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Patrick Monaghan
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Somehow still here. Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effects pedals, Antifa Local 242.
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Close up of a dog curled up sleeping, showing eye, nose, and all four adorable feet
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Juni made a happy new friend at daycare today
A smiling medium white dog standing next to a brown hound dog both looking up
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The west coast of Michigan is just getting pounded by lake effect snow
Weather map showing snow clouds along the Lake Michigan coast
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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This is about the angriest I’ve seen a racing driver short of a NASCAR fist fight.

From last weekend’s World Endurance Championship 8 Hours of Bahrain
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Thunder snow!!!
WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST MONDAY WHAT Dangerous to impossible travel conditions due to intense lake effect snow expected. Snow rates in excess of 3 inches per hour, localized total snow accumulations in excess of 12 inches, and northerly wind gusts in excess of 30 mph are expected. WHERE Central Cook, Eastern Will, Northern Cook, and Southern Cook Counties. WHEN From 9 PM this evening to noon CST Monday. IMPACTS Snow rates in excess of 3 inches per hour will cripple travel, including during the Monday morning commute. Strong northerly wind gusts in excess of 30 mph will lead to greatly reduced visibility, especially near the Lake Michigan shoreline. Periods of thundersnow will occur, as well. ADDITIONAL DETAILS Lake effect snow is often very localized, with conditions varying from safe to dangerous across just a few miles. Snow totals in the
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Two women in a record store. One says, “Your nostalgia is a love for the past, whereas mine is a disdain for the present.” LPs in the bin include Magnetic Fields “69 Love Songs”, Bathory, and Wesley Willis.
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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“This is how the staff at Chappell Elementary School in Lincoln Square found out one of their families had been torn apart.

A 4th-grade girl was in the lunchroom when she began to cry. School workers called for a counselor, and the student told them her father had been arrested by ICE agents.”
This is how the staff at Chappell Elementary School in Lincoln Square found out one of their families had been torn apart. A fourth-grade girl was in the lunchroom when she began to cry. School workers called for a counselor, and the student told them that her father had been arrested by immigration agents.
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Repo Man: young man looks at newspaper headline E.T.s Will Land Any Day Now!
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Pursuit involving stolen suburban FD ambulance ends in crash on Chicago’s West Side

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A fire department ambulance crashed I to the back end of a sedan. A Chicago police car is also damaged to the side
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The whole article is very good sports writing, but this attached paragraph is particularly devastating.

November Is When The Colorado Rockies Do Their Best Work

by Ray Batto

defector.com/november-is-...
But managers are managers, and none of those moves slammed the WTF button the way DePodesta’s hiring did. DePodesta probably rose too high too quickly, in fairness, and association with both the Moneyball concept and the Moneyball cinematic universe will tend to warp someone’s public image. But his penance in the post-Peter Brand years has been both lengthy and excruciating, as every Browns experience tends to be. That the traditionally disqualifying Cleveland Browns line on a C.V. did not eliminate DePodesta from consideration in Denver speaks mostly to the Rockies’ own impenetrable and distinctive Rockydom. And maybe he’s just what the Rockies need. Then again, how would the Rockies know what the Rockies need, when they have never shown an inkling to that effect at any time before this? Being hired by the Rockies is its own reputational hand grenade, every bit as destructive as the Browns version, but with a different logo on the bottom. Such a move might best be filed under the Rockies’ general philosophy of “We Got It Figured Out; What Is It?”
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I mean…
Mr. T. And 3 backup singers singing about Mothers in a soundstage with red and white flood lights on the wall behind them.
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Pop music was weird in the 80’s. You can definitely take my word for it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Nearly half of US may see the northern lights Thursday

thehill.com/policy/energ...
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Music Box Theatre! Be there!

I think we can all use hundreds of beavers right now.
FRI, DECEMBER 5 HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS DIRECTED BY MIKE CHESLIK 2022 / 108 MIN / DCP 10:00PM It's gonna be gnawsome!
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Definitely not what I thought/remembered Blow Monkeys sounded like
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Juniper today during couch massage time
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Pets and talking severed heads
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Isn’t the industrial design gorgeous on this new Teenage Engineering OP-XY sequencer/synth!!

(10 second clip)

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Photo of a portable synthesizer with a screen all laid out in a gorgeous greyscale design
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Terrified friends trapped in the downtown Chicago Hellhole. They barely survived this trek.
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Aaaaaacting!!

“Uninvited” (Greydon Clark, 1988)
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Chicago back yard after snowstorm
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Chicago dumpster
Dumpster has Fuck the Government spray painted on it
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Flowers at a Chicago Park

(I could do this all day, because this city is freaking amazing.)
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Chicago children melting hearts while out for a walk
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Chicago from the Dan Ryan Expressway
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM