Oh, that's sad. Within 8 blocks of my work, in one direction or another, we've got low to high end Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean and miscellaneous noodle fusion.

I really miss working in the financial district of San Francisco - cheap and good Chinese was easy to find. I'd go out for orange or lemon chicken all the time during my lunch breaks....

When I was at Northwestern we pretty much relied on Panda Express for Chinese food.

They're gone now. (The one on Sherman Ave.) Yeah, I'd get orange chicken all the time there.

I'd go out for orange or lemon chicken all the time during my lunch breaks....

There are definitely some things I miss about Berkeley, and one of the big ones is easy, walking-distance-from-home access to numerous restaurants with vegetarian orange or lemon chicken. I have a horrible weakness for Chinese fake-meat dishes; they're oddly not so common on this side of the Bay, but right around the Cal campus in Berkeley they're everywhere.

Now I want Chinese food. I don't have any good quick places near me for lunch though.

I think I will stick with my plan of eating too much sushi tonight.

Thai's the big thing in Chicago, like tommy said. It's been big since at least the mid-80s; the one time I worked downtown, first job out of college in 1988, there were at least six Thai restaurants within walking distance of the office (at Grand and Dearborn).

I'm pretty lucky that there's a not-too-bad Chinese place that'll deliver to my apartment. Their sweet-and-sour chicken and fried rice is decent enough.

So, more is coming to light re: the raid on the Atlanta Eagle.

Both of the anonymous complaints have been released by the police [Link] - not particularly unsafe to read.

One is very obviously an unhappy straight neighbor; the other is just as obviously (to this fag) an extremely bitchy queen who just hates the Eagle's management. Specifically referencing email sent out about a circuit party that will include sex and SUPPOSEDLY includes drugs - and also mentioning a very popular bear dating site...well. I have an uncharitable opinion about THAT queen (and his probably-non-existent sex-life, which is why he's mad - "if I can't get any, neither can anyone else NYAH!")

I think the Eagle's management is doing stupid, illegal things (sex in public is AGAINST THE LAW)...but I also think the police's response was a HUGE over-reaction. HUGE.

(And apparently the result of several weeks' undercover surveillance.)

Bah. Humans. Chuck the lot, let the cockroaches win.

I stayed with some friends a few years ago who lived around the corner from the Eagle. There was, indeed, gay male sex outside their house that night. My friends' attitude was mild amusement.

All of which is completely tangential.

I think the Eagle's management is doing stupid, illegal things (sex in public is AGAINST THE LAW)...but I also think the police's response was a HUGE over-reaction. HUGE.

This.

They're gone now. (The one on Sherman Ave.)

Aw, man! Things should stay exactly the same in my college town until at LEAST my ten-year reunion!

Downtown Evanston has changed a lot since I started working here. Luxury condos were springing up like mushrooms. There's still plans to build a 35-ish story condo on the 1600 block of Sherman/Orrington, but with the economy I think the plan is on hold.

21 police officers to serve a "noise complaint"?

My friend Joshua went to one of the city council meetings that's happened since the raid took place; people identifying themselves as straight neighbors of the Eagle have questioned the police response. According to him (caveat: huge block of salt, since he and I have the same on-a-soapbox response to this situation) one of the people actually asked, "Why were you all in that bar, even if they're having sex in there - when drug deals by gun-toting thugs are happening 100 yards away, in front of my house...and my kids?"

Meh. Again: humans.