Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

http://chicagoburgerproject.blogspot.com/2007/06/moodys-pub_04.html

"Thus, disclosure: Moody's inspires a sentimentality in me that few other restaurants could...it's pretty much idiosychracy-themed restaurant, or a vision of what "family dining" would look like if Arthur Treacher had been able to outlast TGI Friday's. The building itself looks like some kind of conceptual Levittown Elks lodge. The dining room is almost unimaginably dark, crammed full of heavy wood tables and chairs. There are fireplaces in several corners that remain operational year-round, and everything is covered with a patina thirty years of aerosolized beef fat.* A massive multi-tiered beer garden/patio provides the corresponding yang, picnic tables shaded by a picturesque tree canopy. In a word: marvelous. Summer, Chicago, and Moody's beer garden are inextricbibly intertwined."

it's snowing in big, wet, vision-obscuring, fuck you mr. pedestrian flakes in hyde park.

Restaurant websites too often don't give an indication of atmosphere. I want atmosphere, gd it.

Oh. Rosebud looks nice.

i'm so excited about the snow. i need to go buy boots. also, i wish they didn't use salt. it would be nice to take my skis out of the closet.

You could easily go skiing in Humboldt Park.

Rosebud is pretty alright, though I've only been to the one on Rush. Northside grill might fit your needs, too, except it's in The Crotch.

You and Katie and your Westside-centrism.

If I had a car I might consider some of the stuff out there. But I don't have a car b/c I don't need one. Because I don't live on the West side.

/needless needling

Did I not just suggest a place called "Northside"? I can't be held responsible for their inappropriate name/location issues.

The blue line stopped very suddenly today and a standing woman slipped and fell flat on her front w/out even putting her hands out in front of her. It was bad.

I know it's cold, but I would have found it a little funny... Like when people aren't paying attention and they lean on the old doors that open inwards and then get mauled when the train stops.

Are those doors on any other trains besides the Blue Line? I don't like them.

Jesse, it is a bad idea to drive to the crotch anyway. Traffic SUCKS around there.

To reiterate, traffic sucks at the crotch.

Sorry.

Ay ay ay. We can't leave that hanging there! Come on!

haha ok.

I'm just saying that that's the only decent way to get over there. There are cabs of course. But those are for rich white people.

There are buses for Damen, North, and Milwaukee. Also, the Blue Line.

No good.

I would have to take a bus to Damen.

Also? I would have to take a bus.

Ride your "Red" line to North, take the bus west. It's fast. I have done it.

just go to moody's, dammit!
it's nearby, it's cozy and the food is adequate!
that's right: adequate!

I'm just scared.

I think we're going to Bin 36.

Wine + Cheese = uh-huh.

I like wine.

Also, I like this ALOT:
http://www.thewavemag.com/images/articles/11001-12000/11151.jpg

That reminds me, I saw a bottle of Sizzurp at a liquor store recently. I thought that they discontinued that shit.

never heard of it.

Me neither. Not outside of hip-hop slang, at least.

I thought it was cough syrup or some mix involving it.

http://www.mkjohnsimport.com/sizzurp.html

NOTE: I am not making any value judgement on this stuff, just the fact that it exists is enough for me.

No codeine, no credibility.

OMG Pandora just played TWO Duran-Duran* songs in a row!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Precious and Come Undone, 2 of my favorites)

*in Spanish this means "they last-they last"

Lost
In a snow-filled sky
We'll make it all right
To come undone

Hi.

Hey!

Yo

Hip-hop hooray!

I'm doing the LA times crossword.

I'm doing the Highlights crossword.

I did that one today. Also 2 Ben Tausig puzzles (at Metro Times and AV Club) when I had some downtime at work, which used a fair amount of the same answers.

I don' wan' to drive to band practice tonight in the snow.

I'm having fun on the pizza thread. Pizza turns people into assholes, I think, but that's fine.

The roads, at least around here, are completely fine now - even some of the side streets that were a bit treacherous this morning. The sun and traffic has gotten rid of pretty much all the ice/snow on the roads.

God I have made way too many pizzas to be on that thread. When people started talking about how they liked their pizzas constructed I was all thinking no, no, no, NO, NO.

Oh good, Jon. I haven't been outside since this morning. I'll still have to scrape snow off my windshield, though.

THE HORROR

I know.

I'm just bitching because now that the el stop is literally right around the corner from my apartment, it makes me want to drive less.