Backup of my old LiveJournal blog
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18 Sep 2006It’s 1:27 and I just can’t sleep. My head aches and my back aches and bits of my heart still ache, though they have no right to. Every 4 minutes a train passes by my window and my battery will run out in a couple of minutes. It’s 1:30 and I just can’t sleep.
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18 Sep 2006This is the Chicago of the skyline and the shoreline, of parks and stadiums, wide streets and clean, clean rivers. It’s touristic but not overly so, urban but not as crowded as New York. It’s got green grass with joggers and the Magnificent Mile with shoppers and universities with slackers, coffee shops and poetry slams and […]
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18 Sep 2006Two more cream sodas for your enjoyment and edification. These two were purchased in Wisconsin on our way to the House on the Rock The first was Avshalom’s Point Premium Vanilla Cream Soda, which was really good. You could really taste the vanilla in it (click to enlarge) The second was my Blumer’s Blueberry Cream. […]
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18 Sep 2006(Update: Fixed the image links) Chicago is very different when you don’t drive a car. There is no subway in Chicago, just the “El” train – the Elevated train running throughout central Chicago. Its metal and concrete tracks run over the city, especially the central Loop, making the streets both distinctive and very, very loud. […]
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17 Sep 2006I noticed that I used the term “criss-crossing” in both my previous entries. I like the sound of it.
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17 Sep 2006My first taste of Chicago was Chicago of the Ground. Chicago of the highway. It’s a Chicago of interstates and road construction, a Chicago of tollbooths and traffic jams. It’s a sprawling metropolis, 50 miles from north to south, criss-crossing streets, gas stations and restaurants. It doesn’t end. It looks small on the map but […]
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17 Sep 2006Jay lookalike: Hey, where are you guys from? Us: Israel Not-So-Silent-Bob: Hey, that’s cool, man. That’s cool. We got you guys’ backs! Us: Yeah. Bob: I mean, lots of places in the world don’t like us, but we know that we’re cool with you guys, because we got you guys’ backs! Us: Yeah, we’re cool. […]
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14 Sep 2006At the Metro Lodge motel in the outskirts of Detroit there is no WiFi. In fact, there are no wireless networks in range at all, whether open or protected. A first time that’s happened since we’ve been here. This is appropriate for an area where people bum you for food on the street, the bedcovers have […]
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12 Sep 2006I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but Amanda’s a very high-tech geek jeep. Other than the standard Jeepish fare, like a 4×4 drive that we dare not touch, cruise control for those endless interstate highways and a throaty growl to keep unwary motorists at bay, we have outfitted Amanda with some new additions: 1) […]
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