Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

(ie scrape off our car)

You might as well wait a little later, right?

So one of my coworkers just sent me an email with about 20 attachments and asked me to print them all out for her, which I did. Then I noticed that the email she forwarded said "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail." Oh well!

i dropped my ipod in a snow bank last night! spent five minutes digging around w/bare hands trying to find it.

Is it ok?

it was snowing when i got to michigan ave this morning, just lazy, lake effect stuff, nothing major. also, the museum campus looked pretty cool this morning with the muted sunlight turning the clouds almost silver and CLEAN snow on the ground instead of that grey muck that it will be by the time i get back there tonight.

back to work.

seems to be! i pounded the slush out of the jacks and it turned on ok.

i love winter. i love it so very much.

Help me out here -
I've had this ideal restaurant in mind for some time - it's super cozy, w/ booths and lots dark, warm lighting, maybe a fireplace, yummy food, not too pricey or fancy. Any place fit this description?

moody's minus the food

Been to the Third Coast on Dearborn/Goethe? Heh, I was thinking Moody's too.

IT IS SNOWING SO MUCH AND I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY

VIOLENTLY HAPPY

LIKE BJORK

WHO IS FROM ICELAND

WHERE IT SNOWS

actually i don't hate moody's food but it's merely ok

if they served kuma's-like food at moody's i would be there ALL THE G-D TIME. and i would be fat.

Third Coast you say? I will check that out.

I thought Moody's was just a bar.

They're known for their burgers.

Define "pricey or fancy."

nope
they have foods
just not fancy foods
i do appreciate the pickle with every sandwich

*their burgers are merely ok

Entrees around $12-15-ish? Can be fancy, I dunno. I want peasant food. Which is sort of fancy, I guess, but in a self-effacing way.

Wait, Eric, you beat me in that Scrabulous game? My two-steps-ahead plan failed miserably: I played POT (10 points) instead of WET (12 points) because it would allow me to then play PEW (16 points). I keep forgetting that the game is over as soon as the first person uses up all of their tiles. :(

Red Rooster is really cozy and warm. Entrees are like $11-$17. No booths, though.

http://chicagoburgerproject.blogspot.com/2007/06/moodys-pub_04.html

"Thus, disclosure: Moody's inspires a sentimentality in me that few other restaurants could...it's pretty much idiosychracy-themed restaurant, or a vision of what "family dining" would look like if Arthur Treacher had been able to outlast TGI Friday's. The building itself looks like some kind of conceptual Levittown Elks lodge. The dining room is almost unimaginably dark, crammed full of heavy wood tables and chairs. There are fireplaces in several corners that remain operational year-round, and everything is covered with a patina thirty years of aerosolized beef fat.* A massive multi-tiered beer garden/patio provides the corresponding yang, picnic tables shaded by a picturesque tree canopy. In a word: marvelous. Summer, Chicago, and Moody's beer garden are inextricbibly intertwined."

it's snowing in big, wet, vision-obscuring, fuck you mr. pedestrian flakes in hyde park.

Restaurant websites too often don't give an indication of atmosphere. I want atmosphere, gd it.

Oh. Rosebud looks nice.

i'm so excited about the snow. i need to go buy boots. also, i wish they didn't use salt. it would be nice to take my skis out of the closet.

You could easily go skiing in Humboldt Park.

Rosebud is pretty alright, though I've only been to the one on Rush. Northside grill might fit your needs, too, except it's in The Crotch.

You and Katie and your Westside-centrism.

If I had a car I might consider some of the stuff out there. But I don't have a car b/c I don't need one. Because I don't live on the West side.

/needless needling

Did I not just suggest a place called "Northside"? I can't be held responsible for their inappropriate name/location issues.

The blue line stopped very suddenly today and a standing woman slipped and fell flat on her front w/out even putting her hands out in front of her. It was bad.

I know it's cold, but I would have found it a little funny... Like when people aren't paying attention and they lean on the old doors that open inwards and then get mauled when the train stops.

Are those doors on any other trains besides the Blue Line? I don't like them.

Jesse, it is a bad idea to drive to the crotch anyway. Traffic SUCKS around there.

To reiterate, traffic sucks at the crotch.

Sorry.

Ay ay ay. We can't leave that hanging there! Come on!

haha ok.

I'm just saying that that's the only decent way to get over there. There are cabs of course. But those are for rich white people.

There are buses for Damen, North, and Milwaukee. Also, the Blue Line.

No good.

I would have to take a bus to Damen.

Also? I would have to take a bus.

Ride your "Red" line to North, take the bus west. It's fast. I have done it.

just go to moody's, dammit!
it's nearby, it's cozy and the food is adequate!
that's right: adequate!

I'm just scared.

I think we're going to Bin 36.

Wine + Cheese = uh-huh.

I like wine.

Also, I like this ALOT:
http://www.thewavemag.com/images/articles/11001-12000/11151.jpg

That reminds me, I saw a bottle of Sizzurp at a liquor store recently. I thought that they discontinued that shit.

never heard of it.

Me neither. Not outside of hip-hop slang, at least.

I thought it was cough syrup or some mix involving it.

http://www.mkjohnsimport.com/sizzurp.html