Oh wait, actually I just meant, "First!"
But actually actually I just signed on to tell/remind everyone that Sir Kraab, I don't pay, and I are meeting at 6pm tonight at the bar near the top of the Hancock Tower for a drink or two. All Chicago area posters, commenters, and lurkers are invited.
#3 is obviously a fraud. A Chicagoan would say "Hancock Building", not "Hancock Tower". Stay away!
Also, good post.
You do realize you live in a place nicknamed "The Flophouse," don't you? Are you sure you don't want to play down the connection between identity and home?
And on the subject of meetups, please e-mail me if you're interested in a brunch meetup in Austin on Sunday, November 11. (Some of you don't put contact info on your comments.)
7 - I was so afraid you were going to read this and freak out. "Shit! Now I have to clean!"
I've been mulling this post around for a while but never could find a picture of that painting online. But there's a new Ruscha site (linked) with online images of all of his works. Woo hook 'em internet! All artists should do this.
I do have to clean, as it turns out. But I always like a good excuse to clean this place up, because usually excuses are needed.
Ed Ruscha is so fucking cool.
Most artists don't have his auction prices to fund their internet awesomeness.
I don't want to go out drinking with someone named "I Don't Pay."
Probably a great guy, but still.
Ruscha calls the font in the painting you like "Boy Scout Utility Modern." He signed my Cotton Puffs, Q Tips, etc. catalog.
He signed my catalog, too! One of the few artists I get all fan-boy over.
This post is a subtle way of saying tthe UnfoggedDCon is off, right?
This post is a subtle way of saying tthe UnfoggedDCon is off, right?
That's also how I read it.
Of course, that should be, "That's how I also read it."
Except when you read it that way you only spelled "the" with one "t," I'd bet.
Wampyrs!
Nobody gets in my house but the cable guy.
"Enter freely and of your own will."
Becks' lack of response to 15-19 can only be read as confirmation.
I should note that the same would have been true of any response.
#3 is obviously a fraud. A Chicagoan would say "Hancock Building", not "Hancock Tower". Stay away!
Have I ever claimed to be a Chicagoan? SK and I were visiting Chicago, Ned. Do try to keep up.
Anyway, we had a perfectly nice time at the Hancock Building, although IDP did spill the latter half of my second martini all over my right arm. But that was made up for by his sharing his vast and fascinating knowledge of the Unfoggediverse (and Lutherans) with us.
Also, the wedding experience was great. Especially the reception (depsite the profoundly mediocre DJ). And Chicago is my kind of town.
And and Sir Kraab and I will be there for the Austin brunch meet-up.