Pride and Piquedness
I rarely engage with other Chicagoans in the city’s seemingly official pasttime of grousing about winter weather. But when it’s 90 in the shade, my plaintive side takes a more public turn. No matter how cold the spring, we always face Divine retribution come late June. This city bakes from Gay Pride through the Taste of Chicago. Why? I think it’s in the Bible. Watch the video and I’ll tell you why…
(Video: Was last winter’s minus-17 really that bad?)
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Pride cometh before the fall. HAHA. You slay me!
“Summer is here and our souls have yet to be saved!”–paraphrasing from Jeanette Winterson’s “Oranges Aren’t the Only Fruit”
I love you both