Chicago: The Big Eye

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4745939931_8928c551c0_z.jpg

Also, another pic of the Toughest Baby on Earth:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4860900000_3fbf7dc190.jpg

I saw the big eye last week and I like it a lot. I saw the toughest baby on earth last night and I like her even more.

I wish that the Big Eye wasn't such a blue eye. I don't know that there's any message intended there, but blue eyes are very rare, especially in the world population. If they were careful to represent every ethnicity on the video fountain, why shouldn't the big eye be a brown one?

hey fuck you, I have blue eyes

also iirc it is a recreation of his son's eye

I don't know that ppl watch my FB updates very carefully, but I should announce that I'm nearly bedridden for a couple of days. I fell off of my bike Saturday night, and that was hurty but nothing big. Monday night, though, I just about killed myself. I landed the same way and on the same places, but much worse, making the bruises from Saturday much much worse, and fucking up my left shoulder and my back in general. My chest is still suffering some secondary trauma, probably just from tensing up as I fell. Anyway, I HURT. This Thanksgiving, I know what I'm thankful for -- no broken bones, and the good sense to have been wearing a helmet. Right now, though, I'm hesitant to lie down, because if I do, getting up is a huge production. My face actually hurt all day yesterday from wincing so much.

hey fuck you, I have blue eyes

And beautiful they are. Endless pools of azure, your eyes. :)

Holy shit, Kenan, I hope you're OK. If I had some left-over Vicodan, I would give it to you for sure.

I have some, but I'm leaving town in the AM.

Also, sorry to hear of your crash, Kenan. Almost sounds worse than mine from weeks past.

I wouldn't go that far. But I may actually be more physically harmed than you were. You had a solid car, yo.

That's what I meant, car > bike as far as protection goes.

Ok, when I went to get my photos off of my camera tonight, I remembered something that I'd forgotten I'd done: I took photos while lying on the pavement. This was useful, actually. I remembered being ON the Ashland bridge when I fell, but the pictures make it clear that I wiped out right BEFORE the bridge. I assumed I had hit the grating of the bridge, but now I'm not sure what it was that I hit.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4862263108_444b86ba03_z.jpg

As I quipped on Facebook, my left hip looks like a Cocteau Twins album cover.

What does it say about me that my first impulse, even before I get up off the ground after a major spill, is to go, "I need pictures!" I'm like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.

Kenan, I think that is a wonderful first impulse. Mine would be to post about it here or on FB.

I saw Baby EBA this evening, unexpectedly. She was at Starbucks on Montrose and Wolcott, passed out.

She, or you?

(joeks)

BTW, when I fell, I was on my way home from the bar that Kevin works at sometimes, and I talked/argued for the better part of an hour with a very drunk dude who laid out for me all the ways that I come off as an obnoxious, superior little shit. I didn't contradict his point for long, half because I was afraid he'd break my glasses, and half because the sloppy motherfucker was absolutely right. Soul searching ensued. :/

i'm sorry about the accident! VERY glad you were wearing a helmet. that bar scene sounds like good old times at old timers.

as for the eye, clearly it should be green. his son's eye should be green.

Oh you've got green eye
Oh you've got blue eye
Oh you've got grey eye

there's nothing like having a disturbing, violent nightmare that wakes you up 15 minutes before your alarm is set to go off

I think having a disturbing, violent nightmare that wakes you up 14 minutes before your alarm is set to go off would be sorta similar.

there is no way to know for sure

I forgot that this video starts in London before going to the small town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JenlsnA9-mE

The small American town.

The above exchange btwn Nick and John is nearly worthy of Lewis Carroll.

Lately my recurring nightmares (I always have them) have progressed from weather events to planetary collisions and falling into the sun and shit like that. The other night something hit the Earth in such a way that I woke up (in my dream) to a sky that was filled with the molten core of the Earth that was spewing into the sky, and it was juuuuust about to rain down on all of us. And then I woke up. Sweating, which is apropos.

