I could be wrong, and there's no way to find out, but iirc mh said he had previously stayed near you at the hotel in RP, and not that he is staying there on this visit.
xp
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I understand that misunderstanding! Yes, sadly my friends moved from there long ago, but on the bright side, I will probably crash in a different hotel.
That is, unless I pull that trick where you just take your suitcase to the bar on Monday night and try to talk my way on to someone's couch / into someone's bed
;)
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
ohsincerely disappointed!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Kenan's probably game. xp
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
noooooo
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
There are plenty of places to sleep on lower Wacker.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Jeff was the only ILXor I managed to hook up with in NYC. Max and I coquettishly traded texts, but nothing came of it.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not going to drink with any of you again unless it is in NYC.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Omg lol CA. LL, we were busy w parents the whole time except late sat night when I updated here last min. I am so sorry. Like I said tho we will be back without question.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
That's what I figured -- no prob!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
You smarty pantses probably already know this (especially Askance J) but the next book in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is coming out soon - Bring Up the Bodies. I'm excited to get it as an e-book because Wolf Hall is the book that finally tipped me over into the pro-e-book camp after I lugged the hardback around Chicago for however long it took me to read it.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me, I've been meaning to pick up Wolf Hall for some time.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://students.cis.uab.edu/k90/Skanking.jpg
pick it up pick it up pick it up
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
too many memories of the shitty ska bands in Champaign in the mid 90s
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
this was on ned's facebook so you all probably already saw it but i think this is pretty awesome (the sculpture, not the response):
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/04/hellish-sarah-palin-sculpture-roasts-whole-pigs-chicago/1885/
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
especially this:
http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/04/30/sarah%20palin%20smoker%205.JPG
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
― Silky Slim (dan m), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Ha.
Love the inevitable "you're anti-feminist" criticism.
Also, that made me hungry for pig.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
is that a tiki head?
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/chicago/2012/05/a_cab_crashed_i.html
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
They should call it Logan Vegan.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Haha. Thanks, Brooklyn Vegan.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
There are vegan cabs now huh.
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
wow, knowing that intersection, how does that even happen?!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
i want to eat something but nothing as filling as the leftover chili i brought for lunch today. what should i eat that is like a little snack and is delicious and i can buy downtown?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
orangeappleyogurtgranola
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
or put them all together and embrace the maddness
If I stayed in a cheap hotel near the Jarvis stop in Rogers Park, how many of you would say "That's close enough"?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Close enough to what?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
to ChicagILXoans
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
That's by MEEEEEEE
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
(and no one else) but if you like quiet lakeside relaxation and easy access to red line and bus (but about 45 min from downtown on a good day) it is the place for u
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Lucky you! Anyway trip is still 50/50, might be around July 4.
I would not be hitting downtown as much as Big Chicks, and I guess venturing to the South Side for baseball as the Cubs aren't home that week.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
well then it's a fine place to stay and sox stadium is long commute, but def possible from there. i used to work right off that stop, just get a lot of reading done on the train.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
or people watching, if that's your thing
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
also hella nursing homes
and a frank lloyd wright house!
I said almost the exact thing LL did so, yeah. The one thing I said that she didn't is that Big Chick's is 8 stops south of Jarvis, and many of those are close together so it's a quick ride.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
20 min max, cheap cab too
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Mostly I've learned lately that north side is LL territory, step off if you don't respect
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
far northother chilxors hold down the near north and north-west territories
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
how many people visit or live in chicago and never see this mural? http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5453/6913233760_cc3a214851.jpghttp://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/6913235804_6418a21c3e.jpg
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Jarvis is about 6 blocks from another good gay bar, The Glenwood, which is at Morse. (probably good, i've only been there once, but it had a definite Big Chicks kind of easy-going vibe)
A, is that mural near Morse?
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
no, it's by the lake -- they redo it every year and this year's theme was "dreams", hence michael steele and his one giant eye urging us to "have a dream" it's right by where we're going to picnic on sat if the rain holds off!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I remember seeing paintings the last time I was there.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
On July 19th, 2009.
http://www.runningahead.com/logs/fa1b77092a6c411d9cf176c5b405142e/workouts/74201314af734bbeb2981d61654fd807/map
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
they change every year, but there's always a mural there
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
also not esp my thing, but RP is home to the Leather Archives.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah, there's that museum over by the produce market!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Rogers Park is awesome and I wish it were convenient for me to live there or in Edgewater.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link