Chicago: More Bars in More Places

You should be more polite, just ask them to please stop expressing idiocy.

They call and say "I was brutalized by a cop, and it hurt, and I am mad, and I wanna sue, and can you help me?"

I say "Is this an employment matter?"

"No. I was I was brutalized by a cop, and it hurt, and I am mad, and I wanna sue, and can you help me?"

"Our area of practice is employment and some divorce and family matters."

"Oh. Well this is not an employment matter. I was brutalized by a cop, and it hurt, and I am mad, and I wanna sue, and can you help me?"

"No, and furthermore I have an insight into the cop's state of mind when he beat you."

Ha, I read that one during my Achewood binge earlier.

Paying rent online is good shit. It was the last thing I was writing checks for, and now I never have to sign a check again!

Ok have a good weekend y'all.

Free coffee at Alliance, Letizia's and other coffee shops today: http://chicagoist.com/2007/09/28/new_tv_season_f.php

-- n/a, Friday, September 28, 2007 2:06 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

dammit, figures. i think i food poisoned myself this morning with a breakfast burrito. and by breakfast burrito i mean a regular burrito that i made for breakfast. anyway, i spent a good 6 hours puking and shitting (at times simultaneously) today, the only relief i got was when i passed out while dry heaving. that 2 hour nap saved me.

now i'm gonna go pay three dollars for a bottle of gatorade at that price gouging moonlight mini mart on division across from leitiza's.

We got to Letizia's at 4:30 and they said no more free coffee, despite it being advertised as running until 5. Apparently it was based on a certain number of coffees, not a time limit.

i used to love going to Letizia's for weekend ice coffee, seriously cute women working there. and then this one really stern, really unfriendly (yet still cute) woman that kind of made me wish i had got coffee another day.

I have lived near the House of Wah Sun on Lincoln and Montrose for the better part of ten years and have never set foot in it. It has been decided that tonight is the night to do so. Am I making a huge mistake? Or, will I be basking in the glory of complicated tropical drinks?

I've found Belmont is the best bus to take westward to the blue line. Addison sucks, too residential and too many stop signs. I haven't tried Fullerton, but Belmont is closer to you anyway.

x80, the irving park express might be your best bet. really whatever bus is closest to you is probably the best bet.

so you have two bests there which you might think would be impossible by definition but there you go.

Best Buy

NOT best buy, never best buy again after the phone buying debacle of 07. but thanks for the transport tips.

now i think i'll have a cocktail white packing.

http://download.yousendit.com/0443A59F413BF73B

Fuck a Critical Mass. No, really. I'm all for people riding bikes instead of driving cars and very much for people protesting, but that was some crazy shit. I pulled off the Edens at the Division exit at 7:02. The exit finally opened back up to let traffic through at 8:05. Over an hour stuck on the fucking exit ramp is some bullshit.

ok, let's go guerilla next month where pedestrians reclaim the streets from the bicycles. we'll run in a giant circle around them like some massive game of duck duck goose.

I mean, I really do agree with what they are trying to get across... really. It just sucks that it got so out of control this year.

We beat Halo 3. Now what do I do?

I was expecting to see/hear Critical Mass fallout on the Blue Line, but... nothin'.

CUBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs

thanx for posting the song jeff, i've been meaning to try and download that since i went to wrigley.

wow this reporter is totally doused in champagne!

what's up with all the helicopters? someone on another website thinks it's something about the cubs, but that seems weird... jenny/jeff/other neighbors i don't know about?

they are definitely showing aerial views of cubs fans on comcast sports net. i dont think they're high enough to be from a helicopter though

i guess we're a house divided now! toby roots for the red sox...

yeah, we've had helicopters for a while tonight. in london they always seemed to be police helicopters, so it didn't cross my mind that it could be the news.

i got stuck for an hour on north ave. as someone who had planned to do the critical mass tonight, it was still pretty crazy. the only people who annoyed me, though, were the ones who came racing down the sidewalk yelling for us to get out of the way. i'm ON THE SIDEWALK I AM NOT USING GAS

I'm just used to noise around here. Helicopters, sirens, screaming in the parking lot of Jewel, it all sounds the same to me now.

