Tony Coppoletta

most cheesecake factory locations are in democratic-voting areas of the country. a big success story for the power of dense urban agglomeration opening up high quality consumer niches

How is the head of lettuce doing?

After careful consideration, I have decided that soup season has arrived. Please update your meal calendars, accordingly.

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I miss White Hen's. Also Radio Shack's.

Anthropic:

I did this when my kid was selling Girl Scout cookies and people fucking HATED it lol

Can we do away with that stupid "saxophones getting louder" sound on videos? Especially on something that's not dramatic? Some litter or spilled latté on a bus floor does not a 1980s dystopic NYC in a cop show make.

Well, apparently they've finally invented cheese for men. Or these are a dishwasher tab. Hard to tell.

One wonders: Is a lox bagel toroidal sushi?

This may be the most British thing I've ever read. 🇬🇧🍮 centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/ms-c...

Hear me out: market mRNA as "protein vaxxxing."

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Such a cromulent roulette wheel, Bally's!

I mean, a little Meatloaf makes everything better.

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I'm really tired of seeing news every day that reminds me of this.

Best game show theme song ever. youtu.be/xFrySkrWORQ?...

Is it just me or are loud, obnoxious cars and motorbikes with illegal mods to make them loud, like a way bigger thing this year than it used to be?

Has anyone checked in to see if Sweetgreen is doing okay?

Now taking a break from some work that I'm behind on to mentally catalogue every raw vegetable or fruit that I've eaten in memory.

"Only in New York" they always say. 🙄 Who're you gonna call? 🤷‍♂️

Due to forecasted inclement weather conditions, America has been cancelled.

A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.

Another bad faith argument against Governor Pritzker’s BUILD Plan extinguished.

Today is the 134th anniversary of the beginning of the CTA Elevated Trains. On this day in 1892, the first "L" train ran from Pershing & State to Congress & Wabash. Chicago is the only city with elevated trains in its downtown area.

I get it already, I'm old.

This is the future Steven Miller wants. youtu.be/oavMtUWDBTM?...

Controversial question: Worst buildings in Chicago? (Submissions of brutalism will be summarily dismissed.) I'll start.

'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture! What a picture! What a photograph!

Got a notification tonight that my online facsimile machine has AI now, so that's exciting.

RFK Jr. Rushed To Gym After Heart Attack

This is my biggest fear about these stupid things. Driver looks at their phone at a stop sign for a few seconds and, uhh... Yeah. We should tax these out of existence unless truly, actually needed.

Alanis The Slackers Goldfinger Rancid Green Day The Dandy Warhols Bird & the Bee St. Vincent Patti Lupone Celine McLorin Salvant Mumford & Sons Basement Party Vic Ruggerio (solo) Dave Hillyard/Rocksteady 7 Slapstick Hepcat I was going to the Fireside at 17 and then turned into a theatre+NPR gay.

I'm happy to say that I'm vehemently pro-trans and anti-fascist. I think we should let people be themselves and stand against the ideologies of people like, you know, Hitler, Mussolini and their followers. Come for me if you must, but I'm pretty firm on this. This isn't courageous—just correct.

I can't see this without remembering that I (surely mistakenly) liked The Last Starfighter as a kid. youtu.be/UwZ-kdHgTi8

See also: Meats and cheeses: always pleases!

'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture! What a picture! What a photograph!