Two friends I knew for over twenty years from different punk communities in Chicago passed this week. I was kinda dealing with the first a couple days later and I am not ready at all for the second

seems as good a time as any to mention that i’ll be taking portraits for Wikipedia next week at Sundance, let me know if you’ll be there, come visit me at the portrait studio (or invite me to a fancy premiere) www.eventbrite.com/e/wikiportra...

There's a raccoon on the side of the highway looking so peaceful, head resting on his little paw. I'd like to believe he died naturally, climbing down to the shoulder of the road to watch the lights whip past for one last time

Me at 26 vs me in '26 Left was a New Years party at the Members Only loft. Justice did a dj set after their Congress Theater show. The cartoon cutout backdrop was done by Melt Right was a test shot for a headshot shoot at Turf Design (Both by @oo0oo.bsky.social for GlitterGuts, obvz)

Started my first (prose) book of 2026 PRIMAL SCREAMER by Nick Blinko

Watching the Muppet Movie and yearning to go to the dirtbag saloon where a flirty 1979 Madeline Kahn and 1979 Carol Kane are hanging out at the bar, and 1979 Paul Williams is jamming out on stage.. Honestly it seems pretty fuckin easy being green.

About to sit down and mail about a dozen or so Gay Community shirts and will gladly add yours to the pile. All sizes from S-2XL are in stock. $20 plus shipping. 🤼 fearofaghostplanet.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Felt like a lot of HOT YOUNG BABES in their late 30s were hitting on me tonight, but I had to shut that shit down. As a distinguished gentleman of 43, I can't fw an age gap that wide and problematic. Plus I just don't want to deal with all that youthful drama.

The two genders

It's weird when people i don't even know take a significant role in my dreams. It's like my subconscious is introducing a whole new wacky cast of characters for a backdoor pilot.

Every social media app should have an option for an "I'm in public" feed. Like I don't want the thirst traps and porn to go away. I just don't want them popping up when I'm scrolling on the bus or at the gym and there's people all around.

Fran Drescher as Bobbi Flekman in THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984), SPINAL TAP II (2025), and in an episode of The Nanny (1997) where she gets to meet..... Fran Drescher as Fran Fine What a fucking goddess and forever crush

There was a super run down house I used to pass every day on the schoolbus and we'd trade "information" on how it was haunted or inhabited by witches or murderers. Razed years ago and I'm sad I'll never see a picture if it, because what're the odds anyone photograph it and upload it years later?

When I was a boy, the WEEKLY Reader was half as thick as a phone book and came in four volumes, with two sections devoted to art and music and one full of alt comix. I will never forgive Craigslist for eating up all the apartment rental, personals, and sex work ads that were keeping it afloat!

Why are some of the "wackiest" most fun episodes of X-Files also so, so tragic? Rewatched these two bangers last night

Eighth night, baybeee

Getting tattooed and Hall & Oates "Out of Touch" came on and all three tattooeers in the room started singing along

So old I remember when Hulu had an announcer with a sexy voice who would introduce every commercial break. And then the commercial breaks would be a 90 second countdown over a black screen cuz no one had bought any ads yet

Look what a beautiful Chicago winter scene I've got at my new place... behind the cat begging to be let in just five minutes after he begged @oo0oo.bsky.social to let him out downstairs

Mad Men 4K

delighted to hear about this, @ericlabrat.bsky.social and I were just being sad about the loss of this theater the other day! He grew up with it and I have a lot of memories there from when I first lived up in rogers park TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO (ancient being that I am)

Hell yeah MONDAY ME-TIME (listening to X-Men podcasts at the gym)

Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term “useless eaters”. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives. That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. We’re not expendable

I named my fists Harold and Maude because they don’t care whether society approves of what they do together

The homie who put me on her Spotify family plan years ago because she hated hearing ads in my car dropped the service for reasons of conscience and I DID NOT REALIZE HOW UNUSABLE THEIR FREE VERSION IS! Listening to albums in order is a "premium feature"?? Literally anti-music

Spouse says I can't wear a yarmulke that says, "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THE BITCH FELL OFF" to her cousin's bar mitzvah.

Business idea I can't afford: A winter Renaissance fair. Fake ice castles dusted with real snow. Rowdy taverns with warm cider and mead. Frost giants. Weird European Christmas/Saturnalia traditions (the demony ones, not the racist ones). Jousting on ice. Etc.

Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery

As seen on a Chicago L: no fucking thank you. But if I see someone on the L wearing one, I'll be sure to take a picture, so that I get a payout in the inevitable Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action lawsuit

Thought I saw a dead friend riding down Chicago Ave, making a mean face on a moped that was too tiny for his tall frame. Which is exactly what he'd be doing if he came back from the dead, so it v well might be him if necromancy is real

Celebrating a friend's birthday by going to a Rocky Horror shadowcast performance at a diy space that my 25 year old coworker says makes her "feel old sometimes"tonight.

Shot a meet-and-greet for King Molasses at STRAPPED last Friday at Empty Bottle

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Mick Fleetwood in 2019 vs Mick Fleetwood in 1987 portraying Mick Fleetwood in 2019 for the movie THE RUNNING MAN

Two weeks back I was at the Humboldt Arboreal Society (day rave that happens all summer in Humboldt Park) when a couple dozen geese flew by in a perfect V and literally hundreds of party people cheered for them. Such a pure moment.

hey @ericlabrat.bsky.social took these photos :) we are bummed we can't be at this new one, we are at working bikes that day, TOO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME

What are the odds that I really am the person the algorithm thinks I am... A mall goth with nitrous-induced brain damage who may be entitled to damages?

Check out this emo calf I met at a petting zoo on my birthday Named this motherfucker "SWEET WENTZ"

Not to be outdone, another neighbor had their cat giving me a Jim from the Office look as a fluffy skunk stole his porch food

Saw four cats and one raccoon walking around Pilsen today

Popped by a day rave under a bridge yesterday and was really happy to see that my old plug had buried the hatchet with his estranged brother. Hadn't seen them together in years. 💞

Downstairs neighbor cat was hyped for the Bears season opener tonight

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

My store switched from Spotify to an app that specializes in licensing music for retail spaces. So the music selection is worse, there's much less control, and all the playlists are AI generated, but at least when it plays a banger like Prince Buster "Big 5" none of us are to blame

Holy shit, they did the classic @theonion.com headline!!

Posted some new Nocturna pics on glitterguts.com last night

Damn the Showgirls (1995) soundtrack was industrial af. Was Nomi Malone a rivethead??

I was hanging with my neighbor Bob and he accidentally stepped on an earthworm squiggling by and he is DISGUSTED

Anybody buy too many hot dogs and need an extra glizzy goblin at your BBQ today? I can help!