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Loop trains are kinda a clusterfuck today. Got on an orange line at Clark and Lake and I'm somehow back around the loop.

letterboxd.com/southbymidwe... #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

"The start, is the hardest part..." Latest Lucksmiths reissue delivered swiftly from Matinee Recordings. Sounds just as good 20+ years on.

TIL Illinois was the first state to decriminalize homosexuality (1961). We should be proud. OTOH, it was also the first state to criminalize fellatio (1827). Lump that in with temperance movement I guess. Our bad.

Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks

Andrew Sa, Chicago's queer Cosmic Country crooner, releases a debut solo album where he's anything but solitary. https://bit.ly/4fVYDQs

A new episode of my video/text interview series The Moment dropped today, and it's a very, very good time, as Mark Waid joined me to share the moment he knew The Flash, Kingdom Come, Irredeemable, and Daredevil were going to work. This is a very fun one!

New plaza outside Western Brown Line stop.

Good morning!

More than two dozen people arrived to face federal agents in five different unmarked vehicles with aftermarket emergency lights. One agent had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone, a Christian symbol dating to the Crusades that more recently has been associated with white supremacy.

How do you let the state of Florida beat you to this shit?

Tip for invigorating your often mundane and not infrequently intolerable existence: Listen to the soundtrack to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as you grocery shop. It really puts some stakes into who's gonna get that last case of Topo Chico.

So-shul-is-em! 👏 👏 👏👏👏 So-shul-is-em! 👏 👏 👏👏👏

Chicago River is especially smelly tonight for some reason. Ah summer.

important context for the one (and literally only one) example that the "trans girls in sports" panic was built off of lia was a good swimmer who, post-HRT, was not remotely exceptional by the general standards of female athletes these bans are based on flimflam and bullshit

New Lucksmiths reissue! Arguably (with myself) my favorite! matineerecordings.com/the-lucksmit...

Imagine if we just taxed these ppl properly and used those taxes to fund nasa more and... and... I mean we wouldn't have this going on I tell you what.

Personally I think it rocks that the Pope issued a big post telling all the tech bros they are what JRR Tolkien hated and Peter Thiel immediately fled to Argentina

Moved away from one guy who was touching his girlfriend too much and ended up behind a guy whose girlfriend was touching HIM too much. (I'm at the Belle & Sebastian show.)

please respond to this one. i will be so embarrassed if none of you guys answer my job’s question for daily chicagoan, the email newsletter i run there that you should subscribe to

whole theater starts throwing popcorn and going apeshit

Welcome to the future. We don't have jet packs or cures for any major diseases. But we do have phones that spy on you and commercials on services you already pay for.

This was a great read. Perfectly captures the vibe of any sufficiently wealthy person I've ever met, but the tech oligarchs in particular.

[Bubba from Forrest Gump voice] Metal claws... bone claws... charged claws... mind claws... firecracker claws... bang bang claws... BBQ claws... claws cocktail... youtu.be/mfUtseK27pc?...

yeah, why can't he be normal like Joe Gruters: a guy terrified of big cities who obsesses over childrens' genitalia

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

ICE agents have been confirmed roaming in the NW side of Chicago. Irving Park-Mayfair-Albany Park area

Saw Mildred's first Chicago show last night at the Empty Bottle. They're the real deal. Everyone in the band sings lead (well), and the harmonies are unreal. Only solidifies that 'Fenceline' is a clear AOTY contender for me

Boycott Uline, a shipping supplies company owned by the Uihlein family. When you buy their products, you're financing right-wing cruelty and corruption.

TPB out today. I need everyone in my feed to pick up my book and repost.

Mandalorian was pretty dull. They should've at least killed Optimus Prime or something.

“Harold And Maude 2” (1974) where Harold researches necromancy to resurrect Maude but he accidentally raises the Devil (played by Tom Bosley) who kills him.

Lenticular t-shirt that alternates between reading "Matt Murdock is Daredevil" and "Matt Murdock is a Ho."

DAMMIT take my money

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Real sickos know that although the idea of a novel about the annoying comedy Star Trek guy marrying Troi’s horny mom sounds like the worst thing in the world, the fact it is written by Peter David means it is better than Don DeLillo’s Underworld

And now the Congressional Black Caucus is on board with the Southern college-sports #boycott. The #SEC has a bullseye on its #JimCrow back. Now go a step further and cause major disruption around every SEC stadium on game days. If the South aims to bury democracy, bury it first. #SECregation

What a doofus!

If the mayor doesn’t make Nora the permanent CTA leader she should just take his job come next election.

My heart's not made of stone.

We're going to need whole new mechanisms to root out the corruption from this administration.

It'd been seven years since Mark Waid joined Off Panel for a chat, and I hope it was worth the wait, because this one was a gem. We talk: Cliffhangers! Being character-centric! Dinosaurs! The power of comic shops! Art imitating life! The return of Empire! And more! Listen up!

Bill Cassidy’s concession speech was missing something so I fixed it.

I am normally more down for ignoring these turds than circulating them, but agree it's kinda fun that people decided to hatewatch Bezos Poszt Boyz (&z Girlz) PodZ.

You either die young or live long enough to see...