lisah, try online veterinary pharmacies. You might be able to get something fedexed overnight to your catsitter (or the vet's for the catsitter to pick up).

Ferris had a good chunk of the middle of the film in downtown Chicago.

Pretty in Pink had the poor girl/rich boy thing going on, so she lived, literally, by the tracks, but went to a school that was mixed in terms of affluence.

She's Having a Baby took place in one of the 'burbs as well, but he commuted into the city for his job in advertising and so they had a few scenes that took place within the city limits.

I think the thing about the Hughes films is for me, they really illustrated what I thought of as a "normal American" backdrop in a lot of ways. Much in the same way that the McDonald's commercials that showed during the ABC Afterschool Specials showed an idealized childhood against, again, what I perceived to be a "normal" backdrop. Or the Sears Christmas catalog.

Growing up in Miami, the idea of dropping temperatures and changing leaves and snow was so foreign and seemed to me, this idealized image that I desperately wanted to be a part of, especially as my own family was falling apart when I was a kid, with my parents' extremely contentious divorce and both of their subsequent mid-life crises where I was caught in the middle. It's not an uncommon scenario, by any means, especially for the late 70s/early 80s, but for a kid like I was, introverted and shy to start with, those carefree images amidst falling leaves or frolicking in the snow, were powerful icons. Symbols of everything I thought my life was lacking.

lisah, try online veterinary pharmacies. You might be able to get something fedexed overnight to your catsitter (or the vet's for the catsitter to pick up).

I didn't even know they had those. Thanks for the rec. I've never had a problem getting it before. I called the vet again and Michele said she'll find a vet with it and will go get it and bring it back to Mt. Wash so I can pick it up there later. That better work!

Lisa, for future pet needs reference: 1-800 petmeds

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Thanks, Barb!

oh, wow, the Vetsulin costs like 3x as much on there as when I get it from my vet. that's crazy!

Vet just called back to say the insulin would be at their building this afternoon. One more trip I don't have time to make this evening but at least he'll get his meds. sheesh!

Ferris had a good chunk of the middle of the film in downtown Chicago.

I hated Ferris when it came out. But maybe I should watch it again to see how much of Chicago I recognize.

Seeing The Blues Brothers again after I'd lived in Chicago for a while was fun.

That's right unlike you commie left coasters and north easterners, I live in a wonderful little pocket of the real America, a pro-America area of this great nation where people are hard working and patriotic.

And I live in a wonderful little pocket of left coatsters and northeasterners and actual homegrown commies in the middle of hardworking, patriotic north Georgia. As the local bumper sticker says, Obamamatic for the people!

I think my favorite Chicago movie was Adventures in Babysitting . Although I do have an inexplicable and unholy love for that film.

New York- West Side Story ! Also, Big.

San Francisco- My Sister Sam and Mrs. Doubtfire.

Obamamatic for the people

This is making me laugh so hard!

Upstate NY (the counties) seems to be a pocket of Right Wing in a Left Wing state, which is rather annoying. The cities are still Democrat in name. Also, something like 2/3 of our city officials are Republicans who changed to Democrats because the city won't elect a repub, and the county won't elect a Dem. It is pretty weird.

I'm glad, lisah. Another vet med is Fosters and Smith. (From what I remember, you had an unusual insulin.)