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 (eleven years ago) link
ohsincerely disappointed!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Kenan's probably game. xp
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
noooooo
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
There are plenty of places to sleep on lower Wacker.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:09 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
oh man
― Silky Slim (dan m), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:22 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
is that a tiki head?
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/chicago/2012/05/a_cab_crashed_i.html
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
They should call it Logan Vegan.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Haha. Thanks, Brooklyn Vegan.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
There are vegan cabs now huh.
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:47 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
orangeappleyogurtgranola
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:17 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Close enough to what?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
to ChicagILXoans
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
That's by MEEEEEEE
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:35 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
20 min max, cheap cab too
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:43 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
I remember seeing paintings the last time I was there.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
On July 19th, 2009.
http://www.runningahead.com/logs/fa1b77092a6c411d9cf176c5b405142e/workouts/74201314af734bbeb2981d61654fd807/map
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:44 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
I was really misled by RP, as it's a lot less segregated than the rest of the city!
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link