Chicago MMXII

I felt better about being abandoned for laundry when I learned that you guys had to drive to the laundromat.

in sum: mh is buena gente, I slept until JUST NOW, got some almond croissants in the oven, sup.

Yeah, we went to Bubbleland, at Elston/Grace. I'm not sure if there's a closer laundromat that's open late.

Looks like there'll be no further extension of Iceman Cometh into July (they have a musical about church hats to replace it). So I'll have to settle for Neofuturists, White Sox etc. (unless this Three Sisters coming @ S'wolf gets great reviews)

every time we pass bubbleland we sing its name to the tune of "Barbara Ann".

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The Human Centipede 2 is not very good.

I wish that was not the case :/

Haha.

Hello, noodle. It's like you were summoned by the centipede signal.

It's about a million times better than One for the Money.

Where and why did you see that?

Katherine Heigl should definitely be a segment.

Tonight. In Delaware.

Why? I'm not sure.

Because the other choice was the Straw Dogs remake and I chose bad "comedy" over bad rape scene.

Katherine Heigl should definitely be a segment.

^^^ many LOLs

Hey in case anybody was wondering, the answer to the question, "How many episodes of House Hunters can you watch in one day and remain emotionally stable" is "About 11."

Looks like there'll be no further extension of Iceman Cometh into July (they have a musical about church hats to replace it). So I'll have to settle for Neofuturists, White Sox etc. (unless this Three Sisters coming @ S'wolf gets great reviews)

As if there are only a few theaters in Chicago doing work worth seeing!

I saw One for the Money. It was as bad as I expected.

We've had summer hours for three weeks now, but I'll finally be able to take advantage of them and leave early today!

As if there are only a few theaters in Chicago doing work worth seeing!

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply such, just eliminating the 'big' stuff. Feel free to recommend.

are you guys ready for RIBFEST?

I wonder if the ribs are actually any good at RIBFEST? My one visit to Taste of Chicago made me skeptical of food-based festivals.

Jeff brought home ribs from ribfest last year and they were really good.

all i know is that it fucks up parking by our house

the street is overflowing with greasy rib bones i bet

Ribfest makes my vegan FB friend who lives nearby very vocally self-righteous. He has suggested that the dummies at Ribfest should try a saladfest instead. Looking forward to this year's rants.

Yes, our ribfest ribs were good.

Every day is saladfest.

last year (?) the vegetarian cafe down the street from us had a booth at ribfest with vegan ribs. don't think they're doing it this year though.

testing out a tweet with you guys: "when you've had a rib surgically removed so you can give yourself a blowjob, EVERY day is ribfest!"

(i'm not actually going to tweet that)

(i probably shouldn't have posted it here either. sorry.)

Tweet it!

Somehow I've never been to ribfest, but I'm determined to make this year the year where I attend

Nick if you tweet it you have to use #ribfest

FINE

i typically try not to go too blue on twitter but whatever

@ribfestchicago

I did actually got to ribfest yesterday and, guess what, it sucked. I don't know why I ever held out any hope that it wouldn't, really.

We bought a meatstravaganza when we got back into town in Friday. Brought it back home though. Would never actually hang out at ribfest.

The meatstravaganza was delicious, but I credit a good part of that with Jeff going to get the food while I stayed home in the AC and unpacked.

Here's a depressing article about Chicago if you are in the mood: http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_chicago.html

That's an excellent -- but, yes, depressing -- article. Logan Square Kitchen is now defunct, in fact.

as with everything nowadays, do yourselves a favor and don't read the comments

Yikes at that article. It's depressing because so much of it is true.

City Journal does have conservative/libertarian leanings, so perhaps some of that article should be taken with a grain of salt. But, yeah, i think chicago is fuct.

Holy shit I read the comments. :( forever

xp I've never read anything on the site before but yeah, it became very obvious right about when the first mention of unions came up

I am unfamiliar with the publication but I guessed it had some conservative leanings, particularly since the first thing the author mentioned as ruining Chicago was unions*. And since so much of the solution revolved around business-friendly policies.

But the bit about byzantine government, corruption, being broke as hell, and a decade of quick fixes that just make problems worse is OTM.

*I have some specific issues with some specific unions vis a vis city and state government that I do think make some of these problems more difficult to solve, but I don't think SCAAAAARRRY UNIONS BOOOOOO are the main problem here.

Ha! xp to Dan, who is OTM

hi 5

You all are approaching the comments section wrong. Just embrace them as a hilarious epilogue.