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― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

hello, old server. old friend.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm painting! I'm going to have to open a window soon. It smells like paint in here.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Paint Smells of Paint, Makes Room Smell of Paint

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I dreamed of Philadelphia last night. Courtney Love overdosed in a University City subway stop and it was on TV. They were hosing down the whole station and the anchorman said that this was the kind of shock that this already fragile part of South Philly could hardly bear.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

hi folks. thanks for coming over last night, it was lots of fun!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I love u john and kr.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Did J/J go? What did you guys do?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Manpile. The usual.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I am losing my mind! I'm not even done painting this one wall, and already I'm thinking about doing the living room. In burnt orange. UT colors.

http://www.utexas.edu/

You don't get a lot of that color, eh? I like it. It's daring. And it will go well with my chocolate brown sofa.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/5530793_3fd494291e.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Sunday, 11 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Advance is on Immer 2.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 11 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

And I figured out why it's on my computer: my brother put it on a mix CD for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 February 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Btw, I assume it was you, Jeff, that sent me the Sendspace stuff? Thx.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

THANK YOU that was driving me nuts last night for about 5 minutes.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I just came back from the laundromat where a normal looking man, tall, brown cords, sneakers, navy blue sweater, gray hair with a somewhat professorial look about him, started shouting about Jesus. And George Bush. And how the signifying characteristic of the minions of the antichrist will be that they wear black shoes and white socks.

The attendant asked him to please keep his voice down because he was disturbing other customers, to which the man shouted, "YOU ARE DISTURBING ME." He did tone it down a little, and sat down for awhile until he started shouting the Lord's Prayer. Then he bought a Pepsi and watched TV. Right before I left he did a little more shouting and then crooned, "Halleloooooooooooooooooo" for a few minutes.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 11 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The attendant asked him to please keep his voice down because he was disturbing other customers, to which the man shouted, "YOU ARE DISTURBING ME."

I feel for the attendant, but this is awesome.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Sunday, 11 February 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw the same sort of thing not too long ago, except at the Damen Blue Line stop. The guy was on the opposite platform from me, and I can only imagine he kept shouting about Jesus and George W. Bush when his train came and he went away.

Was this guy actually doing laundry?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Sunday, 11 February 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

What genre would you put xiu xiu under?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 12 February 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

indie-creep

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"warbly"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, he was actually doing laundry.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure most of you are aware of my interest in normal looking people who act completely nuts. There were a couple of these folks this weekend, most recently a few minutes ago I passed a guy in front of my house who fit this bill. He was late-30s, very blond, neatly cut hair, decently dressed, with expensive looking brown shoes. Pretty sure he was gay. He stood near my gate talking about watermelons and saying over and over something that sounded like either "Yes and no" or "Yes'm, no."

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, you sure know how to pick 'em.

In other news, my boss will be out all this week. Somehow I have to do my fair share of work in her absence.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, this weather sucks, and I have to drive to Milwaukee for a casino gig tonight.

And the TSA fucking stole my screwdriver out of my bass drum case, so I have to buy a new one today.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

They TOOK yr screwdriver?? Even though it was packed in the baggage compartment? That whole system is fucked, maaan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

They busted up my last case, so I guess I should be counting my blessings.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan's next solo track: "Welcome to the TerrorDrum"

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

more likely the airline baggage handlers took your screwdriver.

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Shouldn't they have their own screwdrivers?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

This weather does suck a bit, but I'd rather it were warmer and snowy than the cold we've had for the last couple weeks. And no matter how snowy and slushy it gets, it's not that city in New York. 151 inches, I read? That's too much snow.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Buffalo? (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Parish.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

mexico, ny?

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16680222.htm

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Freshman year, dorms, I got fat on mozzarella sticks.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Mozz sticks > fried cheese curds

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh, I was woken up at 7 AM by what sounded like someone pressing the buzzer to the apartment next door for an absurdly long time. When I finally got out of bed to investigate, the high-pitched whine was coming from my system (not as loud as an ordinary buzz, but plenty annoying) and in the stairwell, too. Suffice it to say, there was no one at the door. I called the maintenance man, and he had it fixed pretty quickly, but I missed out an hour's worth of sleep. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Observations on food: 1) instant oatmeal is a little yucky, but it is oatmeal, and that's better than no oatmeal. 2) if I thought I could get by with it, I would eat mozzarella sticks morning, noon, and night.
-- there to preserve disorder (fluxion2...), February 12th, 2007. (kenan) (later) (link)
Buffalo? (XP)

-- Laurel (sininspac...), February 12th, 2007. (Laurel) (later) (link)

This is an awesome xpost.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

We're having a potluck today at work. I was going to make a salad with avocado, oranges, jicama, spinach, and radishes, but the jicama I bought was severely underripe, so I threw some mango in there instead. Then I dressed it with lime juice and salt. I hope it's good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF? This winter is wearing out its fucking welcome!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do the neighbors keep CRANKING, then turning down their reggaeton (sp?) music repeatedly?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It briefly occurred to me that the buzzer was Jesse wanting his credit card back.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This winter is wearing out its fucking welcome!

It does that every year, though. Chicago winter is a rude guest indeed.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds good, John.

On Saturday I went over to M4ddie's and experimented with tomato bisque recipes. Then yesterday I finally worked on music stuff all day, then put on pants around 10 pm to have some beers with a friend who's in town. That's how Sunday is done, yo.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i dl'ed 'new york groove' from iTunes yesterday and i haven't stopped listening to it since then. i heard it with the earphones on this morning on my way to work and it's is hilariously addictive. between the cheeseball '70s overblown rock production (most of it trying to mask the fact that ace frehley really couldn't sing and had a horrible new york accent), the disco chicken-scratch guitar, and the inane lyrics ("a wicked lady sittin' by my side sayin' where are we/stop at 3rd and forty-three, exit to the night/it's gonna be ectasy") i should hate this song. but i don't, i love it. i don't know if it's the hand claps or the stomping 4/4 beat or what but much like the sweet it's rediculous and awesome at the same time.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ysi?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, dl'd it from iTunes so it won't work on a computer that isn't "authorized" by my iTunes account.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

but i'm sure you can find it for free somewhere.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

CONFESSION

When people say that babies OMG look like one of their parents or like someone else (heh), I can almost never see it. They just look like babies.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

babies look scary

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm almost sure i know what i think about babies but i'm waiting to hear back from tep for confirmation on that.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I must have missed something.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I see.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes I can see a resemblance to a specific grownup in a baby. What really weirds me out are little babies who look like tiny adults.

I want to hear NY Groove real bad now.

And I agree - I am much more content with warm slush than the freezingness, at least for now. And while winter is getting old, I would rather all this winter than a similar amount of summer.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin: LAWLZ

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm cool with babies as long as they don't excrete anything on me. If I ever become a parent I'll probably have to get over this.

What really weirds me out are little babies who look like tiny adults.

xpost OMG LITTLE MAN!!!!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, you don't want to hear it. trust me. it will ruin you, it's digitally encoded crack.

but you'll have to ask tep if that's what i really think.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

What really weirds me out are little babies who look like tiny adults

do you ever see kids and know what they'll look like when they're like 40 or 20 or 80 or whatever? cause sometimes i think i do.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fantasymeg.com/ufomeg/roger3.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/object/835/835430/little-man-onesheetboxart_160w.jpg

vs.

http://moldovacc.md/cumulus/White%20Chicks.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The Wayans must be stopped.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

do you ever see kids and know what they'll look like when they're like 40 or 20 or 80 or whatever?

Yeah, sometimes. Or I'll look at friends and think I can see them when they are in their 60s.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

All of Worker Justice, Inc. went to New Jersey but nobody told me. Good thing the director of the org was here to let me in.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope I don't look creepy in my 60's.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1162662336-1162651723524.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently it all started with The Unholy Three, a film that Tod Browning did prior to Dracula and Freaks:

A great film...period. Lon Chaney heads a group of three thieves/carnival performers as they masquerade as an old woman, a man, and a baby in a pet shop where they sell birds that talk only by ventriloquism. Once the owners get home they see the birds no longer talk and the thieves are invited into their opulent homes. Tod Browning, the director of Dracula, does a marvelous job with this film. There are scenes that are just fantastic, the best of which for me is the courtroom scene. Browning gets a lot of help, however, by some real good performances. Chaney turns in a complex performance of a ventriloquist in love, yet evil, yet with some slight conscience. The scene in the courtroom where he deliberates helping Hector is acting at its best. Throw in a great job by Mae Busch and little Harry Earles as a cigar-smoking midget disguised as a baby. The silent film is a lost art only in that we no longer view it, talk about it, review it like it should. This film and the performances within should be seen not heard.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the problem with Chicago winters is that psychologically, people expect winter to last from the end of Nov. to maybe the end of Jan./beginning of February, and then for it to start to warm up. But in my experience, it doesn't really start to get cold in Chicago until January, which then lasts until March-ish.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Cute cat pic from last night.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/387154598_7ed00c69bb.jpg?v=0

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

And from Entertainment Weekly:

It was the central idea of a 1954 Bugs Bunny cartoon called ''Baby Buggy Bunny,'' directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. Remember the burly, barrel-chested ex-con Finster, shaving and smoking a cigar while hiding out in Bugs' rabbit hole till Bugs got hip? Some online posters have cried plagiarism, but before you go yelling at Little Man director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his younger-brother cowriters Marlon and Shawn, remember, they freely cop to cribbing the idea. Plus, this concept was a golden oldie way before the Bugs Bunny version. It goes back at least to the 1925 Tod Browning silent movie The Unholy Three, wherein a children-hating little man poses as a baby to steal from the wealthy. (The film got remade in sound in 1930). The same conceit also shows up in a 1939 Little Rascals short called ''Tiny Troubles,'' in which a cowlicked, squeaky-voiced Alfalfa trades in his crying little brother for another infant who turns out to be a little man up to no good.

Didn't I mention the Little Rascals short the other night?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

who expects winter to be over by the end of january? i expect it to start getting cold around thanksgiving and then stop being bone-rattling cold about 2 weeks after pitchers and catchers report to spring training.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the problem with Chicago winters is that psychologically, people expect winter to last from the end of Nov. to maybe the end of Jan./beginning of February, and then for it to start to warm up

This is sort of weird, though, because each season is by definition three months. I expect it to be cold/snowy from the beginning of December to the end of February. Why should February be exempt?

What gets me, though, is when it's still cold in mid-to-late March. I think it snowed on my birthday once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I tell myself it'll be freezing until April just to have lowered expectations.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/388111424_069f02b56b.jpg?v=0

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i think kevin is right.

snow in october this year: weird. 40's for most of january: weird. the weather right now: typical, i'd guess. and will still be typical at the end of march.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe it's because i spent the first quarter century of my life someplace where it started snowing in october and didn't stop until april or may but i don't find chicago winters to be long. they're brutal but at least they're over by march usually.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I would agree, but ammend it to read "People who are not from cold climates." It's already warming up in the US south, for example.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Nerdiest thing ever?

http://techdigest.tv/pcmaclinux.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

This winter has been brutal, yes. Just for the sub-zeroness of it all.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Try snow and winter from September until May blah blah blah I'm from the UP.

We talk about weather too much sometimes.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

LINUX IS NOT FAT NOR DOES IT HAVE A TERRIBLE MOUSTACHE. Linux is stylish. But quiet and intense.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, i've had snow and 80 degree temps in the same week in may.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

xp to Kenan: Oh please.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Have I professed my love for those Mac/PC commercials? They get better and better. I love the latest one with the PC's security. It's so true! And I feel so bad for the sweet little PC! It's not his fault, it's really not.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

And yes, I laughed hard when I saw that photoshop. The Tron guy is one of my internets favorites.

Kenan, how many serious Linux nerds have you met? "Stylish" is not an adjective I'd use for them.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

how many serious Linux nerds have you met?

Around... zero. Roughly zero.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Same here, Kev. Well, maybe 70, not 80. OMG WEATHR CRED LOST!!!

xpost: I can introduce you to some, they'll blow your MIIIIIIND maaan.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

god i hate those pc/mac commercials. i want something bad to happen to both of those dudes and if it were to happen on pay-per-view i would purchase it.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Seriously. Nerds. BIG nerds.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I find the Mac guy pretty irritating, but how can not love PC?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

the mac pc ads have the opposite of the desired effect, i think.

― deej (deej), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, despite being a Mac user, I hate the Mac guy too. Especially when he says shit like: "I manage my digital photos, and connect to my blog and the iTunes store." WELL, I USE IT TO D/L MAD T0RRENTZ AND HACK THE GIBSON OMGWTFLOL

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

(bonus points for naming "hack the Gibson" reference -- I bet... jaymc gets it)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear he loves cyberpunk.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha

That phrase is too easily googleable.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the actor who plays PC, but I find the Mac guy a little insincere in his supposed niceness. His smug superiority still oozes through and I resent that and, frankly, don't want to be his friend at all.

Also, the Mac guy stars in some baaaaaaaad movies, while the PC guy is on the Daily Show.

and I, too, have a preference for Macs as my home computing platform of choice.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

so i saw on the weather channel it's snowing up there. i kinda wish it would snow some down here. we've had snow only 2 days so far, and that's actually more than normal. it's 46 degrees right now and high of 58. i guess i should be happy i'll be moving in the summer, but then that will probably spoil me and then come november/december it'll be extra brutal!

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my bosses didn't feel like shoveling his driveway so he stayed home today. prick.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

WAHT

There is like 2 inches?!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, i guess his FOUR WHEEL DRIVE TRUCK would have a problem in such conditions.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess i should be happy i'll be moving in the summer

Maaaaaaybe. If we'd not screwed up our move-out date last summer, we would have had to move on the hottest day of the year during which the temp was above 100. Moving in summer is not without its potential pitfalls. But then again, moving ANY time is pretty much an exercise in suck.

We moved to Chicago from Greensboro, NC in August, but it was a bizarrely cold August. I had moved with the assumption that I could augment my southern climate wardrobe in time for winter but when we got here, I was pretty sure I was going to freeze to death and die before Halloween.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not feel well at all. I want to go home.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Why is there no PDF reader installed on this computer? WHY TELL ME WHY

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah? i'll be moving (most likely, it's not official yet) from chapel hill. nc natives unite!

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually from Delaware, but Jeff is from eastern NC and we lived in Greensboro for four and five years, respectively.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

did you go to guilford?

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

No, but our upstairs neighbors did. I got a certificate of legal administration from Greensboro College and was down to Wake Forest or where I currently go for law school. That's my entire connection to the world of NC higher education institutions.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

And no offense to the Demon Deacons, but I am glad almost every day that I made the choice that I did.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

sure are a lot of former north carolinians on the chilx threads.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmm, what's the significance of you choosing the demons over the deacons jenny?

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S AN INVASION

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, not really a fan of winston-salem. i had brothers go to guilford and unc-g though.

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

did any of you go see lindstrom last week?

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmm, what's the significance of you choosing the demons over the deacons jenny?

You know, I had my acceptances in hand and was down to the wire, decision-making time, and was visiting my family in Delaware and there was a DP/Wake bball game on TV and I knew that my mind was pretty made up when I found myself really, really pulling for DP to win because I had this idea that the outcome of that game would be determinative in my choice. They won. Here I am.

Also I hate organized religion and love Satan.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

who recommends spending one day of yr life in Springfield to see the Lincoln stuff?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the springfield chamber of commerce?

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I do! You could even do two. But more than that is asking for it.

The Lincoln Museum is great. The Library is not as exciting. I also recommend visiting his tomb and while you're at it, check out the Museum of Funeral Customs. Both capital buildings are neat, as is the Illinois State Museum.

Just MAKE SURE you are going on a couple of days when everything is open. Also, bring a car.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Here are pictures of when Jeff and I went to Springfield last year.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

boobies!

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of the south, I'm having collards, corn bread, and black coffee for lunch.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

(bonus points for naming "hack the Gibson" reference -- I bet... jaymc gets it)

I don't know what that is.

I was at my department's potluck brunch for the last hour. As usual, I dominated conversation because copy editors are not, by and large, a talkative bunch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, bring a car.

well, can't -- I've never driven; so it'll be one day, next summer I hope. Thanks.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

We didn't bring a car, either. It only really became a problem on the third night when we ran out of eating options. Most everything in walking distance from downtown closes at like, four, and all the recommended restaurants were out in the stripmall wasteland. Also, the tomb/funeral museum is a little far out but we took a cab there and walked back and it was just fine.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

the snow is gorgeous today. I wish I could go skiing.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

One for the spreadsheet: I hate skiing. I hate snowboarding more, if that's even possible.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never done either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I love skiing, but I love waterskiing even more.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I also hate waterskiing, or as I think of it, "Sport of 1000 Horrible Wedgies." Anything that requires grace/balance is right out for me.

I am a good swimmer, though. I am okay walking, too. Mostly.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I know what you're getting for your birthday.

http://www.haddusa.com/images/media/walking.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never even had the opportunity to ski, water or otherwise. You guys must be rich. [/contentious statement meant to incite discussion to keep me entertained this afternoon]

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried both kinds of skiing once as a kid, neither was a success.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The last time I went snowboarding was when I lived in northern CA and worked as a housekeeper at a ski resort - thus free lift ticket/rentals. I cannot remember the last time I went water skiing... high school, maybe? However, compared to most people, I am indeed rich.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

my parents financed most of the skiing I've ever done, when I was in grade + high school. but it's not impossibly expensive to go skiing outside of Buffalo, NY, let me tell you. it's not like I've ever been to Aspen.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I've even been to Aspen! But not to ski. Probably to do something hippy-related like see a jam band or buy pot.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

However, compared to most people, I am indeed rich.

OK you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

hack the gibson is from Hackers

i kind of love that movie even though its horrible.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Kr likes Hackers.

Btw, I watched After Hours yesterday and thought it was fantastic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I LOVE HACKERS. I WILL WATCH IT ALL THIS TIMES OVER AND OVER.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It still doesn't get me any closer to understanding whether Nick says "coincidence" or "predicament," though, because the movie is a predicament full of coincidences. Maybe he says one in verse one and the other in verse two. Maybe I will have to come to the next FFs show to find out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, Hackers is pretty hard not to love.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

CONFESSION

I've never seen Hackers!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Lunch = meatloaf sandwich!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That's why I thought John might get it, because it's from a random stupid movie.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

no wai you guys, Sneakers is the only way to go

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM, Sneakerz rules.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I've never seen Hackers either. Not to be snooty or whatever, but I haven't really seen a whole lot of "random stupid movie[s]."

Sneakers is cool. I think Stephen Tobolowsky (whom Sarah's mom once dated? is that right?) is in it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I recently rewatched Sneakers and it was less mindblowingly clever than when I was 15 or whatever, but it is still very charming though dated.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah's Mom dated Needle-Nose Ned? Ned the Head?

That's HUGE!

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

also I have totally seen a whole lot of random stupid movies.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah's mom was on the high school debate team with Stephen Tobolowsky, who was also in the episodes of Deadwood we watched yesterday. He's everywhere!

I say "coincidence," but maybe I should start saying predicament in the second verse. Those lyrics aren't exactly an in-depth examination of the film, though.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, they were debate partners, IIRC.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't really seen a whole lot of "random stupid movie[s]

Hmmmm... maybe I should take a look at your spreadsheet just to make sure.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah's Mom dated Needle-Nose Ned? Ned the Head?

Also Sammy Jankis.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmmm... maybe I should take a look at your spreadsheet just to make sure.

I can send it to you. It's at home.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick's right, he's a very well-employed character actor.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/3025/posters/poster1_full.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to see that:

Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party is a 2005 documentary about Stephen Tobolowsky in which he tells stories from his life. The actor, who is usually in a supporting role, takes center stage in the 87-minute Birthday Party and single handedly captivates and entertains the audience.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoah! What is that movie? xpost

I really don't feel like working. Or doing anything.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

It sounds Spalding Gray-esque.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I still want to see Children of Men. I am bad at going to the movies.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

For the record, my mom was on the debate team with him, but not his partner. Her debate partner was Steve's partner before she was my mom's though.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Oh man it's playing at the Logan Theatre!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's an excellent movie.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it was great.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. I am feeling less and less well. My tummy is messed up. Reheated Chicago-style pizza with pepperoni for breakfast? Could that be it?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and I have been cross-country skiing. In Austria. It was pretty fun, though a lot of work and very tiring.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost And yet, if someone put mozzarella sticks in front of me right now, i'd eat them. No questions asked.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

So I'm the only one who thought this was brilliant?

-- there to preserve disorder (fluxion2...), February 12th, 2007. (kenan) (later) (link)

Buffalo? (XP)

-- Laurel (sininspac...), February 12th, 2007. (Laurel) (later) (link)

XPOST ... OR IS IT?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

My parents have Super 8 home movies transferred to VHS of me XC skiing at like 2 years old. I started doing downhill in 7th grade or so. Tried a little tele but never got any good at it. Never tried snowboarding, I was afraid of the ass pain (from FALLING). I miss skiing a lot, I used to go every day after school until they turned the lights off on the hill.

HS: Did you ever go skiing at that little hill/park between E. Aurora and W. Seneca, NY? Can't remember the name but my aunt's house was right near the bottom of it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cheeseshopofridgewood.com/images/bufala1.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of made the free-association with "mozzarella sticks" and Buffalo sauce (both being staples of chain-restaurant appetizer menus) but I didn't get Buffalo mozzarella until just now, no.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

So I'm the only one who thought this was brilliant?

I don't get it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I see. I was unaware of something called Buffalo mozzarella.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, no! I don't think I've ever even heard of it, though that seems impossible. I'm going to try to find out wat it's called.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, what it's called.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

unless you're talking about K1ss1ng Br1dge? in which case, yes, I've skiied (sp?) there.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Never tried snowboarding, I was afraid of the ass pain (from FALLING).

I would have assumed you meant from falling.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I may have screwed up the geography. Maybe it's toward South Wales? It's very small, and possibly associated with a larger local park.

I have been to Kissing Bridge, but I was pretty young then and don't remember a whole lot.

xpost: Just thwarting the peanut gallery a little.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Mozzarella sticks ... with CLUB SAUCE

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

SPICY!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

what exactly is club sauce, anyway? Is it a thing, or is it like house salad dressing?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a slightly sweet tomato-based sauce.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's just like 'House' dressing - that particular restaurant's special recipe.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

or that

― Calico (calico), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I always thought it was the stuff that comes with shrimp cocktail, but all these answers are probably valid.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's just like 'House' dressing - that particular restaurant's special recipe.

That's what I assumed, too, since it was served at the country club in Arrested Development.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a slightly sweet tomato-based sauce.

Like marinara? I guess I don't get to clubs enough. At least, not the kind with sauce.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Club Foot is more my speed.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick must be rich.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought I got dusty
Thought I'd get rusty
Thought I'd get rich and quit oh he must be
Fat and ugly, broke, black and blue
But I'm trim, fit, rich and I'm back for round two

-Kid Rock

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought I got dusty
Thought I'd get rusty
Thought I'd get rich and quit oh he must be
Fat and ugly, broke, black and blue
But I'm trim, fit, rich and I'm back for round two

NOW GIMME SOME CLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUB

CLUB! SAUCE!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

HI I WANT SHRIMP COCKTAIL LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT NOW!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm kinda jonesin' for a liverwurst sandwich.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I HAVE NEVER HAD LIVERWURST, BUT THAT'S SOUNDING PRETTY GOOD TO ME, TOO!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I just want a nap.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

At the grocery store the other day I found myself weighing purchasing a chunk of braunschweiger, but decided I wasn't ready for that step in my sandwich life, yet.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

mmmm, sandwich life.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.pr.com/upload/pressrelease_8775_1147278234.jpg

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

goddammit gear!

someone bring me a sandwich.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i was in a meeting from noon to 1:45, cafeteria was closed by the time i got over there. : (

i'm soooooooo huuuunnnnnnnnnnngry.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i spent half the meeting fantasizing about the 1/2 of a pizza i have in my fridge. like actually trying to devise plausible excuses so i could go home and re-heat that fucker.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell them you're concerned you may have to shovel something.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

someone bring Kevin a sandwich, too.

who has a meeting from noon to 1:45 and doesn't provide food? bastards!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

not only that sister horseshoe but it's a recurring meeting! second monday of the month. i had planned to grab something at 11:30 then got sidetracked.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm having tomato, fresh mozzarella, and basil on a bâtard : D

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

buffalo?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dagwood sandwich =

-1 live fish (whole)
-1 fried egg
-1 lobster (whole)
-1 green olive
-2 italian sausages
-2 carrots (whole)
-Swiss cheese
-Spaghetti

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

now I am dreaming about this amazing burger I had recently that involved a fried egg. I shake my fist at you, gear!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

There's also assorted lunchmeats on there. And what are those discs in the middle? Kiwi?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Eazy: you forgot what appears to be an entire yellow onion, cut into 1/4 inch slices; peas; and various forms of mysterious lunchmeat.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm egg burger : P

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

onion, I think. how I love you, onion!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever you think of the rest of the sandwich, an entire lobster is just a bad idea.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

In addition to my meatloaf sandwich I got a pastrami + salami sandwich for dinner, since I'm going to have to hit the road right after work. It's taking all my self-control not to eat it right now.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, zee onion. Such a beeeautiful theeng.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Peas and carrots in the same bite makes sense, but egg/fish/spaghetti?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

carbonera al pesce

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a real pastrami problem. like, whenever I try to make a pastrami sandwich, the pastrami doesn't make it it to the sandwich, because it all gets stuffed in my face.

hi I fear I'm revealing too much, guys!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

to be fair, Eric, I don't see any evidence that the fish is alive!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a very Atkins sandwich you're eating, 'shoe.

xpost - a fish that died with a grin on its face, then...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the closest thing i've seen to one of those sandwiches is at this place on lincoln ave (in santa monica : / )

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It's singing!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

oh fair enough. that's kind of disturbing.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a fancy burger bar that opened recently near Clark and Wrightwood, next to The Wiener's Circle. They offer all kinds of burgers (many of which sound good), but their priciest one is a lobster/burger combo.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a baby dolphin, isn't it?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I like lobster and I love beef, but I don't think I would love a lobster burger.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Steak and lobster in one bite doesn't sound appealing.

However,

ihttp://lobsteranywhere.com/mas_assets/thumb/PBOST.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i went out for dinner and drinks and bar trivia on friday and had ordered a big assed steak. actually, it wasn't the butt steak but it was still pretty f'ing good. i should've told them to keep the broccoli and give me extra garlic mashed potatoes. because they were awesome too.

― chicago kevin has a lust for bacon (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33514

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

appropos of nothing:

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_imagearticle602.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

this isn't tittwis

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHA #5

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I know. That's the one that made me choke a little.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

okay well I guess I'm less hungry now, so thanks?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

oral on a girl in that condition = 'the parting of the red sea'

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Ph no. I'm not getting dragged into that one again.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I like "walking along the beach in soft focus."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i like #7

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

update on my all-consuming hunger: I made pasta and did not put it in a sandwich. eating now.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

40 minutes until i can leave and i'm not sure i can stay awake. i got about 110 minutes of sleep last night and i started crashing, hard, about 90 minutes ago. i'm having trouble typing and greater difficulty in keeping my head from lolling over onto my shoulders.

i hope i can make it to the blue line. there's a small chance i could wake up at o'hare today.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I found the Frightened Rabbit (band the FFs opened for a few weeks ago) album on teh t0rrentz, I've been listening to it today, and I likes it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

New Dino Jr. is already leaked!

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

that reminds me, who did the handy work of placing the ff's sticker directly above the left urinal in the bottle's mens room? i hope to god you wore gloves.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, I put one on the condom machine, next to the right urinal. Not sure about the other one.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

if you're facing the urinals this was definitely the left one. and if you're not facing the urinals, what are you? a fucking animal or something?

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember in grade school, there was a rash of "peeing" competitions in the boys room. They'd see who could stand farthest away from the drain in the floor and still hit it. You didn't want to go in there after that.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Why did I put peeing in quotes?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

apropos of nothing, other than killing time before i have to go teach, i saw Lives of Others, last night and really like it, much more than Pan's Labyrinth. although i keep wanting to call Lives of Others "How the Other Half Lives," because i was reading about Jacob Riis this weekend, too.

also, i'd just like to say being able to play basketball outside in the middle of February is a delight.

― robots in love (robots in love), Monday, 12 February 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

whuzzup chicago

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hi dere

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

as it turns out, i have nothing interesting to say.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Me, neither.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been working at a laptop in a Panera for the past hour, watching a 60-ish guy from Istambul hit on every pretty lady who sits anywhere near him. Now he is wearing his winter cap and sunglasses. They are all very indulgent and patient with him, until he proposes sex.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

He's not unlike Serge Gainsbourg.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm IMing a friend of mine who lives far away and it's making me sad. I don't like being sad. I'm going to eat some ice cream.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, Jenny, don't be sad!

Here - watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biED-uOdszY

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://armagideon-time.com/pics/06wsp-mtr.jpg

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I'm not sad now because I'm going to visit my far away friend over spring break. Hopefully!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Tulsa, OK here I come!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I celebrated not being sad any more by starting a new thread. Go make it awesome, Chicago.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I am uploading a "chilly" mix that I made, mostly for Jenny, but I'll put it on the blog for anyone who wants it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

... in about 45 minutes.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, upped.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I love boomkat

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ww/news/2007/02/11/twovalentinebig.jpg

I like this photo on the Yahoo home page: "Torn Between Two Soul Mates?"

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Yesterday Courtney and I were eating sushi at a place on Broadway near Cornelia and we saw Jeff walk by, so I called him and we witnessed him pulling his phone out of his pocket and ignoring my call. Then I cried. Then I ate a delishi bite of sushi.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Finished cleaning my room, and it's like this now:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/redroom2.jpg

Didn't make the bed. Oh, fuck it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I've read through some of this thread and though I'm late, I want to say:

- The Mac guy is cute. I really, strongly miss the Dell Boy. The PC guy inspires pity in me.

- I love skiing, and it doesn't cost very much money if you live near some mountains. I never paid more than around $30, including lift tickets and ski rentals. One of the drawbacks to living in Chicago is that the skiing possibilities are limited and dissapointing. I learned to ski in Montana.

xpost-- nice.

That is all for now.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and NIGHT SKIING is especially fun.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I really, strongly miss the Dell Boy.

You are alone in this. Much like preferring a hairy back.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

What? I don't prefer a hairy back. At all! That's Jenny.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Loyola doesn't have an application fee? ¿Que?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just saying, liking the Dell dude puts you in a small club.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link

With its own special sauce.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. Pee on me.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

just to be clear, we're talkign about his guy?

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/31/dell.guy/story.dell.guy.jpg

You cream over this guy? really? you may be alone in the universe.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't say I "cream" over him. I just really liked him. That's a bad pic. He is cute.

From the article that goes with the pic you posted:

Steven has now reached cult status.

But Ben Curtis, who plays Steven in the popular ads, doesn't try to figure out his newfound fame. "It's still a mystery to me," says Curtis, 21, an acting student at New York University in Manhattan.
Dell receives fan mail from a whole spectrum of people, from senior citizens to teen-age girls, USA Today reports.
But Ben Curtis, who plays Steven in the popular ads, doesn't try to figure out his newfound fame. "It's still a mystery to me," says Curtis, 21, an acting student at New York University in Manhattan.
Why is the ad so successful? It could be something in the pitchman's eyes, or eyebrows. Mostly, people appear to like his humor....
"I'll take the guy before I take the computer," added a fan who spotted him....
Curtis is so popular that it became difficult for him to complete a photo shoot this week without a fan shouting or running over to grab a little bit of him....
But Steven's appeal goes beyond his youthful age group. "I think he's the best thing since sliced bread," said one white-haired gentleman in Times Square, perhaps indicating the Dell guy does not appeal only to the teen set.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

from senior citizens to teen-age girls

Where are you on that spectrum?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bilerico.com/2005/09/joy07.jpg

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Mostly, people appear to like his humor....

DUDE. THIS IS FALSE.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, OK, you're right. That's kinda hot.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm alone with a lot of other vocal fans, apparently.

"He soon got the part after about 100 folks tried out. (WAY TO GO, BEN!) If he hadn't, where would we all be with out him? Ben also has an awesome September 11th story where he saved a woman at a subway."

"Ben Curtis, I worship you!!"

"The coolest guy in the world"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I take it back; I didn't realize that he was actually hot. I though he was just the Dell guy. And I want to punch the Dell guy.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"The coolest guy in the world"

That is really pushing it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.myspace.com/bencurtisentertainment

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit that's not a joke, is it?

Jesse, I take back everything I took back. This guy is a douchbag extraordinaire.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Bodhisattva.

Die. Die. Die.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bencurtis.org/gallery/magazines/HXjoy01.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

SHOCKING!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

JESSE, GET YOUR DICK OUT OF YOUR HEART.

"THE MOST TALENTED, PASSIONATE, VERSATILE, PROFESSIONAL ACTOR YOU WILL EVER MEET! SOMEONE GET THIS GUY IN A MOVIE OR TV SERIES! FUCK IT! BROADWAY! LET'S TAKE THIS KID TO THE MOON!" -famous director(anonymous) "A beautiful guitarist. He'll rip ur heart out." -anonymous "When I heard Ben play, I was reminded of Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and Dave Matthews...all at the same time" -actress Chloe Cmarada "He's BITCHIN on the harp!" -Derek Storm(art dealer/photographer extraordinair) "Unstoppable!" -anonymous "The most talented/passionate actor I've ever seen!" -anonymous "Like Neil Young, but better on the harp." - B.B.,Oregon "So good we HAD to bring him on tour." -Bankrupt & The Borrowers ABOUT MY NEW BAND: BROKEN GLASS COLLECTION www.myspace.com/brokenglasscollection

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not trying or expecting to be his friend. As a guy in an ad, I enjoy seeing him. Fin

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ok. sorry to get riled.

BUT GOD WHAT A DOUCHE.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh. He's young and dumb. And full of...uh...himself.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

His hot, white, creamy self.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

KENAN SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOURS AND YOU NEED TO JUST FUCKING RELAX ABOUT IT.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

You're right, though. The Dell kid is a total douche.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Casino gig = soul sucking. The motto on their billboard was something like "Come for a night, leave with a story!" or some bullshit. One of the trombone player's decided his story was "I've never seen poor, unhappy old people smoke so much."

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never been to Vegas, but I have been to a LOT of casinos in places that aren't Vegas and let me tell you that to a one they have been some of the most depressing places I have ever, ever been.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Vegas is one of those places I want to go so that I can have a real reason to hate it. Also, LA.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to go to Vegas. I hear that I can fuck a lot of underage prostitutes and gamble away my student loan money and shoot up meth and bet on monkey knife fights and never have to face the consequences. Or has TV led me astray?

I've been to LA and probably did not get the proper introduction to it, but that's okay.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

vegas is great. i wish i was there right now. because i'll wager 6 inches of snow isn't snarling the metro las vegas area in gridlock. wtf over two hour commute today?

god i'm tired.

xpost- my reasons for loving vegas, while similar, are not exactly the same as jenny's.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I can imagine it would be fun for about 10 minutes, but I am suspicious of people who LURV Las Vegas. And some people I think highly of hate Vegas, so I hope to more fully hate it one day. (I'm referring to Sayjal, who apparently has spent a good deal of time there unwillingly, and to myself.)

xpost...no offense Kevin.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

none taken. gambling, free booze, you can smoke everywhere, it doesn't snow.... you might as well call it kev vegas. kevegas.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I love decadence as much as the next guy, but still Vegans--ha ha!!!--VEGAS seems awful.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

YA commuting this morning was SPECIAL. I decided to take trains instead of the LSD express bus, which was probably wise, but still. The trains were a hot, crowded, sloppy mess. And people were piling up waiting for an Addison bus, too. Usually, if I decide to walk from Broadway and Addison to the train stop, a bus will pass me. This morning I waited five minutes, walked anyway, and still no bus. But there were at least six people at each bus stop along the way.

New frontiers in scary: Walking across the slippery, snow covered river bridge at Monroe when a bus drives over it and makes it start rattling and shaking so hard that you actually lose your balance a little. That water looks coooooold...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess a visit would actually be fun, but the idea of being there for very long seems terrible.

Some of Sayjal's friends are performers and crew at a Vegas show and when they came to Chicago all they kept saying was how every day of life in Vegas was more terrible than the one before. And motioning to the streets in Chicago and saying, "There's just not...THIS there!"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse OTM re: Vegas.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I asked my mom to tell me more about Steve Tobo:

Tobo was 2 years ahead of me. I met him when I was in the summer of my 9th grade year. I was changing from junior high to high school. ...I don't know who identified me but I was selected to be trained for the debate squad at Kimball. Tobo was already a leading thespian and debater at Kimball when he came to my house that summer. He came to teach me how to debate so I could start at the beginning of the year. I visited in his home many times, too. He has an older brother Paul and a younger sister Barbara (whom we called Barbie, also a debater). His family is Jewish. His father is a doctor and so is his older brother Paul. I think Barbie went to law school, but ended up writing screen plays or something lucrative like that in Hollywood....His parents and Paul are still based in Dallas. I have phoned his mom sometimes when I have been in Dallas.
Tobo's debate partner L1nda Ruth became my debate partner after he graduated. Linnaruf was my best friend. Linda had the biggest crush on Tobo and discussion of him took up a lot of our together time. He is intelligent, funny, very nice as a person, and extremely talented. He was a talented actor in high school. He knew that he wanted to become an actor- which sounded like an impossible dream, like some neighborhood kid saying they want to be a basketball player in the NBA- but he actually made it! He went to SMU in Dallas where they had a good theatre program. I remember his excitement when Marlo Thomas visited SMU's theatre program. After college, he moved to Los Angeles, where he lives now. His wife is Ann. I have not met her or his children. But I know he has been in over 200 movies. He was getting into other ventures- like producing, I think.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, i used to LOVE being in the middle of a bridge (out where it splits, not where the base is) when a bus would go past. especially the wabash st bridge, i always felt like it had more action to it.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I usually get a little thrill out of it because it's dizzying but I figure if nobody has fallen off yet, I'm not going to be the one. But all the snow made it slippery for real and I actually lost my balance this time. That made it less fun.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

if that happened to me it would the kind of unexpected thrill that might make my day. unless i actually fell down in which case i would probably take it as a sign that the universe is against me and contemplate jumping in front of a blue line train.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be more efficient to just jump off the bridge.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Less of a mess, doesn't hold up other commuters -- better all around.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

no, i wouldn't want to go that way. maybe if it were cement instead of a river below.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i'm wearing my jammies under my pants today because it is so cold and windy.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The river is frozen, that's gotta be pretty close to cement.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night I got a rough cut of this indie movie called "G0ing Great Wh1te" on dvd, because the soundtrack is all 15 yr old Digd0wn tunes. Apparently it's a Guest-style mockumentary (hate that term) about a business & marketing convention.

Could be funny, could be horrible but I'm excited to see a movie that hasn't even been at a festival yet.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno, i still think i could break the ice. and then i'd be paralyzed and drowning. i suppose i could go to wilmette and jump in front of a purple line train, that would only inconvenience the richie riches of the near northern suburbs. and i wouldn't mind doing that.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: if i attended loyola in NO or tulane i could probably get some kind of crazy scholarship since they're desperate for students
me: DO NOT LEAVE ME
Jesse: i'm not
me: okay.
good.
Jesse: though it is 65 degrees there..............
me: i'll kill you if you leave me.
KILL YOU
I WILL KILL YOU
Jesse: that will solve nothing
me: and then keep your head.
so i can talk to it.
i'll make a vest with tits out of you
and wear it while i talk to your head.

Sent at 10:43 AM on Tuesday
me: why aren't you responding?
Jesse: i'm reading the wikipedia article "Semen"

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Depending on how far the drop is, Kevin, you'd probably be knocked out by the impact even if the river WASN'T frozen; hitting the surface of water flat at the speed of falling in Earth gravity is basically like hitting cement.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the Tobo info.

I think I had a dream about Jenny, but I can't remember it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

THANKS FOR THIS, WIKIPEDIA

I linked from there.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. Yeah, our tuba player last night was here from New Orleans, he was not having this weather.

