Today, TBWITWW and I went to the Renegade Craft Fair. It was an interesting gathering of people and stuff to look at. I think it's telling though, that while we spent a couple hours there, we didn't find anything we wanted to buy. (We did come close to buying an Inigo Montoya baby shirt for Tommy, …

Chicago is attempting to become the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics. There is some debate about if this is a good thing for Chicago to do or not. I am firmly on the pro side. If we do it right, we will have people begging to help us improve things like housing, transit, and roads.…

This is pretty cool. A scale comparison of 34 subway systems with the CTA. From Metroblogging Chicago

We're goin' to the Superbowl!

We went to the field museum today. $2.00 for coat check, $23.00 for lunch. (Admission was free thanks to the library.)

Bell's makes my favorite beers. (Actually, they make one of the only beers my non-beer-drinking wife likes too.) Unfortunately it's going to be harder to get them. The franchise to sell Bell's in Illinois, was apparently put up for sale. They buyer was a large "less than friendly" company that the owner of Bell's didn't want …

Yesterday, TBWITWW and I went to the Swap-O-Rama on Ashland. It's a giant flea market and it's freakin sweet. There's a $1.00 admission charge, and probably 200 or so vendors. You can get just about anything it seems... fresh fruit, work clothes, cable service, tools electronics, toys, porn, haircuts... Quality ranges from found-in-a-dumpster-and-wiped-off to brand-new-still-in-box. Although …