Does anyone know the owner and disposition of the cracked, empty fenced parking lot on Shaw, east of Guido’s?
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Does anyone know the owner and disposition of the cracked, empty fenced parking lot on Shaw, east of Guido’s?
As a dope who was in the house, I’m guessing 10K, tops.
Best Fans, even Memaw and Pop-Pop, are sitting in the garage, drinking Stag, waiting for the pork steaks to be done, KMOX playing low in the background.
To be clear, I am entirely in favor of this economic phenomenon as baseball is the greatest game ever invented, and I love it.
Not looking good, but it’s a pretty swell day to be at the ballpark.
On this Labor Day, watching grown men paid to play a child’s game.
That connection really hit me as well, and the kids just totally committed to their artistic idea that remained intact even after the band engaged with the hyper-cynicism of the music industry.
Not sure if this event ran more than once, but my Philly-resident kid did it and said it was a scream.
my dad has taken up baking in retirement and, realizing he didn’t know his neighbors, started going door to door with fresh bread. he’s made tons of friends. a music producer who now invites him over to listen to old records. a guy in the final stages of a terminal illness who isn’t alone anymore.
After Napoleon Dynamite, this word could not be mentioned in our house without interchangeable family smartasses admonishing the speaker to “make yourself a dang case-a-dilla.”
My hot take: without Trump, MAGA will quickly dissolve into in-fighting. Most of them loathe each other.
Local Panera, always packed, finally closed after it became clear that it was infested with tutors and prep school kids who never bought anything.
A10 should do one where they’re at the execution of a will for some relative they’ve never met.
Pulitzer caliber alt text
Tigers v Royals on legacy TV!! Perfect final course after a day of college football.
Like MLB players who ignore a rookie who hits his first HR, Mizzou fans should stand up and quietly file out of Faurot Field after watching the Tigers put it on the Tide.
Tomato sickos in pre-mourning with a month and a half tops before tomatoes go from glorious, field grown, plump juicy sweetness, to anemic, sour, mealy, hothouse-grown, inedible bullshit.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Working class hero—on Labor Day wknd
NSFW tomato porn
Jack Reacher bad guy buildings.
Feel like if you could get a faithful history of Catholic schooling in this area, you’d understand a pretty big chunk of the south side white diaspora.
You hydrating? Maybe stop and eat a PBJ? These guys look opportunistic.
Neighbors had their dog’s name, Bordeaux, on a little plate over the dog door. My NOLA-born kids immediately read it as Boudreaux, and Boudreaux the dog became from that day forward. From bougie to swamp hillbilly in a single letter leap.
I think the children of the over 50 crowd have already poached their parents’ concert tees. A 20-something kid at my gym regularly turns up in a faded Erykah Badu tee. Another kid shows up in a Selena (the tejana mega star) tee.
Former neighbor was the most dialed in know-a-guy guy I’ve ever met. His work colleagues were Central American and Polish immigrants, communities that are pretty circumscribed in Chicago, but they’d let him into their guy networks. Also knew all the best bodegas with a lunch window in the back.
Needs a stage for bible story musicals to complete the MO hoosier effect.
Saw it again on TV recently, handful of nieces and nephews around, which was fun: “They’re smoking! in the hospital!!”
Hooking up the smart printer to the new wifi. Hahahahahahaha! Woop, jug!
Begging l’eaumeliers to adopt any aesthetic other than elaborate facial hair and designer hobo boots.
What perfect album came out when you were 16?
Want to think that this could be the formula that finally unseats Susan Collins whose 3 card monte political strategies have bamboozled Mainers for decades.
Just want the eaumeliers to have a different aesthetic than “over-wrought facial hair and hobo boots.”
Found this in a brewpub in northern Michigan a few yrs ago. Looks like it must have once been adapted to fit over a light switch or something.
Everything Elizabeth Holmes is fun bc you can immediately imagine her saying it in her husky doom voice and unblinking gaze, like a post-apocalypse prophet in a movie.
