Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

Its like the wild West, we just need some tumbleweeds now.

It's sort of embarrassing! What will the New Yorkers say?

"There's a coyote owns a pizza place in Flatbush. Best slice in the city. Fugetaboutit!"

There's a neat article in... one of the two papers about a CompStat meeting run by the new police superintendent. Very Wire-like. Actually the article mentions The Wire since that is most civilians' reference point for CompStat, probably.

Oh! My friend Hugo posted a pic of a deer grazing in a yard by his house at Lawrence and Kimball. Wtf. Xp

I saw a fox in that cemetery on Irving Park once. It was acting really entitled!

I have a delightful image of an entitled-acting fox in my head now. Thank you!

He looked he was making himself right at home. Had a little barcolounger and everything.

I'm picturing Clooney as fox from that movie.

I'm picturing the fox in a top hat and monocle.

Like Mr. Peanut, but a fox.

Mr. Peanut is so fucking entitled.

Isn't he? Time to stop putting on airs, lose the tophat, stfu and get to being salty and delicious.

I want him to keep the monocle though. Love peanuts with monocles.

I kinda miss Planters cheez balls. Those were a special and very greasy treat.

I always enjoyed licking off the caked-on cheez powder off my fingers

Anyone ever take Megabus? Reading some iffy reviews but it's uber cheap. Going to Madison soon. Any advice on how to bus there and back most cheaply/effectively?

Someone summarize this thread so far for me please.

I'm home in bed resting a stupid infected foot. Gross, huh?

I'm thinking of buying a pair of Softwalk shoes for next week. I have to be on my feet for 9 hours at a time (with a 20 minute break). Why are comfortable shoes so expensive? Cry.

How are you guys?

I'm pretty good today. The weather is to my liking, I'm listening to the extended two-disc set of Jeff Buckley Live at Siné, and wearing a super comfortable pair of brown Oxfords, Clark's brand. I'm going to do my darndest to sneak out of here at least half an hour early today, because I have some critical errands and such to get to. I'm low on underwear, and my dry cleaning bag is getting way too puffy. Must reconcile. But I'm looking forward to doing it, because it will mean walking around outside in the nice breeze.

Not to taunt you over your infected foot. Sorry, maybe that was rude. :)

I guess I'm really ok spending a day lying down, but it was hurting like crazy whenever I put pressure on it earlier. I think it's really getting better! It still looks like a zombie foot though.

For those of you who have worked retail or waitered or anything else where you're on your feet all day, how many weeks did it take until you didn't feel like your legs and back were huge jerks by the end of the day?

A few weeks, at least.

I went to the podiatrist today for an injection in my foot! I have arthritis in my left second toe as a sweet aftermath of the bunion surgery I had last summer. SIGH.

Comfortable shoes are awfully expensive. Maybe try some Crocs? They ugly but they are good for standing all day. Also they are cheap.

How did your foot get infected?

I bought two pair of shoes for work that I thought would be comfortable but dressy enough. I wore the first pair Saturday to break them in as my wee fam and I meandered around Wicker Park. I could tell within a few blocks that they were a bad choice, but didn't want to go home. Eurosteps FWIW. Anyway, they rubbed on the back of my heel and side of my ankle on my left foot. I put bandaids on the sore spots. Wednesday night, I went to change my bandaids and it looked grody and the whole area was swollen and red and painful. Good times. Since I've had staph infections in the past and am prone to them, I had to get some mega antibiotics.

I'll look at crocs.

I'm sorry about your bum toe! Arthritis can *** my ***. (make up your own words)

Oh, and I didn't wait four days to change bandaids, by the way. That's just when I noticed it was off.

A few weeks before you get totally used to it but not that long to not be in agony! A week of regular shifts and you'll be fine! As long as you don't get more infections.

I feel like my leg muscles are stronger already.

Kevin, I've taken Megabus from Chicago to/from Minneapolis a few times, and it's cheap and, from my experience, reliable, as long as it's not blizzarding. The bus has never been full, so I've always had two seats to myself. It has a power outlet above each pair of seats, and free wireless. And it's double-decker, so you can avoid the screaming baby if there is one.

OK, so Britney's Till the World Ends video is SO BSG! Anyone else remember that steamy dance club episode? Or am I misremembering?

Calling crocs "ugly" is like calling OJ Simpson "misguided".

Toe arthritis has shifted my aesthetic preferences vis a vis my footwear. Now instead of cute shoes, I see knives and bear traps and instead of Crocs I see clouds with foot massaging hands.

Ok awesome! Thanx a lot, Eazy! :)

Check it out - a deer in between two buildings on Briar Place (near Belmont and Halsted) http://www.gregconsier.com/Other/Email/i-rgCsSpT/0/X3/photo-3-X3.jpg. Linked b/c you need to see it full-size to really see the deer.

http://www.gregconsier.com/Other/Email/i-rgCsSpT/0/X3/photo-3-X3.jpg

But in case you were thinking of not looking at it at all, I am posting it.

I'm getting sick of hearing 808 kickdrum sounds on the other side of my wall.

#livingnexttokanyeproblems

My neighbors get tired of the drone of 848 from my place.

WBEZ?

Yes.

every time I read that station name I think "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ!!!"

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Oprahs-Bees.gif

:D

My first roommate in Chicago is now the Saturday morning anchor on WBEZ.

First, I hate hate HATE when businesses stuff fliers/business cards/menus in our gate and our door handles. Hate it. Fuck you, businesses. I keep a list, so I can be sure to never give money to any business that litters my front stoop with their garbage.

But okay, second, I got a flier for... what is this for... real estate appraisals, I think, and the business website is www.propertytaxtohigh.com. Yeah, with that kind of attention to detail, I'm definitely going to hire you to appraise my property.

Assholes.

You sure do have a lot of opinions.

I'll opinion you.

I hate that too. So wasteful and assumes that I'm too stupid to google "food delivery".

Despite my many calls to the Trib, we still get the Red Eye delivered to our house (quote from my last attempt: "Please, stop delivering the Red Eye. It is a terrible paper. It makes me actually sad when I see it on my door step."), plus various sales fliers and our upstairs neighbors never EVER pick these up, which irks me. They are p nice and way better than upstairs neighbors of the past so I try to get over it, but it is a thing.

LOL at Bees!

They should call their pledge drive "the honey drive."

We met P3trr silbermn and chatted re weather and backing up a uhaul trailer <3.

What's up folks?