Come on! Feel the love!

Today my thoughts are with Chicago's native son Mike and adopted daughter Camille, as the White Sox sweep the series to become world champions. Yes, Guillen, how sweep it is! Second team of the second city no more. The Astros' Lidge may fill out his jock but it was no match for the Chicago-style (meat) bats the White Sox have been swinging this season.

And, I can say I saw them play this season on their home turf. Mike must be really, really hungover this morning. We all live on the South Side today.

In honor of Chicago and the Sox here are two songs for you:

"Come On! Feel The Illinoise!: Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition/Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream" by Sufjan Stevens

"Chicago" sung by Judy Garland live at Carnegie Hall

I think the Sufjan Stevens song is about the Columbian Exposition but hey it's poppy and I bet Carl Sandburg was a Sox fan. The Judy Garland song appeared at the end of her legendary Carnegie Hall appearance, shortly before her death. The song was the last one in a string of encores after a very long performance and Judy doubted she had enough energy to actually sing it. But if you turn up the volume when she sings "and you'll never guess where..." at the beginning you can hear a fag in audience shout out, "Where?" and Judy says that little response gave her the energy to sing the song. I made Mike and Camille dance to it with me in Camille's rural Wisconsin ranch house when I helped them move to Chicago.

UPDATE: Hot post-game man-on-man lovin. I know one boy who'd like to lip-lock the Sox manager... [via Eric]

UPDATE II: From my pal Mike, who was there...

Quite hungover. I spent last night propped against a jukebox with high school buddies, beer in hand, at the Redwall Inn in Bridgeport. "0001" on the jukebox was the '59 Go-Go Sox theme song, and it played at least 10 times as we saluted the South Side Hitmen with a shot of Jameson and high fives all around.

Out in the rainy street, fireworks were lit in front of firehouses, cops blared their sirens, and the South Side was united in reverie. My friends and I wandered for hours, listening to church bells ringing and hundreds of cars honking in unison.

Fantastic, fantastic series. I even went to the storied game 2, and sat in the same seats we had against Detroit.

Cubs fans, take note: your team sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls. We did it first! Chicago is Sox territory now.

leaks on friday; suit alleges that siegfried taunts, humiliates, torments roy; danah boyd's friendster papers; now that harriet miers is out, let's all go read patrick fitzgerald's blog