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Bill Savage
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It’s the middle of November and these wee little white flowers are still in bloom in the flowerbox. The impending climate catastrophe at least offers us some small beauties.
Small white flowers around black metal porch railing, with white brick building, walkway, and fallen leaves in the background. More small white flowers, from above.
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Sunset on North Shore Channel Trail.
A bit of the setting sun through mostly bare trees, with one red-leaved one to the right, ond yellow to the left. Over gone-to-seed prairie flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Aurorae Borealis are all well and good, but give me a Rogers Park mackerel sky sunset anytime.
Spectacular mackerel sky with pink and red and gray clouds, over Morse Avenue Red Line station.
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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What are the odds? I brought a gooseneck lamp that originally belonged to my great-grandparents in for rewiring(last rewiring was in 1950s, according to guy there, who’d know). Someone else had brought in THE EXACT SAME LAMP. Only in a big city . . . Recommend this place highly. alampandfixture.com
Two identical old gooseneck lamps. Grey-green with elaborate bases and round shades. See other picture Alt text. Just a different angle.
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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So many courtyard and other buildings constructed in Rogers Park during the heyday of Too Much Ain’t Enough. Like this stained glass decor in my old home, Campus Towers[sic: it’s only one Tower]. Or the half-assed Cathedral door.
Elaborate door to a building. Sort of European Cathedral-esque. Stained glass with colorful C and T intertwined. In former mailroom of Campus Towers
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Random Rogers Park heavily decorated door. Not sure how this gets translated into classic heraldic terminology. @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Doorway with elaborate stone framing inside red fave brick. Above the door two weird beasts (fish lions?) flank a heraldic shield with three blank quadrants and upper left with random lines, all below a crown.
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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When the first snowfall comes hard on the heels of the first leaf-fall, but before you can rake, interesting aesthetics ensue.
Chicago Common brick wall, with some orange and brown leaves next to it; some clear asphalt pavement, then snow, then car tire tracks in snow making clear ice through which squished leaves are visible. Then more snow.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Anti-ICE protest in Little Village. WBBM just included it in the traffic news. Be safe.
Image of text from City Emergency alerts. Reads: NotifyChicsgo: Public gathering at 3100 W 26th st blocking traffic. Seek alternate route.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Holy Moly, it’s a Mr. Boffo crossover, with Willy from Willy ‘n Ethel making an appearance at the lunch counter with Earl! @neilsteinberg.bsky.social Get Willie ‘n Ethel back in the Sun-Times, and I will double my donation on top of my subscription. @chicago.suntimes.com
Mr. Boffo, by Joe Martin. Cartoon of two men sitting at a lunch counter eating hot dogs. Each has a plate with multiple hot dogs, and a mouth-bound dog in hand. Caption: “Another way to tell when you’re dealing with hot dog connoisseurs.” One dude, Earl, regular character in Mr. Boffo, says “I’d rather have five chili cheese dogs with everything than twenty plain ones.” Other guy is Willy, from one of Martin’s other strips, Willy ‘n Ethel. He says “Amen!” They are flanked by bemused pets: to Earl’s right, Weederman the Wonder Dog. To Willy’s left, his nameless cat. A total masterpiece, perhaps only fully grasped by people like me who are still angry that Willy ‘n Ethel was dropped by the Sun-Times in the last millennium.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Nice Moon. Gotta start sitting in window seats more often.
Moon with shiny arrows off it, over dark cityscape, with plane wing. Moon a second later with moondog/prism like a rainbow around it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Morning. And night. What was I thinking?
View of desert plants with hills in the background. Lovely flowers on some sort of desert plants. Lake effect blizzard at Sheridan and Birchwood in Rogers Park. Bush covered in snow rather than flowers.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Hello Gridness, my old friend. . .
View of Chicago’s mostly rectilinear street Grid, lit up at nght, from airplane window. Wing covers right third of image.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Day. Baseball. @niseilounge.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social
Ballgame in progress.
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Nice prize!
Bag of Cracker Jack, vague ballpark in background. Prize says “Jacker Jill” and is a thing from the Women’s Sports Federation. Excellent!
