Philip Montoro

@pmontoro

Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04 he/him/y'all pmontoro@chicagoreader.com

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Philip Montoro@pmontoro· 27d

The Chicago Reader's union is bargaining a new contract with owner Noisy Creek. NC wants to strip benefits that we've fought for *and* pay us less than the other papers it owns. If you care about the Reader, please tell NC this is a poor way to sustain a paper. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

July 16, 2026
union rat's log

TELL NOISY CREEK WE DESERVE BETTER.

Noisy Creek management wants us to ...

-Work longer hours
-Take fewer sick days
-And work in-office

all while offering us lower wages than other newspapers they own.

Join us in demanding a fair contract!

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Apr 21

Here’s Lou and the set of his dice I was honored to buy from him at Gary Con in 2017. RIP to the Colonel!

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Dec 26

A cartoon man has painted the word "shirt" on his shirt, "the cat" on the cat, "the house" on the house, and so forth. In a caption, he says, "Now! . . . THAT should clear up a few things around here!"

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Nov 5

R. Budd Dwyer moments before his suicide by gunshot during a press conference in 1987

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Sep 4

I've seen Threadgill with Zooid a couple times, but he hasn't been to Chicago since a reading from his memoir at Corbett vs. Dempsey in 2023. I was there, though, and I took a couple pictures. Threadgill is tremendously engaging and funny. And look at that smile!

Henry Threadgill sits at a chair in an art gallery, holding a microphone in one hand. He's wearing a white straw hat and a white short-sleeved button-down shirt, and he's got an infectious full-face smile all over him.

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Aug 9

Dessert is ready!

A yellow-and-blue bag of small prepackaged cakes that look a little like puckered muffins. The banner text on the bad reads CAKE and below that, in smaller letters, UGLY.

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Aug 9

Yesterday @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social released a collaboration with Brasserie de la Senne called Kuro and Kika Attaque!, named for the Belgian brewer’s two cats. It’s hoppy, dry, floral, funky, and delicious. You can get it at the Mousetrap!

Two bottles of the Off Color/De la Senne collab Kuro and Kika Attaque!, whose blue labels depict two cats, one a brown tabby and one black, playing with toys in front of a circus tent and roller coaster

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Jul 24

A 2021 tweet from the Iron Sheik reads, "Hulk Hogan may have been a dumb son of a bitch in the ring but outside the ring he was also a dumb son of a bitch" (in all caps, and as a quote reply to a tweet that says "Name an athlete who's an overall good human being")

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Jun 12

Douglas Quaid from Total Recall in the mask of the "two weeks" woman, which is coming apart, with a piston protruding along with the right ear

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Jun 5

a very fat leopard lies on the ground in a zoo enclosure, fat no doubt from all the faces it has been eating

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Apr 29

Supermoon Brewing in Milwaukee makes a quad called the Frightener that you’ll want to check out!

An empty brown beer bottle whose black-and-white label pictures a skeletal, desiccated face in an astronaut helmet

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Mar 22

Who else can't get electronic access to their personal social security record or earnings record?

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Mar 5

Let's not forget James 5:1–7 either!

Epistle of James, King James Version, Chapter Five:

1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Jan 29

Penelope Spheeris talked to @misterminsoo.bsky.social before a double feature of her first two Decline of Western Civilization docs at Thalia Hall. This event, organized by Chicago Reader staff writer @juggaloreporter.bsky.social, is also a fundraiser for the paper! chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

An illustrated flyer for a double feature and fundraiser for the Chicago Reader held at Thalia Hall on Sunday, February 23. Two punk rockers hold hands by the words "The Decline of Western Civilization," because Penelope Spheeris's first two Decline documentaries will screen. Doors at 4 PM, Part 1 at 5 PM, Part II at 8 PM. The flyer also mentions a photo booth, costume contest, prizes, music videos, and a weirdo market.

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Jan 1

My New Year’s resolution is 300 dpi. Happy 2025 from my niece Maxine.

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Dec 25

Lil throwback to an Xmas more than 40 years ago. I never would’ve stopped playing with Lego if it hadn’t got so damn expensive.

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Dec 25

If you care about the survivability of music making in the streaming era, then read @lizpelly.bsky.social investigation into Spotify's Perfect Fit Content program. It's systematically farming stock music to populate playlists and divert royalties from real artists. harpers.org/archive/2025...

Philip Montoro@pmontoro· Dec 16

As proof of life, and to demonstrate that this brand-new account is in fact operated by a human, here is an extremely suspect holiday-themed liqueur I saw at Devon Market.