Chicago: robe or housecoat?

that being said it seemed to me that there was always more pain-in-the-assity on the green line (which i rode daily my first 3 or 4 years in chicago) as opposed to the blue line (which i ride now). the panhandling is more aggressive and more rampant, that's the main thing.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5369420

This is quite a week for labor.

In other news, a day without Mexicans is like a day without pretty flowers.

unless i read the flyer wrong, they were at the bottle on the 29th.

If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.

I'll be here all week.

Lots of immigration march photos (thanks to Gaper's Block for the link)

But yeah, you don't care about that.

Hi.

My day has been in no way affected by the protest.

the last one added an hour to my commute. i wound up getting off the bus at grand and walking the rest of the way. the bus never passed me.

you're way past me and my taste for boone's farm.

bartles & jaymes in the hooowwwwzzzzzzzze!

Maybe we can all have our own wine tasting party some day where we each bring our favorite bottle... or something.

I like the idea of our own wine tasting party a lot! Boone's Farm smells like a terrible headache to me.

We should also have olive and cheese platters.

I thought of that because its garnished with sliced olives, and thinking about sliced olives made me think about wee little pickles.

I just learned today that Puerto Ricans tend to not like Mexicans.

'Twas a quiet Wednesday night until one of my crew of co-consipirators rang me up... "Come on out, we're at the Underbar, so-and-so is in town." I finished watching the hockey match, and having already had a few barley pops, caught the bus up to the bar.

In the place, the ales flowed and the music played. After several trips back to the bar for ever-increasing numbers of 3 Floyds Gumballhead, I drunkenly commented my appreciation for the fine craft brew to the bartending wench. Said she "then you'll be wanting to come to the tasting party we'll be having next week... so-and-so (a different person whose name is not important) that used to work here is a rep for them now, and they'll be unveiling a new beer for the summer that night." My compadres and I made tentative plans to attend, and continued drinking late into the night.

Thursday I wished for a quick death.

Now, a new week is upon us. Unfortunately, the combination of years of alcohol use coupled with the state I was in Thursday morning keeps me from remembering the exact details of the tasting party. But, I will confer with my crew (whose memory is hopefully more sharp than my own) and return with the details of the event forthwith!

God, writing like that is hard.

How old is Magnum O'Shea? He seems to remember a lot about pop culture from the 70s. Last time we saw him he made a reference to someone like Lorraine Newman or Carol Kane.

Courtney's brother is cute. So is Courtney.

I walked around all of downtown Montreal (including Vieux Montreal) today and boy are my legs sore. I think we're going to try to meet up with slocki for drinks later.

my favorite part of the city. i can't wait to go back, looks like i'll be going in october.

Dan, I await your update with bated breath.

Hey, I think that we should go to Trattoria 10 one night this week (Friday, maybe?) and take advantage of the $12 all you can eat DELICIOUS Italian food buffet that runs from 5 - 8 pm. It's for theater goers, but we don't have to tell them that we hate the performing arts.

Go here and click the Bar Menu link after you skip the stupid intro (which might involve music, who knows, my sound is off): http://www.trattoriaten.com/

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~jmangum/astrolinks.shtml

Wow. There was a double header of marching today. The immigrants at Grant Park and then I walked by the Daley Ctr. where Jan Schokowsky was speaking about how proud she is to be a Jew. She's just a Jew, a lonely Jew, in Chicago.

Anyway, it was an Israeli thing. Something about genocide Jaruf. Jarfur? JarJar?

The dishwasher works great. It's small though.

If you can spare the floorspace, the same money buys you a portable apartment sized rolly dishwasher. I would recommend that. And those are easy to find on Craiglist for pretty cheap.

GET A DISHWASHER! (when you're done being broke as a joke)

He says no arrests were reported as of about 3:45 p.m. One person needed emergency medical service and transport by the Chicago Fire Department after fainting. A few kids ended up at the lost child tent.