Steve Tanner

New Music Friday for the theme park community! 🏰🎧

Hey @blockclubchi.bsky.social, pretty sure that isn't the case any more. "The documentary... narrated by Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, chronicles the history of the Schwinn Company — from 1895 Chicago to the turn of the 21st century." blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/22/n...

Autumn. Chicago. Downtown.

Spurred into action: The long-awaited Weber Spur Trail looks like it will finally become a thing. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/10/15/s...

I scraped all the Instagram bios for the MLB players 30 days ago. Today I ran the script again to find the differences.

The wonderful people at @chooseadventure.bsky.social are letting me write another Choose Your Own Adventure! Look out for QUANTUM CREEP, a tech thriller in which an AI digital assistant becomes more powerful than you expect, coming in spring 2027.

I'm excited to share news of my upcoming book “The Mutants Take Manhattan.” It's a Choose Your Own Adventure title that features the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, old friends, and fun new characters! Will readers enjoy this project's goofy adventures? Let me check with my panel of experts: 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢

"Well, we tried"

One of the best #ChooseYourOwnAdventure books is back in print! 📖 Edward Packard's "Underground Kingdom" still holds up after 43 years. Loved the world building. 🌋 Go rediscover the 21 endings. You'll thank me later! 😄 www.cyoa.com/books/underg... #CYOA #Gamebooks @chooseadventure.bsky.social

Fall morning downtown. #Chicago

Golden Nugget Pancake House at the corner of Diversey, Elston, and Western. It's been serving up pancakes and other breakfast dishes since 1966 #printmaking

I got in a lot of trouble as a kid for reading #ChooseYourOwnAdventure books. My parents and teachers didn't consider them "real books."

@sleepbaseball.bsky.social Congrats on the AMA! Saw a comment about box scores. A few months ago I used Claude to build game notes from the audio transcripts, tracking the drama. Some prototypes: Ep 1: ow.ly/JBEq50ZReZs Ep 3: ow.ly/HCRb50ZReZS Ep 10: ow.ly/so9250ZRf01

I'm doing a Reddit AMA today at 4pm EST in r/baseball: Feel free to stop by with any burning fake baseball questions! www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...

Street Blossoms

Today's Chicagohenge. This morning's start on the day of the Autumnal Equinox in Chicago.

Argh! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day! 🏴‍☠️ Our concept of how pirates may have talked was indelibly impacted by the iconic performance of Disney Legend Robert Newton as Long John Silver in Disney's first completely live-action feature, "Treasure Island" (1950).

Long may she wave

How is Vampire Mr. Owl not a bigger deal?

We have a Photo Booth at work that I've never stopped at. 📸 Until today. Enjoy the stupid faces!😜

Has anyone told Disney Imagineering?

Rail service to O’Hare airport began 42 years ago today. Take a look at what riders had to say about the Blue Line extension back in 1984. ⏪

A wonderful article about my dad in the Chicago Tribune.

The sign that summer is ending soon ☹️

Chicago 1969

Oh no big deal, just my Pope Chicago shirt making an appearance on a NYTimes article

Happy National Lighthouse Day! Last week we chased lighthouses all over Door County. Highly en‑light‑ning 💡

Today is National Lighthouse Day. This is Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Help light the way to the restorations of this landmark along Chicago’s lakeshore, SaveTheLighthouse.org

More than 40% of the USA's pumpkins are grown in Illinois. WE ARE THE PUMPKIN STATE.

Periodic reminder that while Chicago has many intersections with six corners, there is only one Six Corners, and it is on the Far Northwest Side

Today is National Coast Guard Day

If you archive enough Disneyland stuff, eventually you end up with some oddball things you can't explain. Here's a 1990s concept for "Disney's Entertainment City" outside the Main Entrance you have definitely never seen before.

Cleaning out some files and came across this—copyright 1977!

Pictures of beavers inside the Crafty Beaver hardware store on Lawrence Avenue

This is so lovely, the monorail system at Tokyo Disney turns 25 years old today and they made this cute little video that includes congratulations from Pilots at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Monorail Systems! ♥️

When your lawn mower reminds you it has boundaries

Scary!

Serenity at Sunrise. This morning at Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Lake Michigan.

Pretty cool and dramatic NASA animation showing the long-range transport of 2026 Canadian wildfire smoke.