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I don’t tend to explain angry pimps to small children.
I appreciate that my daughter loves Wonder Woman but I’m getting a bit tired of having to play Hippolyta.
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
First time I’ve heard of this, but damn someone needs to bring it back in some form. Not like a daily print newspaper in the 21st century having the budget for a helicopter - even comics need to be grounded somewhat in reality - but some sci fi version.
Same.
Can I just say as someone who grew up in a small Southern US town and never once went to a Cracker Barrel, that arguing about the logo is as alien to me as an Australian having opinions on Outback Steakhouse.
We are sorry to report that The Thing With Feathers is now on the endangered list.
The chimps have elected a new leader. Sic transit gloria monkey.
He and his band don’t get enough musical credit, like “Okay on this track, we’re going to sound exactly like The Police. Now Devo. Now Nirvana. Now Coolio.”
In case my future biographers need this as reference, my top five Weird Al songs are Dare to be Stupid, One More Minute, Mission Statement, Hey Ricky (although that’s mostly due to Tress MacNeille) and Stuck in the Closet with Vanna White. Thank you for your time.
General and current reminder: if you see unusual police or fed activity in the Chicago area, reach out via Signal at unraveled.66. Anonymity always protected
They’re trying to disappear someone who can testify to torture facilitated by the US government.
Luckily “fuck Third Way” isn’t on the list.
Yeah, well Humpty once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
Or a Kidz Bop version of “The Humpty Dance.”
Well it’s going to be now!
Today I interviewed a student who was a cook in Michelin restaurants, then got diagnosed with cancer and had to switch gears (it’s a physically demanding job) so decided she was going to be a high-energy particle physicist. Goddamn, some people just give you faith in the world.
I can’t keep up on the news because there’s only one story: the people in charge shouldn’t be and, because of that, people will suffer and die. It seems increasingly futile which topic leads me to that same conclusion.
It doesn’t count as drinking coffee after 4 if the cup has been sitting around since 10 a.m.
If we replicate every atrocity of the Nazis except for one, all criticism of the Trump regime will be written off as hysteria.
I saw a guy on Belmont with a shirt that just said “Deep Tunnel Project” in a font similar to but not exactly like those Raygun shirts. I’ll be so pissed if being into MWRD drainage projects is hip now because it sure wasn’t in my 20s.
Alternate joke: “Hello, Panda Emporium? Yes, it’s Ronnie again.”
Photographer: Veronica, we need a scene that is sexy, elegant, truly represents the grandeur of Hollywood. Do you have any pandas?” Veronica Lake: (smiles quietly to herself)
Fucking A+ bumper sticker
Has Oprah ever really been called out on every grifter she platformed? Every bullshit panic or mystical magical thinking garbage she capitalized on? Her glamorizing consumerism?
That’s…not why the Erie Canal was built
Good god the damage Disney did to Mary Poppins.
I’m mostly mad about him not understanding history, or concepts like “which things happened before other things.”
I think the problem is my job gives me money, but then I have to pay bills, which cost money. So then I don’t have the money. This is an issue.
Snakes on a Prayin’
My fellow Chicago history nerds, we take to the seas.
Same!
It’s the day after my birthday and, based on the map, it’s not on one of the tour boat companies I’ve sworn vengeance upon. Signed up.
The President of the United States went on CNBC today and said: He won the 2020 election (he didn’t). He has a 71% approval rating (he doesn’t). The jobs numbers were rigged (they weren’t). I could say something funny here, but I won’t. It’s just so damn dangerous to have him in the White House.
Child-diddler on the roof. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
The Do-Me Decimal System.
Catfished with shots of the Bodleian.
You release one kryptonite-powered robot on the city and you have to hear about it forever, huh?
“I want to be sure that my children can grow up feeling like they can always express themselves freely I want my children to live in a society that really takes care of its people. I want my children to live in a world that really values things like the arts, that really values things like education
I’ve been listening to the Spotify playlists James Gunn made for the main characters in Superman, like what he thinks Jimmy Olsen or Green Lantern would listen to. Apparently, Lex Luthor and I have pretty similar tastes.
If you see something, say something. Unless it's a frog in a top hat singing "Hello my Baby.” Keep that shit to yourself.
This belongs in a museum.
