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Long, loud walk
Cassie and I took two long walks yesterday. We drove up to the Skokie Lagoons before lunchtime and took a 7.25 km stroll along the north loop. The weather cooperated:I wanted to go up there in part...
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Ode to Shinjuku
Urbanist channel Not Just Bikes gushes at the integration and efficiency of the world's busiest train station, Tokyo's Shinjuku:I passed through it every day during my visit to Tokyo in 2011, and yes,...
View ArticleWho is buried in Couch's tomb?
I remembered that Chicago used to have a cemetery at what is now the south end of Lincoln Park, near State and North. But I never connected the dots that a small building over there actually had dead...
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RIP Carmen Sancicada (2007-2024)
I had a dentist appointment up in Hubbard Woods this morning, so I took half a day off and had a relaxing walk through Winnetka. And as on Sunday, I encountered a lot of cicadas.I found one attached to...
View ArticleSure, they get a party
Dignitaries and Metra executives celebrated the opening of the Peterson-Ridge station on the UP-North line this past Sunday:Hopefully West Ridge, Edgewater, and Lincoln Square residents remembered that...
View ArticleAuthentic frontier gibberish
Tom Nichols says it's past time to quit disregarding the convicted-felon XPOTUS's disordered mental state:For too long, Trump has gotten away with pretending that his emotional issues are just part of...
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Truly a dog's life
Yesterday Cassie got to sample whatever she found on the ground at Ribfest, but she hoped for so much more:And today, we spent an hour walking around St James Farm out in Suburbistan with one of her...
View ArticleDefinitely summer in Chicago
Cassie and I just got back from a short walk around the block. We did a 45-minute walk at 7:15, when we both could still tolerate the temperature, but just now my backyard thermometer shows a...
View ArticleSushi, sushi, everywhere, and most goes in the dump
Heat makes me cranky. Even though I have good air conditioning, I also don't want to overdo it, so my home office is 25°C right now. Not too hot, but not what I would call super-comfortable. Still,...
View ArticleAll the (other) things!
As I mentioned after lunch, a lot of other things crossed my desk today than just wasted sushi:Politico reports the results of its latest poll, which, contra many pundits, shows a marked decline in the...
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Heat addles your brain
First, let me just say how lovely it was to wake up to this today, especially as we're mere minutes from the earliest solstice since the Washington administration:My windows are open, and I no longer...
View ArticleChina launches overnight Beijing to Shanghai and Hong Kong service
Imagine an overnight train from New York to Miami that takes 12 hours. China just opened a $165 train that does about the same thing:From Hong Kong to Beijing, the overnight trip takes 12 hours 30...
View ArticleGonna be a hot one
I've got a performance this evening that requires being on-site at the venue for most of the day. So in a few minutes I'll take two dogs to boarding (the houseguest is another performer's dog), get...
View ArticleCrazy trains in Japan
I may have my next Japanese itinerary, courtesy of Not Just Bikes:
View ArticleSlow news day yesterday, not so much today
Lunchtime link roundup:Dr Daniela J Lamas of Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston evaluates how age has affected President Biden and the convicted-felon XPOTUS, given that whoever wins in November...
View ArticleLong but productive day
I'm trying to get home a little earlier than usual, so this will be a lazy post. Stuff to read:Hillary Clinton, who has debated both President Biden and the convicted-felon XPOTUS, has thoughts on...
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Gadammit
Yesterday's productivity apparently included my nose producing a few billion coronaviruses:This comes almost exactly two years after my last bout with the disease (that I know of). That one took about...
View ArticleThe XPOTUS and his Supreme Court appointees don't care about you
Yes, President Biden is old, but he doesn't want to recreate the world of Victor Hugo. The Republican Party does, and this morning, they showed how they'll do it.The debate last night did not fill me...
View ArticleNice day for a long walk
Cassie just got a personal record for longest single walk by distance: 11.07 km in 1:39:51. I had to go back all the way to the week I got her to find the preceding longest distance, which turns out...
View ArticleRight-wing power grab
Well, the Republicans sure did pack the court well, didn't they? The Supreme Court's term finally ended today with another apparent success for the convicted-felon XPOTUS. All three Justices he...
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