The Weatherman

Just wanted to comment on a movie I watched this weekend "The Weatherman" with Nicholas Cage. It was filmed in Chicago and featured a ton of buildings around the loop area as well as the lake front. Cage's character is a local TV channels Weatherman who really doesn't know what he's doing but looks good doing it. I just though it was funny because we all know how "predictable" chicago's weather is. There was one scene right outside of my building I work in down town and sadly it was pretty exciting haha! Anyway I liked it and I think you all should go see it especially if you work in the loop and wanted to catch a glimpse of your own building which you probably see way to often:)

I love Halloween!

Little kids dressed up as ballet dancers, ghosts, and pumpkins on some random night asking for candy! How much more fun can that get?! Adult Halloween is the only time we really have to be just silly and random(mainly drunk). In some cases slutty! Anyway for those of you who know me best, this wouldn't come as a surprise but I'm scrounging around for a last minute costume. I have a few ideas but I've yet to really try them out to see how they work! Anyway I will be sure to get a picture for you all later on... (so you can laugh at my ass!)

Suntimes rains on Sox parade.

Chicago hasn't had a reason to have a ticker tape parade in 20 years, since the Bears had won their title in '85. Today we Chicagoans celebrate the Sox! As they started down by The Cell and went up MLK drive till they got to their location in the heart of the loop where shredded Suntimes papers were showered upon the champs! Loud music and cheering fans was all you could hear. The people clad in suits, jerseys and sox paraphernalia filled the closed off LaSalle encompassed every color of the rainbow cheering for the double Decker buses as they passed. I saw a lot of people crying as the players and coaches passed waved to everyone. The accumulated paper on the ground reached 4 inches and I felt a little home sick for winter which is right around the corner! As the Sox franchise celebrated their victory, I think all of Chicago had its day as well! Maybe someday soon we will see the trib floating through the air as well? I guess the other half of the city can still dream!

White sox and sandals!

Chicago has a something to cheer for this week! Our not so beloved white sox has done the unthinkable! A championship that has been long gone for at least 80 plus years! Geographically speaking the North siders and South siders are divided by Madison Ave. That's the line across the sand that many have crossed since the Sox have had a winning season. As a kid my first game was a sox game, my first baseball jersey was a Sox uniform(The old school style, It's still in my closet!). My problem with the cubs fans is they are all yuppy 30 something, talk on the cellphone the entire time, there to drink more than watch the game, and Cheer when cubs win and could careless when they are loosing. Sox have a everyman quality to them that seems so honest. They deserve to win and sweeping almost every team they came up against proves they wanted it more that some of their northern cousins! Anyway I am going to be down there for their ticker tape parade and I'm going to cheer for our monochromatic friends!

PS: and as for that really bad Journey song they have been blaring everywhere I will forgive them because after all if these guys weren't ball players they would be factory workers drinking in some dive with the song playing in the background anyway!

Shining star of Wisconsin!

Ok, I've said this before but hell I love Panera bread. Honestly I've been to every panera bread in the northern IL area and even WI/IN. I will admit I am a Free WiFi whore! I can't help. Information should be free! Of course being in Wisconsin I think I am making their asian quota by a 200%. I do try ya know! Anyway besides a bit of yellow among all that white is a nice change of pace eh?

Cow bells...I gotta have more Cowbells...

I've recently discovered a lot of songs I seem to enjoy no mater how bad they are, all have one thing in common. They all have some random cowbell action going on in the background. Of course when you think of cowbells the SNL skit is practically the first thing that comes to mind with Farrell and Walken. Anyway I just thought I put it out there but I love my cowbells...

Oh on a side note: I heard a Bon jovi song the other day. Damn they were inovative. with the Voice synthisizer n all...

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Land of Lincoln

On an Illinois license plate we have the slogan "land of Lincoln." Lincoln, the slave free'n, union hold'n, big hat wear'n, Log house livin, was damn fine president I have to admit. Although, if he was the l33t ninja everyone thinks he is... How come he got shot in the back? You would think he would have seen it coming a mile away and like used his bo staff/ninja star skills to take that amateur actor John Wilkes Booth wannabe assassin out! Pshh!!

I got some change for you cutie!

Saw this girl today on the street begging for change. Other than looking like she hasn't showered for a few days she was pretty cute. I can't see how she ended up a panhandler. Drugs or abuse or both I guess. Anyway isn't it kind of funny that you don't really see attractive people in really hard situations. Like the more attractive you are the easier life is for you. That's a pretty big blanket statement I know but hell I think its pretty true. Anyway just found I odd that a pretty person would be begging for my nickels, dimes and quarters.

40 minutes of I will never see again...

