tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post7100642300366274972..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Summer in the (Windy) CityBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-33259030236491426462008-07-21T11:07:00.000-07:002008-07-21T11:07:00.000-07:00I skipped the big NU ceremony in favor of attendin...I skipped the big NU ceremony in favor of attending my smaller ceremony the next day, and our speakers were Kofi Annan and Tony Randall. My husband still hasn't forgiven me for this oversight. <BR/><BR/>Did you ever make it to Merle's in your four years visiting? Because it's the best barbecue north of the South side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-25105657532501064762008-06-27T13:37:00.000-07:002008-06-27T13:37:00.000-07:00We Mariner fans would love to get Lou Piniella bac...We Mariner fans would love to get Lou Piniella back. We wouldn't mind Guillen managing our team either. <BR/>Then again, we wish we had 2 baseball teams.Mike Barerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14447874605833321732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-91607937928860301652008-06-26T15:38:00.000-07:002008-06-26T15:38:00.000-07:00JC said... This weekend is the "Battle of the Belt...<I><B>JC said...</B> <BR/>This weekend is the "Battle of the Beltways" match-up between the Nats and the O's.<BR/><BR/>Battle of the Beltways. That's correct.<BR/><BR/>How long did it take for MLB's marketing department to pass on to the interns the chore of coming up with a compelling and catching name for the series?</I><BR/><BR/>I'd prefer the "Parkway Series" myself (<I>a la</I> the Angels-Dodgers "Freeway Series"), in honor of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that links the two cities.<BR/><BR/>But I'll be at Nats Park Friday and Sunday to see if the woebegone Nats -- whose ineptness on the field is equaled only by their in-game marketing (check the comments at the <I>Washington Post's</I> "Grounds Crew" blog for proof) -- can somehow conquer the evil Cuban Pete (Angelos) and his minions.<BR/><BR/>And Ken, I realize you probably don't go on road trips for your Dodger show (well, maybe you went to Anaheim last month), but it'd be fun to see you here in D.C.in late August when the Blue comes to call. It's a lovely, fan-friendly park, sort of along the lines of Citizens Bank in Philly, except you see the Capitol from the top deck instead of the Center City skyline.<BR/><BR/>And as for Chicago -- I love the place, but I still miss the old Comiskey. That park was rundown, to be sure, but it had character, with rabid, <I>real</I> fans, not the North Side frat boy poseurs. As Nancy Faust would play, "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye."VP81955https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792390726196611188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-7334491447410068632008-06-26T11:04:00.000-07:002008-06-26T11:04:00.000-07:00buck, someday someone will publish "The Collected ...buck, someday someone will publish "The Collected Posts of A. Buck Short," and it will have more annotations than a volume of Shakespeare. If it weren't a biological impossibility, I might think you're the love child of Dennis Miller and Cliff Clavin. Great stuff, but I hope there won't be a test. <BR/><BR/>So who did SMU get to sub for Edelman? Li'l Kim? Maybe someone who was on The Real World?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-89437712081276246892008-06-25T21:28:00.000-07:002008-06-25T21:28:00.000-07:00Dude,Please stop calling referring to Evanston as ...Dude,<BR/><BR/>Please stop calling referring to Evanston as "Chicago". It is NOT Chicago. It is an overpriced, unnavigable, yuppie-infested SUBURB crawling with trust fund collegia and aging hipster douchebags which just happens to sit on the northern border of the REAL Chicago.<BR/><BR/>Evanston is no more Chicago than Skokie, Oak Park, Joliet or Cleveland so stop trying to make those people feel cool by osmosis. Cool doesn't work that way.<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah, and baseball is stupid, too.<BR/><BR/>*kicking sand at you*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-4521626491350943562008-06-25T19:28:00.000-07:002008-06-25T19:28:00.000-07:00Congrats, Annie! But New York still has better piz...Congrats, Annie! But New York still has better pizza.