Chicago
Just passing through and decided to drop this on y'all.
Continuing my report from the People's Republic of Chicago, first time here after ten years away.
Greetings, glorious Horde. Jumping in w/o getting caught up on everybody's precious words. Yet.
Ha! Great post to read because... I'm in Chicago this week! Milady's eldest brother died, day before yesterday, and we'll be staying 'til the weekend's memorials.
Jumping in without yet following any headlines, or reading comments, or the morning thread, to say:
Morning, Glories, from the glorious People's Republic of Chicago!
OM, I really appreciate your style of discussion that connects themes and casually incorporates the book links. Almost makes books seem like a normal part of life!
Friends, Milady's oldest brother, Vince, is ill and probably dying. He beat the throat cancer a long time ago, but a new cancer has cropped up, and it seems there's nothing to be done.
Kroger: Kroger sells canned food! No need to do it yourself!
Yeah, here's a food thought. (Long one, sorry.)
Chupacabras: ...Is it just crazy talk to vote for the lesser of two evils in the Dem primary then vote for whomever in the general?
Subjects: Chicago, democracy, Oklahoma, Republicans and Democrats
I have to register my indignation, my outrage at the way the Irish are portrayed in comments here as rowdy drunks.
Mindful Webworker,
I'm glad you escaped Chicago & your kids are grateful.
Carol: "Mindful Webworker, Where did you move from?"
It's twenty-one years this Spring since we moved the family from Chicago to Oklahoma.
Twenty! It's twenty degrees F it says here! No wonder the furnace keeps cooking.
Summer of 1980 in Oklahoma. Highs above 100°F daily and never got below 80° at night, for over six weeks.
Nation's #1 rat-infested city, Chicago, not even counting the Democ
rickb223: "When all you have is babushkas, a 20 yr old intern is a runway model."
That really was my first thought.
When we lived in Chicago, our life was so arranged that I didn't usually have to fight the masses, at the worst times anyway.
Subjects: Chicago, urban, rural, Oklahoma, Faithful (cat), bald eagle, deer, woodpecker
Happy Betty is bouncy!
What in the 666 comments is happening?
Mrs & (2 out of 3 grown-up) kits should finally be home from Chicago in 'bout an hour. Back to married life!
Seamus > players ride Segways
Barkeeper's Friend - heh. Used it for ages. Welcome to the club.
HEY! Hi. I'm home alone.
Well, I'm not home at the moment, but I'm left "back home."
Just me.
Subjects: cats, Chicago, Faithful (cat), family, Gimli, Oklahoma, self-defense
"...some guy decided to carry openly in a kiddie park, a park that used to have a sign saying No Firearms - just walk among the kids strapped..."
Morning, Glories.
Nood with no news is good gnus?
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Good evening, and wercome to the Chicago Tokyo Hoter. No extla chalge fol freas. Arr freas ale flee!
autoselfdenounce
"The lake is 92 percent frozen, toppling a 20-year-old record of 91 percent set on Feb. 5, 1994." -TheQuietMan
>> bulk of this snow storm went south of us here in Chicago..
and North of us here in NE Okla. We didn't get much
"No I don't think objecting to the Coke Ad is silly. It's fuckin America: SPEAK ENGLISH. NOTHING DIVIDES A COUNTRY FASTER THAN RELIGION AND LACK OF A COMMON LANGUAGE!"
New one up, I hear? Well, for closers and before I have to head back to RL...
Milady Webworker grew up West Side Chicago Irish Catholic Democrat.
Subjects: anthropology, Chicago, human right, marriage, Oklahoma, webworker
Oooohhhklahoma.... Where America thrives. (Shhh.
Small DOSES, not does. (And I’m on the desktop so I can’t blame the cell’s autocorrect.) Also, I forgot (again!) that link would embed the vid. Fancy shmancy WordPress. Hope that was okay.
"It is an embarrassment our poverty levels are
so high compared to other developed countries." —Vickie Mansour-Hasan, Chicago
quoted by: TheQuietMan