Things I really enjoy about my new neighborhood:<\/p>\n
– The Little Nut Hut<\/a> behind the bar at the ITP It’s been a long weekend of work and play, and I’ve been enjoying the hell out of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n Oh yeah, and the title of today’s post comes from a story told to me over our quasi-traditional brunch<\/a> yesterday by a friend, who was talking for some reason about a party several years back where he and his friends drank a lot of everything they could get their hands on, got naked and “a little carried away” and cut up the couch with chainsaws (yes, plural), and then set fire to a cardboard cutout of Bill Clinton with his saxophone<\/a> and danced around it, all Lord of the Flies<\/a>-style (speaking of which, did you know that someone’s adapted the novel for the stage<\/a>? yikes). Made me feel slightly better about my weekend shenanigans, which, while still leaving me baffled at the fact that I am able to walk and talk today, don’t even begin to measure up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things I really enjoy about my new neighborhood: – The Little Nut Hut behind the bar at the ITP –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Egregious hipster-watching at Rainbo & Rodan
\n– Cheerful, punk-listening, blue-haired baristas at Jinx to make my on-my-way-to-work coffee (“if we make it iced, i can fit another shot in!”)
\n– Indyvoter.com<\/a> grafitti on Milwaukee Avenue
\n– Saturday evening softball games at the Section 8<\/a> apartment complex next door
\n– A 2-minute stagger to the local
\n– The corner that redefines convenience, with a 7-11 (complete with booze!), a Walgreen’s, a pizza\/fast food joint, *and* a bar
\n– The patio at the Pontiac on a Sunday afternoon
\n– The American College of Office Technology<\/a>, a positively seedy-looking institution where you can take courses in Networking (learn to go to bars and talk to people!) and Accounting (and get them to buy your drinks!), among other things<\/p>\n