The PopCulteer
January 10, 2025

It’s been a long week.

Weather, MG flare-ups, outside deadlines, and snow-clearing (which sucks so much I’m separating it from the sucky weather) have conspired to leave your humble blogger without a plan for this week’s PopCulteer.

Luckily, I can always pull a bunch of random images out of my ass and make a column out of them, so guess where we’re going today.

Our feature image is a sarcophagus that we saw in at The Art Institute of Chicago last month when we went to the City of Wind for Mel’s birthday. I thought it was sorta cool, but Mel was a bit freaked out by it, so we didn’t linger.  You’ll see a few more photos from that trip below, and also in the upper right, as I treat you to my self-portrait, taken at the Sephora on Michigan Avenue. I was in the husband-check section, proudly wearing my Mitch O’Connell “I’m a Monster Kid” shirt.

Let’s get to the random images so I can go to bed…

After yesterday’s post about finding old posts that I thought were lost at The Wayback Machine, I had a couple of folks ask if I could show what PopCult used to look like back in the day. Here’s a screen-grab from December, 2007. If you want to read the lead post, go HERE.

This is how you know you’re staying in a really fancy hotel.

A friend posted this to Twitter. It cracked me up.

I forgot to run this cool shot of folks in a room with a few Magritte pieces at the Art Institute last month.

A comic book panel, possibly about Big Pharma and Joe Manchin

After I started putting this post together, Super 7 posted this to their social media accounts.

Here’s a long photo of the artist formerly known as  Chicago’s Hancock Tower…

Here’s the top of said tower.

One of Mel’s favorite stores. Oddly enough we didn’t buy any candy here on this trip.

Newpaper composition is a lost art. Sometimes, though, they strike gold.

Headline writing is also a lost art, but this stunning example of ineptitude was so darkly funny that I posted it to social media.

And with that, I’m outta here.  That is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back for fresh content every day, and all of our regular features.