Ageing Has Never Been His Friend

No bar updates, just a few notes.

This Saturday we plan on starting out at The Tonic Room sometime between 3:45 and 4:00, then working our way over to a few bars on Lincoln, north of Fullerton. Join us! We can make you internet celebrities!

After work today I met a friend and former coworker for a drink at Doc Ryan's in Elmhurst. Jason has a broken finger and child on the way - those are unrelated. Doc Ryan's, aside from having top notch waffle fries, holds a sentimental place in my heart (or history) for two reasons. One, it's on the very very short list of places I've celebrated multiple St. Patrick's Days. As the Elmhurst St Pats Parade (3rd largest in chicagoland!) rolls past you can duck in and out of the bar for artificially green beer and corned beef. Then everyone walks home. It's one of the few bars where I've routinely seen children over the age of 13 hanging out with their parents...not sure what's going on there.
Reason number 2, and the more significant one, Doc Ryan's is the first bar I visited after turning 21. It was during finals week my Jr year of college, and I had my last final of the week (Business Finance) that morning at 8am. We had a very large crew of friends, aquaintances and nobodies hanging out that night. I remember my friend Bruce still had another test the next morning, he brought his notes to the bar with him. There's a great story about other things that happened that evening and how my partner in crime Joe and I eventually got home, but I'll save those for a slower day. Sometime around 2:15am we were running down the shoulder of Roosevelt Rd, and I'll leave you with that.

Kyle's brief predictions for the Oscars on Sunday:
Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger (duh)
Supporting Actress -- I don't really care, hoping for Marisa Tomei but thinking Viola Davis despite the favorite being Taraji P. Henson
Lead Actor - Mickey Rourke (hopefully, but both he and Penn are deserving)
Lead Actress - Kate Winslet (and if she wins you'll have about 5 minutes worth of time to see whatever is on your seconday, tertiary or quarterary channels. Her speech will be a trackwreck of waterworks)
Director -- likely Danny Boyle. Wouldn't mind seeing Gus take this one for Milk so it doesn't get shut out
Picture -- Slumdog. It is written
I'm no Nate Silver, but i oughta get most of these right