m & c visit chi-town
There was no home game for the Cubs in Chicago this weekend — but you could easily tell they scored by listening for cheers out the window in Wrigleyville. They do love their baseball in Chicago.On late night Friday night we went to a bar called Cesar’s for drinks and dinner with Carrie and friend Jessica. (Jessica who’s apartment houses a very cute, and non-ferocious big white ball of fur named Sullivan, aka Manticore.)
At Cesar’s on Friday we sat with friends and friends of friends and then went to a gay bar called Roscoe’s. Along with Carrie and Jessica I was in the company of men who liked the company of men. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I clung to my girlfriend for the evening and chalked up another wacky evening in the life of Z.
I had many drinks that night and thankfully woke up next to Carrie. We had brunch at a great place called Ann Sather’s — reknown for their cinnamon buns which were damn damn tasty. The rest of the day was spent meandering around the shops of Wrigleyville/Halsted area and finished the evening with the last performance of Jessica’s hilarious sketch-comedy play of which she wrote and directed at Second City’s Danny’s Skybox Theater. Old skool OHS alum Jon Theobald and girlfriend Brittany met up at nearby Corcoran’s for the evening of hilarity, where a local drunk dazzled us with stories of “I knew Belushi and bleaha bleah jibba-jabba…I’m Irish”.
Sunday PM after a stop at Kasia’s Deli for some pierogi (and keilbasa which flew back to DC with me) we took at tour of Jessica’s place of employ the Field Museum and watched an effed up documentary at the nearby Adler Planetarium that attempted to predict the Earth’s future inhabitants where apparently “flish” (flying fish) and birds that breathe fire inhabit the planet. The planetarium did however boast a fine view of the city, where Jessica pointed out a particular slanted building on the skyline that was designed by a woman; it’s slant was designed so that it wouldn’t cast a shadow on the park below. Many tall monuments and buildings phallically represent man’s accomplishment and triumphs of engineering. This particular slanted building resembled something else.
