What does a tour of Chicago consist of? Hanging out at tt's house and drinking beers? Visiting all of the neat and cultural places in Chicago? Something inbetween? Will it be expensive? Will it require that I have a car?
Also: What hotels or other sleeping accommodations exist near tt's house?
What does a tour of Chicago consist of? Hanging out at tt's house and drinking beers? Visiting all of the neat and cultural places in Chicago? Something inbetween? Will it be expensive? Will it require that I have a car?
Also: What hotels or other sleeping accommodations exist near tt's house?
I'll have a base list of proposed activities up tonight.
ok I just <s>kicked</s> Thrax into going. As it would be completly ignorant for him not to ride with prime and keebs. He wimpered a little, but I'm sure a couple tylenol will fix that.
Well... the Pool Party is from 3:00 until.... 9:00 or 10. It's a BYOBoose party but there will be kids there. We have a 15'x30' pool, big ass grill, 2 sets of corn-hole boards (bean bags for the noob), sandbox for Thrax, open area for frisbee or trackball. There will be music, food, some cake... I'll be cleaning and setting up all Saturday morning but anytime after 1:00 would probably be fine.
ok, I need everyone planning to attend to please meet up in the irc planning room. I'd like to get the baseline of the chronicle of events for the weekend asap.
"Pride" (Cooper Park, 11712 S. Ada St.), "Bee Movie" (Norwood Park, 5801 N. Natoma Ave.), and "Surf's Up" (Brands Park, 3259 N. Elston
Ave.)
Grab a blanket, pack a picnic and spend the night watching movies for free under the stars as part of the Chicago Park District's "Movies in
the Parks." Movies begin at dusk.
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6 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. East coast swing with Big City Swing; music by The Boilermaker Jazz Band
The 12th annual, 11-week festival includes one-hour dance lessons followed by live music and dancing. Thursdays feature world music; Fridays
and Saturdays feature jazz, Latin, country or funk; and Sundays feature ballroom and big band tunes.
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$20 Tony Clifton
Chopin Theatre - 1543 W. Division St. - Chicago (West Town)
Clifton performs as an abusive lounge singer with the Katrina Kiss-My-Ass Orchestra, featuring 20 New Orleans and Gulf Coast musicians,
backup singers and the Tony’s Cliftonettes burlesque dancers. BYOB.
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$15 Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts - 777 N. Green St. - Chicago (River West)
Grab a $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon, a $3 well drink or a $10 bucket of five domestic beers and get ready for booze-themed sketch comedy and
interactive drinking games. No BYOB allowed.
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Fiesta del Sol
Pilsen neighborhood - 1400 W. Cermak Rd. - Chicago
11 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Annual Pilsen street festival includes live music, DJs and more.
Salute the sun at this annual Latin street fest, where you can shake and shimmy for free. Includes live music, DJs, food vendors, carnival
rides, arts and crafts, dance classes and more. The event is alcohol- and smoke-free.
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$12 Pimprov
Chemically Imbalanced Theater - 1420 W. Irving Park Rd. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Five actors portray pimps attempting to perform an improv comedy show. BYOB.
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Free Hot Dogs
The Full Shilling Public House - 3724 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Grab a dog with all the trimmings during Cubs home games, when the dancing hot dog man makes the rounds. Drink specials include $6 24-ounce
select domestic cans.
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$4 Stella Artois drafts, $5 Jager and Bacardi O bombs, buy one appetizer, get one free
Gannon's Pub - 4264 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago
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Weekly fireworks show
Navy Pier - 600 E. Grand Ave. - Chicago (Streeterville)
A 10-minute display over Lake Michigan is set to music.
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Live jazz, 8 p.m.
The Pump Room - 1301 N. State Pkwy. - Chicago (Gold Coast)
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Grant Park Music Festival
Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park - 205 E. Randolph Drive - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
7:30 p.m.
Giancarlo Guerrero conducts. Grant Park Orchestra; works by Lorenz, Leone, Barilari, Golijov.
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Dave Johnson
Redhead Piano Bar - 16 W. Ontario St. - Chicago (River North)
Saturdays
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Athens Boys Choir
Ronny's - 2101 N. California Ave. - Chicago (Logan Square)
9 p.m.
Filf Dos, Actor Slash Model.
lol pedo
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Complimentary buffet 11 p.m.-1 a.m.
Cleos - 1935 W. Chicago Ave. - Chicago (East Village / Ukrainian Village)
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Fuku Fridays
RA Sushi - 1139 N. State St. - Chicago (Near North Side)
Get a 12-ounce Sapporo beer for one cent if Kosuke Fukudome hits a home run. Score a free appetizer for each additional home run he makes.
