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
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 (twelve years ago) link
So is Edgewater.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I hung out in Rogers Park a fair amount a decade ago, when I lived in Andersonville/Edgewater and worked in Evanston. I don't get there as often these days, but because I've never lived south of Irving Park in the past 11 years -- and also because I have a car -- it's never seemed crazy far away to me.
Actually, that reminds me, there's a bar I've been wanting to check out at Clark and Devon: Norse Bar. (Speaking of leather, I think it must be across the street from Touche.)
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
devon hardware is across from touche -- there are a few new places on the other side of devon though?
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I guess it is.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
Norse Bar, eh? Is there a Norwegian aspect to it?
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Yelp pictures show they have TVs hanging over all the tables. I really hate that. I am not opposed to TVs in bars (although I do like when bars don't have TVs) but having one hanging there in your face is unpleasant. It's like those dumb TVs in the back of taxis.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Wait not all of them. Just over the tables in the back, and then over the bar. Nevermind.
The barbecue place on Lincoln that I can never remember the name of has TVs at all the tables. And the server we had didn't know how to turn it off.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Barn & Company.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't look Norwegian, which is not a deal breaker for me but would likely make R irrationally angry & refuse to go there.
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I get it confused with Barrelhouse Flat. Flats. Whatever. I know BhF is the cocktail bar on Lincoln, but when I try to think of Barn & Company, all I can think of is the other name.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link