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i'm in chicago as i write this and have been remembering stuff i like about this city.
the bar in the customs building, 500 south dearborn, makes a dangerously good gin and tonic. this both a recommendation and a warning. yikes.
quimby's. it's a great, peculiar little bookstore in wicker park (on north, not far from the intersection with milwaukee & damen, so not far from the blue line stop). if you're interested in new graphics or situationist politics or chapbooks or zines, there's no place like.
i like the seminary book co-op in hyde park, but sometimes it scares me.
i like the soundsystem at sonotheque on chicago near ashland, east of it. excellent place to go dancing if there's a kind of music spinning that you're into.
i like the empty bottle.
i like the wednesday night music series at the hideout on wabansia.
i like the idea of taking a boat ride down the chicago river but i've never done it.
i like the collection of cornell boxes at the art institute. i like their artists book collection too.
i like the free concerts at millenium park in the summer, sitting under the giant bicycle helmet looking at the architecture of downtown while listening or not listening to a performance.
i liked riding my bicycle along the lakeshore trail except on weekends in summer.
i like the story about the city making the chicago river reverse the direction it flows in.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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