List of possible events/things tt posted in irc channel for Saturday Night.
Friday Aug. 1st 6pm on:
- People arriving at casa de technocrat (PM me if you need addy)
- Hangin out that evening with t_t, maybe go into chicago
Saturday Aug. 2nd
- 10am Give technocrat his MOTY award (PR, Photos)
- 10:30am MOTY Breakfast TBA (special guest: Dan Wieringa)
- 11:30am Drive to Hotel Q (QCH2002's house; pool party)
- 12:30/1pm Hang with QCH2002 until leave back for chicago. (Q is providing food and pop/soda/coke.)
- TBA: Event in chicago, technocrat will post on this.
- Rest of the evening is whatever
Sunday Aug 3rd
- 10:30am Icrontic group breakfast. Place TBA
- 1:00pm IMAX The Dark Knight
- Rest of day is whatever as people leave etc.
what I would like is for people to post the times they plan to arrive and leave
also, prime has the responsibility of bringing some air mattresses/sumo (this means keebs honestly) but I would suggest you bring supplies or coordinate sleeping I ALREADY CALLED A COUCH!
bring a swimsuit if you plan to swim at Hotel Q. He has a 15'x30' pool he said we can use.
also, prime's kids will be joining us. to me thats friggin epic. but I just want to make all those attending aware.
anything else? lemme know
also reminder IRC planing for this event is in #ludo-road-trip on irc.icrontic.com (room was created before we decided not to do the warped tour)
Request some kind of sleeping spot, but I'll have a sleeping bag with me all the same.
I'll be leaving after work and I drop the dog off; given 2.5 hours, I might arrive as late as 8 or 9; might decide to jet early, in which case I might get in early. Gonna have to get back to pick the dog up sometime around like 4, so will be leaving noon-2 or so.
I have 2 fold-out couches, 1 bed and 1 couch. Not a lot of carpet (tile).
So bring an air mattress if you have one (worst care, we don't use it)
Also, bring a sleeping bag, I don't have a lot of blankets and sleeping bags works better for doublin' up on the fold-outs :P Especially when Keebs and I zip them together WHAT.
We are providing brats, burgers, hot dogs, diet pepsi, pepsi, sprite, bottled water, and juice boxes. We (my wife) asks that you guys chip in with a side dish or two (potato salad, chips, veggie tray). Everyone else coming to my party will be bringing a dish so food will NOT be a problem.
Like GH said CB and I are riding up with him. We made reservations at Fairfield Inn and Suites Chicago Lombard. Based on the info that CB had about where tt lives this should be only a couple miles away.
OK I tried to grab what I thought might be some of the most popular things to do under $15 on August 2. There are a lot of choices on here, but there are hundreds of things that aren't on here.
Fill out this survey, and I'll combine the results and send out another one to narrow it down. Want to go to the museums? Boat ride? Gaytown? Fine, add it to the end of the survey, I've given you a few places to write in your own stuff.
Answers are confidential, please do this ASAP so I can get going on survey #2.
I'll give everyone until the end of the weekend, then I'll take the top 10 favorites or so, combine them with the usual museum/beach/etc stuff and send out the final questionnaire.
Friday Aug. 1st 6pm on:
- People arriving at casa de technocrat (PM me if you need addy)
- Hangin out that evening with t_t, maybe go into chicago
Saturday Aug. 2nd
- 10am Give technocrat his MOTY award (PR, Photos)
- 10:30am MOTY Breakfast TBA (special guest: Dan Wieringa)
- 11:30am Drive to Hotel Q (QCH2002's house; pool party)
- 12:30/1pm Hang with QCH2002 until leave back for chicago. (Q is providing food and pop/soda/coke.)
- TBA: Event in chicago, technocrat will post on this.
- Rest of the evening is whatever
Sunday Aug 3rd
- 10:30am Icrontic group breakfast. Place TBA
- 1:00pm IMAX The Dark Knight
- Rest of day is whatever as people leave etc.
ALSO: The train for Chicago (from technocrat's downtown and back etc) is $5 for a weekend pass.
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What does a tour of Chicago consist of? Hanging out at tt's house and drinking beers? Visiting all of the neat and cultural places in Chicago? Something inbetween? Will it be expensive? Will it require that I have a car?
Also: What hotels or other sleeping accommodations exist near tt's house?
I'll have a base list of proposed activities up tonight.
DONT KENKEL ON ME NOW THRAX!
NEW! MAI TANBOX!
