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I’m writhing in bed with a stomach bug and just had a beautiful little fever dream in which my husband brought me a bowl of magic snow that healed me

Black Jewel of the Midwest – South Side Weekly The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature is about to become more accessible than ever.

I wrote about Chicago’s first Black librarian, Bronzeville’s first public library, and the vibrant cross-class literary culture it sustained during Chicago’s Black Renaissance

a couple weeks ago I went with passport, drivers license, social security card, court order showing name change, and probably something else I’m forgetting, and they turned me away bc I was missing *one* piece of mail proving residence. their own drivers license doesn’t count as proof of address!

my manny’s order is the two orb special—one matzo ball and one knish with gravy

week in review

I miss their HP store! It's trial and error for me to find the right size (the women's cuts are kind of all over the place), but it's so nice how they hem to fit. And I remember when they first opened, they hired some of our local Syrian refugees who'd been tailors in Aleppo. Good stuff all around.

yeah the one in kimbark plaza closed a few years ago, nothing ever replaced it. and the one at 53rd and Harper closed recently

Bank of Erath
Erath, LA

also I don’t think there are any remaining laundromats in Hyde Park at this point

my first time in Europe as a kid, we went to a laundromat and my parents threw in my most beloved stuffed animal, an aardvark named katie. I don’t think I’d ever been so upset as I was watching her drown and get battered by the machine. I’d never seen a front loader before, it was a huge scandal

seems bad!!!

menswear guy would NOT like the suit she wore to the self psychology conference

I'm on season 5 in my current rewatch... Roz is preggo, Lilith just came to town for a visit and hooked up with Niles

I think it said "whatever happens, don't give any of my assets (zero) to my parents and don't give them any say in the disposal of my remains"

I wrote a will when I was 20 and made got it notarized in my office at my summer internship, which was humiliating in its own way...

very smart, it’s a terrible film

All Dogs Go to Heaven (too sad)

I thought it was UBI for writers!

is the women’s division still on?

he was already on the path of darkness, but it’s gotten even worse

please go get him, he’s a horrible influence on my father

happy fourth of july, I’m heading to a party in the american girl doll closet

it’s all about radiatore in my house

Battle for the Blacktops – South Side Weekly Faced with a growing shortage of usable courts, hoopers are fighting to preserve streetball in America’s basketball city.

do you ever walk around and wonder why Chicago doesn’t have much of a pick-up basketball scene? me too