Thursday, April 17, 2008

There Was A Cougar In Chicago. A Real One Or Some Old Lady You Know?


Frances hanging out at Damanda & Kevin's apartment before we all head out for Alice Won's b-day party


Brent hanging out with Bruno


Angela, Brent, Nick, & Noah in Kevin and Damanda's huge kitchen


Angela and Frances


This evening's host; Damanda


The party was moved over to Lemmings on Damen just south of Armitage where Alice Won was partying with some other folks and more Muskegon Exiles.


Frances cutting Noah out of their picture together


Doesn't she look like the B-day girl? I'll admit, this isn't a good one of you... sorry...


Megan and Brent. They were having some kind of philosophical conversation about something. Probably about Death Race 2000, which was on TV (a highly suggested movie from me).


Noah, Frances, and myself. Sorry Frances, we didn't realized it was suppose to be one of "those" photos...


Here we go!


Nick, Karli, and Mike, who is drinking Iron City Beer: Lemming's featured "shit can of the month for $2.25"


Frances and Damanda with some button things from the birthday cupcakes or something.


Damanda's new MySpace photo


Me and the B-day girl; Alice Won. This is a much nicer picture of you!!!


Me, Noah, Alice, Megan, & Frances. Megan, we should have this one printed and placed on the wall.


Ahhh, the heaven's have opened up. God looked down on his lonely planet and saw people suffering from a difficult winter. Those poor Chicagoans cowering under blankets on their couches. And, with an effortless drag of his finger he cleared away the clouds and drew up warm winds from the south. He was indeed great. Or, something like that....

Church on Humboldt/Sacramento Blvd.


Just off the Blvd


Logan and Sacramento


Taken a few days later. I didn't realize this until now. But, I think it's the same photo from 2 above, but a slightly different angle...


High art graffiti at a construction site on Kedzie south of Montrose


Chicago Bears van I found on the northside. Chicagoans love their bears. You'd know that if you saw Top Chef: Chicago last night. Did you see "the Refrigerator?" He's so awesome. I want to be his friend. Megan and I laugh about an interview he was ... "I go feesshin'... with my buuuudddies..." Now, I can add him yelling at the little Asian guy "Com'on man and just gimme the ribs."


Perfect BBQ weather last night (except for the hurricane force wind early on). Blue's not sure about this "outdoors" room of the apartment. Just look at the fear in his eyes.


Karli breaking in the new grill with Tennessee


Tennessee's face shot. He's going to be a famous actor like everyone else. Only, he'll be successful!


Though the eyes of a dog...


Cliff, SME, and Tennessee. One big happy family


SME at twilight.


Damanda, Tyler, SME, Cliff, and Tennessee BBQing


You may remember Junior from my last blog fixing his bike with me. During the BBQ, he discovered he could hang out with us if he leaned out his second floor window. Here his is in his Mexican wrestling mask and action figures. He also attacked me in the mask on North Ave. before I knew he had it too and I thought I was going to fight the 9 (?) year old. He's quickly becoming one of my favorite kids...


Lady showing why she's a fat 20lbs cat. Here she's stealing Nick's tall shot glass of milk...






HERE'S A COUGAR THAT SOMEHOW ROAMED CHICAGO FOR A FEW DAYS IN THE ROSCOE VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH IS BETWEEN WHERE MEGAN AND I LIVE!!!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

MMMmmmm.... Exotic Chinese Meat.....


BBQ last week. Here’s SME with Tennessee


Cliff waiting for his brats to cook.


Karli. I didn’t use a fish eye lense. The door is just that warped...


Mike. I hear he’s sick. So, wish him well.


Nothing is better than Shrimp, Fish & Shrimp that was once lost and now found...


A typical Chicago corner.


Megan and I were working on our bikes and my neighbor, Junior, decided to come out and work on his bike as well.


Junior smiling


Junior giving the Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson look


Megan all gussied up for biking around town. It was, by far, the healthiest day of my life.


The Boat House in Humboldt Park. Be sure to look for it in the upcoming movie Humboldt Park.


Megan looking over the vast expanse of the park


Checker board in Wicker Park where we ate our all-natural sandwiches. I told you it was the healthiest day of my life.


People enjoying Wicker Park on a warm sunny day


Megan in the park


Me and my Choppers.


Looking good


Megan looking for new and trendy ways to wear a helmet. Look for hipsters and other trendy folk to be doing this soon!


Nice graffiti


Lincoln Park at the conservatory looking south


A Sun Bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo


Some kind of reindeer


The Lion was pretty active that day.


This is the place I’ll go the next time I need my "Foreing" car fixed


Brent, Angela, and Evan hosted the BBQ at their place last night. Angela just got back from China a little bit ago. It sounds like an interesting place. She could tell you a lot more about it than I can. So, go ask her...


MMMMmmmm.... Grilled meat....


Angela brought back lots of exotic meat from China. No one was quite sure what it was since it was all written in Chinese. But, some guesses included: chicken liver, turkey knuckles, spicy tofu, and chicken feet...


Some girl at the world’s coldest fire. For some reason, this fire gave off absolutely no heat. Cliff actually put his hand halfway into the flame and still said "It’s still not hot!"

That’s about it. Bubba (Brandon) (Fellow Muskegon Exile living in Chicago) is having an improv show tonight at Second City. If you are interested in going, give me a call by 3pm so I can try to get some tickets. The show starts at 10:30pm. My number is 773.241.4599

xoxo,

Mike

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