@jameslonghurst
college professor in the U.S. Midwest (all views mine); author of "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road" / "Las Batallas de la Bici." Shop intern, historian of urban and environmental policy, gravel grinder.
On Day 7 of Blank Check March Madness, you must choose between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sister Mary Clarence...between the cover of Hustler Magazine and DEEP COVER...
It's MILOS FORMAN (3) vs BILL DUKE (6).
Vote: blankcheckpod.com/march-madness
A box for a chess set has the words “EXQUISIVE MAGNETIC CHESS SET” on the side, surrounded by elaborate filigree
EXQUISIVE.
Sup.
This is good news right? We didn’t need that 1% anyway?
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta just downgraded GDP estimate for Q1 by a FULL 1% from 3.2% to 2.1% #EconSky
8. Every Single Thing In The World Happened 1937-1945
9. Hollywood Movies Can Be Primary Sources But Only If You Squint
1. Nixon was a vile man
2. The World is a Complicated Place But People make History Through Choices
3. Libraries and Archives have Answers, and Chicago can show you the way
4. Research is a Journey You Must Take On Your Own
5. It’s Capitalisms Fault
6. No Really it’s Capitalism
7. Cities Change
We just got a new shipment of affordable e-bikes in today, pulling em out of the boxes right now.
Bike shops 👀
the writing in this season of Severance is really heating up
it's an important distinction.
Woodstock '69 or Woodstock '99?
more reasons to be proud: That's a grade-A locking job for her. Solid post, chain lock through the frame and also securing the front QR wheel. It'd be an A+ if the expensive ebike rear wheel was also secured with an accessory cable, but this is a solid A.
"our team" doing a lot of work here
gastown bullet farm jerbs stonks
stonks?
Read more about Knox in www.google.com/books/editio...
stonks
The more you cycle the more dessert you can eat. That's just science.
the textbook I found for a Fall 2026 class when I was searching last semester for $120 is now listed at $180 on the publisher's site
MarkMark Markin is this anything
call me ishmael.
good times, good times.
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set parking *maximums* for taverns and bars
RFK Jr attacking Dunkin Donuts, but if I recall it was the electric Windex lemonade from Panera that actually killed people.
No there’s a famous exchange where he kinda gets peer pressured into the marines.
that’s five just in the senate. (Let’s just skip over Joe McCarthy shall we.)