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There are some groups/bars that run buses w/ tickets and beer included, if that sounds like your thing. It really is a pain in the ass to drive, especially for the casual fan.

The stadium is beautiful, though, too bad it's in the middle of nowhere.

fire games are so fun!
the bathrooms are SUPER clean too and there is never a wait

Yeah, funnily enough I was down there a lot during the construction of Toyota Park because the firm I was with at the time was converting a Venture store right in that area to a business college. Sadly the project wrapped up a couple months before Toyota Park opened and I haven't been down there since.

That video is great. The guy is very funny. JVC, try again.

lol, works now. i like how everyone else follows the pop-up, but he just keeps staring at the camera.

afaik no regulars on this thread are in hyde park besides me, but if you know anyone this is a new crucial detail that was just made known to me: https://twitter.com/uchiNOMgo

Cool.

Also:

http://chicago.eater.com/archives/2012/09/11/longman-eagle-team-opening-the-promontory-in-hyde-park-in-early-2013.php

^^ been wondering what was going to fill the giant building going up at that location

there's a lot of other renovation going on on 53rd lately, it seems

hi guys.

i don't have much of anything to say but hi.

Yo

sup

wahey

i'm supposed to get a work ipad this week but it hasn't shown up yet

anyone want to go to a white sox game with me in the next couple of weeks, before the regular season ends? i'm flexible as to the date. i want to stubhub some cheap tickets but it's easier to do in batches of 2-4 then solo.

Score one against accuracy!

http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/chicago-media-blog/15706586/rain-or-shine-10-year-renewal-keeps-skilling-at-wgn

GAH

lol

NICK: I will go to a Sox game w/ you. Contact me.

LL: I think you will like this heartbreaking song as much as I do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJFzQz4Png

It's my current track on repeat. I thoroughly enjoyed breaking into short, gusting sobs to it while making gazpacho earlier.

I

oops disregard that post - I was trying to switch windows and that happened. get back to listening to that song.

this song follows it on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhL0ichtZjQ

i'd like to take a whole day off work when it's grey and sleeting and sit on the couch next to the damp windows, in my robe with a blanket on my feet, sipping weak tea with the cats dozing next to me from morning until the closes a few hours later.

All sorts of cool shit going on in Hyde Park. I guess the University (which just received its highest even US News ranking; go nerdy alma matter!) has been spending lots of that tuition money on cash incentives to get stuff down there. Not just the Promontory but finally a real hotel, too - a Hyatt? - as well as supposedly lots of other restaurants and spots down the pipeline. Though really someone should reopen Tiki.

And they're about to open a gigantic arts-and-ideas center, too.

I think I've been to Hyde park twice in the 8 years I've lived in Chicago.

hyde park is cool but i don't like being there after dark

Buncha wimps, you lot.

Actually, I had a friend who used to walk home at night with a large kitchen knife in her hand.

Love Hyde Park in fall.

R is applying for jobs at the U so we might move to HP if that happens. Not having to commute from the north side would be oh so nice.

I really like HP! But since my cousin moved away from there, I haven't had any excuse to get down there.

Though really someone should reopen Tiki.

You mean Cirals' House of Tiki? I had the pleasure of drinking there *just* before it closed. Twelve years ago! Jeez.

I'll be in HP on Oct. 21 for the Humanities Festival. Sadly, the Leopold & Loeb walking tour sold out before I could get tix.

World Music Fest has some pretty good free shows in my area -- might go Tues or Wed night next week

Was idly googling an old high-school classmate and found this item from last year in the Sun-Times:

Michael Richards, 50, bought a bag of potato chips from the store in the 1300 block of South Halsted, then illegally doused the chips in nacho cheese, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Dan Piwowarczyk said.

When the store clerk told him the nacho cheese was only for customers who paid for it to use on corn chips in a traditional plastic tray, Richards pulled the clerk’s arm behind his back, twisted it and threatened the clerk, according to a police report. Police arrested Richards a block away Saturday, the report shows.

When Judge James Brown asked, “So what was stolen was the cheese?,” Piwowarczyk kept an admirably straight face as he replied, “The defendant was informed that it was not yo’ cheese.”

Kramer has gone so far downhill

actually that's uphill from where michael richards was a few years ago

The wisecracking prosecutor and I both worked on the school newspaper. The only thing I remember about him, though, was that he was really into Sandman.

Piwowarczyk kept an admirably straight face as he replied, “The defendant was informed that it was not yo’ cheese.”_

Seems like there should be a better way to make the play on "not yo'" and "nacho" more apparent in print. Great joke tho.

Wanda Sykes did a bit about reclaiming the N-Word by making it the brand name of a line of snacks: Original N--s, Sour Cream & Onion N--s, and finally, Nacho N--s.

Misread above as "Was idly ogling an old high-school classmate."

Gah, Fritos and shitty nacho cheese sounds really good right now. I'm going to eat these baby carrots instead. :/

last chance for anyone who wants to go to white sox-rays game with me and jesse on thursday at 7:10 p.m. getting tickets in the range of $12 so it'll be cheap. let me know soon, i'll probably get tickets today.

I would go to that.

If it's not too late.

Anyone else buy your Prince after show tix?

No, but I bought Prince show tix.

not too late ... anyone else?

Seeing him Monday and then the Wednesday aftershow. Janelle Monae is opening the Wednesday UC show only, so hopefully she'll be at the aftershow, too.

I just heard Jack U Off for the first time yesterday. What a strange song.

There's a Robyn cover of that, iirc.