Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

cool, it's actually evolving all over the place. cooks illustrated suggests replacing about 1/3 of the water with beer (light lager, to be exact) and add a teaspoon of vinegar as well. this gives it a more flavorful taste...i think it helps, but we're probably just going to make a starter and use that.

all my friends are boppin' the blues, it must be goin' round
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p064/p06453wi6b1.jpg

don't fear the perkins

Hey, I just found that my big Hollywood movie appearance from 1995 is online. I'm wearing glasses and am not attractively outfitted, at 0:04.

haha, are you walking by from the left? awesome.

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QUE GRAN PELICULA

It took some acting prep to appear to be convincingly engaged in conversation with my walking companion.

Was the language barrier much of a problem for you?

They CGI-ed my mouth to make it look like I was speaking Spanish.

Hey, there goes the state pinball champion.

silvialaputa? who gives themselves that kind of name?

silvia

does anyone know anything about the red-blue line superstation planned for Block 37? I keep reading that the platform and tracks will be connected, but I don't understand how the tracks can be connected.

welding

I could see a superstation going from Washington/Michigan to Washington/Dearborn, but I guess that's how the two stations were connected before the station closed.

it would be pretty unsafe to put a train on tracks that weren't connected to anything.

Construction to modify the State Street subway platform for connecting tunnels and tracks that will link the Red and Blue Line subways and connect them to the planned rapid transit station at 108 N. State Street begins 12:00 midnight,
Monday, October 23, 2006.

from the CTA's news release

that's State St. in Wisconsin, btw

That Blue transit center over at Clark/Lake is such a shiny big one that they won't replace that, I'm sure, so maybe the blue will jut over an extra block and run by a platform connecting to the red platform? I can't imagine that they would put both trains on the same track -- that would just gum up everything.

I would imagine they say "connect" in the same manner that the Red Line is connected to the elevated Loop tracks or like the Paulina connecting track before it became part of the Pink line. There is a tunnel that breaks off of the Blue between Grand and C/L, too.

Construction to modify the State Street subway platform for connecting tunnels and tracks

^^that wording is lacking and ambiguous

Write an angry email to the CTA.

Why can't I find anything online that shows an artist's rendering of the completed superstation?

http://www.ucip.org/images/legacy/index/superstation1.gif

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/subway-5122-05.jpg

LIAR!

http://transit.toronto.on.ca!!!!!!!!!!!!!/images/subway-5122-05.jpg

here come the martian martians

I would love to have that drawing framed on my living-room wall.

the perspective on that thing is kkkkeeerazy

like if you look in the foreground and you imagine that those tubes are sitting on the surface of the street instead of under the street but for some reason the people inside are half as tall as the people outside, and suddenly it's an m.c. escher painting

I like the two women in matching outfits on the sidewalk.

And those trees must be 50 feet tall.

A 50 foot tree is not unlikely, is it?

later gators, i'm going home and going to bed.

Going home and going to bed ruined my Friday night... I'm sorry I didn't make it out, guys.

50 foot tree is likely. Here's a real photo of that station.

I have to be far away from Ronny's 'til 11 or midnight, so I may have to miss the extravaganza tonight, alas alas.

:-(

i had a great time last night, thanks everyone that helped me celebrate!

any idea about the timing of the show tonight? we'd like to come but are both exhausted and so knowing when everyone is on would help with planning...

Thanks for having us over! I'm really glad that I was able to make it because I had a grand time.

Jesse, do you remember this?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2095323249_d2a0f6c802.jpg

Also:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2096097212_a2e355489a.jpg

show starts at 9 - 9:30ish, spectacles play first, then sharks, then us, with poem2song and magic in between sets i think? i like all the bands playing tonight so i would tell people to get there early but my guess is sharks will start around 10-10:30ish and we'll start about an hour after that?

I do remember that! I have a video of that day too! Let's eat 'shrooms again soon. You're got a lawyering job now, it'll be fine.

Attn: lawyers

Some of my coworkers and I have questions about collective bargaining and NICA (Nat'l Independent Contractor Association). We are....disgruntled.

C-I'm sorry I didn't make it to the party last night, many happy congratulations! N & S, no chance you guys are going on earlier than 11:30ish, is there? I promise I'll make it one of these days, but I have a 11:30 call at the Playground. boo.

wow, i just did a crossword with "stereolab", "ween", and "rilo" (kiley) as answers. actually i've never heard rilo kiley, but that one shows up in puzzles all the time.

Attn: bike messengers

Email me.

Attn Xwrdrz stfu, srsment

uh, jk?

My last crossword had RILO in it.

And I just did a new one, but I have to wait until tomorrow morning before I can import it into Crossword Weaver (which is only available for PC).

Jesse, I can't tell if you're actually annoyed by the crossword puzzle talk on this thread or not. You've made a couple comments that make me think you are, but maybe I'm just reading into it too much.