I’m in Chicago for the librarians’ conference. I came a day early because I have a 10:30 meeting tomorrow. Joan’s gone to pick up her dog from doggy daycare, and I’m about to go pick up the take away Indian food. She’s let me stay over in her spare bedroom in Dearborn Park. It’s been […]
We’re spending a [slightly shifted] weekend in Chicago, Saturday to Tuesday. Like last year, we’ve got a visiting student on tow. This time, our excuse for visiting is to see Patti Smith at the Vic tonight. (last year it was spring break) We arrived on Saturday, doing the half car, half train thing on Metra […]
Mark saw the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute when he was there for Lollapalooza, and thought it was so good that I should see it too – seriously enough that he took me there for a belated birthday present. I handed in the first of the syllabi for the three courses I am […]
Monday morning in Chicago, Mark & I got up and headed to a nearby Starbucks to give our girl the first crack at the bathroom – her toilette is much more complex than Mark’s or mine. We got packed and checked all the bags at the hotel, then headed to Art Institute to work up […]
Everybody’s doing their annual April Fool jokes, but we are in Chicago enjoying ourselves, no foolin’, and my over-earnest style doesn’t really lend itself too handily to April Fool pranks. Google’s got Nascar, the first time I went there this a.m. it even said “I’m steering Lucky“; I expect TidBits will do something tomorrow when […]
On Wednesday, I got home and made a butterscotch pie, basically, butterscotch pudding in a crust, topped with a carton of all natural Cool Whip that I got out of the freezer and set on the counter to thaw (even though the label says not to). It was good – we ate it for our […]
We just spent another weekend in Chicago, mostly to see Arcade Fire. Here’s some of the food: The rest are on the photo blog – and I didn’t take any pictures at Spiaggia Cafe. It was almost like two trips – the extremely cold and rainy part, and the sunny & mild part. We drove […]
Besides seeing Robyn Hitchcock & Joe Boyd, and going to the spring flower show, we did some other stuff. We ate. Friday night we had a pre-theater supper at Trattoria No. 10 – a reliable old fave. I had the squash ravioli – 4 large ones, and the nice touch was shreds of zucchini and […]
Saturday night in Chicago we went and got an education on the history of folk rock, from Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd.The show was about two hours, Joe reading from his book, and Robyn singing tunes selected to illustrate historical points – ended up being 8 songs in all – the ones we heard are […]