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Sep. 10th, 2010
Who needs a new upload cable?
Sep. 10th, 2010 09:55 amWhy, that would be me! Accordingly, Chicago photo post may have to wait.
( So, I went to another Chicago piano bar... )
( ...but first, I caught a screening of the Ken Russell movie Tommy at the Gene Siskel. Spoilers. )
...and so, that happened. Chicago is a city with a phenomenal amount of culture: gigantic libraries; museums; public statuary- but I wish I had spent more of my time in San Francisco; other than bits of Millenium Park (and meeting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
humble_pie; wish we could've said hello, shefell) Chicago is basically, well, lots of stuff. Which is nice, but not what I was looking for.
(Random: in the movie Citizen Kane, there's a scene where Kane is trying to persuade a friend of his not to go to Chicago; he says, "The wind comes howling in off the lake, and gosh only knows if they've heard of Lobster Newburg." I like the "gosh"- almost certainly a result of censorship- this was only two years after David O. Selznick's notorious fight for the right to have Gone With the Wind end with the "I don't give a damn" line- it gives Kane an interesting boyish quality. More pertinently, though, I can testify that yes, even in September, the wind does indeed come howling off the lake (there may have been a hat-chasing episode a couple of days ago, in fact); in Googling "Chicago lobster newburg," I find only 4,200 entries, the first of which has the teaser, "I have recently had a taste for lobster newburg but don't know of anywhere in the Chicago area that is serving it."
Good call, Mr. Kane!
( So, I went to another Chicago piano bar... )
( ...but first, I caught a screening of the Ken Russell movie Tommy at the Gene Siskel. Spoilers. )
...and so, that happened. Chicago is a city with a phenomenal amount of culture: gigantic libraries; museums; public statuary- but I wish I had spent more of my time in San Francisco; other than bits of Millenium Park (and meeting
humble_pie; wish we could've said hello, shefell) Chicago is basically, well, lots of stuff. Which is nice, but not what I was looking for.(Random: in the movie Citizen Kane, there's a scene where Kane is trying to persuade a friend of his not to go to Chicago; he says, "The wind comes howling in off the lake, and gosh only knows if they've heard of Lobster Newburg." I like the "gosh"- almost certainly a result of censorship- this was only two years after David O. Selznick's notorious fight for the right to have Gone With the Wind end with the "I don't give a damn" line- it gives Kane an interesting boyish quality. More pertinently, though, I can testify that yes, even in September, the wind does indeed come howling off the lake (there may have been a hat-chasing episode a couple of days ago, in fact); in Googling "Chicago lobster newburg," I find only 4,200 entries, the first of which has the teaser, "I have recently had a taste for lobster newburg but don't know of anywhere in the Chicago area that is serving it."
Good call, Mr. Kane!
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Sep. 10th, 2010 08:42 pmSo, tomorrow I get up, get on a plane, and come home. It's been an adventure; I suspect I'll be dreaming about the architecture for months (as well as the moment that I somehow nerved myself to step out onto transparent floor panels on the Sears Willis Towers' observation deck. You know how if you get far enough in the air, it all seems to flatten out into one homogenous landscape, almost as if you weren't in the air at all? WRONG).
Well, okay. There were a few museums I'd like to have seen (seriously, Chicago has at least as many good museums as NYC- at roughly a third of the population); in particular, I'd like to have spent more time in the Thorne Rooms- but this was a pretty good adventure. I'll miss hanging out in front of the Shedd Aquarium, flicking crumbs from my hot dog bun onto the ground until one bird... two birds... STAMPEDE OMG DUCKS SEAGULLS GEESE AAH
(Okay, so maybe they have birds in NYC. Hmph.)
(Seriously, this one goose was following me for about a hundred yards; I half expected him to go for my wallet.)
Oh, random cool thing: museum of Soviet video games.
Well, okay. There were a few museums I'd like to have seen (seriously, Chicago has at least as many good museums as NYC- at roughly a third of the population); in particular, I'd like to have spent more time in the Thorne Rooms- but this was a pretty good adventure. I'll miss hanging out in front of the Shedd Aquarium, flicking crumbs from my hot dog bun onto the ground until one bird... two birds... STAMPEDE OMG DUCKS SEAGULLS GEESE AAH
(Okay, so maybe they have birds in NYC. Hmph.)
(Seriously, this one goose was following me for about a hundred yards; I half expected him to go for my wallet.)
Oh, random cool thing: museum of Soviet video games.