Help! Urban adrenal release assistance needed...

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10-23-2003, 12:13 PM
gonzo

Help! Urban adrenal release assistance needed...

OK doods. Need some help here. As you can see from the "Huck" thread...I'm starting to get "itchy"...

I need some adrenaline but this city is so FUCKING FLAT I can't even ride my longboard in traffic (which is what I did in Boston). I have been biking and working out to angry music, but that just doesn't cut it...I have a kite surfing sail and harness, but no board yet, so that's out...took my longboard to the skate park last weekend, not enough speed. Skydiving is too expensive, there is no snow on the landfills, the high dive at the gym is not open to the public, road biking without hills sucks, and there are no trampoline training centers nearby...FACK!

Usually I would just get super drunk and that numbs the need for a bit, but with school and shit I can't afford to be really hungover.

One idea that might work is getting really herbal and taking the longboard to a parking deck...BTW I'm in Chicago.

HELP!
10-23-2003, 12:17 PM
Pinner

Drunk driving on Lakeshore Drive?
Drunk longboarding at rush hour?
18-holes of golf on acid?
10-23-2003, 12:23 PM
iskibc

damn dude, sounds like you and Funken are suffering from the same illness. Try a quaalude...
10-23-2003, 12:28 PM
Karl Stall

Welcome to my world. You could always get married and have a couple of kids. :p

Otherwise, I have done the parking garage longboard deal and it's pretty fun -good to have someone to go with though.

Golf is fun, although it sort of makes you feel even more pathetic.

What I do is post here on the board, go to weather cams, plan trips, look at gear, etc...

aaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....it's hopeless.
10-23-2003, 12:28 PM
Grange

Are there any wall climbing place around? Chicago does have some nice gentlemen clubs so a private dance my help. ;)
10-23-2003, 12:29 PM
Lumpy

Too late to bodily get in the way of the Cubs winning the NL pennant so get a shirt that says "Ditka Smokes Pole" and hit up a Bears game.
10-23-2003, 12:30 PM
gonzo

there has got to be a better way.

b.a.s.e. jumping really would be perfect. apparently you need 250+ skydives to even consider it though, which is way way more than i can afford in time or money...
10-23-2003, 12:31 PM
britney

Re: Help! Urban adrenal release assistance needed...

Quote:

Originally posted by gonzo
Skydiving is too expensive,

thats why they invented your new passtime -- BASE jumping! enjoy. add skis later and give mcconk a run for his money.

(i lived in chicago for 3 years. after you get past the sadness of waking up from dreams of the rocky mountain front range appearing right behind the chicago skyline, you start making flight reservations. there is no pain like digging your car out of 3 feet of snow you cant ski on. GET OUT!!!)
-b
10-23-2003, 12:32 PM
Karl Stall

You could also just study really hard :D and start like a student club or sumtin.
10-23-2003, 12:32 PM
acostiga

do you ever go running? could be a good way to shake off any dust while getting a workout and way to check out different parts of the city. as your attorney, i advise you to get herbal and just run for a while until you're lost, then find your way back differently than yer original route. keep a few bills in your shoe in case you need to buy a bus or "el" fare or some fluids.
10-23-2003, 12:33 PM
jayfrizzo

Go to Strictly Business tomorrow night and mix it up with the locals. It's a step joint on the south side, and the people are super nice and into introducing lily white JONGs to step, which is like line dancing to R&B and Hip-Hop.
http://chicago.citysearch.com/profile/3649095

Then get a shortboard and go street skating.

j-
10-23-2003, 12:36 PM
Karl Stall

Hook up with Shredhead - he goes waterskiing every weekend - I've got a wakeboard that you can borrow when you go.

Also, open invite here in St. Louis, where I seem to have found a couple of things to stay occupied - we'll have some fun if you come down.
10-23-2003, 12:37 PM
Keoni

You can also go for a full body massage w/release.
10-23-2003, 12:37 PM
iskibc

Quote:

Originally posted by Karl Stall
You could also just study really hard :D and start like a student club or sumtin.

Breakfast club flashback:

Bender: Well, I don't know any lepers either but I'm not gonna run out and join one of their fuckin' clubs.

Andrew: Lets watch the mouth, huh?

Brian: I'm in the physics club.

Bender: Excuse me a sec. What are you babbling about?

Brian: Well, what I said was that I'm in the math club, the latin club and the physics club.
10-23-2003, 12:46 PM
The Reverend Floater

Quote:

Originally posted by Tap
easy...go down to the South Side, hurl a few racial slurs, tell 'um they can't catch you, and RUN!

easy Chicago adreanal release. just don't pre-release. it's not macho.

Reference Kentucky Fried Movie
10-23-2003, 12:48 PM
mildbill.

urban mt. bike ride. jump some stair sets and retaining walls and stuff.

preferrably while herbal.
10-23-2003, 12:56 PM
The AD

Re: Help! Urban adrenal release assistance needed...

Quote:

Originally posted by gonzo
I need some adrenaline but this city is so FUCKING FLAT I can't even ride my longboard in traffic (which is what I did in Boston). I have been biking and working out to angry music, but that just doesn't cut it...I have a kite surfing sail and harness, but no board yet, so that's out...took my longboard to the skate park last weekend, not enough speed. Skydiving is too expensive, there is no snow on the landfills, the high dive at the gym is not open to the public, road biking without hills sucks, and there are no trampoline training centers nearby...FACK!

And now you know precisely why the midwest sucks so bad.

Quote:

Usually I would just get super drunk and that numbs the need for a bit, but with school and shit I can't afford to be really hungover.

And now you know precisely why people in Chicago drink so much :)

Outside magazine did a story about a year ago about places to go to get away from the city and do outdoorsy stuff. I'm pretty sure Chicago was in there, but I can't seem to find the story on their web site. If you can find the story I'm sure you could get a couple ideas.
10-23-2003, 12:59 PM
Buster Highmen

http://www.norgeskitrainingcenter.com/
10-23-2003, 12:59 PM
Lumpy

Fortified wine, transsexual hookers, and a trip to the Care Bears store?
10-23-2003, 01:00 PM
gonzo

i think i may make night-time herbal parking deck assaults my new hobby. i have a sector 9 and a 5 foot flowlab (beast!) - i'll be able to do it regardless of weather...lots of parking decks in CHI. ggggrrrrrrr.

brit: base jumping is too expensive...but perfect...maybe in a few years...

karl: we should hang out soon

bill: left mountain bike at home...jumping stairs would be all i could use it for here in pancake land

climbing walls and strippers to fill in the gaps...
10-23-2003, 01:01 PM
Viva

"adrenal release assistance needed..."

LOL at your title dude...trust me, you don't want an "adrenal release", not unless you want to be on corticosteroid replacement therapy for the rest of your life.
10-23-2003, 01:06 PM
truth

Welcome to shitcago...get my cel # from Karl Stall. Adrenaline induced highs are tough to come by here...at least legally. What law school are you at?
10-23-2003, 01:13 PM
jayfrizzo

Quote:

Originally posted by Viva
"adrenal release assistance needed..."

LOL at your title dude...trust me, you don't want an "adrenal release", not unless you want to be on corticosteroid replacement therapy for the rest of your life.

Paging Ogre...
10-23-2003, 01:14 PM
gonzo

viva - thought adrenaline came from the adrenal gland? hence an adrenal release would be good? guess not...

truth - i'm at uchicago. are you in chicago or have you moved on?

tap - that article was cool - thanks mang.
10-23-2003, 01:15 PM
AntiSoCalSkier

What about some urban bike riding. Take your road bike (or better yet one of those messenger bikes) out during rush hour and race traffic. I'm pretty sure that would get you going.
10-23-2003, 01:16 PM
Buster Highmen

Jimmy's
10-23-2003, 01:17 PM
truth

I'm still here...until 11/1/05 at least. After that it's wide open, but I'm obligated to finsih what I started. Get my didgits from KS and we'll see if we can't find some trouble. I live in the west loop, so it's not that far from Hyde Park.
10-23-2003, 01:20 PM
Steven S. Dallas

Go cruising for Trixies in LP?

Bullfights on acid?
10-23-2003, 01:20 PM
iskibc

cock fighting is somewhat popular in and around chi-town
10-23-2003, 01:48 PM
truth

Gonzo...here's an idea...

By Imran Vittachi
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 23, 2003, 12:49 PM CDT

A motorist who allegedly was doing doughnuts in the sand near the North Avenue Beach pier this morning drove his sport-utility vehicle into Lake Michigan and was rescued by officers of the Chicago police Marine Unit.

Driving a green Nissan, the man, whose identity was not disclosed, plunged into water at least 12 feet deep about 10:30 a.m., police said. He got out of the car, started swimming and was plucked from the lake by police about 100 yards offshore.

The driver was conscious and talking to his rescuers when he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said. His medical condition was not immediately available.

Chicago Fire Department divers entered the water to mark the submerged car's location and to make sure no one else was in the vehicle.
Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune
10-23-2003, 02:00 PM
Woodsy

Chicago,
from my many buisness trips there I can recomend:
1) vollyball by the shore ( went with some hotel dudes while there. pretty good scene)

2) sportfucking ( Chicago has gotta have the greatest collection of genuinely friendly high class tail in the US.)

cannot believe you can get going fast enough with your kite rig longboard in the "windy City"
10-23-2003, 02:03 PM
tonghands

a kite surfing sail and harness... longboard ...

Seems obviously really. Actually it's a lot of fun on a mountainboard, never tried a longboard though. Body Armor is a very good idea however.
10-23-2003, 02:05 PM
Viva

Quote:

Originally posted by gonzo
viva - thought adrenaline came from the adrenal gland? hence an adrenal release would be good? guess not...

You're right, but adrenal release sounds like you want an adrenalectomy- sorry, never mind, I...just... go on these tangents sometimes... :)
10-23-2003, 03:07 PM
Karl Stall

Quote:

Originally posted by tonghands
a kite surfing sail and harness... longboard ...

Seems obviously really. Actually it's a lot of fun on a mountainboard, never tried a longboard though. Body Armor is a very good idea however.

My brother-in-law, who is one of my main ski bros will miss this entire season, and almost died kite-surfing on his mountain board when a gust of wind whipped him and he couldn't get out of the harness in time - that was in mid-July and was pretty scary for his family. If you're to take up that sport, please be careful - ain't worth missing turns on snow.
10-23-2003, 03:17 PM
Arty50

Re: Help! Urban adrenal release assistance needed...

Quote:

Originally posted by gonzo
the high dive at the gym is not open to the public

Try your local public high school or JC. I used to work in day care during the summer, and once a week we'd take the kids across the street to the pool at the local JC. I think they charged $5, but I got in free since I was working. Either way, it's cheap and you can work on some serious self-inflicted carnage hucking yourself off the high dive.

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