Pantwin

Ginger cat asleep in a vaguely bean-shaped position, pasted on top of an image of the Bean in Millennium Park

Bean

October 1, 2025 headline page for Crain's Chicago Business, noting record demand for Chicago hotel rooms during the summer of 2025, along with a photo of the Cloud Gate sculpture ("The Bean") and the South Michigan Avenue "street wall" of buildings behind it.

Record demand to visit War Zone Chicago.

Only if it's open past 8pm and people can actually go there after concerts, unlike most other restaurants in that intersection. :/

Booo tasty Mexican >>> Rando chicken chain. :/ So sad they're gone.

Hello from war zone hellhole Chicago! I was apparently murdered 5 times before breakfast! 🤣

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

Had the exact same thought.

Fun fact: It snowed hard my very first Halloween in the Twin Cities, my weak Chicago ass was not yet prepared for that level of winter in Oct. 😂 Lesson learned hard.

Tell me you worked the Gwar stage at @riotfest.bsky.social without telling me you worked the Gwar stage.

Also: All of Us Strangers

Midsommar

I call that winning.

THIS IS ROBERT REDFORD?!!! Holy shit I did not recognize him. 🤯

a man wearing a red shirt that says lst on it ALT: a man wearing a red shirt that says lst on it

Damn, I scored a Radiohead presale code AND @shitrock.bsky.social announced a Chicago gig all before 10am. Today rules.

Chicago again!? Am I dreaming??? Yes!!!!

Don’t mind me, I’m just gonna keep posting about the stuff that interests me and keeps me going through this nightmare era. Music alone won’t save us but it’s one of the things that keeps us going and gives us inspiration.

A Midway Blitz is when you manage to catch green lights across all four roads in the Midway

An Open Letter to American Patriots Who Think They Hate Chicago (Part Two of Three) | Writing Boots First published on Medium, two summers ago. Seemed a good time to revisit, in light of President Trump's claim this week that "Chicago is the wors ...

Just stumbled upon this, a great read.
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Taste of Chicago, in the great American city called “a hellhole” by a gangster President.

9/3/25 - Chicago - Store windows on North Clark Street in the Andersonville neighborhood.

Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Chicago - Naval Base in Great Lakes: A truck reading “Do not come to Chicago” and “Fascists are not welcome here” has been seen circling around the base.

This. When I lived in NYC, loads of people around me kept blaming "the Midwest" for his win, and I had to constantly remind them which city made him.

I honestly don't pay him to say this stuff, he just believes it on his own. Whatta Man. 😍

We only caught them because @solace.bsky.social insisted we go. ;)

This weekend I left my wallet at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social at a sold-out event, second-largest neighborhood in the city by population, not far from Wrigley Field. It got turned in. No one compromised my cards. This is not a crime-infested hellhole that requires federal assistance.

I saw Neil Young, Oasis, and System of a Down in a 5 day period. This place rules.

What a shithole.

I feel like we do this every three months or so, but fuck it. I love living in Chicago. Ain't nothing hellhole about it to me.