Oh my God, we just met Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad

For the night crowd

An annoying thing about the Breaking Bad Blu-ray set is that all the episodes and special features for the entire season are listed on the menu screen for every disc, regardless of whether or not the disc actually has that episode or feature on it

I dug Disclosure Day

I love that WGN still calls in Tom Skilling when there’s a tornado warning

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Storm knocked out the power yesterday and ComEd says they’ll have it fixed…Saturday

There needs to be a universal hand signal for “I think your bumper stickers are funny”

Feeling some kind of way about America and how “America” (the in-group in power part of it) thinks about itself, so I channeled that angst into a retrospective look at two revisionist Westerns for @brightwalldarkroom.com

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

Tfw you’re cozy

The great Chicago film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum is looking for some help with his website:

A little mad at myself for taking till now to run to Carly Rae Jepsen

The city is opening 12 cooling centers from Tuesday through Thursday in anticipation of hot and humid weather that could reach above 90 degrees in Chicago.

Finally got the chance to sit down with @lindseyromain.bsky.social’s latest for @brightwalldarkroom.com and folks, it’s a banger

I hope he gets booed so hard it causes seismic activity

Hit 50% of the minimum necessary word count on this summer’s big research project and it’s not even due for another seven weeks

absolutely killing me that CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is sold out during Neon's summer sale

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Thief remains one of the best-looking movies I've ever seen in my life

“As a Packers fan, it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard”—my husband, deadpan, about the future of the Chicago Bears

All hail rat prism

This morning’s work productivity is brought to you by the score from Michael Mann’s THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

The vibes are rancid and keep getting stinkier

Highly recommend having a friend who brings strawberry rhubarb empanadas to work

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about punitive measures. If the only way you know how to lead is to punish something, all you’ve got to hold on to your power with is a hammer, and everything starts to look like nails that need to be driven down pretty quickly

Back on the Middlemarch train and mad at George Eliot for making me pity Mr. Casaubon

Spouse just showed me an episode of MARRIAGETOXIN and I fear I will never be the same

Accidentally became one of the people at work who other people go to with their questions about SQL queries

My undying fealty to the genius who figured out smoked paprika and kewpie mayo go well together

HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️

got annoyed with people calling AI a tool, so i wrote a little newsletter about hammers www.anxietyshark.ca/any-hammer-y...

I never really planned to write about it, but I wrote a piece earlier this year that jumped up off the page and demanded that I come out. Here it is again. Happy Pride, everybody

Finished the Trigun Maximum reread; verklempt

For the Backrooms believers and skeptics, there's a little something for everybody here

We’re getting the trim repainted on the house, which means the house is getting a long-overdue power wash, and unfortunately it turns out that the upstairs balcony floor is so leaky that our front porch is raining indoors

Do you enjoy waking up early to wear matching t-shirts with several thousand strangers and listen to Maroon 5 at 7:30am? Then the Lincoln Park Run for the Zoo is for you

I think it’s bullshit that my watch didn’t count any of the three hours I spent today pulling ivy up by the roots as exercise

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

RIP to a legend and a queen.

Shit, yall, I really love Jesse Pinkman

………….hello 🌱

Found out today that my father has read Dungeon Crawler Carl

Hell yeah

I grew these roses and painted the vase

A few small beers

Backrooms can't scare me. I drive on Lower Wacker

Backrooms can't scare me. I drive on Lower Wacker

Encyclical dropped just in time for me to use it as a source for the piece I’m writing about BLADE RUNNER 2049 😎

The waiting room I’m in is piping in music that I can only describe as “piano Ode to Joy but covered for a pharmaceutical commercial”