it forward - both in investment and via crowdfunding. Sincere moment: I think that’s fucking beautiful.

Reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in high school was one of those times I could feel the fundamental wiring of my brain being altered Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

if you're in Indiana, would highly recommend writing this person and thanking them. they're going to get a lot of people yelling at them, and it would be good for ppl to see they get support when they stand up to trump. (I think I'm going to write even though I'm not in IN.)

Christkindlmarket at Wrigley

These people don't understand that the "having" of your completed work is usually the least satisfying part. I spend months and years tinkering with a painting or an essay because that's the enjoyable part

People will listen to neuroscience podcasts 18 hours a day and never shut up about optimizing themselves and still willfully forget that the point of making art is not for a computer to generate an image as quickly as possible it is to activate different parts of that brain you supposedly care about

if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy

Getting a cup of coffee yesterday the barista asked what I had planned for Thanksgiving and I said I made turkey confit, cooking turkey legs and thighs in duck fat last week to get ready for today and someone behind me in line audibly gasped

Turkey Leg, oil on canvas #art #painting #thanksgiving

"The challenges Chicagoans have endured these last weeks I wouldn’t wish on anyone. But that time has made clear that as a city, we know how to embrace the notion that we fight for our own. Together." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/o...

"A kid who is now where I was at the time of my diagnosis, lost and confused and struggling for an identity to guide them through all of that, will live out their life in the shadow of Kennedy’s hateful rhetoric and policies regardless of what happens next."

Chicago's Essential Dive Bars Vol. 2: The History And Legacy Of 12 More Iconic Watering Holes blockclubchi.co/3XzrHDf

Several Chicago restaurants have been ranked in a new list featuring the 100 greatest American restaurants of the 21st century, with one being named the best of the century. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2cep4x2w 

A friend once said there are three types of people in the wine industry: people who started in restaurants and never left, failed academics, and lawyers looking for a career change

“It’s a kick in the gut for beer history and Chicago," said Liz Garibay of the Beer Culture Center. "It’s the oldest brewing school in the United States and has taught many of the beer pioneers of the past and certainly of the modern era.”

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Citizen Kane but he's told he was right and brilliant to give up his sled

A drawing professor told us "Don't worry about your style, just make the work. Then, after ten years, you'll see your style has emerged"

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Holiday season

Shit. We’ve lost the beer school.

There are cathedrals everywhere

I took Benadryl in the middle of the day once to deal with allergies, and woke up on the couch with bags of groceries on the counter and no recollection whatsoever of having left the house or going shopping

We need to aggressively develop a stigma for when people ask a question, get an answer, and then immediately "check it with AI"

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

“The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch of obscenities and ‘no,’” said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side neighborhood saw agents throw tear gas and tackle an elderly man. “We are all Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.”

This is what happens when a Pope grows up in Siskel and Ebert country.

For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

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A tale of two wormwoods chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to write about Chicago, especially right now, and the late, great Tony Fitzpatrick gave me a perfect metaphor: Chicago is a boxer. dansinker.com/posts/202…

NEW: I wrote about attacks on federal oversight of special ed and what it means for families like mine. I went into this thinking maybe MN kids would be ok, but "As I spoke to experts in federal disability education policy, I began to see the cracks."

when new yorkers all experience something on social media it's like a rat that got ahold of a brazil nut. when upper midwesterners all experience something on social media it's a breathtaking dance of radiant light and color across the entire night sky

A little bit of northern lights tonight in Chicago tonight