Chicago skyline, looking south; Sears Tower, One Chicago in view. The sky is a forbidding gray, but a hard, cool light from the west illuminates the buildings.
I love a moody sky…
A panel from Walt Kelly’s comic strip Pogo, 7/13/1956: Churchy La Femme shouts “WOW!” at Pogo and Beauregard Hound Dog— “It’s Friday the Thirteenth!”
Let’s be careful out there today, people!
I’m teaching Call Northside 777 tomorrow, and I am usually too disorganized to plan pedagogical wardrobe, but this T-shirt seems appropriate. IIRC, it dates from first Tr*mp administration, but clearly also speaks to Democracy dying in oligarchical consolidation. @dansinker.com
While the change might appear small, ballots mailed near the March 17 deadline might not be postmarked by Election Day and therefore deemed invalid, Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon warned.
This is marvelous!
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
That’s brisk.
Chicago people!
Remember the sunshine we had like three hours ago?
Here’s the WIND and the SNOW to slap us back to January!
Or Indiana.
Honestly!
The cough is a bit… wow. Thanks for the good wishes! I’m doing all the things… fluids, Advil, rest, so on…
I think it’s doing just that, this round is proving lots less horrible. Thanks for the good wishes!
Wear your masks 😷 out there, Chicago people! Tested positive for Covid today (TWO different tests, two different brands) & am running a jolly fever 🤒 of 102°!
Take care of yourselves, okay?
(And yes, I did get vaccinated for Covid and for flu as recommended….)
I hope it all misses you! I’m just getting over the thing that combined both the sneezing and the coughing in one disgusting package.
💯
💔
What’s stopping everyone?!
And NYT just now:
“That was an 18-minute speech that will keep fact checkers busy for hours.”
Except… it’s torrential…
Thank you! I needed to hear that, I am in your debt!
Scotch would help more better 🤷🏼♀️
Got wine 🍷 that helps.
New York Times is on it.
Why am I listening to this? Why?
None in my neighborhood, thankfully! But when I was staying up in Lincoln Park recently the goddamn things were a sidewalk menace.
Excellent.
And not really very great swaths of time, here
Yes — “never cocooned in it” is key to bridging culture across time.
Note to self:
Do not make references to ad campaigns from, say, 30 years ago when talking to the youngs. Not much worse than having to explain that.
