A Self-Respecting Fish

I just submitted my proposal, so wish me luck! No spoilers until/if they accept it, but I went straight for the "death and politics" zone.

The hardest part of owning an EV is finding ways to drop it into every conversation. I was thinking about this as I was driving my new EV.

Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization https://theonion.com/report-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods-threatened-by-1819569723/

This is the ninth (9th) major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald.

Ahh, that's the stuff. More Chicago Hot Takes, please.

I found some old writing. I have apparently moved even further to the left as I've aged. Good.

Dice from the Southland Club, a casino on the 2nd floor at 6245 Cottage Grove, with ties to the South Side Syndicate and the remnants of Mushmouth Johnson's outfit.

Really limiting a kid's options when you name them Evilo.

My kids' suburban school just announced their sleepover night, aka every parents' date night. For one evening, every restaurant is just an ocean of dads in colorfully patterned short-sleeved button-ups and khakis asking about drink specials.

Bit judgy there, WaPo.

Texas continues its war on Texans.

I regret to say Trump's stupid bullshit Newspeak term "Super Intelligence" is infecting science media. It's starting from the national labs comms, who are in a terrible "Use this term or lose your job" situation, but then it's trickling out because a lot of science media is reposting press releases.

we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

The buildings in Roku City already have Christmas decorations up.

Got sort of a Yertle the Turtle/Lorax/Butter Battle Book thing going on.

I... he's... a billionaire is paying people to... scatter nuts??? What the hell is happening? www.axios.com/local/chicag...

"Goddamn, do I hate corgis!"

And the Goofy/Pluto line is blurred even further.

#ManholeCoverMonday

My gift to all children currently growing up: Your parents are full of shit about screen time. We watched cartoons like three hours straight after school and played Sonic until our eyes bled.

Okay, last one.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

I'm still trying to convert my old blog into something that will survive the Digital Dark Age and I will be damned if I know what to do with the interactive posts. Please enjoy while I ponder.

I almost want to be on Twitter again today just to see how the MAGAs are trying to spin the Eric Schmitt Hawks/Hawkeyes thing.

the awkward meeting at stark tower where spider-man tries to explain to an increasingly bitter iron man why he and the other gen z superheroes like zohran mamdani

Days of Wine and Moses

The full run of SCTV is on Netflix. See you in 2027.

Siri, show me the unfuckable.

The bad people continually advertise themselves, so we gotta remind ourselves of the heroes.

I keep thinking that, on some level, the AI debate is influenced by Star Trek TNG teaching a nation of children that questioning a robot's humanity is kinda racist.

Chisquatch.

I abso-fucking-lutely would.

I think my true calling is old weirdo who maintains a shabby roadside attraction in horror movies. Is he the killer? Is he going to try to save them but be killed in the process? Is he just there to set the mood and give ominous warnings? Only time and the third act will tell.