However he was having Al Pacino, on his sneakers.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

(seriously, I can't find a pic but they were Nike Scarface, the toes were transparent w/pics of a little Pacino inside)

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Depending on how far the drop is, Kevin, you'd probably be knocked out by the impact even if the river WASN'T frozen

it's not that far. going back to the thread on the noise board about trains and such, sometimes when the tourist boats are passing under the bridge i wonder if i can time my jump so that i land on deck. i'm about 72% positive i can do it.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Mornin', pawwwdnuhs. No jumping off bridges for research or otherwise, please.

I'm having a good hair day, just so you know.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I didn't realise it was like that, I was thinking of a much higher bridge span!

i'm about 72% positive i can do it.
I like to think you arrived at this percentage through long and meticulous mathematical calculation and many, many diagrams.

Sarah: congratulations! I'm having...a hair day.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

my moustache is back, just so you know. and it's better than before.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

DON'T DO IT KEVIN

GO BACK

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(fair warning in case I see any of you this weekend, my winter grizzly beard is in full effect)

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll be shaving soon, it's just that due to sinus congestion and the required amount of nose-blowing my nose/upper lip area is a little raw so i didn't want to drag a razor blade across it.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Facial hair is great.

Jordan, what is your planned itinerary so I can see whether I can jump on the JC Party Train?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

When it's icy, I always have an irrational fear of slipping walking across the Michigan Ave. bridge. Is it that the railings are low on the Loop bridges? It freaks me out a little. I imagine a gust of wind and whoosh, into the river.

The buildings in Vegas look stunning in the desert light, especially the neon ones like the Monte Carlo. I went there a few years ago (was supposed to go with a group of people, and the one person I knew in the group couldn't go at the last minute, so I decided to be on my own instead of with strangers), spent the days driving to places like Zion National Park in Utah and other neat places in the desert. I woke up early one Sunday morning and had a big beautiful desert highway going around Lake Mead all to myself - listened to NPR, stopped and put my feet in some natural hot springs. And then played poker at night.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

As I've mentioned, my work paid for my trip to Vegas. I had to go with them though. ha ha Anyway, we stayed at the fancy pants place, had free fancy meals, drank alot, and spent time by the pool. That's also where I tried pot.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Getting in on Friday night, playing GM 9:00 - 1:00, getting shrimp

Waking up on Saturday, maybe going to Ashkenaz, going to Hot Doug's, hanging out??, playing GM 8:00 - 12:00 (or whatever it is), getting shrimp

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

eazy, i ALWAYS have a fear of falling off the michigan ave bridge but that's probably because of all the clueless tourists taking pictures instead of watching where they're walking. plus the railing hits about mid-thigh so i'm sure i'd just topple on over.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I got busy allasudden when I wasn't paying attention. I really wanted to do TT this week but I forgot I have to work at 8 am on Friday. That's not conducive to our normal TT results.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://www.honeyleveen.com/hleveen/ZION%20NATIONAL%20PARK.jpg
Zion National Park

ihttp://mishilo.image.pbase.com/u47/pjd22/large/30571491.lakemeadin45cheat.jpg
Lake Mead (somebody's random photo, but that's what it looks like)

(not Monte Carlo - MGM Grand I meant)

ihttp://www.lasvegastourism.com/gifs/hyatt_lake_lasvegas.gif
Oh! And I Pricelined a hotel room at and stayed at the Hyatt Lake Las Vegas resort for about $70.

ihttp://www.allvegaspoker.com/photos/41453996c47af.jpg
Played poker there.

And that's the slideshow of my Vegas trip, based on found photos.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow. Eric manages to put a happy face on nearly everything.

I'm not being sarcastic.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I really wish I could have gotten out to see nature.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I wish I'd hung out at the Bellagio pool. We'll switch itineraries next time.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Free cocktails, baby. Free cocktails.

By the way, I loved that Big in Japan video.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm taking Friday off this week!

To go to the DMV!!!

Which one is least horrible?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of can't believe I've lived here more than 2 years and used a Michigan ID the whole time and never once gotten hassled for it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to change the address on my license so I can vote. I think I'm too late for the adlerman/mayor elections. :(

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, i went to the DMV on central and lexington because it was the only one open on a saturday. i would avoid it if at all possible. if i were you i would seriously go to the one at the thompson center. it's usually very well staffed.

also, this comes out just in time for my birthday. oh, wait, no it doesn't.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick and I were pulled over shortly after we moved here. We hadn't done anything wrong, IIRC. The cop noticed we had Virginia plates and wanted to make sure we weren't current IL residents with out-of-state plates. Then I think my license wasn't updated either..? Anyway, we got a fine. Welcome to Chicago!

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

KEYS. LOCKED IN CAR.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Well that kind of sucks.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The engine isn't running, is it?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

KENAN SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOURS AND YOU NEED TO JUST FUCKING RELAX ABOUT IT.
-- Handgun O. Mendocino (rabbitrabbi...) (webmail), February 13th, 2007 2:27 PM. (pullapartgirl) (later) (link)
You're right, though. The Dell kid is a total douche.

-- Handgun O. Mendocino (rabbitrabbi...) (webmail), February 13th, 2007 2:28 PM. (pullapartgirl) (later) (link)

Is it ok if I love you? You have achieved a very Kenan kind of balance.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that the adjective form of alderman is "aldermanic."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

aldermaniacs

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.ilovewavs.com/TV/Cartoons/animaniacs.gif&usg=__N1YcVhLkfx-kg8OjyMnfNLGpRJY=

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost haha

too obvious, i guess

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

if i were you i would seriously go to the one at the thompson center. it's usually very well staffed.

Yeah, I went there before work to renew my license. Wait wasn't too long, no hassles at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I once stopped to put air in my tire and locked my keys in the car with the engine running but I was only two blocks from my apartment and I kept a spare key in my mailbox because I shared the driveway with my upstairs neighbors and we often had to move each other's cars to get in and out so I just ran home and got it, with the car locked and running in the gas station parking lot.

But even if I wasn't, you could break in that car by looking at it funny so it wouldn't have mattered much any.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't mind seeing cartoon caricatures of alderpeople. I'm sure it's been done before.

http://www.extranews.net/uploaded_pictures/907_1.jpg

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

This car:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/145653126_08813df399_o.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

ned, get off my hood.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

it just doesn't stop snowing, does it?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't mind seeing cartoon caricatures of alderpeople. I'm sure it's been done before.

dorothy_tillman.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

The Thomson Center is especially easy in the mornings, pre-lunch hour. And the test you take mostly involves either a) looking at shapes of signs (octagon, diamond) and matching them with the appropriate sign (stop, no passing) or b) answering questions that are meant to educate you (i.e., is there a penalty for drunk driving? yes, no).

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I stayed home today. I an lounging. I am watching it snow in my boxers.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to get something out of the car for my friend Moses, and the key FELL OFF the key chain just as I pressed lock and shut the door.

Luckily I had a spare at home and got a co-worker to drive me, crisis over.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Congratulations!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Snow in your boxers, Kenan?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like something is stuck between my molars, but ordinary floss ain't doing it. This is going to ruin my day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I am watching it snow in my boxers.
TMI.

oh, xposty

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I was at work late last night, and thought about taking the disused and neglected PowerMac G3. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just needs to be turned into a Linux box. Should I do this? Check one.

__yes __no

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, granted, it's stealing. But it's stealing something that no one will notice is missing until the next time we move, if then.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Only if you want to start looking like the Tron guy.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, is this a work computer? Then no, you ding dong. WTF?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The g3 is already Tron guy colors. I'll have a head start.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, is this a work computer? Then no, you ding dong. WTF?

It's a stored-under-a-cabinet-and-forgotten-computer. Because it's useless for what we do.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Stop rationalizing it, and NO. Bad Kenan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a "wow, i forgot this was here" computer.

yeah, i'm rationalizing. what of it?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe ask if you could have it? If they say "What computer??" it's yours.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell it to the judge.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

that would be a totally douchey thing to do kenan.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

If it's useless, why don't you ask if you can take it? XPOST

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

let's put aside for a moment our sense of propriety and remember that this thing is a dinosaur that no one wants. I lean towards yes.

What is this silly voice in my head the keeps telling me no?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And then you turn it into a linux box, and put this software on it:

http://www.torrentflux.com/

And then you're happy forever.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY I COULD ASK. That's actually not a bad idea. There might be a little hemming and hawing, though, because no one knows how computers work around there, and if I can use it for anything, why can't I use it at work?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

a dinosaur that still doesn't belong to you kenan.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

The hemming and hawing will then be the price you pay for a new box.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

a dinosaur that still doesn't belong to you kenan.

you people and your principles.

yeah, you're right, of course.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

What is this silly voice in my head the keeps telling me no?

It's the small part of you that doesn't really want to get fired.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i think that's it, yeah.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the small part of you that doesn't really want to get fired.

or arrested.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

arrested for stealing a g3 would indeed be a sad affair

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, fine, i'll just ask.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Good Kenan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

So I worked on this huge, painful project collecting emails so we could mass email all the bigshot realtors in Chicago about this open house... I collected about 4500 of them and it was a PAIN IN THE ASS. I got headaches every day. Anywho, I just found out I'm not allowed to go to it (it's today) because they need me here to answer the door even though there are only three or so other people in. Awesome.

Also, I was given a huge new list of more companies whose emails they want me to collect. Also awesome.

The good news is that I'll just be here alone basically and could read I guess (or just spend all that extra time on here).

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot to mention almost everyone else in the office is going. It's a full-floor condo, the fanciest one in the building, which will be well stocked with free food and wine and what-not.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, we've already established that we hate every single person you work with, I think? All of them. Can burn. In selfish, over-entitled, small-minded, stupid, ugly co-worker hell.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Laurel.

I'm mostly in a great mood today. I guess I can't help but bitch anyway though.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you realize that Bob Seger's sax player is named Alto Reed? I shit you not.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

:D to Sarah

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, steal a computer so that you can get fired and get a new job.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

And have a new computer. WIN/WIN!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I will not be held responsible for this.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Our laptop at home pretty much rules. We have some extra computers upstairs here but they are huge jurassic creatures.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://altoreed.com/index.html

hello 1997

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

like the g3!

really, I am plenty rich in computers. I have three, at present. But I want more.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost... oooh, the page plays "Turn the Page." My favorite Seger song.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

hello 1997

like the g3!

I like how that xpost turned out.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The page says it was created in '99, so, close.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, missed that. I was basing my era determination solely on the java applet wave effect.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

am going to grocery in driving snow. wish luck.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

luck

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I should be glad I don't have to go out in this mess.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually trying to work harder so I can get the hell home ahead of the rush, if possible!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the downside of being an avowed non-driver. I can't claim dangerous roads as an excuse for not coming to work in this weather.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The wind either stings your face with its ice and cold, or pushes you down the street. It can't decide on a direction. Shoveled sidewalks are ok, unshoveled sidewalks are mid-thigh-deep.

It's a world of suck out there.

Here is the world, being covered in suck:

http://www.manhattanproducersalliance.com/images/Sherwin_Williams_Logo.gif

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sneaking out of work to play a gig at high school now

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

This is going to be a fun walk from ee ee oh sea to school...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

take the blue line!

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

That would mean walking seven blocks to take the blue line one stop south.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually what I do is walk to Jackson and grab a 126, 7, or 151 bus. I could also hoof it to the El and take a brown line to the Library stop. Really, it's merely going outside at all that has me bummed. Especially because I dressed for the low 30s, and not any sort of wind chill horror show that is apparently happening out there now.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"Winds: NE at 25 mph"

So sayeth the weather channel. I don't see it. Looking out the window, the wind direction seems to be "up".

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I'm only wearing two shirts and one pair each of socks and pants. WTF was I thinking this morning???

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought you worked at the ogilvie transportation center? exit on madison, cross the street, enter union station and exit on jackson or monroe or wherever and walk a block south to the clinton blue line stop.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost That you're tough. AND YOU ARE.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xp I do. But going to the Clinton stop will require me to walk west to go east and I can't do that. Clinton is west of Canal - I'm on Canal and Madison.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, how long is your walk? because on a day like today i would walk one street west to ride a train rather than walk to depaul's loop campus (if that is, in fact, where you're going).

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

That is where I'm going. BUT it's two blocks to the El and three to Jackson, all in the correct direction, so NO BIGGIE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

there may be an entrance on van buren to the lasalle stop! but maybe you don't want to go exploring on the most miserable day of the year.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the most miserable day of the year? It's not even 10 below.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

no but when it was bitter cold at least there was visibility and i didn't have snow in my boots.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My prediction is that my most miserable day of the year will occur sometime in the end of July or beginning of August.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

plus, y'know, it's still pretty fucking cold out there. and the wind! my god the wind!!!

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you, Dan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

not possible.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I worry that I come off as a dick because I talk about how this weather doesn't bother me. But it's interesting, I see people's reactions to it as cultural differences, and finding out those differences is intriguing and enlightening. It makes want to take you all to the Yoop at this time of year, then again in late summer when it's at its most beautiful.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i can deal with heat, i've never been able to deal with winter. i hate the snow, i hate the cold, i hate it i hate it i hate it.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, you're not even remotely a dick. you're right, we talk about the weather too much.

still. this weather is not good. the people on the weather channel seem to agree. "Nasty Weather in Chicago!"

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

This is perfect post-sauna jumping snow.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://blogging.la/archives/images/2006/07/james_brown

HOT TUB!!!

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I grew up in the south, where a teeny tiny flurry would cause schools to shut down, offices to close, and a mad rush on the grocery stores.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That's just me though.

Hi.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

you ever watch a guinness settle, where there's this one layer of bubbles going up, and this other layer going down? that's what it looks like out my window right now.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Take a pic of it (for us, I mean)!

Some interesting first names from the realtor emails I've been collecting:
Poppy
Matinee

And there are an amazing number of women with the first names D0RATA and IW0NA.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts Hi.

I have heard lots of similar stories from my grandparents (from VA) and my parents to a lesser extent. But, my mom lived in the area of NY that got 11 feet or whatever amount last week, too. I've never seen 11 feet fall in a week, ever. Maybe 5 feet. It's such a pain in the ass to deal with, but you do it.

My cousin has a theory that people from places that get a lot of snow have evolved different work ethics because of growing up having to do things like shovel snow 2 or 3 times a day and just deal with the inconveniences it causes. Who knows if it's true or not.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Winter is more tolerable at night, and summer is more tolerable during the day. During the winter, you can always crank the radiators and put on a ton of blankets when you're trying to sleep, but during the summer, if you're stripped down to nothing and have the fan on full-blast and are still sweating, then there is no hope. Conversely, walking around your neighborhood when it's 90 is only mildly uncomfortable, but doing so in 0 degree weather is downright painful, and having to brush off your car and get your socks wet trudging through snow is annoying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

High schoolers are scary.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Take a pic of it (for us, I mean)!

I think it would just look like blurry snow. You had to be there.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a huge snow here right before my first day of work at my first Chicago job (not this one) after moving here. I was freaking out because I didn't hear from them and had no way of knowing if the office would be closed. So I finally dug out the car. I called them on my way in to say I was on my way and would be a few minutes late, thinking I they would send me back home. Instead, I was completely shocked to be told rather abruptly to never let it happen again.

s'ok, Kenan. I have an amazing view out the front doors here.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh, I guess UIC closed.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i get to leave 59 minutes early but that doesn't help me since that means i can leave at the exact time the bus departs the front of the campus (7-10 minute walk from here). without traffic or weather delays that would mean i'd get home 10-15 minutes early. so i'm guessing i'll get home around 7-ish.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

you should raise a stink about this

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I would just go 15 minutes early, and catch the bus. Fuck em!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i was going to dan but then i realized there's no way in hell the bus will be on time today. so i'll probably wind up waiting outside an extra 15 minutes.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

One can divide people (who drive) into 2 categories: those who have nowhere to be on a day like today and think, "WOW! I'm not getting near my car until springtime." And then there are those of us who wish that they had a car to go for a spin in this mess. I can think of 3 people in this category, including myself.

Take sides?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, what do we call this category? Reckless? Dangerous? Unwise?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I admit it: I oversteered the car a few times this morning to make it slide, and I whipped a little shitty turning around in the alley.

I am very afraid of other drivers, however, especially those with all their windows covered in snow/frost.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Only people who do not have a car could ever want to go for a drive right now. It's a fantasy.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Um. If it wasn't for the insane amount of slow moving traffic, I would love to go for a ride.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

in high school we used to go to the parking lots at the high school and have motorized snowball fights using our cars. the parking lot was a 5 or 6 tiered outdoor thing that had plenty of room. long enough where you could get the car up to about 45-50 mph then slam on the brakes and e-brake and cut the wheel as far as it would go to go into a spin. and hopefully not spin down the embankment to the next lower tier.

actually this is it, if this link works.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Not having other people on the road is part of the fantasy.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.twitchfilm.net/pics/FAF-Tokyo-Drift.jpg

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, for my own feat of nuttiness, i'm going to put a camera in my pocket and go for a walk on the "beach".

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Who said anything about going fast? That's dangerous. You're mistaking honest enjoyment of driving for hooliganism.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

My thoughts on the weather (the last time I shall speak on this subject):

I love the cold. I enjoyed the cold temps over the last few weeks. Today isn't ideal, but it's still pretty neat. I have ample coat, layers, tall waterproof boots, so my comfort level isn't decreasing that much.

I don't like oppressive heat at all. I don't like sweating. I am uncomfortable walking around with anything over 83 degrees. There are only so many clothes you can strip down to.

The only thing I don't like about the cold is the absence of the outdoor activities of spring and early summer.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I think trying to drive in a snowstorm at all is borderline hooliganism.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

whatevs, dan, i know you can drive in the snow. you go ahead.

with jesse, it really would be a deathtrap, though.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That's nice! It's good know what other people think.

Hahah, XP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

So is walking though. :-(

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha my friend Shawn just sent me an email, the subject line of which read: "Me getting stuck in snow today @ lunch" and the entire body of the message was "Embarassing..." and this picture:

http://www.geocities.com/starwarsliving/HothWampaCaveLuke.jpg

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa, we're getting out at 3:30.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that really him??

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that really him??

lol

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Those UP stories... I mean, you never know...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha! It's partially referential humor, we watched ESB the other night.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

And with that, I am gonna go brave the roads. Don't worry, Kenan!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, there's a car outside my window trying to un-parallel park, and is stuck. I am smiling about this. DON'T DRIVE TODAY, GENIUS.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, except for dan. dan gets to drive. alone on the roads.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to drive this morning because I realized that I had parked on Ashland overnight, which is usually fine except on days when there's more than 2 inches of snow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I made it to class with a minimum of pain. I am about to go reexperience the pain to get home. I have told Worker Justice, Inc. to cram it with walnuts. I have also discovered, much to my dismay, that my boots are not quite as waterproof as one might wish. :(

Goodbye forever.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Goodbye.

I'm reading Nylon magazine online.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought a bed frame the other day and I have a gigantic crush on the girl who sold it to me. Hitting on retail employees seems automatically crepey though?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Just...do it outside of work hours? Leave a msg for after her shift or something. I dunno how exactly to work out the details. But hitting on someone while they're in public/on the clock/visible to their employers is pretty awkward for them.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel OTM. I also feel like retail workers would automatically be irritated by flirting from people they would in other circumstances be more open to, just given the nature of retail work.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally, that's why I didn't do it. :(

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Learn from the masters:

Markp
Jess

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

OK BYE YOU GUYS

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm pills.

-- Ask For Samantha (...), April 11th, 2004.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

That Jess thread is classic.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose this silence means most people are home now.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i just came in from shoveling snow for 2 hours. now i am listening to cheap trick.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

MBN

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

not shoveling snow though, I guess

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember when I was little being paid to shovel people's driveways. I bet I was really slow and did a crappy job. I usually got hot chocolate though.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

sadly, i was not paid to shovel :(

i am now waiting to hear back from a bank i applied at!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you done with school yet, todd? I can't remember.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not home, nor will be for several hours (got to make up that time I spent playing at a high school assembly!).

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i am basically done... i am back home, but i am taking one class online then i will be done.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, Elaborate on the high school scene. Tell us about the kids these days.

Awesome, todd.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

My plan for the evening:
Walk to Bus
Take bus to bank
Do stuff at bank (not rob it)
Go to video store
Pray Marie Antoinette is in
Pray they let me rent it even though we already have movies out
Walk the rest of the way home

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

don't rob the bank
don't rob the bank
don't rob the bank
you're cool, just don't rob the bank

Just keep repeating that you'll be fine.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I went out to dig our car out of the snow and discovered that our car mysteriously has almost no snow on it. Either some mysterious good samaritan cleaned it off or it was shielded from all the snow by being parked next to the garage for the building next door.

I stayed at home and rewatched a bunch of Freaks & Geeks today.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have any juicy anecdotes about the hs kids, but it was a little unnerving playing in the gymnasium (worst acoustics ever) for all of their jaded little eyes.

xpost, nice

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm home. The drive wasn't bad except for the madness at the intersections around LSD. Why don't people stop going across when it's obvious no more cars can fit? The roads are moving except for down there.

LSD sucked up until about 47th, then the wind was blowing and the snow was drifting so a lot of people just stopped, which made it so much easier to go around them. :)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am still at work, don't get off till 6.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

suckfest

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

IT IS ASSHOLE DAY ON TEH TRAINS. I also lucked into an Addison bus that then got rear ended. No one was hurt and another bus came long and we all got on that and went home.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Asshole train things:

1. Youngish kid taking up two seats for sleepin' on a train so crowded people couldn't get into the doors.
2. Youngish kid wakes up, recognizes his assholery, and sits up. Grown up dude immediately throws his bag into the empty seat, saying "I NEED TO THROW MY BAG HERE."
3. Grown dude starts telling a companion about his recent travels, relating a story about how he was really rocking out to some music when the guy behind him asked him to please not rock out so hard because he was rattling his tray table and making eating/reading impossible. The guy's response was to ignore him and keep on rocking because, "Hey, I've got a life to live."
4. Grown dude then went on to talk about how there were so many Mexicans out there and that he really couldn't stand that.
5. Meanwhile, less blatantly racist women standing next to me talked about the pros and cons of various resorts in Mexico based on the response time of the "little men" who brought them drinks.
6. Train finally pulled into Addison and Grown Dude and his companions, who were standing in front of the door, refused to move to let people out. I let off some steam by telling him, "You are a fucking asshole" as I pushed past him to squeeze out of the door.

Then I bought beer and I am drinking it now.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

4. Grown dude then went on to talk about how there were so many Mexicans out there and that he really couldn't stand that.
5. Meanwhile, less blatantly racist women standing next to me talked about the pros and cons of various resorts in Mexico based on the response time of the "little men" who brought them drinks.

wow.

I let off some steam by telling him, "You are a fucking asshole" as I pushed past him to squeeze out of the door.

I love you, Jenny!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, there was a lot of Mexican hate on that train today.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Those people must not ride the Blue Line.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The women would be ordering drinks from all the Blue Line riders like Lucille does when she attends the Desis.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I MADE AN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT JOKE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

omg that is so otm, too! that would be awkward.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

DON'T DRIVE TODAY, GENIUS.
Some of us have to drive to work because taking the train/bus would take about 2 hours each way.

That said, I wanted to kill myself after spending THREE HOURS getting home from the west side today. Instead of killing myself I will drink some wine and eat some dinner and try not to kill myself.

I saw a snow drift in the middle of the road on LSD that was taller than I am.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have rather spent 2 hours on the bus than three hours putzing through Chicago alone in my car at 2 mph.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw a snow drift in the middle of the road on LSD that was taller than I am.

I just found out the reason things were so backed up when I left work was that the city closed LSD from 57th to 47th because of drifting.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

man, i'm sorry guys, i've been super pissy lately. all week, and all last week. everyone seems to be super pissy lately. my whole office is at one another's throats. it's all gone monkey side.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/weheartyou.jpg

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm struggling to maintain a positive attitude but it's getting a bit tough. I just ate a ginger spice cookie and it helped a little bit.

I just read a student's paper where she tells the story of how she was speeding on the turnpike and got pulled over for doing 90 mph in a 60 mph zone. The cop asked her to roll down her window and her daughter poked her head over to the driver's side and puked all over him. Then he gave her five tickets. The end. Or so goes her story.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Grr. I lost my wireless connection right after posting that thing about driving in the weather, then I had to go to work.

I have owned a car, and that was in the South, and when it snowed there I sometimes went for pleasure drives. What would *not* be fun would be to have to actually get somewhere by car on a day like today.

The 2 other pleasure drivers I know of also live in the South, they are Christian (Courtney's former not-so-significant other) and her brother. Oh, and my boss from the flower shop.

Anyway, it's a little adventure and it's really beautiful.

I knew Dan would be able to see it my way!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Add my brother to that list.

What I think is a much worse idea is the people I saw on bicycles on State St. and Wacker Drive. There was one guy on Wacker in front of Cathch slogging through drifts. It was after dark with taxis and buses swerving to avoid him since he there was pretty much no right lane and visibility was horrible.

DON'T BIKE, ASSBUTT!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

My trip home (walking & then eventually an expensive taxi ride since no bus came) wasn't very interesting yesterday, but it took an hour and 15 minutes, which is a very long time considering how close I live to work. At one point I was standing on a corner knee deep in snow (there was nowhere else to stand), ice was whipping against my face, my toes felt like pebbles in my shoes, and my fingers ached through my gloves. The taxis passing me were already full. Then I started to cry. It was a blast.

I wouldn't last a day if I were one of the characters from Alive.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The Mexican hate stories remind me of when I was little and two much older cousins from Dallas came to visit us. One of them asked me if we had any blacks at our school. I said, yeah, about 5 I guess. Then she said what about Mexicans? I was like, Why would Mexicans be at our school??? And then she went on and on about how lucky I was not to have to deal with them and their lazy asses. I had never been exposed to anti-latino sentiments before and was completely bewildered.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

man, yesterday on the train sucked. it was wicked crowded and i had to wait like 5 minutes before i could find a seat for my bag. anyway, i was with my friend brian and i was telling him about my last plane flight when i was cranking some tunes and totally rocking out in my seat. i was telling bri-guy how the nerd in the seat in back of me asked me to stop rocking and i was all "hey fielding mellish, i got a life to live, go big or go home dude." and kept rocking the fuck out. man i love dave matthews band.

anyway, around addison some broad pushed passed me and called me an asshole. i'm pretty sure she was a dyke.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

LOLZ

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, my dad has been made. :-D

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, my day has been made. :-D

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't you dare bring my dad into this!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah is talking to herself again...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

My brother is going to have a baby. Well, his wife is.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I was like, Why would Mexicans be at our school???

Do you mean because you thought Mexicans would be in Mexico?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

After we got sent home early yesterday, I headed straight to Hopleaf for a couple of beers, picked up some dinner at the Middle Eastern Bakery, and spent the rest of the night reading Prep. ATTENTION JESSE I AM READING "PREP."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you excited about being an aunt, Jenny?

Do you mean because you thought Mexicans would be in Mexico?
Exactly.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

my actual commute home started with me using a half hour of annual leave so i could catch the 3:11 bus. at around 3:40 the 2:45 bus finally showed up. despite leaving 90 minutes earlier than i do on a normal day i got home 20 minutes later than i normally do. and when i got home i just felt so utterly defeated that i went to bed.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i upgraded my netflix account to get 3 movies at a time because i burn through those tv on dvd things so quickly. but i think the formula i'm going to use is 1 tv dvd, 1 movie, 1 music dvd. that should cover me for the weekend.

anyway, lost is on tonight. i should order a pizza.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, my dad has been made. :-D

So he's not in the mob then?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know the mob lingo.

I forgot Lost is on tonight!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

my sister and i have been having a running political debate via email since last week but i am now totally jealous of her because she got to see this while i had to read about it in my inbox:

"We went to a Dennis event four years ago at Rivier
College in Nashua. He had a "warm up act" of these
two really geeky just-out-of-college types. They
claimed to be married. He was a human beat box/one
man band with some sort of electronic stuff taped to
him and she did interpretive dance. They called
themselves the Vibration Army. They wore regular
clothes with homemade tank tops on top of with a V
and an A in glittery material glued on them. It was
probably one of the top 5 funniest things I have ever
seen in my life. Note, that the crowd was probably
about 40 people."

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i suppose it's funnier if you know what southern central new hampshire is like.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

We're going to get one of those homemade pizza kitchen pizzas! And watch Lost!

Are you excited about being an aunt, Jenny?

I'm happy for them. That bro tends to get the cosmic shaft all the time so hopefully this will be a good happy thing in his life.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

oooh! i want spinach and carmelized onion pizza from there! i won't get one because i don't want to walk any further than i have to in the snow.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, yeah. Happy Valentine's Day!
http://www.oldtimeclipart.com/clipart/jpg/0214.jpg
love song

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know the mob lingo.

Made. This movie is pretty hilarious. It's kind of like watching what would happen if I got "made," ie, inducted into the mafia.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

OH yeah. I forgot about that movie.

My mom just sent a poem I wrote in high school to my sisters and I as some sort of e-valentine. I started reading it and was like.. ugh.. this is awful... what is this? Why is she sending me this? Oh, yeah.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night, we watched Half Nelson. I'd recommend it. But then as I was trying to fall asleep, I suddenly got the fear of god in me that I drink alcohol too often and that Chicago has been a bad influence on me. Then Nick said, There, There, Sarah. There, There... and I fell asleep.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

!!!!!!!!! Aw.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, tell the fear of God to relax, and make it a martini.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, around addison some broad pushed passed me and called me an asshole. i'm pretty sure she was a dyke.

KEVIN YOU ARE A TREAT

I want to stay home today, too. But no.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i swear to god the first time i read that i thought you called me a teat. i had to check twice to make sure it wasn't jenny calling me names and that i hadn't really insulted her.

i should have worked a barelycorn's reference in there.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been spelling squeegee wrong. It's not "squeejee."

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I braved driving to work today because I was worried I would go crazy insane if I spent another day in the apartment all day.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, kitten broke my headphones. She chewed through the wire! Am I going to have to kittenproof my whole setup somehow?

I would love to go crazy insane spending all day in the apartment.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Kittens will do that. They will also scratch up your couch.

I want a kitten.

I think it was my trip home last night that made me all crazy (or at least extra crazy). I also woke up in the middle of the night and swore Pepper was dead. She was sleeping beside me, but I couldn't see her breathing. When I touched her she felt stiff and kind of cold and I totally freaked. I was about to wake up Nick when I pet her again and she started purring really loudly.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

This was probably also a result of the dead cat in the movie we watched.

I'm bored. Talk to me.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I expect my kittens to be decorous and well-behaved.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i forgot my carmex at home for the second consecutive day. my lips are chapped beyond reason. i'm going to make some tea now.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/368680183_de5ca30017_m.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

You can put honey on the lips, actually. It's hydrophillic.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i also didn't bring my honey to work today.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

you never bring me your honey

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm having hot chocolate and an orange.

Man, that snow sure is coming down.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh well, I just said because sometimes office kitchens have honey? Or delis have it in little packets? Tho I guess if you were at a deli you could just buy some more Carmex.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Valentine's Day. Kr said last week that V Day is totally not a big deal to her and she's not expecting roses and chocolates and all of that, but she did say "well maybe we can still do something nice," and I said "sure." And so I just thought that that meant that we'd go out after Lost and get dessert/wine somewhere. But now it turns out that she is making dinner for me, and then reserved us tickets to see a show at IO, and I didn't realize that she was going out of her way to do things FOR ME, instead of us just doing something mutually and spontaneously, and so now I'm feeling vaguely guilty, since I haven't done anything for her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"We went to a Dennis event four years ago at Rivier
College in Nashua.

Dennis Kucinich? Hastert? Miller?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I suddenly got the fear of god in me that I drink alcohol too often and that Chicago has been a bad influence on me.

If you drink too often, then the rest of CHILX are incorrigible raging alcoholics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

kucinich.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been spelling squeegee wrong. It's not "squeejee."

Maybe you could remember it because squeegees are icons of NYC street life, and there was no better chronicler of NYC street life than...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Weegee.jpg/250px-Weegee.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

You should probably get her some roses and chocolates and all of that.

Madd1e sent me this for a VD card.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

then the rest of CHILX are incorrigible raging alcoholics.

*sound of nail being hit on head*

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

xp Ha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not want a vd card, or anything related to vd at all.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

John, You have all day to think of something. Or hey, what if you planned a surprise of some sort for her for some other day when she least expected it? Or you could offer to pay her back for the tickets...

Jordan, Is it ok that I found that hilarious?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

It's ok, I found it pretty hilarious too.

Or you could offer to pay her back for the tickets...

I don't think this would work.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Or hey, what if you planned a surprise of some sort for her for some other day when she least expected it?

I told her I'd make it up to her.

The tickets were $5 each. It would seem petty.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, I'll think of something. I don't want to turn this into a big old debate about what I should do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

then the rest of CHILX are incorrigible raging alcoholics
I have always had a pretty huge fear of getting addicted to something, especially due to extended family history. I was fiercely self-righteous growing up when it came to alot of things and it's taking me a very long time to calm the fuck down about them. So I apologize for coming off as a bitch sometimes.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

gimme whatever.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

My Saturday afternoon:

Smoked Rattlesnake Sausage with Blueberry-Port Sauce and Smoked Gouda Cheese
- $7.50

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan - real rattlesnake??

What is IO, by the way?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

formerly improv olympics.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

until the international olympic organization threatened to sue them into oblivion.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, I hope so!

(it's on the Hot Doug's menu)

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, you're not being a bitch! Sorry to sound snarky.

Yeah, IO = ImprovOlympic. We're seeing TJ and Dave, who are supposed to be the best improvisers in the city, according to my improv friends. We tried to go a couple months ago but didn't realize it was something that routinely sold out, so we were turned away at the box office.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

So I apologize for coming off as a bitch sometimes.

when has this happened, ever?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, serious question: "Cut loose like a deuce" vs. "Wrapped up like a douche"?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

The former.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

But why would anyone ever say that?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I worry that sometimes I cross the line from coming off a little prudish to just being a bitch, but also I tend to worry too much, so you can just ignore that.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

if you're asking about "blinded by the light" it's "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night".

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/blindedbythelight.shtml

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

it's "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

but springsteen says "cut loose like a deuce". I think I like that better.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Who wraps up a douche? Worst Valentine's present ever (FYI, John).

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

but springsteen didn't write the song.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

rockist.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

"This Valentines Day, give her the gift of freshness."

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Deuce may also refer to:

* "The Deuce" A cool nickname used for a very cool person
* "Deuce - deuce and a half." Referring to a woman weighing between 200 & 250 pounds.
* The Deuce, double-decker buses serving the Las Vegas Strip
* Deuce coupe, a slang term for the 1932 Ford Model B car
* The 'common name' for the Harley-Davidson FXSTD/FXSTDI model motorcycle (Softail Deuce)
* "The Deuce" or "Ace Deuce", nicknames for Ann Arbor, Michigan
* "Deuce and a half", a slang term for the U.S. Army's M-35 military
* A slang term for feces, related to the euphemism "Number 2".
* A name for the devil, usually used as a mild oath, for example, "What the deuce is going on here?" and "What the Deuce?"
* "Deuce-Deuce" - Urban slang for a .22 calibre pistol or a gun.
* "Deuce-Deuce" - Also urban slang for a 22 oz. bottle of beer or malt liquor.
* "Deuce"- a slang term for a bag of cannabis costing $20.
* A police term for a suspect being intoxicated, "Unit 194 pedestrian in roadway possible duece."

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of being a raging alcoholic, I'm going to Old Timer's tomorrow after my afternoon class (partially in hopes of getting home at a reasonable hour since I have to work early on Friday morning) and encourage all of you who have flexible work schedules to join me.

Sarah you are NOT a bitch. I loves you.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Sarah's attitudes towards alcohol are influenced by the fact that both of her parents are practically teatotalers.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Jennycakes.

I just made Valentine's plans, meaning a yummy dinner at home, cupcakes, and Lost. :-D

Those happen to be Nick's plans too. Nick, Hi.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi guys.

The snowbanks on Lakeshore around 57th street today were quite impressive!

I second Sarah's non-bitchiness.

Fuck Valentine's Day.

I am looking forward to my day off on Friday.

I would hang out tomorrow because I have the day off Friday, what time Jenny?

Thus endeth my update. Carry on.

Oh! By the way this was hilarious and made me snort water up my nose: Who wraps up a douche? Worst Valentine's present ever (FYI, John). Kudos!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF210-Wishing_Well.gif

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

A Y-Wing or whatever that is would be pretty sweet.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd go for the barrel of money, myself.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

They're only sad because they do not have mouths.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think maybe what I thought yesterday was something stuck between my molars is actually a chipped tooth.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Aghgh!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

At least you have a mouth, dude.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

(sry)

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i have no mouth, but i must scream

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

CAN I SCREAM?!?!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

(I'm listening to Refused)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

MmMMmbmbmmmmm. MMmmnbnbmbmbm, mmmm mb mememmmbmbmm.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Those two Refused songs were awesome (the one you're referencing and the "WHAT FREQUENCY ARE YOU LISTENING? IS IT NOISE OR SWEET SWEET MUSIC?" song).

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Refused.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know who Refused is, but the name reminds me of Disturbed or The Used. I am guessing Refused is probably more awesome than either of those bands, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/pochettes/835_2116.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's the video for the song I was referencing, "New Noise":

http://youtube.com/watch?v=K8MkVIe9xGc

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/pochettes/541_1528.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I hate that music but they're such cute emo geeks under the bunny suits.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a video for "Liberation Frequency," the song I was talking about, but you can watch a high school band play it really badly in a gym here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-UWT5bbTCkY.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

If you're into that kind of thing.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if I still have that album? I hope I do.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got it if you don't. Ack, that record is like 8 years old!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

According to Nabisco, I dress like Refused

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

In a creepy bunny suit?

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Or a cute emo geek?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Ack, that record is like 8 years old!

October 1998. So, yeah.

I wanna be a screamo in a sweater vest.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Now that's over and I want to listen to Frodus!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Moxy Fruvous?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm on hold to place a pickup request from DHL. Their message begins with, "Due to the winter storm, we are currently experiencing a high call volume..." Excuses, excuses...

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I am having a big mac attack.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Apricot walnut rugeleh. Take sides.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The rugelech. I haven't had a Big Mac in close to 10 years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Walnuts can fall off the tree and stain the driveways IN HELL, as far as I'm concerned. Apricot-only.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll take the ruglah.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i wonder if rugelach has more or less sugar than a big mac? prolly close to the same.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

LOVE WALNUTS

Apricot is okay.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't mean take sides between the rugeleh and the Big Mac. I just meant exactly what I said.

Apricot-Walunt Rugeleh. Take sides.

(At Argo Tea they spell it "rugeleh.")

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Doug's, this Saturday, 11:30 am. So let it be written, so let it be done.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Rugelach

XP: SO SAY WE ALL

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant to spell it like you did, Jesse. Somehow it acquire a glottal sound when I typed it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm having a tootsie roll. I don't believe I've ever had a Big Mac. When I ate meat, I liked the burgers at Burger King, but not McDonalds, though sometimes I'd just get fries there.

A guy at work posted a 24 calendar on the wall his mom gave him. Oh, I barely remember when 24 was my TV on DVD addiction...

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm having a tootsie roll tootsie pop.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yesterday on the train there was a woman with a Bible doing some LOUD preaching. Unfortunately, she had 3 fans on the train who joined her in prayer and said loud "Amens" and "Hallelujahs" and "Praise Hims!" She took a prayer request from one man.

One guy yelled at her to STFU, but the others shut him up; one guy said, "That's the devil trying to silence you, Sister! Speak the Truth!"

Grrrrr.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

How do you all have so many run ins with crazies? All I see are grumpy commuters.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I misled you all with my prior statement.

xpost - You should have started shaking and receiving the holy spirit.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And irritating subway musicians. I hate those dudes. They do not add color, they are just bad.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Laurel wins:

Results 1 - 10 of about 75 for rugelech
Results 1 - 10 of about 131 for rugeleh
Results 1 - 10 of about 224 for ruglah
Results 1 - 10 of about 321 for rogelach
Results 1 - 10 of about 590 for rugelah
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,390 for rugalah
Results 1 - 10 of about 5,920 for rugulach
Results 1 - 10 of about 22,100 for rugalach
Results 1 - 10 of about 138,000 for rugelach

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of crazies, I'm at Argo Tea, and guess who's here?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay, winning!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It smells faintly of antifreeze in my office.

