@joshterry.bsky.social
chicago-based writer. newsletter producer at wttw news (@wttw.bsky.social). i also run the music and culture blog no expectations. ex: vice, chicago tribune, etc. tips, email: joshhowardterry@gmail.com https://www.noexpectations.fyi
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throughout the year, i've been learning spanish (not duolingo) but now all my targeted online ads think i'm a native speaker
"it's because of the politicians" no it's not. they'd call it "corrupt politician city" if that were the case
i'm a windy city truther in the sense that i think chicago is called that because it gets windy here
Currently reading. I don't man, felt relevant
We have the same top two, but mine's flipped
yeah i'm not going to lolla
Because it's 3/12 day, the Chicago Fire FC are selling $31.20 100-level tickets at Soldier Field for the 2026 season. It's a great deal, especially considering how much I paid to see a Liverpool friendly there a few months later
the first solo bass album to get best LP at NE
Four LP recs for your Thursday www.noexpectations.fyi/p/natalie-ja...
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British No. 1 Jack Draper looks like yassified Zach Bryan. I'd hope he loses if he wasn't playing Djokovic right now
Her last movie "I Love Movies" is awesome. Think this one's gonna be good too
Probably was shopping the LP to record labels and had to fit it into their release schedule once signed
Album cycles are often much longer than you'd think. A record I was sent in January 2024 just got announced this week and won't be out for a couple more months
I can see and hear that it's hailing and raining outside, but Accuweather says "rain and a thunderstorm" is starting in 23 minutes. Who should I believe?
yeah ryan and i aren’t introverts in my case i just wanted a free table
at a show and was planning on having a chill nightcap at the bar next door. to my horror, the headlining band just announced on stage that they are having a drink at the bar next door after and the crowd should “come through”
If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.
I live pretty close to a Metra train yard and last night, one of the trains had a horn malfunction that caused it to blare from 2-4:30 a.m. Not great
four different mustards in the fridge right now. it’s just enough or if not, not that many
I went to a website, got hit with a "accept all cookie preferences" form, said no, and then got a message that read, "We have received your choices and your requests will be honoured." Wow, that's so nice. Thank you for respecting my boundaries
The thing is, she's not quoting Orwell because Orwell never said that
Where it's usually "Stereogum recommends a band that I will write about in my newsletter," today it's "I recommended a band in my newsletter that Stereogum is now writing about"
at work. gonna watch tennis or maybe see a movie after. you?
I wrote about "being a regular" at a bar in your twenties and also recommended new LPs from Star Moles, Lala Lala, and Pileup. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/star-moles...
The head coach of the Sacramento Kings interviewed me about a piece I wrote
it’d been getting dusty on my bookshelf and went through it last week. something you can easily get through in a day or two.
![The idea that there can be wholly distinct levels to competitive tennis–levels so distinct that what's being played is in essence a whole different game–might seem to you weird and hyperbolic. I have played probably just enough tennis to understand that it's true. I have played against men who were on a whole different, higher plateau than I, and I have understood on the deepest and most humbling level the impossibility of beating them, of "solving their game." Knowle is technically entitled to be called a professional, but he is playing a fundamentally different grade of tennis from Michael Joyce's, one constrained by limitations Joyce does not have. I feel like I could get on a tennis court with Julian Knowle. He would beat me, perhaps handily, but I don't feel like it would be absurd for me to occupy the same seventy-eight-by-twenty-seventy-foot rectangle as he. The idea of me playing Joyce–or even hitting around with him, which was one of the ideas I was entertaining on the flight to Montreal–is now revealed to me to be in a certain way obscene, and I resolve not even to let Joyce [40] know that I used to play competitive tennis, and (I'd presumed) rather well. This makes me sad.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spolcwvvwjrwp4yk6csjduzg/bafkreibadt45ivcl2hnvp2rbxgvjuwshc5ucvx76aq42rs3lskxwprbjmm)
have you read this David Foster Wallace Esquire essay? He basically says the exact same thing while covering a qualifying round of a ‘90s Canadian Open www.esquire.com/sports/a5151...
it’s only round one but i’m unbelievably locked in to the indian wells open. tennis might be the best sport to watch