I am glad our Labradoodle is ok

It was the 4th of July. Fireworks are illegal in Illinois so we have to settle for racial profiling to celebrate.

Irony (n.): The Brown Line is the safest, cleanest, most well maintained CTA line in Chicago.

Or jammed into his brain.

“walking at a brisk pace, in a determined manner.”

The cops thought the woman was a suicide bomber with a bomb in her backpack, so they grabbed her and her bomb-laden backpack and threw them to the ground. Six cops did this. So who, exactly, acted suicidal in this scenario? I give up. Again.

Officers singled out Al-Matar allegedly because of her “suspicious behavior”, which included “walking at a brisk pace, in a determined manner.”

I found a weird little corner of eBay when I went to a conference and got a set of salt and pepper shakers as a door prize. They were branded and shaped like fruit.

three words: Death of Superman

The new owners will keep everything exactly the same. Why should they change a successful and valuable property by meddling with the formula that made it such an attractive purchase? The very first staff meeting/communication will commit to keeping things exactly as they were and will compliment the people who made…

I had been planning on saving this for SNS, but here’s a dick in a box for hijacking purposes.

Everything will continue to exist after this week. We’ll just be under new ownership. I think Senior Week has confused some folks but we are not going anywhere.

Okay, but seriously, I saw the Mona Lisa in person (the painting, not the person) when I was in Paris, and it's TINY.

Rick Steves’ blog had a reader-submitted comment a few years back from someone who watched another tourist at the Musee d’Orsay reach out and SCRATCH at the paint on a Monet water lilies painting to see how thick it was. Just reading that story made me scream a little. People are the worst.

On a similar subject, why do people feel compelled to take photos of really famous art? I went to Versailles and whole tour buses spent their visit looking at everything through their cell phones and iPads. It’s famous art, there are books with high quality images in it! The Internet has pictures! You’re missing the…

They are not cargo shorts, and therefore, they are good shorts.

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but my first trip to the local art museum was at age 11. Mom sat me down and gave me a lecture about not touching the art, which I rolled my eyes through because obviously!

Story time! Several years back, I was at the Art Institute in Chicago’s modern wing. I was looking at a piece (a bunch of decorated and painted chairs, iirc) when I saw a man reach across the barrier, grab a chair and shake it while yelling “Look at how sturdy these are, hun!”

I think he’s one of the pieces. The uncomfortable tightness of the jorts symbolizes how consumerism is squeezing away our lives.

Can those jorts on that dude in the top image possibly get any tighter? I bet the front looks like he’s smuggling grapes.