Satoru Inoue

Take a journey with me to find out how Chuck Berry and Yumi Matsutoya are our great transportation songwriters www.satoruinoue.com/p/cars-and-t...

On this “orange/pumpkin day” of our spirit week, 4yo wore a blue shirt and blue socks, and told us that there are blue pumpkins

What I thought about as I munched on a serviceable meal of pizza and hot dog at a pumpkin patch yesterday franklantz.substack.com/p/affect-is-protocol

This is Chicago emulating Tokyo

Especially relevant when you are the oversees relative

When you get an Art Institute membership, you inevitably think about how many visits you need to make it “worth it”, then you go upstairs during the member-only hour and see no one in front of the Seurat and obviously it’s worth it

Uh oh, 4yo says a teacher told him about “Willis Tower”

YIMBY=veSÍno NIMBY=veciNO

could be good. art depicting cities at Block Museum (Northwestern) art.newcity.com/2026/10/19/t...

about dosa at the Aurora Hindu temple www.weareravenous.com/when-terror-...

If you enjoyed this video on this text-based platform, I recommend Francesco Turrisi's writing—he plays with Rhiannon Giddens & Wu Man in the Silk Road Ensemble & talks often about this kind of cross-cultural musical exchanges (and about food) francescoturrisi.substack.com

enjoyed reading the phrase "religious Christmas card sender"

today, Monday, October 19, in-person early voting opens in neighborhoods across Chicago! chicagoelections.gov/voting/early...

On a separate note, at a kids' Halloween party tonight, met a dad who, unprompted, started talking about biking. When I talked about how I sometimes go out a kid in the bike seat, he mentioned wanting to do Critical Mass with his 1-year-old

We’ll see what happens today but our soon-to-be-2yo is an Open House Chicago baby and the Ukrainian Village sites are great open.substack.com/pub/inoueian...

Was on Grand, west of the river, saw a sign on an empty storefront advertising itself as being in River North. Just now, heard someone describe Erie Cafe, on Erie just east of the river, as being in the West Loop. I feel like there’s not much room for confusion, but I guess I’m wrong

4yo started humming this song lol

First time being out with my Myaku-Myaku T-shirt on and someone recognized it (them?) on the bus

This was a big oversight when I was listing old train songs There's a very recent recording by Rhiannon Giddens, and another one last year by Muireann Bradley "Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotten www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DC...

always nice to find a good, new-to-me Roman artist "Mano Nella Mano" by ARIETE feat. Fulminacci www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxy...

1yo is still quite vowel-y Jam is somewhere in between "jama" and "dama"—he's said "I love jama" All big cats are "jaga"

Ah, the hospital in Austin (neighborhood)

One of those fugitives: Former Loretto Hospital executive Anosh Ahmed, who faces fraud charges. He was investigated after @blockclubchi.bsky.social found evidence he took then-rare COVID-19 vaccines from the Chicago hospital for employees at Trump Tower, where Ahmed had a condo.

The street is painted appropriately, and yet