Phillies by 2 TDs, a field goal, and a safety.
Another advantage of summer cooking: when it’s time for the weird leftovers over rice meal, you can rescue it with real tomatoes.
I put the traditional Chicago dog and the Detroit Coney on this list. Can't quit yewww:want to die.
Thanks for this hot tip. Just ordered mine for a grandson due to arrive late October in a completely baseball-pilled family, both sides. I'll leave the tasteful gifts to the classy part of the family.
Grandson due late Oct. to a completely baseball-pilled family, both sides. I'll leave the tasteful gifts to the classy family members.
We lived in NOLA for many yrs, so the game was to guess which mega-stars might show up in the evening at small venues during Jazz Fest. One year we guessed right that Bonnie Raitt might turn up at the Maple Leaf Bar to play a few numbers with Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen.
An exciting but shaky Tigers squad is in KC this wknd, chance for Royals to claw their way toward a wild card or even a division lead. Plus, the weather is going to be fantastic. Labor Day wknd in KC would be a pro move.
Anybody who says differently is selling something, Highness.
And Skubal entering some kind of inconsistency zone, and now KC….
A parent’s driven, frantic dread, terror captured in one shot
Until we regulate firearms, knowing anything about the shooter--age, gender, race, lovely/shitty parents, mental health—has only super-marginal value. Raze their house, erase their SSN and social media contrail, fire their memory into the sun. The US has completely failed children.
Hard to sell them this world.
Walked my dog a little later than usual today. Kids at St. Peter School were walking down the block to mass. Got back home to discover the news from MN.
Yeah, in my daily Fox News dose at the gym, they were dropping hints that with a determination of domestic terrorism, the cops could explore connections with (quoting here) Al-Qaeda. Playing all the hits.
When it comes to preventing future school shootings, there is very little valuable in knowing anything about the shooters. Also nothing good for one's soul.
Your own soul and the prevention of school shootings will not profit from knowing anything about the shooter--age, gender, race, lovely/shitty parents, mental health. Raze their house, erase their SSN and social media contrail, fire their memory into the sun. The US has completely failed children.
As evidenced by the profound lack of success of online schooling during the pandemic (especially with young children), the very nature of childhood and how humans learn will quickly render this approach a bust. Kids won't stand for it.
Eugene: We've cleverly installed a football field in the middle of our track facility. Who knew it would fit?!
The foundation of all obsequiousness in all of human history is loathing, in all directions.
Trend with some GenZ kids who watch vids of everyday school life in 90s.
Could this be the end of the lost and found? I guess there are still water bottles and lunch boxes….
CB appeals to American incuriosity and fear, sense that the teflon, corporate entity is safer, better than the local place. It’s the neighbor’s chili effect: I trust the slick exterior disguising abusive labor, hyper engineered materials more than the guy next door (whom I haven’t bothered to meet).
CB appeals to American incuriosity and fear, the sense that the teflon, corporate entity is safer, better than the local entity.
Outstanding
Wins bsky
Savoring last days of summer cooking: leftover bbq and sliced fresh fruit, veggies, nuts, cheese on a salad, or just standing around the cutting board and eating it as it’s sliced, like barbarians. Plus beer and wine.
Country Music Hall of Fame has the Burrito’s Nudie suits (apologies for crummy pic)
This piece is brilliant.
I remember when pundits thought it would be a passing fad, and identified the shark jump moment as the day when Trader Joe's, the company with the world's corniest marketing scheme, created a podcast.
Phillies somehow have his number. To them, he is Lo-Cal Raleigh, needs belt and suspenders.
Looks like about 5K showed up, tops. bsky.app/profile/blog...
Feels like just a matter of time in a castle doctrine state like MO. It’ll be a wrong address door knock at a house full of Ozark tweakers who’ll start blazing.
With a 50% chance they have a high school diploma, and almost no opportunity to get credit on their own, the women in your family have little choice but to endure whatever you’re putting down, as the head of household.
