Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

“woke” is the new caravan.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    @J R in WV: FURSTEST. Or something.

     

    First day back after being off two weeks in and out of hospital is going well. Feel tired but I’m pretty sure it’s just because I’m not a morning person more than anything. So far so good. And it’s nice to be driving again.

  7. 7.

    japa21

    The reporter for that is one of my favorite morning reporters for WGN.  Finds some of the quirkiest stories out there and he loves roller coasters.  Somehow I had missed that one.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    I didn’t think the world would ever need a wall of singing plastic fish, but now that there is one I am glad.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    The world needed this.  It really did.

     

    @Raven: Riverside was my first outing after I was born.  My dad and grandmother did the parachute ride.  I have no memory of it since I was maybe 6 weeks old.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Raven: Ha! Not only was Kiddieland a regular hangout, but when I was four years old I wrote a killer song about my young twin bro’n’sis about the various rides at Kiddieland!

     

    Lyrics:

     

    Oh Stevie and his banjin-oh,

    I love him very much;

    He’s one-a Stee and one-a Stee,

    He doesn’t know what futch.

    He doesn’t know what fun it is

    To go to Kiddieland:

    He rides on the wheel and Joycie doesn’t —

    She rides on the ‘ground.

  28. 28.

    Miss Bianca

    OMG, it’s in Chicago. I am going to have to make sure to razz the shit out of my Chicago-based buddies about taking me there!

  33. 33.

    Raven

    @SiubhanDuinne: Hell yes! Now, the hot rod destination was across the street. It was called Skips Fiesta and, ironically, it was part of John Prine’s “Whistle and Fish”!

     

    Here’s the song.

     

    “On my very first job I said thank-you and please
    They made me scrub a parking lot down on my knees
    Then I got fired for being scared of bees
    And they only give me fifty cents an hour
    Fish and whistle, whistle and fish
    Eat everything that they put on your dish
    When we get through we’ll make a big wish
    That we never have to do this again, again? again?
    We’ll whistle and go fishing in the heavens”

  36. 36.

    delk

    @Raven: my parents took me to Riverview a few times but I barely remember it. I was 5 in ‘67 when it closed. I do however buy groceries where it once stood.

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    @japa21:

    Brookfield Zoo is unbelievable today.  What they have done exhibit wise is remarkable.

    I had to stop going there because of the Polar Bear who was clearly OCD moving forward a few steps, always pausing on the same foot, then walking backwards to the same spot.  And then he would start over.  Broke my heart, every time I saw him doing that, year after year.  Is he still there?

  42. 42.

    Raven

    @Steve in the ATL:

     

    Only in Chicago did I ever hear “close the light”

     

    Well, I leaned on my left leg
    In the parking lot dirt
    And Cathy was closing the lights
    A June bug flew from the warmth he once knew
    And I wished for once I weren’t right
    Why we used to laugh together
    And we’d dance to any old song
    Well, ya know, she still laughs with me
    But she waits just a second to long

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @Raven: In all fairness, Riverview was in Riverside, was it not?  I vote we give him a break.  For that, and well, he was quite young.

  50. 50.

    Immanentize

    @debbie: I first saw Talking Heads in 1977 at a pub in upstate NY called the Other Place.  Or “OP” which we called the Slow Pee.  I sat on a fusbal table while they went through their first album songs.

     

    I love Psycho Killer.

  51. 51.

    japa21

    @WaterGirl: I have not seen that.  And the display is remarkable.  Zoos have come a long way, at least the good ones have.  There are actually fewer animals at the zoo now than 20 years ago because they have been intent on giving more space to the ones they have.

     

    I have a fantastic picture of my older grandson giving a snow leopard a high five.  Very thick glass between them, fortunately.

  54. 54.

    Immanentize

    @debbie: probably the group I’ve seen the most (Spiritualized a close second).  I recently saw Byrne testing out “American Utopia” in Boston.  No Big Suit (which I also loved — as well as his grass suit) but his suit in American Utopia is exactly the same color as his Big Suit.

  66. 66.

    Immanentize

     

    @Wag: Adrian Belew.  I saw them at the Heatwave concert in Mossport, Canada when they first introduced the big band (w/Adrian)

     

    Byrne said, “Well, we’re not the band we used to be.”

     

    No shit, Sherlock.

  73. 73.

    satby

    @SiubhanDuinne: Kiddieland was closest to us, so we went there more often. My dad would take each of us in turn on a dad and daughter day to Kiddieland and then lunch somewhere special like Chinatown, Greektown, or Little Italy.

    My youngest son remembers being left behind at Kiddieland by his day camp at age 6 as one of the best days of his life. He went to a staffer when he realized the bus had left him behind and security kept him amused with food, treats, and endless rides, all with his very own security escort.

    That was in 1991, it closed in 2009. Sad.

  76. 76.

    cope

    My mom thought Riverview was too dirty and gross for us sheltered northern suburban kids after only one visit and never took us again.  After that, I only got to go with other kids’ parents.

     

    Demonstrating how the parachute ride would kick you in the ass at the bottom, I sat down hard on an antique bed at the home of my science teacher’s in-laws when he took me and another science geek downstate to the state science fair one summer.  He sat in a chair next to the collapsed bed all night long as I tried to sleep in it making sure I wouldn’t cause any more trouble.  I didn’t.

  77. 77.

    cope

    My mom only took us to Riverview once.  She thought it was too dirty and gross so after that, I only got to go with other kids parents.  The last time I went was with a good friend and his brother and dad.  Roughly 10 years later, that good friend stepped on a mine with 30 days to go in his tour.  I think of him and that trip to Riverview every time I see an image or video of the Viet Nam Wall.

  78. 78.

    cope

    My mom only took us to Riverview once.  She thought it was too dirty and gross so after that, I only got to go with other kids parents.  The last time I went was with a good friend and his brother and dad.  Roughly 10 years later, that good friend stepped on a mine with 30 days to go in his tour.  I think of him and that trip to Riverview every time I see an image or video of the Viet Nam Wall.

     

    P.S.  This is my third attempt at commenting on this post and my first try since the roll-over.  Am I missing something?

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