(1) i texted nick but he didn't get back to me ;_;
(2) do i go to danny's now y/n

sorry about critical mass, guys :-/

it was really fun, tho, is the thing

I got no text message from you! Did you send it to my home phone no.? I'll text you so you have my cell no.

Probably wouldn't have been able to do anything anyways, we had late FF practice. My new guitar sounds great, way better than my old one.

Haha--So the Critical Mass action against fossil fuel-based transport results in thousands of gallons of petroleum products being used in cars getting 0 mpg as they sit and wait for anti-pedestrian cyclists.

Argh, yes. The inefficiency of a bad system. It's only once a month, though, is the thing.

This has truly, truly been a full and rewarding day. I have a http://images.craigslist.org/01021001030201040120070925c8f25baf4d97415052005df7.jpg which I rode home from the South Loop. I found some really incredible spots along the lakefront where I want to do some nighttime photography.

While meandering through the service road behind the golf course by Belmont harbor I encountered what I thought was a dog. It was in fact one of many http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:uZyuEY8KcZLoFM:http://images.usatoday.com/tech/_photos/2006/08/23/raccoons.jpg that were hanging around by the parking lot. I thought they were really cool and I approached them and was around 6 feet or less from a group of three when a BUNCH more started gathering. Their disposition quickly went from *cuet* to http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/01/01_raccoon_lgl.jpg.

I don't know if it was because they were in a pack, but they reacted poorly to my advancing on them and they began to GRRRRROWWWWL and come at me. I screamed and pedaled away.

But I didn't stay away. There were so, so, so many of them (I counted 12 at one point, and some other movement behind them and later in other areas) and they were so awesome that I wanted a picture. I pulled out my phone and crept up on them again. Once again they went into their loping attack and I wound up dropping my fucking phone.

I retreated to a safe distance and waited for them to back off, but you know how raccoons love shiny things, so they gathered around the phone. Probably their plan was to make off with it and wash it or something, so I began to whistle and rear my front wheel into the air and rush them. They backed off a bit and I got my phone just before they came at me again.

BTW- this is exactly what the aggressive little fuckers sound like.

I have rabies now. Someone organize a Fun-Run for me.

This is the face of rabies.

I tried to find a really unflattering picture of you to post under that, but then thought, Wait a second, I don't hate Jesse!

dannys was kind of subpar last night! saturdays are much more consistent

i'm about to go to hot dougs if anyone is in the area

seriously, next month i'm going out with 2x4's and jamming them in the spokes of front wheels. it might be a shitty thing to do but hey, it's only once a month.

toby roots for the red sox...

toby is good people.

i'm going to the farmer's market in wicker park tomorrow, what's in season?

yeah, so the Cubs game last night was... um... dull. The Cubs wiped the floor with 'em. And the Brewers lost, so unless there's a surprise re-emergence of Morganna the kissing bandit, we can all chillax.

Oh no wait... there's the Padres. I got bad news for you, jules... we're still watching baseball today. :)

i'm going to the farmer's market in wicker park tomorrow, what's in season?

Probably anything they are selling there, since it is a farmer's market. This chart is good (pdf). They have been selling MI honey crisp apples at Treasure Island and OMG. Soooooo good, you guys.

i love honey crisp apples.

peppers and melons are on the list, thanks for the chart jenny.

i posted this elsewhere but i love so i'll share it here too:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1309/1458618673_5049bee95d.jpg?v=0

LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL

That might have convinced me to stay within the flock when I was a lass.

That might have convinced me to stay within the flock when I was a lass.

seriously, i keep looking at it and thinking "jesus on a dinosaur.... maybe i gave up on catholicism too early."

i just love the presumptive "but he probably did" add on at the end. it fucking slays me for some reason.

'cause you know, he was hip like that. that's the kind of dude jesus was. a badass dinosaur riding motherfucker.