Adam Selzer has a bunch of books out - mostly funny YA novels and smart alecky Chicago history/ghostlore stuff.. Here are some pictures from around Chicago and some things he thinks are neat. Mostly his instagram feed.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
James Carney, aka Dirty Eddie, and his rap sheet, 1894, Chicago.
He doesn’t look THAT dirty.
Disney hipsters.
My favorite “hipster Ariel” line was “I wanna be where the PBR.”
(Source: simple-summer-rain)
I shudder to think what the “cover flip” versions of these would look like. Could they possibly make them more “girly?” The “girly” cover thing has less to do with the author’s gender than what market the publisher is going for. I think that both of these aimed them at entirely the wrong readers - but the RIGHT readers were a pretty hard-to-reach crowd at the time.
Every time a juztgirlythingz post comes up on my dash, I think the same thing: “Hey, come on! Guys do that too!”
Adam Selzer.com: How to Get Suspended and Influence People: Now With More Swearing!
New “author’s edition” of my first novel is now out as an ebook, restoring more than 30 swear words from the original draft! Part of the ALA’s Banned Books Week packet, this critically acclaimed cult YA hit is now even LESS appropriate than ever!
See, if the Star Wars prequels had just been about Ewan McGregor looking good and sassing people, they would have been about eight thousand times better.
Ah, that rarest of cinema moments - a good scene in a Star Wars prequel.
I also just realized that the other guy is Mouse from The Matrix.
There’s some good backstory here, I think. What made the guy think that a freaking JEDI was a good potential customer for death sticks?
there’s nothing about this gif i don’t like
Well clearly he’s kicking with the Force.
For maximum effect, hum the music from the underwater levels on Super Mario Bros.
I had this! Realized years later that every other page on the tape version was read by Ken Nordine, whose “word jazz” recordings are beatnik classics. The other pages were C-3PO.
“Nein numb isn’t dumb
for smarts, he’s very famous.
Nein numb isn’t dumb
But boy, his silly name is.”
(Source: beerandrobots)
(Source: ffrankenstein)
The Morton Salt factory on Elston seems to have run afoul of a Simpsons-loving gangster named Jersey Joe.
The skull of Del Close in the artistic director’s desk at the Goodman Theatre. Del donated his skull so he could play Yorick. This particular skull wasn’t his when he was alive, but it’s his now!
The site of the St Valentine’s Day massacre. Never was impressed with this as a haunted spot; stories of Capone being haunted by one of the victims are myths, and I’ve never seen a dog go nuts here, as they ‘re said to.
As a ghost tour guide, you can’t NOT drive by this place. Everyone wants to see it. Like “Dillinger’s Alley,’ though, I never liked it as a “haunted” spot much.
My own best guess on the identity of the shooters at the massacre is that John Scalise and Albert Anselmi were involved. Shooting all 7 people, but NOT the guy who was presumably the target, was just the kind of bone-headed move they would have pulled, and this might explain why they were found beaten to death with baseball bats a few months later. The “official” story that they’d been caught planning to kill Capone also sounds like their brand of idiocy, but the sources on that story are pretty slim (as are most of the gangster stories).
this would be me with aidan. lol.
Yeah, that’s us. I tell him often that I don’t mind if he uses words like that in private (though he generally self-censors around me). If he were using “gay” or “retarded” as pejoratives, he’d be in trouble, but I just don’t see what the problem is with “bullshit.” Who does that hurt? Bulls?
(Source: nsfwhumor)
Watching the lake breach the wall from the High Bridge in Lincoln Park, 1913, Chicago.
LoC.gov
Is this the same “high bridge” as “suicide bridge?” I’ve never seen it from this angle before.
