Bike trip to Target: Success!
Tomorrow I'm biking to the largest library in the Chicago system, the Harold Washington branch downtown, where according to the website I'm going to find a ton of the books I've been patiently waiting to get my hands on, at least seven or eight. But I don't have a way to actually get those books home by bicycle; so off to Target tonight near Diversey and Western, about four miles (6.5 km) from my house in each direction, to find a large backpack on sale in time for tomorrow's trip. And now am biking back, so am having just a bit of a mini-pub-crawl, by stopping by Delilah's at Diversey and Lincoln, one of the only original punk-rock Chicago bars from the late '70s to still be open (and incidentally is the place I met Liz Phair the first time I met her, in 1994). And some more photos from the trip are coming next, then to Friar Tuck as always at Wellington and Broadway, for a three-dollar beer and basket of popcorn, and then home to hopefully write up my review of the movie "Storytelling" for the CCLaP website tomorrow, finally getting me ahead of schedule there for the first time in awhile. (Psst -- I loved Storytelling. Tomorrow's review is going to be an interesting one, I think.)
