Hey there, Momma, where ya gonna go?

[msfledermaus]

I'm going Downtown, Daddy-o...

*stretccch*

It's good to be home. My trip to Chicago with friends was a blast, though; a really interesting time.

Various highlights include:

Emily reading us exerpts from "The World's Most Dangerous Places" in the car,
(Algeria: "You'd be safer in Mogadishu running down the street naked wearing 10 gold Rolexes and a stars-and-stripes cape.")

Playing on the playground at one of the rest stops. Nothing gets out the soreness in the legs and butt than a good turn on the swingsets.

Trains!!! Trains!!! TRAINS!!!
(heh, I like trains. yes, I'm crazy.)

The Chicago Theatre: Indescribably beautiful. With very high balconies.
(I have a touch of vertigo, so I grabbed onto my seat for dear life once I was in it.)

Nick Cave...*smiles broadly*
And I thought Tom Waits was a great showman. Unbelievably good.

The tall Kramer-from-Seinfeld-looking-guy who was always right in front of short me.
(I kept having to move my head back and forth to see the stage. Happily Nick Cave moves around a lot.) He and his date were very very cute together, however, so it's hard to hold a grudge.

Bolting two soft tacos while waiting for the train back, trying not to smell all the urine at the station... We were all *very* tired on the way back.

Driving tour of Chicago in the morning, including looking at the lovely Chicago library and various daredevil-photo-shots by Ben the neighbor.

Shopping in the Alley at Boystown. Wow, what a great part of town!! Many strange happy things were bought, including Ben's gigantic rubber-spiked boots.

Twin Peaks in the car

Knitting in the car.

Dirty Limericks in the car.

Getting home an hour and a half early with more gas in the tank than we expected.:)

All in all, lots of fun. Next time I go, I'll take more time to see everything, but we had a really great outing anyway. Chicago's pretty damn interesting!!!

Comments

Hey there, Momma, where ya gonna go?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Did he play that song?

Glad you had a good time.

Re: Hey there, Momma, where ya gonna go?

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Nope, but he did a new arrangement of "Red Right hand" that was stunning...wow, is Nick Cave really really good!

He'll rekindle all the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Cool! My other favorite song of his!

Re: He'll rekindle all the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, it was incredible!
I've been humming that song for a couple of days straight now:)
He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man...

[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

Man, where the hell was I went the news was out that you were visiting Chicago?!?! Oh yeah, attempting to get on the 'net via dial-up and thus missing the memo. :(

Well, hopefully you'll come visit Chicago again sometime. :)

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I would LOVE to!!!

I'll bring some knitting and we can drink beer and giggle and knit full-body cosies or something:)

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[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

I could go for doing that! :D

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know the next time I go!!!
(I should have this time, but we were cramming so much stuff into one weekend, it totally slipped my mind. bad, bad maus. *whacks hand gently*)

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[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

Oh it's ok. I wasn't like I was sitting around, counting dust bunnies or anything. ;P I know how that goes of cramming all you can into one weekend. I have done the same for many a friends traveling to Chicago.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Awww...poor neglected uncounted dust bunnies...

*gets clipboard*

One, two three...um, four...stop hopping away! *achoo!* er...five, six...*HA_CHOO!* dusty little linty buggers!!!...um, seven...

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[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

*roflmao* I'm surprised you can count them so easily when mine used to love to breed and multiply before my eyes.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

*ACHOO!*

Id's gettig harder, d'oh...Cad i habe a Kleegex?

eight, nine...um, eight....ummmtwelve...

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[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

*passes you the box of tissue*

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Oh, thag yew.
*WHONK*

Much better...um,,,.....I lost count...I need one of those number-clicker things.

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[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

*lets you borrow my row counter number-clicker thingy I use when I crochet*

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Wooh, coool...
*click click click*
I just have to stop playing with it now.
*click click click*

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[duchess-webb.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... I forgot to tell you... it's addicting to click. *winks*

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Welcome home :)

Glad to hear you had such a nice trip!

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you:)))))

I did have a good trip, but it suuure is nice to be back.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Glad the concert was worth it. You need more paid time off... So do I. Too bad it conflicted with Cyn's Perpetual Motion tour. I couldn't go to Chicago, cuz M'luv is still unemployed and it was our anniversary Saturday... Can't be in two places at one, especially if one of those places costs too much to stay overnight...

You gotta see Madison and our neck of the woods in the summer, some time...

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have gone, but we didn't have time:(
It would have been nice to meet Cyn.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

That post makes me miss Chicago (and the trains. Hee.).

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Yeah? what were your experiences like?

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I grew up near Chicago and lived there for about 13 years. The North Side is my favorite, since it's weirdo-friendly. I'm not sure if it's still around, but there used to be a restaurant on Sheffield called The Gargoyle Cafe. They had this giant painting of Mickey Mouse as a Cyclops. Their fruit salsa was really good, too. Also, the best pizza I've ever had was at Pizzeria Uno on E. Ohio. If it's strange/silly theatre you're craving, check these folks out:

http://www.neofuturists.org

For comics, zines and such, try Quimby's:

http://www.quimbys.com

Reckless Records has a huge selection of fun stuff (even on vinyl):

http://www.reckless.com

If you want something more eddycashunal, try the Museum of Science and Industry. There's a big model train setup in the lobby. I think that was my favorite part as a kid.

By the way, oblomova and just_a_chick_03 live in Chicago.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

motherevol lived in Chicago until about 2 years ago. She can help you out, too.

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

Sounds like tonsafun!

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

It was!

next tme i go, I have to leave more time for sightseeing, though.

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

There's NEVER enough time for that, is there?....*sigh*

Chicago smells

[emschin.livejournal.com]

Were you eating your soft taco in the train station--it used to be called Union Station years ago. Who knows if it still is.

When I was 17 and in my first year of college in Evanston, I was in that station making the trip home to Iowa. It was there I encountered my first pervert. Friends told me that was a good opening line for my Autobiography--"I met my first pervert in Union Station".

Or were you on an El platform where the urine smell is really strong. Another story: When I took the El to the Loop I would go thru the Marshall Fields store in Evanston, then to the platform. (I don't remember why.) I wrote an essay centered around going thru the elegance of the Field's store with perfume in the air and then to the El platform with the smells there and a city's trash.

Re: Chicago smells

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I jumped off at ...sheesh, what stop was it? clark street, i think. We took the blue line from the airport. And yeeeees, the smells...whew! But I do like the easy transit system:)

No perverts either, but eh occasional reeeeally stinky individual. when the smell just rolls off and keeps on rolling.