Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

I've been to LA and probably did not get the proper introduction to it, but that's okay.

god i'm tired.

xpost- my reasons for loving vegas, while similar, are not exactly the same as jenny's.

xpost...no offense Kevin.

New frontiers in scary: Walking across the slippery, snow covered river bridge at Monroe when a bus drives over it and makes it start rattling and shaking so hard that you actually lose your balance a little. That water looks coooooold...

Some of Sayjal's friends are performers and crew at a Vegas show and when they came to Chicago all they kept saying was how every day of life in Vegas was more terrible than the one before. And motioning to the streets in Chicago and saying, "There's just not...THIS there!"

Tobo was 2 years ahead of me. I met him when I was in the summer of my 9th grade year. I was changing from junior high to high school. ...I don't know who identified me but I was selected to be trained for the debate squad at Kimball. Tobo was already a leading thespian and debater at Kimball when he came to my house that summer. He came to teach me how to debate so I could start at the beginning of the year. I visited in his home many times, too. He has an older brother Paul and a younger sister Barbara (whom we called Barbie, also a debater). His family is Jewish. His father is a doctor and so is his older brother Paul. I think Barbie went to law school, but ended up writing screen plays or something lucrative like that in Hollywood....His parents and Paul are still based in Dallas. I have phoned his mom sometimes when I have been in Dallas.
Tobo's debate partner L1nda Ruth became my debate partner after he graduated. Linnaruf was my best friend. Linda had the biggest crush on Tobo and discussion of him took up a lot of our together time. He is intelligent, funny, very nice as a person, and extremely talented. He was a talented actor in high school. He knew that he wanted to become an actor- which sounded like an impossible dream, like some neighborhood kid saying they want to be a basketball player in the NBA- but he actually made it! He went to SMU in Dallas where they had a good theatre program. I remember his excitement when Marlo Thomas visited SMU's theatre program. After college, he moved to Los Angeles, where he lives now. His wife is Ann. I have not met her or his children. But I know he has been in over 200 movies. He was getting into other ventures- like producing, I think.

Could be funny, could be horrible but I'm excited to see a movie that hasn't even been at a festival yet.

Sent at 10:43 AM on Tuesday
me: why aren't you responding?
Jesse: i'm reading the wikipedia article "Semen"

I think I had a dream about Jenny, but I can't remember it.

I linked from there.

However he was having Al Pacino, on his sneakers.

it's not that far. going back to the thread on the noise board about trains and such, sometimes when the tourist boats are passing under the bridge i wonder if i can time my jump so that i land on deck. i'm about 72% positive i can do it.

I'm having a good hair day, just so you know.

i'm about 72% positive i can do it.
I like to think you arrived at this percentage through long and meticulous mathematical calculation and many, many diagrams.

Sarah: congratulations! I'm having...a hair day.

GO BACK

Jordan, what is your planned itinerary so I can see whether I can jump on the JC Party Train?

The buildings in Vegas look stunning in the desert light, especially the neon ones like the Monte Carlo. I went there a few years ago (was supposed to go with a group of people, and the one person I knew in the group couldn't go at the last minute, so I decided to be on my own instead of with strangers), spent the days driving to places like Zion National Park in Utah and other neat places in the desert. I woke up early one Sunday morning and had a big beautiful desert highway going around Lake Mead all to myself - listened to NPR, stopped and put my feet in some natural hot springs. And then played poker at night.

Waking up on Saturday, maybe going to Ashkenaz, going to Hot Doug's, hanging out??, playing GM 8:00 - 12:00 (or whatever it is), getting shrimp

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Lake Mead (somebody's random photo, but that's what it looks like)

(not Monte Carlo - MGM Grand I meant)

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Oh! And I Pricelined a hotel room at and stayed at the Hyatt Lake Las Vegas resort for about $70.

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Played poker there.

And that's the slideshow of my Vegas trip, based on found photos.

I'm not being sarcastic.

By the way, I loved that Big in Japan video.

To go to the DMV!!!

Which one is least horrible?

also, this comes out just in time for my birthday. oh, wait, no it doesn't.