I took a bike ride along Chicago’s Lakefront Trail, starting at it’s end (or beginning) at the South Shore Cultural Center at 71st Street. The South Side. Little known beaches with people of all races and cultures, cool architecture and this:
The Asshole Book Club reconvenes – this time it’s the Chicago-based band UK Grief that’s doing the bookin’ and the drinkin’. In the meantime, enjoy this pic from Crown Brewing, near Chicago. Liffey got his pint on the other day. Cheers.
I had a pint at Quenchers Saloon before I left my Bucktown neighborhood to help Mosquito run an errand at some small town in Indiana. He said he had to pick up photography equipment in a small town about 90 minutes over the state line. It was 6 p.m. on a Monday night and I had a nice Polish beer buzz and a McDonald’s chicken sandwich in my lap as we drove away on Interstate 94 before latching on to some state highway surrounded by cornfields. Mosquito can be an annoying talker during a road trip so I turned up the radio and read Chicago recluse author Clive Javanski’s latest essay, “Loose Pants.” Here we were, driving in this beat up ’82 Scottsdale pick-up…
The Dodgy 