Whose Karen is it?

November 4, 2020 | jnettlebeck

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the week.

WHOSE KAREN IS IT!!!!!!

This week our Karen post reminds us to remind you to wear your mask!

YIKES. Karen, read the room!

Where is this Karen from? Do you think you know?

Keep sending in your Karen posts!

Porn theme park opens in Japan

November 3, 2020 | jnettlebeck

A Japanese adult film company Soft on Demand  just opened up their very own five story ‘adults only’ theme park in the red-light district of Tokyo, Japan. They are calling it SOD Land.

The 18 and up theme park only costs $5 to enter, and has real life adult film stars serve guests.

Sorry kids, Mickey and Goofy are no where to be found at this theme park. This one is just for grown ups!

A New App Lets You Set Up a Legally Binding NDA Before Sending Nude Selfies

November 3, 2020 | Tim Virgin

If you REALLY want to start sending people naked pictures of yourself . . . and who doesn’t? … but you’re worried about those pictures getting leaked, here’s a solution.

There’s a new app called e-gree that lets you create a legally-binding non-disclosure agreement with someone before you start sexting.

Once you both sign the NDA, if they leak your nude photos, you can sue them and have the same legal standing you’d have if a lawyer had drawn up the contract for you

You can download e-gree for free for Apple or Android, and if you want to set up one of these sexting NDAs, it’s only 99 cents.

(The Sun)

 

 

Happy Birthday to Tim McIlrath of Rise Against!

November 3, 2020 | Kevin

Happy Birthday to Tim McIlrath of our beloved hometown heroes Rise Against. His passion for music, doing what’s right, and representing Chicago in such a special way has never wavered since the band broke out to be a worldwide sensation. Over the years at PIqniq, the Nights We Stole Christmas, and even just running him into on the streets like right after playing Wrigley Field, Tim has always just been down to Earth around these larger-than-life situations. Let’s celebrate our special times with Tim and the RA gang down below.

Listen to our new long-form interview on our new History of Alternative with Tim McIlrath about how politics have inspired some incredible songs in the alternative space.

Feeling a Halloween candy hangover? Listen to RA’s Tim sing Misfits ‘Halloween’ with Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, Mike Herrera of MxPx/Goldfinger,  Angels & Airwaves drummer Atom Willard, and Ryan ‘Fluff’ Bruce from Dragged Under.

At Piqniq saw two superheroes unite to bring ‘power to the people’ as Tom Morello had McIlrath join him on-stage with a lot of WKQX listeners. It was surreal to say the least. Watch this wild video of that here.

 

Spend some time with this special Lounge session we taped with Tim and our various interviews with him through the years.

 

Whose Karen is it update

November 2, 2020 | jnettlebeck

Remember last weeks Karen who didn’t want your lame tick-or-treat candy? Well she’s posted again!

Turns out things did not go so smoothly on Halloween in her neighborhood…

Evanston! Are you better than this?

Share this post so our Karen can see!!!

Stream 2 new Smashing Pumpkins tracks ‘Wyttch’ and ‘Ramona’

November 2, 2020 | Kevin

The latest Smashing Pumpkins album ‘CYR’ drops on November 27th and we’ve already gotten a solid taste of the 33-song collection with the album title track and several animated music videos but this weekend we got two new tracks from the band. They are both quite different but see the band doing something quite fresh yet still invigorating to longtime fans of the Chicago alternative icons.

‘Wyttch’ is a perfect track for your post-Halloween desires for the creepy and scary side of life. The swerving beat, the thumping bass, and Billy almost casting a spell with the lyrics. It has a very epic feel to get your head bobbing up and down. This could be a really great song to see live with the loud chants and thundering guitar parts.

‘Ramona’ this track sees the Pumpkins embraced the new wavey keyboard-driven synth-pop that they have utilized in the past. It feels like a song we could hear on a Muse album, am I right?! The story of this ‘Ramona’ character also stirs up reminders of the classic Tarantino ‘Kill Bill’ movies minus the sword fights. In a statement issued to the press, the video has a “surreal gothic-western inspired love-story.”

Chicagoland Police Scanner Weekend Roundup

November 1, 2020 | jnettlebeck

You know our favorite weekend hobby. It’s perusing the Chicago Police Department’s scanner of course!!!

This weekend we had a lot of ~spooky~ police calls going out.

Here’s what we heard:

Saturday 1:56 PM – Grant park – Male mid 50’s dressed as a clown disturbing the peace in the park. Reports of him using a magnifying glass to kill bugs. 

Saturday 7:43PM – State/Lake – Group of people dressed as telatubbies reportedly racing wheel chairs down state street. 

Saturday 10:12 PM – 834 Victoria Drive in Montgomery – There’s a 7 year old reporting that his parents stole his Halloween candy and are smoking marijuana. He’s upset they made him go to bed. He’s requesting we send an officer to the residence to throw his parents in jail for theft. 

Saturday 10:48 PM – 1140 Lasalle in the city – Someone is puking off their balcony and it’s hitting people below. Victim is very upset and is threatening to climb the building in his spider man costume. Officers in route. 

Saturday 11:03 PM – 1724 165th street – Hammond Indiana – Woman dressed as a lady bug in Food 4 Less putting olives on her fingertips and is reportedly forcefully making people eat them off her hands. Security has her detained in the front of store. 

Dine and dasher falls through ceiling!

November 1, 2020 | jnettlebeck

Dine and dashing gives you such bad karma that the floor literally opens up from under you!

Or sometimes the ceiling…

You know she couldn’t have been to sly about it if she literally fell into the cop’s lap!

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