somebody asks you where you re from and you answer, i m from chicago, nobody s going to give you a patronizing response like, oh, chicago s charming. hey, chicago. more likely it ll be wow, chicago or oh, chicago. they ll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesn t ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. it s big, it s outgoing, it s tough, it s opinionated and everybody s got a story. i took a walk through this walk through this beautiful world felt the cold rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago s old town, it s time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime it s time for a drink at the old town ale house. the chorus assembles to give their opinions on matters of the day, subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this
what do you have to do to get barred here? you know, punch somebody probably more than once. more than once? the walls of the bar are covered with his portraits of ale house regulars which he mostly paints in the basement next to the beer cooler. more notorious are his paintings of well-known political figures who have, for one reason or another, raised bruce s ire. they re inevitably depicted in an unflattering let s say non-family friendly light. putin has bad behaving very poorly, let me put it that way, i mean but he also intrigues me. plus, i also have the extra satisfaction knowing he would not like what i m going to do. and that s, that gives you a lot of pleasure. there is no shortage of opinions at the ale house bar. and bruce s opinions and the scope of his work extends far beyond chicago s borders. i m working on my latest painting, it s putin. oh yeah say no more, i want to see. and i would like some advice because i was thinking of the
the old town ale house opened in 1958 and has been serving beer and other intoxicating beverages ever since. unless you re on the no shot list, in which case your drinking options have been, for the good of the community, limited. there s a no shot list. there is, the only guy that ever got off it is down there down now. it was just because he s a pure, and yeah, we have a fairly extensive no shot list. very extensive, meaning you can drink hear but no shots for you. no shots. because just that will lead to no good? history has shown us that these people should not drink shots, well now of course what they do is they go to another bar and drink shots and they come over and then we get the remnants. right. bruce cameron elliott and his ex-wife are the proprietors of the old town ale house. bruce likes to brag that he s never had an honest job. but he s a writer, legendary blogger and artist. so who comes here, i mean generally, who your regulars? i think the most interes
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anthony: yeah, you don t need the presumably tiny genitals. bruce: well, i don t think there s any doubt about that. anthony: look, i mean he s got his shirt off, so already he s universally identifiable because he really likes to take his shirt off. bruce: no, he does and i took his shirt off. anthony: i think this is an iconic image as is. bruce: i really do. anthony: i think it says it all. bruce: i was, i m glad you told me that because i can go full steam ahead now. i m thinking pastels. i ve gotten pretty good with pastels. but this might be one anthony: all fans, the people who follow your blog, know so much about you know, i know who fixes your walk in refrigerator. i know who fixes the bathroom, i know who comes in and cleans the floors. i know the entire morning routine between fancy pants and bruce: street jimmy. anthony: jimmy i know so much about all these people and just little, the day to day workings.