Dave von Ebers
@dave-von-ebers.bsky.social
Litigator in Chicago for nearly 3 decades, turned senior legal editor. Pro LGBTQIA+ rights and punk rock; anti racism and bigotry in all its forms. Bad guitar player. Springsteen/Clash fan. He/him
I have very important feral cat news. I managed to pick up the mom cat on two consecutive days and she didn't fuss about it at all. Repeat: I picked up the mom cat on two separate days and she didn't fuss.
This is now my life's work.
This is now my life's work.
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I have very important feral cat news. I managed to pick up the mom cat on two consecutive days and she didn't fuss about it at all. Repeat: I picked up the mom cat on two separate days and she didn't fuss.
This is now my life's work.
This is now my life's work.
We got feral-mom-cat inches of snow in the past 24 hours.
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We got feral-mom-cat inches of snow in the past 24 hours.
Even if Santa Claus appears.
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Even if Santa Claus appears.
It's the best years of your life they want to steal ...
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It's the best years of your life they want to steal ...
We are now official parents of three feral cats who live under our deck -- a mom and two kittens. We got them a heated shelter and we're hoping to build up enough trust that we can bring them to the vet. It's slow progress, but they're pretty cool.
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We are now official parents of three feral cats who live under our deck -- a mom and two kittens. We got them a heated shelter and we're hoping to build up enough trust that we can bring them to the vet. It's slow progress, but they're pretty cool.
Fun fact: Ivan Julian played at Garland Jeffreys’ farewell concert at City Winery in New York.
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Fun fact: Ivan Julian played at Garland Jeffreys’ farewell concert at City Winery in New York.
This is a great tribute to your dad. My dad was similar, though he served in WWII. Didn't talk much about his experiences, but he was vehemently against Vietnam. His picture hangs on my office wall.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is a great tribute to your dad. My dad was similar, though he served in WWII. Didn't talk much about his experiences, but he was vehemently against Vietnam. His picture hangs on my office wall.
Yesterday I said, it's a little gloomy out but at least it's not snowing ...
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Yesterday I said, it's a little gloomy out but at least it's not snowing ...
BREAKING NEWS: we have discovered a cat family living under our deck.
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
BREAKING NEWS: we have discovered a cat family living under our deck.
The organization is "Love Inc. of Lake County" (Illinois) and the thrift shop is Loved Twice Thrift Boutique in Gurnee. Ironically, this picture is on "Love Inc."'s website. Ph
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The organization is "Love Inc. of Lake County" (Illinois) and the thrift shop is Loved Twice Thrift Boutique in Gurnee. Ironically, this picture is on "Love Inc."'s website. Ph
Throwback uniforms rarely work but I think my alma mater did a pretty decent job with these Red Grange-inspired uniforms for the rededication of Memorial Stadium last year. The carefully painted helmets are a big part of why it worked.
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Throwback uniforms rarely work but I think my alma mater did a pretty decent job with these Red Grange-inspired uniforms for the rededication of Memorial Stadium last year. The carefully painted helmets are a big part of why it worked.
I’ve gone down a guitar sticker rabbit hole.
October 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I’ve gone down a guitar sticker rabbit hole.
Anyway, here's the tattoo I got based on the shoulder patch from his uniform, in his honor and in honor of the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
October 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Anyway, here's the tattoo I got based on the shoulder patch from his uniform, in his honor and in honor of the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
Posting a picture of my dad in his Army uniform from 1943 for no particular reason ...
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Posting a picture of my dad in his Army uniform from 1943 for no particular reason ...
His father literally wrote a children's book about the immigrant experience in New York.
October 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
His father literally wrote a children's book about the immigrant experience in New York.
From Larry Heinemann’s book, “Black Virgin Mountain”:
![Screenshot of page 45 of Black Virgin Mountain with a paragraph that reads: “By the way, it bears mention that our war in Vietnam was unwinnable. For the whole of my adult life there has circulated the bizarre contention that the United States could have won the thing—if only we had done this, or that, or the other; that wish list stretching to the horizon. Where did this idiot notion come from? Which Defense Department think-tank chucklehead did that math? To say we could have won the war is the same as saying that we didn’t fill our hearts with enough hate; didn’t shoot enough Vietnamese down like dogs; didn’t dispatch enough of their wounded with large enough caliber bullets to the head; didn’t dump enough of their corpses in the bushy ditch-scrub like so many roadkills; didn’t throw enough of them out of helicopters; didn’t butt-fuck enough of their women; didn’t Zippo enough of their hooches; didn’t napalm or strafe or frag them hard enough; didn’t poison enough acres of their woods and farmland with Agent Orange; didn’t bomb them with enough B-52 air strikes (“whispering death,” they called it) into small enough pieces far enough back into the Stone Age—the long, broad swaths of[…]”
Excerpt From
Black Virgin Mountain
Larry Heinemann
https://books.apple.com/us/book/black-virgin-mountain/id420780338
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October 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
From Larry Heinemann’s book, “Black Virgin Mountain”:
Looks like our Gordy!
October 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Looks like our Gordy!
I know everything is awful, but take some time to recharge. Last night, we saw one of our favorite artists, Terrance Simien, in our hometown, Oak Park, Illinois. We've been fans for more than 30 years and he literally never disappoints. He's also a great person. Experiences like this give us hope.
September 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I know everything is awful, but take some time to recharge. Last night, we saw one of our favorite artists, Terrance Simien, in our hometown, Oak Park, Illinois. We've been fans for more than 30 years and he literally never disappoints. He's also a great person. Experiences like this give us hope.
Interesting. Tom DeVore, a former GOP candidate for Illinois Attorney General who filed countless lawsuits challenging the state's COVID restrictions, was temporarily suspended from practicing law for ethics violations. www.isba.org/barnews/2025...
September 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Interesting. Tom DeVore, a former GOP candidate for Illinois Attorney General who filed countless lawsuits challenging the state's COVID restrictions, was temporarily suspended from practicing law for ethics violations. www.isba.org/barnews/2025...
I feel like this is too good not to share with the world.
September 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I feel like this is too good not to share with the world.
A much better use of Croke Park: Bruce Springsteen, May 2024.
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A much better use of Croke Park: Bruce Springsteen, May 2024.
I know everything is horrible right now but I think I may have discovered the key to the universe.
September 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I know everything is horrible right now but I think I may have discovered the key to the universe.