(from chicagoist.com)

If you live in Chicago and you’re on Facebook, you’ve seen it. Probably several times a day. By “it,” we mean the Bean meme phenomenon, which has spurred literally dozens of joke (we hope) “events” at Millennium Park’s public-art showpiece. Cornball, non-sequitur examples, like Have a tall boy with the bean at Coles and—perhaps the king of them all—Windex the Bean, have thousands of RSVPs and “interested” clicks. But given that Internet culture finds nothing so hilarious as committedly actualizing its most tossed-off throwaway gags, we wondered, could any of these happen? And if so, could any actually be worth visiting? As it happens, a few of them wouldn’t be such a bad way to kill a few minutes. Here are five highlights: (MORE HERE)

Add Googly Eyes to the Bean and only refer to it as Steve

Don’t need to rename it, and we wouldn’t want to leave the bespoke eyeballs on for eternity, but temporarily anthropomorphizing the big fella—and inverting that relentless tourist gaze!—seems like a good time, as long as we could guarantee no structural damage. One to keep in mind for the next installment of the Year of Public Art.

In 2012 Conan launched ridiculous objects over Chicago’s legendary State Street Bridge. One of those objects was a replica of The Bean. (WATCH BELOW)