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!!! I love this song so much.

Chicago Poetry: Then and Now, Black, White, and Brown Chicago literature always grapples with two fundamental questions: What is this place, Chicago? And who are we, Chicagoans?

Y'all: Spaces are still available in my @newberrylibrary.bsky.social online seminar for this term! It's a discusson of Chicago poetry, from Sandburg and Brooks to our lucky city's contemporary poetry Renaissance: Coval, Olivarez, Marshall, and Ewing. Check it out: www.newberry.org/calendar/chi...

From what I've read it sounds like a meeting of right-wing governments hashing out security and trade deals like the Five Families with the intention of becoming the Western Hemisphere version of the Axis powers.

I wanted to take care of the animals.

I tried to run away with a circus that came to my town.

I have an urn of my cat's ashes next to my mother's and several cats' plaster paw print memorials.

Thyme, cedarwood, bergamot & hemp seed oil bath. Foggy violet sky & Jazz Noir playlist. Blanc de blancs, carrot ginger soup, baguette, tangerines & dark chocolate.

I had to learn what the Shield of the Americas is from an article in The National Interest which was critical of it.

It's a US-led group of right-wing governments in the Americas. Honestly pretty creepy stuff.

If you told me last October Bovino and Noem would be out, I would have cried tears of relief. Now I am so incapable of having any positive emotions re: this administration that the main man could suffer a fatal cardiac event on live TV and my disgust and distrust would remain unchanged.

Absolutely thriving in this spooky fog.

View of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse from one of the cribs located in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-03-05 06:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 40 F | 4 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: N at 2 mph | 3 kph // Humidity: 96%

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

I need my cold, slim, steel Zebra F-301s. Plastic pens feel icky!

My grandfather was a bootlegger, ammunitions manufacturer, and alderman. My grandmother was a beautician.

No idea about the other side. They were farmers at some point.

In like a lion! I do love a sodden March. Give me all the clouds and fog and rain and mud. So dramatic and atmospheric.

The Chicago Stock Exchange itself should never have been demolished. This exquisite room is one of the few vestiges of it that remain, & it is absolutely outrageous that it should be endangered again.

Architects: Adler & Sullivan, 1894
Demolished: 1972
Reconstruction Architects: Vinci & Kenny, 1977

Oh you must read Too Loud A Solitude by Hrabal. It's a slight novella, but you'll never forget it. And Kundera, obviously. I like Skvorecky. You may also want to check out the surrealist Nezval and the Devetsil.

I wish I knew more about Czech women writers and contemporary Czech lit.

Zephyr digital clock. KEM Weber with Lawson Clock Co. 1934.
Image: Bonhams

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chicago rapid responders report ice abducted two people from the parking lot of the home depot at kimball/addison about 10:15 a.m. this morning. witnesses say feds were driving three suvs.

rapid responders in wheeling, illinois, also confirm ice abducted someone in the area shortly after 9 a.m.

I mean, flying squirrels are literally upwardly mobile.

Yeah, that sounds like them! I haven't seen them up here all year, but people in Rogers Park have.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

oh no...

Bleak, damp March weather. Stan Getz and The Oscar Peterson Trio. Fizzy rosé. Apple & cheddar meatloaves, baked sweet potato, salad w/ oranges, almonds, and a honey ginger vinaigrette. Debate about the best route to the cemetery for an upcoming funeral.

Oh, he will!

1991, surely!

This is the most frightening thing I've ever watched.

Stylised painting of a white female figure in a dress with words

Sonia Delaunay's 1920's 'robes poèmes' or poem dresses, interplay between words, visuals and textile design #womensart

Is it like radio, or is it like a podcast?