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Jul 5Liked by griffin blue emerson

Dude this is great. Really beautiful stuff. Also, I can't tell you how many times I've drunkenly stumbled around Prost & Fullerton, so seeing Lincoln Park & Chicago painted so vividly in your piece is honestly so special. you're making me miss the city even more lol

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such a small world!! i really appreciate that, and it’s still a solid place to drunkenly stumble around even if the nightlife in lincoln park is nothing compared to logan square’s,—where’d you move out to if you don’t mind me asking?

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Jul 5Liked by griffin blue emerson

Yeah the drinking is definitely better once you get to the north & west sides. my drinking life in LP was exclusively at disgusting college apartments where the hardwood floors were sticky and smelled like dried PBR (I went to DePaul), but then i lived & bounced all around Lakeview/Wicker/Humboldt/Andersonville. I live in NYC right now and let me tell you, it doesn't compare to Chi (in my humble opinion). I miss my Malort and Chicago handshakes :////

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that definitely all checks out, i have a couple good freinds at depaul and the apartments reallt are uniformly sticky lol

the chicago handshake is so incredible, it’s cheap and two months after moving here in october i went from being totally grossed out by malort to absolutely loving it

and new york’s biggest problem from what i can tell is it’s just too expensive in general

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Jul 5Liked by griffin blue emerson

yeah it took me a while as well, the first time i genuinely *enjoyed* malort it felt like i was graduating into a secret club lol. also it's so fun to go to bars around the country & ask if they have malort -- if they do their eyes always light up. I've gotten so many free shots that way lol.

yeah new york is too damn expensive, it's hard to be a working person here. also the pace of living is so fast & manic, what I love about CHI is that it's a good balance of city-energy and laid-back living. Like in CHI it's so common to just drink & hang or pregame at a friend's apartment, but in NYC that's a lot rarer (I think because the apartments are smaller here, & it's also not the vibe for a lot of people).

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Jul 5Liked by griffin blue emerson

this is very good writing i don't know a good word to describe it that doesn't make me feel pretentious but this is very good

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i appreciate that!!

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Aug 10Liked by griffin blue emerson

This was gorgeous

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Jul 7Liked by griffin blue emerson

this was good. so good.

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omg thanks so much!

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Jul 7Liked by griffin blue emerson

I’m not nearly awake or intelligent enough to pinpoint exactly what I love so much about this, but the closest I can get, I think, is that it sort of makes me think of Holden from “Catcher in the Rye”. Apparently, a lot of people really hate that book, but I loved the hell out of it, and I love the hell out of this, too. Thanks for sharing this glimpse of your world.

Also, the Biden comment maybe me laugh so hard, I scared the dog. Thanks for that, too.

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Hey thanks! That means a lot, Salinger was huge for me in high school so that's very reassuring to hear,—I don't know why people hate Catcher so much but it is what it is, I guess. I really loved Franny & Zooey especially.

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Jul 5Liked by griffin blue emerson

AH GRIFF I LOVE YOU

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I LOVE YOU TOO TY!!! You gotta start a newsletter i would restack every sentence i swear

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