And Another Door Opens
This past week, in Chicago, I was fired. Not for anything substantial, mind you. Someone told some stories about me behind my back and the recipients took action without confronting me or confirming the facts. Unprofessional? Sure. Actionable before a court of law? Certainly.
As I rushed between terminals B and C at O’Hare, stepping onto the moving walkway, I looked around at the faux planetarium light show surrounding me. I stepped into a scene of Logan’s Run.
A brilliant portal of ambient music taking me back home.
I went out for a drink with some friends yesterday and in the bathroom of Alley Cats above Blue Nile, the gentleman next to me struck up a conversation at the urinal.
“You know that ‘Say No to Drugs’ message on the urinal plastic? I wonder if anyone actually ever listened to that – someone was probably snorting coke off the top of that thing and was like ‘Oh, man, did I make a mistake…’ ”
“Yeah, Barbara Bush really had her influence.”
“Did you ever see that Punky Brewster episode with Barbara Bush where someone tried to offer her a whole buffet of drugs and she was like ‘No!’ and ran away?”
“You mean Barbara Bush was in the room and telling Punky Brewster to say no to drugs?”
“No but she was in that same episode.”
“Cool.”
After being on the road for over a month, it’s fucking good to be back.
As a refugee from Corporate America, I can tell you Welcome Back.
This is why God granted us development of alcohol, jukeboxes, friends, full moons and middle fingers.
Good luck.
Sorry to hear that you were fired but good to have you back in the city.
Let’s actually get together sometime instead of repeatedly planning on it and never following through.
great, metblogs can be turned back into a loser’s livejournal, instead of a weblog about new orleans
You can debate the significance of the post all you want. Just be civilized and stop the name calling.
One day we’ll have to get into the history of the underground tunnel between B & C. Yet another small thing in Chi designed by a world class architect and transformed to make it “more appealing”.