Chicagoist: 10 Reasons We Love Market Days

been hecht

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:24:50 -0600

as much as i think daley is an arrogant thug, he's not charging fees to enter the halsted street faire. this, like many of the street fairs in the city, is a privately-owned and run enterprise [by an outfit with a name that suspiciously sounds like HIS office of special events]. the entrance fee [as has been documented here often] is voluntary. a 'donation' to the local chamber of commerce. as far as actual discussion on the faire, i was happy to see all the music stages pushed to the sides, instead of at the ends of the streets, which eliminated a great deal of crowd congestion. on the other hand, i think its absurd that so many media outlets talked about the 'diverse' crowd and how it is one of the more 'upscale' fests in the city, and really, there was hardly a mention, in the papers and TV, of the word 'gay.' the organizers don't help much, either. i don't see how you can hold a massive street fest in the heart of the midwest's biggest gay neighborhood and not book any major gay/lesbian music acts. c'mon, a 'summer of love' tribute with a janis joplin impersonator? and taylor dayne?

guest

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:42:55 -0600

A politician does things to help citizenry knowing that in return he will be rewarded with votes. This and more guest 8 commentary on captainobvious.com.

Ward Up

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:04:57 -0600

Beneath a photo of men in speedos playing twister, a commenter sees this as the right thread in which to complain about the war, corporate gangsters, and home mortgage foreclosures. See why the left has lost credibility?

guest

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:05:05 -0600

Of course Daley loves gays. Well, he loves their money and their votes at least. I mean, the guy's not stupid.

guest

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:47:34 -0600

That picture got me so hot. DAMN!!! Yeah Daley ruined it for gay people. There was barely a boys town until after he took office, and bringing the gay games here shows he hates homosexuals. I feel bad for people who bitch about politicians all day. Who has time for that with HOT men like the ones above online!

guest

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:58:46 -0600

That's pretty disgusting.

Tread

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:00:25 -0600

Spook, I'm guessing from your rather telling "I'm not a homophobe, I swear!" comment, that you're straight. What the fuck would you know about gay life? Unless someone's putting a dick in your ass, keep your opinion to yourself. Thanks in advance.

pantagrapher

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:42:39 -0600

Yeah, guest3. That greed road doesn't go both ways. Pfft.

guest

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:28:56 -0600

Completely off-topic, but still ... Nobody doomed these citizens to home foreclosure and bankruptcy. These people saw a cash bonanza with the housing market and wanted in on it, so they took out stupid loans they couldn't pay for, and that they KNEW they couldn't pay for. It was their own greed that doomed them. Of course, it's easier for someone like Spook to blame "corporate gangsters" than to believe that people should be responsible for their own greed.

Spook

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:55:55 -0600

I use to dig market days, because of the festive atmosphere and cool artistic stuff, that could be had at a lot of Chicago street fests, until Darth Daley “privatized” them with entrance fees and high both prices, so now the nearly 400 vendors are basically selling the same thing city wide. Yea the twister game was a site, and I was glade to get my yearly supply of high quality leather incents-you can only purchase it from the Acme Toy Company. Now I hope I don’t come off as a homo phoebe, (like Rev. Dr. Senator Meeks) cause I aint, and I’m not anti pageantry because I dig it, but having checked out the gay scene in NY and New Orleans. it seems that gay Midwest white men have become a frivolous, comic parody of “gay life”. At least that’s what it seems like looking in from the outside. I don’t know maybe I’, just grumpy from the war and deeply troubled by the fact that our economy had to be bailed out internationally because corporate gangsters doomed how many citizens to home foreclosure and bankruptcy?

guest

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:36:07 -0600

A "family festival" with gay porn stars in speedos is of a "different stort", indeed.