Even worse, a corporate simulation of that time, conjured up by marketing consultants.
For context, it is a stunning, false fall day, might even need a lil jacket, and you could get a good seat for about $15.
Oof!
This would be horrible for me. About 25% of our condo’s little back patio is occupied by a gas grill and a pellet smoker. Truly can’t remember the last time I cooked meat indoors.
In the 80s, if you tried to pass a fake ID at the Village Corner, an Ann Arbor campus grocery store, they’d confiscate it, X out your eyes on the photo and staple it to the soffit over the checkout counter. Hundreds of IDs from decades of dumbass kids. Ask me how I know.
At the prep school where I taught in the 90s, the principal’s admin had a switch installed at her desk for the student use phone just outside the office. She’d cut the call if she heard kids speaking rudely to their parents.
We evacuated NOLA for Hurricane Georges,'98. Radio news said first hotel vacancies were in Memphis, but meant the nat'l chain hotels (next to Cracker Barrel). We got a cabin on a lake in Hugh White State Park, about 5 miles off I-55, Grenada, MS. Lot of people live (and risk dying) in the simulacra.
One of the best parts of our HOA meetings is the reminder that the residents of my small condo complex are a ready-made sitcom cast—individually and collectively need zero embellishment.
Pro move
Windows open all day, glorious. I’m grateful for AC, but you don’t realize how disgusting it is until you can finally throw open the windows.
Lol, dude, no, it’s launch angle + WAR.
Some really great stuff on Charlie Watts
They’re here
After searching the house unsuccessfully for the last tiny container of superglue you KNOW you bought 6 months ago, and the one before that, on and on like a reverse vision of Banquo’s heirs.
Think we need a separate Pulitzer for bsky alt text.
Orange line from MDW, weekday, January. Every stop, happy people in Cubs swag board. Some may have had a few beers even tho it’s 7:30A. Ernie Banks parade day. Yrs later, orange line from Loop to MDW. School kids singing Taylor Swift songs in Spanglish. Swift plays Soldier Field that wknd.
You gotta sell it, man. Like this: Hooters, slathered in butter!
I’ve got the pitch: Hooters, slathered in butter!
67F this morning in STL!! JK, 80% humidity, feels like 85F
You should do everything Patti Smith tells you to do.
What if some genius found the Johnny Fever intro/outros and played the songs in their entirety? Highest use of the internet.
When you type a colon in google docs now, you get a pop up screen with emojis. Is there a setting for "grown-ass adult doing business in the grown-ass adult world" or something? WTF
This Chicago Tribune story I wrote in June remains relevant to current events: In 1894 Pullman strike, Illinois’ governor fought president’s decision to send in troops (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/i...
I strongly doubt the opinion of two hippie schoolteachers weighed heavily in the equation, and indeed, our neighbor was a totally stand up guy, married to a really cool woman, two little kids. We saw him on the news a year later jogging next to Madeleine Albright's bulletproof limo in Mogadishu.
Years ago, we were interviewed by two guys in spit-shined shoes, suits and dark sunglasses about our neighbor who'd applied to become an FBI agent. . . . after over a decade as a Texas Ranger.
Hopeful for a made for TV version where JB finds clever stratagems that effectively hamstring/buffoonize Trump’s efforts: troops have to encamp in a muddy field outside McHenry; street weight restrictions allow vehicles no larger than a Segway; no guns.
Big Nap
This could be a watershed moment. Newsom shitposting is one thing. Pritzker standing at the ramparts could be something entirely different.
Exactly my thought. This could be a watershed moment. Newsom shitposting is one thing. Pritzker standing at the ramparts could be something entirely different.
Serendipitously, I re-watched Confidential, and then watched The Nice Guys, which is obviously nostalgic about Confidential. Fun to think about Crowe’s fierce animal becoming the cynical, washed up palooka in Guys, and Basinger’s siren becoming a dirty Justice Dept official.
