Psyd

Greg, it's considered bad manners to upstage your host.
Beautifully written.
By the way, I am going to steal the. "that what looks glorious through the bottom of a shot glass may lose color when reflected off a cup of coffee" bit and foist it upon others as my own. Just so you know.
No, I'm not a plagiarist, I just love nuggets like these, and forget how I came by them.
Betwen the two of you, I mess O'Rourke's even more, and other than going through on a bus once, I've never even been to Chicago.
But I'm going to, now...