J.R. Nelson

@jrnelson.bsky.social

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Owner of Myopic Books and formerly 50% of Chicago Reader's Gossip Wolf. Fuck Ayn Rand.

A license plate photographed on a silver car in Myopic’s loading zone. It’s a red white and blue Illinois plate bearing the inscription “America Remembers September 11, 2001” with the vanity number “W Knew” lmao
Drudge Report's current homepage featuring a photo of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance and headlines including SUPER DOMINGO, CHOQUE DE LA NFL, LA FURIA DE TRUMP, SEA 29 NE 13
A photograph of Rowan Atkinson as his World War I character, Edmund Blackadder, from the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder
A photo of a rat who died trying to climb a recycling bin near the corner of Milwaukee, Damen and North near Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.
A blue Adam Friedland Show baseball cap on Myopic’s front counter
Leor and J.R. standing side by side near Myopic Bookstore’s green stairs
A thank you letter and enamel pin from the Chicago Reader for being a subscriber
A screencap of the MLB Gameday screen as my big dumper listens to the Seattle radio broadcast of tonight's extraordinary 15 inning (so far) M's/Tigers game
A photograph of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro's famous diner scene in Heat
Sunshine over the Haymarket Riot memorial in Chicago’s West Loop
A white and blue political button from 1987 featuring a caricature of then Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in a football uniform celebrating a win over…the city council? Not totally sure, but Harold sure looks happy.
A sinster drone, old BBC footage of an empty brutalist UK motorway and the cold words on the screen: "Underneath There Was Nothing"
A really dumb visual album cover joke from Inzane Johnny (aka Wolf Eyes guy) on X where Willem Dafoe replaces a member of Bell Biv DeVoe (you can probably guess which one)
A button for the victorious campaign of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington that reads “I am NOT an Alien, Jane. I’m a Human Being for Harold Washington”
Kanye begs for Musk and Trump to end MAGA’s messiest divorce on Twitter, a nimnoad follower asks Grok to get biblical, and I can’t stop laughing
'Ebert Victorious'
Two standout Drudge Report headlines: 'SENATOR MEETS WITH HOSTAGE IN EL SALVADOR' and 'WHO WILL BE NEXT TO TAKE MUSK SPERM'
A very good first edition copy of Murray Kempton’s ‘The Briar Patch’
Alfred J. Cantor, MD’s body of work includes such disparate titles as “Ridding Yourself of Psychosomatic Health Wreckers”, “Immortality” and “Painless Office Rectal Treatment”
David Endocrine AKA David Letterman from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
This cover of James Purdy's Narrow Rooms features a nips-out hot person enjoying a bottle of Budweiser and possibly illegal substances (not verified)
Now, when by all these means you have succeeded in dehumanizing the negro; when you have put him down, and made it forever impossible for him to be but as the beasts of the field; when you have extinguished his soul, and placed him where the ray of hope is blown out in darkness like that which broods over the spirits of the damned; are you quite sure the demon which you have roused will not turn and rend you? What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises. And let me tell you, all these things are prepared for you with the logic of history, if the elections shall promise that the next Dred Scott decision and all future decisions will be quietly acquiesced in by the people.
Mr. Milchick from Severance, who looks alarmingly like the guy to Biden's left in the FAQ photo
J.R. in a tuxedo in front of his janky ass refrigerator and microwave
Andrew Scott can't believe how good Enzo Cilenti looks in a tuxedo
Forlorn Carbondale IL Amtrak station awaiting the evening ‘Saluki’ run to Chicago
Lester Bangs performing on stage and wearing a Freedom or Death t-shirt.
Now cursed Cormac McCarthy/Blood Meridian hat object
Will Graham/Manhunter