Confused about what I'm looking at in any of these photos

He's back for another round

There's gonna be a Mr. Michael Motorcycle opening set when Friends In Real Life comes to Beat Kitchen next month, and I'm so happy about it. Finally gonna be able to hear some of my favorite little Michael Schneeweis songs in person!

It's April 1st and the entire morning so far has been wall-to-wall leaf blower sounds as lawn crews return to action in the neighborhood

this argument is always such a tell that the speaker conceptualizes the US as an extension of Europe, rather than as part of the Americas

It's looking like a stacked new music Friday this week

Quilting Is An Art is still on the walls for the rest of the month (OMG, have you not seen it? Why not?!), but we're also gearing up for our annual Youth Art Market, when we invite kids into the gallery to show & sell their art. Join us May 2 from 12-3 to support our community's youngest artists.

mature camry no. 301

I always thought churros were originally/primarily a Latin American thing, and learning about their actual history now has resolved some immense confusion I had when camping at Contis-Plage 15 years ago and finding the small beach town filled with churro options

Is anybody writing about how data center buildout backlash seemingly spans the entire American political spectrum? There are even neonazis waving neonazi banners about it in some places.

Antiques Roadshow production halted after Lark Mason III walks out, demanding a $15 million three-year contract to return

Very excited for DIY Chicago stalwart Charles Joseph Smith to finally get a formal release this week!!!

Love to stand up and proudly declare my devotion to the U.S. Constitution in 1776 and 1786, before the U.S. Constitution existed

The Morgan Street MAGA guy is seemingly back at it with a new banner, which says something like "THE DEMOCRATS WANT TRUMP TO FAIL IN IRAN"

Took the plastic off the home office window and opened it up for Sepa to discover for the first time, and she immediately tried to climb up the window screen on video while I was in a work call

some #tdov thoughts and sincere no-bits tips for allies.

This sucks :(

“Steel in the architect’s mental world,” 1931 ad for the consultancy for Steel Use, showing steel from churches to furniture and airports

There is some wild lightning arcing happening right now on the far south side

"Is this an actual political belief large quantities of real people in the real world could/do hold, or am I arguing with the same 500 extremely online people who annoy me, also an extremely online person, online," the most pertinent political question for every pundit/poaster in 2026

Exact Time, Ford City Mall

I brought my camera bag downstairs about two weeks ago and Sepa immediately claimed it as a perch, so I've been guilted into keeping it on the living room side table in perpetuity

earlier

I learned over the weekend that Gangnam Market inexplicably sells several varieties of cheese curds

If I had a million dollars to spend on a home, this one might just convince me to move back to Green Bay and pretend to care about the Packers. Somebody has poured massive money into this place, in a small city where this level of restoration work is uncommon to see. www.trulia.com/home/902-s-m...

I know it's coming every single time and it makes me cry every single time

thinking of getting together with 200 of my closest friends and riding motorcycles around your block

Firefox updated and rolled out a new feature (split tabs) that I clicked through to learn how to do because it's useful to me, and it occurred to me that over the last year or two of various software updates I haven't once felt compelled to follow the Learn More button because it's all been AI stuff

The new Boots Riley movie is soundtracked by tUnE-yArDs so sign me the fuck up

Hey Siri, find me a link to illustrate the fact that home ownership in China is more complicated than Certain People think.

Not the nicest way to talk about all the children of Lincoln Square's fortysomething former hipsters who had kids a little late because there was a moment in the early 2010s when they thought their band was gonna make it

I need a New Yorker to explain why West Midwood is north of Midwood and South Midwood is northeast of Midwood

lake forever problems for now

made a bot that posts the things people say that get them blocked

Squandered a perfect opportunity to say "touching grass"

One of the very worst things that can happen to one's legacy is that they become a highway in Chicago

Somebody has gone to great lengths to place hundreds of red Solo cups in the overpass fence spanning the Dan Ryan Expressway at 43rd to spell out an important message, and that message is "WHO TF IS DAN RYAN SIR?"

Important CST reporting on the AYAGDOS study at Northwestern:

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F# A# ∞

Me outside during third false spring vs. me inside after third false spring goes away

LUMPY-JAWS GOING TO QUARANTINE

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

Sometimes interesting buildings get built without fanfare, without a writeup. Like this unusual conversion of vacant medical suites into a large home and a small law office about five years ago - expanding on the existing building's lines and using similar brick to create a tower at one corner.

Presuming this DPD video series wasn't animated in house, who was brought on to put it together? I like the choice to cardboard boxify local vernacular building styles; it's cute.

Found some photos I took during Slow&Low in 2017. Not sure what film stock I was using with my K1000. I miss the fest being outdoors in Pilsen rather than at Navy Pier, but I get why a large indoor venue makes sense - especially since organizers shifted to holding the event later in the year.

Obviously the types of political action that I take at this moment in my life, surrounded by my particular cohort of peers, are good and right, and anybody taking different sorts of political action are wrong and ineffective, and if we all just did what my friends and I do everything would be better

Roseland Station post office (John C. Bollenbacher under the supervision of Louis A. Simon, 1935) has two siblings in Chicago - Pilsen Station and Logan Station - but none of them still have their original front doors. Roseland just got new doors after the previous set was damaged.

After a comedy of errors involving one dishonest eBay seller, one eBay seller who lost track of their inventory, and one honest eBay seller, I finally have a new pair of decent earphones just in time for my old ones to give up completely.

Grateful to live in a city where stuff happens but it's also still possible to rent an entire house for $1,500/mo

TIL about the history of Merrimac Park as "Kolze's Electric Grove"