If you’re around Southport corridor, you should order some food from Shawafil at 1415 W Irving Park. It’s run by the same folks as the halal taco spot next door, they’re great people and it’s vitally important to me, personally, that I get to eat their shawarma & falafel at least once a week forever

I did a little story about it a while back and the answer is basically what you've deduced: a guy wanted a stone guy and so he made it. Ask Geoffrey: Who’s Holding Up This Southeast Side Building? | Chicago News | WTTW share.google/xU0tCzrBAgHQ...

Here's a 1954 article from the Trib

Paused to take a pic of the incredible Phil’s Kastle Hamburgers sign on 95th near the bridge and noticed this bizarre corner statue built into the structure for the first time. Anyone have the lore on this guy? Head looks like a Jesus but the pelt and Greek waves suggest Heracles

Another bike offered to the State Line Obelisk

Pokemon Go adults are like Disney adults that you meet in random encounters

You know I had to do it to em

DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER

Best part of taking the mini velo on the LFT is everyone I pass doing this

Dreamed I ended up working at an old employer again and their new strategic direction was “gaming on MacOS”. Their two examples to emulate were Myst II+III, Riven and Exile

Surely “grok is this true” beats Hemingway’s baby shoes

*hears ice cream truck in the distance* Yooo, that's the ice cream leitmotif

PlinthBoy

Skipping the VPN ad on the podcast

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Just occurred to me that the everylot bot is freaking out a bit in this part of Lawndale/Garfield Park due to parcels that got absorbed into the interstate but still exist on the books

Mini velo fell over again

I’ve always said that one of the worst parts of making software is knowing how any of it works. Thank god we can turn any program into a kafkaesque, carbon-spewing black box and pay millions in previously human salaries for the privilege

Bluesky iOS app appears to have removed the ability to long press images to copy/share them, for reasons known only to the perverts who run this website and God

Imagining a small-government suburban voter oscillating between rage at “losing” the bears and elation at not getting taxed for a stadium so fast they become a vapor

The city should sue the bears for profiting off its likeness if they keep Chicago in the name

Games almost never need full voice acting and most would be better with none at all

MBJ’s Chicago: a bunch of piggy thumbs collecting overtime to waddle through the sand at a public beach and intimidate like 12 teenagers who aren’t committing any crime on the first day of their summer break

The boom in tourist-oriented development near the Obama Library echoes the speculative Columbian Expo rush that built these neighborhoods in the first place. Therefore it’s only natural, your honor, to build an Airbnb murder castle,

Bay of Pigs

We gotta talk about the flying insect situation at the lake this year. There is too much damn bug

Hey Alderman. Expand on that

At his current rate we estimate that the Platner campaign will be creating 3.35544e7 damaging scandals per second by election night

Are there still “Paul is dead” truthers out there. Fantastic bit for 2026 I think

I told Figma to populate a table with “interesting” dummy names and to its credit all of these sound like British poets who disappeared on sexually-entangled yacht excursions

Somehow got a mailer from Toilet Paper USA and instead of a return address on the envelope it just says ERIKA KIRK in big dramatic cursive

Chicago is sleepwalking into electing its own Eric Adams with this slate of uninspiring losers

Biopic about the microbiologist who discovered biofilms

Apologies to whoever reviews user-submitted landmarks at RWGPS, I assumed it was an automated thing and didn’t mean to flood your inbox with like 25 requests to approve “pit toilet”

Lumière Condoms: For Those Who Cum After

When I say “lol” this is what im talking about

The bitter irony of WWII soldiers saving us from “speaking Japanese” only to create the conditions for their grandchildren to rely on fansubs for decades

If you brick a free throw just right you end up in the Shaqrooms

🥱: We should pack the court 👀: into barrels and weld them shut

Midweek blues

If you brick a free throw just right you end up in the Shaqrooms

It’s very weird that I’m currently costing my employer $0 a month in computer funny money and that makes *me* the bad employee

Much like with streetcar nostalgia, I think 95% of “why don’t we make pretty buildings anymore” discourse is pining for an unrecoverable configuration of markets and materials and values that produced the old building, not the building itself

People are so weird about buildings man

On the other hand, giving any ground at all to these companies normalizes and entrenches them, and the freak outs are a necessary social deterrent against uncritical adoption

Migra Watch is kind of like storm chasing except with chuds

A fun feature of X The Everything App these days is that videos straight up do not work and haven’t for weeks

I predict this summer “liminal spaces” that are not actually liminal spaces will experience a renaissance under the backrooms banner

I saw a post with a picture of the torn up White House + lawn that said “is the grass fucked?” And I’ve been thinking about it for days