November 10, 2006 at 8 pm
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- Order a Viva Le France (spiced hot chocolate) at Filter. Sit and compare the peculiarities of their hipster clientele to that of your own neighborhood coffeeshop.
- Visit U.S.#1. Admire the vintage western shirts and boots, but instead get the leather jacket — your wardrobe already has more snaps than buttons. Besides, it’s cold outside.
- Go to a 40th birthday party, followed directly by a 30th birthday party. Collectively discuss only babies and sing a Raffi song together at the first (make sure you’re at a reasonably nice restaurant first), then drink heavily to celebrate the Raffi-free state of your life at the second.
- Get a serious hankering for red meat. Skip all typical steakhouses (sorry, Morton’s) and go to Fogo de Chão, a Brazilian churrascuria. Order a good cabernet sauvignon, then eat. And eat. Commune with your fellow carnivores: wolves, saber-toothed lions, and those horrific dinosaurs with scythe-like claws. Order increasingly rare cuts until you upend the table with a roar when they won’t bring it to you raw. Wake up with a stomachache.
- Meet an old friend at the University of Chicago. Discuss the legal ramifications of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (make sure they’re a nuclear policy expert first) while admiring the Oxford-esque architecture, built with the finest of oil tycoon money. Buy some Goffman at the first-rate Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Try to justify to yourself that, academically speaking, your great-grandfather is John Dewey. Feel increasingly pretentious until you throw up in your mouth a little bit, then go take goofy pictures of yourself — by yourself — in front of The Bean in Millennium Park.
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Blake said,
November 13, 2006 @ 3 pm
I wanna see the goofy pictures of you in front of the bean!!
Bobby Z said,
June 11, 2007 @ 3 pm
I’m delighted that I made it, however obliquely, onto BrightlyColoredFood.com! By the way, noticed on Facebook that you’re stranded in Iowa? I do hope that you and your Vee-Dub make it back to Oakland in one piece.