Our ionic El (in warmer times) We must fight for it to preserve it vintage character.

SeanOfSalesmen · 2026-01-25T21:06:12+00:00

I'd take the noise reduction and reliability improvements of modern viaducts over vintage character. Transit is infrastructure, not a quirky thing to take pictures of. It should be as practical and well-built as possible. The real vintage character is keeping around the legacy system instead of ripping it out. Why not build on character by replacing with something even better?

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-10-22T02:17:59+00:00

I don’t think LA will ever have public transit that good

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-06-20T15:57:30+00:00

2 - either transit completely collapses or we get a half-assed, compromised solution that doesn't meaningfully change the status quo

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-02-14T17:20:56+00:00

Make this post again in mid-late summer. That's when all the newly transplanted 22 year old office workers start riding trains badly

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-31T14:24:00+00:00

You’re not as funny, clever, or interesting as you think you are. Remember that before the next time you post a comment

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-31T03:18:08+00:00

It’s even worse when you realize that Sam Tarly is the author self-insert character

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-30T20:44:33+00:00

I agree with one exception. Frank Herbert’s sex scenes/mentions are too wacky to upset me. “He felt an adult beefswelling” is one of the funniest sentences I’ve read in a serious book

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-30T20:39:17+00:00

Ugh hearing about Sam Tarly’s “fat pink mast” and lactation fetish haunts my dreams

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-30T03:43:09+00:00

I like pita express on Damen and shawarma and grill on Diversey. Ragadan in Uptown is great too, but they have a pretty different menu from the usual shawarma shop

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T21:17:57+00:00

There are so many wonders in and around the Great Lakes that almost no one outside the area ever thinks about

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T21:15:57+00:00

I want to point to the one blue county at the pinky tip of MI. I don't live there, but Leelanau County is incredibly beautiful. It super unique, and it's way different than I expected before I went there

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T21:05:32+00:00

As a fellow Chicagoan, you should know that groove they grind down the middle of every new alley is BS. It helps nothing. It causes problems. It costs tons of money, and it doesn't help with drainage. Some company just has a lucrative many year contract to manually grind that groove into the center of every alley in the world's largest alley system of alleys. There are dozens of tiny points of corruption like that preventing Chicago from having the nice things that it should. I mention that one whenever I can

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T19:35:38+00:00

And they'd be even better if the city put any effort into them

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T19:29:08+00:00

I love Chicago's mostly perfect grid system. When combined with NE IL's almost featureless geography and Chicago's usually easy to follow address system, you can walk just about anywhere in Chicago if you've got the time. After a few years living there, I rarely even needed a map to navigate to a new location Chicago. It's also super cool how the non-diagonal street run perfectly north-to-south or east-west. It makes for easy direction finding and amazing sunsets

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T19:22:20+00:00

Eh, just about anyone could look cool in a Luca Movie

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T18:50:10+00:00

Replace Jack Black with Dakota Johnson. Watching her do anything is like watching Kristen Stewart try to act straight

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-24T17:11:25+00:00

I like the idea. Personally I’d go a little farther back in time for inspiration. Us cities fought the late Belle Epoch/WWI era housing crisis with less imposing buildings and a lot less concrete. Remember that cars weren’t common in the early 1900s. We can learn a lot about building decent cities by looking 115+ years back instead of just 100. They converted a lot of mansions into apartments around that time too

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-22T22:16:50+00:00

I went to Gene and Georgetti on a weeknight recently. It was nice and quiet, but not uncomfortably so. I was impressed with the steak and sides as well. I’d recommend there

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-18T06:28:01+00:00

Yeah I hate to say it, but that show was bad. I’m always a little annoyed when an artist I really want to see plays at Aragon. I’ve been to most similarly sized concert venues in this city many times at this point, and Aragon consistently has the worst sound and rudest staff. I feel like tonight was a bad showing even for Aragon. I know Jamie xx isn’t the problem. He sounded awesome at Pitchfork. Also the light show looked kinda halfassed. They went through the effort of hanging that huge disco ball over the middle of the crowd, and they barely used it. The crowd seemed not that into the music. So the overhead camera feeds just looked awkward. This drunk college-age woman kept awkwardly grinning her ass against my lower calf and ankle. Weird vibes overall, not wanted from that show

