Here’s my delicious-smelling bike commute! Chicago has a lot of restaurants, and I have a long bike commute, which naturally passes a great many restaurants. Please don’t stalk me with this information. I mean, you can, I guess, but it would be SUPER boring. Potential stalkers, my average day is: get up, bike to work, be at work, bike home, make dinner, sit on couch either 1) drawing or 2) playing a video game, sleep. Crazy dull.
Obviously all of these restaurants aren’t always cooking things; my morning bike commute isn’t entirely a series of one delicious smell after another. But in the morning, Horner Park smells pretty strongly of warm, fresh cinnamon rolls, thanks to the commercial bakery across the river. And Reza’s seems to be cooking all of the day’s garlic in the morning, and I always get a faceful of the aroma of baking donuts from La Baguette as I bike past. On my ride home, Giordano’s smells amazing, and I don’t even really like Giordano’s that much. And it’s immensely difficult not to stop at Kuma’s when the street smells like delicious grilled burgers, and sometimes I’ll even alter my route so I won’t be upset when I bike past and see how crowded it is, always, every day, at all times.
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Still taking preorders for the League of Courteous Cyclists shirts!!
I’m on Google +. At first I was all “meh” about it, but honestly, it is a super interesting way to share artwork. I know it’s early in the game, but I kind of like it better than facebook and tumblr and maybe even twitter, at least for how easy it is to upload, share, display and read multipage comics projects. I don’t think it’ll end up replacing or killing any of the other social network things, but I do think g+ will end up being very popular with artists wanting to share their projects.
I think I”m moving to Google +. I love having everything in one place. I already blog/store/chat/etc from Google. AND Google+ isn’t blocked at work… yet.
You bike three blocks from my apartment! Now all I’m gonna want to do in the morning is waft smells at you.
looks(smells) like a great commute
Ha! I often keep a mental list of all the smells I pass when I’m on a long run. There’s a part of my neighborhood that always smells like toast in the morning, and another route is always chock full of the most varied food aromas possible.
Oh, to follow up on my sticker request, I think it’d be perfect on my laptop, which doesn’t require any vinyl toughness. I’d be fine with something priced up to the $3-ish neighborhood.
There are scented blocks on the walk I take my dogs on. One of them smells like chocolate chip cookies about half the time. Another one smelled like death for a few months so we avoid that block now. Makes me want to make a comic about it, though. :)
Smelling donuts and cinnamon rolls on the way to work every morning sounds like torture!
No way. Treacle Tart? Butterbeer? Pumpkin juice? Is this something you magically made yourself or is this a legitimate thing available in Chicago? :o
@Kim: I was at a Harry Potter themed party that night! :) The treats in question were lovingly handcrafted by the hosts, Lucy and Nora. :D Although: I did see “Butterbeer” on the menu at the Bad Apple!