Benjamin Recchie
@brecchie
Chicagoan, dad, intermittent essayist (medium.com/@brecchie).
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
It amazes me that they can fit a gas station into a sidewalk space in France or Italy but in South Korea gas stations are two-story edifices. And neither typology is seen in the US.
Toyota ProBox. It's the dullest little car in the universe, and that makes it special.
This is a lot funnier if you imagine Tuberville not as a racist and xenophobe but as an inspirational speaker hired by the Borg Collective.
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
Fun fact: the lawn sculpture prevents Allied landing craft from approaching the house at high tide, making their embarked troops vulnerable to machine-gun fire from the house.
My mom's reaction to Caleb Williams' incredible game-tying touchdown pass:
Logo designers have a nasty tendency to update logos by making them more generic. I don't think anyone will get mad at the FLWBC in the way they did at Cracker Barrel, but compare their old, unmistakably Wrightian logo (red, below) with their new, could-be-anything one.
Is that better or worse than when the White Sox had an all-Garcia outfield?
“I just thought of a name for where we’re going--New England!” “Oh that’s real creative. What do you call your foot, New Hand?”
Check out this head-scratching figure that's supposed to describe boiling--excuse me, "boiting"--water on the stove. (This is not the bad writing example; it's going to be used to show how not to use a figure. But I thought I'd have some fun with the figure itself, too.)