According to the Red Streak, PETA has its eyes on Lincoln Park Zoo’s elephants. PETA says that zoos are damaging to the elephants’ physical and emotional well-being, but we think the PETA members have their eyes on the real estate. That huge elephant enclosure is probably the closest thing those elephant-huggers are going to get to a Lincoln Park condo…
Paige Wiser of the Chicago Red Streak describes infighting among Sun Times staffers unhappy with their new seating arrangement. Geektastic think it’s nice that “professional” journalists are even more petty than we are about our coworkers.
Michael Sneed explains the ins and outs of Illinois Democrats’ nepotism. Blagojevich pisses off Mike Madigan’s wife, Shirley, who is the chief of the Illinois Arts Council by appointing the wife of Deputy Governor Bradley Tusk, Harper Montgomery, to the council. He also appointed his own mother, Margaret Mell to the council. Someday, when Blagojevich and Madigan run out of relatives, maybe we’ll be able to find a cushy government job…
Anyone looking for an example of Billy Corgan not seeming self-involved and pretentious should direct their attention to this Q&A from Chicagosports.com with WXRT Cubs Correspondent Billy Corgan. We didnt think it was possible either. (registration required)
A selection of reader reviews for Fahrenheit 9/11 from Metromix:
i wasn’t planning on seeing this movie,but now i can’t wait.seeing dead iraqi babies will be great fun.i plan to have nachos while watching these scenes.
Big dogs live in whitehouse, little dogs live in redhouse. when those big dogs stop eatting the little dogs?
Well there you have it. Intelligent commentary from the people.
The Illinois Leader reports that Republican leaders are slightly peeved at Judy Baar-Topinka for appearing in the Pride parade this weekend. Geektastic thinks maybe the Republicans should lay off the only one of them that was able to win an Illinois election last time around. We like the state Treasurer even though we don’t really know what her responsibilities are. Plus, we like that she’s hyphenated. And we like that she called Rod Blagojevich a “chauvenist piglet.” If politics were a sport, we’d TOTALLY be on board to trade Blagojevich for Baar-Topinka.
We here at Geektastic pay attention to street campaigns. We can’t say exactly why, but we are suckers for any stupid message chalked on a downtown sidewalk. Most people just ignore this garbage, but not us; not at Geektastic.
toiletthenovel.com was chalked onto a sidewalk on Monroe, and we walked over it on our way from the Taste of Chicago to the Blue Line. Geektastic felt bad for all the trouble the author/publicity folks went through to get the buzz going, so we went to the website. Let’s just say, if this guy can get a book deal, we should have no problem becoming a rich and powerful author. The summary (from the website): “IMAGINE: A TOILET, TRANSFORMED INTO A MAN THAT IS PREGNANT, AND WHO WILL ALWAYS SMELL LIKE EXCREMENT.
SEE: THIS PERSON, HIDING IN BETWEEN THE WALLS OF A HOUSE, WAITING TO CONFRONT THE FAMILY THAT REJECTED HIM. ALL THE WHILE SEARCHING FOR A SPECIAL LOVE THAT TWO MYSTERIOUS VOICES FROM THE SKY PROMISED HIM. THEN, GIVING BIRTH TO A BABY TOILET AND CHASED ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY A BLOB OF FECES THAT DEVOURS EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. IMAGINE ALL THIS AND MORE.”
Moving on… readmilk.com has a couple of decent looking posters in front of the Funky Buddha. Milk is a “trend-setting, honest, and creative monthly magazine dedicated to urban lifestyle in Chicago and around the world.” The first issue hits the street on June 30th. Needless to say, we are slighly more interested in Milk than we are in Toilet the Novel, so if you find a copy somewhere, let us know how it is.
The Barack Obama love-fest continues in time.com today.
Meanwhile, the AP is reporting that the Republicans still think they can win with “the right amount of cash.” Leave it to the republicans to assume that shitloads of money can overcome years of bad decisions and complete lack of charisma. Charles Wheeler, head of the Public Affairs Reporting program at U of I is quoted as saying “It would help if they found someone who is a gazillionaire.” Can you say Oberweiss?
The apes at Lincoln Park Zoo are fighting back. The zoo has installed hidden panels in the chimpanzee enclosure that the chimps can use to blow bursts of air at people who piss them off. If the panels are successful, they may be installed in Lincoln Park area bars, where women will be able to use them to scare away aging frat boys and plasticized real estate agents.
Did you feel the earthquake last night? Geektastic was awakened by a noise in our house, and before we could freak out about an intruder, we noticed that our bed was shaking. Our first thought was “Earthquake!” but since that was such an improbable explanation, we surmised that there was a gas leak that was making us woozy. Then we remembered that we have a carbon monoxide detector and decided it was all a dream. Anyway, this government site has all the info, including the seismic record which we don’t really know how to read, but still think is kind of cool.