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.

Somehow, 1/3 of the way through that kissing photo essay I knew Usain Bolt would be in it. And I was not disappointed. Go, yardie!

Too much animal kissing, otherwise charming.

Funny Glee cartoon [link]

If the guy on the right had had a piercing, I would have thought he was SH.

Ha ha! Connie Rhodes "Birther" Challenge Thrown Out, Taitz Scolded

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land has thrown out a complaint questioning the president's birth from an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq and gave a warning to her lawyer, birther maven Orly Taitz.

Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national "birther" movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever files a similar "frivolous" lawsuit in his court.

"(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States," Land states in his order. "Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is 'an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.'"

how long does one need to hang on to old bank statements/bills, etc?