Spook: Hey Monkey! Sorry! I mean Gorilla. what's new?
Gorilla: Nothing since I saw you yesterday at the WVON Radio sponsored debate at Malcom X college with all the Black candidates for Cook County Board President, including Board President Todd Stroger.
Spook: Yea man, I mean Guerrilla, the turn out was pretty impressive, at least four hundred people standing room only!
Gorilla: Yea and it got really really heated!
Spook: I know. I was shocked that Alderwoman Preckwinkle got booed because of her connection with developers and voting to allow Daley to use imminent domain on houses around the proposed Olympic Games. And did you hear how pompous Dorothy Brown sounded? I wish they would have asked her about the cash Christmas gifts she gets from her employees!
Gorilla: Yea, and who would have thought that the WVON call in audience would poll Todd Stroger the clear winner with 65% Danny Davis second. I mean this was Danny’s base! And I wasn’t expecting Stroger to be so prepared, given how the Tribune and the Suntimes kill him repeatedly in print. I’m beginning to suspect that the Black community might be right in saying that he is treated unfairly by the major two daily papers, especially after reading much more fair and informed issue oriented coverage in the local papers including the Chicago Journal and the Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest.
Spook: What, you mean to tell me that some white journalist and editors actually like him? I mean besides Ben Joravsky?
Gorilla: Yea its true buddy, you really need to dig deeper.
Spook: Wait a cotton pick'n minute, so perhaps we due have a deeply divided city with two dual realities based on race and class!
Gorilla: Sorry to say so Spook, I mean, I know you wanna believe in this Obama we are post-race stuff, but it’s fake like Red Eye paper. Maybe you should pick up Cornel West’s book “Race Matters”. I mean you must admit that is kinda interesting that an event of this magnitude was not covered in the Tribe, Suntimes or even WBEZ.
Heck, even at the open minded Chicagoist, No one covered it, just me a Gorilla. And I don’t even work for the Chicagoist as a reporter, and I’m just a model,a pretty face if you will.
Spook: Yea, I guess you’re right Gorilla.
Gorilla: Any way, what are you up to tonight Spook, wanna toss back a few drinks?
Spook: Sure Gorilla as long as we don’t have to drink in your neck of the woods, you know I HATE Lincoln Park!
Gorilla: That’s o.k. Spookie as long as you get the drinks and a cab back for me. Glimer only pays me in over ripe Bananas, cheap bastard. How can some one from Nola be so cheap!
Spook: No problemo Gorilla I dig the extra attention we get from the hipster chicks when I’m with ya. And please make sure you don’t accidentally post this, because you know how Tank Boy is with that censure key.
Gorilla: yea and he really resents me because I look better in black skint tight jeans and I shower now and then. I’ll call you after feeding time when the doors close.
Spook: Cool beans and say hello to the black panthers for me!
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Spook: Hey Monkey! Sorry! I mean Gorilla. what's new?
Gorilla: Nothing since I saw you yesterday at the WVON Radio sponsored debate at Malcom X college with all the Black candidates for Cook County Board President, including Board President Todd Stroger.
Spook: Yea man, I mean Guerrilla, the turn out was pretty impressive, at least four hundred people standing room only!
Gorilla: Yea and it got really really heated!
Spook: I know. I was shocked that Alderwoman Preckwinkle got booed because of her connection with developers and voting to allow Daley to use imminent domain on houses around the proposed Olympic Games. And did you hear how pompous Dorothy Brown sounded? I wish they would have asked her about the cash Christmas gifts she gets from her employees!
Gorilla: Yea, and who would have thought that the WVON call in audience would poll Todd Stroger the clear winner with 65% Danny Davis second. I mean this was Danny’s base! And I wasn’t expecting Stroger to be so prepared, given how the Tribune and the Suntimes kill him repeatedly in print. I’m beginning to suspect that the Black community might be right in saying that he is treated unfairly by the major two daily papers, especially after reading much more fair and informed issue oriented coverage in the local papers including the Chicago Journal and the Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest.
Spook: What, you mean to tell me that some white journalist and editors actually like him? I mean besides Ben Joravsky?
Gorilla: Yea its true buddy, you really need to dig deeper.
Spook: Wait a cotton pick'n minute, so perhaps we due have a deeply divided city with two dual realities based on race and class!
Gorilla: Sorry to say so Spook, I mean, I know you wanna believe in this Obama we are post-race stuff, but it’s fake like Red Eye paper. Maybe you should pick up Cornel West’s book “Race Matters”. I mean you must admit that is kinda interesting that an event of this magnitude was not covered in the Tribe, Suntimes or even WBEZ.
Heck, even at the open minded Chicagoist, No one covered it, just me a Gorilla. And I don’t even work for the Chicagoist as a reporter, and I’m just a model,a pretty face if you will.
Spook: Yea, I guess you’re right Gorilla.
Gorilla: Any way, what are you up to tonight Spook, wanna toss back a few drinks?
Spook: Sure Gorilla as long as we don’t have to drink in your neck of the woods, you know I HATE Lincoln Park!
Gorilla: That’s o.k. Spookie as long as you get the drinks and a cab back for me. Glimer only pays me in over ripe Bananas, cheap bastard. How can some one from Nola be so cheap!
Spook: No problemo Gorilla I dig the extra attention we get from the hipster chicks when I’m with ya. And please make sure you don’t accidentally post this, because you know how Tank Boy is with that censure key.
Gorilla: yea and he really resents me because I look better in black skint tight jeans and I shower now and then. I’ll call you after feeding time when the doors close.
Spook: Cool beans and say hello to the black panthers for me!
Gorilla: Will do buddy, ten four!
It's always an honor to be lampooned by you, Spook.
That was pretty good, Spook...only I think that's a chimp, not a gorilla...I could be tellin' ya more than I know, though.
your Chicagoist tenure has been building up to this comment, Spook. epic.