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Lord Heavyhand
Radical Incline

The aliens have taken a once-great American city and installed their Lord Heavyhand to rule it.

Illustration added on 2020 May 3
Subjects: Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, quarantine, tyranny
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Milady and I ran a couple of apartment buildings in Chicago for about fourteen years. Kept the buildings in great shape, tried to keep tenants happy.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Jun 5
Subjects: Valerie Jarrett, Chicago, evil landlord

This is great news! I can't wait to move back to Chicago now.

Oh, wait, wait…

They declared sub-freezing temperatures illegal, too, right?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2018 Jan 13
Subjects: silliness, Chicago

One night in Chicago, I marched home in sub-zero weather, several miles. Fortunately, by that time, I had learned how to dress from head to toe for arctic conditions...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Dec 18
Subjects: Chicago, weather

Now caught up to my second comment at #476... how far behind have I fallen now? And I think I'm reading more slowly as the night wends on.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Nov 21
Subjects: Chicago, childhood memories, food

redc1c4: ...doesn't help that the local building standards don't incorporate anti-seismic requirements, as they do here in Quake-land...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Sep 4
Subjects: Chicago, earthquake

Our 15 years in Chicago was the days of our early family creation, so we didn't get out as much as we thought we would when we first moved there, but we did get to enjoy some of its amenities.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Sep 4
Subjects: blues, Chicago, personal history

cthulhu: ...At certain times, it becomes optimal to triple the size of such box, label everything, and assign every wire out to an appropriate breaker......then hide the expense under "landscapi

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Aug 3
Subjects: Chicago

Chuck C, back at #310: ...the "electrician" had used small Hills Brothers coffee cans. Instead of electrical tape or caps - clear packing tape...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Aug 3
Subjects: Chicago, housing

The house we live in was built of poured concrete. I figure the "older" part was built some time in the late teens or early twenties of the last century.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Aug 3
Subjects: Chicago, housing

Morning, Glories! Just finished reading the Vic News, lost in the clutter of the ONT after-party, and about to check out MisHum's mystery links. Meanwhile...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Apr 20
Subjects: Chicago, irony

Your "eau de irony" news for the night:

A rapper on Chicago's South Side was shot and killed early Tuesday morning while rapping about guns for a music video in a local park.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Apr 20
Subjects: Chicago, irony, music

Twenty-two years ago, tonight, our family arrived in Oklahoma, moving from Chicago. Back to Oklahoma for me & Milady, first residence change for our three Chicago-born kids.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Mar 31
Subjects: Chicago, decisions, Oklahoma, personal history

I would have a Guiness, but we don't have any, and it's Oklahoma on Sunday, so I can't get any. Tecate it is, then.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Mar 13
Subjects: Chicago, Guiness Beer

We moved the family from Chicago to Oklahoma with some thoughts of better surviving the possible coming collapse.

All the things I had in mind to prepare? Unrealized.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Mar 1
Subjects: Chicago, fail, Oklahoma, religion, survival

I was all set to tell this funny story about the time my wife met Joan Baez in a bar in Chicago.

Then I remembered it was Buffy StMarie (I think).

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 2
Subjects: celebrity, Chicago

Brown Line: ...at one point describing "acres of parking" around Wrigley Field: oy veh!

Perhaps he was thinking of Cominsky [sic]?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 24
Subjects: Chicago, science fiction

mindful - Thank you for the review "The Time Traveller's Wife". I'll be sure to put it on my queue.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 24
Subjects: Chicago, science fiction

Oh, forgot to mention a very personal aspect of re-reading Time Traveler's Wife - the main "present time" and place for the story is North side of Chicago, in the early 1990s.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 24
Subjects: Chicago, personal history, science fiction

Trimegistus: ...can I request a ban on the term "The Big Easy"? ... It was invented out of whole cloth in the 1970s, and needs to be retired like most other bad ideas from that decade.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 10
Subjects: Chicago, comics

Carol: ...Heat is coming up & making a lot of noise.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 5
Subjects: Chicago, weather, Winter

All this talk of lamb and no mention of Gyros? It can be good or mediocre, but pressed beef and lamb gyros became one of my favorite foods the first time Milady took me to a Greek restaurant.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 3
Subjects: Chicago, food

New Madrid... First read about the possible effects of "if it happened today" some forty years ago. I think the article said they thought it likely to happen in the next 50 years...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jan 2
Subjects: Chicago, earthquake

I get caught up on book comments, and I check and, yeah, elbows thread is up, of course.

Not supposed to mean the book thread expired, of course, but, called the Horde for a reason.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Dec 13
Subjects: Chicago, Jack Clark, Life

Colin: Chicago Police: Customer with concealed carry license kills robber...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Nov 1
Subjects: Chicago, self-defense

Chicago: 6 shot and 74 heroin ODs in less than 72 hours.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Oct 4
Subjects: Chicago, food, wine

In before the next thread, just to say,

Morning, Glories!

Cold and rain no doubt affected the overnight numbers here in Chicago.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Oct 3
Subjects: Chicago, Life

Enough idle browsing. I'm off to explore the Big Potato!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Oct 1
Subjects: Chicago

Casual observations while toodling around Chicago includes my first rat sighting (last night, crossing the street in front of us, I nearly ran over him, but missed).

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Oct 1
Subjects: Chicago, hobo, rats

On this day in 1974, I drove from Tulsa to the Ponca City train station to pick up a Chicago gal I'd known in college.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Oct 1
Subjects: anniversary, Chicago

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