The Daily Sabs

while i am a total go-go-go-fun-fun-fun-social sort of person, sometimes even my socializing well runs dry. and while i could've gone out (i mean it's just low, not totally dry) and had a quick beer (which almost always turns into two), going home and having homemade dinner sounded like a better idea.

i just need a day or two of home-do-nothing-time to fill up my social meter. maybe i'll be up for it tomorrow (there is a lot of poker money calling my name), but something tells me this weekend is already over.

randall and i have had some pretty ridiculous adventures lately, and while we had a really great time on our respective journeys, it's so nice to be back home.

there are a lot of reasons today's photo is late, but none of them are really worth going into.

tonight burger and i went to see jarvis cocker at the fillmore. while there we ran into chuckles, summer, blake, margaret, bean and his fiance stephanie. all of us aging britpoppers trying to keep the magic alive. the show itself was just so-so, i can't say i actually like anything but the cover of the new album, so it wasn't very captivating. the best part was actually the encore. probably because it featured an impromptu reading of bean and steph's wedding invitation, and a rendition of can't take my eyes off of you (see for yourself below!). and partly because it was just better.

ps. i just made a new rule, in a pinch, as long as the photo was taken that day it's still fine. it's a copout rule, but oh well. it's not like anyone knows all the crazy rules except me.

and now without further adieu, jarvis and the wedding invite:

went out to water the plants and saw this guy passed out in the corner. i have no idea how he died. hopefully it wasn't the swine flu.

worst part is randall is out of town and so i had to do the "man of the house" job and deal with it myself. what good was getting married?

This picture is from last night, but since i didn't go to sleep, it was actually from today (besides it was taken in the wee hours of the morning, so it technically counts as a new day).

And yes, i said i didn't go to sleep. I can't remember the last time i pulled a party allnighter. I didn't mean to, it just happened that way. Events just kept getting a little more ridiculous, and the next thing i knew, it was time to pack and go to the airport.

So what is going on here? This is Carlos, he's a musician from Cuba, and he and his friends roasted a whole pig behind their bar. We stumbled upon it, and i guess he could tell that erin and i were porkfat fiends because the next thing i knew, we had pulled pork pieces all over everything. He made sure to feed us the best bits (between the ribs, and the bit below the skin). It was a delicious garlic/onion porky flavor, and while i didn't get to eat any "must eat" Chicago foodie things, i think it was a perfect foodie adventure.

Oh and if you click on the bonus photo to the right, you can see just how porky everything was. OINK OINK. dude, there was pork in my hair.

this afternoon, the shutter sisters were hosting a few awesome photo things in their suite. as a total photo nerds, i knew i had to stop by and meet them. one of the things they were hosting were Chicago walkabouts sponsored by the folks at lensbaby. Lensbaby, if you're not familiar with it, is a very unfancy lens (at a semi-unfancy price) that produces mostlyfancy results. it's like an old school holga fixed lens on your digital camera, only this one you can adjust just a wee bit more. needless to say i loved it.

the walkabout took us down to Millennium park -- which was a nice treat, as i sort of thought i might spend the entire weekend inside of this hotel -- where i fell in love with chicago. I know, it's sort of ridiculous to fall in love with a city based on one park, but i did. it was also the outlying architecture surrounding the park. from where i was standing, chicago just looks like a cool place to be. and that's definitely cool as in neat, because my god the humidity made it anything but cool. i for sure thought i'd melt. i think some of my candy did.

this pic was taken with many other tourists down at the bean. that thing is pretty neat. i thought it was dumb at first, but then i stood inside. total neat.

I spent the afternoon attaching my business card to little gift bags of candy. Yes I realize, it's a bit of a bribe, but I figure that since my friendship can be won with treats, maybe I can win someone else's with treats. Also, I like to make folks smile, and 99% of the time, candy does the trick. So even if we can't be pals, we can share a smile over some smarties and twix. And besides, I work for SUGAR, and we sort of live up to the name, so it's only appropriate.

long story short, if you're in Chicago for Blogher, come find me! I have candy and friendship for you!
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