imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

Is Jeremy going to be okay though?

A poster in a Trader Joe’s bathroom in a Chicago suburb showing the CTA L system. I wonder what foamer they got the map from, as it includes non-existent but deeply wished for features like a Brown Line extension to Jeff Park and north-south lines along what looks like Western and Cicero Avenues.

The Hammer Brothers might be my favorite Mario Bros enemies, because you have to imagine at some point Bowser or someone said “So we’ve got guys who throw hammers up in the air? Yeah…we should probably have them wear helmets.”

So what I’m hearing is that a school official is going to have to go into the bathroom to investigate every time the sensors detect “changes in air quality”.

"STOP THIS SONG!" said Principal Gwi-Ma www.bbc.com/news/article...

Water bottle for sale at a Daiso store invokes Mister Bones’ Wild Ride. “Since the road is continuing eternally, let's drive forever!”

Giant Dog has a stuffed llama toy with a squeaker inside, and it’s her job to get to that squeaker no matter how much polyfill ends up in her mouth in the process.

Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels

I didn’t take pictures because it was an art exhibit and I’m not a jerk, but here’s a piece that’s very much of the zeitgeist that I saw along Cicero Ave by Penny Pinch, a Chicago street artist who had a piece in the show.

So I went to this tonight. The show was in a room at the back of a rather cool comic shop called Howling Pages in Portage Park. The comic shop has a lot of small press and self published comics and is worth checking out if you’re in the area. The show itself was small but had some nice pieces.

City raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. They never want to go out anymore, just get stuff done around the den and maybe stream some show and call it an early night. www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...

Watched The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. The bit where the massive Lego setup has all been taken down and you see the basement with all the empty table space is supposed to be sad, and it is, but all I could think was “Wow, they have space for an amazing model railroad setup”

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Franksville, Harlem & Addison in Chicago IL. I should probably visit this place at some point after seeing their epic hot dog locomotive sign for decades. I think the sign looks better in daylight when it’s unlit and the engineer’s face doesn’t have quite as much of a lunar white pallor.

Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die

this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks

“What’s wrong, babe? You haven’t touched your thanksgiving pizza.” It’s the green beans and “gravy drizzle” where they lose me. This strikes me as an aggressively awful idea, but in all honesty I’d try it.

It’s not much, but we do now have snow. The dogs were unimpressed.

Shout out to everyone who puts up outdoor Thanksgiving decorations, helping maintain a buffer zone between Halloween and Christmas. You’re the real ones.

There are now bananas that have Zootopia 2 character stickers on them. Just letting you know in case any of you are fans of the franchise and are in the market for a banana.

Waiting for Sam Beckett to quantum leap into the three worst Supreme Court justices.

I can hear what this katamari sounds like.

This is what checking in on the news feels like every day now.

“And this is where the magic happens” I say as I open my bedroom door with a flourish, revealing shelf upon shelf of top hats, trick cabinets, assorted interlocking metal rings, and cages containing white rabbits.

I may need to check this out— a gallery show of art inspired by Chicago’s cryptids. The poster featuring a mothman standing astride an L car holding a hot dog and mustard makes a compelling argument. www.theseventhcornergallery.com/shows/chicag...

It’s like if the Yellowstone caldera started erupting months ago and has been erupting ever since but instead of ash it’s erupting thousands of cubic kilometers of liquid excrement and while we’re coping with that we learn that they stopped making candy corn. Thats how I feel about the Cheney thing.

TIL of Down to Earth, an ’80s sitcom about a flapper who gets run over by a streetcar in 1925 and is sent back to earth 60 years later to become a family’s ghost angel maid, as one does. The opening credits tell the entire story of the show and are a full 90 seconds long. youtu.be/yT5ghnY3Prw?...

Giant Dog & I went to the forest preserve off leash dog area Saturday & walked about a 2 mile loop. She enjoyed it except for the parts that were just a trail though tall grass, when another dog and their person came from the other direction it made her nervous and she had to press up against me.

Spider bread, spider bread Does water a spider bread does

Me: “So in case we run out of the full size candy bars we’ve got that box of Clif Bars in the pantry, that’ll take care of another 15 kids…” Data: “So those are the kids who’ll be egging our house then?”

In the end we got a little over 30 trick or treaters. I’m posting this so I can check back next year and maybe not overbuy candy like I have every year we’ve been here.

We only had one kid in a K-Pop Demon Hunter themed costume visit the house (Rumi), but one neighbor had a lovely Derpy Tiger Jack-o-lantern. Extra points for the knocked over flower pot next to it.

Today is that special day I set aside time to dress up in an opossum kigurumi and wander around the neighborhood going from house to house: Friday.

An Amazon deep discount site had sales offering screen protectors for cybertrucks, a gold plastic dollar sign pendant, and a bunch of Punisher skull decals, all for a penny each. Somewhere I guess there’s someone I probably wouldn’t have a lot to talk about with who got their shopping done for 3¢.

Yadda yadda yadda, I went to the Affy Tapple factory store.

I only recently learned Affy Tapples, a brand of packaged apples dipped in caramel and rolled in peanuts, are historically a Chicago thing. If you haven’t had one: they’re okay. Love the aggressively mid-century box art with the cartoon dude wearing an apron and bow tie. Are you familiar with these?

[putting up halloween decorations] spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Points to Lillian Hoban for drawing Frances as an American badger (Taxidea taxus) as opposed to a European badger (Meles meles) like most badger characters tend to be portrayed. Unlike Badger from Wind in the Willows, Frances looks like if she doesn’t get her bread and jam she could mess you up.

TIL that Russell Hoban, writer and co-creator with his wife Lillian of the Frances children’s books and Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas, wrote a well-regarded post apocalyptic novel called Riddley Walker. I guess he went darker as time went by as in between he wrote The Mouse and His Child.

From an article on Coca-Cola losing the right to distribute Dr. Pepper in some markets: “Sprite has been the clear lemon-lime leader in the same way that Keurig Dr Pepper’s Dr. Pepper has dominated the market for whatever its flavor is supposed to be.” apple.news/Ai5NYjvbrRD6...

I’ve been thinking it’s getting to be about time to cook up a big pot of chili, but this person has a pretty good idea too.

Great, now he’s got another reason to be mad at Canada.

Random question: If a White House insider were privy to bad health related news regarding the president and they didn’t have qualms about insider trading, what investment decisions might they make and would such moves be something the rest of us might be able to watch for? Asking for a friend.