I have come to the Church of Beer, New Buffalo, Michigan.

walmart sells everything

An anarkitty projecting saintly innocence while working himself up for utterly random rampage

Thought it was bacteria at first. Scale is funny.

Still life with Cheetos in the afternoon sun

@markasaurus.bsky.social Spotted another pot filler. At my friend’s house in Highland Park. Tiles and trim feels like Tuscany.

At my friends house. I would be all my money that this starfish is something one of her daughters made in grade school.

And a summer party. Such good looking vegetables. Sadly have to be suspicious of vegetables. Should I put the veggies on my burger?

No. I wear noise canceling headphones that play the serenity prayer on a loop.

I have few vivid memories of my preteen childhood, but many of the ones I have involve going shopping with my mother. Each trip exposed me to something new and fun, whether it was a clothing store or grocery store. It was like having a playdate with my mother.

Bringing your kids to the grocery store with you is the normalest behavior I can imagine. It’d be weirder to leave your kids at home/with someone else than it is to bring them with you.

I’m sorry but the only person who should be denied access to the grocery store is this person.

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The winking unicorn at the Dunkin’ Donuts is a little bit too human-like

This was southern Lake Michigan yesterday. The waves were so minimal it was hard to tell if they were coming in or going out. More like an undulating surface. So calm. And then today…

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Johnny’s Tap, Munster, Indiana

Somebody said being up 4–0 at the half in soccer is like being up 49–3 in American football. Is that accurate?

Kidney stone looks a little bit like a polar bear.

The largest fossil rock I personally have found in the Great Lakes. Southern shores of Lake Michigan, just yesterday. Pencil gives an idea of the relative size. Not sure if it was some kind of coral. Maybe a “crinoid?” Could it be anything else other than something once living? I know some rocks

This is Comet Leonard during its approach to the Sun, imaged by Gerald Rhemann on Christmas Day 2021. The comet had been discovered earlier that year, and broke apart in 2022. This photo won the overall prize for Rhemann of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022.

Qualifies as living dangerously, these days

Just made a Dutch Baby for lunch with gooseberries from the garden.

Mt Fuji eraser. Blue and white, and as you wear off bits of the eraser around the edges, it should begin to resemble a snow-capped Mt Fuji.

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My first search engine.

“terminal lucidity” in some people with dementias, the seemingly paradoxic return of language and other cognition, sometimes only very briefly, just before they die www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m...

If you know Wicker Park, you’ll know this icon. The smoke seems worse to now than this morning.

This is my retirement gig. The ultimate teleradiology job, reading x-rays from space, and from all the offworld colonies. Sign me up.

They were pretty accurate about their wildfire smoke predictions. Here is your Sears Tower from this morning. Smells horrible. I’m wearing my elastomeric N95 respirator if I have to go out.

I just have a feeling that this idea is gonna flop.

My fancy take on mac and cheese with hotdogs Fried kielbasa and a three cheese blend

“So now please go buy another air purifier from one of our affiliates.”

Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.

The American mind looks at this and cannot for the life of him comprehend how much actual time is left before the match just immediately and without warning, ends.

Painted cement marker, seemingly toppled over in the forest preserve trail. Looks freshly painted seems meant for high visibility, but there are no others, just 8. Looks like the type of brick that could be connected with others, rounded top and concave bottom. But I have no idea what it is.

Never before have I seen this cast-iron water cap called “standard” with a nice diamond logo. I think it must be very old, these caps are everywhere and they usually say water or CWW (Chicago Water Works). Across the street from Intelligentsia Coffee.

I'm trying very hard not to complain about this Edmonton summer, given we're not on fire for once, but my GOD if I wanted to be eaten alive by mosquitos in between rain storms I would move back to Newfoundland.

Toronto really woke up and was like "you get the Soderbergh filter today".

Smoke particles from Ontario and Minnesota wildfires will be moving in a southeasterly direction across much of the region.

The explanation of benefits says I’ve got $1.40 left before I max out my insurance deductible. And it’s only July. Is there anything I can get a dentist to do for $1.40?

Six years the rainforest Café has been closed. Looks condemned. For a long time now there’s been real estate banners trying to sell the place. It’s almost like nobody wants to have their business associated with a place cursed by Tracy the Talking Tree.

“The last remnant of Route 66 in Chicago,” the Ohio House Motel, 1960, designed in what came to be called “Googie” style, by architects Shayman & Salk. Was threatened by demolition in the late 1990s to make highrises, but it still survives. Lot was packed. Seems so delightfully out of place in the

The building faces east, and is from somewhere catching, reflected setting sunlight from a glass building facing west. Shouldn’t be that hard to figure out, but I looked up and around for what seemed like forever, and I just couldn’t figure out where the light was coming from.

I’m generally not a piano bar kind of guy, but it’s a great sign

A block or so from the Zocalo, Mexico City

Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

In case you don’t know, seagulls like to poop on my buoys. Gonna be a hot one in the watershed today, humans 🥵🌊🌊

IT’S SOUR CHERRY TIIIIIIIME!!!!!