The Rosemont Ghareeb Nawaz is bustling; all the tables are full. (It's not a big place, admittedly) Also one of the few 24 hour restaurants in the area

Arzan Cafe, the local Kyrgyzstani restaurant, is weirdly empty tonight. I'm used to it being crammed to the gills with families as soon as the sun goes down - but for the past couple of days? Almost no one. Super disconcerting. Food is as good as ever, though

Somebody was a very good boy today

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

tired of ska? how about some techno marching band music instead? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OF-...

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Aztlan on Montrose is closed and dark, no signs, no nothing; given what's happened today, not surprised at all On the bright side, ran into a @33rdwardworking.bsky.social canvasser as we were leaving; rather happy to see them out and about. The whistle may be a shibboleth

Witness video shared to Facebook shows feds swiftly grabbing someone off the street at Lawrence and Kedzie this morning and putting them in an unmarked car. Locals know this is a busy intersection, the beating heart of Albany Park:

Gotta have some aspirations. Beyond alcoholism and team sports, naked ambition is inimical to Chicago

CVS gave me RSV, covid, and flu shots without batting an eye. The RSV shot hurt, though - not sure if it was intramuscular or what

Dear VCFMW exhibitors: if you're going to pack up for the night at 7:30 and not come back, please put up a sign or something

Tonight it is uperdawg

CVS let me book a covid shot in Chicago - but only for the pfizer, not moderna

Greetings from the hellscape

I've spent an awful lot on Bandcamp Friday, and it's mostly shoegaze and @knillz.bsky.social's fault. (Sugar For The Pill's LUV, Blushing's Sugarcoat, and GIFT's Illuminator are my standouts.)

Made my probably last pilgrimage to the American Science Center. Been reading their catalogs since 7th grade

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Tfw it’s humid in Tokyo and the inside of the combini looks like a scene from Stephen King’s The Mist

Strongly contemplating getting a Peruvian flag bumper sticker for the car and claiming it's a Texas flag to anybody in authority

I had forgotten how slow the Elston DMV was; intake and camera were quick, but it's been half an hour so far waiting for the vision test

If you needed any more reasons not to use Duolingo to learn Japanese or other languages, they're now catering to transphobes.

Elwood says hello

today's excitement/milestone: roommate had first "poop on the rug" incident

New housemate

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts. Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible? Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, Batman! (well, hair spools, not snoods - but still)

got my inner theater kid on and did Vampire LARPing for the first time in close to thirty years; it was set in 1993, and so was weirdly nostalgic. fun, though

Little miss is relaxing and doing her utmost to enjoy herself

Saw a Malört truck on the way to my parents' house

Special guest dogposting

Going to celebrate Moo Deng's birthday by trying to bite one of my coworkers. 🦛 = murder potatoes.

another day, another couple hours of fighting kicad (which always wants you to do simple things in the least obvious ways)

wtf, Ivy *and* Stereolab have new albums out this year?

Vibes still suck, dogposting will continue

The purported thunderstorm today does not seem to have moistened the garden one iota. The blackberries don't seen to mind the heat, but the tomatoes are less than thrilled

ah, 80F + 80% humidity - haven't had to deal with this since I lived in Tokyo; not one of the aspects I recall fondly

thank you for riding the cta brown line

SITREP: a bumblebee and a hummingbird were sighted in the backyard. the hibiscus had toppled. I repeat: a bumblebee *and* a hummingbird were in the backyard

POTS POTS POTS

saw fireflies in the backyard (only a couple, but surprised to see them this early, too)

Looks like somebody got grooooooomed

I miss traveling and not being chronically exhausted and having a federal government that wasn't hellbent on destroying infrastructure

Oh boy, RCN/Astound fiber is down (not doing dhcp properly, looks like)

since it needs to be said: immigration is Good, Actually and also: it is incredibly tough to live somewhere where your literacy, comprehension, and speaking ability is limited. (in particular: it really fucking sucks trying to go to the post office or to get medical care and being flummoxed)

toilet handle broke off in my hand, which seems par for how the day is going; playing hooky by going to the hardware store and thence spiteful brewing seems warranted

drowning my sorrows in shoegaze www.twitch.tv/dj_knillz (that twitch stream is responsible for at least half my bandcamp wishlist items, I swear)

News sucks, dogposting will continue

Tony Hawk is the kind of guy 'alternative' GenX folk aspire[d] to be

Kessler syndrome, here we come

Reminder, this is the Canadian Wildfire Smoke Map, which means the current US admin hasn't gotten its grubby little hands on it. Mask up outside if there's a lot of particulate matter in the air around you and run air filters inside! Love your lungs, people! weather.gc.ca/firework/fir...