When I got off work Saturday, I just wanted to run a few errands. After a stop at the tobacco store, I dropped a friend off and went to the grocery store for a few items. Everywhere I went there were people. Driving, walking, cycling…all over the city.
In Lincoln Park there were important professionals getting off the Brown Line walking to their homes late for the dinner table. Some of them stopped at the 7-11 to pick up a 12-pack. Cubs fans wandered Lakeview like zombies hours after the game with the Reds had ended, still determined to meet up with “buddies”. I think Boys Town had some sort of gay event, but that could just be how Boys Town looks on a Saturday in the summer. Even the crazies of Uptown seemed to be out in full force yelling, “Where are the parking-meters?!?”
Then there was Lollapalooza.
Important music appreciators and avid festival-goers traveled to Chicago from all over to see The Black Keys and Lady Gaga this weekend. Pre-parties, Post-parties, events and soirees were organized by Chicagoans to celebrate the city’s highly-anticipated, “Lolla”.
There’s nothing more this city loves than “going out”. All these important people out on the town for so many different reasons. That’s the thing that sucks about Chicago, though. There is a lot to do, but everywhere you go, you will be surrounded by thousands of idiots drinking Bud Light.
As I am writing this, people are uploading their crappy photos to Facebook adding inane insight and contrived praise in the comments section. Same old, same old.
Facebook is websites for people who shouldn’t have websites.
On Monday, the water-cooler will be all-abuzz about “Lolla”. Or the Cubs game. Or how someone saw a Blackhawks player at a bar they were at. Chicagoans are so egocentric that anything happening in Chicago is going to garner all the attention until the next bullshit event comes along. Luckily it won’t soon be the Olympics.
Lolla weekend is the crown-jewel of Chicago summertime but very typical. Just a bunch of alcoholics causing mischief, doing uncharacteristic things while intoxicated. A lot of the cleanup the city does could be prevented if people weren’t drunk all over town, throwing beer cans in flower baskets and tossing burrito wrappers in the street after whatever fabulous activity they were doing (fighting each other in bars and breaking car windows for no reason).
I hope you enjoyed your weekend, Chicago. I am sure that I will see and hear all about it. You are SO important.
God your sick. Tell ya what. I’ll go turn on the fryers and throw some wings in. Ally likey?