at maximum bullshit every bit of truth is crucial even a song

That time between Christmas and the New Year...

Somebody’s gotta start that answer documentary

Now playing (04:20 AM PST): "The Cassandra Cat" (1963) By Vojtěch Jasný Runtime: 104 min.

176 Punk Rock Movies boxd.it/oM6gi

Here’s Steve Albini on the Diner Grill, from a 2023 story I wrote about a different diner chicagoreader.com/music/the-ac...

Jamaican Sorrel: Everything You Need to Know About This Drink Jamaican sorrel is a beloved, vibrant, ruby-red festive drink made from the steeped calyces of the roselle plant, a species of hibiscus eathealthy365.com/jamaican-sor...

Never forget✊

This is a close-up of the lodge where the beavers live. The zoo docent told me that sound coming from the lodge is the whining of a young beaver.

Christmas cartoon, Chicago 1925

Christmas 1944, US Naval Hospital at Great Lakes Naval Training Station

Christmas country. Chicago illustrator and cartoonist Fred Richardson, c. 1899

Christmas tree at the Hotel Allerton, Chicago, c. 1932-1935.

Stumped on last minute Christmas gifts? Give the nobodies in your life some gum! Chicago 1913

Weird Christmas store ad, Chicago 1893

Making Christmas decorations in Columbus Park, Chicago undated

Christmas tree ship, Chicago 1900

One or two tons of coal: a very useful Christmas gift. Chicago 1912.

A Chicago grocery trade publication suggests designs for dried fruit Christmas displays, 1923

Merry Christmas to all, especially the Radical Left Scum. I love you!

French media call beavers "an ally in the fight against climate change."

The Coctails playing our wedding party at Club Lucky with Julia’s parents, and our friends Lana and Lynn. May 22, 1993

Merry Christmas from Wales, Chicago and beyond

Oh, hey, Chicago's Alamo Drafthouse is showing "Twin Peaks" on Saturdays starting in January. (Alas, the Jan. 3 screening of episodes 1 to 3 is already sold out!) drafthouse.com/chicago/even...

@royalpratt.bsky.social Nice running into you, Greg. Here’s my story about the beavers. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

One of the most beautiful stories ever put to film. Sublime.

This is like how every modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes must take place in a universe slightly different from our own, where they have never heard of Sherlock Holmes.

Afternoon thunderstorm at Jake’s, Treasure Beach, Jamaica

Jeffrey and Woody youtube.com/shorts/TvoAm...

I was at Barnes and Noble checking out and one of the customers at the next register said his wife owns an indepdent bookstore.

My Christmas wish is that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.🎄🎅

The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar

Aztec Camera Live at Cabaret Metro 1987-11-28 https://archive.org/details/ajc02125_azteccamera1987-11-28

The Bears Live at Armadillo Day - Northwestern University 1988-05-28 https://archive.org/details/ajc02177_thebears1988-05-28

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Between Heaven and Earth Talk with groundbreaking commercial pilot Cordula Pflaum

Amazing: "when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic… The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape. Several years later, after the pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted, the distinctive urban beak shape returned…" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...

Underground disco champion Lee Collins had a mythical status among other DJs—Theo Parrish called him the top DJ in the world. Collins died in August.

Using the power vested in me by this other dumb free app (Chicago style) - I hereby declare a 48 hour Christmas cease fire in the 2025 Chicago City Hall Kerfuffles! The cease fire begins at 9am on Christmas Eve (NOW)! No mean tweets, no dragging foes until Friday! I mean it! 🎄☮️🎁🙏

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White Sox Sign Munetaka Murakami as Offseason Direction Takes Shape – https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/491920/ The most immediate and impactful move this front office could make this offseason has now been made. Over…

While many folks in the #astrophotography community are focused on the Orion constellation this time of year I am still plugging away with the Small Magellanic Cloud. Slipped in another 2 hours last night to give a total of 4hrs. Trying some different processing to bring out details. Happy Xmas all!

Bill Nelson - When The Birds Return [UK, New Wave] (1982) https://redd.it/1pne0b5 https://youtu.be/RV39fX56emc

The only decent response to someone announcing they have terminal cancer is to think of them and their family and friends, and hope or pray for peace and strength. How you respond to the challenges of others is who you are.

Robbie & The Troubadours (the house band) outside of the Rumpus Room, Rush & Walton (now the Dior building), ca. 1963. By '65, the guy at lower left, Barry Goldberg, would go electric w/Dylan, and the guy at lower right, Eddie Hoh, would record w/ lots of people in LA.

Israeli official 1: “it’s not as if we are going to…get in the business of organizing proxies” Israeli official 2: describes recruiting Syrian Druze “men with military experience, dishing out ranks and tasks,” sending in small arms by helicopter, funneling cash via the SDF (the US’s Syrian proxy)

The CDC issued a warning after dozens of people across the country, including one in Illinois, became sick in a Salmonella outbreak linked to raw oysters.