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Sigh... its been a while since I've felt discriminated against; certainly in my last two years in Chicago I've never felt that way. That changed yesterday and my reaction disappointed me. Here's what happened: My parents are in town and we were walking down Michigan Avenue after buying tickets to Wicked . As we were walking towards Wacker Drive, we saw a street performer who had finished his days work and was walking back, coming up the street. My mom, dressed in a sari , asked me discreetly why we were seeing a completely silver man coming up the street. As I quietly explained, and just as this man was crossing us, he looked at us and said pretty loudly: "Your @#$@ing Hindu Gods are not the way." The people behind us just laughed, and we just kept walking on. I'm not completely sure if my Dad or mom heard ( or understood because of his accent) what he said. As for me, it took me a couple of seconds to regain my composure. There are a number of ways to look ...

Its been one of those weeks: there was so much I wanted to blog about I ended up not blogging at all. Oh well: let's do the public diary first and at least get started again. My cousin was visiting, and so I finally had the brief of trying to see a little of Chicago. Ended up spending most of Friday evening/night at Looptopia , where I had a blast. The idea was an open concert with about a 175 free events around the Chicago Loop area. The event ran from 5pm to 5a m. I ended up walking around downtown Chicago more than I have in a while, visiting the Art Institute , catching a Stage Door Broadway in Chicago performance, standing in line for events for a ridiculous amount of time, getting turned away from some of them and catching a few other open-air events including jiving belly-dancers, stand-up comics and the Wierd Sisters . The next day it was a touristy visit to the Sears Tower , where a quote on the Skydeck walls seemed so true to me, especially after the night before. "...