tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6538595405867641415..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: 'Everyplace else is a location'Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-19733288357286393922023-03-20T07:42:32.173-05:002023-03-20T07:42:32.173-05:00LOL? Seriously? Grow up, Arthur. You could start b...LOL? Seriously? Grow up, Arthur. You could start by signing in with a real name.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50754182426269068092023-03-19T22:28:57.672-05:002023-03-19T22:28:57.672-05:00Mr. S is right...it would be a lot easier replying...Mr. S is right...it would be a lot easier replying to a name. Chicago puts too many chemicals in its water. Cleveland does not. It tastes as good or better than any of the bottled spring water. People elsewhere think Lake Erie is a sewer and that it's undrinkable and unusable, but those who live on its shores know better. Those same people also think our river still catches on fire. Mopes. It's used by kayakers and fishermen every day. Our waterways have have vastly improved over the last few decades. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-20091758064849256952023-03-19T22:19:41.811-05:002023-03-19T22:19:41.811-05:00lol You have some serious issues Grizz. You can...lol You have some serious issues Grizz. You can dish it out, but can’t take it. I read you because it it’s like listening to my late bitter father. Have a nice night Grizz. <br /><br />ArthurAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67717630456996118272023-03-19T22:15:59.210-05:002023-03-19T22:15:59.210-05:00Hey gents. I was in the city today, taking in a ba...Hey gents. I was in the city today, taking in a baroque concert and having dinner with friends. Try not to maul each other while I’m not looking, okay? I try to run a civilized shop here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-391789488237178352023-03-19T22:13:10.183-05:002023-03-19T22:13:10.183-05:00I'm the water guy comment Grizz.
I was trying...I'm the water guy comment Grizz. <br />I was trying to be funny online, my bad.<br /><br />I enjoy your comments. I ended-up in the middle of the ocean, domestically. <br /><br />Great Lakes water is tops, that we agree on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22342709318040421912023-03-19T22:09:43.562-05:002023-03-19T22:09:43.562-05:00No, pal...YOU lighten up. I am what I am. Don'...No, pal...YOU lighten up. I am what I am. Don't like it, don't read it...Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91734653299927690172023-03-19T22:03:46.240-05:002023-03-19T22:03:46.240-05:00Wow, someone has a different opinion than you Griz...Wow, someone has a different opinion than you Grizz & you go ballistic. Since my wife who grew up in the city, (my mother/in-law still does), says she would never move back to Chicago, (we live just over the border in Wisconsin), does she earn your ballastic attitude as well? Lighten up Francis. <br /><br />ArthurAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-84432438815203833922023-03-19T21:48:44.097-05:002023-03-19T21:48:44.097-05:00I've lived in six states. Cleveland's wate...I've lived in six states. Cleveland's water is the best of any of them. A glass of Chicago water is so chlorinated that it tastes like it was ladled from somebody's pool. So where did YOU end up? Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31304832636327084942023-03-19T21:09:36.485-05:002023-03-19T21:09:36.485-05:00Must be some extra fluoride in the Cleveland water...Must be some extra fluoride in the Cleveland water today. I left my heart in Chicago too, Grizz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2515743534431444132023-03-19T20:16:43.400-05:002023-03-19T20:16:43.400-05:00Interesting guy. Thanks for all three installments...Interesting guy. Thanks for all three installments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35845896820404828092023-03-19T17:29:52.750-05:002023-03-19T17:29:52.750-05:00Same goes for me. Only my F word is Fukuoka. And i...Same goes for me. Only my F word is Fukuoka. And if you don't like Chicago, Oka, tough noogies. There's a plane leaving O'Hare in two minutes. <br /><br />Chicago born, Chicago bred, lived half my life in Chicago before leaving for Cleveland, thirty years ago, to marry my college sweetheart and soulmate. I miss Cub games and live jazz and the "L"...but I'm missing the Chicago I left behind, not the Chicago that is, because so much is either gone or changed. <br /><br />Don't miss the expense, the increasing danger, the traffic, the parking, the bitter cold. All this "world-class" business is a lot of silliness and bushwa. Makes the boosters and the hornblowers sound like rubes and hicks. Chicago is what it is... far better than a lot of places, far worse than others. It all depends on who you are, what you do, where you live, and especially what skin tone you are.