“wurlitzer” is the perfect name for a company that made Contraptions

vertigo! at the symphony

There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.

immaculate heart of mary except instead of the heart it's midland plate 45

I want to “John Henry” the laser cutter at work

Ground Fault Circus Interrupter

I AM A SLUT FOR RAINIER CHERRIES 🍒

when you do your makeup for green mill conditions and end up evoking ivan albright in the harsh light of the red line

gotta figure bad guys hang out here right, cacklin about stuff and eating apples with switchblades. smokin whatever's around. tough customers, no doubt

Theda Bara would’ve absolutely smoked cloves

coral court motel, marlborough, missouri, 1988

Pizza & Pipes & Pipes: the theatre organ pizza parlor with attached head shop

Dude you would love my neighbour Gutsuck Stormchurner. He's also a big trains guy. Fair warning he's a lich so his place is kinda messy

2025 is the year of the saxophone I can feel it

never not thinking about her

thinking about her (the basketball hoop mounted between two grain silos that i saw when i was working for the illinois department of agriculture)

many canadians can go their entire lives without realizing (or admitting) that canada sucks for a lot of the same reasons the US sucks

This seems like such a gentle dish but they call it a slam

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

bodies are so stupid man. oh, your blood sugar is low and you gotta eat something? how does feeling Intensely Fucking Nauseous sound? would that help?

it'll do motel office, jonesborough, tennessee, 1987

A couple trees in my yard were throwing birds at each other

I know that facial expression and that clotty orange powder. That’s a Trader Joe’s Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips Chili & Lime owl if ever I seen one.

Boarding the Chicago Architecture Center river cruise tour: this edible aint shit 20 minutes into the tour:

the inside of the Drake Hotel is procedurally generated. every time I’m there a new historic ballroom has spawned in a different location along with five meeting rooms

thinking about a coal miner canary fursona

the GG in “GG1” actually stands for “gorilla glue”

Overheard in the music section of a Barnes and Noble: “I’ve had it with this bebop horseshit” and I respect you, time traveling jazz purist from the 1940s.

I know Tacoma is truly the Detroit of the PNW because Detroiters also cry the first time they hear Thrice All American

A perfect comic panel.

When Ella sings "the way you sing off key" in They Can't Take That Away From Me Louis should have played a quick bum note. A real turd of a blow on the horn. Just chunked it. Anyway that's how I would have improved that particular recording.

I spent like 4 hours yesterday untangling and ironing antique piano shawl fringe with a 20+ y/o hair straightener, just in case you wanted a little insight into my life

More Chicago ghost signs. Some of these were revealed when a building next door was demolished and are now covered up again by new construction. 😡

Had to check on one of my favorite signs in Chicago. 6150 S. Ashland Ave. The building was built in 1913 for saddlemaker Adam Seidlitz. His son took over the business and was still going strong in 1949, the date of the clippings from the Tribune.

shoutout to huge 1920s hotels. gotta be one of my favorite genders