Rory Barton
Rory Barton
@subunderground.bsky.social
Abandoner of Annual Challenges; never appeared in a regular-season game; ORD Terminal 4 aficionado; Mr Barnard room 12a; chieftain of chokanchuckers; The Preeminent James Joyce Scholar in my Household and Probably on my Block
David the Gnar
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“What’s an unexpected type of less-lethal munition?… I heard baguette, thank you baguette”
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Vim
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
As a professional Englisher having just returned from New York where I saw Waiting for Godot, the best response I can muster is:
Smug?
Quite.
😉
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Nowadays you can’t be too sentimental.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
There are places open after 9pm in Evanston?!
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Man, I would almost consider turning on my work-from-home meeting camera if this was in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Capicola, Tomato, and Aioli please.
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
True maybe. And apologies, that real should have been a suggestion with a question mark rather than a prescription.
But in the vast chaos of the universe, the intersection of you standing there at all might be coincidence too.
I used burst to get a good shot of a baby whale.
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Burst mode
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I wanna believe “Truck Haulin’ Monkeys” means the apes were the drivers, infected or otherwise.
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"He was a cod and good at his job..."
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Major alarm bell, personally: I don’t read Latin
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Adorbs.
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Having followed my kids' choice to rewatch the most recent Cats movie this weekend, I wholeheartedly endorse the demise of America for an Evita 2. Sacrifices must be made.
To be fair, what an opportunity to rebuild an America!
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Yes I’d like a 3/4 liter of your famous hard seltzer”
October 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Careful with your sample size, you need to control for golf outings.
October 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM