Collage of 12 ghost signs painted on brick buildings in Chicago. Top, l to r: Wizard Oil; Kroll Krib; Val Blatz Beer. Second row, l to r: Gold Medal Flour; Climax Plug Tobacco; Grocer and Market. Third row, l to r: Fox Deluxe Beer; Furniture; Gossard Corsets. Bottom row, l to r: King Beer; Debbie's School of Beauty Culture; Stern Clothing Co.

More Chicago ghost signs. Some of these were revealed when a building next door was demolished and are now covered up again by new construction. 😡

it'll do motel office, jonesborough, tennessee, 1987

it'll do motel office, jonesborough, tennessee, 1987

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

wiki page screenshot with unopened sections, sections titled biography, 1974 bus incident, 1976 trolleybus incident, swimming career, 1985 burning building incident

Midland Terra Cotta catalog page featuring stock ornamental molds.

The stock designs of the previous photo seen rendered in white terra cotta atop a tan brick building in West Town.

Midland Terra Cotta catalog page featuring stock wall pieces.

Color photo of one of the stock designs seen in the previous photo rendered in tan terra cotta atop a red brick building with excellent brickwork in West Pullman.

Like any good terra cotta nerd, I always stop for Midland catalog designs. So why not inflict these pics on you, dear reader? Ubiquitous in the 1920s, it's still everywhere in Chicago today, & I love greeting it in its various permutations like an old friend. Seen here in West Town and West Pullman.

"Ham" is short for "Hamtrak"

I choose to believe that this is what was actually on The Entertainment the entire time

BLADE RUNNER: You're walking in the desert and you see a tortoise on its back

ME: Me

BLADE RUNNER: Er... You?

ME: You know. Like, same

BLADE RUNNER: I'm not sure what you mean

ME: You never felt like a tortoise on its back in the desert?

BLADE RUNNER: That's not how most people feel I think

mmm... hog dermis

in accordance with the prophecy

nantucketer? i hardly—

steamed hams

Oooo who was it?

This is why I think Ginther-Clinton 2028 is a winning ticket

Like, I knew going back to elementary school at least that I was doing Something Slightly Different from most of the boys I knew, but since I wasn't Kurt from Glee I just kinda figured cishet was good enough

Honestly I could write entire theses on how society's treatment of masculinity as a precarious binary yes/no thing has lead a lot of dude-adjacent folks to think of queer as the narrower, specific identity and cishet as the catch-all umbrella one when for many women it's usually the other way around

Jeopardy answer: "A literate spider on a farm sends messages to her non-Japanese friend who is obsessed with Japanese culture"

Jeopardy contestant gets the right question, which is "What is 'Charlotte's Weeb?'"

oh my god

I have been traveling for work so have been unable to mount a serious attempt at the Christmas Challenge this year but in solidarity I will nonetheless aim to watch a handful of the worst movies of the bunch and yell about how cruel the world is. Can someone tell me which ones I should pick

Love Actually 2003 ** Watched Dec 2, 2024 This movie contains the worst villain Alan Rickman plays in a Christmas movie and I am including die hard in that.

I stand by this

If there is a War on Christmas, the Christmas Challenge is arguably a war crime

Can I do Our Italian Christmas Forgetting next

What's their stance on swedes and/or gammon

oh what, so we're supposed to unionize at every building a car crashes into in Columbus? come on now

millennial borat be like "my partners"

happy Christmas Challenge Eve to all who celebrate

@senatormeow.bsky.social word on the street is that you are Eating Good Tonight

I don’t like who I turn into when I play Boggle

ok where is the basement bookstore??? is this Madison paperbacks?

Petition to change the default no-vote Meowlot option to Sharts

Joseph Sharts - Wikipedia

This would never have happened under a Sharts governorship

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