<br /><br />Gotta say that despite his Chicago origins, the more I heard from this guy, the less I liked him. Part Three was the topping on the deep-dish. It wasn't just his "Industry" background, which automatically earned him the stink-eye, mainly because I have zero love or respect for Hollywood. <br /><br />Yeah, Mikey, we get it... Los Angeles is where the work is and where the power is and where the money is, and that even New York and London and Paris, let alone Chicago, are just locations to film crews and directors, But did he really need to be so goddam snarky about it, and to admit that, like so much else in America, it all comes down to the bottom line? Toronto's cheaper and can stand in for anywhere these days...and it does, right? I call 'em like I 'see 'em. And what I see here is a smug, self-satisfied jamoke.<br /><br />Sorry you were hosed, Mr. S. No personality, no warmth, no small-talk, distant and aloof, patronizing and condescending. And all that was revealed in his opening pontification: "I don't wanna hear your ideas, because they suck, and they can't possibly measure up to mine. I'm a professional...you're not. So don't TELL me about a scenario for a movie...go make one and SHOW me, so I can dismiss it out of hand. But mainly, GTFO of my face, because I don't have the patience to hear your bullshit." <br /><br />Time's a-wastin', dude. Enough Zooming for one day...or for a lifetime, Mikey, Stay in Hollyweird. This ain't your town anymore. Mine, either...but at least I don't shit on where I came from..or where I am. If you'd really rather live in New York, just do it. You've earned your BFD now, so what the hell's stopping you?<br />Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10221790861938584212023-03-19T14:43:35.603-05:002023-03-19T14:43:35.603-05:00I'm no homer, or Homer, for that matter (thoug...I'm no homer, or Homer, for that matter (though close enough to Homer Simpson, maybe), and I'm as quick to complain about things as the next guy, but I do think you're selling the ole burg a bit short.<br /><br />Yes, the city is having a rough spell and has not rebounded from Covid or the Floyd protests quite as briskly as one might have hoped for. <br /><br />But, as Franco notes, LOTS of people still love to come here and are often pretty damn impressed when they do. <br /><br />Not sure what all officially qualifies as "world-class," but I AM sure that the Chicago Symphony and the Art Institute and O'hare Airport (despite its many shortcomings), for starters, surely do.<br /><br />Seems to me that on a given summer weekend, with 14,000 people at the Pritzker Pavilion to hear either a fine orchestra or some other engaging performance, thousands more milling around the Bean and the fountain and ambling up and down Michigan Avenue, many headed to various first-class museums, one might be tempted to consider this place world-class. And those activities just represent a sliver of the action going on around the area. A sports mecca, if one discounts the value of winning! One of the best theater towns in the world. Uh, the remarkable 26-mile stretch of lakefront parks. Etc. Personally, I wish fewer tourists descended on our fair city during the prime months and that he things I'd like to do weren't always so packed. Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-5834352016704257032023-03-19T09:43:45.524-05:002023-03-19T09:43:45.524-05:00For all of your subject’s apparent indifference, y...For all of your subject’s apparent indifference, you offered close attention. Your impatient diligence is also (I think) a treasured hallmark of the Chicago style. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-29096719029489987292023-03-19T09:36:18.459-05:002023-03-19T09:36:18.459-05:00Familiarity breeds contempt. 58,000,000 tourists v...Familiarity breeds contempt. 58,000,000 tourists visited in 2018. there must be many things of interest that draw people from around the world to visit besides al Capone , deep dish pizza and the cubs. some of which must be " world class". <br /><br />as far as a transplanted resident of LA LA Lands view of the place let alone someone in the film industry most of whom I have very little respect for. Focaccia!<br /><br />happy to live here , inside the actual city limits . can't wait to leavefranconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35569681149077850242023-03-19T09:14:48.955-05:002023-03-19T09:14:48.955-05:00Thank you for part 3! And I love Barcelona!Thank you for part 3! And I love Barcelona!Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69861265320935586452023-03-19T08:36:02.532-05:002023-03-19T08:36:02.532-05:00Traveling Circus is a perfect description. Comple...Traveling Circus is a perfect description. Complete with tents. We were almost filming year round prior to COVID. It's creeping back to life and the renewed tax incentive certainly helps. Now we hold our collective breath for the WGA strike to pass. Fingers crossed, it will be a very busy summer. Picture's Up!LBSTGMGRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01738370789147394125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41192907366456067542023-03-19T00:14:11.603-05:002023-03-19T00:14:11.603-05:00This is better than most I've read in the Los ...This is better than most I've read in the Los Angeles Times, which considers its home a one-industry town, truthfully. <br /><br />Insightful on many levels and tellingly carefully crafted. First-rate example why this blog needs to continue. There is so much to unpack. Thank you for this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com