Spam, spam, spam spam!
So i don’t do it often, but sometimes I actually open and read my spam.
Yeah. I know.
Still, if you never look, you sometimes miss gems like this:
“Chicago’s infamous Mayor Daley, who endangered the city by changing it from a controlled airspace to an uncontrolled one, by the midnight vandalisim performed on Chicago’s miegs Field, is about to unveil another one of his atrocities.
In the new millenium Park, there is a sculpture named “Cloud Gate” by Anish Kapoor. it looks sort of like a polished tinfoil bike helmet. It will be unveiled on Mayor Daley on the 16th, and hundreds of people will be showing up with tinfoil hats to join in the festivities.
Help make it thousands. Put on a white t-shirt and a tinfoil hat of your own construction, and show up in the new millenium Park on July 16th, 5:00PM Mayor Daley has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on this park alone,(aside from private donations!!!) let alone all the other projects, while city cops waited months for a contract. “Cloud Gate”, a huge polished stainless “mother ship” is just another indication of the wastfulness of this man. Use a black magic marker to write “couldn’t the mother ship have landed at miegs?” or anything else you want on your shirt, and show up at 5:00. We hope to see you there! pass this along to anyone you know who hates the wastefulness and let’s show this idiot what we think of him (peacefully). ”
This is copy/pasted directly from the mail. It’s a riot- but I think it might just be fun to do, and watch! I’m gonna check it out.
Here’s the object in question, by the way. Also, here’s an interesting site on how much money was spent and where it came from.
15 comments Og | Uncategorized

Makes me wish I was close enough to Chicago to join the fun.
Here are a few more “gems”……..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0406160188jun16,1,6678869.column?coll=chi-news-nav
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/060904_ns_silvershovel_son.html
Are you sure it isn’t just Soldier Field burped out from within its new confines and set down in the park? Or is all Chicago architecture about the toilet bowl these days?
Haha!!No, Soldier field would be “the mother ship humping the coliseum” where this is apparently “Dickey daley’s tinfoil bike hat”
BTW, glad you’re feeling better, Michelle.
It looks *just* like an overturned steel bedpan!
:D lol
Ooh, the Chicago Bedpan! I LIKE it.!
take pics man!
Actually, Michelle is NOT feeling better. But my illness does not preclude me from thinking that Soldier Field looks like a giant toilet bowl, no matter how beautiful it allegedly is on the inside. But thanks for the well-wishes.
Throat’s on fire, burning up my bod-ay
Still feeling like crap on raisin toast, but since Og wanted me to post this, I’ll do it before I drop dead for the night:…
I will never see the inside of soldier field, except perhaps at gunpoint. The outside is sufficiently hideous to keep me away.
Og, Da Bears are waiting. It’s only hid-hid-hideous architecture. No guts, no glory.
Just trolling along, on Moon Bat Bay (there’s a song in there somewhere, though it’s obvious I haven’t found it).
Rich
LOL! Rich, I don’t consider it a sport unless something dead comes home with me, destined for the dinner table. Da bears? Yeah, if you put snipers in the upper deck, I’ll be there. Otherwise, I just don’t get it.
Actually, I think it looks kinda neat — and I seldom say that about any modern art. Not worth thousands of taxpayer dollars, but neat.
But I can’t find anything in the article cited above that says that this work was taxpayer funded. Yes, there are taxpayer dollars galore spent on the park, but there are also corporate donations. The City site (can’t provide a link, since their brilliant site design encodes the session ID in the URL, but you can start here: http://egov.cityofchicago.org) says that this sculpture is on SBC Plaza. Other sites mention SBC Pavillion. So there’s at least a chance that this piece was sponsored by SBC. If that’s the case, then I applaud them.
It’s clear that with this park, Mayor Daley has wasted a lot of money that the city can ill afford. But it’s not clear that Cloud Gate is proof of that.
Hey, I just posted it, I didn’t write it- LOL! Still, you’re right, Cloud Gate might be privately funded- but it’s certainly a symbol of the conspicuous consumption of the Mayors Office.