Magic Beans

January 7th, 2008 — photos

That’s the Mirror Bean, a sculpture at the South end of the “Magnificent Mile” of Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Amanda says it’s a butt. I find it very cool1. More pics after the cut.

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  1. But I have also been known to have an aesthetic appreciation for the occasional butt, so there you go [↩]

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Chicago! The musical (sound of snot in my head)

January 6th, 2008 — photos, updates

This is Alex, kissing an 8-foot-tall, chrome-plated, anatomically-correct1 moose right in front of the very tall and impressive NBC building on Michigan Avenue. I think it’s safe to say that we like Chicago. Even Alex likes it2. And I still like my footnotes plugin3.
I’ve been crappy use-up-all-my-hankies sick, but otherwise it’s been a great trip. Oh, except for being stranded for a day in Buffalo after our plane’s steering was broken. Alex has run into lots of fun people at the conference, and I’ve enjoyed wandering around the city4.

  1. I dared her to grab its, you know, for a picture, but she was shy [↩]
  2. She hated Manhattan [↩]
  3. As you probably gathered from the considerable empirical evidence [↩]
  4. Coming soon: Lots of Pictures of Tall Buildings [↩]

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