St. Whozit

[Guest]

 

[carsonshepherd]

wadday wanna know? I lived there for twelve years...
It's a beautiful city.
They got good snow managment.
They got some really good restaurants.
They got more Mexicans than Los Angeles does, and certainly more Puerto Ricans.
There aren't any stockyards, anymore.
The gay bars are excellent
They got four seasons- sometimes all in one day.

Can I get back to you for specific info, Stella? the first thing I need to know is a neighborhood where a reporter might live. I'm from Illinois originally, but from the cornfield part of the state.

 

[Norajane]

Can I get back to you for specific info, Stella? the first thing I need to know is a neighborhood where a reporter might live. I'm from Illinois originally, but from the cornfield part of the state.

Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Wrigleyville...

 

[hugo_sam]

This one made me laugh.

St. Barbara is the patron saint of artillery, artillerists and gunners.

Why is a woman supporting such a business?

Yeah! St. Barbara!!!!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c201/hugo_sam/29_150.gif
Redlegs !​

edited to add: Hey! There is apparently only one artilleryman here, I have to take what little I can!
Q: What do they call the odor of fired powder that hangs in the air after firing? Wolf Pussy.

 

[3113]

I vote St. Sebastian! I just don't see Archangel Michael having anything over a guy tied to a tree and shot through with arrows.

Chicago (historally speaking):
*The town--eventually city--was built on a swamp. The name is a corruption of the Potawatomi Indian word Eschikagou which arguably means "Wild Onion." The city founder was a Haitian black fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable.
*In 1865, Chicago stockyards opened and it became the meat packing center of America. It was the center for butchering pigs, which were then processed and shiped out on the railroads across the country. The plants, at their height, had assembly line slaughterhouses and the squeals of dying pigs could be heard for miles. Sewage problems caused by said pig industry were, to say the least, disgusting and toxic.
*It had a big fire in 1871 and that burned down most of the city--and the fire was probably not caused by a cow. Dry October winds contributed to the fire getting out of control and burning so much. 2000 acres of city were burned down, and 100,000 people lost their homes.
*It's call the "Windy City" not because it's windy, but because The New York Sun editor, a man named Dana, got tired of hearing Chicago folk boast about the World Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Exposition had the first Ferris Wheel.
*It's got a big river; the flow of this river was reversed in 1900 to improve sewage which was bad and causing cholera epidemics. This was an amazing engineering feat.
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/riverflow.html
*Al Capone ran the city back in the 20's. St. Valentine's Massacre happened in Chicago.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/valentine.html
*Was a center for Jazz in the 20's as well.

From my one visit to the place:
*In summer, it's hot and humid and feel like you're in someone underwear.
*They serve up big, deep dish pizzas that no one in their right mind can finish.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Wrigleyville...

Carson, of course you're welcome to contact me for that! What kind of neighborhood do you want him to be in?
Is this guy successful? Wrigleyville is expensive now.
So is Wicker Park. The closest cheaper neighborhood to Wicker Park would be Ukranian Village. If you live there you usually say you live in Wicker Park because no one knows where U.V is. He could have bought cheap in Bucktown, before the values went up. I can give you streets and crossroads!
There are some cheap condos on Diversey.. better stuff in Lincoln Park... Boystown is uptown in Chicago.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I vote St. Sebastian! I just don't see Archangel Michael having anything over a guy tied to a tree and shot through with arrows.

Chicago (historally speaking):
*The town--eventually city--was built on a swamp. The name is a corruption of the Potawatomi Indian word Eschikagou which arguably means "Wild Onion." The city founder was a Haitian black fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable.
*In 1865, Chicago stockyards opened and it became the meat packing center of America. It was the center for butchering pigs, which were then processed and shiped out on the railroads across the country. The plants, at their height, had assembly line slaughterhouses and the squeals of dying pigs could be heard for miles. Sewage problems caused by said pig industry were, to say the least, disgusting and toxic.
*It had a big fire in 1871 and that burned down most of the city--and the fire was probably not caused by a cow. Dry October winds contributed to the fire getting out of control and burning so much. 2000 acres of city were burned down, and 100,000 people lost their homes.
*It's call the "Windy City" not because it's windy, but because The New York Sun editor, a man named Dana, got tired of hearing Chicago folk boast about the World Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Exposition had the first Ferris Wheel.
*It's got a big river; the flow of this river was reversed in 1900 to improve sewage which was bad and causing cholera epidemics. This was an amazing engineering feat.
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/riverflow.html
*Al Capone ran the city back in the 20's. St. Valentine's Massacre happened in Chicago.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/valentine.html
*Was a center for Jazz in the 20's as well.

From my one visit to the place:
*In summer, it's hot and humid and feel like you're in someone underwear.
*They serve up big, deep dish pizzas that no one in their right mind can finish.

I'm from Illinois and they teach us all that in grade school.

I lived in Milwaukee for almost 5 years and up there when you say you;'re from Illinois, people say "What part of Chicago?"

 

[carsonshepherd]

Carson, of course you're welcome to contact me for that! What kind of neighborhood do you want him to be in?
Is this guy successful? Wrigleyville is expensive now.
So is Wicker Park. The closest cheaper neighborhood to Wicker Park would be Ukranian Village. If you live there you usually say you live in Wicker Park because no one knows where U.V is. He could have bought cheap in Bucktown, before the values went up. I can give you streets and crossroads!
There are some cheap condos on Diversey.. better stuff in Lincoln Park... Boystown is uptown in Chicago.

Yes, I want streets, but I;'m not quite there yet. I'll probably shoot you an email in a few days....

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm from Illinois and they teach us all that in grade school.

I lived in Milwaukee for almost 5 years and up there when you say you;'re from Illinois, people say "What part of Chicago?"

On the phone, someone would ask me what state I was in, and I'd say "Chicago!"

the good gay bar is The Manhole on Clark Street uptown, the good gay disco is Berlin, on Belmont at the El... The leather bar for men and women is The Eagle, further up Clark. I don't know where the lipstick Lesbians hang out nowadays, but you don't care about that anyway, right?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Barbara was removed from revised Roman calendar and the cultus suppressed in 1969. While there were undoubtedly beautiful converts named Barbara, this saint is legend, and her cultus developed when pious fiction was mistaken for history.

Another woman put down. I don't care what they say, I still think she has a very cute cultus.

So, after all that went down, what happened to all those folks who prayed to her over the centuries and thought she'd gotten things squared away for them with the holy host up in heavenly headquarters?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

For those with a certain bent: St. Sebastian has long been revered by gay men, in fact became such an icon with the help of Oscar Wilde's (and others aesthetes') reverence for certain paintings of the lad. E.g.: Botticelli's Sebastian

Sometimes the thinnest rationale was used for choosing a saint's purview (Sebastian was a Roman soldier). One of my faves is St. Clare of Assisi, platonic intimate of Francis, who founded 'the poor Clares', an order of nuns who served the poor and lived solely on alms. When she was dying and too ill to attend Mass she supposedly watched the rite via a vision on her cell wall. Thus, she is the patron saint of television! True.

Perdita

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Yes, I want streets, but I;'m not quite there yet. I'll probably shoot you an email in a few days....

You could always ask Doc too, isn't he from Chicago?

 

[carsonshepherd]

You could always ask Doc too, isn't he from Chicago?

Yeah. I'm about to hit him up, too.