Chicago media get it right as well as wrong, c'mon. In this Full Press, a Sun-Times reporter, smiling between the lines, illuminates the bold treachery of the ghastly ABC-Disney LED sculpture on State Street, and at the Reader, Liz Armstrong works the number one to fashion a few more cheerily lubricious paragraphs.
In the Prong
Thursday’s Sun-Times offered choice quote about the garish new, two-story LED sculpture in the shape of a twirled tuning fork beside WLS’ new fishbowl, street level studios on State Street. “Staffers at the station are learning how to program the new visual marker, and [Channel 7 president and general manager Emily] Barr expects to start using it for station-specific content in the next 3 to 4 weeks… “We're a television entity, and we knew it had to be something visually striking… It will eventually feature a combination of live, on-air footage, taped shots of our anchors' faces, our logo and other images to reflect our programming." "In fact, Barr says, Chicagoans should think of the obelisk as one long, tall TV set—with one notable exception. "We don't plan on running ads on it." Reporter Misha Davenport is canny enough to not to accent the disingenuousness of Barr’s blab, leaving us to recognize that the eyesore—which we’ll dub The Prong—will be nothing but a rude, nonstop commercial for the Disney subsidiary’s products. [Photo by Ray Pride]
Journo Sudoku
The Reader’s playing a spirited game of journo Sodoku, lavishing the numbers in its February 10 front section, with pieces on a man who’s amassed 45,000 Happy Meal toys; a wrestler who’s 174 “pounds of hope” and a stagehand with a suit stitched from 150 Crown Royal sacks. Plus but one fine Liz Armstrong passage for the week, as she playful-by-plays an example of “the exquisite art of the cocktease” in her Chicago Antisocial column: “She was so petite she could have been mistaken for someone’s kid sister were it not for her incredibly lascivious moves. My friend Lindsey busted me for staring at her. 'You totally want to experiment with bisexuality with that girl!' she said. I wasn’t the only one sweating the cheerleader. My boyfriend was so taken in he winced when she ground her hips. I even saw him bite his knuckles.” [You can find a photo of the woman Armstrong describes here.]
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