I want to express preliminary interest in going to Hot Doug's Saturday, but will reserve judgement until I see how I feel that morning.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think this woman was necessarily mentally ill, just a rabid, obnoxious Christian.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care about snow, or Valentine's, or nutritional content of ANYTHING today, because I'm wearing these, and they make it all better:

http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/image_upload/product_variety_314.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

NB: Those are not my legs. Sadly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Niiice! I want some.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so I am going to be going out on a date sometime next week. But now I am dreading it because I'm scared of dates. I reeeealllly don't like dating. Would that I could just skip the dating and have an LTR.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

He's from New Orleans. And he works for United (!).

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah: www.sockdreams.com!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

hott sox!

(plz 2 forgive my lechery)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, those legs.

Hey Jordan, is there any chance of getting on the guest list for Friday's show? I wasn't planning on coming, but then I realized that I might be very close to the Green Mill that night, so I could maybe pop in for a little while.

On Saturday I am playing a fundraiser for a GAY ALDERMANIC CANDIDATE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to register for socks from that site for the wedding, um, night.

He's from New Orleans. And he works for United (!).
Jesse, no! First, he'd convince you to move to NO. Then, he'd be away all the time being a hot flight attendant and not attending to you.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't mind dates, my MO has historically been to get drunk and make out somewhere. It's transitioning from dates to dating that seems to be the problem. Cue eye roll.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: at least you know he's not a boi...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

He's not a flight attendant. He's a safety trainer or something.

He actually moved here from San Fran.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: at least you know he's not a boi...?

What do you mean?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought bois were lesbians.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

And Avril Lavigne crushes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

We should do a Thursday drinking event at Dave and Busters one week.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

But does he still go on lots of trips?
Is he cuuuute?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost 2x

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, those legs.

jaymcotm.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought bois were lesbians.

How many times can we have this discussion?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

boi boi boi!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Just looked at their site. Looks fun.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

He's cute. He's got grey hair, which is good. He's 38 I think.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

How many times can we have this discussion?

Have we had it before? I don't remember.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, isn't this the guy you wrote back saying how annoyed you were by the cuet butch lesbos?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Jordan, is there any chance of getting on the guest list for Friday's show?

I'll try, and send you a txt if I can get you on.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

OK cool. Thanks!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

No. This is a guy I met out one night and have already made out with.

And FYI (JMC and Laurel) in my vast experience, "boi" (bois, boiz) is a cutesy and annoying name that self-identied twinks (blech) give themselves in their screennames.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm familiar with twinks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you ever have a conversation so strange that you just have to let it go? Woman in the office that we'll call "f":

"Red hots remind me of high school."

me: "Yeah, they're good."
f: "They should have found these in Iran."
me: "What?"
f: "Sublime's color is a lime green."

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Wikipedia gives both definitions.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, dating is weird.

I left one more message for that girl I met at the show, and if she doesn't call back then I'm writing it off.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The other guy and I are still in the emailing stage.

It is an established aspect of my personality that I really dislike process and love results, while simultaneously being really indecisive, tending to deliberate forever and be averse to being judicious.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, how does she feel about "Honey with Colts"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got too many problems, both physical and mental, for me to be dating anyone right now but dear god in heaven i could go for a one night stand.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I had never heard the lesbo usage of "boi" before John talked about it.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(the weird thing is, I could understand if she never called me back after the one night...but why call me once and sound all positive about going something, and then disappear for two weeks?)

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got too many problems, both physical and mental, for me to be dating anyone right now

I feel the same way about myself. Actually, make that "to be in an LTR," but I still want to be off the market.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

the weird thing is, I could understand if she never called me back after the one night...but why call me once and sound all positive about going something, and then disappear for two weeks?

she probably violated her parole and is back in the joint.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I had never heard the lesbo usage of "boi" before John talked about it.

Maybe that's because you're not a lesbian, and I am.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The guy who just finished fixing the copier machine, explaining to me why it took 5 days to replace this missing part:
Well, you know how it is. You can't just buy the dress without buying the shoes, the jewelry, and everything else.

Thank you, stranger, for putting that copier tech talk into a language I can understand!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

So how about this weather, eh? One minute it's pouring the snow, the very next it's brilliantly clear and blue!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i was snow blind when i came back from lunch.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, Do you have an email address for her too? Maybe something is wrong with that number or she can't check messages from whereever she is..?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

today is valentine's day and in four days it's the one-year anniversary of when i met my gf (at a saint etienne show!). before i met her i had a series of awkward dating experiences which were exercises in gamesmenship. i'm glad to be off the market :-p

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

holy fuck the city locations for homemade pizza co. all deliver! you can't imagine how disproportionately happy this makes me.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! We discovered this when we went in to get a pizza last weekend. Delivery is only $2!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

the weird thing is, I could understand if she never called me back after the one night...but why call me once and sound all positive about going something, and then disappear for two weeks?

Ugh, I hate this. There was that one girl a couple years ago who I spent the night with and made plans to see again when I was walking her home in the morning, and then I never heard from her again, after several e-mails and phone calls.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The back part of the Rennaisance hotel is cordoned off because of the falling ice. Not just little warning signs, but the sidewalk is closed.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

the last girl i was seeing before my gf ditched me without warning on my BIRTHDAY. no call, no nothing.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

in four days it's the one-year anniversary of when i met my gf (at a saint etienne show!).

Awww!

I think my brother was at that show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, just the phone number. :(

There actually is a homemade pizza co.? I thought Nick just meant that you guys were making pizza from scratch.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

In 25 days it will be the one-year anniversary of when I met Kr.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

JC: http://www.homemadepizza.com/

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't get it. they deliver you an uncooked pizza?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the last girl i was seeing before my gf ditched me without warning on my BIRTHDAY. no call, no nothing.

Cold.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamn anniversaries and birthdays all to hell. Bah.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I'm the bitter one today.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

yes kenan, this has been discussed here recently.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i have a pact with her. if sarah cracknell comes a-callin', i get one 'exception'. also: if francoise hardy circa '64 appears.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know who my celebrity exemption is. I think hers is David Duchovny.

I probably shouldn't have told you guys that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to call my record "How to Bake the Big Cookie".

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

That's such a sad story, John! (and gear!)
My 3-yr relationship in college ended with a breakup on my birthday (me being the dumpee). It was a complete shock.

In 5 days, it will be my 8 year 3 monthiversary with Nick.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i think hers is what's his name from luna.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://duchovny.net/morephotos2/zooprev/zoo001.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

spielberg?

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a girl break up w/me on my 23rd birthday. she was an "older woman" and immediately started dating another dude named kevin in a delightful bit of foreshadowing.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I met him about a month before we started going out, but I'm not 100% positive.

Jordan, we usually do make pizza from scratch, but everyone gave this place rave reviews so we tried it.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fanfic.de/AkteX/Schauspieler/Darsteller/Hauptdarsteller/Duchovny-David/grosse_Fotos/Foto47/David_Duchovny47-David_TwinPeaks.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

They're giving away mini chocolates outside of Borders on State, and it's yummy.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin, I dated a guy briefly in high school who ended up having a second girlfriend (ie: at the same time) also named Sarah.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.davidduchovny.com.br/ntest/arquivos/Twin_PeaksDavid_Duchovny_03.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i knew the other kevin, we went to high school together. one night he gave me a ride home from the bar when i was WAAAAAAAAAAAAY fucked up and i showed my gratitude by climbing out of his car and saying "thanks, but your girlfriend still loves me."

a-hole.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ Duchovny drag

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I am listening to Echo & the Bunnymen. Why? I don't know.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

DAN, YOU MUST WAIT UNTIL YOU GIVE YOURSELF TO HIM.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to say it sounds surprisingly like the Arcade Fire. But I don't get the reference, sorry. I think this is the first time I've ever listened to them.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you not heard "Lips Like Sugar"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, it's from "killing moon".

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

J, no, it's not on this record (I'm listening to some co-worker's iTunes library).

"The Killing Moon" is up in a couple tracks though. I'm going to fast forward to it 'cause I think I can get out of here early again today since my boss is gons.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

D. Cooper's chin is so bite-able.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought that "Lips Like Sugar" was kind of famous. I sort of mentally group it with "So Alive" by Love and Rockets. Probably just songs I heard on WXRT or early '90s Q101.

I think I first heard "Killing Moon" when Pavement covered it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

my older sister LOVED echo and the bunnymen in high school/college.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I sort of mentally group it with "So Alive" by Love and Rockets.

There's maybe a larger category that also includes "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil and "Under the Milky Way" by the Church.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

And "Cuts You Up" by Peter Murphy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e., Anglo-oriented modern rock from the late 80s with portentous booming baritone vocals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys were busy today.

I get done with class on Thursdays at... 2:45. Yes. That's right. 2:45. Academics? Unemployed? Servers? Those with PTO to burn? Join me.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's tomorrow, I mean. And in response to Dan's question above. And also we were slacking by planning happy hour so late last week.

Also, I like The Refused.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

how many ilxors are in chicago? there seem to be more from there than any of the other major cities (save london).

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

NYC sez ;_;

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

;_;

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe i'm just more aware of which ones are from chicago

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

9 maybe??

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you, stranger, for putting that copier tech talk into a language I can understand!

I just had someone from career services suggest that we host a panel of women attorneys to talk about balancing family and work life or how to keep your career on track after having children. We have had three panels of women attorneys speak on those subjects just this year.

It's a stunning concept that women might be interested in the actual substance of the law instead of how we can have jobs and babies at the same time.

xp: 10 - 15?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My bff Lynn talked to Ian McCulloch on the radio and he invited her "backstage" at his show in Cleveland and then reneged when he found out that she was 15.

THe end. Happy Valentine's Day.

You all better not forget to list me this time or someone's getting jacked in the jackballs.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah nyc has more, then...

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

me jeff nick sarah john kenan jesse dan amanda horseshoe julia kevin

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't mess with my jackballs!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I just jump-started the car of the dude who helped me with my key situation yesterday. Karma is real.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc, nick, sarah, jeff, jenny, kevin, dan martin, amanda, deej, sparklecock... and some more. does stormy davis still live in chicago?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah, horseshoe, julia, and ME

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

and eric z.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric! Dammit I knew I would forget someone in the "core" group.

Jon via Chicago...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear 70 Page Law Review Article:

I hate you.

Love,
Jenny

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

So at least 15. Sorry dudes who I was forgetting in my count (you'll never know who!).

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

jordan is honorary.

so is laurel. she is of a chicago temperament.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Not really. But I lubs the midwest.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

that's more than l.a., at least. i think.

i should be honorary chicagoan, what with my roots which are deep like levar burton

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

and then there are those who can claim dual citizenship, like hstencil, nabisco, and amateurist

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

For purposes of ILXor head-count, though, I have to be ranked with la manzana mas grandes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, yeah, but the question was how many are IN Chicago. I *heart* Jordan and Laurel (xp and Ama and I hear that nabisco is OTM and hstencil and I hated each other once but are BFFs now even though he probably doesn't remember BUT I DO) but they are not in Chicago and cannot be counted for the purposes of the question. Technically then neither can that guy moving here from Chapel Hill.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

does stormy davis still live in chicago?

I'm sure he does, as long it's south of Roosevelt.

There's also Derek Erdman, jonviachicago, Josh in Chicago, econjohn, jennpb, and K3rry K3ane.

Other former Chicagoans: Phil-Two and Grady.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay this is fascinating but I have a long law review article to read. Not as long as originally feared, however; more than half of it is footnotes.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

But wait you have to hear my story it's about dogs:

I just yelled at this dude in the park because he let his scary dog come running up to Carl and me and then when his dog pounced on me and almost knocked me over and I yelped he didn't even SAY anything. THen you know what he said? From like 100 feet away? When I started stomping through the snow out of the park?

"Don't you want to stay and play?"

I yelled, "NO." And Carl and I took off. I wanted to stay and play, but not with his scary dog.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Or him. That guy can suck on a walnut.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda!!! Even if that big dog was harmless, which YOU had no way of knowing, you must have been TERRIFIED!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Or an apricot.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No, apricots are too good for him, but gross, hurty walnuts are JUST RIGHT, sez Goldilocks.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I was not happy.
And Carl knew that I was scared and he started growling, and then I looked at the guy and was like HELP and he was just plop plop plop walking through the snow like there was nothing going on. NOT COOL PARK ETIQUETTE.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't get the walnut hate

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

They burn my mouth when I chew them. Maybe too acidic?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

While trying to think of Chicagoans, I remembered something -- wasn't one of us throwing a party once and this girl started a thread and was like "we can have the party at my place," even though nobody knew her? When was that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaymc, if YOU don't remember, ain't NOBODY remember.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I just found it in my e-mail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

if i lived in chicago i would have faps with all this ilxors

xpost (!)

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

She didn't start a thread, she privately e-mailed Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Gear, you don't even hang out with LAers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

xp And the party that "we" were throwing was the infamous birthday party at Robin's place that involved me stumbling down to Jeff and Jenny's place with my pants around my ankles and Kenan falling down and hitting his head on the curb outside T's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Then there are the lurkers, too, right? C0urtn3y has an account, although it seems like Jesse posts from it more than she does.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't one of gbx's friends lurk for a while, too?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean Chicago Reader letters-column personality MARK DANJER?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

that is true...i guess i'm naturally somewhat reticent about opening up a new social territory, which is probably just irrational.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

No, admit it -- Ned freaks you out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

just the weird non-sideburns and the 3am heavy breathing calls which i traced back to a 'n. raggett' of costa mesa.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

How quickly we forget gbx as a honorary (former) Chicagoan. Also robotsinlove.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

We spread our seed far and wide.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Sterling and Felicity used to live here, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Ann Sterzinger, Brian Nemtusak, Sarah Pedal

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Rockin' the suburbs: T0dd Sw1ss, Melissa W

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

A co-worker of mine (the one who told me about this job, in fact) used to post on ILB and a couple times on this thread, back in 2004.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

She posted as "mck," and while I was looking for that, I found this:

i will be at schubas for the new year show, anyone who fancies a pint with me there is more than welcome to attend. i'll be the painfully thin guy sneaking back into the main bar area to grab secret smokes while my lady friend is (hopefully) thinking i'm going to the john. please don't tell her.

-- otto midnight (otto_midnigh...), July 16th, 2004.

Long before we knew him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

my gf used to post on ilx and one day we had this epiphany wherein she realized who i was from here (this was a couple months after we met)

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

or rather we both realized we posted here and she remembered me

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Awkward!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait, I met someone at a totally un-ilx-related party in NYC and gave him my email address for a mailing list and when I got home I had an email reading, "Hi, are you Laurel that posts on ILX?". Garglarglagle

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

¯\(°_o)/¯

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I posted on ILX before Sarah but once she started posting we spent a few months pretending on here that we didn't know each other IRL.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm too embarrassed to look for my first post on ILX. Not that I Could now anyway.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

mine was related to the cubs' playoff run in '03.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.lollapalooza.com/yourlolla/

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I just realized that I have absolutely no interest in large festivals like Lollapalooza anymore, if I ever did. Not only do they cost over $100, there's like a million bands that play them, and I dunno, I like treating live performances as something special, not as commodities to be chosen at random while wolfing down a corn dog and running from one side of the park to the other. It's just too overwhelming. I'll still go to Pitchfork Fest, though, where there's usually only one band playing at any given time (except for the DJ tent).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Some of my friends are talking about Bonnaroo. I think they're insane.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

And the party that "we" were throwing was the infamous birthday party at Robin's place that involved me stumbling down to Jeff and Jenny's place with my pants around my ankles and Kenan falling down and hitting his head on the curb outside T's.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. You took your pants down AFTER you came to our house and then slept in our hallway, on the bare floor, with your pants around you ankles. And Kenan fell and cracked his egg outside of Clark's on Clark. And in various and sundry flower beds on the way to Clark's on Clark.

This is also the party of the famous "homeboy" incident, which did at least cure me of calling everybody whose name I couldn't remember "homeboy."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have drinks with this "gear."

I am also waiting for the day that I run into a real life person who posts on ILX and then I will cry.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i scrolled down after reading post 4:30 entries but hstencil was the first ilxor i knew. it predated my posting to chilx threads however. he was the only person i knew here (save towga) before i moved here.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

She posted as "mck," and while I was looking for that, I found this:
i will be at schubas for the new year show, anyone who fancies a pint with me there is more than welcome to attend. i'll be the painfully thin guy sneaking back into the main bar area to grab secret smokes while my lady friend is (hopefully) thinking i'm going to the john. please don't tell her.
-- otto midnight (otto_midnigh...), July 16th, 2004.
Long before we knew him.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), Today 11:39 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

HOLY SHIT!!!!

i used to post to ilm years before that but ilm made me so sad that i abandoned this place. that must have been when i came back.

that post makes me sad.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, next time you visit Chicago, gear, you should totally let us know! although I'd imagine you have a lot of friends and family in the city, huh?

xpost

aw, Kevin.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember that night. ;_;

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously, i need to stop buying records. my want far outstrips my ability to pay for them.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought records tonight, and even listened to them. Four Tet is pretty ridiculous, I don't know why I never really paid attention to him before. Of Montreal is pretty good but I don't think I like anything as much as that tune I heard on the radio (track 5).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Homemade Pizza Company,

I love you.

Love,
Jenny

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

not too shabby

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Details pls

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

You took your pants down AFTER you came to our house and then slept in our hallway, on the bare floor, with your pants around you ankles. And Kenan fell and cracked his egg outside of Clark's on Clark. And in various and sundry flower beds on the way to Clark's on Clark.

No. My pants were off on the way. I distinctly remember this.

I also remember Kenan hitting his head outside of an establishment on a southeast corner of Clark. It was very close to Clark's on Clark. It might not have been T's, I'll grant you. But it was probably SoFo or Banana Video or whatever's there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 February 2007 06:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What a fucking night.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to TT tomorrow. I'm off all day, so I will just get there at 11 AM and keep drinking peppermint schnapps until you all get there.

Courtney said she would stop in. She is meeting her sister at the airport at 8:30-ish. I think she and may go to see Jordan play Friday night.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

John is right.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry. I misremembered where your pants were, John. I must have been drunk.

The pizza we got was: sausage, caramelized onions, and mushrooms on whole wheat. Tasty!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I also remember Kenan hitting his head outside of an establishment on a southeast corner of Clark.

Ugh. Can we not relive that? I hope to never, ever be that drunk again.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought I was going to be late this morning, but then my train went express and I was right on time. The CTA gods are smiling on me today.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

So they just bring you an uncooked, but not frozen, pizza?

I slept on my neck funny and now I can hardly move it. :(

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

According to others who took the red line this morning, I was one of the lucky few. And if I had tried to get to work on time, I only would have been standing on the platform for forever.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my coworkers was an hour late today because of a red line breakdown.

Jordan, was the Of Montreal song you liked the most "Gronlandic Edit," the disco-y one with the crazy descending harmonies? That one's my favorite.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently John Fahey went to the high school I graduated from.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I slept on my neck funny and now I can hardly move it. :(

Count yourself lucky

http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/images/comics/prison.gif

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Only because he has no neck.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

Nick, that's the one.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Only because he has no neck.

Yes he does

http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/images/comics/stomach.gif

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/images/comics/stomach.gif

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

eating tumors? don't show us these things.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

You're a sourpuss.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Wah! My name is Kenan and I like to get in a snit. Wah!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

too obvious. not biting.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

HI DERE CHILX.

I'm Nick (call me en, that's what girl-I-was-sort-of-dating-while-she-was-in-an-open-relationship-with-a-guy-named-Nick used to call me), and as of like 15 minutes ago, I suppose I'm a Chicago ilxor.

It was snowing night before last in my bedroom.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Why are people giving Carlos Mencia a hard time, saying he's "not really Mexican" just because he's 1/2 German?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that I don't hate Mencia, but still, he's Mexican enough.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

why give him a hard time about that when there are SO MANY OTHER THINGS to give him a hard time about? lack of perspective, there

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

NICKS FITE

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello "en." Where do you live? Did you just move here? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hello other nick

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://library.syr.edu/digital/images/s/StreetAndSmith/NewMagnetLibrary/00001235.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi En. Tell us about the snow in your bedroom.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

As far as the Mencia question, it makes me wonder, am *I* Mexican enough? Do I have what it takes?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Why are people giving Carlos Mencia a hard time

Because he's not funny?

Hi other Nick.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I live on N. GAYsted, a few blocks from Wrigley. I moved here a few months ago, but just started posting.

It's just a really old building with shite insulation, and the snow was so heavy that when I woke up, freezing under three blankets, I found a nice half inch of snow on my bookshelf

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Do I have what it takes?

You got it in spades, baby. :)

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi, en.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Why are people giving Carlos Mencia a hard time

Because he's not funny?

Goddamit, this is NOT what I said. Don't quote me out of context.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

This is my official announcement of my participation in this week's TT.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Not going to be able to make it, unforch.

How did I not know Mama Digdown's is in town this weekend? Jordan, you aren't doing your promotional duties.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought I mentioned it a couple times! Anyway, yeah, Friday and Saturday night. And at the Children's Museum on Sat. afternoon (post-Hot Doug's).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool. I think Sarah and I will be there tomorrow night, we've got other plans on Sat.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick, Hi. I sent you a bunch of emails.

I'm lookin' forward to some down diggin'.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Awesome. I wish I could put you all on the list but we only get one slot each (John, do you think you're going to stop by for sure?).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm going tomorrow night. If I do, Courtney and her sister from NY will be in tow.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. I just saw a HUGE roach in my bathroom. I'm talking about New Orleans proportions. Nothing I've ever seen in Chicago. In fact, that's the first roach I have ever seen in Chicago. He was probably in my luggage.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I sprayed him with Scrubbing Bubbles.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man. New Orleans roaches have first and last names, I hate those dudes.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a bad babysitter, got my boyfriend in the shower. OOH! I'm making 6 bucks an hour.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

What is that?

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

That is some weird song that Jesse always sings when he sees roaches.

I live on N. GAYsted, a few blocks from Wrigley.

Hey, we live on Broadway and Cornelia. WE R NEIGHBORS.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, I hope to also be in attendance tomorrow night. Could you remind us of the time?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Those are good lyrics.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I must walk by your building every week or so to get groceries then.

BFF FOREVER.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet, Dan. Show starts at 9:00 and we'll play three sets.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

We should try to score a booth again.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

We live in the building with the GINORMOUS America's Next Top Model billboard on the side of it. You can see our kitchen window from the Jewel parking lot. We might have seen you get groceries. Surely Ed the Cat, who sits in that window all day every day, has seen you.

You should come to have drinks with us today. Show yourself.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That was going to be my next question... should we show up early to get seats?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

By all means. Where/what time? I have class downtown until 9ish, but could pop in after.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That was going to be my next question... should we show up early to get seats?

Yeah, it seems like people get cutthroat about the tables/booths there. They will shank you without thinking twice.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have just been convinced to go to Harold's Chicken for lunch. Sorry in advance, arteries.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

OK. Who's going in on this with me?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/apa/276436063.html

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Stupid No Pets rule!

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I <3 Lincoln SQuare

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm taking a sick day today, but while I'm skimming...

(John, do you think you're going to stop by for sure?).

No, I'm not sure, so you should totally give your spot to Nick or Sarah. We still might come, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

(Or Dan. Whatever. I'm going to M. Henry for lunch.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: no TT for me, I have band practice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Band practice night, ahoy!

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been looking at craigslist apartment ads ever since I saw Eric's post. I love our apartment, but those 'free heat' ads make me swoon. Our gas bill for this past month was over $300!!

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, and I thought mine was high ($100).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

College radio DJ was just bitching about how Justin Timberlake won the Grammy for best dance song because he's not "real electronic music", then proceeds to play some of the corniest techno and big beat I've ever heard. *groan*

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

On my school's station we put those people on very late at night.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

What is that?

It's lyrics to a song by Princess Superstar. It's an "hip hop" song.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It's my favorite song.

Babysitting sucks but whatever they got junk food, kung fu, egg fu, Dig Dug, a dog too

And a hot Jew, Mr. Weintraub, I mean he's old but not dimed out
If I'm bad I'll turn around in the corner for Time Out

I assume your folks are gonna be out late, go make me Kool Aid
I'm a sit on the couch and masturbate then call my boyfriend Gabe and see if he ate

Spit out my Bubbalicious and get to one of them big fridges that could fit 10 midgets

I'm a bad babysitter, got my boyfriend in your shower, Woo! I'm makin 6 bucks an hour

Let's make Fluffernutters don't fuckin utter another peep
I'll take the cookie cutter make star cookies outta ya skin while you sleep

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It's ironic how erotic my robotic sonnets
Get girls in bonnets hot like Harry Connicks
Sick on gin and tonics, we super sonic, hook you on our phonics
Learned Ebonics by erotic ebony dick and Mantronix
Never stoppin' it, sock electronic shit allotted
The whole club up when we spotted it
And if we wanted it, fill it with men and spawn and shit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Let's get the party started, shit, let's get it on and hit.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'all ready for this?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

You folks are not posting enough today. It's my day off work--entertain me!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost lolz

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost http://www.aboutfacesentertainers.com/images/clowns/mayhem/may_g_unicycle-juggling.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

My students looked so bored today that I started talking about something totally nonsensical to see if they were even listening. I started talking about what I was thinking of having for lunch.

And I had planned something "fun" for them to do today too -- I set up an online forum and they were supposed to post to the threads I started about the cult of celebrity and 15 min. etc. I put a picture of Andy Warhol in my first post and then someone referred to him as "Warnot" and three people laughed at the picture.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.jugglingworld.biz/images/misc_images/animated_gifs/stevie_vegas_anim.gif

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Gene-Kelly-Photograph-C10101612.jpeg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p076/p07612fb3w0.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

more, more!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. Jesse is lounging on a pile of brocade pillows and eating grapes while demanding greater and greater levels of excitement.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.oscars.org/events/past/2004/thats_entertainment/astaire_kelly.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Ratchet effect in da house.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.musicals101.com/News/music00.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/dadbag77/hot-man.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. "Warhol? More like WarNOT!"

(on the casino gig we were making stupid jokes like this all night)

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://members.verizon.net/~astitt/rummy_animated.gif

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, that muscle guy was kind of gross. Either the image makes his skin read too dark or his hobby is melanoma.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe tan in a can.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

lol at the way rummy_animated.gif includes this image:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/rummy_animated.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Mommy, why is the man humping on Secwetawy Wumsfeld?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago? More like ChicaDON'T.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

(I can't look at the images, I'm in a training class)

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

FAFSA=submitted.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna make you think all sorts of stinky thoughts.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

¿Chica! Don't!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Btw "Pockets" is on the gig tomorrow.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Come on over and shoot the shit. YEEEEAAAAAH.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. Bored. Fortunately Jenny will be joining me in about 2 minutes and we can proceed to get stinky.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

has anyone else played with this?

http://www.pando.com/

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

If that's as nice as it looks, I'll be using it a lot. I hate having to use YouTube to show people my stuff.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, a friend on the other side of earth wants me to use it so we can send each other music and movies and stuff more easily. i guess it's worth a try.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I shall use it with the new ridiculous speed internet connection I'm getting tomorrow. Somehow, the package with 20Mbs internet, DVR, HBO, and a phone line was like $12 more than simple cable and slowest internet.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa, the thread's all the way down the page. I just got home after a cab ride that I had to cut short due to lack of funds. Only had to walk 5 blocks or so, no big deal. I left Jesse at the corner of Clark/Fullerton, I think he was gonna go do some shots.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

no ~~big deal~~ BIGGIE

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link

We did not have shots at the corner of Clark and Fullerton. We had a couple beers and went home like good little boys and girls.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I can only speak for myself. I look forward to other people's hangover complaints tomorrow, so I can laugh at them.

I fear their stories about not going to work, because I will envy them poisonously.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I am probably going to be hung over. I am going to work though.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm at work. I don't feel very well.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The 500 sluts thread is really funny. Someone is listening to "Weeeee're in this love together..." on the radio. Why is there a shirtless hairy man standing behind Donald Rumsfeld in that picture? I just ate a bagel and I have some really disgusting coffee, too, because I didn't want to make two stops for my breakfast needs. It's possible that my co-extern won't come to work today and that would mean that I had a whole week without having to work with any annoying co-externs. Thank you weather!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh you guys.

It is colder than ever today.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i woke up in a coughing jag yesterday at 5 a.m., called into work at 7:30 and planned on trying to get in to see my doctor but i climbed back into bed and fell asleep then didn't wake up again until 5:18 p.m.

it was a pretty good day.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

We wondered what had happened to you. Are you feeling better now?

It is cold as hell out there. I was in a bit of a fog getting dressed this morning and really made some poor clothing choices and suffered mightily as a result once I left the house.

Ooo now the radio is playing "What you won't do! You'll do for loooove... you'll try anything... but you won't give up." I like the radio today. It's smooooooooth.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

My man Bobby Caldwell! The smoothest.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i am feeling better but not feeling well. no coughing jags but still trouble breathing and chest tightness. also, judging from the invoices in my gmail inbox, it would appear i bought over $100 worth of records on wednesday night. valentine's day presents to myself i guess.

― chicago kevin is covered in snow, so was the turnpike from stockbridge (chicago , Friday, 16 February 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess that user name is too long.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Earth Wind and Fire now.

Is this the thread where I list every smooth song that plays on the radio at the ee ee oh sea?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to Deer Hunter, drinking coffee, and munching on cinnamon raisin bread.

Any crazy episodes from last night I should hear about?

We ended up not having practice. Instead, we went to CVS (fun!), bought paper for the (wedding) invitations, visited with the Ice Fact0ry guys, and then ate at Handlebar.

I just realized that wasn't a piece of paper towel on my c.r.bread, but mold, so I had to throw the rest away. Now I will feel gross and weep softly.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this the thread where I list every smooth song that plays on the radio

Keep it coming, I'm chilling vicariously.

3van's wedding is next weekend and I don't think they ever sent the invitations out. Then again I haven't bought a gift yet, so we're even.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I am also listening to Deerhunter! Weird.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

There's some instrumental weather channel jazz playing now that I cannot identify.

Episodes... well, I accidentally sicced a racist, anti-semetic, stinky union electrian on our table. Then we went to Galway Arms (to get away from the RA-SSUE) and my crazy professor came out and had drinks, too, and that was weird.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

electrian

from the planet Electro

http://home.freeuk.net/pewty/fcwing/images/electro.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

That would have been much cooler than what actually happened.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I listened to the new Modest Mouse album this morning. It sounds like Modest Mouse.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I have my itunes on shuffle now. I'm listening to public enemy now. Bass! How low can you go??

Meanwhile, I'm reading Magnetic Fields lyrics online.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

SMOOOOOOOTH OPERATAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

That's on right now.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi, Jenny.

Ok, now I'm settled on Dukes of Stratosphear.

Who else is coming to the Green Mill tonight?

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Sarah!

I think I will not make it to the GM tonight. :( I have to be at school at 7:30 tomorrow for another stupid bar exam review thing. I am scared to pile more drinks and less sleep on top of my existing hangover.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I am now listening to my coworker listening to something metal-y really loud on his headphones. It's annoying.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate noise leak! I think iPod headphones do that on purpose so you advertise the music you are listening to.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Looking at the GM schedule I wish I could come back next weekend. Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls on Friday (w/Jeff Parker, Jeb Bishop), Matt Wilson's (emo-looking jazz drummer dude) on Saturday.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

That shirt!

http://www.ballardjazzfestival.com/images/photos/artists/matt_wilson.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Ewww.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll bet that shirt feels soft. That guy looks like a Proclaimer.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I think my grandma has that shirt, no joke.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet that shirt is soft and comfy but makes you sweaty. I more than bet that. I used to have a shirt like that in maroon.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That guy looks like a Proclaimer
That guy looks like a Proclaimer
A real-live Scottish flamer
And his twin his even lamer
That guy looks like a Proclaimer!

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the Onion AV club site down?

xpost those lyrics are gud

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

BA DA DA DA DAAAA!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"What you won't do! You'll do for loooove... you'll try anything... but you won't give up."

Go West version or the whatever-original-version-that-Jordan-knows?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Original, dawg.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Go West is better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Your mom is better.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

BLOOPER

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

blooper? i hardly know 'er!

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to killfile who posts on the Chicago thread except deej so I can get more work done.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Any crazy episodes from last night I should hear about?

What was the RA-SSUE's best quote of the night? He said some funny stuff that was not related to calling Oprah the n-word.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

He talked about the greatness of AA while slurring his way through his umpteenth Bud of the night.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

See, again, that was just sad. He said things that were funny! Jesse remembers.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Exhibit A of why I don't hang out on ILM much. I mean, come on, kids. She's 20 years old. She does not suck. She is not the greatest thing in the world, either, but JESUS you assholes are hatey.

Also why I can't read British music magazines.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooit's sunny outside and I want to leave work and I'm hungry and sleepy ooooooooooooooooo and I need to make a FF flier for our show next week but don't have any good ideas and I need to go to the gym but I don't want to and I'm glad it's friday oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo and I'm pumped for Green Mill but I was EVERYONE was coming to the show ow ow ow ow!

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, I think the key part of that thread is this:

haha

-- rip torn vagina (jharvel...), February 16th, 2007. (sandboxhulkington) (later) (link)

england is weird!

-- rip torn vagina (jharvel...), February 16th, 2007. (sandboxhulkington) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it too early for lunch? Because I'm hungry like the wolf.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

You two should get together.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/DuranDuran_HungryLikeTheWolf_Screenshot.jpg

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so you know this new project I started at work? The one where I was excited because I'm sort of a project manager now instead of a lowly copy editor? I just found out that the two people who are in charge of it have just been laid off. I've worked on the damn thing for a week, and I already have seniority. Supposedly it's still going forward, but nobody's sure exactly how.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Under your guidance, it would seem.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

HUNGRY LIKE JACK

http://www.classicmonsters.de/jack_wolf09.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.wahre-worte.de/bilder/wolf_nicholson.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

If Jack was snarling over a burrito instead of a deer corpse, that would be prettty right on for me.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Maddie came over last night and we got some greaseball chain (Pizza Hut) pizza. I always feel like I need to go through detox after eating that stuff.

Good thing I'll be on a diet of straight Fiesta Mexicana, encased meats, and fried shrimp this weekend.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I drank too much last night

I talked to Jenny's professor, which was NOT EASY with as much beer as I had in me, especially when she asked me things like "So why do you think New Orleans is worth saving?"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

!!!

you should have said, "whatever, go get yourself a shirt, lady!"

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, go to the GM. Leslie says that you can watch that bar review thing on video. Or maybe I'm mixed up.

I like Leslie. More Leslie.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

She wasn't exactly arguing against the rebuilding, but she wanted to hear a good argument for it.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'da whooped her ass with a good argument.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

My fucking noggin hurts and I am going to brunch with Courtney and her sister and I don't think my head will not explode and my throat is sore and I'm kind of horny and I have heartburn and last night I accidentally went to Clark's on Clark.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to know how you all would have answered. Give me a good argument.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It was kinda fun hanging with her because it reminded me of being around all my parents' academic friends. I hope I didn't say anything too godawful stupid.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

point of info: Cubs tix on sale online next Friday.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It was kinda fun hanging with her because it reminded me of being around all my parents' academic friends.

Aw. Now I'm really looking forward to meeting her next week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha

I thought you said "alcoholic friends"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

yes, Leslie is awesome!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1) Culture...NO has traditions that are both uniquely American and found nowhere else in the country/world

2) A lot of the people who lost their homes lived there their whole lives, owned their homes, etc.. What's a good argument for not allowing them even the chance to rebuild on property that they own?

3) How would you feel if Chicago got bombed out and you lost everything you owned, and you were told to forget about it and start up somewhere else?

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

you should have said, "whatever, go get yourself a shirt, lady!"

Did she take her shirt off? Did I leave too soon?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to know how you all would have answered. Give me a good argument.

letting a historic city sink into the muck is the kind of thing failing empires do. We should try to keep up appearances, at the very least.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM

(I'm not good at good arguments unfort.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: Elizabeth from C4N4ST4 is going to be on CHECK PLEASE tonight at 8 PM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost "And on this marshy place once stood the great city of New Orleans, which suffered a massive flood and was left to rot by the already crumbling American civilization."

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

the federal government stopped picking up the tab for towns along the mississippi river in iowa and missouri that were in flood prone areas. the rationalization being that if you build in a place that is prone to flooding (for the sake of argument let's say a city below sea level and surrounded by the sea) then you shouldn't be surprised at the results.

just playing devil's advocate.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, it's not like the people who are currently homeless because of Katrina are the ones who decided to put the city there. Also, Chicago is built on a swamp that some clever engineer filled in so I figured we could start sinking any minute.

MAN this hangover... she just gets worse and worse.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: Elizabeth from C4N4ST4 is going to be on CHECK PLEASE tonight at 8 PM.

Oooo! Exciting! Do you know what restaurant she picked?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

She picked a Japanese grocery/market in Arlington Heights, I forget what it's called.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the fed government also said the levys would hold and dragged their heels on improving/reinforcing them for decades. If they had held then the overflow and the storm damage would have been comparatively minor.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the argument I would make. the federal government has an obligation.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I just saw on the little elevator TV that the US has the highest rate of depressed people in the world, followed by Ukraine.

USA! USA!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ours is a physically, culturally, and spiritually toxic environment

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Next thread title?

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

no. it's beef, love and understanding, remember?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

next thread should be nick's "beef, love, and understanding".

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

that said, i'm off to mickey d's.

seacrest out.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Salad for lunch didn't quite cut it. Deer carcass would have been better.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish i could leave work early and go out for a shot and a beer then be in bed by six o'clock.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i just entered my leave request for next month and even after taking those 4 days i still have over 170 hours of vacation left.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the point being, i need to get out of town more.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I have 19 days of vacation this year, 9 of which I have to take before the end of June. BUT AS USUAL I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ON THE OFF CHANCE THAT THE BAND MIGHT TOUR, JUST LIKE WE HAVEN'T FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, you guys have a lot of vacation.

I wish you could buy vacation days on the black market.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

well, to be fair, until this year i hadn't taken two consecutive days off since june of '03 and that was the only vacation i took in the last 6 years.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost all my vacation in the last two years has gone to band stuff. Taking an actual vacation to, like, go somewhere or relax is almost inconceivable.

(this of course was a sticking point in my last relationship)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, you guys have a lot of vacation.

That's 10 days (two work weeks) of yearly vacation, plus 9 carry-over days, because I kept holding on to last year's vacation on the off chance, etc. etc. My trip to Montreal last year came from 2005's carry-over days, once I realized that the band wouldn't be touring before July.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Peoples who are planning on going to the GM tonight: what time are you thinking of arriving? I'm trying to work out a ride, and also considering seating, etc.

xposts I have 21 days to deal with somehow, and absolutely no clue as to what to do with them. I'm kinda leaning towards Costa Rica.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

dang, you get your year's worth of vacation right at the start of the year? i earn 6 hours of vacation for every pay period (two weeks).

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

has anyone recovered from their hangover enough for post work drinks? or am i flying solo?

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Guys, I just realized something creepy:

6150860 (current phone number)
101586 (college ID number)
18056 (video store account number)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't have a hangover. i could do something. or maybe i should save it for the gm.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

someone photoshop jaymc with the number 18056 scrawled all over his face.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://alfa989.googlepages.com/lost_108.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Peoples who are planning on going to the GM tonight:

(If everything goes according to plan, i'll be there or in the neighborhood around 7:30. Unless we get in super early (hello iPass!) and decide to go to the hotel first.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, do you want to ride with us?
Is anyone else coming? Wanna know if we should get there early to get a booth or not...

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr and I are still maybes -- we prob won't know until tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

or maybe i should save it for the gm.
-- Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (fluxion2...), February 16th, 2007.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, do you want to ride with us?

I meant planning with 1-2 other friends who are interested in coming too, but thanks for the offer!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

has anyone recovered from their hangover enough for post work drinks? or am i flying solo?

