Car big. Car too big. Too big. Car too. Too big. Car. Big. Too car.

The quality of work published in The Atlantic is like an inverse bell curve

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New Mountain Goats album has: - an instrumental overture - very lush strings, horns, and woodwinds - some phat synths - a couple rollicking guitar solos - bass guitar from Tommy Stinson - backing vox from lin-manuel miranda??? It's an honest to God rock opera with a linear plot and three narrators

James Watson, like many publicly celebrated academics, was a horrible racist who bought into his own genius and consequently spent a great deal of time and energy trying to intellectualize his racism

A beautiful 63 degrees out right now and it's apparently gonna be below freezing by Sunday

There's a group of four men outside my house trying collectively to parallel park a UHaul truck with one of those little enclosed UHaul trailers attached to it, and it's just been 20 minutes of shouting conflicting directions at each other with no clear plan or strategy or source of authority

Just saw Ricky Willis on his bike for the first time in quite awhile. I'm glad to have run across him, since I knew he had health issues prevent him from riding a few years ago and I never found out whether he got back on the bike.

New Mountain Goats album, new Pigeon Pit album, AND Don Hertzfeldt just dropped a cool T-shirt on the same day? All these late birthday gifts for me specifically - thanks, notable artists who don't know me.

📷 A westward view of the bridge at Burr Oak Avenue (now 127th) over the Cal-Sag Channel in what is now Crestwood, Illinois, on February 14, 1922. 📣 Join our virtual tour on Tuesday, November 18, at 2 p.m. ⬇️ mwrd.org/education/to...

small talk makes the world go round and it is in fact incumbent upon you to at least make an *effort* to be pleasant to other people in your community

About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

I will say what’s interesting about these buildings is that they are aping prewar industrial architecture more than residential—there actually really aren’t many multifamily buildings that look like this from the early 20th century in Chicago

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Hey folks. DIA workers are working to unionize! Sign the letter of support below + follow IG DIAworkersunited. My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back. www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...

TIL that tomorrow is the last day to vote for a new the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. There are fixed set of names to choose from, alas. www.boldpastbrightfuture.org/naming-commi...

Bula is no longer regularly cleaning her own face as she gets closer to the end of her life, so she gets covered in wet food when she eats, but she's still very happy and very cute despite being kind of gross

flew into Detroit this morning for my connection to California and captured a picture of a Big Boat

Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

Interesting bit of nonprofit sausage-making: Habitat Chicago got money from a donor "committed to Pope Leo’s vision", and now has an initiative called Pope Leo Village. But right now, it's just a rebrand of homes already being built under an existing program, complete with a second groundbreaking.

A therapist who asks you to locate yourself on the Integrated Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Life Cycle Management System chart

IMO this is a really good move if the city can make it happen.

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Don't snitch tag, not even to dunk on or drag people. Especially not when there's a power differential. Trust that if people wanted someone involved in a thing, they'd've tagged them already.

In late September, my family and I lost our matriarch, my abuela. I've been a bit all over the place since. My abuela moved to our hometown in the 70s. She loved it even as one of the first Mexican families there. It's been targeted every day by ICE. I wrote about it. buttondown.com/camrodriguez...

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took a tour of horween leather this morning and it was so unbelievably cool oh my god (also like incredibly tactile and pungent and LOUD)

The viral post about the East Wing demolition contractor calling out the president for unpaid invoices is completely made up, but if you want to actually learn something about the procurement + regulatory environment for firms involved in the project, there's this excellent ENR article from today:

Today I downed two big lattes and a rich chocolate dessert, forgot to eat any other food, and then had to order a two hour long rideshare that got assigned to the world's jerkiest, weavingest stop-and-go driver during rush hour, so I'd gladly eat a solid brick of Zofran right about now

I'm gonna be so rich

Hard to describe what this quip makes me feel

Sent my old Subaru to a specialist for some work this week. At the shop, I parked next to a similar model that's a few years newer than mine. This is why all the local Subaru enthusiasts freak out when they see my car, which has somehow survived 35 years in the Midwest without any detectable rust.

The WGN headline (in the "Chicago Crime" section): "‘Always on the lookout’: CBP officers seize $8M in counterfeit watches in Chicago" The elided detail: 26 fake luxury watches that would be worth $8 million *if they were real, not fake* Q: Who does this news release stenography serve? A: CBP

New Amy Casey show opening at Zg Gallery this weekend looks really good zggallery.com/casey.htm

Pressed by Ald. Daniel La Spata, Chicago Police Department Chief of Detectives Antoinette Ursitti says CPD *will not* investigate allegations that federal agents committed a crime during the normal the course of their official actions. La Spata was asking about what happened in Lakeview on Oct. 24:

John Smith's films are glorious artifacts. 'Disarming and tender' is such a good way of describing his work. How I wish far more art could be described in just those terms.

Don't miss out on the excellent party names near the bottom of the Minneapolis mayoral race results

My long-running admiration for the work of Laura Stevenson has been a mostly personal endeavor, and as a consequence I've apparently gone 12 years not realizing that the song labeled "California" in my collection is actually titled "Sink, Swim". This is gonna take time to retrain, I think.

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Election outcomes aren't a complete vision of a better world, and never will be, but they can alter the conditions under which the work takes place. The work is now likely situated differently than it was yesterday - especially in Virginia or Mississippi or NYC, but elsewhere, too, through ripples.

Soren angle: this Soren might be the only Soren to (soon) hold elected office in the US

Frantically reading about how ranked choice is formulated in Minneapolis

If you and your partner were at Milton Lee Olive Park tonight and somebody with a zoom lens and tripod was seemingly taking photos of you from a hill in the distance, I feel compelled to explain that in the dark you looked like the friends of mine who were about to get engaged there 15 minutes later

Protect RP, a rapid response immigrant support network started in 2017 by a group of Rogers Park neighbors, has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for families in the neighborhood impacted by ICE / CBP abductions and presence in Chicago:

Pieces from our permanent collection going back up on our gallery walls for winter - here, we have works by Villín Ramos, Cujo Dah, and Melvin Hargrett getting prepped for display.

He's just a little guy

oh chicago

The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.

This probably just speaks to my lack of deep Uptown connections, but I don't have a good handle on who storytells about the Young Patriots Organization these days. Do any of the group's onetime members and leaders still actively speak about that history, like some former Panthers and Lords do?