I know that it's wrong to want these things, but--

[tzikeh]

Where the fuck is the snowpocalypse they promised Chicago?

Last night: "AAAAAAAAA SNOW WIND IT'S COMING LOCK UP YOUR CHILDREN AAAAAA."

Today: "HAHAHA psych!"



Please note the vast majority of the storm is already over Lake Michigan and away, with nothing behind it except very cold weather. So, ... ?

Unless this happens:

tzikeh: I don't get how this storm, which has already passed us, is supposed to drop another 12" - which is what the news is telling me *right now*
xenacryst: it forgot something and is coming back to get it.
xenacryst: it's actually going back to colorado, so it's going to go over you twice more.
tzikeh: "Dammit, I TOTALLY forgot to fuck Chicago in the ear. I WILL TURN THIS STORM AROUND."

Still, there are some awesome things right now -- like this:

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Haha, a frosty bean! Very picturesque, though.

Rather selfishly hoping the storm runs out of oomph before it hits the East Coast, though. (We were similarly promised snow and skitey sidewalks this morning. ER NO.)

[xebgoc.livejournal.com]

Personally I am fine with it leaving the M'kee-Chi corridor alone. I would very much like to get home tomorrow night.

[klia.livejournal.com]

It could stall over Lake Michigan and start dumping. That's what happened during the blizzard of '79 -- lake effect snow.

[mtgat]

Clearly someone has been sacrificing major amounts of chocolate/chickens/chocolate chickens to continue averting the Snowpocalypse in Chicago this year. (And for once, it's not me.)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

mmmmm chocolate.

How does one sacrifice chocolate, anyway? Usually sacrifice involves slicing open and/or burning.

OH MY GOD S'MORES ARE THE DEVIL'S WORK!

[mirandir.livejournal.com]

You know, this is the second time they've done this to us this winter. Once right before Christmas, at least around here.

If I were a superstitious person, I'd be expecting the third one in three weeks to be the real snowpocalypse.

[unfolded73.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I went out at 11 this morning and shoveled the scant two inches that had collected at our place. It's hard to see how another several inches are in the offing, but we shall see.

[dorinda.livejournal.com]

We're gittin plenty up here, which I'm sure doesn't surprise you; I suppose the top of the storm has swirled round counterclockwise or some such. Blah. Feh. Hmf. *snowy trudging noises*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the trudging and stuff. Unlike many others, I was looking *forward* to the snowpocalypse. Apparently I'm getting a fauxpocalypse.

I hope you're keeping warm and are stocked with nommables!

[dorinda.livejournal.com]

You know, I shouldn't really complain. They have plows up here and stuff, and it does make for an "everybody stick together" kind of mentality. As long as I don't have to drive at rush hour! (Buses FTW!)

Re: trudging: I can also look on the bright side of that: it makes that nice crunch-crunch-crunch sound. I often think about that Calvin and Hobbes strip: Galosh galosh galosh :D

This has been your SILVER LINING UPDATE. *snappy theme music*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hey dude - meant to ask - because my mind is now a sieve - are you watching White Collar?

AND DID YOU KNOW THAT TRAPEZE CAME OUT ON DVD?!

[dorinda.livejournal.com]

Yis I am!

And I had heard, but only through the kindness of other people--for some reason I missed it. Yaaaaaay at last! Maybe the rights-holders read my post and saw how much people were ready to like it. *g*

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Y'know I've been wondering the same thing. I was all hunkered down to feel totally snowed in, and it looks like we've gotten another dud of a winter storm. I'm glad for my friends who HAVE to get to work in this weather but c'mon people, if it's not going to snow like a sumbitch, then don't SAY it is.

BTW, that photo of The Bean really is awesome.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:D I love The Bean.

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

That's a Bean? It looks like a giant silver hemoglobin on its side with snow on top...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Well, the artist himself hates the term "The Bean" - which is what everyone in Chicago calls it. It looks like a pinto bean standing on both ends. The artist has the astoundingly pretentious name "The Cloud Gate" for it.

It's Chicago. We'll call it what we like. Comiskey Park will always be Comiskey Park, and The Sears Tower will always be The Sears Tower. We don't care much for companies who buy things and then try to get us to call them those things.

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Pretentious artists are pretentious. I've never seen a cloud shaped like that, gate or not. It's not as banal or easy to say as "The Bean", but I think I'll call it the Silver Hemoglob. I like the ring of it.