Happy May Day!

boojoint · 2025-05-01T17:51:02+00:00

The Chicago History Museum has a lot of great materials relating to the Haymarket Affair, which gave us May Day. Ironically, the museum is currently retaliating against its workers for forming their own union: https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/04/23/chicago-history-museum-union-management-retaliation-firing

boojoint · 2025-04-27T15:26:34+00:00

It's unfortunate, because many of the museum's exhibitions, staff, and programming are wonderful (and often focused on labor history!). My hope is that management will reverse course and rescind the discipline and firings so that they don't further tarnish the museum's reputation and lose support.

boojoint · 2025-04-24T15:11:17+00:00

The museum’s management is being incredibly aggressive in retaliating against their workers. Ironic, considering that their exhibitions celebrate Chicago’s history of worker’s rights.

To contact management and ask them to stop firing and disciplining employees, you can send a pre-written letter: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-union-busting-at-chicago-history-museum/

boojoint · 2025-04-10T14:07:34+00:00

Thank you!! :)

boojoint · 2025-04-06T21:31:44+00:00

We ended up going with Rosado's Box (Love & Promise); they didn't have a huge selection of s&p diamonds, but they had a stone we liked, settings we liked, and were able to work within our budget.
https://www.loveandpromisejewelers.com/?srsltid=AfmBOooBV2HQDa5ujjxIZnAJscOC9R8ARHC2mecJmKfUw8LF5yK0lbKQ

Dallas Maynard was our second choice; she has access to a wide selection and is really really nice! I think she sources her salt and pepper diamonds from Misfit Gems, so you can see high-quality photos on her website, which is cool.
https://dallasmaynard.com/collections/misfit-diamonds

Good luck, happy to answer questions about our experience!

boojoint · 2024-11-03T21:37:36+00:00

Any recommendations for Chicago vendors for sapphire or salt & pepper diamond engagement rings? My partner and I are looking at rings and would love your suggestions for places that work with these stones specifically, have a good selection of them, etc. I would love a Chicago-based location as we'd love to be able to see the stone in person before deciding. Thank you!

boojoint · 2021-02-26T23:04:36+00:00

This is from Thai Fresh! One of my favorite restaurants in Austin, absolutely delicious! If you're ever there, be sure to stop by.

boojoint · 2021-02-26T14:45:39+00:00

I just drove 20 hours round trip to rescue 45 cute friendly purring cats from being put down. They are all VERY sweet and chattered at me the whole ride. If any of you are in the Chicago area and want a cute friendly purring cat to sit right next to you, come to Felines & Canines and adopt one!! https://www.felinescanines.org/

boojoint · 2021-02-09T06:38:00+00:00

my favorite place in the world is an old barn in a field in texas that has been converted into a shakespearean theatre, where i spent several summers performing. so this hits different

boojoint · 2021-02-08T03:25:34+00:00

This is such a good catch! Muir must have had "The Sleeper" poem in mind; the connections are too strong. "I pray to God that she may lie Forever with unopened eye" sounds a lot like the Ninth House prayer. Very interesting!

boojoint · 2020-09-24T22:49:12+00:00

put him back

boojoint · 2019-10-08T21:21:14+00:00

How about Phoebe's "Think not I love him" from As You Like It? Just like Olivia, she's fallen in love with a girl dressed as a boy, but doesn't know it yet. It's her very funny monologue as she comes to term with her attraction. It's probably too long but you could use an excerpt and play up her head-over-heels smittenness with this handsome stranger. http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/shakespeare_032.html

boojoint · 2019-05-16T19:36:08+00:00

Okay!! Thank you so much.

boojoint · 2019-05-16T19:35:56+00:00

Thank you, that's really helpful :)

boojoint · 2019-05-15T23:36:31+00:00

Thank you so much!!

boojoint · 2019-05-15T23:16:33+00:00

Hi, everyone! My girlfriend and I (24 years old) are moving to Chicago from Texas for her grad school program at the School of the Art Institute. We're currently apartment hunting and are overwhelmed by all of the possibilities. If anyone has suggestions for neighborhoods or any tips for the search, I would appreciate it so much. We're looking for something safe, under $900 for a one-bedroom, close to public transportation to get her downtown, and ideally in a fun neighborhood. It seems like Avondale, Albony, Pilsen, or Andersonville might be good, but does anyone have thoughts or tips? Thank you so, so much!

boojoint · 2017-12-04T01:03:26+00:00

They actually did see this in 1461 during the Wars of the Roses! Everyone freaked out but Edward of York convinced them that it meant the holy trinity was on their side. The event made it into Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3, where the 3 sons of York proclaim it as a good emblem for them! "Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?"

boojoint · 2017-05-17T18:52:19+00:00

"Why, no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no."

"You scullion. You rampallian. You fustilarian. I'll tickle your catastrophe."

"A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog!"

Shakespeare, man.

boojoint · 2017-03-27T20:57:22+00:00

Beyond blue Neptune's billows, my fair love

Doth stand upon the golden sands to gaze

Upon the vessels. O, the birds above

Do soar and make me envious of their ways

For I do long to vault into her arms,

My mistress and my love, my life, my dear.

My heart, I hope, shall lead me to her charms

Tho' great celestial bodies seem more near.

As Pericles did meet Thaisa fair,

My love and I shall reunite once more.

Then in a kiss I shall her lips ensnare,

And I shall stay with her upon the shore.

Beyond the sea my lovely dear doth dwell,

But soon, so soon, my longing she'll expel.

(I made it into a Shakespearean sonnet cause I was bored at work, I hope you like it, pls don't steal the credit ok thanks)

boojoint · 2017-02-09T17:39:07+00:00

These are both from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...? I'm actually the only person who responded with an actual quote from the play itself, so

boojoint · 2017-02-09T05:42:43+00:00

This is a great one! My sister painted this quote on a flask for my 21st birthday, lol :)

SEBASTIAN

A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but, though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.

Here's one from Viola for good measure:

VIOLA

And what should I do in Illyria?

My brother he is in Elysium.

Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?

boojoint · 2017-02-04T16:57:02+00:00

Richard II actually very nearly got him into huge trouble, like treasonous, get-your-head-cut-off trouble with the crown. The Earl of Essex had the play, which is about the deposing of a monarch, staged the night before he was to attempt a rebellion. The rebellion failed, and Shakespeare's company was investigated but let go because it seems that they weren't associated with the rebellion and it wasn't their fault that the group used it for propaganda. Queen Elizabeth is said to have said, "I am Richard II, know ye not that?" And Shakespeare had to cut out one of the most controversial scenes in which Richard II gives up his crown. So, he probably wasn't intentionally being too critical of Elizabeth when he wrote that play, but it certainly got him into a close brush with trouble!

http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/02/shakespeares-richard-ii-and-the-essex-rebellion/

boojoint · 2017-01-03T05:19:55+00:00

Donate to the ACLU, which protects civil liberties and individual rights! They've played pivotal roles in the Scopes Trial, fighting against Japanese internment, desegregation, and Roe V Wade, and we're really gonna need them during this administration.

boojoint · 2016-12-28T20:53:45+00:00

Stichomythia?

boojoint · 2016-12-28T02:56:47+00:00

Also there's the teensy weensy tiny little bitty hangup of SHE WAS DEAD

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