Chicago MMXII

My plan B (36/22) was a bust. Plan C (13-something, 15-something) was fucked. Like, you couldn't walk by on the sidewalk for all of the people waiting. So I decide to walk north on Clark until the cab competition thinned out. Made it to Clark St Ale House. Having a beer.

…to be continued

i just realized that i have a condo meeting tonight
5 hour fac mtg + condo meeting in one day is a spelunking expedition into the pits of hell

I made it home before 5 PM, ran 6 miles in less than stellar air quality, and then ate a peach pop.

Get an I Go and come pick me up? :D

Also stop gloating. Your wife is trapped in River North or wherever the hell I am.

But you're having beer and I am not.

You might as well eat dinner there because I forgot to take out chicken. But by the time you get back it may be defrosted anyway.

People by my house said you could smell smoke in the air.

I ran, too. To my doc's office. Sucked. But he gave me a Diet Coke.

The only food here is pretzel rods. ;_;

I'm going back out to try and get a cab in about 15 min. Hopefully northbound 22 buses are okay by now. I'm buzzed enough to not be too miserable if I end up standing with my face in a stranger's armpit.

They're playing Bad Religion.

Now Better Than Ezra "Good." I'm totally going to sing to the dude next to me talking about his PC setup and making dick jokes. Y'all know how much I like to sing this song.

WahhhawwwawwwwawwwawwWAHawwww

STAND DOWN RED ALERT. I walked out of the bar and into a cab. I repeat: stand down red alert.

We're stuck in traffic now, though, and "I Did It All For The Nookie" is on the radio. Lolllllll at me forever.

I can't believe it's actually 80 degrees out here! The dew point must be insanely low b/c it feels AMAZING out here. I got a chill a minute ago when the wind hit my sweaty neck. Dry heat, yo!

Dew Point: 36 °F

That's awesome.

This is Je55e J3ndra with traffic and weather on the eights.

Ah! Turns out that I never knew where Roy's was. I thought it was at Lincoln, Irving, and Damen. No wonder there was smoke in Lincoln Park.

Boy was today a horrible day to have to drive. 2.5 hours to get home. LSD was a parking lot, 1.5 of those hours were simply getting from Balbo to Fullerton. I considered leaving my car overnight and taking a cab, but my boss called and said he abandoned his cab because it was just sitting and not moving anywhere.

Looks like Roy's is pretty much screwed, they're going to tear down the whole building now.

I hope it was an intentional insurance fraud fire and they wanted to lose the whole business and they don't get caught.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-man-injured-in-stabbing-inside-uptown-bar-20120530,0,2901475.story

I wonder which bar?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-teen-dies-after-early-morning-uptown-neighborhood-shooting-20120529,0,6503948.story

Good grief!

Okay, one more - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-brown-red-purple-lines-shut-down-due-to-extraalarm-fire-20120529,0,328774.story

Not only did Roy's burn down, a Metra train killed somebody, and a fire near Rockwell muffed up Brown Line trains up thataway.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only weirdo who felt a bond with Roy's, though.

Luckily, everything was copacetic for me when I left work at 8. Kr was stranded in Evanston for a while, though.

The stabbing was on the 5000 block of N Clark and the only bar I'm aware of on that block is T's.

Man, Roy's was apparently an institution. I feel like I'm back in Wilkesboro the way people are eulogizing it. My barber said she sent a lot of her customers there and said how cheap and cluttered but nice it was.

Whoa that's right by my work!

Oh shit, the shooting was at Laurie's Pizza. Huh.

Both are right by your work and right by my old apartment.

What is going on Chicago? Calm down with the shooting and stabbings, eh?

just get the fires and violence over by July 3.

Oh man I'm going to be out of town when you visit. But don't worry Morbs, we'll be all calmed down and the Cubs will be in first place by the time you arrive. Wait, I don't even think that last part is mathematically possible even.

None of this is my fault.

The comments on the Trib's report of the fire are as sweet as anyone could hope for. Couple of folks said Chicago is like a "third world city" b/c of shit like the fire, train delays, and broken glass on the lakeshore path.

This was funny though: Just rioting Cub fans celebrating a two-game winning streak.

ok you guys, want to waste time making loops? http://www.sembeo.com/media/Matrix.swf

been having a lot of fun with this the past 15 min or so

oh god, that is super fun and amazing.

1. Planes collided at O'Hare?

2. Is there a thread about that poor dude who ate that other poor dude's face? I'm interested in the drug angle and figure ILX could do a good job with that. (Also realized I'm really out of the loop, drugwise, when someone told me about "spice" and "bath salts" and I realized I had no idea what those things are.) (like, I had heard of bath salts but thought it was idiots actually ingesting bath additives, which is not the case?)

there's some discussion of the face-eating on the o_O 3 thread

I've seen that Matrix thing before. It's pretty fun. Everything sounds like Steve Reich.

I'm interested in the drug angle and figure ILX could do a good job with that.

"plant food"

Thanking u both

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-747-cargo-plane-clips-commuter-plane-at-ohare-20120530,0,1105366.story

never forget "cheese"

kumail has a pretty classic bit about "cheese"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cvKcGVy6k

RIP Roy's

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-roys-furniture-neighborhood-20120531,0,5339640.story?track=rss

Man, that sucks. I hope they re-open. I had no idea it was such a loved, deeply-rooted part of the community. I think I might have said it here before, but it's like being back in Wilkesboro where we had chains (North Kakalackites might remember Heilig-Meyer?), but people liked shopping from Danny C@dill's shop on Main Street.

Cute/annoying thing Eddie the cat did that maybe you pals will find funny like I do:

This morning when I woke up I rolled over onto something hard and sharp under my shoulder. Yesterday I made 2 copies of my 2 house keys and left them on a table with the cardboard backing still stuck on them. Eddie had dragged them all into the bed and laid them at the top of the bed near my head and torso.

I had no idea it was such a loved, deeply-rooted part of the community.

And I had literally never heard of it until the conflagration.