You know how every company has their annoying co-worker or two? We were trying to be all stealthy about going out after work for a few drinks. By quitting time we are trying to cut out early and just go drinking! Lets call him JT saw us packing up and asked directly if we were going out after work. No way to avoid it now other than straight out lying to him we invited him along and JT said he would be there for only a few drinks because he was catching his train still. So a few drinks with someone won't kill you right? Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. His train came and went he decided last minute he was not going to take that train after all. So with him permanently attached to the group he proceeded to try to pick up every cougar in the bar. Unsuccessfully of course... So by the time we had enough drinks he insisted that I drive him home. Of course me being STUPID I say "yes sure why the fuck not" By the way that wasn't the bad part yet. After getting up to leave, we walk right by the men's bathroom. After about 1 block JT starts to tell everyone we pass "he need to piss really bad." Yeah he's classy. Anyway so we get to the car. He pisses all over the side of another car in the lot and we take off. I dropped one co-worker off at her apartment which of course we stopped so JT can use the bathroom again. JT then insisted on meeting her downstairs neighbors and we did reluctantly. After getting back into the car... He fidgeted with every button and lever he could see in my car. He reclined the seat to his liking and then proceeded to ask me every fucking personal question that popped into his head. After he got bored with my 2 word responses he then asked me if I was paying attention to him. After responding to that question with a "eh" he began his telling me about his lovely ex girlfriend who he still loves and wants to get back together with her. He then proceeded to tell me I need to get back with anyone of my random Ex's because I apparently love them all. Oh also in between all of these conversations he was yelling out the window in a Hispanic accent at all the Hispanics walking on the street. Every restaurant we passed he asked if we could stop there to eat. My reply of course was "no I'm not that hungry" in all honesty I was!:) So finally make it to the highway, he begins calling everyone he knows on his cell phone, then after every call he would let me know the status of his battery life on the phone. He called his Exgirlfriend, a few buddies and then went back to telling me I should really be "learning" from him because he knows all." Oh did I forget to mention whenever he referred to himself it was in the third person? Yeah fun times. So by the time we were close to his car he had to really use the bathroom again. Every light we stopped at he would get even more agitated. He then showed me where his awesome white "dodge stealth" was parked. I dropped him off he then asked me if I wanted to go out with his friends "cause JT knows how to have a good time." I politely declined and I got as far away from him as I could. As mind numbing as that was... He has now just wasted 10 minutes of your time.

Don't mess with Alan Alda's son...

Just like every other post of mine this involved alcohol a lot of of alcohol. Anyway everyone knows drinking at 11am in the morning always makes the rest of the day turn out just peachy. By the time we caught up with our friend Neil at Starbusters who looks uncannilly like a younger Alan Alda he was pretty much 10-30 drinks into the night. No way of telling exactly how many but his slured speech and the infamous "I love you man" conversation came out quite often. After sitting out on the patio someone mentions to a few drunk guys at the bar "Don't you know who that is... Do you know who Alan Alda is? The guy from mash? That over there(as he points to Neil) is his son. Neil Alda" In an attempt to get into Mr Alda's good graces by buying him a beer. One guy challenges Neil to a chugging contest the loser would naturally have to pay for the beers. (which of course is what he majored in while going through school) So when someone said go Neil had drank everything in his cup before the guy got even half way, and Neil is now screaming "Do you know who I am! I'm Neil Adla bitch! You don't fuck with Neil Adla!" There will never be truer words ever spoken!

Just 3 doors down from here...

GOD DAMN! Ok I hate admitting this shit but I like that new single from 3doors down. How messed up is that. I guess I can still pretend to be all emo when someone else in the car. Then rock out to 3 doors when no ones around!

Great service... Great food.... Oh who am I fucking kidding..

I went to dinner with my parents the other day. They suggested something fast and I really didn't care what they decided on. So pulling into the Olive garden parking lot we got our parking space stolen by some random asshole so we find another spot further down. We walk into the restaurant greeted by some teenager who was busy rolling his highlighter up and down his little podium. After 3-4 rolls he realizes we were standing there and asks us how many of us there were. We had to ask for the wait time and he looked annoyed. He was like "I dono 15 minutes." I'm like great as I roll my eyes. We get seated we got some newbe waiter who we saw every 10 minutes or so. After taking our orders he showed up finally with our soup, salad and bread sticks like 5 minutes before our actual entree was served! The food was blah just like any other cookie cuter restaurant neither good or bad. It had been years since I had been back to a Olive Garden I don't think I will be going back soon. Oh also I had never seen so many teeny bopper dates in my fucking life!

Anger issues...

Some random guy flashed me a peace sign on the street today. First thing that came to mind was "get a job hippy." I let him by with out telling him to get off the marijuana cigarettes.