I really only dislike nightmares when they're so bad that they wake me up. Otherwise, wild dreams are just wild, and my brain needs to do that, so I hold no grudges.

weird, my boss just had a baby and they named her evelyn. jaymc can tell us if "evelyn" is on an upswing.

the only other evelyn was a girl i dated when i was 14, and i won't talk about that out of respect for n/a and sarah.

Oh you've got green eye
Oh you've got blue eye
Oh you've got grey eye

― no gut busting joke can change history (Jenny), Thursday, August 5, 2010 8:45 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol <3

Evelyn is on the upswing. Last time the data was published, it wasn't in the top 10 but I think it was in the top 30 and it has gone up every year for the past few years.

Is there that kind of data available also for clothes? I think I do ok, but I feel lost a lot, too.

How's the wife-beater-and-jeans combo doing this year? That's what I'm wearing.

Sitting in a coffee shop in Evanston, watching this group of four 30ish women arguing with the manager. They showed up about 45 minutes ago, took over two of the outdoor tables, piling them with books and highlighters and have yet to purchase a single thing from the coffee shop. They apparently vehemently disagree with the management that they should have to vacate the premises if they aren't going to purchase anything. Entitlement level, off the charts.

oh man, fuck them

Come on, buy something or go to the damn library. 30ish is too old for that kind of hippie freeloading.

They're not even buying bottomless coffee?

It's nice enough outside that you can spend $1.50 on sitting outside, I mean really, ppl. How many times did you see Sex and The City II, fer chrissakes.

Nooooo shit.

They finally left, but made it very clear that it was a "shitty place" anyway. They didn't buy anything, they were all drinking out of water bottles they had brought with them.

Anyway, peace is restored and "Heart of Gold" is playing. Heaven.

<i?f I had some left-over Vicodan, I would give it to you for sure.[/i]

no one ever has left over vicodin. just like there's never any left over cocaine.

whoops.

Point just as well made, though.

Vicodin is a hell of a drug.

i have leftover vicodin from like 6 years ago when it made me vomit all over my office
not even sure what happened to it tbh

vicodin only ever made me feel itchy.

hi dere, jaymc figured out I was from chicago and kindly invited me to post here. I live in andersonville, work in hyde park, and I like that big eye but maybe that's because I have blue eyes.

I have a hand fan that is a picture of the big eye on a stick. I got it from my eye doctor.

Hi, rob.

That's a long commute!

The wedding is on September 11.

My date is the brother of the bride. It's a Mexican wedding.

For the bachelorette party they hired a stripper who my date knows, but because of the venue - a non-gay club in River North - he refused to strip, saying that he was afraid that it would offend the straight men who might see them (even though they were in a private room). His suggestion was that they could just hang out and chat. The bride got him to do a little dance, during which he shook his ass in her face, but she made him stop b/c his ass reeked.

ewwww

I think it's weird that my date who is a strong critic of the rampant promiscuity and oversexualization of the gay world carries a the business cards of a couple of his favorite strippers in his wallet.

Huh.

This conversation probably belongs in The Gay Thread, but I banned myself from it, so I am sharing with the breeders. And corey.

This is a breeder thread? I'm out.

Uh, no offense. I got caught up in my blogging.

Is anybody here a member of a CSA or know somebody who is? I am looking into it but could use a recommendation. They would have to deliver, which is prob the hard part.

We are. We pick up a box every two weeks around Ravenswood/Foster. Unfortunately, I don't know about any others, since we just went with this one on the recommendation of one of Kr's coworkers.

What's the name if it? How do you find it so far?

We used to get produce boxes from Newleaf, so if I can't find a good CSA, we might go back to that.

Simply Wisconsin.

It's been decent so far. We get produce and eggs. The only thing we've been particularly disappointed with is the corn. (We've found better at HarvesTime.) Also, some items arrive at peak ripeness, and unless you use them right away, they're no good. (This can be challenging since we pick up on Tuesday and don't do much cooking until the weekend.) But we've had some great tomatoes and cucumbers, and Kr had what she claims is the best cantaloupe she's ever eaten; overall, it's a pretty good variety of stuff.

Wow, thanks John. Place looks good.

We've been meaning to join a CSA since we moved here, maybe we'll get the winter share...

