So as not to be among the martyred slaves of time, be drunken, be drunken without ceasing. With wine, with poetry, with virtue, or with architecture, à votre guise.Do I detect a trend here? I wrote yesterday of Preservation Chicago's May 12th membership fundraiser, Drinking in Your History, at the Green Door Tavern. Today, I'm reminded that, not to be outdone, Landmarks Illinois is having a Historic Pub Crawl in Hegewisch this Wednesday,
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Now, I learn that the Chicago Architecture Foundation is offering up a Happy Hour Walking Tour, Monday through Friday at 5:30 p.m., through September, each day a different tour. (Tuesdays are Millennium Park). The tours are actually two hours long - does
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*Persistent binge drinking is a serious medical condition requiring professional medical attention. As good as you feel at 12:00 a.m., you will feel equally as miserable by 7:00. If you find yourself at the end of the bar having a heated argument with Charles Atwood, it is time to go home. Charles Baudelaire died at age 46 after suffering a massive stroke at 45. Projectile vomiting on your boss may cause job insecurity. No matter if he appears to understand you like no one else ever has, six-foot-tall rabbits do not exist. Nor does Chicago's Great Places and Spaces, at least for 2010.
1 comment:
Just a FYI -- The CAF has been doing the Happy Hour tours in the summer as long as I have lived in the city. True I have only been here since '05, but it definitely is not a new thing.
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