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

[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.