That would be a tragedy. There is no Chicago without the L. It’s part of the fabric of our civic identity. Here, you don’t say “downtown.” You say “the Loop,” because the buildings that form our skyline couldn’t have grown so tall without the circle of elevated railways beneath them. A great city doesn’t just deserve a great transit system — it needs one. But getting the L back to being a source of pride will mean tapping into the same ingenuity that made it a triumph of civic engineering in the first place.
The L is what makes visits to Chicago feel so nice for us— we don’t have to worry about how we’ll get somewhere. We just have to allow for enough time for us to get there. But now, in the criminal trump regime, the L stands to become an artifact of the past given politician’s lack of gonads to get it fixed and give it a future for everyone.
Minneapolis looks at Chicago in envy. Minneapolis took the L and strong boy mayor Frey guy means to have it keep taking the L.
When it happened a third time, I switched into full “research and destroy the problem” mode. One of my Ars colleagues commiserated with me, writing, “This kind of powerful-annoying stuff is just so common. I swear at least once every few months, some shortcut or whatever just stops working, and sometimes, after a week or so, it starts working again. No rhyme, reason, or apparent causality except that computers are just [unprintable expletives].”
from Kurt’s diary: “I crossed the border over to Tijuana for the day to eat a cesar salad and buy leche Jersey for Francis Bean and Lourdes chips for Courtney. On my way back I stopped by at FONAPAS to see an exhibition and walked over to Plaza Río to Dorian’s to buy a shirt” - April 1st, 1993
i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter
the result is this garbage
I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.
the holiday season is almost upon us and I’d like to bring back this absolute fucking monstrosity of an audio file
