Scribal Terror

Aaron in Chicago

This is our son Aaron, sometimes known as Filthy Commie in the comments, in his Chicago apartment. He was 27 years old on Sunday and I remember when his feet were no bigger than his thumbs are now.

Memorial Day

Remember.

Who do you remember?

Major John remembers:

Army Pfc. Brandon J. Wadman

Army Spc. James C. Kearney III

Melissa remembers her dad:

Army Sgt. George Harrington

Craig remembers

General George S. Patton

Lt. Col. Robert H. Caughman

JWebb remembers his dad:

Sgt. William Rossington Webb

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Random signage in Pilson

Step pyramid to the El

This train station in Chicago looks remarkably like a Mesoamerican step pyramid. The entrance to the Chinatown station has fu dogs, but I didn't get a picture.

Chinese Masonic

From Cermak Street in Chicago's Chinatown

Chinatown Chicago

It was a beautiful day in Chicago's Chinatown. This  picture was taken from the elevated train station just before we walked over to Chinatown Square and had lunch at Lee Wing Wa Restaurant. I highly recommend the Shanhai noodles. And the potstickers and the eggrolls. Here are a couple close shots of the Nine Dragons Wall at the entrance to Chinatown. Unfortunately I didn't have a good enough vantage point to get it all in. Standing in the middle of Cermak street wasn't an option at the time:

Pranksters of the past

From the Museum of Hoaxes:

The notebook of Thomas Betson, a fifteenth-century monk at Syon Abbey in Middlesex, records his joke of hiding a beetle inside a hollowed-out apple. When the apple began to mysteriously rock back and forth people believed it to be possessed. Other manuscripts include instructions for more mischievous tricks, such as how to make beds itchy and meat appear wormy.

The Secretum Philosophorum, which was a kind of fourteenth-century guide to trickery, offered a recipe for magically transforming water into wine. The trick was to secretly drop pieces of bread into the water, after first soaking the bread pieces in dark wine and then drying them in the sun.

Egg sausage

No further info on the contents or the source. Very tall chicken? From JustElite

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