With John’s family coming in town and a Spanish cake to bake this weekend in celebration of the Euro Cup, a trip to Six Flags for a pseudo-nephew’s birthday and then a two-part move that will wind up on Tuesday evening, I hope to update as frequently as I can and hope you understand! In the meantime, I’ll be here in Chicago in the throes of moving emotion and subsequently collapsing.
Love,
Caitlin
I am faced with a tough decision in the coming days. In mid-July I’ll need to drive a U-Haul from Cincinnati to Chicago stuffed with furniture. This situation of course means I cannot drive the brave little Beetle to Cincinnati and leaves me all sorts of planes, trains and automobuses to consider taking there. I’ve most recently seriously considered taking the notorious Megabus.
So, my question is this: Do I take a Megabus from Chicago to Cincinnati? I’ve heard mixed things—that the buses arrive heinously late, that it’s efficient, that it’s better to spend the money getting there some other way, and that it’s a great deal. Can anyone offer me advice?
I am,
Gratefully yours J
I don't know about you guys, but I'm duh-rama'd out. I only saw half the show this evening as I just returned from a lovely wedding in Ohio (congratulations Allyson and Josh!). Thus, I cannot justly update until I watch the full thing tomorrow evening... after a good night's sleep for clear thoughts.
In the meantime, I highly encourage you to visit Graham's website, forwarded to me from a wonderful commenter. Many mysteries are solved. For example: Graham played basketball in Germany, not in the United States! Now you know why you never saw him before now.
Wanted to give you a heads-up to a great event happening in Edgewater next week. The Historic Edgewater Dinner Crawl is on Thursday, June 26th and for $25, you’ll get a tasting from fourteen different neighborhood restaurants (listed below). You’ll also get a free subscription to Time Out Chicago included with your ticket purchase. Pretty cool. For tickets, sign up here.
Participating Restaurants:
Apart Pizza
Anna Held
Ben's Noodle & Rice
Bryn Mawr Deli
Cotes du Rhone
Flourish Bakery Cafe
Francesca's Bryn Mawr
Pepitone's
Sabai-Dee
Shinobu Japanese
Starbucks
Sweet Occasions & more
That Little Mexican Cafe
The Little India Restaurant
Participating Businesses:
Salon Echo - hand & chair massages
Holsten Real Estate - tours of historic Bryn Mawr & Belle Shore buildings
Red Bull - roving representatives distributing their product
Event Sponsors:
Francesca's Restaurants
Holsten Real Estate Development Corporation
The New Admiral at the Lake
Bridgeview Bank
BLUEWATER5440 Condominiums
While Americans might feature children playing in streets to stop speeding, or photos of cut-up unborn babies to curb abortions (I know, because a whole lot of those signs got put up outside my window on a hot, muggy July day last year. Thanks for the nightmares, church across the street!), the French use refined fashion icons like Karl Lagerfeld to get the point across about... well, I'm not sure about what actually. Safety vests?
Still, just like that Russian video, I have many questions, like:
If I drove to Wheaton this weekend to get window sashes, I can drive to Aurora to get a limeade. Mmm, limeade… [Trib]
Fresh flowers
Crumpets
Porcelain cups and/or fine glassware
...personally, I'd be chuffed to be there.
I couldn't possibly recap the DeAnna Tells All hour long extravaganza. So let's just say this much:
Just a heads up on our dear Shayne and Matt. Looks like Matt has moved out of Shayne’s Studio City condo. While some report that Shayne demanded Matt move out because of his flirtatious behavior with other blondes, Matt insists that living together was intended to be a temporary thing since her place is too small to fit him, Shayne, her shoe collection and both their stage personalities.
EDIT: Thanks to the boyfriend for pointing out how similar Shayne and the monkey's faces are in this post and the one below. Coincidence? Most likely not. There was monkey, after all.
Apparently the monkey was captured while “atop a blue and white speedboat.” I have a theory this monkey was trying to get out of the country and go home. Thoughts? [AP]
However, I’m not sure how successful it was because the connection between the viral video to the product it markets (which is, for the record, the movie Wanted, due out on June 27) is a hazy one. Essentially, the director, Timur Bekmanbetov, wanted to show what stepping outside your boundaries was like…and um, how gullible the West is. He explains all of this (in Russian—feel free to go translate) on his livejournal. (Insert only-emos-and-14-year-olds–use-livejournals joke here.)
Really, Timur? Don’t you see how posting a video that has nothing to do with your movie might confuse people? Especially all of us stupid Americans? Or even your own comrades who were posting news stories about it? All you had to do to get an American to go see your movie was market your stars Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. Especially James McAvoy. Mm… You see, we’re really that shallow and not all that complicated, but thanks for the video anyway.
The hypothetical view from the top floor of the Chicago Spire. Why, God? Why?
Also, if I still can't see the Michigan shoreline from this high up, then I'm not interested.
Taken from TVGuide’s description of tonight’s episode: “DeAnna accuses the nine remaining bachelors of refusing to take the competition seriously, but first she invites them to compete in a singing contest.”
Whoooaaaa kay, Adrian Grenier. Just cause you're green doesn't mean you can't take care of your physical hygiene, right? Time for a shave and a shower, mountain man.
See my awesome boyfriend DJ with his awesome DJ friends at Par Lounge in Wicker Park. (Spoken like a true girlfriend.) For further reference, please see fliers that J and I made together:
Much like their homeland Australia, the “power circle” of Hugh Jackman/Nicole Kidman/Naomi Watts is an island in a lonely world, only slightly connected to the rest of Hollywood, drinking better wine and trying to get rid of Keith Urban. [via]
Lisa: This isn't a popularity contest.
America: Lucky for you, it isn't.
So this video of a (most likely Rusisan) office worker totally losing it has been circling the Internetz in the last few days. Rumors abound about it—is it more viral marketing? (Maybe it’s Careerbuilder getting all Sarah Marshall on us: I’m so over you, Corporate Job!)
If it’s real, we’re left with some questions:
If it is viral marketing, it leaves us with a couple questions:
I experienced two minutes of typing fame today. Typeracer is the best thing Gawker has tipped me off to in a while.
Despite the fact that Federer (who I love for reasons I cannot explain here, but let’s just say that I got more than teary-eyed when he and Nadal played their final point at Wimbledon last year) lost his match against Djokovic in the finals at Monte Carlo, I love this video from that game where Federer loses his normally unshakeable cool at the Djokovic family. I hope he doesn’t have to do so again—as long as Nadal gives Djoko and his family the spanking they deserve tomorrow.
I've been a busy bee, but I promise that my update is coming soon. Is there a logic to DeAnna's decisions? I'm still not so sure, but I do know one thing. Actually three things--and Ron taught me them:
1. The cream always rises to the top.
2. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
3. Sometimes, the tree gets knocked down before it bears its fruit.
