Sending Props to the Ghetto Chicken Shack

Once, while treading up a low hill near Lake Michigan in Chicago, a bird shat on my mother’s shoulder. We were headed up to meet some of my friends for brunch and as my mother huffed and puffed her way up this little hill, a gray blob dropped from the sky and landed on the shoulder of her St. John suit.
She looked over at her broad shoulder and, in Italian said, “la mia fortuna.”
But is there such a thing as bad luck? Or black clouds or even mercury in retrograde?
Last night, I experienced a series of bad luck moments. Or what could be construed as bad luck moments.
A behemoth of a vehicle keeps breaking down on me. And I have no control over it. My presta valves on my beloved bicycles keep breaking off, leaving me with eventual flat tires. I am constantly changing tubes.
Finally, on a bicycle ride over to see a friend and to have some much needed drinks after a series of bad luck moments throughout the day, all the songs on my ipod mysteriously vanished. No more songs on my iPod. No more soothing Aretha, crazy Mariah, depressing Smiths. Nada. Nothing.
So, after sitting through trivia night at a Brooklyn bar, I headed to Crown Chicken for an 8 piece order of chicken nuggets and fries at midnight.
Crown Chicken’s nuggets are surprisingly tasty, all white meat and all 8 of them were surprisingly void of strange cartilage and/or rough bits. And the batter was salty and sweet. The fries were thin and crisp. Thank god for the corner, greasy chicken joint in the ghetto. People do not take them seriously. But, Crown Chicken is now my go to spot for after the bar and after a series of bad luck or just down days.
Everyone else who came in while I waited for my box of nuggets ordered Gyros (pronounced Jie-Rose). So, maybe I am missing out on something else at the Crown Chicken. But I am going to stick to their specialty. Thank god for Crown Chicken.

On an unrelated note--heads up to everyone on one of my favorite enlightening time wasters--Elisabeth Vincentelli's lovely blog here.

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[Ghetto Chick]

I bet chicken shack shows up here:

http://www.gawker.com/news/ghetto%20pass/