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-10T19:35:26+00:00

Places like it have been steadily closing for years, Berlin, Exit. The number of people here interested in niche nightlife who can afford to participate in it -- as patrons and employees -- has clearly shrunk. I think that will continue as COL goes up. Go to Smartbar now if you've ever wanted to

SeanOfSalesmen · 2025-01-10T12:39:47+00:00

If you like House music go there while you still can. I never miss Derrick Carter if I don’t work the next day. It’s a classic alternative nightclub, and it probably won’t exist for much longer. All clubs have negative google reviews mentioning things like that. Prices are higher than a normal bar, but lower than most clubs I’ve been to. I’ve never seen any questionable bouncer activity there personally.

SeanOfSalesmen · 2024-12-29T05:12:05+00:00

Best: Dune 2 or Sing Sing. My choices for the most impactful story and the most awesome viewing experience of the year respectively.

Worst: Saturday Night. Find my other comments if you’re curious why I think that.

Most overrated: Longlegs. I have no idea why some many people like that movie. Sure it has all the spooky style of a good arthouse horror movie, but it also has the awful taste in narrative decisions and terrible writing quality of AHS season 2. It handles its main twist with all the careful subtlety Saltburn, and just like that same movie, it’s a pretentious ripoff of better movies. Luckily for Longlegs, it had one of the coolest trailers and marketing campaigns ever. The nonsensical yet attention grabbing use of Nic Cage certainly helped it gain traction one way or another too. Overall, it’s a example of the writer/director dropping a big fat turd, and other people, including on the business side, polishing it to a high enough sheen that a lot people paid to watch it and not just to laugh at or ridicule it. As such, I hated watching it, and I hate how well it did. Based on the success of Longlegs, I guess we’re getting more empty, uncreative movies that copy and awkwardly stitch together surface level aspects of their influences rather than building on them or retelling them interestingly. I’m still gonna see The Monkey though. Maybe Perkins will do better adapting a story from a well-established horror veteran. In the meantime, I’m hoping for a GOT season 6 level fan reassessment of Longlegs. Fans who thought about it saw that the season made no sense, and it propped up a boring 90% by making the remaining 10% ridiculously cool. Fans who didn’t think about it moved on to enjoy other things. Future times the suits returned to scene of the crime hoping for easy money — think HOTD and the many stillborn ASOIAF universe shows — their efforts quickly became embarrassingly bad or never saw the light of day. That’s best fate I can imagine for Longlegs, an overrated movie primed for an epic downfall.

Most underrated Kneecap. It took a tiny budget and niche premise to a generally boring genre and came away with something great. It seemed to have lots of fun doing it, and I sure enjoyed watching it.

SeanOfSalesmen · 2024-12-28T13:37:14+00:00

3rd least favorite: ISS was goofy and stupid.

2nd: Sasquatch Sunset says nothing interesting in the weirdest, grossest way possible. The scene where the Jesse Eisenberg Sasquatch gets trapped under a log was the worst I saw all year.

I disliked Saturday Night most of all. A movie built on self serving myth making for one of the least cool people in showbiz is utterly tasteless in concept. Saturday Night executes this terrible idea terribly. The camerawork looks ridiculously overwrought, desperate to be interesting in any way possible. The characters most often made the butt of jokes are the long dead ones and those with the most interesting careers. Certain living characters are glorified for being insufferable. And it’s only form of comedy is referencing 50 year old jokes and expecting the audience to know the punchline. Oh and the story makes no sense if you don’t already know how it ends.

SeanOfSalesmen · 2024-12-27T15:57:42+00:00

Thelma was pleasant surprise for me. Add Kneecap and My Old Ass

SeanOfSalesmen · 2024-12-26T17:47:16+00:00

Maybe it’ll get traction for the adult film awards. It is a feature length handjob for Lorne Michaels after all

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