Dan Sinker/notes

Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.

The good news for Chicago won’t stop.

Rise & Dine: Portillo’s is Testing Breakfast, screengrab

posted at 8:23PM on May 8, 2025

Anyway, to sum up: Chicago is the greatest city in the world.

posted at 5:27PM on May 8, 2025

You think we’re tiresome talking about hot dog condiments just wait

posted at 12:42PM on May 8, 2025

I’m a few years when we’ve got the new Pope and JB’s president we are never gonna shut up ever.

posted at 12:39PM on May 8, 2025

Chicago over everything.

posted at 12:37PM on May 8, 2025

I’m gonna need the Arsenal Football Club to lock in now.

posted at 1:39PM on May 7, 2025

Lollll when it’s absolutely and totally going great.

A headline discusses President Trump backing off previous claims about trade deals and tariffs.

posted at 7:00PM on May 6, 2025

"Girls only need two dolls" and "Sure, baby strollers are more expensive but what about gasoline" are two surefire winner arguments and I hope he really digs in on both.

posted at 9:07PM on May 4, 2025

Happy Free Comic Book Day, one of the best days of the year!

posted at 7:11AM on May 3, 2025

Honestly, 15 friends is an unwieldy number of friends.

posted at 4:49PM on May 1, 2025

Happy May Day, from the city that brought it to you. historical flyer advertising a mass meeting at Randoph Street between Desplains and Halstead in Chicago

posted at 9:40AM on May 1, 2025

Memory is a real son of a bitch. I thought I remembered the last painful years of Punk Planet vividly. Looking across the wreckage of Year 12, our next-to-last year, it turns out I didn't. Read "Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12" dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 2:46PM on April 30, 2025

Yesterday was like 40 degrees colder than today

posted at 5:55PM on April 28, 2025

To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 7:14AM on April 26, 2025

Just got feedback on something and the big takeaway was "Maybe cut half of the curse words." My brand remains strong.

posted at 12:51PM on April 25, 2025

Between Minecraft and Sinners can anyone remember this many people talking enthusiastically about the experience of seeing movies in movie theaters in the last 5 years? I can not. Like I said: I think movies are back.

posted at 12:30PM on April 25, 2025

Wow, I didn't know that the Getty got the Raymond Pettibon archive this year. I want to dig through that so bad!! www.getty.edu/news/gett...

posted at 9:36PM on April 24, 2025

So Musk decimated staffing across the government, effectively shuttered multiple agencies, and ended most foreign aid, education, and science funding, while only trimming around $150B out of the budget??? Sounds like government was actually REMARKABLY efficient before he came along.

posted at 4:14PM on April 24, 2025

Kickstarter acknowledges that folks building things are royally fucked right now. Since then, early beta testers have helped us shape and improve it in all the right ways, including adding a new Tariff Manager to help creators adapt to changing tariff and regulatory costs—without compromising reward delivery.

posted at 12:59PM on April 24, 2025

We gotta bring back calling that guy a couchfucker

posted at 9:48PM on April 22, 2025

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