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Chicago (part II)



Pictures from Chicago (part II)

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Saturday morning, Freddie and I meet up with Nina and Akie and head out for some authentic Chicago deep dish at Gino’s East.

On the way there, we come upon a large protest outside what is, as Freddie and Nina claim, the largest McDonald’s in the world.

 

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Okay, now I’m down for the cause and all…

 

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…but I’m sorry. Some of this shit is too funny.

 

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Gino’s East at last. The wait was 20 minutes to get in. The food took another 40. We had a pitcher of beer to pass the time, and the waiter kicked in a second pitcher a little later on. This is all well before the food ever arrived. I had a small hangover for the rest of the day.

Some 7-year-old LSU fan spotted Freddie’s sweatshirt and clowned him. It was all cute and funny, but I bet that kid felt pretty darn stupid later that night. Seriously, man. Little kids better not step up on us like that.

 

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On the far end of Navy Pier.

My super-power warning jacket is glowing because there is danger nearby. It’s cool tho. I took care of it afterwards.

 

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Me with Rod Oda and Kris Chin, the directors of Asian Stories (Book III), the film that was showing after The Achievers.

Again, my super-power jacket is sensing danger. I think Kris senses it too. Ron, on the other hand, is blissfully unaware.

The fool! Look at my jacket glow! Doesn’t he realize how much danger we are all in?

 

So the screening itself was very small and maybe half-full. I won’t lie and say that I wasn’t a little disappointed. It really made me appreciate how friggin huge San Francisco’s festival is. However, the audience seemed pretty responsive, and I’d say that at least a third of them were non-asian, which was very cool.

Tim Hugh, the festival director, even surprised us with custom fortune cookies that he gave out to the audience.

 

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Akie and Abe at the Q & A.

One thing I will never get tired of:

The reactions of the audience members when we tell them the the film was made for about 40 grand.

 

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Big Tim.

 

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Chattin after the screening. We kinda bonded with the folks from Asian Stories because we were both the renegade, guerilla-type projects at the festival

 

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After the screening there was the requisite partying and drinking, finally topped off with some late night grub at “Wiener Circle”.

This is a hot dog stand run by a herd of angry, vicious black women. That may sound racist, but seriously - go there one day and you’ll know that there really isn’t a gentler way to describe it.

 

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The hot dogs are pretty good, tho, and the entertainment is one of a kind.

 

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Big Neil.

I swear, he’s going to find his way to every screening. Abe should hire him for PR or something.

 

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I just felt like ending the series with this picture.


 


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Comments

Comment from chezmiko
Time: April 5, 2006, 3:15 am

there should be a tiny tim to counterbala nce big tim’s bigness. neil doens’t help

Comment from big tim
Time: April 18, 2006, 9:41 am

in that last picture, I swear I look like one of those racist cartoons from the 1940’s of Japanese soldiers. I guess they’re not so racist now.

Comment from chezmiko
Time: April 18, 2006, 2:33 pm

actually you look like my cousin Stu.

dave, you are never going to post again if you don’t do it soon. that’s not a threat it’s a promise. i know people who can break your phalanges. (wait are those the finger bones or the foot bones?)

Comment from dave
Time: April 18, 2006, 8:17 pm

Yeah, Tim, you look like one of those cartoons, but larger…much much larger.

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