we survived the tornado!

how does chicago welcome me back? tornadoes.....thanks chicago.

while Armageddon waged war on the city, gingerfoxxx made the best of it by bar hopping in between storm fronts! The one downside of hitting the taps when there is a tornado outside, is that it makes it a lot harder to leave when the creepy guys start to get a little too friendly!

We started the night by grabbing some jimmy johns and heading down to brew and view (i actually used my sandwich to flag a bus down! thanks jimmy john!) however as we were walking there, the rain began. cradling our sandwiches, we sought cover in the vic. but what do we find? brew and view has been cancelled because of technical difficulties. we sat in the rain, eating our jimmy johns, and devising a new plan. we headed to big city tap to escape from the ever increasing rain. Big city was able to offer me $3 grey goose cocktails, but little else. This is where the storm reallllly started! within a few minutes all the satellites went out. I got a call from a friend on the southside who was cowering in her basement with no power trying to escape a tornado.
this shit just got real!
so of course we ordered one last drink and tried to figure a way out of this situation. While this anarchy was occurring outside, we were starting to get cornered by some of the creepy old regulars at the bar. unfortunately they flocked to my beautiful red hair like moths to a flame. i started to think i was better off with the tornado, when the A-bomb of bad pick-up lines was dropped. "do you want to go home with me and gang bang my girlfriend?"
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no really, how does one even respond to that?? with that we went back into the storm. we stopped at schuba's on our way to lemmings and were faced with travesty. some hipster band was playing and they had actually run out of PBR! how does that even happen? in all fairness though, they did have a photobooth (yea!) and we found a CSS sticker in the corner! nice.

from there we headed to our last destination near the homestead. it was at this time we realized how bad the storm was! there were trees everywhere! all these cute little BMW's smashed to pieces. we even snapped some photos, and met some friendly little hipsters doing the same thing!

lemmings still had some PBR left (thank goodness!) however once we got in the storms came back with a vengeance! and so did the aggressive creepy guys! To summarize, i am pretty glad i had rachel by my side to scream at people and let them know sexual assault just dont fly. I am also thinking of hiring a body guard to accompany me from now on for all my bar excursions. preferably a tall handsome incredibly sexy bodyguard.

submit applications to thegingerfoxxx@gmail.com!!

and check out some pics of my beautiful city in ruins~ but rest assured, gingerfoxxx came out on top, she always does...
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thats what she said!

sweet home chicago, here i come!

the midwest tour is finally coming to a close and gingerfoxxx will be safe at home in Chicago tonight.  Thank goodness, i have a busy couple of days ahead of me!  I ended this adventure in none other than rockford, IL.  I have heard that only two good things ever came out of rockford: one of them is cheap trick, and the other is this girl that apparently is amazing.

Being in rockford, i decided i wanted to have the full honky tonk experience.  when in rome!  This is how i found myself at a dive bar named "scoobie's redneck bar" downing my fourth martini and singing cheap trick songs on the karaoke machines for the the charming locals.  I wont lie, the crowd loved me.  I come from a long line of karaoke stars, and apparently i inherited the gene.  Back by popular demand, i also performed american girl by tom petty and summer in the city by lovin spoonful.  i also spent some time sampling shots and dancing with the townies, and it couldn't have been a more pleasant experience!  I was even asked to join a local band that needed a female lead singer!

maybe next time fellas!  gingerfoxxx has got to get back to the big city, all you small towns were fun, but chicago is the greatest city in the world! (especially if your ginger  ;)  )

stop blasting that sexy bitch for being a homewrecker!

turns out matthew brodericks sexy ginger lover came SJP approved~they have an open marriage!

so i think that means perez can stop calling her a homewrecker.  just because she's ginger.  haters.

on a side note, whats up with open marriages?  does anyone actually think thats a good idea?  i kinda think that if you want to sleep with lots of people you should just stay single

marriage is for quitters!

lindz was in chicago!

Lindsay Lohan was in my sweet home chicago this past weekend to check out some of the lollapalooza action. She was there with ferocious looking lez lover samantha ronson. I would like to point out that i have been keeping tabs on lindsay, and she just keeps getting blonder and blonder by the minute. Its like a disease!! fight it lindz, fight it with every ginger molecule you have!!!

breaking news!

Eve was a ginger.

no wonder she walked around naked all day, that bitch is hottt!

and judging by the fact that she totally screwed adam and god to get a bite of that apple, it looks like she knows how to party.

just like gingerfoxxx.

milwaukee can you handle this?

like the party was going to stop at the show.

well, it did take a short break, but only because when we got back to the hotel, we very nicely asked the lady at the desk where the nearest thursday night 4am bar was, and she rudely replied that the only thing that would be open would be dunkin donuts.  seriously lady?  live a little.  

what town doesnt have a nice 4am bar to party at on a thursday night?  i figured staying at the hilton, these people would know how to party.  should you ever want to learn, let me know i will back and rock your faces off.  I suppose it was for the best that we got some beauty sleep anyway because 

1.  its not easy looking this good all the time, and 

2. we had long before had to write our hotel room number on my hand so we would be sure to find our way back.

now thats how you party, milwaukee.

The next morning we awoke to crave a little hair from the dog who bit us.  (aka  more booze) and again asked the hotel person where a little brunch could be found.  The guy rather rudely told us that you couldnt really find a champagne brunch on a friday morning.  (really hilton? REALLY?) 

 i hadnt even asked for champagne, but now you put the thought in my head!  we found a little diner down the street and settled for a little breakfast.  having been denied our champagne, we settled for the next best thing.  the champagne of beers!!  thats right, we went on the miller factory tour!  did you know that 40% of the beer there is shipped to chicago?  thats right it is!!  The best part of the tour was all the free beer we got to enjoy at the end!

After that we really got our culture on and took in the milwaukee art museum.  There were some really nice super-mod installations involving light and 

sound, and of course we had to stop and admire the andy warhol peices.  andy warhol is gingerfoxxx's fav artist because his work is just so deep and thought-provoking.  it is really meant to be analyzed on so many levels, and it is just so obvious that he was one of the few people who really was just in it for the art.  natch.  

We even stayed to watch the wings on the museum close.

after that, we stopped for a quick snack at an irish pub, only to discover that in the bathroom, some one had wrote down the site address for gingerfoxxx's blog!  who would have done that?  just another adoring fan i suppose.  We ended the day by stopping in the cutest little town called loves park, and having some beers at a local biker bar.  The bar just loved our fabulous selves, and the bartender wanted to know where two gingerfab girls like us came from, and how we ended up at rockys.  The beer was ice cold, the townies 

were friendly, and we even saw a bar fight out back!  If you ever find yourself in Loves Park, IL, make sure you stop in at rocky's for a beer, and tell them gingerfoxxx sent you!

lets make love, and listen to death from above!

well, my trip is only half over, so gingerfoxxx is still tragically seperated from her sweet home chicago, but she just had to rave about how much ginger love she has for CSS, the go team, and matt and kim!

i'd also like to show some ginger love to the city of milwaukee. while your not chicago, your super fun, and full of cubs fans, cold beer, and hot gingers like myself! your people are pretty awesome too, as everyone we encountered was more than willing to help show us a fabulous time. I fully admit that on occasion, i poke fun at hipsters, but hipsters, you redeemed yourself this weekend! when we were unsuccessfully searching for the venue in downtown milwaukee, we saw a couple wearing skinny pants and took a chance. not only did they know where it was, they were going, and they enthusiastically invited us to follow them. The boy hipster was even from chicago! So thanks guys, your cool in my book.
Turner ballroom was a great venue, especially the enormous bathrooms! (for a full review, check out rachel the bathrooms critics blog) They had $3 PBR tallboys, and there was plenty of space to dance and get a good view of the show. this band matt and kim played first and i thought they were just beyond gingerfab. even though they were having some technical difficulties, they had a lot of fun stories and kept me really entertained. The go team followed, and they put on a really fierce show. i am little suspicious that the lead singer stole all of her dance moves from ME, but she used it well so i'll let this one slide. CSS closed the house and put on the most gingerfab show ever! their clothes, their dance moves, their playlist, everything was great. you need to be checking out this band if you havent already.
After the show, we talked to some of the hipsters outside and even met some people from chicago!  and everyone kept saying how great my shoes are, which is awesome.  We caught a cab to this bar for the after party, so that we could catch CSS doing a dj set.  The set up was nice, but it was a little quiet for what i am used to on a thursday night.  after all, thursday is the new friday.  and friday is the new sunday.  and saturday is just obsolete at this point.  The band showed up and everything was very low-key.  we even got to talk to them for a while and let them know we liked the show.  They were playing lollapalooza friday, so we talked a little about chicago.  there set was a little short (they had to wait almost an hour to start!) and i think they would have like more time, but they seemed to have a good time, and so did we!  they even played some b-52's, one of my favs (i mean how sexy is the b-52's ginger singer??).  Overall, the night was just too much fun to write about, so next time, you should just be there if you can handle the awesomeness that is gingerfoxxx.  i warn you, few can.

I am sending out major ginger love to all three bands we saw, and i hope i get to see them again real soon.  if your interested, check out some of their stellar tunes below!

xoxo, marie, AND rachel (not quite ginger, but every bit as fabulous!)

Matt and Kim!


The Go Team!


CSS