Month: March 2015

Losing life at hot spot on Ashland

Yelp reviewer on Dolphin, where people were shot at 3:10 this a.m., two of them killed. She was prophetic in her concerns:

Dolphin
$$$ Dance Clubs, American (New)
2200 N Ashland Ave
Chicago
2/9/2015

Please if anyone has gotten hurt at this club by there non professional security please contact me or please send me all your complaints due to the security there and be ware with them they have a reputation of beating up customers

you are not safe there you can loose your life in there hands my son almost did  2-7-2015 by 2 security there I can’t post the story at this moment yet because we will be contacting a lawyer but if I get response from people that you may know that have gotten beat up there

I may start a  class action lawsuit  I ready reported to the alderman in that area and made police report for batterie and there’s no way of me contacting the place because the mail box is full dangerous dangerous place  Marisol1224@yahoo.com

She had it right about losing one’s life, putting onus on club security. Nothing reported about shooter or shooters in this case — outside the club.

Bouncers had expelled fighters, according to Sun-Times, but pretty rough place any way you slice it.  See also Chi Trib.

Company Man, start and finish

Company Man

From the book, first page:

Five of us took the New York Central from Chicago to Cincinnati in August, 1950, arriving with hours to spare before our 6 p.m. novitiate-arrival deadline. Our destination was suburban Milford, 15 miles east of the city. Killing time, we cabbed it at one point. One of us wanted to buy a fielder’s glove. We asked the cabbie where we could find a sporting goods place. He picked up on the sporting part and was about to suggest a brothel. We cut him short smilingly. Athletic goods, yes. Sexual athletics, no.

From the book, last page:

On my last night, Brichetto and I and two or three others had a good hour or so chatting in the kitchen over a beer.  As we broke up, he commented that this is how we Jesuits should get together with each other, referring to our relaxed camaraderie.

Next…

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From friar to priest; from earth to 20,000 feet up

He’s pastor of a S. Side parish in Chicago with a varied background including time as a Capuchin friar. The 20G feet up part, saved by writer Dolores Madlener to the end, is about skydiving:

You’re above the cloud line, and it’s extremely cold. The further down, the warmer it gets. You can see the crest of the earth and the Chicago skyline. It’s phenomenal. Went to classes for another three months, then some supervised jumps, then learning about wind velocity – it’s almost like flying a plane once you deploy. You get all that G-force against your skin, too.

It’s fun, and we use it as a fund-raiser as well. Eight parishioners went on the last jump, men and women. People make pledges for their favorite jumper, $5-$10 per thousand feet. I tried to convince [Chi auxiliary] Bishop Perry to go with but he declined.”

Looking up, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Super Priest!

5 Habits That Will Make Grocery Shopping So Easy

To show that there is little of help to the reader that this blog does not offer.

The Family Dining Room

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Of the many household chores you’re expected to do, do you love or hate grocery shopping. The people who love to grocery shop usually do because they have learned to do it in an organized manner.  If you’re still pushing a cart down the aisle and stuffing it with your favorite foods without a plan for how these foods will be used or how much you’re spending, then you need to begin by shopping with a plan.

Planning

1)  Begin with a general game plan for the week.  What meals will you be eating at home? Devise a menu for the week and check your cupboards for ingredients you may already have. This will help you decide what needs to be purchased and when.  You may not want to buy all you salad fixings for the week as fresh produce doesn’t always keep for seven days.  Maybe instead, you will…

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Muhammad Ali, publicist extraordinaire

None better among non-chiefs of state, says ALEX BURGHART, reviewing Richard Hoffer’s BOUTS OF MANIA: Ali, Frazier, Foreman and an America on the ropes in Times Lit Supplement.

As Richard Hoffer argues in this rich and loquacious account of the Ali/Frazier/George Foreman fights of the early 1970s, it was Ali’s ability to make his bouts “part of a national argument” which enabled him to evoke such feelings. Frazier was no meat patty – he was an athlete of exceptional fitness, agility and durability – but while Ali the spokesman for black power and the Nation of Islam, Ali the conscientious objector to Vietnam, gave voice to the anger that many of his countrymen felt, Frazier was simply an apolitical funk singer for his band the Knockouts..

He also had a mean streak, viciously portraying his opponents as stumblebums:

Ali is perhaps the greatest self-publicist in history not to have held high office (“he would make a damned good politician”, Imelda Marcos said) and he succeeded in associating Frazier with the establishment in the public mind. Repeatedly claiming that white America would be cheering for his opponent in the hope that he would whip the draft-dodger, Ali called Frazier an ignorant “Uncle Tom”.

This cruelty, directed as it was at the son of impoverished South Carolina farm labourers, far overstepped the ordinary borders of pre-fight banter. (Ali would later perform a similar trick in Zaire, telling the arrival party that Foreman was “a Belgium” (sic), invoking – without basis – the name of the country’s former colonial masters). Hoffer does well to remind us of these indecencies which, like some of Ali’s more extreme views (notably his outright opposition to interracial marriage), have often been quietly sidelined in case they tarnish his legend’s sheen.

Didn’t know you could say such things about one of our favorite legends, who in many respects comes across as a race hustler and mere  darling of the left.,