Adam Selzer
@adamchicago.bsky.social
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historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him mysteriouschicago.com , patreon.com/adamchicago
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adamchicago.bsky.social
You don’t believe “The Usual” would have been a smash?
adamchicago.bsky.social
I hope she ends up getting everything he ever owned.

All of these fuckers should be held personally responsible and be taken for everything, right down to their burial plots.
jakewittich.bsky.social
The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com
Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times
Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...
windycitytimes.com
adamchicago.bsky.social
I like to imagine that he secretly hates it and wishes the earth would swallow him up every time he hears the opening notes.
adamchicago.bsky.social
I absolutely cannot say “party” any differently than the witch in that commercial.

”Now, when you stock up on Pepsi and Doritos you’ll find savings on Hershey’s candy. It’s the perfect recipe for a…” “PARTAY!”
adamchicago.bsky.social
You know what would actually be pretty hilarious is if Lee Greenwood played the Superbowl (or anything else) but then he didn’t do “God Bless the USA.”
adamchicago.bsky.social
Usually I can least puzzle out what he means, but this?
atrupar.com
Trump: "But Air Force One was really, it was covered with Egyptian desert just a few months ago. If you think about it. Just a few months ago it was Egyptian desert and now it was just a few feet off our window. And it was a spectacular sight."
adamchicago.bsky.social
Just read a bit about how comedian Joe Ancis, on whom Lenny Bruce based much of his style, used to shot “What do you do for a living?” at comics during their sets.

Could he have been the guy who shouted it at Bob Dylan at the Philharmonic in 64? (Bob quipped “Hey anything you say!” to laughs).
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Hello, Mr Perkins Bass. Your school is cool & all, but I really like your grave.

Perkins Bass (1827-1899) reposes in Rosehill Cemetery & occasionally shows up on @adamchicago.bsky.social's Rosehill tours, depending on what dead people Adam feels like introducing you to on any given day.
Color photo of the highly ornate above ground tomb for Perkins Bass, an elaborately carved box where nearly every surface is ornamented with floral or geometric designs.
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meredithshiner.com
It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.
lauraolin.bsky.social
A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.
adamchicago.bsky.social
“Even Jesus would never forgive what you do.”
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vimiller.bsky.social
Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park as neighbors respond to them detaining people. One person was taken, though another was freed.

“I was afraid to go over there. I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back."
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'
A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.
chicago.suntimes.com
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
I’m sure. He’s will be with his pal Rush Limbaugh in a different place. Also, for someone who is supposedly in great shape he sure is talking a lot about death lately. bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com
Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
adamchicago.bsky.social
Did someone play him “Masters of War?”
atrupar.com
Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
adamchicago.bsky.social
Right, they don’t know how to deal with it.

And just in general if you get someone laughing, they want to find a way to agree with you. Humor changes minds.
adamchicago.bsky.social
I grew up on Muppets, Weird Al, Daniel Pinkwater books, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and Pee-Wee Herman.

Buying an inflatable chicken suit to help fight tyranny in my neighborhood seems about right to me.

It may be a small thing, but humor can be a weapon.
Man donning an inflatable “riding a chicken” suit in his Chicago apartment, with a cat climbing his back. He is wearing a whistle around his neck, as are most of his neighbors today.
adamchicago.bsky.social
My chicken suit arrived today.
adamchicago.bsky.social
Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.
adamchicago.bsky.social
They should’ve kept calling it “The 100 Foot Road.”
adamchicago.bsky.social
“Million to one shot, Doc.”
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)
mkaiasand.bsky.social
Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.
Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland
adamchicago.bsky.social
“Hey kid… my name is Morris D. Broadway and I’m gonna make you a star!” @actualnames.bsky.social
Grave of Morris D Broadway, a sign poster and aspiring dime museum owner, at a Chicago cemetery.
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muellershewrote.com
Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Wait so just to be clear then the cat's name was Buster Keaton
priscillapage.bsky.social
Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977
black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest