Re: Chicago Conlangcon!

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> I too could come to Chicago, just about any time (such a busy schedule,
> y'know).
Ah, good! It looks like there will be a not inconsiderable
crowd, considering: you, me, Clint, Eric, Eric's friend, and
one of my friends here who's considering starting his first
conlang.  Doesn't Mark Rosenfelder live in Chicago?  I suppose
we could invite him too.

> Haven't been there is years, and it's a great city.
Oh, indeed.  Looking at the calendar of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, I see that Yo-Yo Ma will be playing traditional
Chinese, Persian and various Asian pieces on the weekend of
the 24-26th of October.  The Art Institute has as always some
interesting stuff going on, but the real prize, the Michelangelo
exhibit, won't be coming up until November.  The Museum of
Science and Industry -- also located near the University in
Hyde Park -- has a great exhibit of items from the Titanic
rescued from the seafloor, including a massive piece of the
hull (!). That ends on Oct. 31st. The Field Museum's temporary
exhibitions don't look too gripping for late October, but they
do have Sue, the most complete T-Rex found, on permanent
exhibition. In Hyde Park, there are two Frank Lloyd Wright
Houses, one of which you can tour, and if you're bored you
can also stop and gawk at the (IMHO ugly) statue built on
the spot on campus of the first controlled, man-made nuclear
reaction.  (If the latter, just make sure you avert your
eyes from the architectural abomination of a dorm they
recently erected behind it.) Lots of touristy stuff to do,
in other words.

(It is not for nothing that native Chicagoans see their
city as the navel of the universe -- it was very weird for
me upon moving here to hear about "Chicagoland", as if
downstate Illinois were always an afterthought.)

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Thomas Wier
Dept. of Linguistics  "Nihil magis praestandum est quam ne pecorum ritu
University of Chicago sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes non qua
1010 E. 59th Street   eundum est, sed qua itur." -- Seneca
Chicago, IL 60637

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