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Just a cat trying to have some private time in his bucket. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
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You can watch “Chicago Stories: The Union Stockyards” on YouTube … where it has 663,000 views!
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Other happy members of our team: producer Dan Andries, editor Patty Kaniff and associate producer Ian Bertorelli.
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I did not win for writing, but what an honor to be nominated. The show I co-wrote, “Chicago Stories: The Union Stockyards,” DID win a Chicago/Midwest Emmy for best historical documentary. So I didn’t take home an Emmy, but I went up onstage, got to hold the award, etc. Yay!
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I am interloping among the fancy TV people tonight.
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Only a fascist or an asshole or a fascist asshole would think “social justice” was a bad thing.
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Yaknow, Trump's screeds about terminating the Constitution might have more to do with the fact that the people who know what he said in response to threats against Mike Pence on Jan 6 spent 10 hours testifying to a grand jury yesterday than #MattyDickPics' bad reporting.
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"What do you mean, 'used to be big?' I AM big!"
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this is probably the most nakedly authoritarian thing Trump has ever posted
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Go home, everyone, we have a winner
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#FromTheArchives
And you though wet cats were funny looking?!
Bumblebee who got caught out in the rain. #becurious #BeKind
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Get your boosters, ya ding dongs
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Illinois hospital admissions for COVID-19 have jumped more than 26% in the last week alone, putting them on pace to hit numbers not seen since mid-February. bit.ly/3gZG41N
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Another big wave of migrating Sandhill cranes over Beverly and Evergreen Park.
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Remembering the late 🇫🇷French born film director, screenwriter and film critic Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) born #OnThisDay in Paris, photographed here on location in Italy on the set of his French New Wave drama “LE MÉPRIS” (1963)
🎬#FilmTwitter
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Same sunflower plant, in December
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Murderer Johann Hoch was buried in a term grave in 1906. The area was redeveloped in the 70s so Elmwood Cemetery says it’s impossible to pinpoint the spot. Likely near the one that says “Schmidt” (his real name) and one for “Elizabeth Weber,” his mother’s name (but no relation).
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The early 1910s saw two of the biggest changes ever in the movies: the embrace of the star system & the switch to features
A big release in 1910 could be a short with no named stars. In 1914, that would be ridiculous. Most major industries released their first features 1911-1913
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haha cool illinois blue laws make opening for the world cup final a nonstarter (game at 9am, can’t sell on sundays until 11am)
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World Cup 2022: US eliminated after loss to Netherlands. trib.al/oXhOtbn
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Someone posted this on FB of Vine Street in 1925 and it's crazy
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From an April 30, 1979 NEW YORK magazine profile of Mets manager Joe Torre by Henry Hecht, here’s a woodblock style illustration of Reggie Jackson as a Met by “FM.” (Big thanks to @alexbelth for the box of ephemera that contained this beauty.)
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A better look at the face and tiny talons of Friday's Northern Saw-whet Owl in the Central Park Pinetum.
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Come to New Jersey to see this understated beauty. 🤡
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In the main part of Brompton cemetery this was my favourite stone, such elaborate carved flowers and greenery.
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Bóithrín na Marbh — a little road of the dead.
Headstones displaced in the early 1980s, line a small lane next to Athlone's Abbey Graveyard, Westmeath.
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little cutie Eurasian Wren (鹪鹩), in capital #Beijing.
credit 陈永增
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#China #nature #peace
#wildlife #photography
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2022
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I think this gets at what makes the new #SightAndSoundPoll so interesting: not the alleged wokeness but the rejection of populism (seen in previous winners: not just Kane but Vertigo) in favor of challenging art:
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what's great about JEANNE DIELMAN topping the #SightAndSoundPoll is not just that it's the first movie by a woman but how thoroughly its long takes and rigorous mundanity militate against virtually every current in contemporary cinema
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Mark talked with Talmy about his career in this podcast:
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Shel Talmy produced the early Kinks, the early Who, young Bowie, the Easybeats and the Creation, making rock raw and explosive. He tells tales and evens scores in my #Caropop conversation with him. You'll want to listen All Day and All of the Night. #kinks caropop.com/caropopcast/ep
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My #truecrime book on 1920s #Chicago master swindler Leo Koretz is on 's list of the best biographies of all time:
esquire.com/entertainment/
'Intoxicating & impressively researched'-
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Details: deanjobb.com/empire
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Kael called Citizen Kane a great populist masterpiece, which I think explains why it strode atop the Sight and Sound list for so long: it caught the dual aspiration of movies to be both a mass form & also a modernist, experimental one.
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I think Citizen Kane is a normal fun to watch movie totally separate from where it stands in film history
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Got this little fangtooth in our final trawl, still showing the horns and iridescence of youth. #DY159
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Produced by Shel Talmy, who was from Chicago. #LocalConnection
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'My Generation,' the debut album by The Who, released on this date in 1965. Pete Townshend wrote this song (and all others on the album save for two James Brown covers and a Bo Diddley dover). Shel Talmy produced. This single made it to #85 U.S. youtu.be/LFQkuMWxdRE
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#FormerTavernFriday 6058 S. Morgan, former Schlitz tied house known as Lundquist Hall. Complete w/ interesting rear section (all built at the same time) and Schlitz ghost sign.
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And here are designs that received 2nd, 3rd prize or honorable mentions.
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The winning design for a new Tribune Tower "has given us majesty without unmeaning pomp," Trib announced OTD in 1922. "It has its feet firmly upon the ground. Its head looks starward."
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This may be unnecessary—everyone knows this, right?—but: is a treasure.
If his Twitter feed were a magazine, I'd pay $$$ to subscribe, and I'd read it the moment it arrived.
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