Chicago MMXII

I'm ready a really good book. The Countess by Rebecca Johns - http://www.amazon.com/The-Countess-Novel-Rebecca-Johns/dp/0307588459. It's historical fiction about everybody's favorite grumpy Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Nadasdy nee Bathory. It's proper historical fiction, not SHE WAS REALLY A VAMPIRE fiction, and it is really fascinating. And gross.

A friend who works in one of the Prudential buildings is FBing about protesters breaking in and getting arrested (Obama HQ also in that building).

Oh dang.

just got a copy of a PDF detailing road closures for NATO, hello chaos

http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa356/fugexlac/NATObasemap_Revised_2.jpg

omg hellzone
thanks nato

I'm torn between being very excited about all of the protests/civil disobedience and being preemptively exhausted about how this is going to impact my daily life and also being very stressed because I have so much work to do and can't afford to miss any days.

The latter two are exacerbated by my having contracted a Hell Cold sometime this weekend.

jenny you need to slow down!

hey did you get yourself a present?
i did -- i bought three soundtracks from la la land records :-/

three

http://www.trbimg.com/img-4fb10c5f/turbine/chi-antiwar-demonstration-20120514/600

Slow down, Chicago (Jenny slow down)

I did not get myself a present. But I'm not shy about getting myself presents so it's okay.

Interesting group of folks, Catholic Workers:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/natosummit/chi-protesters-march-outside-obama-campaign-headquarters-20120514,0,86274.story

I learned a new word from that story - squadrol. It's the proper term for a paddy wagon.

Man, I wonder what the Russians-Control-The-Weather guy is doing this week.

Also reading about singing Down by the Riverside and This Little Light of Mine as part of a faith-based social justice protest gave me flashbacks.

xp Or Obama Spare My Child for Me/Father's Rights Hunger Strike guy, nee FBI Stop Raping my Wife guy. Maybe he's working from home.

Dan, who issued that map? I don't understand the why it says Northbound Lake St. and Southbound Lake St.

That's my fault, I cut off part of the legend when cropping it out of the PDF. It should be Lake Shore Drive.

Also reading about singing Down by the Riverside and This Little Light of Mine as part of a faith-based social justice protest gave me flashbacks.

Me too! I actually had to speak during a public group prayer one time in NOLA. Fortunately the some leaders of the Worker Justice, Inc. had schooled me on their experiences in hiding godless atheism.

They are removing public bike racks for next weekend. I feel like that's more about targeting protesters than it is about public safety.

If they want to remove things that might interfere with public safety, they should burn the big white statute/public urinal in front of my building.

people are freaking out. but it's so beautiful outside.

so a friend of mine is pretty heavily involved with occupy chicago's media team, and he keeps retweeting people who are harassing them via twitter, and it's like reading the comments on a trib article but worse

Ugh. Rahm has basically painted all potential protesters as terrorists so it's no surprise people are being jerks.

Anyone want to go on a trolly tour? http://chicagohistory.org/planavisit/upcomingevents/tours/chicago-craft-beer-week

n.m., regional one sold out. Not too interested in Europeaon. USA USA USA.

Although, that may be less of a clusterfuck than other events.

Did you know the Map Room opens at 6:30 AM every weekday?

Wow, I'm getting annoyed by news headlines this morning. Not even the articles - just the headlines (especially this one - Political Memo: For Some, Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Politics, It’s Personal - NO SHIT). I think I should call out of work and go to the Map Room.

Also this one, which is blessedly behind the Sun Times's new paywall - "The real black marriage problem."

Black marriage should be legal IMO.

I hope the article is accompanied by a guy with a cat-who-ate-the-canary smile and a woman with her arms crossed.

I have an ear infection.
I found a spider in my shoe.
Happy birthday, Nick.

...video gaaaames?

Happy birthday, n/a.

I had to go on FB to confirm that it was really your birthday bc I couldn't remember and I feared Carl was laying a trap.

Happy birthday n/a! Hope you get to do something fun.

Ear infections are awful carl, hang in there.

happy birthday n/a
you should teach evie to sing 50s doo wop songs and then record them

like yakety yak

Oh hey Nick, I had a dream about you last night. You had somehow experienced The Afterlife (without dying) but were annoyed that it was basically just like Life On Earth. Happy birthday.

Did you know the Map Room opens at 6:30 AM every weekday?

I knew that they were a coffee bar in the A.M., but do they serve beer, too? I don't know if y'all have been to K's Dugout (at Foster and ... Winchester, maybe?), but they used to open around that time as well since they catered to a lot of third-shift workers who wanted a drink when they got off work.

Why does K's Dugout sound so familiar?? Did we go there for your b-day drinks one time, John?

Rossi's on State St. opens at 7:00, or did years ago when I went there at 8:00 a.m. to pick up a jacket I left there the night before. There were 2 or 3 crusty looking men in there drinking beer at that time.

Quite possibly, Jesse. I haven't been there in years, but I drank there occasionally when I lived in the area. Kr still gives me shit b/c one time when we were there, I cavalierly told a middle-aged working-class dude that he should take a job he'd been offered on an oil rig in the Persian Gulf. I was all "You'll regret it if you don't!" -- which is the kind of thing 20-something college grads use as justifications for their decisions, but I obv. didn't know shit about his life.

We had someone's birthday afterparty there years ago, maybe that's it? K_lsey was there.

If the circumstances were right I think I could drink beer @ 6:30 am.

RIP Red Rooster

if you don't start in the morning you can't drink all day

K's Dugout was a New Years Eve site in '05, if you were there then with me and Jaymc, Je55e.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542139_390623524313714_105975882778481_1162585_47734082_n.jpg

^^Mayor

Are you stalking me?

Dr. K says hi. Seriously, as I was leaving he said "Tell everybody I said hi!" LOL