Wandering
Yesterday was awesome. I’m so used to living here, that I forget to do things on free days. So on one of my well-deserved, quitting-severance-package days off, I decided to actually do something. Turns out that the library has the best thing ever, besides heaps of books: you can check out free passes to the museums. So to the Historical Society I went. Actually, I think I was the first person to check out the pass for the Historical Society. I felt bad; no one really likes history…
Anyway, I learned many things yesterday:
- The Wicker Park Wamu is on Milwaukee, not North Avenue.
- The11am bus driver on North is a nut and will simply honk at you to see if you want a ride, you then have to flag her down and run into the middle of the intersection to board.
- The Historical Society is under renovation until 2006, and thusly only three exhibits are open. The exhibit on lynching photographs is very good, if difficult to look at.
- People who went to lynchings picnics are sick fucks – there’s no amount of historical contexualizing that can make that right.
- Thereare many geese at the LPZ Lagoon at the moment.
- The new Children’s Zoo is open, and the Mexican wolf looks happy in her new habitat.
- Urban Outfitters is having their five dollar sale, which makes me wonder what I spent the rest of the money on.
- Hi-Fi Records is still in business, and appears to be the only Clark St. record store of my misspent alternative youth that has survived i-Tunes. They’re cool guys; buy from them.
- Neither Hanig’s nor DSW had anything that caught my eye.
- Beware the Belmont El station; if you’re not paying attention you’ll suddenly realize you’re on the Purple Line.
- There are strange birds at the Howard station.
- No one has robbed my mother’s empty house… yet.
- The guy at the record shop on Damen and Roscoe got me in and out in seven minutes; buy from him, too.
- I’m glad I didn’t stay in the Level 2 Irish Dance class.
- Even simple Irish dancing is tiring when you’ve been walking all day.
- Sushi is always good, but my metabolism was running too high for it to be filling.
- Cillian Murphy can take a licking and keep on ticking.
- Even if you’ve totally kicked a terrorist’s ass, you’ll still need to be saved by your dad, negating your gurl power.
- Blandly creepy is the new hot.
- I still know where the first warp is in Mario 2.
- Bono has no sense of humor.
- I have a cold.
- I waste my weekends.
