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We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as “normal” — and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just “necessary”.

But a bus that runs on demand?
That’s

“spending taxpayer money”.

I wonder if there was a pickle/cabbage rivalry between them and West Ridge

Search has gone in the trash, that's for sure

Picture of a bag of Lay's potato chips, limon (lime) flavored. The label says "made with real potatoes," but has an unclear antecedent, so the author is being pedantic to make a comment on the absurdity of the situation around the Lay's Superb Owl ads. The author also thanks you for reading this far. Your diligence will be noted in your official record.

So, Limes are made with potatoes now

I wanted to SO BADLY, but I couldn't find anything affordable there.

A week ago we debuted our Italian Beefs hat. It sold out in ONE DAY. Good news: It’s currently backordered and we’ll be shipping more out by the end of the week. BEEF DOWN. #chicago

I think it is very bound up with the idea of Americanism as aspirational, the American penchant for scams and snake oil and get-rich-quick schemes because we wrote our identity as the country where anyone can get rich. Where we’re all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I'm shocked at how many developers fall into "let's make this into dedicated retail," never do the math to see that there are like 10 companies that can afford the rent based on the financing for the property. But we keep doing it.

Screenshot from The Simpsons. A van with a dish on top and two very obvious Federal agents, one using binoculars, one with sunglasses. On the side of the van it says "Flowers By Irene" with the words aligned vertically so FBI is very apparent.

APAB?

Photo of the decaying Rainforest Cafe at Ohio and Clark. Its mushroom and tree facade is lined with graffiti'ed sale signs.

Close up of one of the lease signs saying "Chicago is rolling!" A mushroom and a non-plussed elephant is visible.

And yet

Cough - North Avenue - cough

Yeah, XRT plays Geese WAY too much

Bear the Dog by the grave of Oscar Melillo.

I had nothing better to do yesterday, so: here are all 18 ballplayers buried in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery in Alsip, IL. Special thanks to Cemetery Dog for protecting me from geese.

Any view is proper for the fingered salute.

Trends like this make me want to go back to my analysis of sold music. Like, I'd love to see a graph of usage of harmonicas, saxophones, or flange across decades.

Unfortunately, the newness of it combined with search engines being polluted means I can't find jack written on it, so most searches just bring up Ebay/Etsy pages with them for sale. So the pickings are slim.

Sorry, I should have checked the link better. It wasn't that page that hipped me to it, tho. My wife is a collector of other glassware, and it's been all over her feeds. I'll work to not post any AI generated pages in the future, I definitely hate them.

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A red glass hen on nest dish, apparently now can be worth stupid money.

These? These are now valuable?
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I knew of her & her sister before they realized their potential and were slumming it on the other side of the Kennedy. [Pushes up Gen-X glasses, hitches up backpack strap]

Satellite view of mostly empty grassy lots net to the 63rd St. Green Line elevated.

It's truly amazing how they absolutely destroyed 63rd St.

Based on this image, you'd assume a rapid transit line kills development rather than spurs it.

Important to consider in the context of the more-expensive-than-God Red Line Extension.

was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files

Just Sting, tho, right? Andy and Stewart are good people.

I'd love it if we could bike the pedway

A murder of plastic king cake babies

If it was microscopic, maybe. I know my babies

I kinda wish that journalism had been like this before, so we could have seen that Jonestown or The Manson Family were having a moment or conquering pop culture.