This Week…

I Read

• Two hundred pages in T.C. Boyle’s World’s End, the 450-page book for my club book which meets this Sunday.

I Watched

• The Cubs lose three out of four.
• The latest episode of Damages. I can’t decide if I like this show or not. I think it will depend on next week’s episode, when supposedly “all the pieces begin to fall into place.”
• The final episode of Entourage. I was glad Vince and company got the shaft at Cannes and really hope Medellin is a huge box office flop.
• Four episodes of Maude. I’m on a mission.

I Ate

• At Pomegranate, the new Mediterranean restaurant in Evanston. Had a fresh, tasty falafel sandwich for lunch.

I Cooked

• A carrot cake, thick with cream cheese frosting, for a Labor Day barbecue with friends.
• A delicious broccoli-onion-red pepper-goat cheese frittata, using up the remaining items from this week’s organic farm box.

I Learned

• There was an amusement park on Chicago’s south side called White City. It was open from 1905-1934 and for a while was more popular than Riverside Park. It had a boardwalk, a Shoot-the-Chutes (the longest in the world when it opened in ’05) and a walk-through Johnstown Flood diorama. Why had I never heard of this before?
• There was a something called the Theosophical Institute on Point Loma (near where I grew up, in San Diego.) At the time the area was called Lomaland and the institute (which looked like a Turkish palace) was part of the Theosophical movement, a religious philosophy begun in the 1870s.
• About both of these things while perusing this cool Penny Postcards site.

I Cribbed This Idea

• From this blog.

I Think

• Every sixth person I know has recently had, is about to have, or has recently learned they’re going to have a baby. Seriously. It’s weird.

Have a good weekend all!