FLASHBACK: Chicago suburbs

Most of the time I was driving around boring suburbs but every once in a while I came across something interesting.

Adale's dad really wants one of these flying santa & reindeer blowmold lawn ornament sets.

The King of Shawerma did prepare a mean shawerma.


Definitely the fanciest lawn motor store sign I've come across.

DATELINE: Pittsburgh, PA

The Man had a very busy last week and was unable to relay the excitement of his travels around the greater Chicagoland suburbs. Here are some key stats from the project:

• I drove 430 miles the first week and 487 the second.
• I ate 5 Quiznos sandwiches, 3 hot dogs/sausages, 2 pizzas, 7 bags of Baked Lays chips, and 14 twenty-five cent boxes of Lemonheads during my two weeks in Chicago.
• 1 interviewee tried to set me up with a friend/relative.

More details to come.

DATELINE: Some little town South of Chicago

A bike shop has this gorilla robot rigged up in their parking lot to attract customers.

CHICAGO: Outtakes and deleted scenes.

Driving to the airport to fly back to Pittsburgh at the end of my short trip to Chicago last week I was really hungry and had to stop at a mini-mart for a chili-cheese dog. I did not feel very good after eating it.


Here is the aforementioned celebratory Wolfgang Puck spicy chicken pizza & beer.