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Chicago Again

So I went to Chicago for 2 weeks around Xmas. I got to hang out with my mom and go junk shoppin' with her - I accidentally got her loookin' at some 78s one afternoon and it was amazing some of the stuff she knows about some of the songs and bands. I also got to eat lots of really great food. Just about anything you want is in Chicago - consumer heaven! For example, mom just moved out to a suburb much like Westlake Hills (so that my brother could go to a good high school and not get knifed every other day), and even in this rich white suburb, there's an Ethiopian take-out place across the street from their apartment!

I didn't have much access to independent transportation this trip and I had to work, so I didn't get around much. Also everyone I met up there this trip was a Deadhead or something, except for my old friends and my brother's friends. Ben (my bro) brought 3 of his friends into town with us one day when we got to use Mom's car. We went to record stores and pawn shops and "alternative" shops and an army surplus store and a bad diner. It was pretty cool. I blew all my cash at Ajax (one of my favorite places in the world). Ben's friends are pretty cool for 15-year-olds. They're really into Nirvana and Pavement and, of course, the Offspring and shit, but they're on the right track.

They have a band called Chlorine and they play in eachothers' basements. I started sending zines to Ben a few moths ago and I brought some up at Xmas. I'd come home and Ben and a couple friends would be sittin around readin' U-236 or Ben Is Dead or something (they really liked Peek-a-Boo also). The one night they did their own zine called Is Your Dad Gay? It's got lists of what's cool and what SUCKS and reviews of Chlorine shows and reviews of records by Sonic Youth and Nirvana and the Breeders and Pavement and some philosophical runnings-on and some scanned pictures of Kurt Cobain and themselves and some Nirvana lyrics and a pretty cool board game on the back cover. Ben made me proud by successfully lobbying to get the Inhalants on their Top Ten Bands list (he's also probably the only 15-year-old in Chicago with a Jesus Christ Superfly/Rise t-shirt.) So if you're interested in what the youngsters (hee hee, Ben) are up to, write Ben and demand a copy of: Is Your Dad Gay?/Ben 424 S. Maple #3N Oak Park, IL 60302 (send him a stamp or somethin'-jeez!)

On New Year's eve I went to my friend James's party. The crowd was mostly queens and people I knew from Whole Foods up there. It ended up bein' really fun and I kicked off my I'm-takin'-control-of-my-life campaign by poppin' my first champagne cork. Then I talked to a guy named Will Power. Later I thought that was a hell of an omen, but at the time I was already drunk and I guess I didn't take the cosmic hint. I drank some more champagne and passed out.

Mom and I had a great time and her man, Nat played me tapes of his old bands which were really great! Mom even got into reading Cometbus and she loved the kim chee article in Wipeout #7 since it's one of her newfound culinary favorites. She should be contributing something to GW in the near future. I'm tryin' to talk Nat into it, too. And if my lazy-punk-ass brother ever sends it to me, we should be seein' the occasional Spindly Man cartoon.

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-art by Tim Inklebarger Brien Hindman Trevor Wallace

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