Mike: Laura, I'm a pickle Laura. Me: You're gonna be a dead pickle.

Brown leather (pleather?) sofa free at Eastwood & Spaulding

Has been claimed

Free grill spotted in the alley between Spaulding & Kimball/Eastwood & Wilson

What's the weirdest thing you sold at the Albany Park yard sale? For us, it's a Frank Zappa 8 Track.

JJs theme song (he chased one out of the yard before breakfast)

Do you like puzzles? Books? Coach purses? Hydroflasks? DVDs? Come on out!

We have a Teams channel at work for memes and this popped up.

😞 too young

I just saw that Jeff Bezos' rocket blew up. Sadly, not with him in it.

Stella has started letting me (briefly) pet her belly when she lays on my lap and it feels amazing. I feel like I won a grand prize.

I just used the phrase "hard habit to break" and now I have Peter Cetera's voice in my head and Pavlovian indigestion from memories of eating Polish sausage at Demon Dogs while Chicago's greatest hits blared over the PA.

GI-Jaggoffs are back

JJ contemplating a Hasenpfeffer breakfast

I hate the way airline pricing works. Can you imagine a restaurant saying "well, you booked your reservation today, instead of last week, so your meal will cost 50% more than that table over there. Rrrgg.

One week from today is the Albany Park yard sale!

Got a second lilac shrub for the yard. Missed out on Chicago Hardy Fig season, so I put a calendar note in next April to look for one.

Deep fried Oreo funnel cake truck is parked right in front of the Lincoln Square Athletic Club for Maifest. Is this genius or cruel??

Age yourself with a toy from your childhood. (So, technically, these pre-date my childhood but were things I played with and were not yet banned for child safety)

I just got an email from Lyft about a bill in Illinois Senate that would "make ride-sharing less affordable". Suspicious, I looked it up. It's a bill that would allow ride-sharing drivers to 😱😱 UNIONIZE! Fuck off Lyft. I support labor rights over corporate profits. www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

OK Chicago, & Illinois: it's high time we go after any politician who drags their feet on doing this. ICE killed one person in Franklin Park, and miraculously didn't kill another woman they shot 5 times. Democratic officials who make excuses & don't follow through should be harassed out of office.

Went to sleep at 9:30 last night. My alarm went off at 6:30, I said "nope" and slept until 7:30. I apparently needed that.

Roosevelt high School graduation 🧊 watch followed by delicious street tacos.

Help me decide. Tonight I could: 1. Go learn about TIFs 2. Have a cocktail on a patio 3. Put on my jammies after work, go read, and fall asleep by 9

IDONWANNA Don't mind me. Just having a day.

Chef's kiss.

Thafuq?

Thousands of Gen Zers are Googling "Morris Day" right now...

Brostrology?

Not fast enough

I am so, unfathomably, embarrassed to be an American right now. Every day it gets worse. UFC cage match on the White House lawn, because that's the trash half the country elected.

Never *ever* use products from ULINE, the company owned by the ultra-right-wing billionaire Uihlein family. (Once you know the name, you'll start noticing it in shops, on packaging.) If you see a store using their products, convince them to switch to a company listed at this link. refuseuline.com

I have decided that I want a Chicago Hardy Fig for the garden.

Cedar mulch smells as nice as it looks

Telling others how to eat their food "properly" (aka, what goes on a hot dog)

Sourdough success. Z'atar spiced sour dough filled with feta and dill.

Concrete Blonde Go-Gos Pixel Grip Joan Jett L7 Belly Mavis Staples Shamika Copeland Sinead O'Connor Patti Smith Florence & The Machine Lady Gaga

Beautiful Patty Melt

Chicago is the greatest city in the world (I had to steal your line @mattenloe.bsky.social )

I love the Salt Shed. They put a lot of thought into the space. It's sustainable, accessible, interactive, indoor/outdoor. I think it's my favorite venue in the city right now. Even transit-wise, the Brown Line to the Armitage bus is easy. Every time I'm here, I appreciate it more.

I'm so glad they spent money to beautify the sidewalk under the Western Brown Line stop. The red brick background really enhances the pigeon shit.

My yoga instructor shares inspirational posters before class. This week was "Storage units are graveyards for the things we thought would be useful." I laughed so hard because my husband (together 16yr) has a storage unit I have never seen (Not disallowed, just no desire)

Looking for the best way to hang something load bearing (a coat hook rack) to plaster & lathe where finding the studs is questionable. I thought I found at least one with my fancy stud finder designed for plaster, but the drill said nope.

Anybody else going to the show at Salt Shed tomorrow? We'll be there for Tortoise, Pixel Grip, and Jesus & Mary Chain

I love working with my office window open. I can hear birds chirping and even sparrows eating bugs and seeds out of our gutters on the roof.

"One of the concerning elements of misconduct was vouching, which refers to an attorney making a guarantee in front of a jury to a witness’ reliability or truthfulness, a determination that is to only be made by jury members." blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/21/t...

Took JJ to River Park to see the herons