Chicago MMXII

so hungry

Yeah, Dan, I've been checking out the Open Table list. That's where most of the fancy restaurant buffets are. David Burke's is doing a decent looking sit down meal, so I was thinking about that one until I started looking more thoroughly. I LOLed to myself at the thought of taking my family out to Beef & Brandy for Thanksgiving.

L&E is very promising.

I might steal their menu -- I feel too lazy to think of my own and it sounds SO GOOD.

FWIW, we made a bourbon and orange cranberry sauce last year, and it was awesome.

usually i just do orange cranberry, but bourbon is sounding awfully good with those two things (although generally i don't like hot booze)

We had a very delicious dinner at Bristol with my parents recently.

This will be very nice:
http://www.balsanrestaurant.com/menus/thanksgiving.pdf

Whoa that does look really good.

http://www.tv.com/m/news/19-highlights-and-lowlights-from-lifetimes-drew-peterson-untouchable-with-gifs-27635/

Oh dear.

I won two tickets to the Swans show from CHIRP!

Hey, awesome! We'll see you there!

http://www.tv.com/m/news/19-highlights-and-lowlights-from-lifetimes-drew-peterson-untouchable-with-gifs-27635/
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sarah doesn't want to go to the swans show so if anyone wants my +1, let me know ASAP

i might have a taker

Not interested in Swans, but on a related note, I have an extra ticket to Tinariwen at Old Town School on Sunday at 6 PM. (Kr is going on a last-minute biz trip.)

I won two tickets to the Swans show from CHIRP!

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:38 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey, awesome! We'll see you there!

― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

see you there, square!

this is the second time i've won tickets from CHIRP. i don't know if i'm lucky or if no one else responds to their ticket contests on twitter.

Guys I made up a little song about my lunchtime errands, to the tune of Wanted Dead or Alive:

I had a lot of errands
and I ran them all!

Also I've had occasion to need to contact my prior employer to get my pension rolled over and I had almost forgotten how fundamentally incompetent they are at every level, but I have been duly reminded.

Heading to Everest for dinner tonight. Should have a great view of ... nothing.

Oh bummer. Well, the view won't distract you from the food? Also I've been in the Hancock when it's crazy foggy and it's not an axing view but there's something really neat and surreal about the fog.

Hancock has the best view in the city, because you get to see all the planes circling over the lake.

Axing = amazing, somehow.

Best view IMO is the women's bathroom in the Signature Room. But tbf I've never been up to the terror platform in the Sears Tower.

Sun's coming out. JoshInC must've slipped the maitre d' a $20.

Don't know if you guys ever walked by this guy's store, but he had major anti-Daley stuff in his window for a while, and other anti-Machine stuff--familiar used-bookstore personality--and now he's made the Drudge Report:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/23/chicago-store-owner-labeled-racist-for-anti-obama-business-sign/

I’m not a racist. My wife is Spanish. Come on.

Spanish? Like Cristobal Colon or the Mexican kind?

http://1000words1000days.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/GOB-ComeOn.jpg

How's your finger?

He should move to Greensboro where he would fit right in with racists and bead shops.

Lolol! OTM. Fucking inexplicable bead capital of the east coast.

My finger is ok. Here is a pic of stitches if you wanna see.

http://i.imgur.com/5UxgR.jpg

i assume you would have told me already if you were going to back out of the show tonight because i am happy to hold your hand or help you spray the crowd with blood or whatever, but we are going to that show.

right?

Christ a monkey you really did cut the fuck out of yourself! Dang.

i can't look at the photo tbrr

wow. ow.

Don't know if you guys ever walked by this guy's store, but he had major anti-Daley stuff in his window for a while, and other anti-Machine stuff--familiar used-bookstore personality--and now he's made the Drudge Report:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/23/chicago-store-owner-labeled-racist-for-anti-obama-business-sign/

― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pass this store all the time - dude didn't seem so much racist as just generally crazy and weird? his bugbear for a long time was daley's parking meter deal which was a more worthwhile concern imo

always wonder how stores like that stay open

Is this shop near that used bookstore that is just full of precarious piles of books, and the proprietor counts change out of a little dish?

yeah on the same block

Citing the ethnicity of your significant other as a reason why you can't be racist is nagl. Also makes you look pretty racist.

this guy's a weirdo and probably a creep but i'm honestly not sure where the racism is in the two signs cited in the article?

also lipstick on glass is pretty weak "vandalism"

I don't know about the signs. I'm just saying that such a denial rarely comes from someone who isn't racist.

xpost Sun came out right as the fourth elevator of the night opened up to Everest! We got to see a beautiful sunset and a distant storm front that made it seem like Chicago was circled by a low mountain ridge.

Nice nice--turned out to be perfect weather for that place. Good dinner?

Horro folks, just noticed this:

The Halloween double feature to remember: XTRO and TRICK OR TREAT is this Thursday at the Portage Theater for only $5.00!!! The schedule for this evening is as follows:

7:30pm: Doors open
8:00pm: XTRO
9:30pm: A ten minute intermission
9:40pm: TRICK OR TREAT (1986)

A dream of the Chicago Cinema Society has come true: The only known 35mm print on the planet earth of XTRO is currently in our possession. We are also excited to have here a very rare print of TRICK OR TREAT (courtesy of American Genre Film Archive). We hope to see you on this incredible night of MINDBLOWING CINEMATIC INSANITY! For more information, please vist our website:

http://chicagocinemasociety

http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/images/thumb/Xtr0.JPG/220px-Xtr0.JPG

oh wow. i don't know that movie, but i want to!

but damn, somehow it got to be 2 a.m. and I had a long night on the heels of working on 3 hours sleep, so I'm gonna have to very regretfully pass

Plus personal trainer this morning! I should be dead now. Only reason I'm not is that before the show tonight (AMAZING, btw) I took a 3 hour nap that was only supposed to be 90 min. but I slept through 2 alarms, 2 missed calls, and several texts.

A certain ChILX spouse and occasional poster is going to that XTRO double feature and I would, too, did I not already have exciting plans for this evening.

GTFO

"Xtro" is grim and gross even by horror standards.

Everest was good, but for the price there are more interesting meals to be had. A bunch of us went to Acadia a couple of weeks ago, and it was awesome, with more food, better vibe and two bottles of wine for about the same price as two of us at Everest for app/dinner/dessert and a couple of drinks.

Yeah, in my admittedly limited experience with the Big Fancy Restaurants of Chicago, although I have enjoyed myself, I ultimately find I prefer eating good food more than I prefer having a dining experience.