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from Mission Mission, this made me laugh out loud.

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kevinmonty:

I met a fashion twin on the street.  This must be the new Mission uniform.

i like that tony is in the background wearing, essentially, the opposite.

“General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad Chicago, Illinois, May 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress”

this view of the Chicago skyline seems so foreign. And yes, seeing photos this old in color is a little surreal.

are you fucking kidding me? →

The Hammer invites you to give your houseplant a vacation, during our August cultural retreat for plants. Throughout the entire month, participant’s plants will be installed in the light flooded Lindbrook terrace, and presented with a series of readings, performances and musical events, for plants every Saturday from 1-4pm. Check back for the full schedule and for information about plant portraiture by Lisa Anne Auerbach. (Please no sick/infested plants - this is a vacation, not rehab)

“if this car ride isn’t the last thing you remember tonight, we haven’t done our job”

The ladies room at ronny’s, where stroh’s is $2

And the cover to see my friends little brothers band was $7

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So that was that for the fifth (or sixth) Pitchfork Music Festival, and the one—and I trust you’ve gathered this by now—that I liked the least. But I do need to make one more thing very clear: The festival consistently remains the best-run, most community-oriented of any of the (conservatively) four dozen of these sorts of events that I’ve attended across the country and in Europe over the last three decades.

Pitchfork is the festival Chicago needs and deserves. So it had an off year; that doesn’t mean I’m not already looking forward to 2011. And even a mediocre Pitchfork will always be infinitely better than the soulless and corporate Walmart on the Lake known as Lollapalooza–which, as my recent reporting hopefully has made clear, is a very Chicago event in all of the worst ways, while Pitchfork continues to stand for the local music community at its best.

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What he said. (from DeRo’s “pitchfork wrap-up” entry) (via seaofstatic)

Pavement for the whole family