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this is the church that hosted El Arbol, the free store we built to support migrants staying at the 14th district police station a couple years ago. So great to see this project finally breaking ground!

Judson and Moore in Avondale hosts this excellent monthly bluegrass jam. It's a great hang and lots of very friendly and talented pickers. Next one is this sunday.

also, anyone can get a reading card when they visit and call up anything from their collection to the reading room. amazing resource and experience!

A focaccia with a vegetable turkey design

happy thanks from our friendly focaccia turkey

Charles Ives was also an influential insurance executive who invented different types of life insurance (if memory serves)

for me, it's been instinctively saying "I appreciate ya" in virtually every customer service and retail interaction I have for some reason

this is fake btw

What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me I’ve spent my life working on virtual reality—but my instruments have revealed the real world.

I think Jaron Lanier summed it up pretty well: "...For those students who want to have optimal music made for them, I have to ask, Would you want robots to have sex for you so you don’t have to? I mean, what is life for?"

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Im playing in a Last Waltz tribute show this weekend and was rewatching the film, so much of it is The Band being like ”the road is a young man’s game, we’re all too old and haggard for that now“ and you look it up they were all like 32. Anyway shows on Saturday in bucktown, come on out.

It's especially upsetting given that her widely recommended and highly visible book about finding Judaism is presented in this sort of modern, pragmatic framing.

*on an extremely local level.

A friend of mine was at the Rico Fresh gassing and was sending me videos before it was being covered anywhere. The next day, an ice car drove past me and my kids near the Square followed by a bunch of cars honking in warning. those 2 events felt like a line had been crossed on an extremely locally.

the news you can use framing of this is just so so bleak

i felt similarly. The dialogue was super clunky at times, but the sheer force of the performances made it work.

Fifteen Animals

have you heard the musical adaptation? open.spotify.com/track/4phbSD...

Its the ending that irks me -- the monsters leave the hippo some gifts and cake after all the curfuffle, and the hippo is still left alone and confused on his birthday.

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Birthday Monsters is mid-tier Boynton imo. Definitely a notch above phoned-in also-rans like "Your Personal Penguin" but vastly less inspired than classics like "15 Animals."

Donate to Stand with Felix's Family: Urgent Support Needed, organized by Amanda Guillaume Early morning Thursday, November 13, Felix and his family’s life as … Amanda Guillaume needs your support for Stand with Felix's Family: Urgent Support Needed

“Early morning Thursday, November 13, Felix and his family’s life as they know it was turned upside down. Felix, a dedicated father and husband, was taken by ICE while he was with his young daughter on their way to school. For the past 15 years, Felix has lived in Chicago with his wife and child..”

My eyes just rolled so hard they did a complete rotation

or the countless terrified families currently living in hiding, wondering how they're going to feed their kids.

It's truly amazing. and the two of them set such an untouchably high bar with that performance that there will never be a revival that hits as hard.

her first crescendo of "we do not belong together" may very well be the peak of the art form (and really all art forms)

We need to do everything we can to keep the organizing momentum that was catalyzed by the events of the last two months going. A year from now, we should be looking back on whistle parties and school watches as turning points!

and to think that he was killed in action exactly one week before the armistice, compounds the sadness and tragedy of all his work

yes! and especially cause on some fundamental level, their approach to making music was democratic and collaborative.

We can definitely be optimistic about this news but can’t forget that they’ll still have some presence, and especially can’t abandon the movement we have started building in defiance of what they have done so far.

It's all a game to them. They terrorize communities, tear families apart, and inflict untold damage wherever they appear, and it's all a fucking game.

YouTube video by Ryan West Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - (Tears for Fears) Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Always liked this one

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Dick Durbin‘s constituency includes communities currently, actively being invaded and terrorized by the administration he’s about to embolden.

you can also often buy $100 gift cards for uber eats, DoorDash etc for $80 at Costco. using those saves you 20% for when you need to order in, essentially counter acting the platform and delivery fees.