Chicago MMXII

also not crazy about paddy long's BACONBACONBACON theme

kind of want to go and be a super-snooty vegetarian

I'm actually leaving work early today (like around 5), but I might want to go home before I go out. Bad Apple could be appealing, too.

I am warning Courtney's family, mostly because I can't imagine going there to get a beer unless I specifically and really, really desperately wanted one of the beers they are tapping.

Or, what jvc said.

Like, the event starts at 7 and he was planning to get there at 5. That's him by himself.

I'm still sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so I'm not going anywhere but meeting n/a at the Bad Apple sounds very appealing. A-PEEL-ING.

APPLE-ING

I'm kind of afraid I have an antibiotic-resistant ear infection and my head is going to rot away from the inside out. I'm about 45% kidding.

You've been reading the horror poll countdown too long, haven't you?

There haven't even been any plague movies in the results yet!!!

I just meant wrt the terrible puns, but I guess that too!

Oh hahaha then yes, Eric H. was a direct influence on that pun, definitely.

ok well then i'll definitely be at bad apple from 5:30 for a couple of hours, probably sitting outside

sorry jeff

also not crazy about paddy long's BACONBACONBACON theme

Fuck u hipster.

Let's meet at the bad apple then. COURTNEY ARE U THERE?

JESSE ARE YOU LISTENING

ANNIE ARE YOU OKAY?

ARE YOU OKAY?

ARE YOU OKAY, ANNIE?

We should get our own board.

OK -- Kr and I are planning to get to Bad Apple around 6.

Bad Apple sounds great, but its pretty far from both my office and the wine tasting event for me to make it in a relatively short window.

No worries.

but it's on the way home!!!!!

jvc I would like to meet you

Jeff I would like you to come my lady to the Bad Apple.

Maybe later. For what it's worth, I made it to paddy Longs. Let's see if I can nurse a low abv beer for 2 hours.

I would like to meet the rest of you guys, but I'm in the South Loop at work now and I ultimately need to be at a wine tasting in LakeView at 6:45, so it doesn't really make a lot of sense for me to head out to the Bad Apple tonight. Maybe next time.

ugh bad apple doesn't have its outdoor seating set up and I want to be outside. Standing on the sidewalk trying to decide what to do.

pretty stupid not to have that set up for this weekend's weather

Tell them it is stupid not to set up outdoor tables for this weekend's weather and just stand there in front of the hostess stand until they do something about it.

(have you arrested)

they're being annoying about knowing exactly how many people are coming and when so I'm moving elsewhere TBA

I'm in the beer garden at Gannon's next door to bad apple

It was a bit of a clusterfuck last night. I was there two hours early and then the Bourbon Country went on at 7pm. The Coffee keg kicked in 18 minutes and the Bramble Rye bottles didn't last longer than half an hour.

Bourbon Country or Bourbon County?

Bourbon Country Cash Grab

County. Sorry, was fuzzy in the brain.

Next event for me is mini-golf at the Goose Island barrel warehouse.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/7303431-nato-delegates-come-out-for-kite-festival/

my friend josh gets interviewed about nato delegates, I kind of love his answer

also they fuck up both his and his son's names in the captions, wtg cbs

J@n schak0wsky was the keynote speaker at my graduation today! She was great and talked abt the fair pay act. She also danced in her seat when the band played. Good times.

She's so lovely.

nice. i like jan (except her stance on israel-palestine i guess).

What the hell...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-tinley-park-melee-20120520,0,4546147.story

I'm just going to come right out and say that I am skeptical of the prosecution in this case (also they are in good hands with their defense lawyer):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-hd-nato-chicago-arrests-0520-20120520,0,7496291.story

(they = the accused dudes)

huh, story fails to note that the attackers were anti-racist action and attackees were white supremacists

still a crazy story

xp to j3553

xp - I know! I got that info from the comments (which... I almost recommend for the one comment in which a white supremacist talks about how only the Aryan nation has true freedom of speech or something really confusing and wrong). Man, I'm not an avowed nonviolent person at all, but rolling up on people with bats and hammers is kind of not okay, even if those people are rotten, awful, disgusting people.

But back to my news coverage rant... What's pissing me off about all the Trib's coverage of the protests is that it's all about 1) arrests and 2) inconvenience. Nothing about what the folks might be protesting or why. Just shit like this:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2012-05/70036255.jpg

Which don't get me wrong, is a hilarious picture, but how about interviewing some of the leaders of the people out there chanting? Or if you're doing a human interest piece, throw in a paragraph about one of the actual protesters and what she's up to and what she thinks, etc.

won't someone please think of the commuters

I gotta say the WGN live coverage of ppl getting kettled & beaten yesterday was compelling and totally showed what a bunch of lameass talking heads modern tv "reporters" are

My commute was awesome this morning.

I don't know, I was watching some local coverage this weekend where they were talking to protestors and they chose literally the worst interviewees to show, people who just sort of stammered and hemmed and hawed without answering any of the questions. Which pisses me off, because I know there are tons of well-spoken, thoughtful protestors out there but they won't fit with the convenient narrative of "these people are young kids with no real end goals".