I am, but I pick up.

So allegedly Mayor Daley is not going to seek re-election. I will believe this when the deadline has passed.

Actually, probably not even then. It's the Chicago way, after all.

I was just coming here to post that!
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/09/daley-says-he-will-not-run-for-re-election.html

I think I'm leaning towards the New Leaf box again. Its year 'round, which is better since I cook much less in the summer, and they are more flexible as far as skipping weeks. Plus it's like a small farm mutual fund since we'd be supporting a bunch of them a little bit instead of one of them a lot.

xp

Holy shit Dan. I will believe it when I see it.

What is he up to. This story needs to break a little faster.

I believe it, from what I've been hearing from the Maggie Daley circle. I think it has as much to do with her health as it does with anything else.

It sounds like the news conference was held to make this announcement, right?

innnnnnnnnnnnnteresting

maybe I should run for mayor

His wife is very ill - breast cancer that had spread to her bones. :(

The upcoming fracas should be interesting.

wow

So, we're not too far from seeing this

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs482.ash1/26415_10150161473435580_800700579_11696355_1233076_n.jpg

I welcome it tbh.

Eh, winter won't be so bad, but I'm really looking forward to autumn, which is the best season by far.

I will be sad to see summer go, nasty fucking hot as it has been. Mainly b/c I like the longer days and I rage, rage against the dying of the light.

But the first snow is super thrilling, so there is that to look forward to. And winter makes me feel cozy. I'm looking forward to living in an apartment that has functioning heat for the first time in my 6 years in Chicago.

winter would be better if I didn't have to drive in the snow.

High five, Dan M. High fucking five.

http://c2.api.ning.com/files/hrMSmtZaI7z2FeRgo0NSmfFtYamEnULESa84z8Dv-jWr8ac8BfqHr-dMdY0YvCPF/WhaleHighFive.jpg

:D

you guys wtf daley -- i'm kinda glad but serious game changer or not?

next time i see you (friday maybe?) i will tell you my rahm story and you will all be like whaaaa

The contrarian in me is happy that my two vegan FB friends who love Lady Gaga are shocked and disgusted by her Vogue cover where she's dressed in meat, because they are always the ones who love PETA's outrageous stunts that do stuff like trivialize the holocaust and use comparisons of women's bodies and meat.

The photo, probably SFW, but it's a Gaga wearing a meat bikini, you know: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs602.snc4/58241_1613075774748_1471895489_31617328_4663197_n.jpg

will we have a series of do-nothing one term mayors? what's going to happen to us?

also, should i go see rangda on friday night or will it be boring?

this is a terrible thing to say but we'll probably have a couple of do-nothing one-term mayors until Daley's wife dies and then he'll probably run again

I like Lady Gaga's male alter ego who looks like Bob Dylan.

you really think so? what makes you say that? that's sad in so many ways.

this was an xp to nick but i'll let it go

i kinda like her man-look too btw
normally that's kinda ugh but she wears it well? i guess?

I guess I don't really have any foundation for saying that other than he seems pretty into being mayor, and if he's really not running again because of his wife's condition, what is he going to do once she dies? But I could be wrong.

I just can't imaging a Daley sitting around letting someone else be mayor.

i can't imaging it

I guess I am extra interested in this for personal reasons, and also because the mayor of Akron has been there since 1986 (year my *cough* left the job to *cough*) and it's just, I dunno, such an open game at this point. It's exhilirating and terrifying, as most interesting (to me) things are.

Well, I have a job interview at NYC Bagel downtown at 10:30. Wonder how it will go.

Mayor of my hometown has been there since 1986, too.

I offer you suerte if you want it, Corey!

I have a picture of myself and the mayor of my hometown on flickr (I think it's private? Maybe?). Next to it is a picture of me with the previous mayor. It never occurred to me that this is somewhat peculiar until just now.

I had actually pondered going to see Rangda, but I am sick and I have to work on Saturday and also I think I'm going to save my show-going energies/monies for The Clean(!!!!) and possibly Fennesz. But I'm sure it will be fab.

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