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We hope by now you've seen it, but in case you haven't, here's the cover of this week's Chicago Reader, which features another of their fantastic stories exploring the parking meter debacle. Kudos, Reader kids. Kudos. You've easily topped the NY Post and the Sun-Times.
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hahaha that's awesome
How fresh. Were there no Macarena/Buttafuco/El Nino jokes to be made?
What's so great about it? It recycles an old and relatively minor pop culture reference, with the link between this reference and the issue at hand somewhat vague. Sure, it captures your eyes (actually, the yellow does much of the heavy lifting), but so does a dog shitting on the grass when you walk by.
Great parking meter story, though.
My names Matilda, I hate everything.
Actually, I doubt your name is Matilda, and offering a contrary and honest opinion does not equal "I hate everything*."
But hey, if simplistic thinking works for you ...
*I guess you didn't notice that I liked the story the cover illustrated.
So, am I a "hater," too? Do I drink the "haterade"?
Do you even know what hate means? Hint: Dislike and hate are very different.
Sure, it's dated, but anything that makes Daley look like a dope is a-okay in my book.
"my name's matilda, i hate everything"
lol
I think it's a fantastic cover. I hope the little big man saw it and had a little big man tantrum.
I'm biased though ... I loved the Obama and McCain covers. Does anyone remember the issue they ran the same week that Red Eye and Red Streak launched? The masthead said "REDDER." Subtle, sarcastic genius.
Personally I liked the picture of Daley with the open shirt,birthday hat and the 40'O of St. Ives next to him
Matilda is simply overly stimulated by "big city living" like a dog who can't sit still
"Matilda is simply overly stimulated by "big city living" like a dog who can't sit still"
Free beer for anyone who can translate this from Spookster to English.
Spook was probably on his 3rd or 4th beer when he posted that.
Well, I can't hold that against him or her. It's a nice Friday in May, after all.
"him or her"?
I think it's pretty clear that Spook is a him.
I try not to assume.
I wish! But I am slightly cloudly from one too many Old Rasputins from yesterday
Good beer. At least you seem to have great taste in booze, though I still remember you putting ice in your single-malts, which is bad.
Putting ice in your beer (or wine, as I am known to do) can only mean this:that the person putting ice in their beer or wine wants it to make it cold and that they are not pretentious :)
So off topic and trivial, but it's Friday: Diluting a fine single-malt whisky with ice leaves you with less taste, and therefore makes little sense, especially considering the prices for some of those types of booze. Then again, some of the stronger single malts, especially those from the seaside areas of Scotland, or the peaty types of Irish malts, can taste better with a rock or, at the most, two.
Well, you're probably going to think I'm the biggest rube in the world (and I do have to say that even though I do enjoy a nice scotch now and then, I'm not a huge scotch/whiskey drinker)...I have bought expensive scotch and mixed it with ice and Orangina. I call it a "Scotchina"....maybe that doesn't make me a rube, maybe it just makes me a pussy :)
Ughhh ... but hey, you paid for it.
I knew you'd say that...but, it is Friday, like you said...let your hair down, kick your shoes off and put your feet on the table, put an Austin Powers dvd on, and don't knock it til you try it!
If you like it, you like it. There's no argument there. I just can't imagine the taste of such a thing ... sorry. I guess I'd try it, though--as long as it wasn't from my bottle of expensive Scotch :)
Ok..come on over matilda...I have no compunctions about blowing some money on some scotch and turning you on to a Scotchina!!
Tilda,
Two of the best bar keeps in the band bandlands of Logan Square due solemnly swear that one cube of ice "opens up" a fine single malt like a good novel
Opps that's "bad badlands". Shucks, papa needs his medicine. I'm outta here at 4:00pm!
I thought the reference a tad old, but it's still an apt comparison. I still liked the cover. I think I liked the Sun Time's Blagojevich in cowboy garb a little better.