What are you thinking? I might be up for one. I'm heading downtown in a few to do the DMV thing (hi dere, procrastinated all day).

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

you know where i'll be. be there around 6-ish if you're around.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^^ kinda feels like a sordid craigslist encounter now!! :D

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

ewwww, forget it!

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

you know where i'll be.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

forget it man, i'll go someplace else! luckily my neighborhood is good for that.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess that still sounds pretty sordid.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Craigslist lol of the day: "FYI: I am fat, ugly, and stupid, so if looks are all you want, email someone else."

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: I am fat, ugly, and stupid, so if looks are all you want, email someone else."

so if looks are all you want, i'm stupid too.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

exactly!

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

so if looks are all you want, i'm stupid too.

thank god there's no ile epitaphs in the sandbox.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

T - 45 min to leaving for Chicago and seeing y'all's smiling faces

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"FYI: I am fat, ugly, and stupid, so if looks are all you want, email someone else."

But this person is also stupid! What's left? Proficiency playing drums?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

See "stupid". :D

Oh drumline joeks....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ZING

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, Jordan!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

holy fuck, i think time stopped about 15 minutes ago. because about 3 hours ago i was like "awesome, only 45 minutes to go!" and i still have 32 minutes left in my day.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

TELL me about it.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevmang I don't think I'm going to make it to you-know-where. Come to the GM tonight!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm back.

OK, so Jenny's professor said that she wondered if it was an economically viable place to rebuild since it was such a poor place to begin with and it was a drain on the country's resources even before the disaster.

I made the argument that it was culturally a very important place, and home to thousands of people, to which she responded that it's too bad it had to happen, but culture doesn't pay the bills.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

BAD NEWS.

BA LE HAS STOPPED SELLING LEMON GRASS SAUSAGE SANDWICHES. BOOOOO.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

she wondered if it was an economically viable place to rebuild since it was such a poor place to begin with and it was a drain on the country's resources even before the disaster.

http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/03/18/barbara-bush-inside.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

BA LE HAS STOPPED SELLING LEMON GRASS SAUSAGE SANDWICHES. BOOOOO.

WAHT???

That's not going to work for me.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the chicken. And the shrimp cake.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I want one right now.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

thai food > vietnamese food

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm starving.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse just called me from the Green Mill, annoyed that no one else was there yet.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 17 February 2007 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not going.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't go to the green mill at 8:00 unless you're in for the long haul, yo.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, so, Jordan's band gives me severe permagrin. There is no way to leave a show with a brass band like that and not feel happy. I said to someone else tonight: you can arrive at almost any other kind of show -- rock, Broadway, puppetry, what have you -- in a sour mood, and leave in pretty much the same mood if you really set your mind to it. Not so with this music. Brass bands force the happy out of you, like leeches. I am a believer in brass.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, not like leeches at all. I take back the leeches. Leeches are decidedly not happy things. I'm going to go practice my similes now. But I still love Jordan and his band.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Other other woman that was on Check, Please! (not the violinist from Chicago) was A-nnoying.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

WHY AM I UP SO EARLY?? No matter, I will drink all the espresso.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

That's almost a haiku.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Like I am almost a Japanese poet?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Alright, roommate has officially skipped out on me.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, crumbelievable.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Doug's hit with fois grae fine.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Other other woman that was on Check, Please! (not the violinist from Chicago) was A-nnoying.

Agreed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

E was great, though. And she's right on about L. Mitchell's. I just ate there this morning, even, and it's fine but it's nothing freaking special. Just an omelette, people, nothing to see here.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010900864.html

Some restaurants in Chicago are ignoring the FG ban and serving it anyway, or offering it as a "complimentary" accompaniment to a dish since only the sale of FG is banned. Hot Doug's was issued a warning letter which the owner framed and displays.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

They should go out of business!

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Who? Hot Dougs?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/v3/01-14-2007.NN_14foiegraz.G1G22FHCR.1.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"In a world of very limited public health resources we're being asked to drop some things so we can enforce a law like this," Hadac [spokesman for the Health Department] said. "With HIV/AIDS, cancer, West Nile virus and some of the other things we deal with, foie gras is our lowest priority."

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanted to go to Hot Doug's today but the Universe conspired against me.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, hangover.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/392252517_b7cd22629f_o.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i had to take a cab home from my local last night. jameson + high life robbed me of my ability to walk.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Saturday, 17 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I just bought wittle kitty beds for both kitties. This was after I noticed the smaller one sleeping in an unused paint pan I had left out, and it inspired pathos in me. I was like, "Oh, we can do better than this."

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

YAY! kitty already discovered it, jumped in, and started making biscuits with her paws. She feels love.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, she's back in my lap now. much as she love the cat bed, it does not generate heat. that's fine with me. they had heated beds (for about $70), but i can't afford that and don't even want it. if they have heat and furriness and a partially enclosed space, they will stay there forever and will only need me for food and will never use me for warmth again. this will equal sadness.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/dobs_bed.jpg

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Dobbs!

Totally unrelated: You know what drives me nuts? When people who don't know did about how lawsuits work make a big stink about how "CRAAAAAZY" lawsuits are ruining the legal system. How can all these worthless lawsuits go to trial?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

THEY CANNOT HI DERE SUMMARY JUDGMENT

I mean, I know. I know! I'm in law skoo and thus have a specialized body of knowledge that most people don't have. So most people don't know about civil procedure. And that's okay!!! I don't want people to know about civil procedure, or else they won't need lawyers and then the student loan people will come and harvest my organs because I can't pay them back in real money. BUT IF THAT IS THE CASE, SHUT YR FAT MOUTH ABOUT IT, OKAY???

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"CRAAAAAZY" lawsuits

define

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The one that people always pull out is the "old lady sues McDonald's b/c coffee is hot LOL" but see here for a nice summary of the, you know, ACTUAL FACTS OF THE CASE. But pretty much whenever someone hears that some jagoff filed a lawsuit against Miller because he drank a quarter keg by himself and got alcohol poisoning or something like that there's a big "DEATH OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM OH NOES" stink, almost always made by people with 1) an agenda and 2) no fucking clue what they are actually talking about.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

what agenda?

(i'm not trying to ask stupid questions, just simple ones)

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually an argument that plaintiff's lawsuits are ruining the medical profession, or similar.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

and wow, i never knew that about the McD's coffee case. Skin grafts? That's some hot-ass coffee. Company refusing to pay medical bills so she was forced to sue? You never hear about that.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually an argument that plaintiff's lawsuits are ruining the medical profession

Oh, I know that argument. It makes me want to kill. It makes me want to start the bloodbath at the corporate offices of insurance companies.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/myths/articles.cfm?ID=785

That's a pretty good explanation of what I'm talking about w/r/t the McDonald's coffee thing.

My point is that I hate that. My thing I hate. Let me show you it.

xp - yeah! I mean, srsly, the US legal system has some problems. Some big, fat, harmful-to-society problems that are very critique-worthy. But the fact that individuals are able to sue large companies for injuries and sometimes get judgments in their favor is not one of those problems. Unless you hate people and love giant corporations, which I understand some people do.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The Hot Doug's foie gras story made the Wii News Channel.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG last night we watched TROLL 2 and it is the most awesomely, ridiculously ATROCIOUS movie I have ever seen. I can't even begin to tell you how great it was.

http://www.cult-cinema.ru/pictures/screenshots/troll2/troll2_7.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a picture of me with my new haircut, btw, for those of you with images turned off.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

We bought wedding rings yesterday. Sarah's is tasteful, mine is crazy. I think it will give me superpowers. Then we went to Intelligentsia and I had a giant cup of coffee on an empty stomach so then when we had band practice I got all light-headed and woozy. Then we went to Earwax and had a giant linner.

― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What a weird night. On my way home from the fundraiser we played, my stomach started to hurt. By the time I got home, I was feeling really horrible: the pain had increased, I had the chills, and I was kind of dizzy, too. It was hard to sleep at first, but eventually I made it through the night, and now I'm more or less fine. What the hell. I had a Tofurkey sandwich, some tortilla chips, and an apple at about 6 PM, then a gin and tonic and three beers at Nick's Uptown.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL at Amanda

Is Trolls 2 something you would have needed to see Trolls to really understand?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I lived my dream last night of taking two advil PM and sleeping for 11 hours.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This was a fucking epic weekend, guys. It was great to see y'all, I wish I could have hung out more (and in a place where I could talk without shouting/coughing).

We accidentally recorded a live album at the GM! Rather, the bandleaders decided to record both shows (hence that mic by your booth that I didn't notice) but didn't tell anyone in the band so that we wouldn't be nervous and play timidly.

I got made on Saturday (mob style but not Pesci style). Long story but I was awarded my embroidered Digd0wn letter jacket for my years of service.

And I met a girl???

― JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

OH YEAH I WENT TO HOT DOUG'S. It was everything I hoped it could be (no foie gras specials that day though).

― JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, just so you know, the only sound you're going to get off that mic is me talking about Pockets.

― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Trolls 2 something you would have needed to see Trolls to really understand?
No way. Not under any circumstances. My fervor for Troll 2 is so great that I would go so far as to suggest a group screening. It happens that we own the VHS. It was purchased from the video store across the street when they sold off their VHS collection.

Point 1: the evil people in the movie, the 'bad guys' are the ones who only eat plants. They are the trolls. Again: the trolls are vegetarians.

Point 2: Contains the worst acting I have seen outside of a middle school auditorium.

Point 3: Not relevant to Troll 2, but I just discovered that Troll (1) had a character named Harry Potter who was played by Noah Hathaway, known to millions of little girls as ATREYU.

That last part may be common knowledge among some crowd somewhere, but I am not part of that crowd and therefore I was amused.

WHY WHY WHY does my school not get tomorrow off? Do all of you have tomorrow off? President's Day. I'm so sure.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't been to Hot Dougs... 2003!!!!

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

since

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The Replacements aren't bad.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

How long has it been since you had a steamin' bowl of Wolf brand chili?
Well, that's too long.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The Replacements aren't bad.

No. But neither are they to be worshiped.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Unless you're me and you're 14 and your best friend is forcing you to listen to the Little Mermaid soundtrack and you're looking for something that speaks to you more strongly than "Under the Sea." Then worship is not only acceptable, it is the only option.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that "Don't Tell a Soul" is not a great album, but I remember putting my newly bought cassette into Shannon's (the best friend) tape player in her sister's old room, which was empty, and flipping to side 2 and hearing YEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW and "Anywhere is Better than Here" and really feelin' it. You can't argue with that. Sorry. She was scared of it. I loved it. She and I broke up later that year for obvious reasons.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, that's about all I have to post for the week, ladies and germs. Now I am going to eat (a portion of) the chili that has been simmering in the crock pot all day.

Tootles.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, just so you know, the only sound you're going to get off that mic is me talking about Pockets.

roflz!

I'm ready to screen Troll 2.

I am sorry that yet again, I managed to avoid Jordan for an entire visit.

I knew a girl in college who owned three CDs and one of them was the Little Mermaid soundtrack and another was whatever Bette Middler atrocity had "God is watching us... FROM A DISTANCE!"

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda, I love Troll 2! It's amazing. The popcorn sex scene?!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I just found out my sister's boyfriend proposed, and she said yes. It's kind of weird, but also not. Hmmmm.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Congrats to sister! Mawwiage!

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I just picked up the movie "Brick" at Blockbuter for ten bucks. I LOOOve this movie.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtney and her sister and I were there when the GM guy was setting this up. We warned him that there might be some obnoxious commentary on the tracks. Whether acting on our statement or not, I don't know, but he added a gooseneck to the stand a few minutes later.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. I wanted to heap praise on Jenny for a sec. She and Jeff caught a southbound cab tonight as I waited for a northbound bus. I decided to wait only about 5 minutes before taking a cab. I was leaving the 7-11 after breaking my $20 for cab fare when I got her text saying "Yr bus is coming," a text that saved me $6 or so.

Jenny, this is for you!

http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/bradinterview4.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"Dude, I hope you don't mind that I crashed on your couch and brewed up some of your coffee."

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, this is for you too!

ihttp://www.nba.com/media/act_andrei_kirilenko.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

So what's the effing secret to posting images on here already?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

use <img src="http://http://www.nba.com/media/act_andrei_kirilenko.jpg">

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Shit. That first bit should be a less-than symbol...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the only sound you're going to get off that mic is me talking about Pockets.

Haha. I seriously love that the most famous ("famous") guy in the band is known in Chicago solely for having too much stuff in his pockets.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm at work really early so that I can leave early to play a dinner gig in Milwaukee. However, no one else is here to see me being here, so they'll just think I'm leaving early slacker-style.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah! The popcorn scene. Also noteworthy: when the kid pees on the troll-tainted food so his family won't eat it. And the forest lady with the fake, painted-on freckles. Oh, the fun literally never stops with Troll 2.

I am so ready to stop wearing boots. I hear it's going to be 47 (and rainy) on Saturday.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Snow boots, that is. Fashion boots can stick around a little longer.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I posted my image properly, but it still didnt work.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's have a Troll 2 party.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

So tell us about this girl you met.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, there's not much to tell. We hit it off at the club, and if I had stayed something might have happened. Instead I chose to leave when the rest of my band was leaving to get food, and she gave me her number and told me to call her in a little while. I did, no answer, and I figured that was that. Then when I driving back to Madison I was surprised to get a text from her asking if I was still in town.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh she's an architecture student, and she was sitting with six other girls who were not only architecture students but also French.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

This is not the first time I've chosen the company of dudes and fried foods over a potentially awkward one night stand situation. Does this mean I'm gay?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudes and fried foods are some of MY favorite things!

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudez and Foodz

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Broz and Ho-Hos over hoez.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Fries with the guys, shrimps with the pimps. Cheez up, hoez down.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Mudbugs over bearded clams.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

chicken over chicks

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what's going on here, but it seems to work

http://www.talking-statues.com/FOOD_STATUES/FOOD_CA-1202_HOT_DOG.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/dressing.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

What have I awakened to?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what's going on here, but it seems to work

EXCEPT FOR THE KETCHUP PART GROOOOSSSSSSS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

dan's getting into a snit. look out.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

too obvious. not biting.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

This reads like the executive summary of a three-verse rap song.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

kevin, you got me in trouble on ilm. Springsteen *did* write "Blinded By The Light".

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL I wondered if that would bite anyone in the ass

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I even went so far as to say something like, "It fits so well on the album, you'd never know he didn't write it!" Egg. Face. All over.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I had such a fabulous weekend. Jordan, I love your band.

Hi, guys.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

What is "Blinded by the Light"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Made famous by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Also, one line sounds like "wrapped up in a douche" or something similar.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Apparently it's a Bruce Springsteen original, not, as I had assumed, a song by Manfred Man's Earth Band.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Manfred Mann of "Do Wah Diddy" fame?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks Sarah!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost The same, and "Cock-A-Hoop", apparently.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I apparently don't know anything about popular music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you would recognize it if you heard it, John.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I apparently don't know anything about popular music.

That's just false. I had totally forgotten about "Do Wah Diddy".

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't look familiar, but I kind of love those lyrics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Kenan, but "Earth Band"??

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying to remember one of the tunes we played on Friday night. It's an oldie/r&b tune, with a backbeat, and it wasn't 'My Girl' (although we played that too). We hadn't played the tune in years and I don't really know the original. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I felt dumb on Friday when I thought that "Just the Two of Us" was a Will Smith original.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to this "Earth Band" version of "Blinded by the Light" and it sounds only vaguely familiar.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Will Smith did 'Just the Two of Us'? I don't even remember that.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

He sang it with his wee son.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I felt dumb on Friday when I thought that "Just the Two of Us" was a Will Smith original.

LOL, not because you felt dumb, but just because this is a very jaymc thing to say and I like it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I was grooving to it, and Kenan said "Wait, what is this?" and I said "'Just the Two of Us'! The Will Smith song!" And Kenan said, "You mean Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers." And I said, "Well, yeah," even though that was totally news to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I never knew that was Bill Withers with Grover W.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I love me some Bill Withers.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I couldn't have named who did the tune either, just knew it was a classic.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Me either.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, a wedding staple. Nick and Sarah, take note.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally. You guys should check out the original recording, it's badass.

I think my iPod has finally passed away. It lasted a good, I don't know, 3 years at least.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.blog-24.com/422502.jpg

I have a crush of shame on this record. The cover reveals exactly what you will find inside.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love" sounds very similar and is one of the best songs ever. But it's a little more suffering and a little less babymaking.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how all those records sound, all that warm bass and rhodes and great-sounding drums. I heard that BC played most of the instruments on his record too?

(the band uses WYWDFL as a background a lot btw)

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah, dude's white!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuo1deYXnIw

Woah, Boyz II Men cover it too!

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, I was shocked when I first found out that he's white!

http://www.perigord.com/westcoast/images/caldwelllive.gif

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love" sounds very similar and is one of the best songs ever. But it's a little more suffering and a little less babymaking.

Right, and until a couple months ago, I assumed that this was a Go West original.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/21243.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how all those records sound, all that warm bass and rhodes and great-sounding drums.

OTM! In fact, one of my childhood memories of the GWJr record is its being used in a TV commercial for a local stereo shop, with slow pans across lcd meters and unnecessary knobs and faux-mahogany speakers. Mmmm. Smooth.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I worked with a woman who didn't know that Rick Astley was white until she saw him in concert (she was a radio and not an MTV/VH-1 person). She's the same one who gave me a Toni Braxton CD (the one with 'Unchain My Heart') because she ordered it and then couldn't wait to have it so went out and bought another copy.

Who is GoWest?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey I just posted a record on the blog that I was sending to a friend. I've mentioned it here before, but figured some of you all might be interested... it's that 120 Days album.

Also, since when do you have to enter a Google password when signing into blogger? I hope I didn't reset the blog login/pwd...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Bill Withers. Looooooove.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Deniece Williams' first record falls squarely into this sound too, I love it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey I just posted a record on the blog that I was sending to a friend. I've mentioned it here before, but figured some of you all might be interested... it's that 120 Days album.

Did you just time-travel from December?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Who is GoWest?

Smooth-jazz staple of the late 80s/early 90s. Most famous for "King of Wishful Thinking," from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, which went top 10 in 1990.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you just time-travel from December?

I mean November.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I know, I know.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought maybe someone would like it, and I hate to put a good YSI to waste!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay! I just know because I downloaded it back then and really like it!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

JT has a very Bobby Caldwell look to him, or at least he seems to move around the same way. Am I crazy or AMIRITE?

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(Where by JT I mean Justin Timberlake)

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I will download 120 Days when I get home. Will it be good for the gym?

I love "King of Wishful Thinking"!

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

It should be decent for the gym. Most of the songs are pretty upbeat.

I confess to liking "King of Wishful Thinking" too. I was obsessed with it for a period of time right when it came out.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you guys remember this song, from around the same time as "King of Wishful Thinking"? It would've been played on NBC's Saturday Morning Videos alongside Nelson's "After the Rain" and Poison's "Unskinny Bop."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Sheaintworthit.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobby Rown! Obby Brown!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I confess to liking "King of Wishful Thinking" too. I was obsessed with it for a period of time right when it came out.

ha! me, too. it's heartening that that was common.

xpost omg of course I remember "She Ain't Worth It" and the video. furthermore, it's now in my head. also: "Unskinny Bop"!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1990 was the first year that I paid attention to pop music. Suddenly getting flashbacks to all those Wilson Phillips song and "Close to You" by Maxi Priest and Phil Collins's "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember "She Ain't Worth It." But I do remember being too scared to ask Amy Gunnett to dance to "Back to Life" by Soul II Soul at a school dance and being really sad after I got home, probably circa 1990.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Enh, she wasn't worth it, Nick.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably not. She moved to another school and some kids from my school went to a track meet or something there and said she turned into a real beeotch.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT THAT SONG IS SUCH A CLASSIC! Any missed opportunity to dance to it is sad.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I will dance to it at my wedding and cry sweet tears of revenge.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Though not really deserved revenge, since she didn't turn me down or anything, since I just wussed out.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

It really is pissing me off that YouTube is removing copyrighted material! That was where I would go when I wanted to listen to music!!

Also, they deleted Rich/FourFour's account permanently -- without warning -- for putting up copyrighted material. And he had some fun stuff on there.

A picture of Rich, because he's adorable.

http://fourfour.typepad.com/rj_fade.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Read all about it here.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I opened Juzwiak's blog, and my computer didn't freeze.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would it?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.02.04/gifs/sloths-0423.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://hello.typepad.com/hello/sloth.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

OMFG!

http://www.cultofdegan.com/images/costarica/sloths/r.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slothmud.org/themes/SlothIII/images/slothIII_header980.jpg

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

It used to always freeze because he put up tons of images that took forever to load.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

happy lundi gras btw

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Backatcha.

I'm sooooo sleeepppy right now.

Must. Not. Fall. Asleep. At. Desk.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm having tv dinner for lunch. it is not that bad, even while i know it's bad food. IT'S SO CHEAP.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

how else can you get 820 calories for 2 dollars?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

What are the contents of the tv lunch?

It's nappytime in Jordanland too. Good thing I get to leave in 2.5 hours.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

swedish meatballs, mystery meat patty, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans

HOORAY! SOMEONE JUST HANDED ME A CONTAINER OF FRUIT!

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to Whole Foods for salad bar and it ended up costing $10! Mainly because it was a lot of heavy things like tofu and olives and whatnot. So then I said I was going to save half of it for tomorrow, but then I ate all of it today. :(

Have any of you ever used the Peapod grocery delivery thingy? We might try it out. I think Jewel has raised its prices and Dominicks ends up being pricy too. I miss Cub.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss Cub.

2000x

I haven't tried Peapod. I don't like the concept of not being able to pick out my produce...

Also, there is a rumor that the Dominick's at Belmont/Kimball is closing down. Which, if true, will severely piss me off, though not as much as the loss of Cub.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss Texas grocery prices, period.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I mostly shop at Trader Joe's and Harvestime and then stop at Whole Foods every once in a while for a few things I can't get elsewhere (Roastaroma tea, tea-tree-oil face soap).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

My groceries are cheap as hell, dudes (Woodman's). Still haven't been to the Trader Joe's that opened up here.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xp As a consequence, Jewel and Dominick's always seem really huge and weird and Middle American to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone else tried the little asian grocery that's on broadway right by my place? Golden Palace, I think? It's really cool. They have good fruit.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I last went to Trader Joe's two weeks ago. It was full to the rafters with yuppies who were moving soooooo sloooooowly, mouths agape, through the place. Then there were the employees stocking shelves with huge boxes of stuff blocking the aisles (or rather, not stocking, but standing around bulshitting). I made it through the first aisle, put my few items back on the shelf, turned around, and got the hell out of there. I cannot deal with an IKEA/Target/Water Tower Place department store on Christmas Eve environment when I'm trying to get my food on.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus, I've said it before and I will say it again, their produce is shitty and overpriced in my experience. Go to one Stanley's/Belmont Produce for orgo stuff, it's cheaper, faster, better all 'round.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, totally with you. Trader Joe's here, at least, specializes in "value-added" foods, which are semi-prepared so they can be taxed (unlike "raw" groceries). Favorite example: they had over a dozen kinds of fancy pasta sauce and zero kinds of canned tomatoes. So you can, like, MAKE YOUR OWN. Pre-prep stuff is good for tired nights and dinner parties when you need 10 hand-stuffed fish fillets, I guess? But way too expensive for all the time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

What on earth are you guys talking about? Nobody goes to Trader Joe's for produce. And everything is CHEAP AS HELL.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xp As a consequence, Jewel and Dominick's always seem really huge and weird and Middle American to me.

I had that same feeling going to Dominicks after a few months at Trader Joe's. It was fun to be in a gigantic store with a whole different array of brands.

At Trader Joe's I pretty much get: nuts, carrot juice, pre-prepared chicken breasts w/ lemon, Clif bars, Go Lean. NOT MUCH OF A COOK.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That surprises me, Eazy.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, here's what I get when I go to Trader Joe's: tortilla chips, salsa, hummus, cheese, orange juice, soy milk, veggie burgers, frozen pizza, soy nuggets, frozen burritos, pasta, pasta sauce, soup, wine, bread, applesauce, baby carrots, maybe some apples or bananas if I'm not planning on going to Harvestime any time soon. These are all pretty much staples for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Will wait for Amanda to get here so I have back-up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to cook, but popping a handful of nuts or a Clif Bar and some orange juice always seems to win out.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Or happetizers, of course.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, my mom made some salmon from Trader Joe's last night for dinner, and it was pretty great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

True that. I like cooking, but lately heating up a veggie burger is way easier.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't buy any frozen/premade stuff (hummus, salsa, etc), I guess that's the major difference. Well, except for stuff like bread, I can't bake for shit.

I dunno. First and foremost, it's too far away. I don't have to drive to Dominick's if I don't need to, the train goes right there. Second, I don't like the co-op(heh)t-ing of local grocery/health food/etc stores' ethea into some kind of national chain. It is what it is, stop pretending. Third, and semi-related, I like supporting local business. Hence Belmont and/or Stanley's produce markets. Hell, even Dominick's is based here, even if it is in with Safeway or whatever.

And, as I mentioned before, the atmosphere/clientele all moving at 1/4 speed, gabbing on phones and blocking already narrow aisles, makes me want to kill. Grocery rage!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Trader Joe's every once in a while, but I can't imagine doing all of my grocery shopping there. I like it for its weird options. They do not, however, have things like cheap paper towels, Meow Mix original cat food, and light bulbs. Also, I agree that their produce section is really limited, and since I've been trying to cook healthier, I aim to buy less prepared foods. That said, they are great for superquick bring-to-work-&-microwave foods, parties, and the occasional try-something-new meal.

I love Stanleys, but I'm usually lazy and just go to a big store because I want to get all my shopping done at once.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I would actually have gotten some things at TJ's that looked good, but considering that I was still going to have to go to a regular grocery store for my staples, it wasn't worth waiting in a line that went all the way around the store and spiraled past the entrance again. Plus people in aisles being MORONS. But I work days -- I think it would be radder if you cd go at like 10am on a Wednesday.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Trader Joes has some excellent stuff. Like the Triple Ginger Cookies, which I think I may owe Julia a whole container of by now.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

True, Laurel.

Oh, I forgot to comment that the employees at TJ's always seem super friendly (and, um, a little high).

Today seems to be going superfast for me, even though I don't have any work to do... weird...

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, Kenan, you are so right on there.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not trying to say there aren't worthwhile things there, don't get me wrong. I've driven myself nuts looking for specific items/spices/preserved vegetables (grape leaves spring to mind at the moment) at big stores and specialty shops, and then there's a whole damn shelf of them at TJ's or Whole Foods.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could afford to only shop at Whole Foods for now on. One of my coworkers does and insists it's no more expensive, but then again she is a richie rich and eats salad EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR BOTH LUNCH AND DINNER.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, contrasting Trader Joe's with Stanley's seems weird because isn't Stanley's mostly just a produce market? So you have Stanley's and I have Harvestime for produce. Stanley's is probably better because of all the organic stuff, but otherwise they're both local. (Harvestime is owned by the same people that own Edgewater Produce.)

I've definitely been frustrated at TJ's on a Saturday afternoon when it's crowded, but that's the case at any grocery store during peak hours. And I do appreciate the friendly employees there, as Sarah said.

They do not, however, have things like cheap paper towels, Meow Mix original cat food, and light bulbs

Hmmm, I've gotten paper towels there, and I don't remember them being ridiculously expensive. And yeah, you're not going to be able to find things like light bulbs there, which is why I just go to Ace or CVS if I need something like that right away, or else save up a trip to Target if there are lots of things like that that I need. Trader Joe's is definitely not a one-stop shop, so if you like having a place where you can get all your shopping done, then yeah, TJ's is not that place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost "How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?"

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

A coworker just wrote me and said she can't get a file to open on her CPU. I don't know why this is so funny to me.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my coworkers does and insists it's no more expensive

Yeah, this is silly. A tub of fresh salsa at Whole Foods is like three times as much as one at TJ's.

I forgot another thing that Whole Foods has that you can't find elsewhere, though: Tofurky deli slices.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slamomaha.com/music/images/featured/Tron.jpg

If I don't get to the CPU, I'll never get this tiff open and all will be lost!

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, those ginger cookies fucking rule.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually don't get to hit up Stanley's much any more because it's far away. When I was practically living with my ex-gf and cooking with her a lot I went there all the time. But Belmont produce is right across the street from the Belmont/Kimball Dominick's so that's pretty easy. They have more of a Mexican focus, but it's still good because I cook a lot of that kind of stuff.

I wasn't trying to directly contrast TJ's with Stanley's, necessarily, just kind of rehashing a point from an argument I got into with a friend (which was the genesis of my "are you a yuppie?" question from a few weeks ago) -- that argument being based on my dislike of stores that co-opt a philosophy (say, eating "health" food or living frugally) and turn it into a nation-wide profit maximization venture. To be very honest, I view places like Wal-Mart and TJ's/Whole Foods in the same light because of this, for better or (mostly) worse.

But I'm a cynic... doesn't mean much of anything except to me.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Props to the dude in the wheelchair who sells wine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I learned what a CPU was in Double Dragon for Bintendo. The 1-on-1 version asked if you wanted to play versus PLAYER 2 or CPU.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, Dominick's is a union shop. Solidarity and all that.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. Less food politics, more roffles. Sorry.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

She actually can open the files just fine, and I showed her. And explained that she was just being Space Paranoid. (not really.)

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought some powerbars and cookies for the road and I'm going to end up eating them all before I even get to the road. :(

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I am sad that the Lakeview TJ's has apparently discontinued soy nuggets.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sad that your mom has apparently discontinued soy nuggets.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yet another product name, like nutritional yeast, that just makes the mouth water.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

xp Huh.

Whatever, soy nuggets totally rule.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Julia's roomie's gf made this amazing-looking things the other night that I cannot describe other than "soy logs." They looked like giant mozzarella sticks. She was half-offended when I said that, until I explained that this is a Very Good Thing.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Did they come with soy club sauce?

...ok, that joke is getting tired.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Places I go every week:
Dom's (for basics - usually don't buy much outside of beans, canned tomatoes, lunch meat from deli and beer)
Ro-Pa Fruit Market (for fruit/veg/tortillas,etc.)

Places I go 2x/month:
Trader Joe's for frozen shit, including fish, which is indeed cheaper there than anywhere else. Other things I get there include: dried fruits/nuts, cereal, coffee, wine (DUH), stuff for Dan to make when I'm not there, applesauce, mochi, various other things, including meat which is of a higher quality and cheaper than I could get elsewhere. Oh, and CHEESE. Their cheese section rules.

Places I go once a month or so:
Golden Palace (Asian market that Kenan mentioned) which is great for noodles, sauces, odd produce and giant frozen fishes

And the Spice House for spices.

I do spend a lot of time grocery shopping and cooking, but it makes me happy and I guess that's something I do for "fun."

One place I never go is Whole Foods. Too expensive.

The end.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

clubsauce.com is disappointing.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Lemme tell you something else -- someone put a bottle of Annie's Goddess dressing in my cart at Dom's on Saturday and I didn't find it til I got home and had obvs already paid for it. WTF.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

cereal

How could I forget cereal! That's also a staple. Nature's Path 4-EVA.

And the Spice House for spices.

I meant to tell you, Amanda, I went there for the first time on Saturday. OMG. I bought some cinnamon. Kr bought about $35 worth of various spices and things like "orange flower water." I can't believe I'd never been there before, esp. since the Evanston store was two blocks away from my last job.

We also checked out House of Glunz, the 119-year-old wine store on Division/Wells while we were at it. This was on the recommendation of EZ from an archived Chicago thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost WTF @ BUYING *STOCK* ON TEH INTERNETS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay! Now you can take back the "I just use the ancient spices that my aunt gave me when she died because how much better can these other spices be?" excuse. They ARE better.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have orange flower water too. And rose water for the baklava I have yet to attempt. I'm sort of scared because of all of the butter called for in the recipes I found. Truly staggering amounts of butter. I used the orange flower water in cookies once. It was good.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

xp "Oh, this Rouille? I got it at clubsauce dot com. I buy all my classic sauces there! It's so cheap and easy!"

I really need to quell my righteous indignation and get back to work...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay! Now you can take back the "I just use the ancient spices that my aunt gave me when she died because how much better can these other spices be?" excuse. They ARE better.

Haha, did I really say that? I don't even know where those spices are. I think I threw them out. (And she didn't die. She just moved.) To be honest, I don't really cook enough to get into whether or not Spice House spices are "worth it" -- but I loved the store, and I love how all the spices are hand-blended, and there's just so many of them. It made me want to buy a bunch of stuff that I probably won't ever use.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You did say that! Otherwise how would I have known that you had old auntie spices? I do apologize for sending her to the grave early.

I can assure you that they're worth it. Cinnamon that tastes spicy and not like sawdust is priceless, but even so it's not that much more expensive than grocery store cinnamon.

I am currently trying to wean myself off of licorice. It's not easy. I was eating a couple of pieces with breakfast (and lunch and dinner and before bed and when I took the dogs out...) -- that's how bad it got. I ate a pound in ONE WEEK. Time to lay off the candy.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

what licorice were you eating? was it the australian black kind b/c that stuff is AMAZING.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

In non food news: I completed my first triathlon yesterday!

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

YES. YES IT IS AMAZING. And I have been eating jaw-dropping amounts of it.

Whoa to the triathlon!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah!

xpost

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

someone put a bottle of Annie's Goddess dressing in my cart

such good dressing.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was gonna say, that's not a bad thing to have accidentally end up in your cart.

Congrats on the triathlon, Kels!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

It was awesome! It was unconventional in that it was not a distance specific thing. It was indoors & you just did 30 minutes of each thing. I swam just a hair over 3/4 of a mile, biked about 7.7 miles and ran 2.9 miles. I felt really good about my distances. I only started training 6 weeks ago (hence the 6 days/week stuff). I'm totally doing another one in May or early June. Anyone else want to do it? I'm thinking of doing a sprint instead of an olympic one, but maybe next year I will do an olympic.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Licorice tastes bad, so it can't be that unhealthy.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love to do a triathlon but I'm not a very good/fast swimmer.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

You can improve! Easily! I went from getting lessons on strokes (I didn't know any) in January to swimming for 30 minutes. If I can do it, you certainly can. Really!! I'm insanely pumped about this new side of myself.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

nothing kills a thread like encouraging others to exercise.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno. Implying that people who shop at Jewel are hopeless rubes didn't seem to stop us.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I am re-starting my exercise routine this evening. It's one of those things I really want to do but have had a hell of a time convincing myself to do again. The first few times are always the hardest, but then it's a cake walk. I want/need to lose ~25 lbs. I figure I can do it inside of 3 months or so...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

We're going to the gym tonight. I plan to listen to the new LCD SS for the first time.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Good for you, dude. I'm going to restart next week. It was going to be this week, but this week is gig, gig, rehearse/shop for wedding present, gig, bake dessert for ev3n's wedding, wedding/gig, hangover.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

You can totally do 25 pounds in 3 months, but don't feel discouraged if you don't make it, Dan! That's roughly 2 pounds each week which is the max you should be losing (& be healthy about it). I certainly haven't lost that on WW (although I think I've lost maybe 2 or 3?).I joined weight watchers a week & 1/2 ago & have been exercising for 6 weeks at a rate of 6 days each week. I lost two inches through my torso. I think I'm going to start weight lifting next week & keep at the crazy schedule. I will tell you that Trader Joe's meringue cookies are a sweet tooth saver. You can eat a buttload of the tiny chocolate ones & they hardly count.
Want to do a sprint tri with me in May or June to have an exercise goal to shoot for?

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

man, this thread is huge! so, another music trivia last night, with a round by jon wurster of superchunk, all about drummers. sample question:

what song from 1967 had james brown saying 'give the drummer some'?

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, gimme a hard one.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Want to do a sprint tri with me in May or June to have an exercise goal to shoot for?

I don't know if I'm up for that just yet! My poor knees aren't too good at actual (read: non-eliptical) running. I'd settle for being able to wear my skinny jeans again!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Where is it, Kelsey?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

We're toying between a few . . .there are a couple near me in MN & then there's also one in Iowa (near Iowa City) that look good. The distances seem reasonable, entry fee isn't horrible, etc.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I can email the ones we're tossing around if you want!

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

here's another one - what did spinal tap's 2nd drummer die of?

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

also easy

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Choking on vomit -- but not his own.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys are good, clearly. i'm trying to think of other questions but blanking at the moment on his round. other rounds were a music history/innovations round, a broadway/musicals round, and an audio round consisting of only whistling.

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the first recording to feature multi-tracking was by who?

― stingy (stingewell), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

As soon as it gets above 50 degrees I'm going to start jogging.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have ab flab.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Who doesn't?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

SRSLY

― Calico (calico), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Going to the gym three days a week for a year didn't do ANYthing for my figure a few years ago, but taking yoga once a week plus my dance class worked wonders, both times without significant change in my diet. That seems crazy but who can know about metabolic cycles, interactions, body chemistry? Depending on pricing I might take up bikram yoga in my neighborhood and see what happens. Will be good for recurring shin splints anyway, and if I don't lose weight I might have to stop highland because my shins can't take it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Braggart.
;)

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I just want my clothing to fit better! And to be rid of my double chin as much as possible.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Clothes fitting is key. I can't afford all new ones! I don't mind being Cuddlestein Laurel that much except I have like four perfectly good pairs of jeans that I can't get on & etc throughout my whole wardrobe.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Watching what I eat is helping, I think. Swimming has probably done the most for my body shape, I'm getting nice arm muscles now.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I know it would be super-duper easy if I just cut out beer. But it's so goooooooooooood!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno. Implying that people who shop at Jewel are hopeless rubes didn't seem to stop us.

Can someone find where this was said?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I think moving to Minneapolis & having a less-established social life has been key in me minimizing my beer/wine/liquor consumption. I drink a whole lot less out here.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry. I'm totally obsessed with this exercise thing lately. I don't mean for it to be the only thing I'm bringing to the table.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually people talking about exercise has the effect of making me want to do it less. I already have to force myself to do it and knowing that it's so EXCITING for other people makes me rebel and not do it. I know this isn't "healthy thinking" but that's what happens. I've always hated exercise. I like walking and dancing. That's about it. Occasional bike riding.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The rest is very much like punishment. Oh, actually yoga is ok but I have to have a teacher who forces me to keep going.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of trivia, are we still on for Wednesday?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like I was in that same place until recently, Amanda. I have never fallen for running. I keep waiting to have the moment that people talk about . . . that moment when you love it & it hasn't happened yet. Swimming, on the other hand, I am loving. I feel like swimming for me is the epitome of "finding what you like" only I didn't know I liked it until I started doing it regularly.
I also realized yesterday that I have this fiercely competitive monster that lives beneath my skin.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of trivia, are we still on for Wednesday?

Very good question. Am I in or out on this? (I was never clear)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

See, I absolutely do not have that monster when it comes to physical activity. I have never excelled at anything requiring physical skill. Except for dancing. I've always been alright at that. I need to take a dance class. I've scouted out a few for the summer. In the meantime, it's a matter of somehow coaxing myself to go to the gym at least once a week.

I have no expectation that this is going to change --I just need to find some sort of regular, aerobic activity that doesn't make me want to hide under the covers.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I just need to find some sort of regular, aerobic activity that doesn't ~~make me want to hide under the covers~~exacerbate every ache and pain I already have.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you're in, Dan. I thought our team was: you, me, Jenny, Nick, and Leslie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate the IDEA of running, and I hated it even when I did it every day! But at one point I realized that only a run would save me from my temper & feelings on a bad day at work and I knew I was hooked.

Re yoga, I don't really buy into the whole energy-focusing "namaste" thing as a first principle but stretching in and of itself is kind of a meditative state even if I'm just doing routine dance warm-ups (ie not yoga poses that are specially engineered to influence chakras or something). Even more so for the concentration of balance/abdominal support/breath control of real yoga. So it's self-fulfilling, I think.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

During the time when I went from 250 to 160, I exercised very little. I did change my diet drastically (but did not eliminate beer or booze).

I'd like to lower my body fat percentage now. I still have leftover flab parts from being a great big fat person. I figured I can best do that through some good daily cardio. I'm not really interested in building muscle mass, just toning down and looking really skinny. I like the runners physique.

