The Thermals @ Wicker Park Fest 2007
In the middle of “Pillar of Salt”, a single hand clutching an iPhone shot above the heads of the crowd, snapped a quick photo, and then disappeared into the sea of jumping scenesters as quickly as it appeared. Even though the band played only thirty minutes and the guy [...]
Bye, Reese.
This started out as a wall post on Facebook which grew too long for the comment entry box and thus was posted here instead.
i could write a house episode.
Mirah @ Logan Square Auditorium
Quite by accident, I ended up standing sandwiched between two people whose blogs and flickr photostreams I follow regularly (thanks, chicagobloggers.com), but had never met in real life. I know their names, a canonical list of favorite books, movies and bands courtesy of Facebook, the names of their friends, where they [...]
Overheard while biking home last night–
From the car full of guys, trying to make a right turn from the center lane at Western and Armitage:
“Get out of the road, fag!”
From the guy in the late-model black sedan, near McDonald’s:
“Awesome helmet, dude!”
From the cranky partygoers in a cab, stuck in a quarter-mile-long non-moving clot of cars [...]
