Charlie Zone

wow.

Composition with orange.

Ogden Nash once wrote that the Communist Party should redistribute guilt from those who feel it to those who need to.

Roadside Subway sign with lettering below reading “HIRING BUT NOT REHIRING 336-3898.”

Fuck you, Craig.

“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.

I think left.

not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

most pointedly fat is the primary ingredient in brains, which are used for more sophisticated activities—an organism without fat cannot plan or coordinate.

A New York City Street, 1954, by Leonard Freed.

Photo looking across a snowy yard towards the wall of a building covered in vines. Next to the building. There is a tall pine tree to the right, a very conical conifer covered in snow in the center, and a shorter round bush to the left.

I love that there is randomly a perfect Christmas tree growing next to my building. It really stands out with snow on it!

Guy who’s watched 100 TV series: Succession is perhaps the finest TV drama since the Sopranos.
Guy who’s watched 1,000 TV series: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs’ series finale was based on a story by Harlan Ellison and written by the defining 1987 Ninja Turtles writer David Wise,

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

dems spent 4 previous years post-failed coup trying to segregate the GOP into MAGA and non-MAGA factions and work to rehabilitate and normalize the non-MAGA ones as an effort to marginalize the MAGA faction. it was a disaster and they cannot do it again.

Crotchless, naturally.

These are my casual jeans. These are my work jeans. These beauties are my sleeping jeans. These are my sex jeans. Crotchless, naturally. Here's my formal jeans. Met the mayor in these jeans. He definitely noticed too. Didnt say anything but I could tell. These ones are for gaming. Pretty stained

A chart of US total cattle herd size, going back to 1938. It shows that the number of cattle tends to go up for a few years, then down for a few years, on a predictable 10-15 year cycle.

The US cattle herd gets larger & smaller on a pretty predictable 10-15 year cycle.

When there are more cows, that pushes cattle prices down.

When there are fewer cows, that pushes cattle prices up.

The laws of cattle supply & demand are simple & finite, any 4H girl would have known

it's also just so striking to call this marxism, and i think reflects how "marxism" has become a catch-all label for a certain breed of leftoid anger as much as it is an ongoing-but-degenerate research program

Love Vietnamese beef and noodle soup.

hate it when products are "mystery flavour." That's raspberry. That's not a mystery. It's a common fruit. Make a lollipop that tastes like the brief glimmer of pity that flashed across her face the last time I saw her. That's what haunts me. That's a mystery.

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

Then there's the second decision: how you judge others. If being gentlemanly means anything at all, it should mean what Newman wrote above: "interpret everything for the best." Or what Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: "A real desire to believe all the good you can of others ...

Dreyfi.

Hammersmith Bridge Where did 25,000 vehicles go?

I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough

A subway along the lakefront from Washington park to Uptown!

At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.

Brother what in the world are you talking about?

Whoa.