I finally got over my reservations about going, but I went to a running shoe store (http://www.momentumchicago.com/). They looked at my feet all sorts of ways and watched me run (I pronate heavily), and I got probably the most comfortable athletic shoes I've ever had on my feet.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I just found out about places like this the other day. It sounds like a wonderful dream. I always assumed that my bad ankles would doom me for life, or at least leave me helpless when it came to finding comfortable shoes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever that running store is by Whole Foods in Lakeview, I got shoes there that have been the best I've had thus far. I would like to do it again as I wonder whether my pronation has worsened or perhaps become slightly better via the magic of shoe correction.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, if you guys are getting into shape, I'll join.

Thirsty Thursday at da wheatgrass bar.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

EZ, wanna do a sprint triathlon with me, brooke, leaf, and maybe jordan?

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 19 February 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

So, not to change the subject, but yesterday I was at TJ's and I saw this dude who looked REALLY familiar. I couldn't remember if I knew him or not, if maybe he was a friend of a friend or something and I was supposed to be friendly or whatever. I even remembered sitting next to him at some point. It was weird. I think he recognized me too, but I scuttled away toward the milk because I wasn't sure if I actually knew this person and I didn't really feel like talking to anyone.

Then I realized that this was a dude who always used to ride the same red line train I rode every single day until I quit my job downtown.

Has anyone ever eventually had conversations with people they know from riding public transpo and do not know at all otherwise? How do these people fit into the public code of conduct? Should we always ignore each other? I should mention that when I was 22 I made a friend at the bus stop when I lived in DC and we even kept in touch for a while after I moved. Her name was Susan.

Discus.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never really struck up a conversation with anyone I see frequently on the Blue Line. Not to say I haven't wanted to (HI DERE CUET INDIAN GIRL @ LOGAN SQUARE STOP) but it's just not my way. I've had many conversations with people on trains/buses, but not anyone I see repeatedly.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah!! I sat across from a group of three cute people on a Greenpoint bus one day, I remembered because the girl had very funky glasses. Months later, I went to a friend-of-a-friend's house party and THEY ALL CAME. I actually got drunk and introduced myself as someone who'd sat across from them months before. I think they were a little freaked out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't kill me but I have to bail on Wednesday night trivia. I know, I know it was my idea but now many of you have met not only the Lovely Leslie (Jesse wants to marry her) but also my professor I figure you'll be okay on your own. My week has gone from kind of busy but doable to "HOLY SHIT I AM GOING TO FUCKING DIE BEFORE THURSDAY" in about... three hours.

Kels, congrats on the triathlon! You are a ROCK STAR!

xp I generally avoid making train friends (You are all falling over in surprise, I am sure, given my proclivities to make all sorts of inappropriate friends in many circumstances) because public transpo time is MY time. I usually resent seeing acquaintances that I feel compelled to chat with during my ride. I'm usually pretty excited to see real friends, though, since one of my favorite ways to spend ME time is with my amigas.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not my way to talk to strangers either. I was just wondering if this had happened to anyone and if they talked to the person. I tend to remember/notice people way more than I own up to, so it's better to keep quiet because usually I don't want to talk to anyone either.

When I was at the bus stop in DC it was mostly because this girl was super chatty and I didn't really have a choice but to jib jab with her.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm hmm Kels, maybe with a stationary bike...?

Chicago: Hi Dere Cuet Indian Girl @ Logan Square Stop

I don't talk to strangers much but I don't regret it when I do, except sometimes when they're schizophrenic.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

She even invited me over once. I felt really weird. One time I met this strange old lady at a thrift store in Cleveland and she invited me to come along with her to some other thrift stores, so I drove her around and we shopped. We wound up in her basement apartment and I got the willies, made up an excuse and left.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

xp - Or drunk, racist, anti-Semetic, stinky union electricians?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I make fast friends in situations that aren't quite public are therefore pre-screened (classes, workshops, etc.), mostly because it's easy to find something in common to talk about.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Lovely Leslie (Jesse wants to marry her) but also my professor I figure you'll be okay on your own

Wait, I thought Leslie WAS your professor...?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't talk to strangers much but I don't regret it when I do, except sometimes when they're schizophrenic.

This is just like the guy who cornered me when I was waiting for K@tie to get her taco before heading into the Green Mill the other night. Biiiiiig mistake making eye contact with him.

I do recognize people all the damn time too, and it weirds me out - kind of in the same way going back home and seeing random people I know (but don't KNOW) walking down the street weirds me out. I have gotten too used to the thin veneer of anonymity that Chicago provides.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a guy I see on the train, probably at least 3 times a week. He has glasses and hair that sort of make him look like Where's Waldo. I probably see a lot of the same people everyday, but he's the one that is most noticeable. I would probably never talk to him.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Leslie is my classmate who drinks wine out of a travel mug during class. My professor is the hummingbird-like lady who came out for drinks last Thursday after finishing her night class!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. Who is doing trivia then? Both of them?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't met either of them, so I don't know how this is going to work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's how it works:

Leslie is going to be asking the questions. She is a live question asker. Prof. is going to be on a team answering questions. She will probably be on a team w/ Nora, whom you all have met. This means that ILX is free to form its own team, show up, register said team, and then compete against Prof. and Nora's team for the grand prize which is like beer or something. I don't know. Leslie has nothing to do with the teams because she is asking questions.

Capiche?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I talked with a homeless guy from Texas the other day on the blue line. He told me not to waste my time supporting Barack Obama, because he is Muslim. He thinks Hillary is going to win. He was generally interesting, but I didn't initiate the conversation.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, thanks, Jewnifer!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I find something about surreptitious drinking in class strangely attractive.

\louisjagger

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I still don't know exactly who or what Louis Jagger is, but I would be lying if I said that her surreptitious in-class drinking wasn't part of what made me decide I should be her friend. Well, that and a shared love for labor law and the fact that we have a shit ton of classes together this semester. By which I mean "two."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I would be angry if I smelled one of my students drinking during class. I might even send him/her home. /grouchy old teacher

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The LJ reference was a comment on my own crepe-ing out, nothing more.

And yeah, if I was teaching, I'd be pissed too. I'd probably be pissed if I knew/liked the teacher, too. But since I'm completely removed, it's kind bad-ass.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I can see that. She's pretty low key about it when she does it, but there is an inherent "you are boring so I will drink to deal with it" message there. I've had a couple of beers before class when I've gone to lunch with someone before hand but I figure that I am 34 and allowed to do that as long as I'm not an asshole about it. I couldn't drink during class, though, because I'd have to pee too much. And usually if I get to feeling like I'd like to drink during class, I just skip and go take a nap.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, and I know I'm biased and somewhat prudish about that kind of thing.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Your honor, it's not like I was being an asshole about it."

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, if Jenny's out, who wants to be on a trivia team with me and Dan for Wednesday? Nick, are you still interested?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Excellent argument, Mr. Z! Case dismissed.

Amander, you're not prudish. If I were teaching students under, say, 25 I would have a shit fit if I found out they were drinking during my class. Similarly, there was a whole cadre of ding dong frat boys who would come to class reeking like booze, sit in the back of the room, and whisper all through class my first year and they made me FURIOUS.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The collective noun for ding dongs is "cadre."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the word "cadre."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's maybe not as cool as "phalanx," but it blends in better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I know it sounds like I am taking one position on something (drinking in class) and then totally changing my position depending on someone else's opinion (Teacher Amanda's) and that's because that is exactly what I'm doing. I did this the other day when I starte railing on people who wear sweatpants to class and the person I was talking to was like, "I wear sweatpants all the time!" and my response was, "Well, that's different!" and I was being totally honest. It was different because I like this person so there is an exception to my opinions special for her. (And any of you who want to wear sweatpants to class and drink in class OR get angry at people who drink in class.)

I'm coming to realize that's just the way I roll, opinion-wise.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate X except when Friend Y does it, in which case it's totally acceptable.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't even think I could pronounce "phalanx" without sounding like I had a mouthfull of novacaine.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hey chicago folks.

do you have any recommendations of good venues my band might be able to get a gig in chicago. i've heard it's really tough to get into the "cool" venues, so any advice would be much appreciated. thx.

― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

We should follow up last summer's all-shorts karaoke night with an all-sweatpants karaoke night.

Matt - try South Union Arts (as long as you're not a straight-up rock band).

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a pair of sweatpants I have never worn. I guess I am saving them for the right occasion. With all of you.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Shorts! That's another excellent example.

I do have a pair of sweat pants. They say DePaul on them and I wear them all the time but only around the house and to Jewel.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I have LPs (leisure pants) but they are not gathered-at-the-ankle sweatpants.

ALTHOUGH I must tell you that in college I had a huge crush on this obviously ballsy dude who would wear the same sweatpants and Public Enemy t-shirt to breakfast every single day. He swaggered mightily and didn't give a single goddamn shit what he was wearing. He was cute and I invited him (anonymously) to a party once. The story will end there.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

NOTE: I do not mean he had giant balls -- just that he boldly wore the same sweatpants every day, which takes confidence, which is appealing.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt - try South Union Arts (as long as you're not a straight-up rock band).

hmm....we're pretty "regular" like post punk/new wavish...is that more an art space/noise/improv dealy?

― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Leisure pants! I refer to mine as "house pants." My DP sweatpants are the modern kind that are really just flappy-legged yoga pants made out of sweatpants material. I have... gawd, like eight pairs of house pants? Only that one pair could be considered sweatpants, though.

If I spent that much time schlepping around the house to need eight pairs of house pants, why do I feel so stressed out, I ask you?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That is possibly the most boring and pointless thing I have ever posted on ILX. GO ME.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I have all my windows open, and the wind is whipping through here, clearing out weeks of staleness with its balmy 42 degrees.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt - it's kind of arty (Tim Kinsella and the like play there).

Maybe Beat Kitchen or Subterranean? I get the feeling that no one randomly checks out shows here at most bars, so it's hard to know where to play and get an audience.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I prefer "house trousers".

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Mutiny

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"house trou" (pronounced like hausfrau)

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt H -- what dates are you looking at? Would you be able to guarantee any draw? There are some "name" clubs that MoN might be able to get into (and I might be able to inquire about), but if you're just looking for a place to play on an off-night, a non-traditional venue might be just as good (if not better) in terms of a built-in crowd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

JESUS I just spelled "Illinois" wrong on the envelope in which I intended to send my bar application crapola.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

From the anals of funny law review article titles:

OUR NATION'S FORGOTTEN WORKERS: THE UNPROTECTED VOLUNTEERS.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

haha anals

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Golden Palace (Asian market that Kenan mentioned) which is great for noodles, sauces, odd produce and giant frozen fishes

Actually, I was wrong. I just walked past it. It's Golden Pacific. Golden Palace is... a casino?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost One not familiar with the anals of law may end up in the penal system.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

tee hee!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

titter.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link

John, I would be psyched for trivia but I think we are having band practice on Weds., which will be necessary since we're playing on Friday and haven't had a "real" practice in a while.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I was wrong. I just walked past it. It's Golden Pacific. Golden Palace is... a casino?
I just drove past it and realized the same thing!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc said in the cigarette thread: When I started it was (don't laught) Benson & Hedges Ultra-Light Menthol 100s

And I may have already told you this, but I smoked those for about a year in high school because that is what my boyfriend smoked. Prior to dating him, I smoked the much more butch Salem Lights.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I had some friends who smoked Capris 100s (or 110s?) for a while because it was ironic, or something. I had a few, they were like air.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

When I started it was (don't laught) Benson & Hedges Ultra-Light Menthol 100s

THAT WAS MY FIRST CIGARETTE, TOO. Srsly, I still get a nostalgic scent off of those. And erotic, even, because my first girlfriend smoked them.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone else tried the little asian grocery that's on broadway right by my place? Golden Palace, I think? It's really cool. They have good fruit.

I LUV that store. Cheap Srirachia sauce, fun stuff like Beef Blood, Pig Blood, and Beef Bile*, frozen pre-cooked sushi rice, and a lot of cheap everything Asian.

*http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/103115901_ec0d953494_o.jpg

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to go to that place and buy absurd amounts of Pocky and jelly candy. I miss it!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, jesse, if you can go to that store, you can come to my apartment. You have no more excuses.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Today was pretty great. Lunch at Giordanos, worked for 2 hours, then dinner at Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba. Tapas are God's Own method of dining.

Highlights:
-Filet, med-rare, topped with blue cheese
-Mushrooms stuffed with spinach and manchego cheese
-Roasted bacon-wrapped dates with an apple cider vinaigrette OMG, GOOD! I'm going to make these at home.

Also, tapas-sized desserts are the perfect size.

Cocktail of note: Rebujito- Dry sherry with sprite and fresh lemon. Unusual.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

At the adjoining table there was a young restaurant manager bitching about the following

-He can't let his employees sell Girl Scout Cookies because if he allows 1 outside agency in, it opens the door for solicitation by unions.

-He has to do super-thorough background checks because the unions are always trying to come in and "infect his employees."

-[i]Work at Will laws are not nearly strong enough[/i], and leave an employer virtually powerless to fire an employee after 90 days except for in cases of exceptionally bad work, and then only after tons of warnings. One time he accidentally hired a union mole, and fortunately caught him within the first 90 days and was able to fire him.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(That first bullet point was his restaurant group's official policy, which he was quoting.)

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That's true, actually. It's okay to have an occasionaly charity collection drive, but other than that, you can't allow some types of solicitation at the workplace without giving union organizers equal access. I forget the case. Don't tell my labor law prof.

That work at will stuff is just nonsense and makes me want to smack him around a little.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, they really knew how to mess us up at this restaurant gig last night. First, the unlimited long island ice teas that got me more drunk that I had been all weekend in Chicago. Then the free dinner afterwards was just not to be believed. It was like two Thanksgivings. They kept bringing out giant plates of chicken, fried chicken, chicken wings, smothered pork chops, ham, rice, stuffing, cake, mac & cheese, chicken, etc.. I'm giving up food for lent and I don't think I'm going to miss it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

That dinner is like Thanksgiving if they have Thanksgiving in heaven!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. What's the opposite of food poisoning? I think I'm going to go home on account of that (and I have another parochial school gig this afternoon).

Happy Mardi Gras!

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I am a grumpy monster this morning. GRUMPY! MONSTER!

I think this started yesterday, when my mom emailed me this sad story. She thought she'd finally made a friend in her new city (she's been there a year). She's been going to see movies with this woman. Anyway, she had such a great time this weekend with her and they talked for a really long time after the movie. Then my mom is like, Hey! We should just have a movie night once a week! What do you say? And the lady was positive about it. Then the next morning, my mom got an email from her basically saying, yeah, the thing is I'm really busy and don't have time to spend with you...

I hate that lady. How can anyone not want to spend time with my mom? :-(

Anyway, it sort of started a little kindling for sadness in me, which this morning has fired up into a decent sized ball of rage. Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat... and so on.

xpost - oh yeah! Something to be glad about!

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, can anybody recommend a decent temp agency in Chicago? Or agencies? I need some income.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, no.

But Matt, if you're still on here, you can email me and I can send you some pointers on where/how to get shows (if you're not scared of me after my huge post just now).

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of Mardi Gras, I heard M@m@ D|gd0wn on Public Radio this morning.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

No, srsly?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Mardi Gras Kitcats

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Deric, my husband worked with a temp agency to some success but I can't remember what it is. I'll ask him, though.

Here is your feminist RAGE for the day. Do not read if you are already feeling overwhelmed with negative emotions about our big dumb world.

And mad hugglez to Sarah and her mom. I would go to the movies with your mom!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah there was a blurb about the performance at the Children's Museum. Mostly talked about the kids' activities, but the band was namedropped and they played a recording of music and parade with laughing kids and such.

Supposedly there are photographs on CPR's site but I can't find them right now.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

That's exciting about MDD on NPR!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Feminist rage, part deux: http://feministing.com/archives/006542.html

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That IS exciting. Thanks for letting me know Dan, otherwise we would have had no idea.

I don't see on anything on their website yet either but there is a photo of five dudes with sousaphones and blue tracksuits, so close enough.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Please tell me that MDD wears matching track suits, even if it's not true, because that's awesome. Even better, tell me that you wear marching band uniforms.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Here is your feminist RAGE for the day.

I'm not sure that stops with, or even begins with, feminism. There are so many things wrong with that.

I hear that in Asian cities the wealthier women sometimes get surgery to make their eyes more round.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell me lies. Tell me sweet, little lies.

xp - no, there is lots of racism, classism, and capitalist manipulation in there, too. And that is true about eye surgery. And women in the US get their vadges tightened and lifted.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually we do have matching track jackets. And matching dickie pants/shirts, hoodies, letter jackets, etc.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost lifted where?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

or did you mean lifted like shoplifted?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I take a holistic view of oppression in that I think you can't fully separate sexism, racism, and classism because that they are of similar origin - those in power trying to preserve the heirarchy that gives them their power and privilege. Similarly, even oppressed groups can find a stake in preserving the hierarchy to hang on to whatever power/privilege they are allotted. I think that the methods of oppression differ depending on the target group, and that those on the receiving end experience the impact of racism/classism/sexism in different ways and to different degrees, but I think its all of a piece. This is just a great example of that: the "whitening cream" is definitely a feminist issue (because it's targeted to women generally, who are told that their entire value is in their looks, and to dark-skinned women, who are told that they are even less valuable than light-skinned women) as well as a race and class issue.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Lifted like they have their labia tightened up so they don't dangle so much. Dangly labia. It's the scourge of rich women everywhere.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

WITH LASERS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

THE FUTURE IS NOW

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure there's a "five finger discount" joke in there somewhere.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Doc, I need to have my labia lifted because I'm always getting them caught in my designer hand bag."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My next band will be called The Dangly Labia.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My comment would have been funnier if I could have come up with the name of an actual designer with the current hot commodity hand bag but alas I cannot. Which is for the best, because I can't afford to have my labia lifted right now.

TEMP AGENCY: New Office Temps.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

This is just a great example of that: the "whitening cream" is definitely a feminist issue (because it's targeted to women generally, who are told that their entire value is in their looks, and to dark-skinned women, who are told that they are even less valuable than light-skinned women) as well as a race and class issue.

no, you're right.

I almost take this as a good sign, though. India is in the middle of some heavy social transition if the powers that be are being this heavy-handed about keeping the ladies down. And using capitalist means to do it! What a world.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

(re: temp agencies - folks have mentioned New 0ffice, or signing up w/ Northwestern's own temp pool.)

O the dangly, gangly, mangly...

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

My next band will be called The Dangly Labia.

Bad call, bro.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I have thoroughly enjoyed talking about my labia on the internet.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And we loved hearing about it.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

LADIES OF CHILX: TELL US ABOUT YOUR LABIA.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The Labia Monologues.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Which is for the best, because I can't afford to have my labia lifted right now.

two sided duct tape or maybe velcro could help?

My next band will be called The Dangly Labia.

there was one awesome band name from this weekend but i forget what the hell it was now. all i can remember was thinking of starting a rev. horton heat-esque psychobilly/gospel revival band called the crystal methodists.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG awesome.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

In a newspaper in DC I saw an ad for a plastic surgeon who did various procedures, one of which was "Westernization surgery"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Westernization surgery"

I wonder if it's some kind of package deal. Eyes rounded, tits enlarged, labia tucked, and asshole bleached.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

It's very important, you know, to have a perfectly pink, shaven asshole. I won't even go NEAR a woman who doesn't have that.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

oh no I'm in THAT mood again. I'm sorry chilx. I'm going away now.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My Lady Has A Beautiful Anus

How do I love my lady's anus? Let me count the ways.

Have you seen her? Have you seen my beautiful lady and her anus? Unless you are an ex-boyfriend, her proctologist, or an art student in that class she modeled for, you probably have not have glimpsed the fairest orifice on God's green Earth. For this, you have my deepest sympathies.

I would put my lady's anus up against any of the legendary anuses of the past: Helen of Troy, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33388

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the best Onion article ever.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Anus kills thread?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes, it's as if I'm gazing through a taut, puckered window into her very soul

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Anus kills thread?

What labia could not do, anus can.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

So true. So, so true.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

let's... uh... talk about something else.

I went into a cleaning frenzy yesterday. Aired out the apartment and went to town on it. There's not a lot of clutter, since I don't own anything, but cat hair. Oh, cat hair. How you torture me.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, Do you want some clutter? I can give you some, real cheap.

Anyone want bigger/larger breasts? Read Here!

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I meant to say bigger/smaller, but I was thinking bigger is better, so...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Cat hair is ridiculous. There's a dude named Dizzy crashing on my couch right now, and if I had known that would happen I would have cleaned off the carpet of cat hair that covers it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost you scared me. apparently that only happens in prepubescents. because i love lavender, and do not want to give it up.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, it's not too late. He'd probably still appreciate it. And maybe be less Dizzy.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you throw a blanket or something on top of it to create a protective shield between him and the hair?

Kenan, the study was on prepubescents, but you never know...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I have nothing to say about any of today's conversation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell us about your labia, John.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

We really need to not have this be the last post on the page. :-D

I'm feeling a little better right now. I made the kickassomist potato veggie enchiladas last night (& rice & beans) and I get to have leftovers in t minus 45 mintues.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, he had a blanket and stuff. I'm sure he's up by now, and poking around my messy apartment.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Sucks for him that you aren't there to make him sour cream panwaffles.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a yogurt spread we were eating on toast called labna. i always read it wrong.

http://parthenonfoods.com/product_thumb.php?img=images/DairyYogurtLabna.jpg&w=72&h=85

it was good though, like a cross between yogurt and cream cheese.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Dates

A sticky, salty, sweet, chewy delight. Couldn't be simpler, and they go like hotcakes. Just wrap half a strip of bacon around a seeded date, secure with a toothpick and bake at 350 degrees until the bacon is crisp. Make more than you think you'll need, people love them and the house smells great. They can be made well ahead of time and frozen in freezer bags. Bake frozen or not. Serve hot from the oven. Great to keep on hand, frozen, for unexpected company.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost that's what she said

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i tried wrapping a date in bacon once. i was thinking "two great things, even better together!" but it turns out the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

I'm out dudes, have a good afternoon and Mardi Gras evening.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

it seems like it might be good. but not if the date is all disgustingly sweetened.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried wrapping a date in bacon once too, as I was out of condoms.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

did anyone get a paczki today? the old polish dude i used to work with retired last june and he'd always bring some in. i could go for one about now.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Another source of outrage: This article is bad enough, but the comments!!

"Vindication at last. Perhaps now society will look upon our women not as the fairer sex but with an equal eye and as much to blame as the men."

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

did anyone get a paczki today

I did! The head copy editor brought in a couple of boxes.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

bacon wrapped dates benefit from a drizzling of cider vinegar.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

All I have is a Lean Cuisine of questionable safety as it's been thawed and re-frozen at least once.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

it was of questionable safety to begin with.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this the lunch doldrums?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm getting excited about the Oscars.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Why?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Is "The Descent" up for anything? Sauciest British bitches?

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF is "The Descent"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.google.com
http://www.allmovie.com
http://www.imdb.com

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you.

I guess my point was, I've never heard of it, there was no Oscar buzz attached to it, and IMDB (which apparently has been redesigned?) says it came out in 2005.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

and why would you know about a movie with no Oscar buzz attached to it, right?

― robots in love (robots in love), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Really? No Oscar buzz? I saw some SERIOUS Oscar blog buzz about the movie, mainly in the aforementioned "Sauciest British Bitches" category. Of course, there's always Judi Dench to contend with in that segment, so it's going to be tough for them. So to the makers of "The Descent" I say good luck and cheerio!

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Why?

Because I love the whole horse-race aspect of it, seeing what the pundits are predicting and if momentum is shifting in one direction or another, and because, like baseball, I love all the lore and the trivia and the history attached to it, and because I also sincerely love watching the show to see who wins and to see what everyone's wearing and to yell at the screen and make fun of celebrities with a dozen friends at someone's apartment with beer and snacks, and with some stake in it, too (since I'll be betting on it -- two years ago I won over $200). It's one of my favorite days of the year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

and why would you know about a movie with no Oscar buzz attached to it, right?

No. More like, why would I NOT know about a movie WITH Oscar buzz?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I can understand that, though personally I have too much trouble getting past the things I hate about it (which are the standard typical things to hate about awards shows) to enjoy it.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

When is it, John? (too lazy to look)

3.5 hours left of this dumbaroo work day...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

So... Does anyone have a rather nice bike they have abandoned temporarily which would like to come live with me for 3 months? I'm thinking - just thinking, mind you - of training for a triathalon.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

HAY JORDAN:

In New Orleans, Bands Struggle to Regain Footing

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, unlike the Grammys, I do think that they "get it right" once in a while. (And actually, it's not that the Grammys are "wrong," it's more like they're an exercise in futility, since thousands of albums come out each year and you can only hear so many.) Obv. they're going to be disproportionately tilted toward star-studded blockbusters, and there are some major embarrassments every year, but it's also awesome to see someone like Ryan Gosling nominated for a movie that's made under $5 million, and for which was probably my favorite single cinematic performance last year.

Oscars are Sunday night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

hey can someone fill me in on tasering story

― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Did they ever figure out why Shavers was shot? (I guess Jordan is out for the day....)

Whatsay some of us organize a little road trip? I have a hankering for New Orleans!

I say with conviction that I WILL be in NO for Carnival next year. The only thing that can keep me away is being a FT student, or perhaps death.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

What tasering story? In Chicago? Google search found only pretty old stories.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i know what tasering of which he speaks but do not know details. i do not believe the gentleman in question was actually tasered. though he was obviously threatened with it.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Errr, John, now you've lost me. By saying they sometimes get it right, you're conceding that it's even possible to pick a "BEST PICTURE" or whatever, which to me is something that's stupid to even try to do. But this is probably a discussion that we don't want to get into. We've probably even had this discussion before.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

"Best film" may not actually mean best film, but the competition is still interesting, or would be to me if it wasn't for whatever it is that is turning me off.

Anyway, is the winner of a sports competition really the best team? Sure, they scored their way to the top, but if you replayed any game they were in, they could often just as easily have won, so the empirical reason for calling them "the best" is not unquestionable, and there is room for subjectivity. Right?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

By saying they sometimes get it right, you're conceding that it's even possible to pick a "BEST PICTURE" or whatever, which to me is something that's stupid to even try to do.

Stupid because it's relative? I mean, obv. there's no way to prove that such-and-such film is the "best" of the year, but I guess I like the idea of history recording what many people's consensus favorite is. When I say "get it right," partially I'm talking about agreeing with ME (which is admittedly silly) -- but I'm also talking about the Oscars reiterating what seems to be the overall critical/public opinion. Last year, I was disappointed by Crash winning, on one hand because *I* thought that Brokeback Mountain was the superior film, but mostly because Brokeback was a fascinating cultural phenomenon and a Best Picture win would've capped off its narrative in a really satisfying way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

And not JUST a fascinating cultural phenomenon, either. I mean, Snakes on a Plane was a fascinating cultural phenomenon. But one that LOTS of people, both film critics and the public alike, all seemed to genuinely love.

Oh wait, I just remembered, you didn't like it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

And because Crash was AWFFFFFFFUL.

I don't think "get it right" necessarily means "agree with me," only since one's reasons for believing a movie is The Best would have to extend beyond your own particular opinion. Right?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"Best film" may not actually mean best film, but the competition is still interesting, or would be to me if it wasn't for whatever it is that is turning me off.

I agree with this.

The difference is that the whole purpose of a baseball team is to win the World Series, the whole purpose of a football team is to win the Super Bowl, etc. Few movies are created with the primary purpose of winning an Oscar.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

But one that LOTS of people, both film critics and the public alike, all seemed to genuinely love.

I meant BBM. If it wasn't clear.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

For example, my very favorite book is not the book I would nominate for Best Book, though the book I did nominate would be one I like.

Few movies are created with the primary purpose of winning an Oscar.

Maybe the way they get it really wrong is by nominating mostly/only films that are made for this purpose.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Brokeback was very overrated but I was definitely rooting for it over Crash, which was one of the worst movies I watched last year. But I didn't particularly like any of the three Best Picture nominees that I saw last year (the two above and Capote. Nothing I really like is ever nominated. I think this is related to me mainly liking comedies.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

But one that LOTS of people, both film critics and the public alike, all seemed to genuinely love.

so lowest common denomenator wins here? i dunno, i have lousy taste in films especially.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

test

― Venus born of the sea with this little kernel of salty honey in her, which only , Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Tlc-creep.jpg

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

nevermind.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I have nothing to say about any of today's conversation.
Today I had my students get into groups and each group wrote -- or re-wrote -- a portion of The Anna Nicole Smith Story. They were upset that the Newsweek article we read treated her with disrespect, so we rewrote with a more compassionate tone. It was pretty fun.

As for Oscars, I could not possibly care less about who wins what and whose performance was best. I find actors talking about acting to be boring. That does not mean that it IS boring, just that I, Armando, find it to be boring.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

OK. My main problems with the Oscars:

1. General concept of art being a competition.
2. Terrible movies always nominated.
3. People acting like they are actually a measure of quality.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

However, I will say that if the only reason I watched the Oscars was to see what I thought were the "best" movies win, I would be pretty cranky about the whole thing. I think you sort of have to divorce yourself a little bit and just get into fun celebrity-fite aspect of it (or if you're geeky like me, the handicapping). I mean, Dr. Morbs and Eric H. are big Oscar dorks, and they're also huge snobs that hardly ever like any of the movies that are in competition.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Killer3cdfront.JPG/200px-Killer3cdfront.JPG

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure Morbs likes them because only one movie can win in every category which means that EVERY OTHER FILM LOSES which means schadenfreude galore.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing is, I hate most movies.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://eil.com/newgallery/Led-Zeppelin-Immigrant-Song-62812.jpg

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing is, I hate most movies.

YES

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This is what I'm listening to right now:

http://www.cdzone.co.uk/scans/S/p/Sparks/351847f.jpg

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing is, I hate most movies.
YES

Srsly

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the way they get it really wrong is by nominating mostly/only films that are made for this purpose.

Yes.

so lowest common denomenator wins here?

I'm not sure that's the best way to describe it, since in the context of film, that term is too redolent of big gross-out comedies or whatever. I mean, yes, it's a consensus, but it's a consensus of what's considered quality.

I find actors talking about acting to be boring.

Hmmm, yeah, I actually find it pretty interesting. But I don't think you find any actors talking about acting on the Oscars. In fact, about the only place you'll actually find actors talking about acting -- I mean, really going into depth about the craft -- is on Charlie Rose or Inside the Actors Studio.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Agree with Nick, but with some changes

1. LotR winning!
2. Terrible movies always nominated.
3. People acting like they are actually a measure of quality.
4. Too much fuss.
5. General concept of art being a competition--only sort of, since this is usually the way of the world except maybe in the case theraputic or healing art.

How can you hate most movies? Really?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, they're MOVIES!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hating movies would require seeing them.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing is, I hate most ~~movies~~.

fixed.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like I hate most movies other people spooge themselves over, the movies I'm supposed to like or think are "important" or whatever. Maybe I'm just being contrary.

HOWEVER I think that "Half Nelson" was pretty good, as it actually succeeds at being naturalistic, and was subtle, which is a quality you rarely see in movies.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hee hee xpost to kevin.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hating movies would require seeing them.

Very true. Perhaps I should change my opinon to "I don't care about most movies".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

In fact, about the only place you'll actually find actors talking about acting -- I mean, really going into depth about the craft -- is on Charlie Rose or Inside the Actors Studio.
BLEEECCCH to the craft. Sorry. I have simple needs: entertain me and if you can, make me laugh or cry.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking about it ruins it for me.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to get back on Netflix. (Why did they delete my account?? One minute it's there, the next it's gone! I paid my bill, honest!) I want to see

Half Nelson
The Animation Show
Brick
Marie Antoinette
Many others WHICH WERE IN MY QUEUE AND I'VE SINCE FORGOTTEN!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost ^^^^Why I stay the fuck out of ILM.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I like meta-anything, but James Lipton bugs the living shit out of me, and there is inevitably too heavy a dose of pretention on that show/out of the mouths of actors, generally. Lipton eggs them on, though.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I tend to dislike the meta.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I like most movies I see, to varying degrees of course. There are usually only a couple of movies a year that I outright hate -- and then even those aren't necessarily horrible to sit through (my hatred of Little Miss Sunshine expands the more I think about it, but I'm not going to pretend that I didn't laugh a few times). But then I don't usually see movies that I know I'm going to dislike, either.

I guess the thing to remember is that the Oscars is what it is. I've never really liked when music critics say things like "In a perfect world, this song would be #1." If all your favorite songs were on top of the charts, and all your favorite movies won Oscars, would that really be a "perfect world"? It seems like it would be kind of weird, actually. I like having stuff that I like, and sometimes it's fun when it syncs up with what other people like, but even when it doesn't, it's still interesting to me to see who likes what and why.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

brick was ok, i didn't dig it as much as most. the dialog was rediculous, reminded me of heathers. i'm sure 14 year old girls across the country thought it was the best movie ever.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

In other news, I'm reading The Sun Also Rises for the first time, and it is good. Next I will try to read "House of Incest" again. It's only 72 pages, with pictures, and while it's lovely, it's HARD!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

God I love that book.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure 14 year old girls across the country thought it was the best movie ever

??? Weird. I'm sure very few 14-year-old girls actually saw "Brick."

I'm going to get my car's oil changed now. Bye.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

God I love that book.

Do you mean the Hemingway or the Anais Nin?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The one I quoted above. You might not be to that part yet, don't want to spoil it too much...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I think acting isn't talked about enough, frankly, because a lot of critics don't know how to talk about it. It's an interesting art.

the dialog was rediculous, reminded me of heathers. i'm sure 14 year old girls across the country thought it was the best movie ever.

Uh, you're kidding, right?

The dialogue was ridiculous in the sense that you get the impression that Rian Johnson just wanted to have fun with all that hard-boiled noir patter (totally unrealistic), but I think that that actually makes it kind of abstruse and somewhat of an impediment toward 14-year-old girls loving it. They might love Joseph Gordon-Levitt, though, and I don't entirely blame them. Emilie de Ravin and Nora Zehetner are pretty easy on the eyes, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

the dialog was rediculous, reminded me of heathers. i'm sure 14 year old girls across the country thought it was the best movie ever.

Uh... 14 year old girls thought it was weird and had no idea what was going on or why. and the dialogue was pulp detective story patter from the 30's. Only ridiculous if you've never seen a Bogart movie.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

other news, I'm reading The Sun Also Rises for the first time, and it is good.

long time favorite of mine. love it.

??? Weird. I'm sure very few 14-year-old girls actually saw "Brick."

i formed this opinion based partially on news from an acquaintence who works at a local video retailer. the more i thought about it the more it made sense.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

big xpost

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I enjoy most movies and tend to be fairly uncritical of them. I do mock movies constantly, but, for the most part, only ones I haven't seen. In the end, I just like to sit back and be entertained.

I thought Brick was wonderful, but I might be biased because of the cuet boyz.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the ladiez wasn't bad, either.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry... dames.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I think acting isn't talked about enough, frankly
tell me you're kidding! what other profession is talked about with the hyperbolic, laudatory language people use when they talk/write about acting? i know you'll probably say that those people don't know how to write/talk about acting, but seriously, when people talk about how brave an actor is or how excruciating something was for them, I want to puke.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

no, i understood it for what it was yet found it utterly rediculous. the social interactions and broad caste portrayals were something out of the first season of 90210. it was a bore and only laughable when it was trying to be serious.

[in my best gene siskle voice]

two thumbs down, WAY DOWN, for brick.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

In other words, I watched it for the same reason as all those 14 year old girls. Ok, not really. It was good over all.

I don't mind awards shows. I think they can be pretty fun if you have a posse together to watch them. Mostly I like the Oscars because they introduce me to movies I might need to check out. Also, I like seeing what everyone wears. There, I said it.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The only reason I would want to watch Oscars is to gawk at beautiful people. I'm not immune to that.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

the only reason i watch is to try to guess who's already drunk as they make their way into the event. once it switches from red carpet to the indoors i lose whatever little interest i may have had.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

no, i understood it for what it was yet found it utterly rediculous. the social interactions and broad caste portrayals were something out of the first season of 90210.

But your second sentence contradicts your first. You thought that movie was about teenagers? It wasn't.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

But your second sentence contradicts your first.

this is the second time (at least) that you've written this today and have been incorrect both times.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, Dr. Morbs and Eric H. are big Oscar dorks, and they're also huge snobs

I am going to rassle you to the ground when I get out there.

Winning an Oscar may now be even worse than winning a Grammy.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i wouldn't mind half a grammy.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/d/d8/280px-Gg_scene.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a pirated grammy

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

when people talk about how brave an actor is or how excruciating something was for them, I want to puke.

A. MEN. Cf. Sharon Stone talking about taking long baths and sobbing for days after filming Basic Instinct. And it is the self-awed way actors say these things! Like they're talking about having just come out of Auschwitz or something. Have a really strong emotional reaction, transform yourself into a character for months, be traumatized, but be aware that I want to see a moving performance IN the movie, not when you talk ABOUT it, when it is just gross.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Boy, clicking on Buddyhead's "Best of 2006"* while at work was a bad idea.

*Pretty much the only year-end list/awards/whatever I can stomach, if only for roffles.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Few movies are created with the primary purpose of winning an Oscar.

Many of the big-studio movies that come out every December are made with that as a major consideration. Why else would The Horse Whisperer have been made? Also the 3 Anthony Minghella films before this last one.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

(also when I saw the Ray trailer, I was so revolted I turned to a friend and said "Best Actor")

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, Amanda. :-)

I don't understand why actors do things like pick up a new drug or gain a bunch of weight so that they can seem more realistic playing their part (ie: drug addict or fat person I suppose, ha ha). It's called ACTING. Otherwise, studio execs would just hire actual junkies/ obese people.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously! Actually, one of the movies I've seen recently that I thought was rather good was the one that only had real people in it -- I can't remember what it was called but it was about this dude and a girl who worked in a doll factory in a place that looked a lot like Ohio. There was a middle aged lady too, who was friends with the young dude. Then some things happened. What was that called? I dunno. Whatever. It was pretty good and very short.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Bubble.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah yes. Bubble. I dunno. I thought it was pretty good.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

It's been confirmed: Armando DOES NOT KNOW.

"I dunno." -- Armando

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

no ordinary looking working-class ppl allowed in Hollywood when Charlize Theron and Will Smith can play them.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I love All the Real Girls. italics.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

General concept of art being a competition

I was thinking about this as I went to lunch just now, and actually, I think this is a huge part of what makes the Oscars so interesting to me. In the absence of any objective means by which to compare one work of art with another, Oscar winners are determined by a weird conglomeration of racial/sexual politics, Hollywood liberal guilt, studio campaigning, notions of who "deserves" to win based on past performances, the momentum accrued through the precursor awards (the December critics' awards shape the race in much the same way that the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries prefigure a political party's nominees), and other sundry factors. Watching all this play out I find to be pretty compelling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

tell me you're kidding! what other profession is talked about with the hyperbolic, laudatory language people use when they talk/write about acting? i know you'll probably say that those people don't know how to write/talk about acting, but seriously, when people talk about how brave an actor is or how excruciating something was for them, I want to puke.

Yeah, I guess maybe what I meant to say is that people don't talk INTELLIGENTLY about acting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

All I know is that you guys ALL win "BEST FRIEND" category!!!! :) LOL

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking about "how brave an actor is" does not constitute "talking about acting" to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, acting is kind of an amazing experience, or can be, sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE WATCH AGUIRRE. I'LL LET YOU BORROW IT.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

It's called ACTING.

HI DERE, Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to rassle you to the ground when I get out there.

When I said you were a snob, that was a descriptive statement, not a pejorative one. Think of a better word ("cinephile"?) and I'll use it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, question: when you people ordered from goth perfume warehouse, how long did it take to arrive? I've been waiting about a week and a half now.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE WATCH AGUIRRE. I'LL LET YOU BORROW IT.

Hey, do you want Y: The Last Man back? There's no reason for me to have them, except for a hazy memory I have of you telling me to keep them. But they're yours, and I'm not likely to re-read them or anything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a gift!

