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Abstract sculpture; a shiny metal ball in a triangular frame, with colored translucent panels. Sun appears above point. Framed by tree on left, building to right, lake in background.

Good morning from Rogers Park.

Late w/Taffeta V - Horses It's the Lunar New Year, so this one is all about Horses! Music from Scissor Sisters, Wolf Alice, Geese, PJ Harvey, and more! I'll tell you about Fire Horse years, read from Terry Pratchett, Mary Oliv...

NEW EPISODE! This is my radio show, but you can listen to it on demand like a podcast. This week's theme is Horses

I carefully curate great music & literature. It's like if 120 Minutes was also storytime for weird adults

Free, Ad-Free, and I never use Ai

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can we get to 250? 😈

4 boxes full of traditional polish paczki from polish paczki cafe in my office kitchen. You can see Millenium and grant park out the window facing south and some tall buildings in south loop.

Happy Paczki Day!

A grey and brown Cattle Dog curled into a small oval red bolster bed with her legs tucked in and her head and neck hanging over the edge. And, yes, she has at least at least five other appropriately sized beds.

In celebration of Paczki Day, please enjoy this photo of my fully grown Heeler who refuses to relinquish her puppy bed even though she looks like filling splooting out of an overstuffed doughnut & probably needs a cervical collar for neck support. #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife 🐶

Three-story brownstone mansion with a domed turret on the right. "Uniform in material but richly varied in form, this house exhibits in stone many Queen Anne elements that are usually executed in wood: a turreted corner tower, windows (some mullioned) of many shapes and sizes, and a complex, irregular roof. Although only brownstone is used, it is carved, rusticated, planed smooth, and set in a checkerboard pattern for the stringcourse." AIA Guide to Chicago

Vintage photo showing the original porch in the center of the first story.

1885 notice in the Inter Ocean: "Architects Treat & Folz (sic) are making plans for a $20,000 stone dwelling to be erected for Mr. W. J. Chalmers at 234 Ashland avenue."

315 (formerly 234) S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago. This is the William J. Chalmers house, built in 1885, Treat and Foltz, architects. This is the Chalmers of Allis-Chalmers. His wife, Joan, was the daughter of Allan Pinkerton.

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Did you know BFF Bikes was the first ever bike shop to carry our merch? We're restocking their inventory this Sunday. They’re just off the 606

Photo of a Scabby the Rat, a giant inflatable rat, saying on the SE corner of Irving, Cicero, and Milwaukee. Picketers stand nearby. The photo is taken thru the windshield of a CTA bus

Three strikers with picket signs standing on the corner of Irving, Cicero, and Milwaukee in front of the Clarendale building.

Scabby the Rat is at Six Corners this morning ✊ #PortagePark

Three-story Second Empire brick building built in 1887. It has a mansard roof with multiple gabled dormers. The turret is the showstopper. It's polygonal in shape with a truncated pyramidal roof. There are round windows in the roof with a bracketed cornice below them. The entire turret is decorated with foliage, festoons, and other gingerbread.

Four-story buff brick Italianate? style building with a polygonal turret on the corner. The windows on the second and third floors and in the turret have rusticated limestone lintels. The fourth floor windows are arched. there is a heavy bracketed cornice across the top of the entire building, bay windows on the side, and a fire escape traveling down the building at the right.

How often do the Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, and #TurretTuesday occur on the same day? These turrets are in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. I wish I had one in Chinatown.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

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I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

it’s pretty funny to make a world where everything is based on computer. and then fuck that part up specifically

MLK Jr and his lieutenants standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in April 1968, including James Bevel, Jesse Jackson, and Ralph Abernathy

Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young reunited on the Lorraine Motel balcony much closer to the present

As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living.

Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

At DNC, Democrats Celebrate Jesse Jackson and the ‘Seeds’ He Planted The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., 82, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Illinois, was celebrated during Monday’s session of the convention, earning a loud ovation from the crowd.

I wrote this during the Democratic National Convention, in an attempt to capture his profound impact on Chicago politics, for @wttw.bsky.social

Wutherin' makes you feel good

One of the wildest things about living in Chicago was sometimes you would just see Jesse Jackson places, just a person doing normal person stuff. It was always so jarring and amazing. RIP

Black-and-white still from THE TWILIGHT ZONE of a young man looking into the open side of a dollhouse filled with miniatures.

I can trace two of my favorite thematic obsessions, miniatures and people who can't function in this world dissolving from it, back to an early viewing of one TWILIGHT ZONE episode: "Miniature," with an awkward, sensitive and achingly sympathetic young Robert Duvall. What depth and grace he had.

Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔

SEX DUNGEON TIED UP IN RED TAPE

KINKY LAIR SHACKLED BY LACK OF LICENSE

CITY QUESTIONS SEXUALITY

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

One of our favourite character actors... Robert Duvall (1931-2026), seen here in #NeoNoir The Outfit (1973). #RIP #FilmNoir

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Yello's got a Swiss millionaire.
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You must be descended from Odysseus.

YouTube video by The Film Scene The Natural (1984) | Roy Hobbs’ Secret Deal | Robert Redford, Wilford Brimley, Robert Duvall

For all the baseball folks out there, his Max Mercy character in The Natural was one of the most underappreciated roles he had, imho.
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Robert Duvall has passed away at the age of 95

Best actor ever in a Time Tunnel episode? Yes, indisputably true, but I think it's more accurate to simply say best actor ever. Rest In Peace, Robert Duvall.