<BR/>-AEAnniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12259951307196646436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-44667642128079750272008-06-25T18:57:00.000-07:002008-06-25T18:57:00.000-07:00To continue the baseball metaphor, that would be s...To continue the baseball metaphor, that would be <B>strike two</B> on the <B>U</B>. Would have spellchecked Edelman, but didn't want to risk the balk. :) <BR/><BR/>Now add these to complete six or more arcane degrees of Kevin Pork Rind: About the time one of our kids was looking at schools, Edelman’s son Joshua was assistant headmaster of Milton Academy on Center St. in Milton, MA, which ends at Adams St. – birthplace of George H.W. Bush (eventually to captain the Yale baseball team). <BR/><BR/>The house abuts Forbes Rd. and Forbes Wharf, home of Francis Blackwell Forbes (great grandfather of John Forbes Kerry) whose interest in botany (specifically the poppy) derived from amassing the family wealth as a seagoing merchant in the China Opium trade. On the other hand, G.W. Bush who may be getting his own library, in his youth, was rumored to have experimented with another mind-altering white powder. <BR/><BR/> It apparently gets more incestuous the farther back you go from Skull and Bones. No wonder they’re all ultimately related to Churchill and Queen ElizabethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-97682574798621072008-06-25T17:30:00.000-07:002008-06-25T17:30:00.000-07:00As long as spelling is an issue, the founder of th...As long as spelling is an issue, the founder of the Children's Defense Fund is Marian Wright Edelman. And isn't SMU the future home of the junior Bush Library?n8vnyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12605920596088227225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-75808087025774874572008-06-25T14:38:00.000-07:002008-06-25T14:38:00.000-07:00Sox beat the Dodgers--God, I love this inter-leagu...Sox beat the Dodgers--God, I love this inter-league play....<BR/><BR/>Landecker-best night jock I ever heard. (Never had the pleasure of hearing Beaver Cleaver in his hey day)<BR/><BR/>Last I heard, Landecker and Turi Ryder do some fill in on talk stations around the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-13097104052541169552008-06-25T12:58:00.000-07:002008-06-25T12:58:00.000-07:00Namedropper. And so how many were going to St. Iv...<B>Namedropper</B>. And so how many were going to St. Ives? Never ever lose that askew view – especially when it comes at the end. <BR/><BR/>FYI, I think the Bryn Mawr teams are now known as the Owls, but at one time they were the Bryn Mawr Martyrs (and apparently not just after a losing season). Vassar has the Brewers because the school was founded with beer money - and yet our daughter’s sweatshirt proudly proclaims, “Vassar Football, undefeated since 1861.” There is at least one HS football team in the Dallas area called the Steers –apparently as a steer-oid alternative they just castrate the front line?<BR/><BR/>Daley just squeaked by as grad speaker with those votes from dead people in Ward 14. Several years ago, when SMU announced their graduation speaker was going to be Marion Wright Edleman (education and civil rights pioneer, founder of Children’s Defense Fund, MacArthur genius grant, first African American woman to practice law, 65 honorary degrees), a considerable number of seniors announced that, unless the invitation were withdrawn, they intended to boycott the ceremony. Edleman not being prestigious enough – since they had never heard of her.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, having been familiar with AfterMash, that Cubs crowd actually <I>was</I> yelling, "Boo, boo, boo." :) Sorry that's all I got.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-61615560474611445812008-06-25T10:17:00.000-07:002008-06-25T10:17:00.000-07:00I miss Billy Goat Tavern. It's my favorite bar of ...I miss Billy Goat Tavern. It's my favorite bar of all time. No matter who you are, you always feel like a 1960s newspaper reporter when eating or drinking there.<BR/><BR/>Chicago is still run by the Daleys? Good Lord! Why does that town love to be run by crooks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-47435210497916932802008-06-25T10:07:00.000-07:002008-06-25T10:07:00.000-07:00Congrats to your daughter! This was such an awesom...Congrats to your daughter! This was such an awesome post. It's very cool to read about graduation from a father's perspective. And.... you still made it hilarious. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-26990770151570592292008-06-25T09:55:00.000-07:002008-06-25T09:55:00.000-07:00For some reason, Chicago seems to be where I have ...For some reason, Chicago seems to be where I have had 8 of the top 10 breakfasts of my life. Maybe they are just especially good the morning after a 4am 'last call'.Schottzie03https://www.blogger.com/profile/16624465932868582438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-30916538427948946712008-06-25T09:53:00.000-07:002008-06-25T09:53:00.000-07:00I like Ed Farmer, too, but though his roots are he...I like Ed Farmer, too, but though his roots are here in Chicago, he's more a neighbor of yours, isn't he Mr. Levine?The Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723009641287783218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-32926356954906191012008-06-25T09:50:00.000-07:002008-06-25T09:50:00.000-07:00D-a-l-y?What is dis? Are yoo disrespectin' my fam...D-a-l-y?