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll take 'em.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It was "Oscar dork" I obj'd to more, actually. Eric co-writes two giant columns abt the nominations and awards every year, I'm not in his league.

I am thinking of staying near Wrigley Field not Uptown this summer.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

unless i'm actually going to a game, and even then it's about 50/50, being in wrigleyville makes me want to kill myself in the summer.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hello there, dark chocolate with orange and spice. nice to meet you.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Paczki!

http://hamtramckstar.com/media/blogs/hs/Paczki-sm.jpg

I've had TWO today. Good thing I'm going to the gym tonight.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

summer in hamtramck i don't need to watch tv
sit out on my front porch see all i got to see...

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I have 3 friends who share a house in Hamtramck. Knowing them I'm reasonably certain they've had at least one each today.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It was "Oscar dork" I obj'd to more, actually. Eric co-writes two giant columns abt the nominations and awards every year, I'm not in his league.

Few people are. But still, you care enough to post about them on the Oscars thread, and you remember awards history beyond a year or two ago, so I think that qualifies you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

kev, I wd only be sleeping there

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Does it taste like a little jelly donut?

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Or a big one, yes. The ones that were brought into my office are sort of in between tennis and baseball size.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

morbs, upon further reflection, 80% of chicago makes me want to kill myself in summer. dan, last year i had a raspberry paczki that almost put me in a diabetic coma and also weighed roughly 87 pounds in my stomach. it was so fucking good.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I know all about the diabetic thing. The first one I had today just about made me shoot through the roof. The second was kind of a more mellow effect. (Maaaaaaaaan)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

My newly found obsession with jelly donuts has led me to this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYMb_LPN1dI

(Jelly Donut Freestyle Battle... I'm crying laughing)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently, Lady S0V is not a fan.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDES!!! I am grouchy again.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

My managing editor got me a $10 iTunes certificate for my birthday, how nice!

Tell me some trackz that I should purchase with it, chilx. I'm thinking stuff I'd probably never ever get on my own...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

new york groove by ace frehley, obv.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S A WASTE OF $.99 DAN!!!!

you have to have a pre-existing relationship with the song for it to be right.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah don't be grumpy about that thing.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Now you have to tell us what it is.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i just took Carl for a walk from our house, down Clark, over Devon and up Sheridan back to our house. It's a beauuuuuuuuutiful day.

I wish I had a paczki.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

here's something to make you feel better:

http://www.chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_laura/2006_2_paczki.jpg

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

PLZ NO MORE PACZKI, TUMMY HURTS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

LAUREL - it takes FOR. Ev. R. for BPAL to get their lovely smells to you. But they will come.

Amanda said something up there somewhere that made me snortOL and *heart* her more than ever but now I can't remember what it was or why I liked it so much. Whaddya know about that?

I do know that I sure liked Bubble and All the Real Girls.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked All the Real Girls a lot. I forgot about Bubble -- maybe I should rent it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

And I fucking want one of whatever you people keep posting photos of, goddam it.

I am in solidarity with the people who have a guilty love for the Oscars that is more about looking at what people wear than caring about the movies.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, I forgot to tell you (Laurel) that it takes 14-21 days for the smells to arrive. when they do, though, you'll be happy!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, I probably could have figured that out from the fine print somewhere, but I was waiting for two things to arrive today and feeling not in control of all the shipping confirms and bank charge dates and etc.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I said way upthread, when Jesse asked me why I was excited about the Oscars, that gaping at what people are wearing was one of my reasons.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Then you are one of the people with whom I stand in solidarity re: Oscars. Although, I don't usually watch that part on TV. I just wait excitedly for gofugyourself.com to update the next day.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I am bummed that no one has stepped up to join the trivia team. I guess I could ask the guy I know who was a three-day Jeopardy! champ, but I'd rather not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

WAIT. There is a good possibility that the thing I was supposed to do Thursday night is now canceled in which case I could probably do the trivia. I won't know until tomorrow, though.

Also, there was a blind guy on the bus and he got off and the bus driver said, "You can cross now!" and he crossed the street but ran into two stopped cars and then almost fell down a storm drain because he was kind of off kilter from the cross walk since the bus stopped in the middle of it so he was pretty unsure of where he was going. For some reason this made me think of Jesse. I'm sure that it was a little freaking to the people in the second car because he just barreled right into their driver's side door. He eventually got on the sidewalk and got oriented, though.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Informal poll time!

True or false: silverware drawer dividers are silly.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EFMQZS.16._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS260_.jpg

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Note: This is probably one of those things that I have a strong opinion on for about as long as it takes for somebody that I like to say, "I have one of those and I think it's great!" at which point I will totally take back everything I just said.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm torn, because I wish I could use the one I bought, but it doesn't fit into the kitchen drawer. I should probably just line the drawer and dump everything in there.

Pros: lets you see how many forks you have left, good for the blind

Cons: don't fit into my kitchen drawer

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly, i have three kitchen drawers, and they're all six inches wide. Who designed these cabinets?

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I have the same problem as Kenan, and now it rests on the back porch windowsill of the kitchen.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

it = silverware tray, not my problem

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I just looked in our kitchen and without the addition of our own auxiliary storage, we have one drawer that is about six inches wide.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

mine's on the bottom shelf of the dishware cabinet. Which is wrong.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I have the same problem as Kenan

I thought I was alone! We should form some sort of group.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes it helps to talk about your kitchen drawers with others who have the same problem.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I love silverware dividers! If you don't have one, do you store your utensils standing up in a glass or something? It helps you get a soup spoon vs teaspoon when you want one, and the leftover rectangular compartment is good for bottle openers, sugar spoons, cheese knives, etc. So when you need something there is no digging.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Also when it gets full of crud you can run it through the dishwasher, or float it in a sink of hot water and a cap-full of bleach, unlike the entire drawer.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

laurel otm. but i am crippled. I HAVE NO DRAWERS. AND MY PARENTS DIDN'T LOVE ME ENOUGH.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll do trivia if no one else wants to.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I'm thinking of all the crap in the kitchen that won't fit anywhere easily. There's a lot. Stupid apartments with no countertop space...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I have counter-top but roommate likes to keep it clear and we have precious little cupboard space (partly the fault of dishwasher but also bad design). So my pie pans and all my pot lids are stored in the dishwasher and it has to be emptied to wash anything. Garrr.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought trivia was tonight? If it is, I may now be free for it. We're not having practice tonight anymore but Sarah and I had talked about other plans. I will decide soon.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, could you post the trivia details again? I think they were originally on Real ILX.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

yesterday i got home to find not one, not two, not even three but all four records i ordered waiting for me. that was pretty awesome. then the ups guy came by and dropped off an unexpected package for me and that really blew wind up my proverbial skirt. books and music, music and books, it's all i really need to get by.

― chicago kevin, it is said, never gives up his dead (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I lurve drawer dividers. We have 2 at home PLUS a countertop silverware divider. We keep our regular spoons, forks, knives on the counter and everything else (multiple spatulas, sharp knives, measuring spoons, serving spoons, can openers, etc etc) in the two dividers in our large pull-out drawer.

I'm expecting one of those ebay dresses to come via usps today.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, am I tired. The show last night was pretty hot though.

I was hoping to meet girlz but all I got was annoying middle-aged woman showing her tits. :(

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

From yesterday:

1) Art is a competition.

2) Jesse, D. Shavers was shot by a 17 yr old kid aiming for his 15 yr old stepson, over a beef about having moved into the wrong neighborhood or something.

3) Brick is awesome.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Storing pie pans in the dishwasher sounds like a recipe for never, ever doing dishes. Gah.

I just throw all the silverware in the draw, willy nilly. None of our silverware matches (well, not much of it anyway) so it's easy to find what you want by looking for the correct handle. We have another drawer with various utensils in it. For some reason, I am unconcerned about the cleanliness of the silverware drawer, which is uncharacteristic.

Here are the pub quiz details. It turns out that I cannot go after all; I have to speak on a panel at Planned Parenthood tomorrow night and have to, you know, figure out WTF I'm supposed to say tonight. I thought that was going to get canceled but it's still on.

Place: Galway Arms, 2442 N. Clark (Clark and Arlington)
Date: Wednesday, February 21
Time: 8 pm
Cost: $5 minimum donation (please give more if you can!)
Prizes: Sponsored by The Johnsson Group. $200 grand prize and $20 drink/food discount for round-winning teams.

The Galway Arms pub quiz is a trivia game with teams of about 3 - 6 people. An MC asks 4 rounds of questions and the teams write down their answers on a given form, which is later scored. There is a prize for the winning team of each round as well as a grand prize for the team with the highest score after 4 rounds.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmmm ... interesting.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Innnnnnnnnnnnnnteresting.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Verrrrrrrrrry verrrrrrrrrrry ... innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnteresting.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Six people? Goddamn.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but our combined brainpower is equivalent to six people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I am definitely down for trivia, if we can get a full team together. I will plan on being there a little before 8.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Three counts as a full team. I'll be there, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

This photo will be the highlight of my day.

http://static.flickr.com/57/189161124_d1f16dfaf6.jpg

It's all downhill from here. I should stop trying.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I will be there to stand right in front of your team's table and tell WOO HOO!!!! YEEAAHHH!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!! and take lots of photos with flash.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still down as well.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll heckle the other teams if you think that will help.

― chicago kevin, it is said, never gives up his dead (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if there are going to be straight-up math questions. I kinda suck at math.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Math doesn't equal trivia. But I'm ok at math, as long as its not college-level math or higher.

Why was everyone so down on the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! album? It sounds pretty good to me. Though I never heard their first album.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that a shrimp po'boy? I've never had one because I find the idea of putting breaded food on BREAD a little keerazy, but I'm actually...tempted...

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I had some shrimp po' boy yesterday. :>

xpost, crazy like a fox

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

there is nothing bad about fried shrimp. at least that's the story i'm sticking to.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

jordan, is there anywhere in chicago to get one of those crazy koo-koo sandwiches?

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant trig math, square roots, and stuff like that. Things that people who are good at math can recall from memory of figure out quickly in their head. That was always what I was worst at, even more so than movies.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Not really. We were actually talking about this last night, since there are like four decent New Orleans places in Madison and not very many in Chicago in Minneapolis. There's Heaven on Seven, but I thought it was overpriced and not a very good po boy.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose though, with the format of the game, that wouldn't really make a big difference.

I don't mind the new CYHSY and I also thought their first record was overhyped. The dude still sounds like drunk Gordon Gano.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay Kenan, here is what you do. You go to Lawrence's seafood and you get a 1/2 pound of the best damn shrimp I've ever eaten. You take it home, where you have a soft french loaf, shredded lettuce, mayo, tomato slices, pickles, and hot sauce waiting. Then you have the best po boy ever eaten.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I was not impressed with CYHSY when I saw John's band open for them.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw them here at about that same time. It was a decent rock show, kinda crowded for my tastes but they were big hyped up at the time. I can't say it ruled, I've definitely been to shows that left much, much bigger impressions on me. But it wasn't bad. The fact that it was free kind of helped, probably.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm hoping that bar trivia will not be as scholastic in nature as high-school quiz bowl but will still be academic enough to resemble Jeopardy! or Trivial Pursuit more than the VH1 World Series of Pop Culture.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamn I want a shrimp po'boy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/105965199_14de6f6315.jpg?v=0

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Thx, duder.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I like eating shrimp po' boys with vegetarians like lesbians like straight girls.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(I could've put another "eating" in there but I didn't)

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me: should I agree to be set up with someone who doesn't eat meat or drink (DRINK!) and see if I can fix either/both of those conditions? I think the setter-upper is secretly hoping I will.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

And lo, she was known as Laurel the Corruptor

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

They say you can't change him, but when they say that they're talking about trying to change him *for the better*. Maybe it can work the other way round.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

DO IT, DO IT

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The non-drinkingness sounds like a huge challenge and possibly not worth it, but what do I know.

I eat fishies now. I had shrimp and mussels on Valentine's Day and salmon on Sunday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

20 bucks if Laurel can flip the vegetarian.

xpost - Getting him to drink, though - sometimes people don't drink because they know what assholes they are when they do.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Excellent.

xpost

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

if you can get him drunk you can get him to eat a greasy cheeseburger.

now i want a cheeseburger.

― chicago kevin, it is said, never gives up his dead (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Mussels + V-Day = :) :)

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Kev that new name rules.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Veg is sadness because it means my cooking will go un-et by Liked One, but drinking? What do people even DO with themselves?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my very good friends (Kid, from the band) does not drink, but he makes up for it with his eating.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Does he at least meditate or build houses?

new york groove by ace frehley, obv.

NOOOOOOOOO! orig version by Hello!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

What do people even DO with themselves?

Constant sex.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, are you saying they have sex...sober?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you only cook meat, Laurel?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, are you saying they have sex...sober?

haha Yes! And with enthusiasm!

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

morbs, the production on the ace frehley version is HYSTERICAL! they bury his vocals in the harmony because of his atrocious accent, then the mid-range is pumped up in the word "groove" causing a "back in a new york grOOOHve" sound. it's amazing.

― chicago kevin, it is said, never gives up his dead (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, are you saying people have sex?

― chicago kevin, it is said, never gives up his dead (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

John, pretty much everything has meat or meat base in it somewhere. Lentils for brek this morning? Totally awesome made with bacon and home-made chicken stock.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

So unnecessary, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i am not arguing about bacon with the bacon-free.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

what do you think the cats would do if i brought home a pig as a pet?

http://www.petoftheday.com/archive/2000/March/05.jpg

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha. Jenny.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I rollerskated to 'New York Groove' all the time as a kid.

I dated someone who didn't drink (and was in AA), but it wasn't a problem, especially because she still went to bars (and music shows in bars, etc.). I can't seem to stop dating vegetarians, which makes ordering chateaubriand impossible.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

what do you think the cats would do if i brought home a pig as a pet?

pork chop sandwiches

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

The bacon is probably an integral ingredient in that recipe, so it's not that, but I'm not sure what the point of the chicken stock is. I guess I just dislike the notion that vegetarian food is flavorless unless it's gussied up with meat. I'm not saying don't eat cheeseburgers, I'm just saying lentils are pretty great on their own.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Nueske's thick-cut applewood-smoke bacon would convert anyone to the meat-eating cause.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember the Ace Frehley version from high school. meh.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what's severely underrated? Plain nonfat yog.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^ mix with garlic, salt, pepper, cucumbers, tahini. Jerusalem salad up in this piece!

Also good with this combination sans tahini as a cooling side dish with hot hot curries.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost otm

I used to think a container of yoplait was good for me, but then i read the ingredients. Now I have to file it under "guilty pleasure."

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Plain yogurt is gross. Gotta be vanilla.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, John: what time are you guys thinking of getting to Galway tonight? I'm trying to figure out my schedule.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Have any of you eaten there?
http://www.galwayarms.com/Menu/FoodMenu.htm

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

N: Starts at 8, right? I may catch a ride over if I can find one, otherwise it'll be the Fullerton bus. I'm shooting for between 7:30 and 8 I guess.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure yet. Probably depends on how late I stay at work, which would determine if I go straight there or if I go home first and then drive.

I have eaten there, yes. I remember it being pretty good, though I can't tell you what I had. It was a few years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you guys need to be there any earlier to sign up?

I just consumed a blend of 6 live active cultures. BOO YAH!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, I wouldn't eat plan yogurt plain, probably! But it's SOOO GOOD and necessary for sauces and toppings and cooking purposes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I had the hummus appetizer dealie when we ended up there last week (Galway). It was acceptable.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

True, I buy it for making tzatziki sauce sometimes.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

That pig named after me is awfully cute.

We watched an ep of Dirty Jobs last night during which the very handsome Mike Rowe worked on a pig farm. And a small pig farm that probably can call it's methods humane and they still did mean things to baby pigs (clip their teeth off, cut off their tails) that made me have to hide in the bathroom until the segment was over.

I am the most conflicted meat eater I have ever met. FYI.

I think that chicken stock adds a lot of flavor to lentils, etc., and I tend to use a lot of it, but I think vegetable stock works just as well as a substitute. Maybe I'll start using more vegetable stock. Best bet would be to make my own but what am I, made of spare time?

Plain yogurt w/ salt, pepper, etc. is AWESOME.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The burger at Galway was subpar.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a great burger last night. It involved avocado spread.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmm...

Guess what time it is?
It's PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME...

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

What kind of jelly, Sarah?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think you're ready for it, Eazy.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

We watched an ep of Dirty Jobs last night during which the very handsome Mike Rowe worked on a pig farm.

You know, I have decided I don't like that dude. He's just a little too smug. He's handsome, yes, but he is very aware of that, and seems to always be smirking about it in a self-satisfied way. Contrast with the mythbusters guys, who are just huge geeks and really into their job. Way more fun.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved Deadliest Catch so much, and he was the narrator for that show... it's hard to move on from such awesomeness.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

never saw that. you have better associations than i. I just think of that dude who's covered in shit and acting like he's way above it.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi!

Ok, I have an idea for spring. (I'm anxious for spring.) I think we should meet in the park and have an informal croquet tournament. We can find some wacky hills and set up a ridiculous croquet course.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

XTREME CROQUET! I'll bring the Mt. Dew.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

We can find some wacky hills and ...

in chicago?

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

in lincoln park, silly.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi.

Apricot jam, yo!

I like Croquet. Do you have the rackets? Better yet, do you have THE BALLS?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

of course, if we were really extreme, we would play ice croquet like these wackos:

http://students.washington.edu/croquet/photo/2006-02-19/1.jpg

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Croquet. Do you have the rackets? Better yet, do you have THE BALLS?

Oh, I have the balls, alright.

I'll have to buy croquet balls, though.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

CONDO FOR SALE

My coworker is talking about selling her condo in the Loop for $190K. It's right next to Sears on State Street. Right above H&M.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Humboldt park would be more fun and possibly less crowded.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shoot... What was our bike gang called?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you're on to something. We can make obstacles out of the trash.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kinda of hung.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

if i were you i'd get some mallets too, i don't know how well rackets would stand up.

xpost- humboldt park is also good for a makeshift driving range.

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah I believe you are referring to BARN (Bicyclists Against Rollerblading Nazis).

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Lincoln park would be better for bacci, though.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

over.

Went out to Smith & Woll3nsky again last night for the Bottomless Glass of Wine. Met some Irish folks and sang The Star Spangled Banner, O Canada, Waltzing Matilda, Molly Malone, and God Save the Queen with them. It was...interesting.

One of the Irish people was a priest of the Holy Ghost order, and I told him that I didn't know dick about his order, but the Jesuits were my favorite fucking priests around.

I woke up in the Loop.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

At the condo I spoke of earlier.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost A yes. We took a strong and brave anti-rollerskating nazi stance.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

but the Jesuits were my favorite fucking priests

too bad you didn't grow up in the boston archdiocese.

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, did you get it on in a downtown Catholic church? Or did you wake up on Lower Wacker Drive?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

From earlier: there is no food around that bacon cannot make better. Bacon in lentils is not to be knocked. Although I guess you could also use smoked turkey necks.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I done told you Eric, I spent the night at my coworker's place downtown.

Let me tell you something--traipsing out into the sunshiny world with a hangover is hard enough anywhere, but it's especially unpleasant when you have to deal with the Loop first thing in the morning. Loud and people-y.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, if you haven't seen, the bit that CPR did on your gig from last weekend is available to listen to/download at

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/848_rafeb07.asp

Just look for "Mardi Gras in Chicago".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night a union guy was sat in my section and we talked unions and I told him about going to New Orleans, etc. I told him that in the wake of Katrina Bush repealed the Davis-Bacon act which says that workers who work on government-contracted jobs must be paid the prevailing wage for their area (NO=around $15/hour, I think). Do you know that he said that that was probably not a bad idea?!

This post would probably have been a better IM to Jenny.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, thanks Dan!!

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

traipsing out into the sunshiny world with a hangover is hard enough anywhere, but it's especially unpleasant when you have to deal with the Loop first thing in the morning. Loud and people-y.

my worst hangover involved puking into the mississippi river at 11:45 a.m. in new orleans along the river walk amongst a throng of tourists. some southern belle/sorority type actually gasped and pointed at me while i was hurling. i put both hands on the railing, steadied myself, turned towards her and her friends and just said "YEAH!" then tried again to get back to my hotel.

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

HA!!! Awesome.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

it kinda was, kinda wasn't. at the time it was only like the second time i'd ever puked from drinking. we'd started in massachusetts about 31 hours before and went straight through, it was when my body was no longer able to tolerate the abuse i put it through when i was in my early 20s.

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Why does my weather toolbar say SEVERE WEATHER ALERT?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost- the awesome part is the southern belle. But what do I know about awesome.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Have any of you gone up to a Catholic today and gone, "Oh, you've got something on your forehead--"? I do or almost do that every Ash Wednesday. Except today since I'm at home.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i just walked past a striking vision of a med student and she had ashes on her head but it wasn't her forehead i was thinking about.

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

In case you were unaware:

The new I LOVE X is ready.

I'll be over there if you need me.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be here until nu-lx looks/works decent.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

How long did it take you to get your password email?

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

won't let me log in, won't send me a password. it's not done baking.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Waht the fuck. We can't leave kevin behind!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My password took a while, guys. Like mabye 15 minutes, and that was before the rush. Give it a bit?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It took me 0 seconds to get a password.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

OK. It looks ugly over there though.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

so we all have new passwords?

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i disabled css (which totally fucked with the article on the red sox spring training i was reading) and still couldn't make it go. c'est la vie.

― chicago kevin says fuck this, it's noodle time. (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I got mine in a couple minutes.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm staying where you guys are for now.

It's ugly, but I always love the cries of "OMG I CAN'T READ FONT!!!!!" Yes you can, don't be a jerk. It may not look like what you're used to or what you want it to but you can still read it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I vote we just camp out over here for the time being.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, you have to re-register and use a real email address for it, because it will email you the password. And then you can change it in preferences later.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

never mind. i r dum.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I think those people were complaining about the security thing where you have to copy what's in the box to get your password. Which was kind of hard to read.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, that was to Nick's post, not to Kenan being dum.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I registered with a real email because I am SMRT. No password yet though.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

it look fine. better, actually. the line spacing is better. much easier to read; I don't have to reset my default font to get away from tiny times new roman.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude. Fuck me in the goat ass. I have to work tonight. Dung.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know, it looks very early '90s to me. And I can't change the font size with ctrl + scroll.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoah, I think they already changed the font since the first time I looked at it.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

they did. it's better but still odd.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Try Ctrl and "-" or "+" to change the font size. Worked for me.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm, not working for me.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a browser command, it will change the text size on every web page you visit.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, stop fucking my goat ass, I got my shift covered and am going to an informational session at DePaul University CHICAGO'gewjkwaeg;lljkasfd;lkj.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i will stay here a while longer

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

How are we sposed to intuit what to type here?

User Name (email address):

BOTH? NEITHER? w/ parens??

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not ready for that jelly.

Username=email address is what I'm getting out of that.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I like this Sandbox ILX better. It looks exactly like Ye Olde ILX, so the only advantage to the new one, as I can see it, is the archives. Which really aren't all that important on a day-to-day basis.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

archives and "improved security" (and eventual bandwidth)

But I agree, I like the sandbox better.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care about security. The new ILX hurts my eyes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

As I said on the I Love X thread: New board has un-American style of showing dates!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

That was a dumb way of saying that.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

In ILX2, dates show you!

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

That's probably just because the Preferences haven't been tricked out yet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Why the hate for BBCODE?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't understand what is un-American about it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

the current style is fine for everyone

― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait! I swear a little while ago it said 21 February, 2007!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

What's up with no xpost warnings?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

More important than all this board nonsense:

REMIND ME AGAIN WHO'S GOING TO BE AT GALWAY ARMS TONIGHT?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I only hate BBCODE because HTML is ingrained in me now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

if we're only allowed bbcode, how does noise board work anymore?

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like bbcode. Html requires too much shifting.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, i'm about 90% positive i won't be able to make it friday as i seem to have a problem with my calendar reading comprehension skills. but fake fictions, if you're playing around or after 11-ish i'll be at ronnys.

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I think I will be at Galway Arms tonight.

I also think I will go get a quick haircut in a minute.

OH!!! And I will be there Friday for sure. Hoorah.

One time in Philly Brian, Courtney and I had a whole huge auditorium to ourselves and we watched a movie on a full-sized screen, drank Yueng-Ling and smoke teh cigarettes and did this

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/3291645_a8ed307794.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/3291662_3233903d91.jpg

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I am kind of cute in that first picture.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's one of your better ones.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of want to do me in that picture. Hell, I think I will go ahead and do me now IRL.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

that's awesome.

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

EVERYONE STAND BACK

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

GIVE THE MAN SOME ROOM HERE

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi. I struck out. :(

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

But I did get a little kernel of salty honey.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

on noes!

read this instead:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/dane_cook_parlays_new_burger_king

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"I mean, the fucking thing has jalapeños on it, bro," Cook added. "Jalapeños."

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

struck out? did you shoot yourself down and go home with someone else?

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Somehow word got out to the left hand, and there was a fite.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

It's time to buy yourself some flowers, man.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never actually seen Dane Cook. Where do people see him?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes i see him in my nightmares, and i wake up screaming.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never actually seen Dane Cook. Where do people see him?

leaning against the mens room door on interstate rest stops, usually.

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the longest day ever.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

So I have onion powder and garlic powder -- indispensible!
I have cheese powder and mushroom powder for when the situation calls for those.
I even have wasabi powder.

WHERE IS MY BACON POWDER. I want someone to invent powdered bacon so I can add it to all kinds of things.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I know there's a nuILX but I can't say goodbye just yet.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

bacon bits + two sheets of wax paper + rolling pin = bacon powder.

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

So... Remember upthread Jenny asked what Amanda said that made her LOL? I think it was probably this, or at least it had that effect on me:

Ah yes. Bubble. I dunno. I thought it was pretty good.

-- Armando Grouse (showdow...), February 20th, 2007. (later)

It's been confirmed: Armando DOES NOT KNOW.

"I dunno." -- Armando

-- Armando Grouse (showdow...), February 20th, 2007. (later)

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm eating popcorn. Why does it make me oh so very happy?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost yeah i thought that was great, too.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Hehe. I did think Bubble was pretty good.

I want my bacon powder to be stable so it doesn't rot in the cupboard. And not just ground to bits, but POWDERED, so I can sprinkle it on/in things. If someone can powder mushrooms, why can't someone manage to powder meat?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11587450/Hong_Kong_Tien_Chu_Lucky_Hope_Meat_Powder.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

the chinese invented everything.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh, you think it tastes good? I'll look for that at Golden Pacific.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

autumn

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, I could go for a snickers bar right about now. I very rarely want a snickers.

Ooh.. I like that little story.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

That is awesome.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a date tomorrow!

Going here: http://www.tizimelloul.com/

I have nothing to wear.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Stop posting here! ADAPT OR DIE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 22 February 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of which: Kevin, in case you don't see it, stet invited you to email him to sort things out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I am excited to hear about trivia. Please post details. Was Prof. Hummingbird there? Did Nora show her boobs? Did Sarah take a lot of flash photos?

Trivia was fun. We won one round ($20). Nick and Sarah had already left, so we rock-paper-scissored to see who won it. Dan's friend (what was her name dammit) won, but then gave it to Katie. Our team was named "Honey With Colts." The best team name was "What's That On Your Forehead?" They won the whole thing.

Everyone agreed that Jeff is essential to our future success since we SUCKED at sports trivia.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to keep posting here until Kevin can be a part of ILX2 life. Solidarity.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Contrasting that with my post on nuILX is kind of scary.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

why does that piece of shit ILX over there keep LOGGING ME OUT???????

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't want to keep switching. I like this model.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link

In the past month, Dane Cook seems to have replaced Carrot Top as the punchline indicated "worst comedy ever".

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey EZ -- Lavender Diamond is coming to the EB. Wanna go? I do. 5/27

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

How did we win a round? I thought we established that other team in the same room as us beat us in every round? Was it that one round where they accidentally gave us two more points than we should have gotten?

Anyways, I had fun despite the somewhat stressful set-up. I don't feel like I did that well myself but Dan is a monster on the geography questions. I would have preferred more question variety, as opposed to 5 straight questions about volcanos or 4 straight questions about insects and how they smell.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure how we won the last round, but they said we did. Maybe it was the bonus questions.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

What were some of the sports questions?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the location of the 2007 NBA Allstar game? (we got it wrong)
" " " " " " " Super Bowl? (that one we got right)
Who is the newly-signed coach of the Dallas Cowboys? (also wrong)

Um, there was a baseball question in there, I'm pretty sure John knew it. There were two NASCAR questions back-to-back to start off the game, I knew the first (first race of the year, Daytona 500) but the second was a wash (who was last year's champ). There may have been one or two other sports questions but those stand out in my memory.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the location of the 2007 NBA Allstar game? (we got it wrong)
" " " " " " " Super Bowl? (that one we got right)
Who is the newly-signed coach of the Dallas Cowboys? (also wrong)

las vegas
miami
wade phillips

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, you should have come out!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

had i remembered at the end of the day i might have. for the first time since before xmas i am going to make it between paychecks without being broke and/or overdrawn 4 days prior to the next check.

― chicago kevin is still a little dizzy (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, there was a baseball question in there, I'm pretty sure John knew it.

Cal Ripken Jr. (who, in 1995, broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Think of me as a savings bank. XP

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i haven't even opened the envelope.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, sheer good sense, then?! Congratulations. And open the damn envelope.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually knew that baseball one too. Which, as I mentioned, was part of the problem: John and I overlap too much in our knowledge.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

so have we all decided to stay in the sandbox for now? i'd hate to have to try to divide my attention between 2 chicago threads, or 2 boards, or 2 anything

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.jeffteague.net/images/Cabaret_Two_Ladies_B_and_W.jpg

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Well said.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred.

This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group

Fucking myspace.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

What a dead work day. I am basically just sitting around waiting on other people.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

same, i'm covering for someone else today and with the exception of two phone calls and one issue brief i had to send to washington i haven't done shit. one task every half hour is a pace i can enjoy. and get used to for that matter.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

so have we all decided to stay in the sandbox for now?

I think so, especially since the last 2 times I've tried to visit the other place it's been unavailable.

What a dead work day. I am basically just sitting around waiting on other people.

Hey, that sounds like my day at work.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Waiting_Movie%20DVD%20Ryan_Reynolds%20Justin_Long%20Anna_Faris%20Dane_Cook%20Luis_Guzman.jpg

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

there's dane cook in the back, throwing up the bro signs.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Our team was named "Honey With Colts."

i just shared this factoid with the office. it made them happy.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc, I could be on yr trivia team in August if I actually put myself in a big 'nuff credit hole to make the trip.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually I'm pretty consistently busy from 6:30 to 11, but man. It's slow.

I want to go home and watch movies all day long. We watched "For Your Consideration" on Tuesday, it was lukewarm.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

ARRRGH.

I opened a can of Diet Coke and set it on my dresser, opened the top drawer and picked out socks, put them on and left the room. 30 seconds later I come back and Kenny is standing above the can which is now sitting inside the drawer upside-down. Fucking bird!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Should have closed the drawer?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a pretty awesome bird.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Should have gotten less malicious bird?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to go home and watch movies too, I've got True Romance at home.

I'm in a weird netflix phase, I've seen most of the movies I've been looking forward to and now I have huge groups of music dvds and old Britishes spy stuff. Or I could watch the Wire for a couple months.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been walking around with two movies in their envelopes ready to go back for a while now. and i forget about them everyday until i get ready to leave work.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

We watched "For Your Consideration" on Tuesday, it was lukewarm.

Ooh, I want to see that, didn't realize it was on DVD yet. I know it won't be that good, but after Guffman, I feel an obligation to see everything Guest & Co. does.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't you have an outgoing mailbox somewhere at work?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

There were a few laughs in it but the whole thing just seemed off. The humor was forced and the pacing/structure was really bad. And it's really short, like right at 80 minutes.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't you have an outgoing mailbox somewhere at work?

we have an entire fucking post office here. i just keep forgetting about them until i'm packing up my shit and running to catch the bus.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Consider yourself reminded. Now will you put the envelopes in the mailbox? :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

from the "I always get those two confused" file: Stephen Tobolowsky and Bob Babalan.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Both rule immensely.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

they really do.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Balaban is tinier.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

also confused: balaban and babalan

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

bonobo

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Bob Babalan is the one who blows Voight in the movie balcony in Midnight Cowboy.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

bob babalan and bob loblaw

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah and I learned on PBS that bonobos are continually doing it. A quickie (like 10 seconds) is a form of greeting. Even the lady bonobos say hey to each other with a little lovin'.

http://www.janegoodall.fr/images/grandssinges/bonobo.jpg

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

balaban balaban balaban

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah and I learned on PBS that bonobos are continually doing it.

I hear this, too. I doubt I would want to see it.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Babalan 5

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.paniscus.net/immag/HS_B03.jpg

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i kill thread

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I am very frustrated that I can't sign in to stupid myspace right now, I have to reply to someone's message about a gig.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey EZ -- Lavender Diamond is coming to the EB. Wanna go? I do. 5/27

YES YES YES. I doubt it would sell out, but maybe we should get tix in case there's a tsunami of hype when Matador finally puts out their record.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

MY FAVORITE BAND OF 2004-2007.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

MAYBE I CAN OPEN FOR THEM.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we're inquiring about that show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck you, it's mine!!!

heh.

Wow, and Electrelane on 5/22 too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

nick, sarah, what time are you guys playing tomorrow? i think i'll be done doing what i need to do around 11-ish.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't know, Kevin, but we probably won't start until at least then. We are third out of four bands.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

cool, hopefully i'll see you then.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

EZ -- did you see this item on Carl W's blog?

Pitchfork reports that Joanna Newsom is going to put out an EP featuring her live band with one new song (probably the song fans have been calling Shreddy or Colleen, of which you can hear about 30 badly recorded seconds here) and one track each from Ys and Milk-Eyed Mender. I've never seen the band, which features tambura, accordion, drums, percussion and back-up vocals, but by the accounts and samples I've heard, I'm inclined to prefer the Balkan-influenced arrangements over the album's orchestral versions. It's a shame that the EP's only three songs. However, you can't beat the title: Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band - just another sign of the current Second Coming of Springsteenism on the indie side of the street.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to hear that, for sure.

I just realized that Windish is Lavender D.'s booking agent, so between them and Matador they've probably got a band of their own to give a break to.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

For all the jaymc.xls fans out there, I just remembered that in fourth grade, I kept a steno pad with profiles of all of my classmates: where they lived, their parents and siblings names, birthdays, etc. Sort of a proto-MySpace back in 1988.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

crepey

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Electrelane on 5/22

I am all over this.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

something smells like baking bread/melting butter in here. it could just be an impending stroke however.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not even making a pretense to work today. I haven't even printed out an article to edit yet, so that I have something on my desk to look busy with.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

good going, sport!

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

The other day I could totally smell wasabi in my living room. I got pissed for a second thinking my roomie had gotten sushi and not let me get in on it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't decide if I want to live alone or with a roommate next year. One of the guys from the band really wants to get a place...on one hand I like living alone, but on the other maybe it would get me to hang out more?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

You should live alone ... in Chicago.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I want cherry pie. I thought I could even taste it, but then I realized that, no, that's the taste of cheese.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

there's an awesome apartment about 2 blocks south of me that is for rent, i looked at the building 2 years ago and really really wanted to live there but someone else moved in first and now it's open again and i'm not ready to move yet so i'll lose out on it again causing me mental anguish heartbreak and run on sentencing.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

If someone can find me a great-paying QA job in Chicago, then I'm there.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Jordan. You should move here.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The company my roommate works for is almost always hiring testers. The thing is, the place kind of sucks to work at. I don't know how he's lasted as long as he has there -- probably because he's not afraid to be an asshole.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you ever wish you didn't have to eat? I feel like I spend 75 percent of my time and money on food.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

uhm, i spend 75% of my time and money on beer and records.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

being warm blooded is a bitch, ain't it.

― lavender mofo (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Eating can be a pain, but I do love me some flavors.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I luuuhhuhve eating. Sometimes I realize that outside scheduling cues or etc are telling me to eat but I'm not hungry and the thought flashes through my head, "NOW what do I do with my time?"

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

smoke.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

No, eating is the highlight(s) of my day.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, hey, chicago, if you're not doing anything tonight there's a show at betty's blue star with the mans, lafayette indiana's #1 proto/mildly retarded rock 'n' roll duo.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that's why I have so many bad habits, the recurring thought of "...NOW what?"

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

whenever i think "ok, now what" i grab a beer, get a smoke, or start to read. sometimes all three. depends on how much time i have, where i am, what i'll be doing later etc.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

huh, some friends of mine are playing a show at heartbreakers in milwaukee at the end of next month. i'm almost interested enough to go up there to see how that goes.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Got two possible QA leads, Jordan - I'll check 'em out.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanna play a show at a place called Heartbreakers.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a, uhm, gentleman's club. aparently band on one stage, regular artistic expression on the main stage simultaneously.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

YES YES YES. I doubt it would sell out, but maybe we should get tix in case there's a tsunami of hype when Matador finally puts out their record.
Oh, don't worry. I am always the person buying tix ahead when they let me. Even for shows that no one cares about. I'm not about to get all the way there to find myself disappointed. When does record come out? I only have the EP.

Also, I feel like I spend 75% of my time and money on food, but I don't mind. I would rather spend it on food than on something I don't enjoy. Like surgery.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, what kind of QA work? Software?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was technically in QA a couple years ago, but it basically meant proofreading.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to fall asleep RIGHT HERE. Someone start talking.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

9. Bonobo monkeys are very affectionate.
This is going on my quiz for tomorrow in the "identify the parts of speech" section.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Please give me more simple sentences.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Without complex (multiword) verbs -- action verbs preferred. I need 4 more. Also try to use a past participle as an adjective. Go.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

A lady copy editor just complemented me on my U.P. t-shirt. I was kind of embarassed since I'm only wearing it because I'm behind on laundry.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

10. A lady copy editor complimented my t-shirt.

3 more

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i went to the post office to mail my movies.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i am going to a bar to drink a thousand beers.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i plan on being hungover at work tomorrow.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you
one more

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

plan on is a phrasal verb and very confusing in this context
try again

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be hungover at work tomorrow.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

gimme a compound subject

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Part 2: Parts of Speech
Identify the parts of speech for the underlined words. (This should be review…)

7. I applied for that job yesterday.
8. Bonobo monkeys are very affectionate.
9. A female editor complimented my t-shirt yesterday.
10. Before we eat dinner, Dan and I usually watch The Simpsons.
11. I went to the post office to mail my movies to Netflix.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I am accepting more submissions to replace #7

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone thinks....

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

nah, scratch that.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i made you a cookie but i eated it

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan and Jesse work at the glove factory.

This will be #7 until someone gives me a better option.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The giant ball is made of pants.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

kevin and his liver are no longer on speaking terms.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-08/giant-ball-of-jean.jpg

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

This are Two-tone

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin and his family like to eat fried liver.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't wait until you all help me write the midterm.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Jughead has gone the gay way.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I am trying to determine if I've got it in me to play in a soccer league this summer. I'd be a goalie 'cause I have no skillz and I'm huge.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan has decided to play in a soccer league this summer.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That was quick!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to play in some tennis tournaments. I can't take the commitment of a league.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, how are your knees and do you have insurance? That seems to be the deciding factor....

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also how much do you like to sweat under loads of protective gear?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

PS My extra credit question was to write at least two sentences describing the ball of pants photo, using at least one adjective and one adverb.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

knees: middlin'
insurance: yes

Loads of protective gear? I think they get some gloves...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Shin guards! And possibly knee braces.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I doubt this league will be that serious, but who knows.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure everyone needs shin guards, actually. I mean, would YOU wade into a forest of kicking feet without them?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

A very good point!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to start playing golf again this year. i haven't played since i moved to chicago. : (

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.unionjackwear.co.uk/images/tamoshanter.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I love golf.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

this is not something that one would immediately intuit about me, but it's true. I also enjoy that most broville of video games: Golden Tee.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

also, thanks to the buy one get one free offer at jewel this week i have eaten an entire package of thomas' bagels today. the bagels alone gave me 128% of my daily allowance of sodium. also 66 grams of protein, 1720 calories, 18% of my fat intake, 114% of my carbohydrates, and 72% of my dietary fiber*

*Percet Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck golden tee. i only play unless there is no other video game available. also, about 2 months ago me and this dude john got hustled at golden tee at tuman's by a couple of serbians. i think we bought out for $10 each after the 4th hole.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

How come YOU had to buy out when you'd been hustled?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

we were playing for two or three dollars a hole? must have been two. it was obvious we were going to lose all 18 so we bought out for 10 bucks.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

In addition to having never skied, I've also never played regulation (not mini-) golf. I think Joe Coverdill (who once coached Denver Nuggets star Dan Issel) taught me us how to swing the club in 6th-grade gym class, but that was the extent of it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe I haven't played any of you at golden tee. I love golden tee, but no one ever wants to play. (I'm not that good).

