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Bodega Cats has been playing the hits lately

This is one reason why you should support indie labels, bandcamp weirdos, record stores that dare to be different, online music dorks, writers, critics, (micro) bloggers, etc.

U.FL.ORB

DJing

I waded into the Beatles discourse and waded right back out.

One of those posts that takes you unaware, and opens a whole new world.

that’s absolutely right Alex 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Gloomy Fall Chicago is really top tier.

Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803

Did you know 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the photo booth? 🎞️

Is this a slopject???

Your phone cannot tell you if your cat is a certain breed. My phone thought Fergus and Francie were a shih tzu. If you got your cat from a shelter or picked it up as a stray it is OVERWHELMINGLY likely that you have a standard mixed breed cat and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

The Jazz Butcher said it best, "It was two or three years, for example, before it was explained to me that the Jesus and Mary Chain was in fact like listening to The Byrds with the hairdryer on."

Here is a nice tile floor.

one argument thats always struck me as funny is the one about people coming to america to drain the budget of our many social services. such as free university, free healthcare, UBI, etc. you know, all those things we dont have

Kees van Dongen, Houses In Amsterdam (oil on canvas, 1907)

If you ever visit Chicago and want a good (and/or haunted) day trip:

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

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My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets. chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Fuck off Sigmund

Ocean of Sound by David Toop It's an explainer and a work of criticism by a working musician and critic. It connected a lot of dots for me across many art forms while still keeping mystery and wonder intact. It is historical but not prescriptive.

This really is an excellent book cover. I read White Bicycles & loved it but this one is 960 pages! I suppose that makes it perfect for winter. If you like US/UK rock music from the 60s and everything that came after, White Bicycles is an amazing ride. www.joeboyd.co.uk/white-bicycles

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

if you see a bird art share your bird art!!!! i was born for this moment!!!

I had no idea that Basinski was so funny (re stage banter), but I don't think it's an isolated phenomenon that the gloomy ambient and noise dudes are that way.

Good Mornimg!!! Murray wouldn’t do the Nicki part cause she’s MAGA 😭🤣😭🤣😭😂😂

Good Snow Morning Chicago.

Floof

omg

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

He's gonna come out the other side wanting to be a death doula.

An update from the NWS on the potential snow event. Read it. One key: “…As a result, the expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail.” #ILwx #Chicago #ChicagoWX

believe in yourself

Get into it !!

Rachel Griffiths’ Boston accent in Blow. I don’t know if it technically the worst but it is overdone for sure. Great movie tho.

remember: they will not even let Illinois' two SENATORS in to witness what they are doing inside. it's the blackest of black sites in an evil regime of ethnic cleansing

LGBTQ+ people flocking to cities is its own immigration story.

Was looking at the NYC election results and Mamdani currently has more votes than Cuomo and Silwa combined and the gap is just under 2%. Seems historic for sure.

Vote Moo Deng

Here’s a meta quote-post: If you find yourself enjoying cooking & doing it a lot, buy spices in bulk, especially salt & peppercorns, but also whatever you use a lot of. This was better advice in the US before all the tariffs but it’s still generally true.

Used the extra hour to take a nap, as intended.

Baseball post:

This Orcutt Shelley Miller set on KEXP just rips—as expected, and it's expertly recorded, also as expected. youtu.be/c3b5ZOZ0WfI

This Sandhill Crane is an Entire Mood.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

OOP (out of print) for almost 30 years. Even if you only have a passing interest in techno, this one is an all-timer. He quite audibly uses his records like musical instruments.