<BR/><BR/>What is dis? Are yoo disrespectin' my family or sumtin'?<BR/><BR/>C'mon -- dis is America! You don't like my speech at your daughter's graduation, you gotta make it personal against my family? Whadda I gotta do, take off my pants?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-10540113208132002222008-06-25T09:09:00.000-07:002008-06-25T09:09:00.000-07:00I've lived all over the eastern half of the countr...I've lived all over the eastern half of the country and noplace is nicer in the summer than Chicago. Makes the winters worth it. That and the Italian beef sandwiches at Portillo's.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34743209173743189852008-06-25T08:56:00.000-07:002008-06-25T08:56:00.000-07:00John Landecker shows up on WLS on holidays like Me...John Landecker shows up on WLS on holidays like Memorial Day when the regulars take off. He's also been on other stations in Chicago. His daughter Amy is an actress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-36309696496599971282008-06-25T08:24:00.000-07:002008-06-25T08:24:00.000-07:00Ken Levine posting about Chicago and the Cubs. Pe...Ken Levine posting about Chicago and the Cubs. Perfection. It's all downhille from here... :)<BR/><BR/>The Fighting Methodists? Really? Wow. I'm definitely using that from now on -- and maybe enjoying my own NU memories more now in retrospect b/c of it. Maybe it'll lessen the pain of student loan payments and the bizarre amount of people in LA who've never even HEARD of it. <BR/><BR/>Round two of the crosstown series this weekend. Check in to see Guillen chew on sunflower seeds in a park that apparently smells like spring flowers.adam ___________________https://www.blogger.com/profile/01306399494751363973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-33041935764989952692008-06-25T08:19:00.000-07:002008-06-25T08:19:00.000-07:00$335 a night for graduation weekend. . . and they ...<I>$335 a night for graduation weekend. . . and they did provide Q-tips in the room, which they usually don’t, so I for one did not feel remotely ripped off.</I><BR/><BR/>Ken, send me $200 bucks and I will supply you with enough Q-tips to swab yourself to ecstasy for the rest of your life.<BR/><BR/>$150 if you don't mind the generic Walgreens variety.Mary Stellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02186261066656584772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-24708415592425475202008-06-25T08:08:00.000-07:002008-06-25T08:08:00.000-07:00ya ever go to Potbelly's? get the Wreck sandwich....ya ever go to Potbelly's? get the Wreck sandwich. I get it with everything except peppers.<BR/><BR/><BR/>you'll pee your pants it's so good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-75886546252565145322008-06-25T07:58:00.000-07:002008-06-25T07:58:00.000-07:00Some stuff you missed out on: The Fireside's thin ...Some stuff you missed out on: The Fireside's thin crust pizza & ribs, and The Wishbone's corn muffins. Nice homage to my favorite city, Ken. Congrats to your daughter, too! We'd be living in Evanston right now if it weren't for the crazy-high taxes due to the freeloading university. We chose the town where the movie Groundhog Day was filmed instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-68291323046048403812008-06-25T06:12:00.000-07:002008-06-25T06:12:00.000-07:00Spell it Daly, and you might be buried under the n...Spell it Daly, and you might be buried under the new Olympic Stadium (to be built by the mayor's corrupt buddies whether we "win" the Olympics or not).<BR/><BR/>As a Chicagoan, all I can say is....Ed Farmer? Really?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-46281228927705784952008-06-25T06:10:00.000-07:002008-06-25T06:10:00.000-07:00This weekend is the "Battle of the Beltways" match...This weekend is the "Battle of the Beltways" match-up between the Nats and the O's.<BR/><BR/>Battle of the Beltways. That's correct.<BR/><BR/>How long did it take for MLB's marketing department to pass on to the interns the chore of coming up with a compelling and catching name for the series?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-61143068912350964042008-06-25T06:06:00.000-07:002008-06-25T06:06:00.000-07:00Yay Annie! At least you went to a challenging sch...Yay Annie! <BR/><BR/>At least you went to a challenging school. Ken and I went to UCLA 'cause it was easy to spell...<BR/><BR/>Be Boss! <BR/><BR/>...and Congratulations from all of us in Blogland...Barefoot Billy Alohahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586870309250699505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-69258104842442904572008-06-25T05:20:00.000-07:002008-06-25T05:20:00.000-07:00It's "Daley", Ken.It's "Daley", Ken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com