Chicago MMXII

Jeff was the only ILXor I managed to hook up with in NYC. Max and I coquettishly traded texts, but nothing came of it.

I'm not going to drink with any of you again unless it is in NYC.

Omg lol CA. LL, we were busy w parents the whole time except late sat night when I updated here last min. I am so sorry. Like I said tho we will be back without question.

That's what I figured -- no prob!

You smarty pantses probably already know this (especially Askance J) but the next book in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is coming out soon - Bring Up the Bodies. I'm excited to get it as an e-book because Wolf Hall is the book that finally tipped me over into the pro-e-book camp after I lugged the hardback around Chicago for however long it took me to read it.

Thanks for reminding me, I've been meaning to pick up Wolf Hall for some time.

http://students.cis.uab.edu/k90/Skanking.jpg

pick it up pick it up pick it up

too many memories of the shitty ska bands in Champaign in the mid 90s

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/

especially this:

http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/04/30/sarah%20palin%20smoker%205.JPG

oh man

Ha.

Love the inevitable "you're anti-feminist" criticism.

Also, that made me hungry for pig.

is that a tiki head?

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/chicago/2012/05/a_cab_crashed_i.html

They should call it Logan Vegan.

Haha. Thanks, Brooklyn Vegan.

There are vegan cabs now huh.

wow, knowing that intersection, how does that even happen?!

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?

orange
apple
yogurt
granola

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"?

Close enough to what?

to ChicagILXoans

That's by MEEEEEEE

(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

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.

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.

or people watching, if that's your thing

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.

20 min max, cheap cab too

Mostly I've learned lately that north side is LL territory, step off if you don't respect

far north
other chilxors hold down the near north and north-west territories

how many people visit or live in chicago and never see this mural?
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5453/6913233760_cc3a214851.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/6913235804_6418a21c3e.jpg

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?

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!

I remember seeing paintings the last time I was there.

On July 19th, 2009.

http://www.runningahead.com/logs/fa1b77092a6c411d9cf176c5b405142e/workouts/74201314af734bbeb2981d61654fd807/map

they change every year, but there's always a mural there

also not esp my thing, but RP is home to the Leather Archives.

oh yeah, there's that museum over by the produce market!

Rogers Park is awesome and I wish it were convenient for me to live there or in Edgewater.

I was really misled by RP, as it's a lot less segregated than the rest of the city!

So is Edgewater.

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.)

devon hardware is across from touche -- there are a few new places on the other side of devon though?

Yeah, I guess it is.

Norse Bar, eh? Is there a Norwegian aspect to it?