...With A "K."

seaofstatic: drawingnothing: I thought this was interesting....

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:45:33 -0600

drawingnothing:

I thought this was interesting. What surface parking lots did to Cleaveland’s warehouse district (which is a nationally recognized historic district, oops).

1960s vs today.

*shudder* Urban renewal failure *shudder*

Pave, pave, pave the world.

areasofmyexpertise: Superego photo bomb. (at Eureka...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:22:57 -0600

areasofmyexpertise:

Superego photo bomb. (at Eureka Theatre)

John Hodgman = Butch Vig? Interesting.

This is pretty much what I think I look like, every minute of...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:33:42 -0600

This is pretty much what I think I look like, every minute of every day.

calumet412: Hef, Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks, partying, 1972,...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:02:59 -0600

calumet412:

Hef, Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks, partying, 1972, Chicago. Gary Winogrand

“Bingo, motherfuckers!”

calumet412: The proposed Sky Tower on North Michigan Ave, 1963,...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:15:04 -0600

calumet412:

The proposed Sky Tower on North Michigan Ave, 1963, Chicago. Note the Palmolive and Water Tower models.

I think we dodged a bullet with that one, although some would argue it would have been better than the Hancock and Water Tower Place.

via Ethereal Reality

I rarely reblog Calumet412, but I’m doing so only because I want to believe they dislike the look of the Hancock and Water Tower Place as much as I do.

Screen grab of Joe Walsh’s wikipedia page saying...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:10:06 -0500

Screen grab of Joe Walsh’s wikipedia page saying he’s “literally insane.”

Awesome.

Thanks, TOC.

Journalism.

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:46:24 -0500

Journalism.

"Robert Asika, 23, said he was shot in the right elbow by a police officer. “It just happens,..."

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:41:59 -0500

“

Robert Asika, 23, said he was shot in the right elbow by a police officer.

“It just happens, I don’t really feel bad about it,” Asika said of being shot.

”

- WTsweetF.

Valid questions, all.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:43:41 -0500

Valid questions, all.

christiannightmares: Church sign suggests fellatio as a means...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:04:08 -0500

christiannightmares:

Church sign suggests fellatio as a means of getting high (For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/619142754/church-sign-you-are-the-reason-jesus-came)

That’s not what that suggests at all. Like, not even close.

Every time I see someone on the El reading a “Fifty Shades” book, somewhere off in the...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:24:38 -0500

Every time I see someone on the El reading a “Fifty Shades” book, somewhere off in the distance I can faintly hear the muffled “pop” of a gunshot fired by a graduate-level Literature student through their own head.

superseventies: Elvis Presley Guess I never noticed how much...

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:37:59 -0500

superseventies:

Elvis Presley

Guess I never noticed how much of an Elvis vibe Jim Jones was going for. (Or…was it the other way around?)

Nice Google Adwords placement there, Chicago Tribune.

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:59:16 -0500

Nice Google Adwords placement there, Chicago Tribune.

calumet412: North Michigan Ave, 1969, Chicago. Visual proof...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:12:31 -0500

calumet412:

North Michigan Ave, 1969, Chicago.

Visual proof that the Hancock building was as shitty then as it is today.

"Man, I got something to make you turn around and face that crowd. ” He came up with a bottle..."

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:16:36 -0500

““Man, I got something to make you turn around and face that crowd. ” He came up with a bottle of Dr. Tichenor antiseptic and a Coca-Cola and put [Thunderbird] wine in there. I swallowed it and some of it got me high and I turned around. I’ve been turning around ever since.”

- Buddy Guy, on the first time he played live. I would love to see someone in Chicago put a Coke & Thunderbird on a cocktail menu & call it a “Buddy Guy.”

"I very much hope C.K. makes a movie someday; he’s got such a terrific grasp of visual language..."

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:31:57 -0500

“I very much hope C.K. makes a movie someday; he’s got such a terrific grasp of visual language and economical dialogue that a career as a film director seems like a natural progression.”

- Maureen Ryan (who I really like) wrote this in her review of the forthcoming season of “Louie.” Except, um, he already did. That film’s name?

“Pootie Tang.”

"When the neighborhood began to change fifteen years ago we thought we would see a drop in business,”..."

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:52:44 -0500

““When the neighborhood began to change fifteen years ago we thought we would see a drop in business,” Harris says, “but we found out that yuppies like country too.””

- The period of influx of Southern migrants to Uptown is pretty fascinating to me (and Carol’s is, of course, always Carol’s) so this NewCity piece is definitely worth a read if you’re into that sort of stuff too.

Find out why NASA engineers call the upcoming Mars landing "Seven Minutes of Terror"

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:21:07 -0500

Find out why NASA engineers call the upcoming Mars landing "Seven Minutes of Terror":

inapprehension:

tbridge:

jaybushman:

Holy f***ing crap!

“I didn’t know we could do that”

This is amazing. If NASA can do this? Double their funding.

Hell, triple it and bring back manned exploration.

If we can watch this on NASA tv, I’m having a party.

"In Chicago, you put giardiniera on EVERYTHING."

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:41:40 -0500

“In Chicago, you put giardiniera on EVERYTHING.”

- Chicago culinary badass, Paul Kahan.

(Caps mine for emphasis.)

Punk’s not dead.

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:34:06 -0500

Punk’s not dead.