Monday, August 16, 2004
My Bathroom Is a Public Kind of Place!
Monday Jewel fare promissingly consistently good (albiet smaller and in a different container).
There is no blogging taboo we here at Monzyummylunch won't break if it provides our readers with news they can use! So if you ever find yourself near the Art Institute, the Congress Hotel, or Roosevelt University, you should visit the freaky-deakiest bathroom in Chicago. Walk over to the Fine Arts Building and take the elevator (itself an experience -- these are the old fashion elevators which require live human operators to move them up and down) to the fifth floor, then walk all the way around the hallway until you hit a dead end. You'll be standing in front of "Amber Healing Arts," providers of Reiki Meditation and some mystical massages whose names escape us. If you are there on Thursdays between 6 pm to 7:30 pm you can get some free "energy healing" at the "Healing Circle" (except last Thursday when we saw a sign on the door that said "No Healing Circle tonight."). Turn right and you'll find the men's bathroom: a huge-ass room with six waterclosets to dignify your stay. But that's not all: in both the men's and women's bathroom (you passed the latter on the way to Amber's) you will find a "Diptych Video Installation" -- an art project described as follows: "Glimpses of private and public details are interspresed with images of water, while fragments of conversation between men and women heighten the tensions between intimacy, public space and temporary exclusivity." Of course, this is the Fine Arts Building -- you might get that on the elevator ride alone! Alas, we cannot recommend the attached "Artists Cafe" -- the editors have always become ill after dining there. Monz' reflections on this establishment rang true. "Oh wow, I spent many a meal there with [people] I no longer hang with." The cuisine? "One of those disgusting crapass egg things that made you ask "how many of these crapass egg things do they have to sell to pay the rent. Definitely not the best cuisine, but a kickass location!"
Monday Jewel fare promissingly consistently good (albiet smaller and in a different container).
There is no blogging taboo we here at Monzyummylunch won't break if it provides our readers with news they can use! So if you ever find yourself near the Art Institute, the Congress Hotel, or Roosevelt University, you should visit the freaky-deakiest bathroom in Chicago. Walk over to the Fine Arts Building and take the elevator (itself an experience -- these are the old fashion elevators which require live human operators to move them up and down) to the fifth floor, then walk all the way around the hallway until you hit a dead end. You'll be standing in front of "Amber Healing Arts," providers of Reiki Meditation and some mystical massages whose names escape us. If you are there on Thursdays between 6 pm to 7:30 pm you can get some free "energy healing" at the "Healing Circle" (except last Thursday when we saw a sign on the door that said "No Healing Circle tonight."). Turn right and you'll find the men's bathroom: a huge-ass room with six waterclosets to dignify your stay. But that's not all: in both the men's and women's bathroom (you passed the latter on the way to Amber's) you will find a "Diptych Video Installation" -- an art project described as follows: "Glimpses of private and public details are interspresed with images of water, while fragments of conversation between men and women heighten the tensions between intimacy, public space and temporary exclusivity." Of course, this is the Fine Arts Building -- you might get that on the elevator ride alone! Alas, we cannot recommend the attached "Artists Cafe" -- the editors have always become ill after dining there. Monz' reflections on this establishment rang true. "Oh wow, I spent many a meal there with [people] I no longer hang with." The cuisine? "One of those disgusting crapass egg things that made you ask "how many of these crapass egg things do they have to sell to pay the rent. Definitely not the best cuisine, but a kickass location!"
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