Bill Savage

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Beautiful.

Nice J6 reference! Sorry I can’t make it.

We bombed the hell out of the Vietnamese for many years. They never surrendered. What happens next when you bomb people and they still won’t surrender?

All y'all focused on the negatives of $100 barrels of oil. But have you stopped to consider what this means for Houston's many escorts and cocaine dealers? -OS

Random decisions by developers.

That sound is pure urban poetry.

Chicago.

Some sort of early Spring flowers poking up.

Spring is not here yet, but its hired goon muscle is moving into the joint to make sure Spring won’t be fucked with by anyone when its limousine and entourage arrive shortly.

Hang it in the Louvre. Nah, screw the Louvre: hang it at the Art Institute.

The Barbara's Bookstore sign! Your assurance of quality!

Come to the E gates Barbara's Bookstore at ORD and there are 3 signed copies of When The Moon Hits Your Eye and one of Old Man's War.

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving.

Two copies of The Uptown at Women and Children First

Happy to see a few copies of The Uptown still available! Publisher is out of stock so get to Women and Children First!

An ad for an online gambling platform, bet365, on TV during Cubs broadcast.

Only upside I can imagine to @mlb.com embracing gambling, to the ridiculous extent it has, is that Kenesaw Mountain Landis(a world-historic-level racist jagoff)must be spinning in his grave, a form of hellish torture.
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He turned around and smiled the sort of smile that is the legacy of ten years behind a bar.

—Len Deighton, Berlin Game

You might not believe that increasing the housing supply moderates rents, but your landlord does.

These guys hate being reminded that they don’t govern a country of servants, they serve a country as governers.

Chicago’s Grid may be the most orderly, but the manifold exceptions are fascinating.

That first one is definitely developer choice, since it is the result of the extra wide blocks between Morse & the park. Ridge & other diagonals create some of these situations elsewhere, as do the boulevards & some parks that do not conform to the grid.

Can I interest you in an alley four-way intersection?

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It looks like the war on Iran is going about as poorly as the regime’s previous wars against Chicago, Minnesota and Los Angeles.

Good morning. Spring forward 🌞

Ruin a movie by making it about Chicago elections: Jane and Richie and Maude.

Ruin a movie by making it about Chicago elections: Jane and Richie and Maude.

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

Divina Tragedia, by Paul Chenavard, 1869, 📸 by Alejandro Granadillo @museeorsay.bsky.social

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

Was on topic of alleys, not just that spot. Between the N-S alley west of Ridge, to Oakley, there are two parallel E-W alleys between Lunt and Morse. At Oakley, the southern one becomes Coyle Ave., which runs to Sacramento. @archijake.bsky.social

If you’re a democrat in congress who goes on fox the first thing you say in response to any question should be “why did you show the wrong footage of trump saluting dead soldiers?”