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  1. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    I first got into sushi and other Japanese food back in '74. One of those "friend of a friend" situations. He was/ is heavily into Japanese culture and got me started on it. There was certainly nothing "trendy" about it at the time: I just acquired a taste for it. It also appealed to me because...
  2. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    I get the eeks and yucks from my wife all of the time as to sushi. When in Vancouver last year, we found that sushi joints were as ubiquitous there as pizza places in Chicago. I was in heaven with it, but any suggestion that we dine out at one earned me The Look. I tell her that 125 million...
  3. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    You say that about two small Maine coastal towns, but it rings true in the big city as well. I sure as hell see it in Chicago. My people have been here since one marched off to fight for Mr. Lincoln. There are so many for whom the city is just one rung up the corporate ladder: a place to put in...
  4. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We know who's behind THAT.....
  7. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    She hates the very mention of cold weather. Not that anyone but me ever clears driveway and sidewalks of the white stuff, mind you. The price of domestic tranquility being that I confine such statements to this forum- at least until August when the heat gets even more brutal.
  8. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm not allowed to say this in front of my wife but I'm looking forward to autumn.. even winter. I hate the heat: dry, humid, and everything in between. My shearling flight jacket is just taking up space now.
  9. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    It worked for me, albeit over 40 years ago. Told the tale here several times, but I found that there were a lot of Nam vets and older mom types when I was back in community college who were a hell of a lot more motivated and mature than what I encountered later at university. My state had (and...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Men's Adventure Magazines

    I bought a Playboy for the centerfold once: Jake LaMotta's ex, Vikki, posed nude at age fifty one. I was in my 20's and remember thinking that I hoped that I would be preserved half as well as she was when I hit the half century mark. Even with airbrushing.
  11. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    I wore something similar to this in college. Not identical: this is a German Prinz Heinrich cap, and what I wore was a student/ worker's cap that my uncle had gotten for me when he worked for a year (1973-1974) in Poland. It was somewhat like a cross between this and a Greek fisherman's cap...
  13. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    Hey... calm down! I was wearing my fedora as I typed.
  14. ChiTownScion

    Men's Adventure Magazines

    Those magazines seem like the type of crap I'd find lying around at the local barber shop. It's one of those places that hasn't seen a coat of paint or a good scrubbing in decades, looks as if it was decorated by Archie Bunker's microcephalic cousin, and where they push the not too subtle "when...
  15. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    Aside from engineering or accounting, there are not a lot of undergrad degrees that, in and of themselves, provide nearly guaranteed access to a decent paying job upon graduation. Best bet is to avoid undergrad debt and save that option- if you must- for grad school.
  16. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    $60K for an undergrad education at Boston U? Quite honestly, if there's any way she can swing it, I think that it could be money well spent. The city would be a great place for a highly motivated student of art to learn, and the school- unlike the podunk state university that I attended (and all...
  17. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    A new exhibit on American painters of the 1930's is opening up at the Art Institute in Chicago. I saw that this work of Edward Hopper is being featured: although it isn't a Texaco station I think that the theme touches a common chord with our subject here.
  19. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    It would bother me as well. Salt in the wound- literally.
  20. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    Wrong that a grown man or woman would ever have to face such a situation after giving years of their life to a corporation. Despicable and unconscionable that a seventeen year old kid would have to deal with it. I don't think that too many of us suffer the overindulged and entitled gladly, but...
  21. ChiTownScion

    What Happened....

    Just as a matter of curiosity: were your grades better than they were when you worked all those hours? I tried to avoid working during the school year when I was an undergrad, but I had no choice in law school- esp. my last year. At one point I was holding down six classes- including Conflicts...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Old Man from thr Mountain is Coming Home

    Used in military cadences ("Jody calls") in the form of "Jody." Joe the Grinder -->Joe D.--> Jody. Jody is essentially the guy back home who's stealing your gal, driving your car, drinking your best liquor, etc., while you're off serving Uncle Sam. One of the "cleaner" variations: Jody Jody...
  23. ChiTownScion

    MacArthur's Desk

    True of a lot of careerists: a well nurtured attitude of entitlement that overlooks the fact that, in this nation at least, the military is subordinate to civilian authority. He wasn't- and isn't- the only one, of course.

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