The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. And it has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way.
Late Friday afternoon is an ideal time to learn about a staple of Chicago culture: the canarble wagon. It explains much about the historical relationship between Chicago journos and the pols they cover. Plus, you may want one of your own.
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. — Jim Malone.
To accompany the wagon, some streaming music from the Claude Pate page at the Hype Machine. TGIF.
OK. Asplain to me why I can’t reach IMDB right now. Router down? I can’t get to some streaming radio, either.
I can get to the HM, but not to IMDB. Malone is Connery’s character in The Untouchables.
Oh. I confused “Jim Malone” with “Jim Mallon,” of MST3K fame. In which case I would ask you to attribute the quote to Gipsy.
IMDB is back up in my neck of the woods.
Speaking of the Chicago way, I’ll be back out there at the end of June, Karl. Let me know if you’ll be around, and maybe Tony and Terry and I can meet up with you.
That seems likely.
– Hey, cut the guy some slack huh….Hes paying Rezkos landscaping bill so whaddyah waant from him already?
Maybe some live blogging of a TUCC Sunday service?
More like live-blogging from the Original Walker Bros. Pancake House.
Let me eat my waffle.
Carnable wagon? Who says they aren’t civilized or that Chicago has nothing to teach the nation?
Let me eat my waffle.
O! does that every day with any position the Messiah(pbuh) takes.
The Roe Conn Show on WLS 890AM features The Canarble Wagon on Friday afternoons. While I think listening to 3 DJs discuss alcohol while drinking makes for stupid radio, it’s atleast unique in Chicago.
WLS newsman Jim Johnson features in the Urban Dictionary definition.