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

i usually go get a banh mi at some point.

Sorry, no really 9/11. Freedom themed.

how long is the corn maze run? it doesn't say. also it seems dangerous that the path crosses over itself at a couple of places, won't people be running into each other?

3.1 miles. Just a 5K. I can't imagine the magnitude of the corn maze that would be required for a longer race.

Danger is part of the fun.

I was going to go bc lol freedom corn maze but I'd have to get up at like 4 am to go w/ Jeff which is straight bullshit.

Euler, srsly this whole thread is a giant, regional sidetrack. It's okay.

Jenny's right! We like outlanders.

lol "SO EXCITING!"

http://www.allcommunityevents.com/cornmaze/corn-maze-chicago.jpg

Did some sports team just do something significant? There is a great deal of screaming and whistle blowing on the street.

Huh. It's a huge group of men and women in dresses - most of them pink or may be red - running. Running really loudly.

My friend in NOLA takes part in a Red Dress run every year. Is that a thing elsewhere? Men in red dresses, running a race?

Never heard of that one, huh.

From my twitter feed

Yikes! MT “@Skilling: Gusts 45+ mph tonite; 60 mph ovr open lake wi 18-20 ft. offshore waves.”

Tonight? Or last night? There were still some pretty big waves on the Lake this morning.

i think today, my weather app showed weird wind arrows for today.

Last night.

ok cool! if I end up an Chicago(out)lander (which is looking pretty decently possible at this point), then I won't fret about dropping in here. I am a native Chicagoan, at least by birth + five years or so, & I did live in South Bend(over) for 6 years in adulthood.

I have been in your fine city a bunch lately, in Hyde Park a couple weekends back, again in about a month (but only briefly), then again a week later (but again even more briefly since then I go downstate for the visit mentioned yesterday, & perhaps won't but be in O'Hare en route), & then probably again a few weeks later (though again probably only in O'Hare as I'll be off to Europe for a stint). I stayed at a hotel in Hyde Park for the first time, the Ramada Lake Shore (famously p much the only place to stay in Hyde Park), with its fascinating orb spider webs, & with the lake so close yet requiring you to play Frogger across Lake Shore Drive to get to it.

there is a passageway across just north of that Ramada at 47th st fyi if you are ever there again

*across LSD

Oh god yeah, crossing LSD on foot is not a good idea.

I ran across it once.

I know! And I am retroactively anxious about it!

I thought about doing it! but I got paralyzed thinking about it; I mean, where do you go if something wrong? I guess: under a car.

Helps if it is like 3 am.

I work in Hyde Park and have driven through that area a zillion times. I've seen kids crossing the road and hanging out on the median strip/wall during afternoon rush hour.

Didn't someone get killed trying to run across LSD to sneak into Lollapalooza?

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Huge_Waves_Knock_Down_LSD_Bikers__Runners_Chicago-130845438.html

This happened to me a few months ago, in the exact same place.

I was driving (not my car) last weekend on LSD and saw two kids run across around Fullerton or so. Not smart.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Huge_Waves_Knock_Down_LSD_Bikers__Runners_Chicago-130845438.html

This happened to me a few months ago, in the exact same place.

You have to wear a life jacket when you run from now on.

this is kinda interesting, it's about chicago's sewage treatment: http://gizmodo.com/5844925/chicagos-stickney-wastewater-treatment-plant-is-the-crappiest-place-on-earth

Oh man that poor runner at 1:04, he gets nailed.

I ran across it once.

― Jeff, Friday, September 30, 2011 10:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

omg Jeff why

That was very interesting.

fuckin' fascinating

(the article that is)

I ran across it once.

― Jeff, Friday, September 30, 2011 10:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

omg Jeff why

I thought I was being chased but Jesse and Jenny had distracted my pursuers.

Coming soon to a building near me:

http://www.chicagopublishes.com/2011/09/the-great-chicago-book-sale-get-some-ucp-for-you/

Re: that article: Thank you, anaerobic bacteria! You do so much to keep us safe and healthy. It's so cool when stuff works.

Crazy and fun waves out there this morning.

i wish there was a good show i could go to tonight. other than george clinton and cameo at the horseshoe casino.

word up

Ty Segall at Bottle tomorrow!

Jesse, Abortney, K8-e, and I are going to a play about vibrators. But not tonight. But it is playing tonight.

Have you told horseshoe?

sounds positively stimulating

xp Before anyone gets the wrong idea, she recently said this about the playwright of that play:

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what is she like i am mildly obsessed with her

― horseshoe, Friday, September 2, 2011 5:46 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh i thought you were making an xposted joke about george clinton and cameo at the horseshoe casino!

I haven't told horseshoe but maybe she'll read this and find out!

I tweeted about this play and am now having a slightly uncomfortable twitter exchange about it.

i have given up on twitter

nick do you want to see cave with me on the 15th?

maybe, i'll have to look at our calendar at home.