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
I think one of the lesser indicators of the state of the world is that if I say “that motherfucker,” you probably know who I mean.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Wait, you made it to the recipe? I’m still scrolling through the long personal anecdote about the first time they had a smoothie.
My wife offered me some peaches. Me: Where did they come from? Her: A can? Me: Who put them there? Her: (confused pause, then weary “ohh,” then total reevaluation of her choice of life partner)
I hate when people misuse phrases that they’re only using to try and sound smart. Like “beg the question” or “run the gauntlet” (you throw down the gauntlet and run the gantlet). “Whom” when it is actually “who.” Dude, either learn what words mean or stop trying to talk like Niles Crane.
Say its name three times?
Alternate second stanza: You’d call out each room’s elephants. Irreverent, not irrelevant. You’d sing about the elements, Periodically. 97 years is a nice long run. Would it have killed you to last that final three?
But what of the dentist?
In more honor of the late, great Tom Lehrer. I got the idea from YouTuber @honest2betsy.bsky.social who, I presume, got it from Agnes.
I had a poster of Ryne Sandberg on my wall as a kid. This one hits a little different. RIP Ryno
Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
RIP Tom Lehrer. There are probably a lot of songs that would make a better epitaph (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, My Hometown, maybe even The Elements), but this was always my favorite. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3f72...
The most impressive moment of this year’s Tour de France came in Stage 11 when I told my wife, “It’s more of a Wout van Aert than a Wout van Science.”
Thanks to drugs, one of these guys had tons of hits, one got no hits.
Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 via @pbs.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6...
I truly appreciate that they didn’t forget Michael Collins.
A former student of mine when I was adjuncting just told me he’s now teaching the class I had him for.
Mild Superman spoilers. I just realized that Luther’s go-to move, so fundamental to his character that he numbers it 1A, is literally punching down. Well-played, @jamesgunn.bsky.social
Sounds like a Houdini trick.
I will never understand the idea of a car as a symbol of freedom. You’re literally strapped to a chair.
This message is pro-Arby’s and pro-going into Arby’s solely for the fries, btw. Your family is wrong, is all I mean.
I have gone into Arby’s for many reasons over my life, but never for “balanced nutrition.”
Inigo Montoya thinking every AI image is the man who killed his father
Digital book-burning. apnews.com/article/clim...
My car also belches flames from the back, but it is 14 years old.
Commuting by car from the suburbs for work is the only way I’m like Batman.
I saw a headline about “Jeff Tobolski’s ‘web of corruption’” and for a very confusing second thought it meant character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.
#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Celebrating our country’s independence from a monarchy given the state of things feels wrong. Like getting a Facebook birthday notification for a friend who’s dead.
Check out “Motel of the Mysteries” by David Macaulay. It’s about exactly this. Hilarious and gorgeously illustrated. Technically a kids book but worth a quick flip through at the local library.
My daily puzzle’s getting dark.
Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report
I would fly Illinois if the flag weren’t so damn ugly.
People online sell flags from like Oz and the Federation and Babar the elephant’s kingdom and stuff. Maybe every July 4 I’ll rep Latveria.
Le Tour hasn’t bowed to a Brit since Geraint Thomas. It still counts as a joke if I had to look it up on Wikipedia, right?
I’m trying to decide whether we should fly our Tour de France flag a day early.
I don’t actually think the historical logic works, but there is some dangerous fun in flying a Union Jack tomorrow.
“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
I hate living in a time people will write books about.
something i need everyone to get straight is that wrong and illegal are different categories, and wrong is the one that matters
The highest-funded law enforcement agency in history wears masks and refuses to show badges.
Don’t take the ICE job unless you want to have to flee an investigation for crimes against humanity ten years later.
Today, Republicans condemned Americans to a future of poverty, scarcity, sickness, and toxicity.
I’m not gonna say Americans voted *for* a gulag archipelago but they didn’t vote against it and I hope the world punishes us appropriately
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
The evil that men do lives after them
Puts Ani DiFranco in a new light.
Anyone want me to describe things for money? I’m a good describist. Sorry, I mean I’m looking to pick up some freelance stories. Anyone hiring?
It’s very weird that the new Superman movie is PG-13 because, y’know, it’s Superman. That’s like making a Bugs Bunny movie you can’t take kids to.
Something very poignant about eating pancakes and listening to the Kars for Kids jingle on the radio about 50 yards and 8,000 years from the oldest known burial site in Chicago.
