Good read! Notable:

The City of Chicago allowed hoop houses. They could not find any rules banning hoop houses in the Elmhurst City Code. Indeed, their citations listed no code violation at all. They asked what code or ordinance they had transgressed. City staff didn’t know. They said they would get back to them on that. A letter arrived a few weeks later stating they had violated two codes, one about occupancy of a tent or temporary structure in a residential zone and the other from the permanent building code banning membrane structures altogether. That was confusing. How could the hoop house be both a temporary and a permanent structure?

Then the city council member speculating it could be for growing pot. Yeah, “it’s not a race thing.” Go live in a fucking HOA, ya duds.

PS+ is an expensive fucking joke compared to what you get on Gamepass, last I recall. They’re already overpriced.

“Who’s still watching in 2026”

Barbados Slim? I love that guy!

That’s quite the business-class fare that congress is cool with.

Maybe it’s lithium-ion rutting season

“Winos” is actually pretty funny, don’t let them hear you

I don’t think there’s a divide. Anyone who has a doubt will stuff that fucker down rather than face the ridicule of the ingroup and outgroup simultaneously.

Met my spouse on the apps buuuuuut that was like almost a decade ago at this point. It wasn’t good then. Matches (the few) had maybe a one-in-four potential for not being a scam/no-response/insta-dud. The ones that did sort of start were — likely due to the region — centered around hiking, jeeps, and bonfires at the beach. I changed my bio to say something like “I love books and hate hiking” which helped. Friends who are on the apps today though? Complete cesspit from what I understand. Always a new app, never a new culture.

Hey now, my cell phone coverage has been great since the vaccine, even in the upstairs corner!

This says you’re full of owls. So we doing a radical owlectomy or what?

Either you have an ideology, or an ideology has you.

Nitecore edit (S L O W E D + R E V E R B)

Hell, throw Trainspotting in there.

The tea lemonade was bangin’ too

Alternately: obfuscate it with boredom. Ever try to read through the tax code? You could put whatever you want in there and publicly read it, and nobody’s awake for it. Secrecy and conspiracy are infinitely more interesting than boredom.

Whatever it is, did you really remember to take it?

“Can I cook mine?”

“No, you must eat it raw.”

Always follow the instructions on the label in case it’s hang-dry only, dry everything on low, turn your jeans inside-out, and never use fabric sheets (wool dryer balls work almost as well without the chemicals).

VIP is hit or miss for me, but when it hits, it’s some of the best improv stuff I’ve ever seen.