“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@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
“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 📌 0I 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 📌 0There 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 📌 0In 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 📌 2Sure 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 📌 0Hey I’m by the modern wing lol
07.03.2026 21:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lol of course someone has to jump in with a “well, actually” Peshtigo comment.
07.03.2026 19:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bankers always wrote the most boring autobiographies.
06.03.2026 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Card 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.
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* - revamped, reconfigured, remixed, and relaunched.
“Spotify classics” playlist with Olivia Rodrigo on the cover.
Wanna feel old?
06.03.2026 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You see it a lot in duel challenges.
06.03.2026 00:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This 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 📌 0As a historian I am inclined to call him a damned rascal and a poltroon.
05.03.2026 20:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I’m on it.
05.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Presumably 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.
It’s his epitaph on his slab, though.
05.03.2026 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One more sour apple tree to plant.
05.03.2026 19:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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
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...
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.
Just count to 25 and you’ll be all right.
04.03.2026 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At 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
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.)
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?
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
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