Walmart, beans, belly-dance, Thriller

A new blog post! Hooray! No really, sorry they've been so sporadic. I'm still trying to get used to my new routine. But it's been a full week, so I can't use that excuse anymore.

Anyway, I wrote another Walmart story. There's a photo of pro-Walmart protesters at the thing in the story. You have to read it to know what I'm talking about.

This (left) is the concert area thingy in Millennium Park. I went there briefly after belly-dancing lessons in Grant Park, which I was much

too nervous to photograph.

This thing is called the Bean, and it's a weirdly famous Chicago thing. You put your head up against it and take pictures of yourself all distorted-looking. It's useful a) because tourists think it's goofy and like to photograph themselves with it and b) because little kids can be amused here for hours. I saw a group of five girls laying under it for about 10 minutes.

Lastly, I went to a memorial service for Michael Jackson at his childhood home in Gary, Indiana. Guys, meet sketchy thriller jumpsuit dude.