/me walks away with toy dump truck
if you dont know the room, PM me
thx
List of possible events/things tt posted in irc channel for Saturday Night.
primesuspect, keebler, thrax, snarkasm, fatcat, tiberiuslazarus, gnome_queen, masterbuilderK, freshyP, CB, betsyD, GHoosdum.
host: the_technocrat
side trip: QCH2002
now thats an IC party!
more details still coming so...
what we go so far:
Friday Aug. 1st 6pm on:
- People arriving at casa de technocrat (PM me if you need addy)
- Hangin out that evening with t_t, maybe go into chicago
Saturday Aug. 2nd
- 10am Give technocrat his MOTY award (PR, Photos)
- 10:30am MOTY Breakfast TBA (special guest: Dan Wieringa)
- 11:30am Drive to Hotel Q (QCH2002's house; pool party)
- 12:30/1pm Hang with QCH2002 until leave back for chicago. (Q is providing food and pop/soda/coke.)
- TBA: Event in chicago, technocrat will post on this.
- Rest of the evening is whatever
Sunday Aug 3rd
- 10:30am Icrontic group breakfast. Place TBA
- 1:00pm IMAX The Dark Knight
- Rest of day is whatever as people leave etc.
what I would like is for people to post the times they plan to arrive and leave
also, prime has the responsibility of bringing some air mattresses/sumo (this means keebs honestly) but I would suggest you bring supplies or coordinate sleeping I ALREADY CALLED A COUCH!
bring a swimsuit if you plan to swim at Hotel Q. He has a 15'x30' pool he said we can use.
also, prime's kids will be joining us. to me thats friggin epic. but I just want to make all those attending aware.
anything else? lemme know
also reminder IRC planing for this event is in #ludo-road-trip on irc.icrontic.com (room was created before we decided not to do the warped tour)
I am bringing my single air mattress and a sleeping bag. As long as there's room to throw down, I'll be fine.
I'll be leaving after work and I drop the dog off; given 2.5 hours, I might arrive as late as 8 or 9; might decide to jet early, in which case I might get in early. Gonna have to get back to pick the dog up sometime around like 4, so will be leaving noon-2 or so.
GHoosdum, leaving cincy at 6pm or arriving chicago 6pm?
I have 2 fold-out couches, 1 bed and 1 couch. Not a lot of carpet (tile).
So bring an air mattress if you have one (worst care, we don't use it)
Also, bring a sleeping bag, I don't have a lot of blankets and sleeping bags works better for doublin' up on the fold-outs :P Especially when Keebs and I zip them together WHAT.
Will be posting in a bit for activity selection.
and for those who don't have jobs/cash to spare, I'm shooting to make this the cheapest (but still fun) weekend ever. And I'm pretty good at it.
Bring a suit AND towel.
haha, you can have shotgun, tiberiuslazarus gets trunk
PM me if you are serious
what i cant jump in pool then jump out and give ya a hug?
Leaving Cincy at 6PM. Arriving Chicago around 11 maybe with the time change factored in? Dunno exactly.
Im looking forward to meeting everyone!
OK I tried to grab what I thought might be some of the most popular things to do under $15 on August 2. There are a lot of choices on here, but there are hundreds of things that aren't on here.
Fill out this survey, and I'll combine the results and send out another one to narrow it down. Want to go to the museums? Boat ride? Gaytown? Fine, add it to the end of the survey, I've given you a few places to write in your own stuff.
Answers are confidential, please do this ASAP so I can get going on survey #2.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pj2_-Vn_P44rHAkEwaH04TQ&email=true
oh, and thanks for the email spam invites. I will be attending all events
Just keeping in sync with the event planner.
Friday Aug. 1st 6pm on:
- People arriving at casa de technocrat (PM me if you need addy)
- Hangin out that evening with t_t, maybe go into chicago
Saturday Aug. 2nd
- 10am Give technocrat his MOTY award (PR, Photos)
- 10:30am MOTY Breakfast TBA (special guest: Dan Wieringa)
- 11:30am Drive to Hotel Q (QCH2002's house; pool party)
- 12:30/1pm Hang with QCH2002 until leave back for chicago. (Q is providing food and pop/soda/coke.)
- TBA: Event in chicago, technocrat will post on this.
- Rest of the evening is whatever
Sunday Aug 3rd
- 10:30am Icrontic group breakfast. Place TBA
- 1:00pm IMAX The Dark Knight
- Rest of day is whatever as people leave etc.
ALSO: The train for Chicago (from technocrat's downtown and back etc) is $5 for a weekend pass.
IRC #ludo-road-trip on irc.icrontic.com