The Wiener’s Circle is a scorching canine stand situated in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood that has change into well-known for the insults its workers and prospects hurl at one another. (It’s additionally recognized for stunts like serving three-inch scorching canine as “Trump Footlongs.”) Last Saturday evening, December 15, that workers included none aside from Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy, Steve Albini, and comic Jeff Garlin (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Goldbergs,” “Arrested Development”).
The trio joined notorious Wiener’s Circle insult queen Roberta “Poochie” Jackson and others behind the counter as a part of a fundraiser for Poverty Alleviation Chicago, a corporation based by Albini’s spouse Heather Whinna. For the past two decades, Whinna, Albini, and lots of well-known associates have been delivering cash, meals, items, and different gadgets to needy households in Chicago on Christmas morning, as a part of their Letters to Santa program. Check out photographs and video from the night beneath, together with Tweedy telling a buyer to “step the fuck up,” in true Wiener’s Circle style.
Items in Letters to Santa’s present fundraiser embrace a studio session with Albini, a Skype session with Fred Armisen, and more.
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Read our recent 5-10-15-20 interview with Tweedy.
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