I'm live-blogging tonight's bike adventure.
All right -- a rare nighttime bicycle adventure tonight! There's the route above, which I'll be traveling between 6:30 pm tonight and about midnight, as well as live-blogging along the way, courtesy my Palm Treo 650 and the excellent Palm mobile client for VOX. Tonight adventure includes stops at...
--First, the famed music club Abbey Pub, near Kedzie and Elston, because it's halfway to my final destination, to stop and have a beer and catch my breath. Total distance from my place: 3 miles (5 km).
--Then, to LaSalle Bank at Irving Park Road and Cicero; which just happens to have a professional-quality movie theatre in their auditorium, because of a personality quirk of the man who started the bank, and who show classic movies from the '30s, '40s and '50s here every Saturday night. It's a true quirky secret of Chicago, something I've done before; thought I'd do it again tonight and get some photos too. On the playbill for tonight: American Madness, the 1932 Frank Capra Great Depression melodrama which precedes the better It's a Wonderful Life; The Criminal Code, the 1931 prison drama from Howard Hawks, just preceding his better Scarface; and Screwball Squirrel, the deliciously subversive Tex Avery answer to the Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1940s. Total distance from Abbey Pub: 2 miles.
--Then to the Daily Grill in Lincoln Square on the way back, also about halfway to my final destination, to have another drink and regain my composure. Total distance from LaSalle Bank: 3 miles.
--Then finally to Montrose and Ashland, to my friend Guy's place (who is the owner, by the way, of Guy.com), for a party he's throwing. Total distance from Daily Grill: 1.5 miles.
--Well, and then home, of course. Total distance from Guy's: half a mile. Total distance for the night: 10 miles (16 km).
Anyway, I invite you to join along with the live adventure if you're bored, whether it's evening for you as well (here in the US) or perhaps morning (if you're in Australia, for example). Expect the first report around...oh, a half-hour after I'm posting this.
