are you not infotained

Type of shit I'm parking in my thin brick garage

Some good sleuthing for context here—the 1963 photo is of a completely different building, the original, which burned in 1959. The photo was probably taken right before demolition, hence the poor condition and missing Maurie

CTA trivia: the “B” in the name of the 49B Western bus stands for “Bus”

I think the craziest thing about this comparison is how there’s still a public trash can and a billboard in nearly the exact same spots. Persistence of mundanity

Formerly the driveway to the back parking lot, now trail only

The back parking lot, completely removed and seemingly seeded for grass.

Turns out that paving project on the Lechowicz Woods portion of the North Branch Trail was also an unpaving project. They removed the entire back parking lot and replaced the awkward curve to it where trail users had to share the driveway with dedicated trail. Massive improvement

Same angle 62 years later

Type of shit a withered crone says to you under a highway overpass in Bridgeport

At Superdawg watching some girls try to take a selfie with the roof statues but couldn’t get an angle without the sun behind them. I wanted to tell them “the hot dogs have faces on both sides” but that felt like a pretty insane thing to say to a stranger

The latex bodysuit used to depict Herb was thought to be destroyed after the campaign, but to everyone’s horror it re-emerged fully animated in 2019 as G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller

🚶💨💨💨

Rack and panniers are back in play. We are carrying too many layers. We are wintermoding

Spraying my green bike with a hose

Prosper stupid poultry (last outdoor edition)

how else am I gonna see those owls

Where my nose has been as of late

Creed (Nicene)

In some sense it wouldn’t have mattered if MBJ had swung into office with Mamdani-level charisma and vision, bc our system effectively requires a mayor who is the biggest psycho in the shitheap to function at all, and any good governance outcomes of that setup are incidental

We are never gonna make it as a world class city as long as we insist on government by insane HOA presidents who took over all the other board positions and hate everyone

Chicago isn’t actually a city, it’s 50 tiny fiefdoms ruled by scheming warlords with soup for brains

Only the cool Catholics are allowed to call themselves ‘holics

Thank you for capturing that one spot with four manhole covers in a row directly in the bike lane, bane of my existence

It’s really a testament to Beaton’s power to approach the challenge of a three panel riff on a purely typographic cover with such economy and expressiveness. It’s so pure and stupid and yet brilliantly executed. And of course who else would even think to riff on Gorey covers in the first place

People I’ve talked to about it have been almost 50/50 between completely unaffected vs knocked hard on their ass, there must be a genetic component we don’t understand yet or something

I accidentally memorized the entire Hark a Vagrant archive as a depressed student, but the Kierkegaard Gorey cover is still the one that still makes me actually laugh out loud

Superdawg

Default windows xp desktops-ass town

Working out at the Power Bank even though you see better gains at the Shredded Union

Somehow the vaccine took my already prodigious capacity for sweating at the slightest physical effort and quadrupled it

Blue divvy was NOT the play after almost a week off the bike + vaccine fatigue, I am disintegrating at a molecular level

Alternate history where the Chicago grid is based on French long lots

Thoughts and prayers (you can pull it off luckily)