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

We need to up your dosage.

Can we agree that a business should not call a customer at 7am?

Yes.

I mean what the fucking fuck -- I didn't answer the call because (1) it was 7am and I didn't recognize the number and also (2) I was driving to the airport, but I got an exasperated message from this guy who asked me to call him back "in the next few minutes". FU pal!

You're freaking me out.

We need to up your dosage.

Hahaha snortol on the bus.

Haha - still funny!

So: The G-8 Summit and a NATO meeting are to take place in Chicago next year.

I wonder where they will be held?

JRTC concourse. Taco Bell will cater. Everybody gets a discount card for Dress Barn.

Ceviche: made
Hair: dyed

Now what.

are there any grocery stores near the picnic site?

If you get off the red line at Morse there is a market just west of the train.

christ the new reader best-of-chicago poll is embarrassing.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/best-indian-restaurant/BestOf?oid=4088873

What's the best Indian?

I think a lot of the readers' poll winners are the result of stuffing the ballot box -- maybe Chutney Joe's mounted a campaign.

Ugh they always are. When I worked at a weekly in NC we had to count that shit by hand and it was ballot stuffed tedium beyond your worst nightmare.

Where did you live in NC? I forgot.

Wilmington aka the ILM

Super nice out today, just in time for me to fly back to LA..

I should get dressed and go for a run!

A - "ILM"?

wILMington?

Days like today make me wish we had a porch.

You do have a porch. Maybe not the porch you want, but still, a porch. The porch you deserve.

It's not a porch as much as back stairs. I want to be able to set up lawn chairs and read the paper. And also look out onto the tree-lined street rather than the el station and empty gravelly lot.

Man. Broken record, but I can't wait to move! SUNLIGHT! I will get to have plants again. I will have a """balcony""" where I can put plants. Sunlight! A view out a window!

Sorry. Repeating shit is kinda my thing....

we have a balcony but it's very noisy and dusty. I would like to cover it in plants, eventually.

I've run 14 miles in St Louis. It's hot here.

While Jeff ran, I visited three antique stores and two coffee shops. A winner is clearly me.

I'm actually antique shopping my way down a street that ends at a haunted mansion so I'm more like a double winner.

I would say so.

the consistently goofy CR readers' poll results were less embarrassing than some of the "official" category winners this year, I think. Like why did they pay somebody to write about being stoked on a Trader Joe's with wider aisles?

you guys those pretzels spilled all over my bag
i should have thrown them out before they spilled in my bag :-/

Aww.

So, I love Rogers Park. I bet if I had a top 5 Chicago hoods, it would make the cut.

Sorry to miss out on the picnic, but we had our own at Ravinia w/ a. johnson and co. Garrison Keillor went off on Logan Square for a while.

It's hard to imagine GK going off. What did he have to say??

Also sorry to miss today--had to review a crappy play.

I don't mean 'went off' like in anger, he went on a long tangent describing the neighborhood.

Ah.

Glurb. I took my upper meds way too late in the day. Hi. I'm awake and doing some mad FF5 customizationing. Will the 9 extensions I just installed affect my browser's performance.

question mark?

k3vin said you all seem like very nice and attractive people

i appreciated his thoughtful/peaceful demeanor. i'm always impressed by people who don't appear to be easily rattled; it's a gift i do not have.

Haha "attractive"?

I liked him. Was he OK? It can be weird being the new guy. He seemed OK, but just wondered.

yes, he is a zen master compared to me. he helps counter my people fear (not that I'm nervous around you guys, just most people).

A, it was really lovely to see you! I don't get enough IRL A time.

There is a parade or something going on on Diversey. It's loud. And it seems strangely proud.

OMG It just got RERRRRRREALLY LOUD.

oontz, oontz, oontz

I enjoyed seeing you guys too (as always), and also glad that you could visit my park :)

oontz oontz oontz

I like that park! I used to run up that way from my house on Argyle. Once I stopped to pee in the bathroom there around dusk and it was very, very spooky! If some kid had thrown a lighter in there that night, I would have squealed and run away still peeing. (Yesterday while I was peeing, some kid threw a lighter at the wall from outside, which startled me a little.)

Man, this sucks. http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/vandals-slash-tires-of-30-chicago-pride-floats.html

(I really like when the URL provides a summary.)