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

jeff i suck at it and at that bar in lincoln park i think i played 6 holes. but you may have left by then.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

If you're going to suck at something, video golf is not a bad thing to suck at.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i would say self-harm or suicide would be a better thing to be wildly unsuccessful at.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, i didn't say it was the BEST.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

true. the best would be to suck at being unsuccessful in every endeavor.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

but then everyone would hate you.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Unless you were also really nice.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

nope -- people would still secretly hate you.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

LIKE THEY DON'T ALREADY.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, fuck 'em, then.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

xp - oh please.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.kateconnick.com/postcards/partycocker.jpg

hahahahahahha partycocker.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

spaniels have the best acid.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, what kind of QA work? Software?

Yeah, software (esp. health care).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Jen: have fun on your date1
!
email me with details
me: thx
Jen: bleach your asshole.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

At first I thought that Kevin posted that, from TOWGA.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you mean, TOWGA?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

weird because when i saw "jen" i was like, why the hell is jesse chatting with my ex?

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The One Who Got Away

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The One Who Made You Bleach Your Asshole

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: i think you should fill up the nu-ilx chicago thread with nothing but pornography.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Esp. since period logouts = images turned on

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I just associate "Jen" with Kevin's ex, not with Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

no images necessary

Then he turned away and got undressed. He had a goldenbrown body, a penis as smooth as the rest of his body, big, firm as a polished wood baton. She fell on him and took it into her mouth. His fingers went everywhere, into her anus, into her sex; his tongue, into her mouth, into her ears. He bit at her nipples, he kissed and bit her belly. She was trying to satisfy her hunger by rubbing against his leg, but he would not let her. He bent her as if she were made of rubber, twisted her into every position. With his two strong hands he took whatever part of her he was hungry for and brought it up to his mouth like a morsel of food, not caring how the rest of her body fell into space. Just so, he took her ass between his two hands, held it to his mouth, and bit and kissed her. She begged, Take me, Antonio, take me, I can't wait!' He would not take her.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Antonio, you big cunt tease, you!

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

By this time the hunger in her womb was like a raging fire.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

where do you get this stuff?

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

She wanted something round, and crisp, and buttery-tasting. A taste so good, nothing can take its place. It's not just anything, it's the only thing that can satisfy her.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

did we get pizza delivered to simon's once? was that like some of the best tasting pizza ever? isn't every pizza delivered to a bar amazing? i can't wait until it's warm and i can walk to a bar in shirt sleeves again.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

When she wanted a cracker, she wanted a Ritz.

Na-biiis-cooo!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost when did we start talking about pastry? BOOOOO.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been reading some of Anais Nin's erotica. These quotes are from Delta of Venus.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I find Kevin's post pretty erotic.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

...polished wood baton...

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell me about the pizza. Was it thick? Juicy? Were there...olives?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"shirt sleeves"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I find Kevin's post pretty erotic.

sounds like my prom night.

thank you! good night!!!

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

What about "shirt sleeves"?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

~~thirsty~~ homoerotic thursdays

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

someday we will get the story of what *really* happened on kevin's prom night, and it will be shocking indeed.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.litegait.com/images/LG300MX%20with%20harness.jpg

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.carriagedrivingessentials.com/images/ZilcoSport2.jpg

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://a37.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/24/l_89adb107cdc5a5a22bae1fe2b464c974.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

GOLDEN TEE TOURNEY BROS LOSER BUYS BEER JEFF KEVIN KENAN I'M TALKING TO YOU

I saw a very very fun marching band last weekend.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the New Zealand course, where there is lava and steam in the place on sandtraps.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I have this problem where I cry whenever I see/hear marching bands. It's like there's some sort of receptor in my brain that's broken and always has the same (inappropriate) response.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

That's very strange!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard, Armanda.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Although it would make sense if you were as irredemably bad at marching as I was and you are having a visceral reaction to the buried shame and self-loathing.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Turning corners as a unit was nigh impossible when I was involved.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the band I saw in a parade last weekend:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~hsumlj

(don't click, Amanda, or you will weep!)

They were kind of like The Pogues but cute too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never played Golden Tee but I enjoyed playing the video bowling game at Piece with Eric and others on Sarah's birthday.

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey! ILX2 has started doing un-American dates again.

Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:11 (Yesterday)

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of have a love-hate relationship with marching. I liked it in high school, but our school sucked. The Southern bands and some drum corps stuff can be killer, but I'm way sick of people coming up at Digd0wn shows assuming we all must have come from the UW marching band (no one did).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My fingernails are really nice right now. I don't like clear nail polish on men, but I really do like buffed nails; it really helps make a man look put together, or helps complete a nice look.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

buffed males

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I could probably do New Orleans style marching, where you're all kind of doing your own thing. But then again, maybe not, since I have no rhythm and would be the one doing the Elaine dance while holding a trumpet.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I buffed my tail too.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

We don't march so much as...amble. And sometimes stumble.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm audi, stay famous Chicago. I've got the cigar-smoking Elk's Club bachelor party tonight.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I once described the Go! Team's "Junior Kickstart" as Sonic Youth jams with the Grambling State marching band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

See ya guys. I'm playing Schubas tonite. Show will probably sell out, so get there early if you want to see us.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda, I cry too -- I get a little choked up out of pride, at so many straight backs and chins up and everyone making a conscious choice to temporarily conform, and conform MIGHTILY, for the good of the group because they can only exist as a group. SEE, I'M PRACTICALLY OVERWROUGHT ALREADY!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeeeeah, marching band dork over here.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you sure it's not some sort of residual "American Pie" trauma bubbling to the surface?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Positive. First of all I've never seen the movie all the way through, it annoys the shit out of me. Second, I've had this little problem since, like, sixth grade.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit, sorry, I meant the song. Fuck that movie.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck that song too, but it references a marching band, is pretty nostalgic, etc...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/rsc/

This has probably already been seen by everyone.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 23 February 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://chilx.blogspot.com/2007/02/obama.html

You know, this song was on our wedding mix. I was sad it did come up during our reception.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Some Ai Otsuka as well.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/beta206.gif

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 03:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://chilx.blogspot.com/2007/02/obama.html

You know, this song was on our wedding mix. I was sad it did come up during our reception.

Before I go downloading it, is this the Obama '04 campaign song? "BARACK ... BARACK OBAMA ... OOH HE'S STRONGER THAN A ROCK"? That one?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 23 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel, that's totally the reason. Also loud horns and uniforms and bombastic tunes. My psychotherapist friend (friend who has become a psychotherapist not therapist-and-friend) believes it's a form of homesickness. She thinks homesickness (for a "home" real or imagined, physical or emotional) is behind a lot of people's overwhelming sadness/depression/self-destruction/angst. I'm not sure if this is a popular theory among modern psychotherapists or just her particular thing because I know nothing about modern psychotherapy apart from what she tells me.

PS My old roomie, the one of Passed Out Naked in the Backyard fame, used to call me "band camp girl" behind my back. I DID NOT APPRECIATE THIS on several levels. 1) Not original, not funny. 2) Not true. 3) Pardon the fuck out of my exuberance, you crazy, lazy, boring hunk of waste.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 23 February 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate to leave on such a bilious note, so I offer you this:
http://www.maconpet.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/IMG_0696.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

..and then you killed her. But seriously, do you have any idea what she's up to these days? More of the same?

How was the date, JESSE???

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah! Doggie say "Aroo?"

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, how was the show last night John? I am pumped for our show tonight.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope it doesn't show
It'll go 'way
It's just a passing phase
It'll go 'way

You can dress nautical
Learn to tie knots
Take lots of Dramamine
Out on your yacht
But when you're all alone
And nothing bites
You'll wish you stayed at home
With someone nice
But when you think you made it disappear
It comes again, "Hello, I'm here" and
I've got angst in my pants

You can be smart as hell
Know how to add
Know how to figure things
On yellow pads
Answer so no one knows
What you just said
But when you're all alone
You and your head
What's the computer say, it's mumbling now
It says "hey Joe"
It's spelled it out and
"You've got angst in your pants"
"You've got angst in your pants"

But when you think you've made it disappear
You're sure you made it disappear
And you've still got angst in your pants

I hope it doesn't show
It'll go 'way
It's just a passing phase
It'll go 'way
I hope it doesn't show
It'll go 'way
Give it a hundred years
It won't go 'way
And I've got angst in my pants
I've got angst in my pants

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I love drum lines the way that you love marching bands, Amanda, with the same goose bumps/uncontrollable tearing up. I was in marching band for a bazillion years and pretty much hated it. But drum cadences get me all crazy, especially HBCU drum lines because DAMN. They are just awesome. Even that stupid Cadillac commercial makes me all excited.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

lol:

http://www.jazzchicago.net/reviews/mamadig.html

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

is "angst in my pants" a n/a original?

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Unfortunately not, it's a Sparks song.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm confused - that's dated for the show we went to, but the pics are clearly not from the show last Friday, since you guys didn't go outside that night.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

that's terrible.

i have a lot of angst, but not so much in the pants area. my pants are comfortable.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, the date is wrong, and we played the tunes he's talking about on Saturday.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I think that review is pretty OTM.

Close listening reveals how repetitive their tunes are.

Although I hope you don't have to listen closely to figure this one out!

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i don't even know why it's worth mentioning.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Guys, I am bored. Today is even lighter than yesterday.

Today after work I need to get the oil changed in our car. I also need a haircut but I'm not sure it's a good idea to get a haircut the same day we have a show. I'll look all clean-cut, which isn't very. Though have I shared my idea for a super heavy stoner rock band where everyone wears suits and is very clean-cut? I want to steal psychedelic music from the hippies. I think that is the band that should be called Vice President.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Quick, name a band whose set wouldn't start to sound repetitive after they've been playing for THREE HOURS.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Not even God's band, Nick. But that's okay, because I would have passed out/fallen asleep/left after about 50 minutes anyway.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/bio/534570_pusa_200x200.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

annoyance of the morning: people who "sneak a cup." The first of the drips of coffee are much darker and stronger than the last drips, and together they achieve a middle ground. Balance. I don't know how people can drink a cup out of the first half of the pot, actually -- it's black and bitter as hell. Maybe their taste buds are so burnt out from Folgers that they don't notice. But not my coffee! I grind it fresh every morning! Starbucks whole bean French Roast! It's good stuff. BUT NOT IF YOU SNEAK A CUP, YOU CRETINS.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Had a good time last night. I cannot recommend that restaurant enough!!

Good wine.

App: [shit ton of] fire-roasted prince edward island mussels
warm harissa butter 9.0
These were spicy and just plain amazing.

for entree I had pan-roasted skate wing with some kind of polenta and chick pea cake with yellow tomato chutney.

The atmosphere is perfect. We talked to the owner (Just yesterday I met the guy who married him and his wife--he was just hired at my work) who said he cleans the cleans the place himself. It is 8 years old and looks very fresh and up-to-date.

On Sundays they have belly dancers, all you can drink wine, and all you can eat appetizers for $25.

After the restaurant we went to Bin 36 (where the bartenders apparently remember me since we drank a lot of different wines and sherry and were charged for 1 glass!)

Finally a good date. Oh, and he invited me to Mexico on his free flight thing with United!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of which, the evening took a turn for the sad when I brought up 9/11 and he said that he used to work with the United 93 flight attendants and he did their training. Yarps!

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You're not supposed to bring up 9/11 until the second date.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

We talked to the owner
T3rry Al3xand3r?

― robots in love (robots in love), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I brought it up in a "sexy" way. I said in a breathy voice, "Fly your jetliner into my Pentagon...."

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"Our twin towers are on fire!"

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

This is just what I needed this morning: 9/11 innuendo.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

First "better than the headline" text in awhile:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/giuliani_to_run_for_president_of_9

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

But did you put a flute up ... ah, never mind.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, how was the show last night John? I am pumped for our show tonight.

It was good, although it was beset with some weird technical problems -- like three separate people's cords came unloose for some reason. But it was a sold-out crowd, and people seemed to like it, and I think we had good energy.

The e-mail from MP this morning about how he's worried about draw ("I know the show sold out, but some of you brought only one person" -- when do I EVER bring more than a couple people, besides those that are already friends with others in the band and thus presumably don't count?) made me an angry monkey, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"came unloose" - wouldn't this mean they got tighter?

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, you're right. "Came loose."

Which restaurant did you go to, Jesse?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night I was hanging out with my friend Nick, who's playing sax in my trad band. I had forgotten that his gf is a food critic for Chicago magazine, they go out to eat for review purposes allll the time. I'm going to try and go with them some time, I've always wanted to be the "my dining companion" in those reviews.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we should start calling people we make out with our "dining companion[s]". Nu-euphemism.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

nuphemism

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Table for one, pls

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would he care if the show sold out?? That's riDONKulous.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Going back to our discussions from yesterday, sorta: I just got a manuscript submission from a Dr. Bonanos

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

And really, isn't getting people to come to your show whom you have not personally invited more desirable anyway?

xpost

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

This shit is Bonanos.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Cannot. Believe. Anyone would say that! THE SHOW SOLD OUT FOR GOD'S SAKE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

My thinking is if your draw is an issue to the point where you need to pack in the friends, there may be a bigger problem.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Because he's concerned about our ability to draw for future shows:

"Has our ability to get our friends/family out diminished that much? Since this was Megan's last show, I thought for sure that people would be spreading the word and getting people to come out. There was a day when each band member was bringing out five to ten people. And if that's simply not possible any more, then ok, I guess we'll have to face up to and deal with that reality. But I suspect that it was due to a lack of effort this time - ya know, phone calls, e-mails, etc."

Uh ... I love Megan and everything, but why would my personal friends (who don't know Megan) care about her last show? When they come, it's to see the band in general and me in particular. Doesn't make sense.

I don't think there was ever a day when each band member was bringing out five to ten people as a RULE. But especially not a weeknight when it's $10 and the show is a guaranteed sell-out. If it's a weekend, if the tickets were cheaper, if it's a show where we know we need to draw 100+ for the club to be happy and therefore go out of our way to tell people about it, then yeah, maybe. ARGH.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

My thinking is if your drawers are an issue to the point where you need to pack in the friends, there may be a bigger problem.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

You should buy M@tt some management techniques books for his birthday, it would be "funny."

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"Again, I realize it sold out. So yeah, maybe we woulda had to turn people away... or call 'em and stop them from coming before they left home... or maybe the audience woulda been more full of already-fans, which is probably worse than an audience of strangers... So again, it's not really about tonight. Cuz in the end, it didn't matter this time... but up until soundcheck, we had no way of *knowing* that it wouldn't matter. [ED.: Yes, we did. The booking guy said it would sell out a couple days ago.] So my main concern is the next show. Or, the Beat Kitchen show. We're gonna need to draw 50-75 people at that show. And if we can't get more than one person per band member out, even when it's Megan's last show and at a place where we sound great and with a hip, buzz band and it's a Thursday night, I start to get REALLY worried about our ability to get friends/family interested in a regular, normal Beat Kitchen show. But we need to impress Cr@1g Gr0ssm@n [ED.: potential booking agent] and his bands... big time, ya know? And it's important, as always, to keep D3rr0n [ED.: booking guy at Beat Kitchen] happy too. So please tell me that I can still book us those kinds of gigs and that I shouldn't worry..."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.sprachenshop.de/buecher/cover/147/14727085N.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

"I know our fanbase of people we don't is growing, which rules. But still - that can't be more than a handful of people per show. We need those people AND our friends/family to come out."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I think M@tt needs a diary.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

xp I'm assuming he means "people we don't know."

He's never kept a diary, because according to him, he's never had a single thought that he doesn't feel comfortable sharing with other people. It's easier to just talk it out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

^why I'm not in a band (besides lack of talent)^

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, you know what? I've dated someone who had shows pretty much every weekend and I have the friends' bands thing down pat, but one CANNOT GO TO EVERYTHING! And the idea that you should make yourself an absolute PEST to your friends and family about paying repeatedly to come and see you (often doing the same songs, no less, unless you're unveiling something in particular) is obnoxious and abhorrent. If I wanted to join up with Amway, I'd move to Grand Rapids. (And Amway probably pays better.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I know - I hope that when our friends come to see us play it's because they actually want to and not because they feel obligated to. This is something I worry about.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The Chicago and DC threads are basically the only ones that have been updated in the past hour - has everyone else split for DumbILX?

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I always tell friends about shows we're playing and especially let them know which ones I'd most like them to come to, but it's definitely unrealistic to expect them to come out all the time. You want strangers to hear your music, or at least I do. And it can be hard to 'draw' people who have not heard of you before in the hopes that they will come check you out. Amirite?

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

he's never had a single thought that he doesn't feel comfortable sharing with other people

you're in a band with louis jagger?

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

This is something I worry about.

2x. There are friend's bands that I genuinely enjoy going out to see, and there are others that I would never go to if they weren't my friends.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, when you play with a pretty big band Of COURSE they are going to draw more than you do. So it's an honor to get to play with them and for their fans and show off the local talent.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess in general I feel like most of the responsibility for draw should be on the shoulders of the headlining band or whatever group put the show together.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Thinking about it a little more, and wanting to clarify that I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect band members to promote jointly, or flyer, or poster, or take some resonsibility for the sheer grunt work of publicity & coverage, but it seems a little gross to expect you to marshall a roving band of personal acquaintences every time. That is all. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I only go see your bands when I want to, and I want to see you play more often than I am actually able to. So there is a lot of FF/CST credit in my bank of band fandom.

That Guiliani for President of 9/11 article is hilarious.

Also, the new new ILX isn't dumb. Stop fearing change, you buncha panty waists.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and MP is a ding dong.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought I was clipping my nails very subtley at my desk, but apparently not. The owner of the company just leaned his head of the conference room and was like, Hey, Sarah! Clip later! Sooo embarassing. And I am having such a good day too!

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It's kinda dumb! Having images turned off apparently means no hyperlinks to them, just a blank space? That is dumb.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, so should we throw in the towel and move this to nulx? I'm fighting it, too, because so many features are missing and it's kind of a pain to use, but there's really no way to stop it.

Like Windows Vista.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not entirely sure it's possible to subtley clip your nails, but it is possible to subtley ask you to stop! Hmph.

xp then turn images on! Adapt or die, people!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

you're in a band with louis jagger?

It's not that. He doesn't "overshare" -- it's more that he just doesn't have a private, internal life.

I guess in general I feel like most of the responsibility for draw should be on the shoulders of the headlining band or whatever group put the show together.

Just to flip sides for a minute here, because I do think that draw is important, any time you're added to a bill it's because the club's booking dude expects that you will bring money into the club, either from ticket sales or drinks. If the headlining band is not capable of selling out the show on their own, then why would a club feel comfortable booking an opener that isn't capable of pulling in their share to make up for it?

The issue I have is not with the fact that we're expected to draw, because that's a reality for any band that wants to play good clubs in Chicago, it's more about how Matt expects us to approach it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

But I'm trying to minimize my bandwidth usage (and possibility of tits.jpg) at work!

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

it's more that he just doesn't have a private, internal life.

Cf. how half of our songs are third-person narratives about other people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Does he treat his other band this way?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

He has another band??

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

how does anyone who is not severely brain damaged not have a private, internal life?

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the other band is not "his" band.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not entirely sure it's possible to subtley clip your nails...
True, but I'm up here mostly alone (they are in another room) and I was clipping them under my desk into the trashcan.

any time you're added to a bill it's because the club's booking dude expects that you will bring money into the club, either from ticket sales or drinks
Dude, I know that. I just mean most of the responsibility should be on the headliner or at least the organization sponsoring the show. If the venue feels certain the headlining band will lead to a sold out show, which it did, why have any opener bands at all?

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

That was a rhetorical question.

I'm just being defensive. I think once a club has asked you to play, they can't go off on you for not bringing in enough people. They can just not ask you to play again.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

(boring band business talk ahead)

If he hasn't already, M really should read some books on marketing/management/PR or, otherwise, hire someone to do PR for you guys for three months. You guys need your own n3ptali for M to meet the goals he has set for the band. He's like the guy running a restaurant and handing out flyers on the street and is feeling down when the restaurant only fills up during Summer Block Party Days or when the extended family of someone who works there is in town -- and then wonders why restaurants that hire publicists and take out ads get attention. I wouldn't tell most bands this (and I'm not following this advice), but for his particular goals he needs to pay someone who has the experience of getting other bands to meet those goals (of having their own following). And I know you can't buy that, but you can buy the services of someone who knows how to reach an audience that will stay with you.

(And I keep saying, opening for buzz bands means drawing a crowd that follows publicity - fickle crowd. If M respects bands who, for the most part, bought their attention, then he has to do the same. Or, better yet, headline with local bands, play shows outside of the indie-business world, give other bands breaks before the have their own label/attention/whatever.)

If most of the band's friends are like me, they're more likely to see you headline than to see one of these "buzz band" shows. (I don't think I've been to a single one, other than the night we were both in Madison and I saw Devotchka.)

Same old story - he just needs to find an experienced and pragmatic manager instead of banging his head against the wall and blaming the band.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes the headliner is the headliner because they're a touring band and they have a bigger reputation, but the local band gets put in the middle slot because they're capable of drawing more within that city and thus can keep a crowd in the club for most of the night (some people come a little early for the first opener, some stay a little later for the headliner).

[i]I think once a club has asked you to play, they can't go off on you for not bringing in enough people. They can just not ask you to play again.[/i]

Yeah, I think that's true. Did I indicate otherwise?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, I'm already used to Nu-ILX faux-HTML.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

opening for buzz bands means drawing a crowd that follows publicity - fickle crowd

Smartest thing yet said regarding this.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the other band is not "his" band.

Correct. He says he bites his tongue in that band a lot because it's not really his place to make decisions, but he has the comfort of knowing that he has another band where he can call the shots.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

M may have better luck with Canasta's "fan base" by sending out e-mails for shows touting "free pancakes" instead of "ooh ooh hot band indie label".

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think that's true. Did I indicate otherwise?
I don't know. Probably not. Like I said, I'm just being defensive.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Those are all really good points, EZ. xpost Especially the last one!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh free pancakes

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I don't think that our fans care about that stuff as much as he thinks they do, no matter how many pull-quotes from Pitchfork he wants me to include in the e-mail announcements.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

If you guys play a show on March 10th that's a potluck, I swear you will get many of your friends/fans. If the show is at the Ice Fac, this could actually happen.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

So you guys are like his kickin' dog, then.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change by kickin' the dog I can kick"

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Digd0wn has cooked for shows in the past, it's always a hit.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

imagining "kickin' the dog" to the tune of "breakin' the law"

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of which, those chorizo tacos I had before going to bed last night weren't really necessary.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY DAN HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"kickin' dog"?

OH YEAH HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN I TOTALLY SAW IT IN YOUR GMAIL STATUS BUT FORGOT TO MENTION IT

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

bday!

happy!

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

happy bidet!

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. GEOGRAPHY MAN

I wonder what I can cook to bring to the show tonight? I have some leftover stir fry in the fridge.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

There's an ancient popcorn machine always sitting around at Ronny's but I'd be afraid to actually use it.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr. Geography Man?!? That's a new one, but I'll take it over "Hey, Jerk".

Thanks guys!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

If you guys play a show on March 10th that's a potluck, I swear you will get many of your friends/fans. If the show is at the Ice Fac, this could actually happen.

Is this the show that he talked to you about?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going to start calling you nonsensical middle-school insults.

hey, dickweed.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

If ILX had avatars, this could be Dan's:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/366369/2/istockphoto_366369_mr_global.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Not bad, but I am pretty happy with my avatar on my other board and would probably use it here:

http://alapoisoncenter.org/images/officeruggcy.gif

I keep meaning to Photoshop "GAS FACE" onto it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, I am glad there are no avatars here.

Last night I tried to remember the name of the main island of Japan and wasn't sure, so I had to look it up. I was right, it's Honshu.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

How did "dickweed" originate?

I'm wondering if it went "dildo" --> "dillweed" (ordinary word that sounds like a humorous insult because it resembles "dildo") --> "dickweed" (a way to restore the original vulgarity).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Not bad, but I am pretty happy with my avatar on my other board

You've been cheating on us?!

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, you dillhole.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"Dillweed" is like a fakeout, too: you thought I was going to call you "dildo," but no, I'm just calling you a delicious herb, why would you get offended by that?

Similar to when my brother used to call me a "homo ... wner."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, can't argue with that.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

no homowner

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

You Cu...ntry music fan!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

From the aforementioned "other" board:

Just what I've always wanted, a furry birthday card.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Shit

http://youngestofone.typepad.com/multimedia/images/dans_bday.jpg

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

it is time:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52408#unread

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny's right: we hang out here much longer, we just look like dicks.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

NOT WITHOUT MY KEVIN

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

And we are dicks.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

where has kevin been?

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

In my freezer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, John (re up above), that's the show I'm talking with him about. And I'm guessing it may be why M was stressed last night - wondering if people would show up for that show. Answer is: make it special. Answer is: potluck. Or: benefit for a theater co. or similar org.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday Dan, you gorgeous motherfucker.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Dunno where Kevin is today, last time he was "missing" he was sick at home. But in any case, I gather that the problem with him being able to load nude-ILX is supposed to be fixed over the weekend...? And I think sandbox is going to be shut down v shortly thereafter. So.....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, fuck that shit, now I can't log in over there either.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday, Dan, we are all leaving you behind in the Sandbox.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago: The Dan and Kevin thread

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't log in over there. I forgot my password again and it won't send me a new one.

Happy Birthday!!!

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't log in over there. I forgot my password again and it won't send me a new one.

Did you delete your e-mail from ilx.moderators?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Whawha WHAAAAA???

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Or did you change your password and then just forget what you changed it to?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(Or have you not re-registered at all?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

sarah -- did you re-register? you have to re-register.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, yeah, just did all that. Now I'm cookin' on the front burner.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

One is the lonliest number that you ever...&audio;

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, my html notes don't even work.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

OK this is just sad now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what I was thinking.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

RIP Kevin.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin is fine, he just texted. He's just not at work today.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

For sexxy reasons that involve alcohol.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

And hangovers.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

And missing items of clothing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

RIP Kevin's underwear

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Some things I learned today:

1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

2) Students enjoy hiring STRIPPERS for their parties, or so I was told in the paragraph I edited for one student named N0rma.

3) My students do not respect me, or so I was told after I was (basically) bullied into letting class out early by a tiny little gangbanger-lookin' dude.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANYO. Your birthday is my half birthday which means you are [x] years and 6 months younger than I am.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

4) One more thing: TJ's frozen soba noodles are totally vile when prepared according to directions, but super yum when you add chili-sesame oil and some soy sauce.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I the onliest one here?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope. For some reason I am still unable to log into the new site, despite the fact I could earlier. I'm not especially inclined to try and figure out why right now.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still checking here, Amanda! But I think the action has mostly gone to nude-ILX.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Armanda, you've got to stand up to that kid. Take away his nacho cheetos and strippers.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

Yeah, I've seen that a couple times. I think I saw it once at an el-stop convenience store, where they had a big squirtable container of nacho cheese, and all the kids who bought red-hot Cheetos could step up and squirt it on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm positive I've heard Kevin talk about that before, too. It was one of those moments so disgustingly awesome I was unsure if it was real or not. It's right up there with the time I saw that woman eating ranch dressing out of the bottle down at the Jackson Blue Line stop.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, now I think maybe Kevin reported it and somehow it turned into a memory of my own.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

john, we went to http://www.tizimelloul.com/

The menu is not quite right on the website. It says the skate is "crabcake" but it's not. It's skate.

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.tizimelloul.com/images/pictures_to_use/tizipictures-002.jpg

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.tizimelloul.com/images/lounge2-1.jpeg

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I had skate for the first time recently, it was pretty damn good. Surprisingly rich (maybe they just used a ton of butter though).

Jesse, no one is here anymore.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

oh?

― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Friday, 23 February 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

grr. i cannot access nu-ilx at all from home, router or no, pc or mac. i have asked comcast about this, and they're looking into it. meanwhile, stet says it's an issue with the firewall on the host itself, and his hosting company is also looking into it. So luck is wished all around.

there does seems to be a special problem with Vista's over-security, though.

― PORNTIPSGUZZARDO (kenan), Saturday, 24 February 2007 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

worst 24 hrs OF MY LIFE.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Saturday, 24 February 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 24 February 2007 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

true. plus the drought is over, let the next drought begin.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Saturday, 24 February 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

did that thing this where where I woke up and went "OMG IT'S AFTER NINE I AM SO LATE OH SHIT OH oh it's Saturday."

I HATE that.

― the high man in the castle (kenan), Saturday, 24 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i wasn't sure if it wasn't monday today. glad it wasn't.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Sunday, 25 February 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Suddenly I can't log into nude-ILX. That merits several unhappy faces.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 26 February 2007 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i couldn't now i can, and at work tomorrow i probably won't be able to.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Monday, 26 February 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

worst weekend in a long time:

1) D sick
2) only 1/3 of my class showed up for the library field trip
3) computer crashed, we had to restore settings and wipe hard drive, lost a bunch of shit including vacation photos from UK ;_; Don't tell me anything about backing up my files because I AM AWARE TAHT WE SHOULD HVE DONE THAT.
4) gas leak this morning, People's Gas are on their way.

;_;x100

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

although, considering, things could always be worse. i'm very thankful that we didn't blow up. yet.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

[knocking frantically on wood]

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i also don't want to sylvia plath my dogs while i go to work today.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, gas dude came. He was nice. He smelled gas but said that the little detector thingie wasn't detecting any leak from any particular spot, so someone probably left a burner on (maybe apt below us) and it wafted up. He also told me that leaving a burner on accidentally isn't enough to make a building explode, which I found comforting.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 26 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

yay armando!

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Monday, 26 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey. Nu-ILX is busted for the moment.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

so everyone's gonna come do some slumming at thehold?

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

[i]I'm still fuzzy on the line between visual effects and art direction. I guess visual effects is a purely technical award, and art direction is more big picture?[/i]

As I understand it, visual effects is special effects, like CGI, scale models, explosions, etc., whereas art direction is like the cinematic equivalent of "set design." [i]Pan's Labyrinth[/i] was a deserving winner here because it created a unified look from the old house and the woods and the labyrinth: old and dark and mysterious. I think the category has to have some overlap with costumes, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha BBCode

Still can't log in at work, Kevin?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think anyone can get on now. It's all busted.

― the high man in the castle (kenan), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I just C+P'd that from Nu-ILX because I didn't want to lose the post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I figured as much.

I am listening to Giant Brain.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 26 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh it's back now

― the high man in the castle (kenan), Monday, 26 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

if any of you come back, please post this to your chilx thread at the new place if anyone wants to do this.

from chicagoist:

You can't throw a stone amongst a bunch of hipsters in the Wicker Park / Humboldt area without a decent chance of accidentally hitting Plastic Crimewave's carefully managed -- and now more tightly clipped -- 'fro. Long a staple of the local psych rock scene, at least as a prodigious historian and record-keeper with a killer collection (some of which saw airtime on a recent Market Frenzy podcast), Crimewave is assembling what he calls his Vision Celestial Guitarkestra at The Empty Bottle. The idea is to get dozens of guitarists together to play a single chord -- admission is free if you bring your own axe and a short lesson on how to play the single chords will be given -- in an attempt to either a) summon our alien overlords or b) shatter every fucking window at The Bottle. Either way, we're curious to see how the whole thing pans out.
Empty Bottle, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m., $8 (free if you bring a guitar and play), 21+

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Monday, 26 February 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

and i think i recall seeing elsewhere that the chord in question is E.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Monday, 26 February 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be!

You still can't get in from work? I think I type for all of us when I type: W.T.F.?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 27 February 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i couldn't get on from home last night either. c'est la vie.

― chicago kevin says it was nice knowing you all (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear friends, somehow I ended up on a VIP list for s0undbar for this Friday night. All you have to do is say my name at the door, and you will get free admission and free open bar from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Thirsty fridays, anyone? Dancing? "Clubbing"?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Remember when this was fun?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 16 March 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin is fine, he just texted. He's just not at work today.
-- Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:37 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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For sexxy reasons that involve alcohol.
-- Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:43 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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And hangovers.
-- Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:43 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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And missing items of clothing.
-- Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:43 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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seems like a LIFETIME ago already.

― fish.... sea greens.... plankton..... protein from the sea (chicago kevin), Monday, 19 March 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 March 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

bump?

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link

I wish people wouldn't change their handles so drastically when in the Sandbox.

Or whatever. But if you're going to, I'm going to eye you with suspicion and indignance.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

hahaha my name was Armando
i forgot

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

i made a hasty decision, as all of my decisions are, and now i am stuck worrying about being sued by a perfectly decent organization. hooray!

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

Okay "CrunkleJ".

― thejenny, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

ay dios mio, pobrecito Jesse!

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link

I keep reading that name as "cacahuate blanco".

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link

You mean "cacahuete"?

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

"CrunkleJ" was my name during a different period of my life. The last time I used the sandbox, I was in a stinky office in a once-great American city scraped flat by the roller of the deluge and man's apathy toward man.

xp - No, I mean "cacahuate"

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cacahuate

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link

jajajajajaja

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link

Oh LL, the LWV will not sue you because your user name falls under fair use and then also, the first legal step in a copyright action is a c&d letter, and once you comply, they can't pursue it. And even if they do, the remedy is an injunction, not damages.

― thejenny, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link

thank you! i appreciate your expert opinion.

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

Are you a lawyer giving legal advice?

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

no way, she is a mongoose giving financial advice

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link

Huh, apparently "cacahuate" is used in Mexico and "cacahuete" in Spain. I guess the latter was what was used in my Spanish II textbook.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link

Let's call the whole thing off.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link

I have had to track my work hours for a couple months now and you know, if you put it off, it turns into a huge nightmare. I'm trying to piece together what I did last Tuesday, and I'm just not sure. Eek.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, that's me basically every week.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

I do keep a to-do list, though, so I know what my assignments were during the week, and I can also consult my e-mail to see what I notified people about.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link

Yeh, I'm going through my emails, but there is some stuff I do that doesn't leave much of a trail. The two hardest parts for me are:

1. It's hard to track how much time I spend playing IT Guy.
2. I worry about accuracy and ethics when the time is billable to a client.

It's concerning when at the end of the a busy 8 hour day, I wind up with a total of 6 hours on my time sheet.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

can you develop a template or something?
a list of things you normally do and then check off stuff at the end of the day?

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link

that way you can just ask yourself "did i do this y/n" rather than "what did i do all day"

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link

back when I had to do billable hours (which is the worst work task on the face of the earth btw) I always added 15 minutes to everything I did and, if all else failed, padded the remaining time in my day w/ like "misc. -- time management"

then one day the vp told me they just want it to add up to 40 every week so I stopped caring

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link

Meh, it's not usually a problem b/c I keep an Excel doc open all day and keep a note pad nearby. But last week I was just like, fuck this, I know it's going to suck on Monday, but I truly do not feel like doing my time sheet.

I have certain recurring tasks, but for the most part they're all unique events.

Fortunately I don't actually have to account for all my time every day, only work I do for the firm that does not directly employ me and any billable time.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

It's concerning when at the end of the a busy 8 hour day, I wind up with a total of 6 hours on my time sheet.

Oh man YES.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

For me, there aren't a whole lot of unique events, but the proportion of time I devote to each event changes from week to week: one week it may be a lot of fact-checking, another week more editing, etc.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

I hate having to come up with appropriate wording for billable stuff. Verbs are important.

We had a case that was being paid for by our client's (a corporation) liability insurance coverage and there were certain trigger words that caused them to reject an entry. One was "draft." Our agreement was apparently that they would not pay for "drafts" of written documents b/c they only paid for "work product" and a "draft" was not "work product," b/c it didn't get used. Or something??? It was really stupid! All writing is a draft, FFS.

Anyway, we changed "draft" to "prepare," and that solved the problem.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link

It's concerning when at the end of the a busy 8 hour day, I wind up with a total of 6 hours on my time sheet.

At the printing company job I had from '98 to '01, my boss had me track my time. At the end of my first week there, my daily totals averaged approx 6:00/day. He looked it over, said "good, good -- that's good productivity" and never bothered me again about my output. That was a good company to work for, until the owner ran it into bankruptcy and then went to jail.

― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link

is there such a thing as a customizable personal timesheet with sliders so you can label a task "composing and sending reminder emails" and then set the slider and it will create a weekly timesheet with the task and amt of time you spent on it?

my supe would love that but it would be a huge nightmare

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

I don't know what you mean by sliders, but we use timesheet software that has a list of pre-approved tasks that you just select and then type in the number of hours.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link

i don't know what i mean either -- we don't have any fancy software for anything where i work, so i am kind of living in medieval times

we don't even have a complete set of walls in my office

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link

Hello! I finally re-registered. I opted for neither clever nor my old name (had to use a new email anyway). So I went with my dog's nickname which is much longer than his actual name.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link

wait, who else has a dog?

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link

Kelsey!

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

It is a relief to have ilx back, in whatever form.

But bookmarks don't work in the sandbox afaict? Quelle horreur!

― advance johnson, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

Dog's actual name is Mosley.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

i'm on here. this blows. i'm saving up my good posts until real ilx comes back.

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

And now I'm ready to hear your DC rant.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

DC rant.

DC Talk cover band iirc.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link

I reject any mass migration, but esp to the place where you are taxed without being allowed to choose your own representation in our "representative government"

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

but i do support fugazi

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

also bookmarks are working ok for me?

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, my image of DC is basically diplomats and policy wonks rocking out to Fugazi at Ethiopian restaurants.

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

my insurance payments are going up by $100 per paycheck. and i already have the cheapest insurance option. i cannot really afford this. not happy about this.

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, my image of DC is basically diplomats and policy wonks rocking out to Fugazi at Ethiopian restaurants.

― jaymc, Monday, November 28, 2011 5:39 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

whitewashing chocolate city

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

I said they were at Ethiopian restaurants!

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

(j/k)

― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, my image of DC is basically diplomats and policy wonks controlling my life, talking too much, and getting in my way, more like

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

though i think DC no longer has a black majority? there's like reverse white flight going on there.

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

Nick, that sucks a lot.

League of Lecheras, your bookmarks from regular ILX are working here??

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link

for me it's new bookmarks not working -- like I bookmark something, but then it still says I have no bookmarks.

― advance johnson, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link

lots of bookmarking errors spewing up too.

― stet, Monday, November 28, 2011 9:30 AM (2 hours ago)

― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

Yikes. Nick, your insurance situation is crazy. I know ours is going up, but it's only by 3%.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

no of course my old bookmarks aren't there -- it's not even the same login

i only have two new ones though
wait, three

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link

I think I'm for real depressed about coming back to work. Like I stalled leaving the house so long I was late and walking down the hall felt like walking through a non-Newtonian fluid. And if I had to track my tasks today, I'd have at least four hours of staring out the window like the sad Paxil egg.

PS 6 hours of work out of an 8 hour day is about right. You've got to factor in eating, bathroom breaks, answering the phone/emails, interacting with coworkers, getting tea. That's why big firm billable hours are so beastly. It might look like nine hours/day but you have to be at work at least 12 to accomplish that.

― thejenny, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

i'm not doing much work today. it's quiet and my new p/t library assistant is starting tomorrow so i'm saving what i do get to train her with.

