1) Absinthe….minus the wormwood, so don’t worry about going crazy.
3) Barack Obama (the Obamas lived at 51st and Greenwood in Chicago’s Hyde Park. Bigger and his family live around 46th near Stony Island Avenue, near the Kenwood neighborhood.
4) Shoplifting from American Apparel. Bonus: Shoplifting Shoplifting American Apparel from Urban Outfitters. Double Bonus: Did anyone punch Tao Lin for me and ask him to stop speaking for our generation?
5) Enfield. I had to look it up too. Just another depressing reminder that I will never finish that book.
6) Ice. I would have given bonus points for “hielo”
7) The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Milan Kundera. BTW did he turn out to be an informant or what?
8) Holcomb. It’s on the map now…barely.
9) Lilacs.
10) His back.
