Titans of Industry... assemble

C spent like two minutes describing which tote bag she gave to Patrick, a guy she met today who had just gotten out of the shelter and wanted it. When I finally remembered the one it was like, thank God because I hated that one.

As Karen Lewis used to more-or-less put it, charter advocates have had decades to try out their ideas in the policy context that they asked for, and they have basically nothing to show for it. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/o...

"Okay grandpa lets get you to bed"

Relevant presently, the Oneida House had a display about this one member of the Community who found the bustle of daily activity too much to handle so the Community built him a small house on the corner of their property. He was also good at figuring out how to improve machines in their factory.

Actually I use my bullets to write down ideas for nicknames to propose to the Dept of Public Works for its snowplows

I have this little day pack with a whistle built into a clip and I've never gotten to use it for an actual purpose yet

Incredible new details about Tracy Morgan's shark tank in this article www.vulture.com/article/sher...

someone made a documentary about the making of Megalopolis, I am beside myself davistheater.com/programs/meg...

Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore

I do feel like half of this is explained by the "wholly convinced by the last person I talked to" syndrome, which afflicts many people in my experience

it looks like 80F again this weekend! this is happening because I am special and deserve one more swim in the Lake

I know right? Even I know you don't give money to panhandlers outside your front door

I assume this happened to all of you.

& also, you hate to have to hand it to him, but on occasion Tucker Carlson? I mean, remember him pressing Ted Cruz on what the population of Iran is?

Cass Sunstein is a cowboy name. Get that man to a ranch

Imagine how bad of a person you have to be for an article about you to make Elon Musk look comparatively caring and responsible

Great Disappointment 2.0

The UP-N just passed And the next one is in an hour so sure another round

Paracetamol is still okay though right?

Kimmel has made a meaningful donation to updog

we all start singing Hanson every time we see that name, right? it's not just me

like one of those memes where one person is yelling at an unhappily listening person, except they are both the yelling person

Munich native Lou Bega performing Mambo No. 5 at Oktoberfest

Big day for a very nice guy I know from work who is named Steve Mandell who has had to live with some pretty brutal google results for some years now www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/20/o...

I'm enjoying this for how it brings home how modernity inevitably connects me with people in Beijing but also millenia of history and culture inevitably divide

Okay but I think it's important to problematize and complexify the hegemonic concept of "Disney Adult." Disney Adults are diverse community with

A got a new job at a Lubbavitcher girls school. $75hr, 15 hours a week. She can't talk about the news, pop culture, or technology. If the girls ask about Taylor Swift she has to pretend not to know who that is.

We went to see Sarah Sherman live at the Vic haha don't do that

Brown Line running express, never had that happen to me before. Western to Southport which suits me fine. We'll get there early!

I had to take a break from SILENCE and ended up passing out on the carpet of the lobby

I am sorry to everyone named Karen for what has happened to that name

I bet the agents didn't even get to have the contracts then, I bet they were so disappointed 😞

Toddler Housemate assisted me in replacing the valve on the water barrel, which mostly involved him standing around and saying inscrutable things like "I wish I lived in America because it doesn't rain there." Follow-up questions to ascertain what he thinks America is met with little success.

I am briefly in the mood to drink this Cool Jalapeno flavored beer that I ill-advisedly bought last month and has been clogging up the fridge since, so I should probably seize this moment.

I love my neighborhood and all this stuff that goes on in it but please no one tell Fox News about mask-mandatory low-impact queer and non-binary yoga in the park on Saturday mornings.

I stand by that typo.

Domestication is so weird. "Okay you can digest different molecules than I can? So what if I supervised you for a third of your natural lifespan while you do that and then I ate you?"

Officially "'lending' money to relatives to pay their divorce lawyers" years old

JESUS WUZ HERE

If the mayor has five percent fans I am among them

The mayor is here and he has a new bodyguard who is white but I bet that guy got there on merit because he looks like he could break a wrist without breaking a sweat

it's just going to be a website to buy essential oils and beef tallow, isn't it

And credit it to @staceywescott.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com

Actually only the most sophisticated courtiers can see the incredible returns the emperor is getting on his A.I. investment

So after Lawrence v. Texas but before Obergefell, my cousin in Seattle went down to the DMV and got her drivers license changed to "F" and then got straight-married to her boyfriend. No one cared! It's just stunning how much some people care, now.

I need this opinion to cite as authority when my clients get sued by crazy pro se people with 134 or 157 page complaints (real numbers)

In 1939, Argentina was as wealthy of a country as France. I think Argentina is the only country to have lost "developed" status during the 20th century. I really should read more about that. I've checked out the Madonna EVITA from the library, as a soft on-ramp.