Chicago, Illinois, June 1st 2009, 43 degrees F. at 3pm -- wind howling from the North making the de facto temperature around 34 degrees F.
I put on an Old Navy cotton sweater -- and then a Tommy Hilfiger cotton sweater atop that -- and then a jacket.
Pulllease!!!!
IOC -- are you listening?
Not only does Chicago's political climate stink -- but its meteorological climate stinks to high heavens.
The winds are howling here today. June 1st. IOC--How might you expect that to effect your kayak and rowing and sailing competitions?
IOC -- you may need to commandeer US and Canadian ice-breakers to make Chicago waters pliable for the competitions.
Chicago is a bad city.
I say this as one whose ancestors had the bad fortune to have settled here in 1848 -- as a consequence of the Bismarckian German unification and the Irish potatoe famine.
They -- of diverse ethnicity -- but common Roman Catholic Faith -- managed to meet here and spawn.
But the smart ones managed to make a fair amount of money and get the hell out of Chicago.
I hope to do that soon.
When I was in college, a roguish fellow wrote a peculiar book called "Death Trip in Illinois."
In it, he chronicled, from local newspaper items of the era, how a significant number of German and Irish immigrant miners in the Galena area were so depressed by the perpetually overcast skies and the endless cold winters, that they began stealing dynamite from the mine operations and blowing their heads off.
I feel like doing that now.
Chicago is a climactically laughable place.
No wonder so many Russian Siberian immigrants feel right at home here.
But as for me -- give me my swimming trunks, my sun tan lotion and a plane ticket to Tampa, St. Petersburg --
---or a stick of TNT.
I put on an Old Navy cotton sweater -- and then a Tommy Hilfiger cotton sweater atop that -- and then a jacket.
Pulllease!!!!
IOC -- are you listening?
Not only does Chicago's political climate stink -- but its meteorological climate stinks to high heavens.
The winds are howling here today. June 1st. IOC--How might you expect that to effect your kayak and rowing and sailing competitions?
IOC -- you may need to commandeer US and Canadian ice-breakers to make Chicago waters pliable for the competitions.
Chicago is a bad city.
I say this as one whose ancestors had the bad fortune to have settled here in 1848 -- as a consequence of the Bismarckian German unification and the Irish potatoe famine.
They -- of diverse ethnicity -- but common Roman Catholic Faith -- managed to meet here and spawn.
But the smart ones managed to make a fair amount of money and get the hell out of Chicago.
I hope to do that soon.
When I was in college, a roguish fellow wrote a peculiar book called "Death Trip in Illinois."
In it, he chronicled, from local newspaper items of the era, how a significant number of German and Irish immigrant miners in the Galena area were so depressed by the perpetually overcast skies and the endless cold winters, that they began stealing dynamite from the mine operations and blowing their heads off.
I feel like doing that now.
Chicago is a climactically laughable place.
No wonder so many Russian Siberian immigrants feel right at home here.
But as for me -- give me my swimming trunks, my sun tan lotion and a plane ticket to Tampa, St. Petersburg --
---or a stick of TNT.
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