Dave Lineal

chicago / folk history / natural philosophy / collage

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"And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, & hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too"

-- T. Hardy

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@wtfahhh0 Frank Lloyd Wright believed 5'8" is the ideal height, & designed his buildings ideally for people of this stature

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@baddiemaddie43 The Palmolive Building!

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@cljack I.e., "What went down with building 7?"

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

@arvofart Dirty martini but it’s gin and coffee creamer

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@OttoPivnerBFA This would be a better world had only Zappa smoked weed

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@ErishaAnn Fountain of Time sculpture in Washington Park is monument to 100th anniversary of Treaty of Ghent - because Fort Dearborn destruction was part of War of 1812

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@Eric_Erins Its where the chicago hippies live

[Christopher™ @ChrisBrandt8]

I saw a deer on Montrose Beach today.

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@h1ghfieri Theres a very long history of people from the South moving to Chicago. Its not that far away

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@mirandareinert "Big John." Holy to some Satanists as birthplace of Anton Levey

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@George1Glass @WestLoopTom They have a colony in the zoo & in south lincoln park. Ive seen them on the lake & humboldt, never the river downtown

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@gutsfan4 The best Chicago photography! Mann grew up in Chi. Glad he's coming back to film here for Heat 2

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@seanw_m Site of the founding of the IWW is also now a Walgreens (in River North)

[Joshua Mellin @JoshuaMellin]

Memorial Day at Oak Street Beach #Chicago

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@ErishaAnn Some modernist people believe that art bears the aura of its creator: Baudelaire called it "auric art." It is important to its mystification. A.I. art may have form but it conspicuously lacks aura

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@SeanMcCarthyCom (I do labor history on my tours)

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@SeanMcCarthyCom IL Labor published a walking tour guide of Haymarket sites in 1975 -- many still there. 630ish w. Lake an anarchist meeting room (still there), Debs lived by Clark & Illinois, River North Walgreens founding site of IWW. Martyrs hanged in the alley at site of brutalist firehouse

[Phil Thompson @wonder_city_]

Icons of the Second Chicago School.

A collab with @docomomo_us for their 2021 nat'l symposium.

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@amazonmilkfrog Already does -- she's called the "I Will" Girl -- the main mascot of the 1933 world's fair