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Metafilter, I’m thankful for you, whatever it is you end up becoming 25 years later.

I don’t know if this qualifies as oral history, but: my family moved to Chicagoland in 1992 and my folks took us way, way out of the way our first weekend there to see the Home Alone house, as a way to impress me and my brother and take the sting out of moving cross country.

My kid called it the Nonna Lisa for the longest time, and thought it was an odd picture of nonna

I saw a video of young-ish film dudes, and one said “did you know Margaret Qualley’s mom was actually in a couple movies herself in the 1990s” and 💀

I read Termination Shock and Ministry for the Future back to back, and that was a lot! The first chapter of the latter is a sequence that will haunt me forever.

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Aha, never mind, I could just rtfa where you have already explained!

Can I ask why the weak no on maps?