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Jul. 12th, 2011 07:57 amThis showed up on Pioneer Plaza this morning:
I guess Chicago's getting a Marilyn.
I guess Chicago's getting a Marilyn.
Jul. 12th, 2011
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Jul. 12th, 2011 04:08 pmI think today is the day I explore the Pedway.
Chicago has this thing, the Pedway, which is a loose network of underground tunnels, ground-level shopping areas, and SKY BRIDGES, which meander their way through downtown, covering something like 44 blocks in all. I've explored the northernmost branch, alias The Top Secret Food Court, and I've used the tunnel between the Red and Blue Jackson lines, but the vast majority of it is a mystery. I guess longtime commuters know a lot about it, particularly those who ride the Metra, but to us immigrants it's an inaccessible underground world only heard of in whispers and dreams.
I'm dead serious. It's like an urban legend, or Narnia. The one time I found an entrance to the Pedway Underground, it was locked. Aslan's pissed at me. (That's okay, he's on my shit list too.)
So today, today is the day I break through. I've consulted the great oracle of the internet and I think I have at least two points of access marked on my map. I'm going to see the Pedway or get very tired trying.
I have a St. Christopher's medal on a chain, which I recently augmented with a TARDIS key. I have a compass, digital camera, gum, and a smartphone. I think I'm set for anything short of a dragon.
If I don't post amusingly by eight thirty tonight, send help. Wait, no, don't send help, it'll just get eaten too.
Chicago has this thing, the Pedway, which is a loose network of underground tunnels, ground-level shopping areas, and SKY BRIDGES, which meander their way through downtown, covering something like 44 blocks in all. I've explored the northernmost branch, alias The Top Secret Food Court, and I've used the tunnel between the Red and Blue Jackson lines, but the vast majority of it is a mystery. I guess longtime commuters know a lot about it, particularly those who ride the Metra, but to us immigrants it's an inaccessible underground world only heard of in whispers and dreams.
I'm dead serious. It's like an urban legend, or Narnia. The one time I found an entrance to the Pedway Underground, it was locked. Aslan's pissed at me. (That's okay, he's on my shit list too.)
So today, today is the day I break through. I've consulted the great oracle of the internet and I think I have at least two points of access marked on my map. I'm going to see the Pedway or get very tired trying.
I have a St. Christopher's medal on a chain, which I recently augmented with a TARDIS key. I have a compass, digital camera, gum, and a smartphone. I think I'm set for anything short of a dragon.
If I don't post amusingly by eight thirty tonight, send help. Wait, no, don't send help, it'll just get eaten too.
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Jul. 12th, 2011 05:49 pmI have returned home from the Pedway! No dragons. I was almost disappointed.
It's really not as cavernous and subterranean as I was led to believe. If I hadn't known I was underground I'd think I was walking through a mall. They did have a Subway sandwich shop, which appealed to my sense of somethingorother, the Subway in the Pedway, but most everything was closed. At one point I found myself unwittingly in the basement food court in Macy's; I also found an amusing tiny pharmacy, two gyms, and the Banner Institute, which is not for Hulk Studies, sadly.
On the other hand, I came up from the Pedway on Washington between State and Wabash, and according to the map I just checked, there is no exit from the Pedway on Washington between State and Wabash. So I may have been rearranging the Pedway to suit my will, which is kind of impressive. Or it's possible this map is very old, since the actual text guide I found for the Pedway tells you to enter through the Corner Bakery in the Cultural Centre (there is no Corner Bakery in the Cultural Centre) and says you can get to the Pedway from the Washington red line El stop (the Washington red line El stop has been closed for two years).
Next time I'm going to try going east from the Cultural Center instead of west and see if I can make it back to the Top Secret Food Court that way.
Also, have some origami! It's White Collar Tuesday, so I thought I'd bust out a lily. My props to whoever folds them for the show, they're not exactly the simplest of folds. To display it properly, I also fell back on my old friend, the Stem.
Now I want to write a caper-theft-chase-scene through the Pedway.
It's really not as cavernous and subterranean as I was led to believe. If I hadn't known I was underground I'd think I was walking through a mall. They did have a Subway sandwich shop, which appealed to my sense of somethingorother, the Subway in the Pedway, but most everything was closed. At one point I found myself unwittingly in the basement food court in Macy's; I also found an amusing tiny pharmacy, two gyms, and the Banner Institute, which is not for Hulk Studies, sadly.
On the other hand, I came up from the Pedway on Washington between State and Wabash, and according to the map I just checked, there is no exit from the Pedway on Washington between State and Wabash. So I may have been rearranging the Pedway to suit my will, which is kind of impressive. Or it's possible this map is very old, since the actual text guide I found for the Pedway tells you to enter through the Corner Bakery in the Cultural Centre (there is no Corner Bakery in the Cultural Centre) and says you can get to the Pedway from the Washington red line El stop (the Washington red line El stop has been closed for two years).
Next time I'm going to try going east from the Cultural Center instead of west and see if I can make it back to the Top Secret Food Court that way.
Also, have some origami! It's White Collar Tuesday, so I thought I'd bust out a lily. My props to whoever folds them for the show, they're not exactly the simplest of folds. To display it properly, I also fell back on my old friend, the Stem.
Now I want to write a caper-theft-chase-scene through the Pedway.
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Jul. 12th, 2011 11:06 pmTuesday night means Sam's Three Things About White Collar.
I love it when I get to use my Oh Snap Vindicated tag!
Spoilers for White Collar episode 3.06, ( Scott Free )
3a. Okay I wanted to chalk the barbie thing up to Mozzie making socially awkward jokes because he's reasonably socially awkward. But seriously, he has a misogynistic streak that's starting to become really offputting. And it's sad because I like Mozzie and I want to keep liking him and he is making it VERY HARD.
I love it when I get to use my Oh Snap Vindicated tag!
Spoilers for White Collar episode 3.06, ( Scott Free )
3a. Okay I wanted to chalk the barbie thing up to Mozzie making socially awkward jokes because he's reasonably socially awkward. But seriously, he has a misogynistic streak that's starting to become really offputting. And it's sad because I like Mozzie and I want to keep liking him and he is making it VERY HARD.