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Today’s election results remind me of this 2016 Wiener’s Circle sign. For some reason. Would tag these geniuses, but they are not on Bluesky.
Classic Chicago Hot dog stand, the Wiener’s Circle marquee sign, from 2016, reading “Now serving/Trump/Footlongs/It’s 3 inches.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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If any of the millionaires who are gonna move from New York City to Texas or Florida want to let me sublet their penthouse for . . . Zero dollars? Nah, fuck off anyway. @debsmuseum.bsky.social
Red background poster of Eugene Debs, in fill speech-exhortation profile, with his most famous words: “WHILE THERE IS A LOWER CLASS I AM IN IT. WHILE THERE IS A CRIMINAL ELEMENT, I AM OF IT. WHILE THERE IS A SOUL IN PRISON, I AM NOT FREE.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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In honor of today’s Trial of the Century in DC. Was willing to throw this at an ICE agent if I encountered any of those swine, but no such luck. And if a mere Subway can be so dangerous, a Capt’n Nemo’s is a weapon of mass destruction.
Wrapped submarine sandwich from the last outpost of Chicago area classic Capt’n Nemo’s. Same sandwich, unwrapped.
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Goodnight from Chicago, and the Late Capitalist Constellation of planes headed into O’Hare.
A dozen planes lighted up in the night sky over Lake Michigan, like a constellation of stars. Some of the plane lights reflect on the dark water. One light on the horizon about one-third from the right edge of the picture, with a red glow, is not a plane, it’s Gary, Indiana.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Time to calm my baseball-addled soul with Finnegans Wake. Solid clear-your-head go-to-sleep reading. Or maybe not . . . Given how LA’s perhaps design influenced destiny?
Page from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, with marginal text reading “Destiny, In-fluence of De-sign upon.” Seems germane after World Series outcome. . . Swear to God, this was the page I stopped at yesterday. . . And so start with tonight. Sliver of my left thumb visible.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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I hate 95th Street with the heat of a thousand suns, but occasionally it frames a lovely sunset. @aka60643.bsky.social
Lovely clouds at Sunset, mix of gray and streaks of red, above the nightmarish stroad hellscape that is 95th Street approaching Western.
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Hilliard Homes at the Golden Hour, from the Rock. @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social @sorenspicknall.bsky.social
Hilliard Homes, curvaceous poured concrete apartment buildings designed by Bertrand Goldberg. Cloudy skies above, trees below. The buildings glow golden in the light of the setting Sun.
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Good night y’all, from Chicago (ok, technically from Evanston).
Horizontal sign with two old fashioned pointing hand signs on either side, reading “TO ALL TRAINS” beneath a wooden slat ceiling and an ugly fluorescent light fixture. In the Central Avenue Purple Line El station.
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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This is actually the best explanation of Cryptocurrency ever.
Brewster Rockit cartoon, in three panels. Panel one: two kids in sorta space suits say “Trick or treat!!” to a robot in a doorway. Robot replies “Kids! This year I’m giving out CRYPTO-CANDY!” Panel two: kids ask “Crypto-candy?” Robot replies “It’s like owning real candy, but on a computer!” Panel three: Robot sats “Ownership of CRYPTO-CANDY will be transferred to your digital pumpkin.” One kid says “Yummy.”
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Barroom chatter about The Ex-Cub Factor, the idea that a World’s Serious team w/3 or more ex-Cubs will lose due to “Cubness.” I wonder what Mike Royko would say about this AI search result.(Forgot to add -ai, my bad). @buckweaver.bsky.social @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social @pwsullivan.bsky.social
AI overview search result for the query “Are there any ex-Cubs playing in the 2025 World Series?”(falsely) asserting that “Yes, several former Cubs players are in the 2025 World Series, including Kyle Schwarber and Aroldis Chapman on the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox, respectively.”
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Goodnight y’all, from Chicago.
View of Chicago’s skyline from the 22cd/Cermak Green Line El platform. So much genius architecture: Hilliard homes to the left, Sears Tower in the center, sleek El platform roof above. Such a Hellhole.
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM