Crystal Thomas

Friday news dump: I'm finishing up my last day here @KCStar. After a decade away, I've decided to move back to the Chicagoland area to be close to family. I want to thank those who have trusted me with their stories and The Star for giving me the space to tell them.

@alex_kirshner Is this Kansas City? Because I’ve stayed in a Best Western with that exact set up

@summerbrennan The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. Read it and now I think is moss is lovely

@ScottCharton I hope it has the “The Shipping News” vibes

Wut? “In the untitled series, a star journalist (Swank) moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep, and finds redemption personally and professionally joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage.”

@SteveVockrodt Congrats, Steve!!!!

@mdoukmas @Chicago_Reader Would go just to see: “a mural depicting Basa’s wife as a blonde mermaid riding a shrimp”

@craftypanda February is the worst month in many ways, but still

Oh June 2021, how much I miss you.

@brendenmoore13 @danvock @amuhs @rileyeubanks @SJRbreaking @jayette @jasonpiscia @bschoenburg @MollyBeck @by_jamiemunks @maryfhansen As I left SJ-R, I said I would visit Springfield for the ribbon cutting of the Y-block. Every SJ-R reporter that’s written about the Y-block should join, we could encircle the block twice over

@danvock @amuhs @rileyeubanks @SJRbreaking @jayette @jasonpiscia @bschoenburg @MollyBeck @by_jamiemunks @maryfhansen @bycrystalthomas Well, there is “Y-block #2” aka the bulldozed site of the former YMCA at Fourth and Cook. Unless plans have changed, I believe this block’s final destiny is to become a surface parking lot. Because Springfield needs more of those!

@valeriehahn No ass in “occasion.” Gotta thank my 7th grade English teacher for that one

@mirandardavis I’ll need 5 forms of ID (originals only please) to confirm that is in fact your name

@jayette Bookmarked!

@jayette That looks and sounds divine

@mirandardavis I would like to go to there

@ByEdMcKinley To dunk is divine

@bycrystalthomas To err is human, crystal

Then New York journalists can have the fun debate that Missouri journalists did with Parsons about whether to call it a “re-election” or just “election”

@jelani9 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

@hannahmeisel I showed this to pharm tech at Marianos where I’m getting my shot and she said it made her want to cry with happiness.

“Off” today but we’ve passed a vaccine milestone - more than 1 million Illinoisans — 8% of the state’s total population — have been fully vaccinated. This number will grow even faster now that the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine is available.

@DriscollNPR I am so angry. This is some fucking bullshit

@juliaccarpenter Obvi Auntie Anne’s

You’re in mid-2000s mall with $20 you made babysitting and just 30 minutes before your mom checks out at Sharper Image and comes to pick you up — so quick! WHERE do you shop? (There’s a right answer)

@hannahmeisel @GovPritzker @IDPH Related and an interesting read about chain pharmacy rollout vs independent pharmacy rollout (chain are doing a bad job): mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-monopoli…

Like other govs, @GovPritzker is upset about a slower-than-anticipated vaccination effort from Walgreens/CVS, contracted by the Trump admin to inoculate long-term care facilities. But the pharmacies say IL’s at least partially at fault. @IDPH denies it. #stream/0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nprillinois.org/post/pritzker-…

@MadelineOdleTV Or cry in a good way

It’s nice to watch something historic happening that doesn’t make me want to cry