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Conservatives just can’t write shit like this.
12/16/09
Huh?
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Cool, ok, where's the subway? Oh, ok, it's raised, whatever. Where does it go? Hm.. not exactly all over. .. ok, fuck it, we'll go to Chinatown. BZZT. You call this one block with those Chinese arch bookends and one joint with some ducks in the window a Chinatown? Canal Street is an hour of walking by dim sum and tchochke shops, this was some one-block bullshit.
Went up into the Sears Tower. Really? The most awesome building is some ominous black glass 1970s architecture?
I know this is the quintessential Chi vs NY argument but THEY PUT BROCCOLI AND SHIT ON THEIR PIZZA. Pizza should not require silverware.
And the nightlife. Holy shit, it's a Friday night, walking around downtown, cold as shit, there was nothing open. You may say "oh you were in the wrong part of downtown", but uh, even if you're lost in Manhattan on a Friday night, you simply turn your head in both directions and will find some shit going on.
It's not nearly as charming of a town and does not have the awesome history NYC has. C'mon. Statue of Liberty. Bite it, Chicago.
Yee haw.
12/15/09
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12/16/09
But the implication that size of the location of the observer somehow matters is a douchebag out for you to use. Consequently, then, according to your logic, NYC is better than Chicago purely because it's 4 times larger. Sorry indeed.
12/16/09
Now, you, clearly being from Chicago or a fan of Chicago need not take this personally.. this was all simply the objective opinion of a visitor. However, your attitude makes me thankful that I didn't encounter any of these suburban "Real Chicagoans" as you say.. sounds really obnoxious and something that would have probably worsened my experience.
Alas, I'm not going to get into a spat about people vs people, but one thing I do appreciate about NY is that "real New Yorkers" do have character.
You've never been, have you? :[]
12/17/09
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People in NY don't chide visitors because they didn't check out Pelham or the Far Rockaways.. all the cool shit is right there, easily accessible.
And still, you've yet to give a firm argument for why Chicago is awesome, instead going the "LOLZ, my penis is bigger than yours" route. Good on ya, chap.
12/14/09
Chicago does not meet that definition.
I've walked around Chicago's downtown a couple of times. It didn't take that long. I looked at the Lake. Then I wondered which was Oprah's apartment in the Four Seasons. I would have caught a flick, but I'd seen all the movies at the multiplex. The shopping was the same as New York, except their Saks wasn't as varied as the NYC Saks.
New York meets the test of a great city. So do Paris, Rome, and Florence. I've never been to London or Berlin, Madrid, or Barcelona, but I'm sure they do, too.
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Second city? Quit jumping the line, Chicago.
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Chicago is a lot like like Queens, except... it's clean.
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I think all Chicagoans would heartily agree that those giant public housing complexes were an unmitigated disaster.
12/14/09
#tips
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Yes, there are a smattering of high rises left around Henry Horner and Robert Taylor, but I believe those are eventually going to be demo-ed. Correct me if I'm wrong though. I could be talking about of my ass!
And I don't buy your conjecture that residents don't use public transportation. Parking downtown is ridiculously expensive. At least I've never been able to afford it.
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12/14/09
It's really windy.
It's Midwestern.
Something something something fat people.
It's on a lake.
It has an elevated train.
More fat people.
Snow...something to do with snow.
Fat snow...men?
Windy windy?
Wendy?
12/14/09
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Now about that eating food from dirty strangers in carts on the street...
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Even funnier, I went to school in Ann Arbor, and there was a Pizzeria Uno two blocks from the Michigan campus. So when I moved to Chicago after I thought Pizzeria Uno? Big Whoop.
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12/15/09
I've never heard of o'fame.
12/15/09
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Or this place in Chicago's Andersonville, which GQ called the best pizza in the COUNTRY:
[leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com]
As for all the other places you listed...those are for the tourists.
12/15/09
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[archives.chicagotribune.com]
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So, um, did they ever solve that whole Tawana Brawley thing yet? What about that cop shooting, you know, the one where the white cop shot the black cop because he thought he was a crook?[www.timesonline.co.uk]
But seriously, glad to see NYC got over that whole race problem. I hear Howard Beach is lovely this time of year.
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But also -- when you take into account the monster headlines, those big, low-rent photos and all the white space on the pages, what's left? Not much. Journal stories are so much thinner than before, and it's increasingly rare that you get the kind of detailed and thoughtful analysis -- let alone skepticism -- of the Street that made that paper a must-read for anyone engaged in capitalism. Also the idea that the editor of the WSJ would take the occasion of a David Carr media column to attack Bill Keller is especially rich. Apparently he's getting his lessons in nuance from Bill O'Reilly, Glen Beck and the Fox News p.r. department. That says plenty.
12/14/09
"I come from a paper that going un-duh..."