Thinking about how my grandmother has done the crossword puzzle every day for decades so she's probably had to internalize what EMO is and who DUA Lipa and Brian ENO are cuz they're such common clues

Watching the porn awards episode of Party Down and my spouse said, "i dont think the woman next to Stormy is really in porn" so I looked her up. 90 acting credits in mainstream movies, primarily playing strippers. 16 CREDITS AS AN ANIMAL WRANGLER, SPECIFICALLY SPIDERS. People are so interesting

Some #GlitterGuts portraits from Nocturna's 38th anniversary at the Metro

So curious about this giant painting in my neighbor's window. Image search was no help, anyone familiar with it?

Was shooting a Pride event for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and saw this classic Walter Peyton/Sir George Solti poster in a back room that instantly transported me back to childhood. Pretty sure I saw this in multiple principals' and pediatricians' offices for YEARS

This combination (96° F with heavy thunderstorms) can be so fucking delightful/sexy/refreshing if you have the day off... and so fucking miserable if you have to work or have any serious obligations really. Good luck everybody.

I was working a corporate party at a venue with a rooftop pool last night and I took it as a challenge to see if I could get people in the pool. I convinced one person who convinced to more who stripped down to their skivvies and jumped in as security came running to stop it.

I mostly follow Chicago music history groups on fb and one thing I've noticed was how much more interwoven rock, blues, and soul acts were in the '60s and '70s. Drooling over this 1970 bill for a one day festival at Soldier Field with MC5, The Stooges, and Funkadelic

The Kool-Aid Man of Finland.

an interesting read and great artwork from Edie Fake AND in glitterguts history, @ericlabrat.bsky.social and I shot the closing party there www.glitterguts.com/photobooth/f...

A rat wall in the 48th ward

If I’m killed on my bike, please do a group ride where you knock the mirrors off of any car in the bike lane, collect them, and make a pile of them at City Hall, and place my broken body on top of them.

Is this like how there are "baby raves" now? Millennials started hitting 40 and now we've got family-friendly FOAM PARTIES?? Or is there a different type of foam party I don't know about because it only happens on farms?

I'm seeing more guys at the gym using smaller, more manageable weights and caring about form, rather than jerking around and slamming down the loudest weights they can just-barely lift. So props to whatever TikTokker is pushing that method. It's much less annoying than the constant crashing

He gets one (1) knocking my water bottle off the table to express his displeasure, because I'm sick of him hissing at the kitten but I get his need for attention

Someone in my neighborhood is giving away a Barbie's Malibu Dream Scrapper Truck. Unfortunate to learn of her political associations though

By the rules of the Toy Story universe, if i gave a piece of taxidermy to an imaginative child, would I be able to re-imbue it with anima, and a sentience beyond what it ever knew in its natural life?

Some #glitterguts portraits from Nocturna last month

RIP Holiday Club. Throwback to when my friend Arvo and I had a lounge/tiki/yé-yé/motown ooooooldies night there. Occasionally people even showed up.

Tabernac thinks this is a normal, casual way to sit

Just found out that little Bingo Buckaroo has lymphoma. Got her a steady does of predisposed to make her last days more comfortable. Hoping that her sister, Bango, doesn’t have the same fate.

Moments later

My friend Beef needs help arranging for surgery, in-home care, and livimg expenses after being by LAPD at an ICE protest last summer. Please lend a hand www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...

Met an actual dragon at the day rave in the park today

Last night one of my old punkhouse friends helped her son throw a vfw hardcore show for his 16th birthday and it was the cutest shit in the world

The chyron on TV at the gym right now. Is this real life or did I bump my head really hard on something and I'm really lying on a mat with my eyes closed?? I can no longer tell

It's weird for me that Clarence Carter (musician) and Sam Sianis (owner of Billy Goat Tavern) died within 24hrs of each other. There was a whole year of high school where EVERY DAY I'd take lunch or cut class at Billy Goat on Madison, and me or my friends would put "Strokin'" on the jukebox

For a non-wrestling fan, I've had Bret "The Hitman" Hart come up randomly more often than usual today: A random interview clip on my feed, an answer in a crossword puzzle, and this collab he did with Halluci Nation that I'd never heard before youtu.be/qU9dsAPbQGY?...

WHY IS JOHN HODGMAN CLEAN SHAVEN AND DOING AN OZEMPIC AD?!?

Caught a skinny streetsweeper gliding down the Central Park Ave protected bike line in Garfield Park! Supposedly we've had them for a couple years but I didn't know, never seen one. A thing of beauty!

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Could someone steal me a big TV and some cameras from Target while all the cops are having their li'l parade down Lawrence?

Awash in chemicals with @stilettolobotomy.bsky.social

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Old timer two doors down from me is living his best life: sitting on his porch working his way through a twelver of Modelo, absolutely BLASTING some grown n sexy 1990s r&b mix where it seems like every third song is a reprise/remix of "Return of the Mack"

Word i looked up today: samizdat

also at the We Rock! benefit… me 💁🏼‍♀️ I’ve been volunteering with them/taking photos for many years and i‘m also dragging @ericlabrat.bsky.social in for this one

I'm putting together a team

The test shot @oo0oo.bsky.social took of me at the oddities market is getting me more flirty responses than usual. I don't think I look particularly less-ugly, but I'm honourbound to post it as many places as possible

The cat in the shelter under our stairs gave birth to six(?!) kittens last night. She's exhausted.

Found a set by one of my favorite local punk bands from when I was in high school in the Aadam Jacobs collection on @archive.org !! Mary Tyler Morphine at Lounge Ax in 1999. archive.org/details/aada... RIP Ursula from MTM. RIP Lounge Ax.

On an escalator to the gym behind a guy with the thiccest thighs and a gal with the fattest ass (complimentary not derogatory) Gonna tap em on the shoulders and tell em to stop skipping arm day, the upper body is important too!

📻 🗯 We're playing a nonstop block of HARD ROCK for all of you thrashers and smashers out there with the HARDEST HEADS and the HARDEST DICKS. Don't blame us if the neighbors CALL THE COPS cuz the KIDS like their music LOUD! Next up—from their 1996 self-titled album—here's Sublime with "What I Got"

Kind of nuts that I haven't seen any of the people who believe in the (current, not future) viability of generative AI to make quality films, aren't feeding their engines scripts, casting notes, set photos, and any other materials related to old films that have become lost media.*

Some #GlitterGuts pics from the DEAD CITY ODDITIES MARKET at Logan Square Auditorium

Took some #GlitterGuts pics at Salt Shed's ELSTON SKATE CLUB rollerskating party and an Elvis impersonator wandered in. Good times

"And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie blow me You don't know me, you're too old, let go It's over, nobody listens to techno" — Dave Davies (The Kinks)

I can't believe that both of the creators of Sandman are dead. RIP Sam Kieth

Having the worst string of luck the last couple weeks BUT it's St Patrick's Day, and a beautiful ginger just gave me a smile and some extended direct eye contact for what bordered on a creepy amount of time, so maybe my luck's about to change ☘️ 💰 🌈

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift