Lincoln Park has those lamps

I should do a seasonal series with this tree. The first one was taken at Halloween, the second Christmas.

Lake forever, problems for now.

I fixed the wine fridges so they can get below 80 degrees for the first time in a month, successfully installed a Roku stick so we have a working television for the first time since cutting cable last spring, and went for a lake walk. I think I just needed Christmas to be over to function normally.

Where I'm posting from.

O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!

Top Five Fave Documentary Genres 1. US history chapter narrated by Peter Coyote over 20 hrs 2. Lives of the rich & famous modernists 3. The Plague 4. Emotionless description of an atrocity committed by the government last year 5. Is this famous landmark haunted by ghosts, or our collective shame?

I need cliffhanger shows like Stranger Things to stop "dropping" episodes in clumps. You can't look forward to watching one episode a week OR binge it on a holiday weekend? If they need to eek out multiple months of a Netflix subscription for it, airing it weekly over 8 weeks would do that.

The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

This has happened 3 days in a row now at the same time of day, and with what appear to be different hawks or raptors, though I honestly have no idea how to identify them. Seem to be many more this year though.

More of that neat style of painting I got into watching Ken Burns' The American Revolution.

Slept ten (only once interrupted) hours and Christmas is over and the weather is strange and dreary. Three gifts I'm quite grateful for. That and I've no need to turn on the oven for ages. Peace and relaxation...

Dachshunds like sledging.

Gloves https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/1381730

Another Christmas come and gone to remind me I am much too sensitive and sentimental for this world.

Late walk in the embers of Christmas, owls piping flute notes into a night so crystal sharp the chill was almost ringing, stars in decadent, wild abundance: the consoling beauty of insignificance, a godless almost prayer for human things that matter all the fiercer for feeling small inside the vast

"That’s my Middle West — not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow."

1921 Christmas Greeting from the Newberry Library archive.

Coffee, presents, mimosas, cinnamon raisin bread eggnog French toast, bacon, clementines, and honestly now back to bed. Merry sleepy Christmas.

Dance dress https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100698

Andy Warhol Christmas Tree, 1957

Staying up late watching this local guy drop some truth bombs at his Christmas show in Vat City.

This is the Christmas content I am here for.

Polar Bears drinking Christmas Wine, Postcard, United Kingdom, 1902

It worked. I'm ready to dive into the Bailey's, cheese plate, chex mix, and cookies. Happy Christmas Eve, Bluesky.

Christmas Eve freak reverse sunset tonight (bright pink over the lake, dark to the west.)

Neighbors: "ICE had chased someone from a nearby Walmart into the neighborhood, where the person then drove a truck between two houses while agents followed" and "ICE agents began firing from their vehicle" and "the shooting [was] brazen given that there could have been children playing outside"

I am "drinking a green kale protien smoothie because my body is unhappy about all the sugar and carbs and cholesterol I have been consuming since Friday" years old.

This guy is selling Fireball Whiskey shots on the red line and turning the redline train into an unofficial Christkindlmarket.

The Flower Fairies of Winter, The Christmas Tree Fairy, Cecily Mary Barker, 1928.

I don't care for that game of trying to not hear "Last Christmas." It's a blessing to hear George Michael. You should be grateful to have GM in your ears!

"elf" with will ferrell is horrible. It is excruciating to watch. he is inconveniencing so many people and I get very upset watching it. I think he is rude and insensitive and the fact that he was raised by elves is no excuse

Nothing he did was ever illegal—but as soon as he’d got on to it, you had to have a law about it. —Agatha Christie, Crooked House

time to resurrect the victorian xmas card quoteskeet thread happy quahogmas one and all

Rogers Park, a magical place where you can look East and still get a spectacular Sunset. @buckweaver.bsky.social @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social @u2girl1966.bsky.social @rebeccakell.bsky.social

The sky is heavenly right now

Shout out to whichever news station has given us neurotics this little treat! 🎄

This is the second time a large hawk has swooped down over us when I am walking Dorothy. She's much too large to be prey, but I do wonder if she looks like a snack from afar. Or maybe it's just a friendly bird who wants to say hello...

Gorgeous day for a walk so of course there is a military helicopter patrolling the lakefront.

Merry Christmas 🎄

Christmas Tree Decorations by Studio Manassé (1920s)

Checks out. This is my dog's favorite song and she is a little fat creature simply living her best life.

Current* conditions near Evanston, IL:

Another "What the adult world sounded like when I was little" song. Still listen to this one on the reg. RIP.

I would like to see more voices of women, the elderly, the disabled, and people of color in the public transportation discourse please and thank you.

Thinking of my grandmother, a lifelong Democrat, real life Rosie the Riveter, and general badass. On Sunday evenings she would make a pallet for us in front of the TV and watch 60 Minutes as we nodded off to the iconic ticking clock. That and the Grand Ole Opry were the only things she watched.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

It's almost time for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas . Feed below if you'd rather use instead of the #

(giant) puppies of the sea!