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Adam Selzer

@adamchicago.bsky.social

historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him mysteriouschicago.com , patreon.com/adamchicago

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“Woke Axl Rose” is one of my favorite face turns of the 2010s but he’d be on a lot more shirts if he’d died under mysterious circumstances in about 1994.

09.03.2026 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I saw some for “West ridge east.” At the time I figured below Warren Park was South West Ridge East. I lived right below the park so that was North South West Ridge East.

09.03.2026 15:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are better takes of many tracks and two outtakes arguably better that any song on it, and yet every pick made for the album was correct.

08.03.2026 22:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the absence of an alternative motive - and on the news that the US is targeting oil refineries it's worth whether the whole point of going into Iran was - to create an excuse to lift oil sanctions on Russia.

08.03.2026 17:37 — 👍 53    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 2

Sure but we used to rewind our Ataris and drink from the street lights until the hose came on. In cursive!

08.03.2026 03:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hey I’m by the modern wing lol

07.03.2026 21:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lol of course someone has to jump in with a “well, actually” Peshtigo comment.

07.03.2026 19:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bankers always wrote the most boring autobiographies.

06.03.2026 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Card and QR code for "Hyperspace Pizza: A rock opera about time travel and butts" and novelization by Adam Selzer

Card and QR code for "Hyperspace Pizza: A rock opera about time travel and butts" and novelization by Adam Selzer

New!*
HYPERSPACE PIZZA: A Rock Opera about Time Travel and Butts (and novelization) out today.

Everything good starts in a getaway car.

Get it where you stream stuff.
linktr.ee/hyperspacepi...

* - revamped, reconfigured, remixed, and relaunched.

06.03.2026 13:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
“Spotify classics” playlist with Olivia Rodrigo on the cover.

“Spotify classics” playlist with Olivia Rodrigo on the cover.

Wanna feel old?

06.03.2026 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You see it a lot in duel challenges.

06.03.2026 00:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the slowest and worst version of the Hokey Pokey I have ever seen. Shake it all about already.

05.03.2026 23:28 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 0

As a historian I am inclined to call him a damned rascal and a poltroon.

05.03.2026 20:32 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I’m on it.

05.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Presumably the family? They wouldn’t have likely had much inside info on whether or not it was real, I don’t suppose.

05.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I just wore my seat belt here in Chicago. Does that mean I’m more of a “rough man” than he is?

After my whistle patrol shift I guess I’ll eat some stew.

05.03.2026 19:57 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It’s his epitaph on his slab, though.

05.03.2026 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One more sour apple tree to plant.

05.03.2026 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Virtual Tour: Chicago's Spookiest Graves A virtual tour of some of the creepiest stories and spots in Chicago cemeteries... ghost stories, strange statues, true crime, and more!

Hey, my book CHICAGO'S SERIAL HUSBAND: THE MARRIAGES AND MURDERS OF JOHANN HOCH is runner-up in the Chicago's Reader's Best New Book By a Chicagoan poll!

Tonight's virtual tour is about Chicago's spookiest graves: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-to...

05.03.2026 14:08 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I’m really quite amazed that more great artists haven’t done Vince Guaraldi’s “Great Pumpkin Waltz.”

04.03.2026 18:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Brake For No One, by The Limited Time from the album Hyperspace Pizza

HYPERSPACE PIZZA is my new* rock opera and novelization, including the new hard rocking “We Brake For No One.” Everything good starts in a getaway car.

thelimitedtime.bandcamp.com/track/we-bra...

04.03.2026 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

That part’s great! The sentimental parts just get over the top for me (from what I remember; it’s been a few years).

04.03.2026 12:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait counting to 25 was little fort.

I loved the first half of Dombey; second had its moments.

04.03.2026 12:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just count to 25 and you’ll be all right.

04.03.2026 12:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At the Music Box for Masked and Anonymous / @whitecitycinema.bsky.social ‘s book release!

03.03.2026 23:20 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

If I held a million dollar per plate fundraiser I only need one idiot to come.

Even half an idiot I’ll be doing pretty well.

Yeah.

#whatwasinthatdribkbesidesaneggpepperandworcesteshiresauce

03.03.2026 03:52 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I wish I could host a million dollar per plate fundraiser.

All funds go to me just going wild with drinks and apps at bar trivia nights forever. Rattle your jewelery.

(They talked me into drinking a Prairie Oyster at Le Piano, my local jazz bar, just now and it’s now all falling into place.)

03.03.2026 03:44 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Dude’s face in the entryway of Trinity Church nyc

Dude’s face in the entryway of Trinity Church nyc

Here’s a Trinity Church NY guy who I think was frozen in the middle of a Scooby Doo chase scene. Happy birthday!

03.03.2026 02:57 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely?

03.03.2026 01:47 — 👍 372    🔁 136    💬 4    📌 27

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

02.03.2026 23:44 — 👍 4998    🔁 851    💬 46    📌 12