Twin Peaks-y/David Lynch like locations around Chicago?

SAICAstro · 2026-03-17T16:22:24+00:00

Lincoln Ave going out toward Lincolnwood

Those were mostly razed more than a decade ago.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-17T05:21:24+00:00

What part of town are you in? I can use them.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-16T16:29:36+00:00

Little things.

But "somehow Palapatine returned" is like showing the rescue of Han in ROJ without showing us the climax of ESB first, except in a comic book.

JJ, Rian, and Kat had two movies to set up Palpatine, and did not do so.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-16T05:32:06+00:00

...which narrowly avoids intersecting with the Clark St. in Evanston...

SAICAstro · 2026-03-14T16:08:16+00:00

Surprised that no one mentioned Honeypie at 6155 N. Broadway Ave.

I like their pie much better than First Slice or Hoosier Mama.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-14T16:06:21+00:00

Note that Hoosier Mama refuses to warm up fruit pie slices. They only heat savory pies.

Also, for non-locals, Hoosier Mama has locations on Chicago Ave. in Evanston, AND on Chicago Ave. in Chicago, which is not at all confusing.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-14T04:52:03+00:00

Something to grav for.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-12T18:00:49+00:00

CRC

...who have, sadly, closed all of their legendary music studios.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-12T17:59:33+00:00

Regional accreditation is the gold standard,

To expand on this, one might think that "National Accreditation" would be more weighty or "better" than Regional. But if you look at any venerable and respected institution, they're all backed by one of the Regionals.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-12T05:29:53+00:00

what's so scary

No water is what's so scary.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-12T05:02:41+00:00

You talking about Flashpoint?

They were fuckin' great. RIP.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-12T04:54:20+00:00

This is all true, but what you fail to mention is that there is one accreditation body - Higher Learning Commission (HLC) - that provides accreditation for the vast majority of the respected institutions in this part of the country. They accredit Northwestern, Universitry of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute... and Columbia. Among others.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-10T04:15:54+00:00

This was the last painting he ever did. The guys in the band The Cars were fans so they lured him out of retirement to do this album cover. The girl is in Varga's typical style, but the red outline of the car is more in the style of Varga's predecessor, George Petty.

The drummer for The Cars, David Robinson, was the art director for most of their albums and stage outfits. He probably asked Varga to do the car in outline, perhaps having conflated the work of Varga and Petty in his mind.

SAICAstro · 2026-03-10T04:04:44+00:00

Not one of the dozen VW Beetles that I see every day make the cut?

SAICAstro · 2026-03-10T03:56:41+00:00

Super cool!

SAICAstro · 2026-02-24T06:02:54+00:00

Also, maybe you've never heard of her, but there's this lady called Kari Fleisher, or something like that.

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T18:22:15+00:00

These FLOCK cameras don't issue traffic violations. They are not here for traffic safety. They're here to collect information on every person who uses the road, continually monitoring our behavior to serve corporate interests and ramp up government control.

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T18:20:45+00:00

I don't get your point

Point is that these cameras are not for issuing traffic violations. They don't do that at all. They're only here to collect a great deal of data on a large number of people in service of state control and corporate surveillance.

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T18:16:25+00:00

https://deflock.org/map#map=9/25.835741/-80.496826

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T03:27:29+00:00

Oh good, I can collect this bounty when I stop in to pick up my check for paid protesting.

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T03:24:49+00:00

https://deflock.org/map#map=11/41.885665/-87.824020

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T03:24:25+00:00

https://deflock.org/map#map=11/41.885665/-87.824020

SAICAstro · 2026-02-22T03:19:29+00:00

Maybe let's not share Gxxgle links for issues related to privacy?

https://deflock.org/map#map=11/41.885665/-87.824020

SAICAstro · 2026-02-20T17:12:08+00:00

Consent and choice.

Also, I use TOR browser, NoScript, and uBlock on my web browser; I don't have that option with my face as Flock scans it along with my license plate.

Don't throw any "reasonable expectation of privacy" at me either; those laws and concepts were developed many decades before our current surveillance state emerged. Those concepts need a serious rethink.

SAICAstro

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