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Bartender: Holy shit, where'd you get that thing?
Parrot: He was panhandling out front.
Me: That's totally not true.
Parrot: Oh look it talks.
Brain-dead youth making "entertainment" for other brain-dead youth. You can hear it in the kid's voice: no rational thought behind it at all, just some sort of primordial algo-addled money-grubbing wannabe influencer impulse.
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A shop window in small-town Indiana. (They forgot the apostrophe, but the smiley face is a nice touch.)
Gentrification on steroids, when a Whole Foods replaces a Family Dollar
Whole Foods opening a "small format store" (10K sq ft) in Logan Square at 2280 N Milwaukee.
This is the former Family Dollar which closed in 2023 and next to a blue line stop.
Trader Joe's is opening a new shop at 2053 N Milwaukee Ave next year
chicagobusiness.com/real-est…
I’d add a recording that says “Poison gas will commence in 3 minutes,” then add another every minute, then a 30-second countdown, followed by opening a steam jet. That or waterproof the whole space and open the spigots.
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Reading feels beyond pointless now. There's nobody to share it with. The ability of anyone to even comprehend that stories can have meaning deeper than surface level events is like explaining space travel to my cats.
I was reminiscing about going to a very low profile underground sake bar in lower Manhattan in the early 90s and ensuing years, and amazingly enough it's still there. The kind of place that is quintessential NYC, reminded me of a great unsigned 2nd floor akachochin I used to...
Canter's Deli in LA just getting off the 5 and following my instincts, having been there years before. (I sat at a table there next to Spielberg at 3am in Aug 1985.) And I used to know how to get to remote trailheads in AZ and unnamed deserted beaches in Sonora just from memory.
There is nothing that enrages the average American driver more than having to move his fat stupid foot 3 inches to tap the brake pedal. He would rather kill your whole family.
People who have no souls can do soulless things.
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A bus in a painted lane with a parked Ford in it is not BRT. It is a costume. Western and Ashland do not need another study. They need concrete, cameras, and a tow truck
