Category: Chicago
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Hot Blogger on Blogger Action
If you’ve ever wanted to see your 2 favorite hot Chicago bloggers liplock – now is your chance! Jake/NoFo and I are guest starring in Hell in a Handbag’s production of Scarrie! this weekend. Cerda wrote the musical which is a spoof of Carrie (I’m thinking I might take the fam to it when they’re […]
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Going Clubbing
You know where are settling into summer when I theatened with being clubbed to death by a passerby. As I’m walking back from dropping off my rent check I’m walking up Clark. Minding my own business. Don’t you make eye contact at people as you pass them? What the fuck was that look for? This […]
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Akebono on Carol's Pub
Ah Carol’s Pub with the shitty facade and rusty hanging sign promising a Live Entertainment and Hot Sandwiches – like that is some kind of draw. I’ve only been there a couple times and it is kind of a dive clientele that was getting more yuppified as the surrounding neighborhood spruced up. Akebono writes: I […]
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Chicago Gay Pride Parade 2005
Here we are! Pictures over at Flickr.
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Scorcher
Holy moley it is hot. And one of the longest days of the year at the same time. As usual, it is also the first day of the Taste of Chicago where you can eat overheated, slightly disgusting food in overheated, slightly disgusting weather with overheated, slightly disgusting people. If this keeps up the […]
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Sven Comes Out
Wow. Read this letter Sven sent to his family: (love the picture of him gleefully filling the mailbox) I want to take this moment to open up to you a lil bit more. I probably will be single the rest of my life. I know that I will never be married. Our country will not […]
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Dominick's Burned Down
I’d noticed that I’d heard helicopters for more than five minutes. Looked out the window and there was smoke belching up into the sky. Walked down Barry to find Dominick’s burned down. Nothing on the news yet – hopefully nobody hurt. Thank God it wasn’t Stella’s (next door). I guess I’ll be walking to Jewel […]
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Chicago Named Dirtiest U.S. City
(via Chicagoist) Chicago named dirtiest city of the top 50 US metros. I will say that Chicago is a smelly city. From a baby diaper left on a bus to seeing a grown woman urinate – through her skirt – while standing – and smoking – and talking… And on warm summer nights you can […]
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Chicago Photographer Assaulted in Lincoln Park
Jason Smith who most Lakeview/Boystownians will know as a local photographer was assaulted on May 28th: Three men attacked Chicago Free Press photographer/art director Jason Smith and his boyfriend Michael Suh in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago May 28 in what police have described as a hate crime. Smith and Suh were walking north […]
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IML 2005
Looking for coverage of IML? I posted about it on my pro blog: You can learn a lot about marketing at a gay leather convention…