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

girl please this is work

answering the phone/emails, interacting with coworkers

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link

I'm not saying it's not work, but it's also not a "task" that I would include in a tracking sheet, or something that a firm can bill to a client. If I spent 45 minutes discussing a case on the phone or with someone, I'd count it but that's about one phone call out of ten. Chatting with your colleagues about Thanksgiving for a few minutes doesn't count, but it's totally part of people's work days. Or a five minute hall stop when a coworker asks you a quick question.

― thejenny, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

What bugs me is that Liggy is my employer and she sort of contracts me out to The Idiot Firm and they pay Liggy an hourly rate for time spent doing work for TIF.

IMO, TIF should pay Liggy for 1/2 of my bathroom break/talking to the mail lady/shooing away gypsies time, which I was accounting for on my time sheet under "General" with a standing description like "various phone calls, visitors, office tasks." But TIF was insistent that it was impossible that not ALL of my time was in service of one or the other entity. TIF insisted that I document *everything*, including, for example of cleaning my desk. No joke, they expect me to figure out which firm's work was occupying the space I cleared.

Chatting with your colleagues about Thanksgiving for a few minutes doesn't count, but it's totally part of people's work days.

Exactly! I tried to explain that there should be 30 minutes of mushy times that should just be divided between the firms, but TIF wasn't having it.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

you guys want to see some cool old pictures of me?
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/381793_10150417917446445_508656444_8401104_963280147_n.jpg
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/383759_10150417916976445_508656444_8401095_1302267319_n.jpg
i think it's weird how the first pic looks like me but the second one doesn't at all

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

both at the meridian coffeeshop in williamsburg, va. color pic is approximately 2001, black and white approximately 1999/2000.

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

the second one doesn't look like you because you're playing bass

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

also that bass player is 12

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

first pic is the id. second pic is sir yes sir (guitarist in that pic is Clarke B. who posts on ILX about wine and artsy music)

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

And if I had to track my tasks today, I'd have at least four hours of staring out the window like the sad Paxil egg.

Haha, yes.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

I don't know if the moment for discussion has passed, but one of the attys gave me a new perspective on work time and productivity. I was saying that some days when I spend too much time goofing off on the internet (ahem) I will stay 30 minutes late doing actual work. He said that was not right b/c as long as I got my work done, if I was at my desk being a warm body, I was giving my time to the firm (and being at the ready to react to its needs), and I was obliged to compensation for my time.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

that's what i've had trouble with as a librarian: realizing that even at times when i'm "doing nothing" i'm doing something by being present and available as a resource.

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link

gotta slow down the rate at which you actually do things because if you are always doing things, people will always expect you to be constantly DOING THINGS; difficult to sustain

better to space it out ime

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link

When I was working directly for The Idiot Firm, Liggy was paying a flat fee for my services (~1/5 or 2/5 of my salary), but when I started working for her, we thought that she thought they would simply pay her 3/5 of my salary. But they tried to save money by having me track my time and bill them, thinking I would work less 3/5 of my 40 hours for them. Turns out I have been logging way more than that. Plus I bill them for time spent logging my hours.

On topic though, they refused to acknowledge "warm body" time, and it was tricky to discuss the matter without sounding like I spent a lot of time just sitting and breathing.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link

then they can let you sit and breathe at home in the bathtub

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link

It seems that employers like to think every minute they pay for should be spent being actively involved in some productive task, but even for the most productive employee, this isn't reasonable.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link

1. Focus attention on task A
2. Perform Task A well
3. Stand up, clear mind of Task A, get a drink of water, go to the bathroom, whatever
4. Focus attention on task B
5. etc

Employers who don't understand that step 3 is just as important in that sequence as 1 and 2 are the most disgusting savages.

― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

super otm

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link

also it is not necessary to make 20 min of small talk when 5 will do

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link

N.A., does that price include dental?

― Jeff, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link

The other issue is that Wm's list is on the perfect-world side, as far as my reality is concerned. Real world looks more like:

1. Focus attention on task A
2. Starts to perform Task A well
3. Boss stops by to ask about detail of task A.
4. Go back to task A
5. Client calls with emergency
6. Back to task A
7. Boss calls b/c he needs to be taught to adjust margins in Word
8. Task A

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I understand that I had my thumb on the scale a bit when I weighed my post. Is there any way to gently make boss aware that he's straight out of Dilbert Central Casting?

― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link

Oh, he knows that.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link

i just looked for my old posts here and i found this one, which made me lol at my desk

Ohioans, tell me about Barberton.
Barberton is a shitpit. It's not as bad as Youngstown but is still a craptastic place to live. My HS history teacher was named Chuck Buck and taked constantly about the Barberton Beautification Committee.

― (Armando ), Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:38 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

the BBC

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

totally off topic, but I had a dream last night that Michelle Bachmann was nursing on me. I woke up covered in cooties.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link

she also confessed that her husband was addicted to porn.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

All this talk of productivity is reminding me how terribly UNproductive I am today.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

today is stupid

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

blame bachmannn.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

Hahahhahahaha

Toes bonesly, who are you?

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

she already said -- it's kseley!!

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link

#1 perk of my new job = being able to listen to music my new office

― advance johnson, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

xp lol

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

that's pretty awesome

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

Advance, are you Sarah?
And who is Cuauhtemoc Blanco?

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link

And who is Cuauhtemoc Blanco?

I'm hoping M. White, and will be disappointed if it's anyone else.

― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link

i know who it is! chicago fire fan.

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

doy

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

advance johnson is maybe someone who moved here after you left? not sure if you guys know each other irl...? his name is lars ulrich.

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

sorry

i thought that was really funny for some reason and then i couldn't stop myself from posting it

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

posting finger went crazy

post post post

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

sarah isn't really on ilx these days

― n/a, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link

his name is lars ulrich.

irl lolz

and I didn't think my new sn would be too hard to figure out, considering 1. my soccer fandom and 2. the mex-ified name I post with in earlier parts of this thread, but I suppose for someone who's been out of the game for a while like Kelsey it's too much

btw Kelsey: do you go to the Minnehaha dog park? because I totally think I saw you there one time while visiting the cities but felt like it'd be crepey to roll up and be like "yo, you post on ILX? we met IRL like one time? what up?"

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link

Well, hello sarah through nick then!

I totally go to Minnehaha dog park! Our house is blocks away! When were you here?

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link

and when did we meet? I'm sure many can attest to my horrible memory for all things.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link

this was in... August? we were there for my gf's nephew's 1st birthday party. they live a ways up Hiawatha from there but my lady knows the park well from many previous visits. it was quite an entertaining place for our big doofus.

I think we met at your going away party, actually! (it's Dan M. btw)

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link

Oh Dan! That would have been awesome if you said hello - next time!

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

you also recruited your friend to play on my soccer team. which was short-lived (his playing) but he was a good guy.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

he still plays but he just got married so I think it might have slowed him down a bit

he also likes drinking beer and shouting at professional soccer players up in Blaine or whatever place Bachmann comes from

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

He was really nice - he fit the spirit of our little misfit team quite well. Although, since I got knocked up another teammate took over the "management" of it & now it feels way more serious. Serious in the sense that we actually win games now. We never did that under my stellar leadership.

― toes bonesly, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link

winning is so overrated

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

i mean that sincerely

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 28 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

Kelzzzzzz that dream is super creepy.

― thejenny, Monday, 28 November 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link

Also: HELLO

― thejenny, Monday, 28 November 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link

MY BUS JUST CRASHED

Oh the humanity

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link

It felt like everything in my life has been leading up to this moment.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link

All those people. All those lives. Just trying to make their way home and now...delayed.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link

What did it crash into?

― thejenny, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link

A car (late model Audi SUV) crashed into the bus. Bus was pulling out of a stop and the Audi tried to overtake it, and it collided at a narrow angle. It's the kind of wreck that you would think would happen more often.

Not at all exciting, but kind of annoying having to wait in the blustery air and then cram into a muggy bus. Life never gets any easier.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link

I felt terrible for the poor sweet driver. She was so nice, and then when she crashed she said DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT! And immediately apologized to the passengers for cursing. <3

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link

surprised to find no eponym/namesake pedantry itt

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link

that IS the kind of accident i expect to see more often. cars really do not like to yield to buses!

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link

Jenny! Hello!

― toes bonesly, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link

surprised to find no eponym/namesake pedantry itt

I actually was not aware until earlier today (at work) that "X's namesake" could mean "someone that also has X's name" -- I thought it only meant "someone X was named after."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link

i think to be precise you're supposed to use "eponym" for the person or thing after whom/which the "namesake" is named

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link

sandbox needs a grammar fiend thread

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link

paging dr advance johnson POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link

ha, thanks, I actually found it myself but the internet has been down here and so I wasn't able to post much for a while.

― advance johnson, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link

and now you are going to go ~crazy~ posting haha
i just knew you would have an opinion in that matter

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

sarah and evie are in springfield again so i am flying solo through saturday if anyone wants to hang out/do anything. pub quiz, thirsty thursday, whatevs.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

I would do pub quiz.

Rounds tonight:

1) In The Year 2525 10 pts
2) Distinct Mesas 11 pts
3) Match - Pops Own Wind Thong 13 pts
4) Chemical State Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 24 pts

2 = Mad Scientists?
3 = Downtown Shopping?

― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

man I'd love to but I think tonight is laundry night

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

i have class tomorrow but am open to suggestions for the weekend...

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

Im in a tight budget till Friday.

Two of the Dumpsters at my office blew all the way out into the street and the Red Eye and Trib machines across the street did too.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

haha @ the name "louis c.k. william"

― toes bonesly, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

I'm glad that you appreciate that.

― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

i'm gonna say it -- this "grass jelly" sounds pretty tasty to me
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/michael-mcgill-old-oak-tap-grass-jelly/Content?oid=5045816

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

The flavor, he said, is similar to anise. "It takes a while to develop on your palate. When you first eat it, it tastes like absolutely nothing. Five, ten minutes later you start to feel a sensation. We were joking yesterday that it sort of tastes like bad sambuca with pennies in it."

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link

also, nice sunset today in spite of truly ugly weather

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

This board is almost unusable without bookmarks.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link

my bookmarks are working better than they did on regular ilx tbrr

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link

only issue i'm having is not being able to turn off images

CTA was fucked up today but it was almost rehabilitated by the hilariously talkative train driver i had for most of my commute home.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link

My bookmarks works for this thread and a couple others, but definitely not all.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link

the Wish Anus bookmark never fails

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link

no bookmark probs here afaict

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link

I have no bookmark problems either, although when browsing on my phone, I have to "click to confirm" that I want to add a bookmark, at which point I am whisked back to SNA, whereas here, I just bookmark the thread and stay on the same page.

― thejenny, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link

You know what is great? Grapefruit. Grapefruit is great.

― thejenny, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link

Yes, it is! Jennifur, do you have grapefruit spoons? They are handy.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link

My memory was jogged by "grapefruit", for some reason, to remind me that I wanted to post about JUICE FASTERS in this thread. I'm certain we've talked about it before, maybe even on the sandbox? WTF, juice fasters? I have a friend who is evangelizing via fb for this and it's hard to read sometimes.

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link

we live in an eating disordered society
that is all i have to say about it really

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link

It's beyond eating, it's straight up science ignorance.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

Jeff, I want you to share a database of debunking sources. You're my anti-woo guru.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

tubgirl dot com

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

Hahahaha

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

A fitting response to claims of the Cult of Natural, I suppose.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

omg irl at work LOLs

― thejenny, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

I do not have a grapefruit spoon. I just use a knife to free the sections and then eat them with a regular spoon. Not even a grapefruit knife, either. A steak knife! ~~rebel~~

ps juice fasts are super dumb.

― thejenny, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link

I'm a big fan of grapefruit, too.

― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link

Only my bookmarks for this thread and the wish anus are working now. The others stopped working.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

EZ hasn't registered here yet, but he just posted this on the FB ILX secret group http://www.wbez.org/blog/city-room-blog/2011-11-30/walmart-makes-inroads-chicagos-north-side-lakeview-store-opening-9444.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

I'm not going to shop there, but they did a nice job reusing of that space.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link

"There are three transgender employees working here,"

When asked why the opening release said "Walmart Express Opens in Wrigleyville" and not Boystown or even Lakeview, Restivo stressed it was not any slight to the gay community, but that the broader public would be more easily able to associate the location because of Wrigley Field.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link

"This store is creating 45-50 new jobs" -- but how many will be lost at other stores around the neighborhood?

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

All of them.

― thejenny, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

That area was already lousy with food stores without this addition. The good people of Lakeview are assured their nutrition.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

I think it's a stretch to call that Wrigleyville. It's generally considered Wrigleyville ends at Fremont.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link

It's closer to a phallic pole than it is a foul pole.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

Jeff.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

I've got a foul pole.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

For you.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

Right here.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

#justsaying

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

hey i won two tickets to see white mystery at the hideout on friday, is anyone interested in accompanying me?

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link

things i've won recently:
kindle
show tickets

i should play the lottery

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

in other news, i'm going to have a sandwich for dinner tonight

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

Nick.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

Jesse.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

I've got a foul pole .

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

JESSE?

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, ooooh.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

I've got a fowl pole

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

if you know what I mean

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

(I fuck chickens)

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

(and eat the eggs)

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

Cool. If you're on IM later tonight I'll send you some links might be of interest.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

nick i would take you up on that offer, but what i really want to see is this
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/russian-circles/Event?oid=4792520

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link

Ok well I don't have free tickets to that, sorry.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link

i don't suppose you would want to go anyway?
who am i kidding
d won't even go with me but i think its gonna be super heavy and awesome and i am looking forward to it

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link

I can't really spend money on fun stuff right now.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

― La Lechera, former application inspector for the (league of women voters), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link

I can't go to the droning show b/c I'm going to be in the burps.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

I think I just got a dab of srirachia in the little kitty's eye.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

I think I just dabbed Srirachia in his other eye.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link

Wait, what? I started this thread?? Weird!

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

My dearest CrunkleJ!

― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link

Jeff, this seems relevant to your interests:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/hanson-to-launch-mmmhop-beer-20113011

― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2011 07:07 (twelve years ago) link

Whoa those Hanson brothers are real lookers.

Also, it's an IPA! http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/11/30/hanson-launching-what-might-be-least-socially-acceptable-beer-in-history/

Also LOL at the Hanson/beer intersection of Jeff's interests. Who would have guessed? What's next? Patrick Stewart puts out a running shoe?

― thejenny, Thursday, 1 December 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link

They are lookers, but that dipweed on the left has nasty hair!

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link

It's amusing to see beer nerds on twitter get so outraged by this.

― Jeff, Thursday, 1 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link

are you serious?
people are outraged by mmbop beer?

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Thursday, 1 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link

lol blue line (I think)

http://imgur.com/gallery/mHj7H

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

i was thinking about if i end up going to this show by myself: lots of people use cell phones to kill time at shows between bands, and i've taken paperbacks to shows before when i've gone by myself, but i think taking a kindle to a rock show would be unbearably dorky.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

Haha, yeh, for some reason a Kindle would seem really dorky in a way a phone or book wouldn't. But then, maybe not dorky, but just weird b/c iPad would look out of place too. So might a magazine, maybe.

Dan, where did you find that image? I wonder if that's from Halloween.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

I would take any and all of those things to a show. I'd take this to a show if it was easier to carry around. http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/e762/

― Jeff, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link

i don't have much of a hard time going to shows alone. i even sat (stood) through two opening bands to see cave and it never really even reached a noticeable level of discomfort. if i can't sit somewhere, it helps to find a place where i can put my back against a wall though. but that would be true with or without a companion.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

usually bring phone and emergency book.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

I downloaded that Cave album, btw. Good stuff, esp. the opening track, which is super-derivative but also right in my wheelhouse.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link

xps someone posted it on facebook, and yeah I was figuring halloween

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

oh i don't mind going to shows alone, but i'd rather give my ticket to someone if they're going to use it than just waste it. also i don't want to be bored in between bands.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

just give it to someone outside if no one you know is a taker

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

i kind of want to take the opportunity of the sandbox to just be a total dick to everyone and then when real ilx comes back, claim that someone else registered my name and that i didn't even know about the sandbox.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

You realize you just ruined your own plan…

― thejenny, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link

because i knew i wouldn't actually do it lol

― n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

Here are some door hangers you can print out for use over the next 6 months:

http://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/pedestrian/sidewalksnowremoval/Hanger_11_1_2011.pdf

― Jeff, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link

I think it was easier to go to shows alone back when I smoked. I could just stand in the corner chain-smoking and looking surly.

― advance johnson, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

xp oh shit I am printing 10,000 of those

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

that door hanger is an ink-suck.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3972007/Worlds-biggest-ever-insect-found-called-the-Weta-Bug.html

I recommend you all read that URL and make an informed decision as to whether you want to click that link.

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

foul pole

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

i saw those pics earlier today, pretty gross

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

the pics of jesse's foul pole that is

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link

(I fuck chickens)

― n/a, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:13 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

While I was in the elevator just now I thought about your saying this, and that reminded me of this clip. If somehow you haven't already seen it, definitely watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8LDBNcsWc

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link

Watching the other anchor's reaction in slo-mo is awesome.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link

Anyway, back to the elevator to think about you fucking chickens. Ta!

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

Lakeshore buses are the best. Such great views.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link

i was thinking about how even though i've been in this city for almost eight years, i still always look up from my book when the el goes over the river - it's such an amazing sight each time for me

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link

^^^
I still do this too.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

I love that view.

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

I haven't looked out a window in years.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

That's probably not true.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

When I used to live off the Red Line, I would sometimes take a Brown Line from the Loop to Fullerton/Belmont and then switch, just so I could enjoy watching the skyline recede from view.

Now that I take the Brown Line every day, I don't pay attention as much. But it still beats the subway.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link

Thats why I try to take the purple line home at night rather than the red, even though it means walking further out of my way to get there.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

Who are you?

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

jon/via/chi

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

happy friday, chicago! love, minneapolis

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

xp (I'd assumed as much when I did a search on the login a few minutes ago and saw that he'd posted about metal, Smashing Pumpkins, and Community, but the Purple Line ref confirmed it.)

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

Good day, Minneapolis!

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

kelsey my sis in law just is about to have a baby (first) and i have to get her a xmas AND bday gift

tell me what to get her (please)

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

are you looking for baby specific gifts or gifts for her as a new mom or ...?

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

gifts for her as a new mom or just gifts for her
i have NO IDEA what to give this person

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

I was going to say, if baby-specific I can speak from experience that gift cards for places that sell baby stuff and diapers while not always the most thrilling of gifts, are HUGELY appreciated by busy new parents.

And jaymc with the quality detective work.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link

Is she planning to breastfeed? Because what I loved was having just a big pile o' magazines. Reading a book was too much at first and the magazines were a lifesaver when Rowan would nurse for a LONG time. So I'd just grab a magazine & feel indulgent. So you could get her that.
I think anything cozy is nice because in the winter you're just hunkered down being all nesty with the baby. So maybe a nice wrap cardigan or some slippers?
My best friend bought me some yoga pants & a hood-less hoodie after I gave birth because she (rightly) assumed I was tired of all my clothes. They were great casual clothes, but I could also venture out in them if need be. She got those at Old Navy.
Is she girly? Other nice things would be a gift certificate to get a pedicure and/or manicure, maybe a little satchel with some hair ties, a lip gloss, a nail polish, etc. so she can feel put together. I honestly started wearing make up WAY more after I had Rowan. My academic brain thinks this is because while my body was (and is) changing so much (and has changed so much) it was this thing that could still be under my control. Plus, it has helped me feel more put together when everything else feels very chaotic.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

I like your login, jon. Also hello!

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

me too.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link

You could also get her a bottle of wine and some advil. Those were two things I couldn't have while pregnant that I was excited to have back in my life.

Also nice - gift cards to restaurants that deliver.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

Thanks.

The gift cert for a mani/pedi is also an awesome idea. I know my wife was thrilled to feel more "human" (her word actually, lol) when she got to get out of the house and feel pretty when she was home on maternity leave.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link

I don't know if you live close enough to do this or would even be willing to do this, but if you just gave her a 'coupon' to come by after the baby arrives so that she can take a shower or have a nap or whatever, that is an amazing gift at that time. Or do dishes.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link

job interview went well, decent odds that i'll be in chicago later this month for a final interview.

― Z S, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

nice

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link

She lives in VA -- good ideas w/ the restaurants that deliver even though I don't know if they have any? Decent comf loungewear sounds like a best idea.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link

no, restaurant delivery has been banned in virginia as sinful and godless since 1874

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link

It's a rural area, smartass.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

this is kind of awesome:

http://chicago.eater.com/archives/2011/12/02/jayz-beyonce-hit-vincent-while-waiting-for-great-lake.php

― advance johnson, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

Wow. The idea of Jay-Z and Beyonce hanging out in Andersonville is kind of blowing my mind.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

That is awesome.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

Yuppies

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

I told my stoods and they found this news v exciting. None of us appreciated "frites" though.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, I would love to know what jay-z/beyonce thought of Andersonville.

― advance johnson, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

They miss Clark's on Clark.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

Lol.

What's wrong with frites??

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link

fries

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link

frites are okay but they should really be called "freedom fries"

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link

I just zipped my upper lip in my zipper and it fucking hurt and now it's bleeding. Jesus Hepatitis Christ.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

IDG what's wrong with frites.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

they are fries

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link

I just zipped my upper lip in my zipper and it fucking hurt and now it's bleeding. Jesus Hepatitis Christ.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, December 2, 2011 7:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i'm going to assume this was your pants zipper

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link

What about biscotti and creme fraiche? Cookies and fresh cream?

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link

Sandbox doesn't alert one to xposts.

Nick I encourage that assumption.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link

shut up, you knew what i meant

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link

i keep cracking myself up thinking of someone zipping their lip in their pants zipper

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link

Me toooooo

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link

I just snorted next to people I am walking next to reading it.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link

Jesse, you bleeping philistine, crème fraiche ≠ fresh cream

― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link

I think "frites" implies slender, golden-crispy fries, generally served with aioli or some other "exotic" dipping sauce. Possibly also served in a paper cone.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

Chose to complete that sentence as:

Jesse, you bleeping philistine, get your lip out of your pants zipper.

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link

mouth-breathing and zipping do not mix

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link

frites don't frail me now

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link

I giggled the whole way home.

I *know* what creme fraiche is. I should have just said biscotti, though.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

Had a taste for a burger at lunch and went to Epic Burger. Half-empty and, literally, a 40 minute wait for my food. Annoying.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link

Bogus. Come to the JRTC for an M Burger next time!

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link

Every time I see that abbreviation, I think "JROTC."

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link

As in: the kids in high school who dressed in military uniforms and marched with flags.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

a 5 Guys just recently opened in HP, I went there the other day

can't say I'll go back to often (it's not walkable and I do not want to get even fatter than I already am) but it was damn good

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

Never had M Burger actually!

I think of ROTC too.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/lTxkN.jpg

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link

5 guys is great though I wish they didn't give you so many fries

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link

otm, I love the fries there, but they give you a disgusting amount of fries there and I always feel guilty when I have to throw away so many.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

fries there. I need to say fries there a couple more times. fries there. fries. there.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

for any 90s indie rockers out there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVgWDpmN9TI&feature=related

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link

every time I check this thread I get Tribe in my head.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link

haha dr aj

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link

girl talk! I bought my first pair of heels ever in my life last night.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link

I appropriately re-posted that tidbit on the girls thread. SORRY CHICAGO. In other randoms, I just ate 5 riesen chews. a serving size is 4. look out!

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link

OMG. whatever just happened to the sandbox erased all my bookmarks.

anyone else?

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

kelsey, can you walk in heels?

Have you looked at your legs while wearing them? They make everyone's legs fucking amazing.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link

hey i can turn off images now, nice

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

anyone else?

I wouldn't know.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link

Nick
oh I have to admit something: I used the snooze button the last two mornings
and it was nice

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

you ... son of a bitch

i told you that in confidence

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

YOU ... SON OF A BITCH

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

Jesse, I honestly don't know what kind of crazy talk you're talking about bookmarks. Are you sure you have set them in the first place?

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

Yes, I am sure! I set them and checked and re-checked them.

Only certain threads would take my bookmarks. I couldn't find a pattern.

But now the 6 threads I had bookmarked are no longer bookmarked. NO threads are bookmarked.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link

Monitor the board. Take it all in. Scroll and skim.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link

Bookmarking is automated monitoring.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link

Can't live like this here.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/eHAVp.png

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link

i don't know what it must be like to discover heels at this point in life
it's like discovering that you have boobs

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

It's more like wondering why other women voluntarily subject themselves to such discomfort when you've managed to avoid it for so long.

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link

btw, sandbox jesse, that's happened to me before, but it turned out to be great, because all the formerly unbookmarkable threads became bookmarkable.

― rayuela, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link

i'm not talkin stiletto heels, dang

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link

I have not looked at my legs whilst wearing them. Today is just day one. They aren't that bad, really. A little weird. I think these are 2" or 3" heels? I've only ever worn kitten heels.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.planetshoes.com/mmplanet/Images/15352/15352_womens-sofft-florina_127_detail.jpg

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

sorry. that's stupid big. but those are the shoes.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

cuuute

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link

Kels, it's not big on my screen.

Hi rayeula. Who might you be? I ask in a friendly way.

Also, Hi jvc and ZS.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link

i'm new -- mostly frequented the OKC board on ilx before it went down. :)

― rayuela, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link

also i'm not from chicago :(

― rayuela, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

Hello! Do you live in Chicago? (also friendly! You obv need not live here to post here but if you live here that is exciting and we should have an M Burger and a shot of Malort.)

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

XPOST!!!

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

there is an entire OKC board?!

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link

lots of radiohead fans on ilx

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link

Lots of Timothy McVeigh/Kevin Durant fans on ILX.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

not a lot of crossover between timothy mcveigh fans and kevin durant fans, i would imagine

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe in the intersection you could find the GOP nominee.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link

my first thought was OKC = OKCupid

interesting food development in my neck o' the square http://yusho-chicago.com/

warning: may hurt your eyes at first

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

it is OKCupid, we were just being silly

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

Y'all are wack.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

that said... there is an entire OKCupid board?

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

that's what i SAID!

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link

omg sisters!

― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

Just a thread, p sure.

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

lol. thread!

― rayuela, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link

i have to admit that everytime you say omg sisters i feel a little bit of genuine happy

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link

Our very own toes bonesly once started an entire ILX board called "Chairman Meow: Best cat name?"

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link

You were right about that site hurting the eyes.

"Grilled Birds"

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link

oh the days when I used to start boards.

― toes bonesly, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

"chairman mao" really is the best cat name though

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link

I remember that borad!

― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link

amanda i thought that russian circles show was tonight but it's tomorrow night. the free show i have tickets to is tonight.

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

i can't go to a show tomorrow night but young widows are opening for russian circles and they're interesting

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

so you should go is my point

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

i am already going because i like the sound of all three bands
anyone who wants to join me is welcome!

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

well, not just anyone
any of you who have been preapproved for the league of women voters visa

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

don't know if i want to go to this show tonight or not tbh, i listened to the second band on youtube and they seem pretty annoying, plus it's cold and dark out there

― n/a, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link

it's going to be cold and dark for the next 4 months :(
might as well have fun while there is fun to be had

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link

The library's christmas party is
this evening.

There will be an open bar,
but I am driving.

It will be scary but also, perhaps,
filled with good cheer.

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 2 December 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

can you drink and get your car tomorrow?

where do you work again? sorry, i forgot.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link

The new Russian Circles album is fantastic, but I don't really get to talk about it in any metal threads because there is so much kneejerk hatred for any metal bands that incorporate anything with even a whiff of "post-rock" in it.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link

xp Damn son, dude works deep in the burbs.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link

because there is so much kneejerk hatred for any metal bands that incorporate anything with even a whiff of "post-rock" in it.

Oh, so I might like it then?

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link

I think you might, actually.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

Check out either Station or the new one, Empros.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

I think I have been confusing them for a long time with Russian Futurists.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link

Actually I did too for the longest time. I got sent a promo for Station back when I was writing for Metal Edge and ignored it for the longest time because I wasn't a huge fan of the Futurists beyond "Paul Simon".

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/EJkA5.jpg

Looking west down Irving Park at the intersection with Sheridan. Holiday Club now stands where the Walgreens is in this pic.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link

actually i would like to recommend opening band anatomy of habit to anyone who likes swans or yakuza
fyi

also yes jmc you would like russian circles

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Saturday, 3 December 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link

i get russian circles confused with pelican

― n/a, Saturday, 3 December 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/297168_10150406687637268_76585657267_8260412_1868189325_n.jpg

Looking west on Argyle at the intersection with Sheridan. I've been looking through a lot of pics of Uptown in the 20s and 30s and it seems like EVERY corner has a Walgreens.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link

sorry about the surge of photos. i've been home sick and i wanted to share thinks i thought were rad.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link

"seems like EVERY corner has a Walgreens."

Not unlike the Loop of today.

― thejenny, Saturday, 3 December 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link

Haha do you all remember THIS????

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2797/4190422902_6868c20869_z.jpg?zz=1

― thejenny, Saturday, 3 December 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link

i get russian circles confused with pelican

Ha, that's fair. Except I think Russian Circles are much better.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Saturday, 3 December 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link

Ha, I do remember. Does Kenny have a bite out of his back?

There was no sandbox when EZ alerted me to this v. important retail update, and I just fond a pic. The former Borders at Clark/Broadway/Diversey is going to be a mega-Walgreens.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/379847_10150445405967268_76585657267_8413569_785916110_n.jpg

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link

Okay, wow, that is some relatively lazy SketchUp model work right there. Not bragging here, but that is beginner level and I could probably knock that out in about two hours. They really need to expand beyond the stock people and work on their shadowing.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

But I guess I shouldn't knock it too much, knowing the way clients work they probably asked for a rendering that they didn't want to pay anything extra for and I can't blame them for cranking something out.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link

Also, unless they are planning to set that Walgreens back from the corner much further than the current building, that's not to scale.

― thejenny, Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

The Landmark is now a blank wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Jeff, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link

OHMYGAWD

― thejenny, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link

The Century being a big, blank, grey wall was amazing. 0__o, even.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link

reminder: if anyone wants to join me at this show, i will be there around 10
call moi!
http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/9/9b/Miss-piggy.jpg

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link

aw have fun. i skipped the show last night because my stomach was fucked up.

― n/a, Sunday, 4 December 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link

well i don't know if this will entice anyone but

http://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/releases <-- russian circles
http://vimeo.com/22248209 <-- young widows video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_iMUsdG4Qw <-- anatomy of habit live last year

in other news i am wearing jessica simpson brand tights :-/

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link

Holy shit.

http://blog.ilsccp.org/?p=241

― thejenny, Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, what an idiot.

BTW --
I don't know if anyone could possibly care about this, but Video Adventure in Evanston is selling all of their VHS for $0.10-$0.50. It was pretty picked through but I got two Derek Jarman movies (The Angelic Conversation and The Last of England) and Return to Two Moon Junction (which is clearly horrible but you know how I feel about terrible movies). Dan got 2 horror movies and I forget what they are. We spent $0.95.

Also I left before Russian Circles played last night because the place was totally packed and the crowd was awful. Was also kinda bored by Young Widows.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

Hey, we're giving away this chair and ottoman if any of you want it: http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/zip/2735648761.html

― thejenny, Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

Attention Jenny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjD9X8pyqdE

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link

Cool chair. Is it still available?

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

Yes. Come pick it up.

― thejenny, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

Do you think I should be clearer about the chair's condition? I'm sending the original pics to anybody who emails expressing interest, but I've gotten a couple of emails that are like "ARE THERE ANY RIPS OR STAINS?" and I'm like, It's a free chair on Craig's List with a visible rip in one of the pictures, so yes. Maybe they are asking if anybody has peed on it.

― thejenny, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

I didn't notice the rip at first, fwiw.

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

I... do not like that cover. I love the song, but the cover seems to suck all of the interestingness out of it. Maybe if he started screaming DO YOU WANNA DI-YEEEE somewhere in there.

xp okay, I'll note the rip in the description. Thanks!

― thejenny, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe. When I sell stuff o n CL, Ebay (eBay?) and Amazon I usually include something about flaws, even if it's just "minor shelf wear" b/c disclosure heads off concerns. xp

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

I noted the tear in the ottoman and some fading/discoloration in the chair. I thought suggesting the chair for a frat house/reupholstery project and giving it away for free w/ the slipcover would be enough, but it can't hurt to give more info.

I'm giving it away because I don't think it's worth any money and because I don't want to carry it to the alley, btw. It's too big to fit through our back gate and it's going to be monstrous to have to carry around the block. God.

― thejenny, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

Holy shit.

http://blog.ilsccp.org/?p=241

― thejenny, Sunday, December 4, 2011 11:37 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

Whoa.

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link

"… It appears that somebody with malice [sic] intentions has used my business information to post the advertisement on Craigslist. I did not post the advertisement for a legal secretary …"

lol, pretty weak.

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

i finally managed to sell that brand new kindle i've been trying to sell on craigslist for like a month now. in related news, we got new phones.

― n/a, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link

Which phone?

― Jeff, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link

8g iphone 4

― n/a, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

excited to be able to listen to music on my commute again.

― n/a, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, kind of cool to hear VA's still around. Used to rent from there all the time. If you appeared to be underage and renting an R-rated movie, they'd call your house (ostensibly to speak with your parents) to make sure it was OK. When I was in high school, I always had friends over who answered the phone pretending to be "mom" or "dad," approving my rental.

― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link

Still there! The sun still blasts in the window at a certain hour and makes the whole place hot and smelly, just like in days of yore.

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link

Weird. My post from earlier about that POS lawyer disappeared. I know it posted b/c I saw it on the page.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dETyCYtynx8/SbvbbjFppAI/AAAAAAAAAPM/cRTybXGQPLo/s400/Mystery+LOGO.jpg

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link

Well anyway, there is a pretty awesome commenter putting a lot of words toward defending that jackass lawyer b/c he probably just didn't know that it's not OK to try to recruit a sexcretary. Probably b/c he was broke but everyone thought lawyers are rich.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link

hi guys!!!

― n/a, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

sup

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 5 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

1) find sexy people
2) tell them hey
3) profit

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link

Kr has returned. Hurrah!

― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Monday, 5 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

yay!

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link

woop

― n/a, Monday, 5 December 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

Aw, yay! Welcome home, Kr!

― thejenny, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link

Hooray for Uptown.

Broadway Closed Between Wilson & Leland. Red And Purple lines closed, too.

Per the cops, stay away from windows if you're in the area. There's a barricade situation, we hear, and the SWAT team is moving in. We would recommend staying off the streets as well.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link

Made for an annoying commute.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

I'm going to not stay away just to piss them off.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

i got a call from the troom telling people to enter campus from the west because of police barricades
(i don't work there anymore but of course they continue to send me all-employee phone messages)

― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link

I just got that call, too, and was coming here to see if anybody knew what was up!

― thejenny, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link

There is a "heavily armed fugitive" in the building with Uptown Bikes.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link

Oh no! I hope the Uptown Bikes folks are okay!

― thejenny, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link

Huh, I didn't know about "reverse 911"

Uptown Update We get a recorded "reverse 911 call" from emergency services about a half hour ago warning us to stay inside and away from windows. Several others neighbors did too.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link

lots of details:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-police-activity-in-uptown-shuts-down-parts-of-red-purple-lines-20111205,0,861663.story

Sara was in Uptown while a lot of this was going down, and saw closed streets, cop cars, etc. Which is really freaky. Though she was able to just grab a Lawrence bus home.

― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:23 (twelve years ago) link

This feels kind of redneck-ish, but I've been listening to the CPD and CTA's radio feeds. Not really b/c of the emergency, but b/c I like radio chatter. Some US Airways flights I've taken had a station where you could listen to the cockpit's radio transmissions. That was really cool. Much more than these.

CTA: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=10128

CPD: http://tunein.com/tuner/?StationId=131307

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link

I used the possible train repercussions (plus the fact that I didn't leave work until 7) as a nice excuse to take a cab home.

― thejenny, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link

This struck me as really cute

[FB friend who lives at Wilson and Racine]:I am worried about Vincent [kitty] looking out the window. He loves SWAT team action!

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link

I ended up taking a cab too, but man last night was annoying. I actually started out waiting for the purple line and at that point they were making no announcements, so I waited 30 minutes for a (canceled) train before my wife called to let me know what was going on.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link

although I wasn't personally affected by the standoff, I do think that it was one of those times where twitter would be essential -- I probably read about a half dozen separate accounts of what was going on in the space of about 5 minutes after it started, before anything was on WBEZ or other internet newsfeeds

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link

I'm just annoyed by the lack of information transmitted to the actual CTA workers at the stations. After I got the call from my wife I asked two different employees how far north I could get on the redline and I got shrugs and "I don't know". If only I'd thought to check my phone sooner, because very clear information was available on the CTA's mobile site.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link

yeah our brown line train driver kept saying there was an "issue" with the purple line which to me implies a technical problem, not a police problem. anyways, my commute was unaffected, hooray for me!

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link

My purple line driver specified that there was police activity at Wilson and that the train would only go as far as Belmont.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link

But yeah, I knew everything that was happening anyway via twitter.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link

The CTA's radio feed last night indicated a lack of centralized info. At one point, there were transmissions saying that the CPD had okayed normal service of this or that individual bus or train run (like "#36 Bus #1234, you can use the normal route"), but that led to a jam-up of other drivers and conductors going "What about me?"

Unrelated, they kept talking about "a runaway" and I couldn't tell what they meant. A runaway train?? Surely not b/c they were talking about it for an extended time.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

They were talking about Soul Asylum.

― thejenny, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link

You make me puke.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

hi chicago. i'm coming to yr city tomorrow!
please to make there be no standoffs.

― tehresa, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link

Don't worry you prob won't be heading that far north anyway! We need to hop to planning this btw.

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link

Oh neat. FAP?

― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link

fap seems like such a strong word! haha. but i would be super thrilled to meet up with some chicago ilxors! saturday evening is probably best for me.

― tehresa, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link

also i am so scared of the cold!

― tehresa, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link

eh, don't be. just wear a hat and a scarf and you'll be ok. that's my solution to everything.

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link

I am recommending a book! It is called Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and it has Victorian ladies and ladies' maids and intrigue and villains and diabolical plots and forbidden sex and hair styling tips for base-born London girls.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Fingersmithcover.jpg/200px-Fingersmithcover.jpg

― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link

Oh shit, there is a British TV series based on the book! Bless the BBC.

― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link

Hi tehresa. I don't know you but I'm down for a fap or whatever else you want to call it.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link

i was thinking maybe we should take her to fountainhead?
they have special whisky and fancy beer and foods and it is also reasonably centrally located.

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link

should we put this somewhere else? i really want to go rollerskating. also there is a huge knot in my neck and i don't know what it is.

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link

I vote for the Fountainhead. I was just saying I haven't been there in awhile and I miss it.

― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link

I really hated Fountainhead the first time I went there, but I would be willing to give it another try. It seems like forevers since I've seen some of you guys.

In other news I had a good meeting with the director of a grad program at IIT yesterday afternoon. Still not sure if it's something I truly want to pursue but it answered some nagging questions/thoughts I had about going back to school.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link

i just don't know how fountainhead will deal with a group, that's my only concern

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link

we've had groups there before i think. i might be down for fountainhead.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link

i think i met tehresa before when the fake fics played at CMJ?

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

The Fountainhead is fine with groups but we can't waltz in with ten people at 8 on Saturday and expect to get a table is the only thing. So in planning, we'll need to arrive kind of early.

tza what time are you available and are you intimidated by tables full of drunk people?

― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link

Fountainhead is awesome for me, obv. However, we are seeing Eazy's show on Saturday and then having dinner afterward. Fortunately, that's still early-ish: the show'll be over before 5 PM. But just saying: I probably wouldn't be able to get to Fountainhead much earlier than 7:30 or 8.

i think i met tehresa before when the fake fics played at CMJ?

Yes, I think you did, too. I remember going out to a bar with Tehresa and Ken L. afterwards.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link

ha i forgot you were there! because c@n@st@ played too obviously!

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link

14 years in federal prison for Blago.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

Hmmmm.

Gah. I don't want to feel sympathy.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

yay! no more corruption in state gov't, ever!

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

Hahahahahahahaaaaaaaabarf

― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

Hi! N/A I didn't remember you were at that cmj show! I am probably free by 630 or 7 on sat.

― tehresa, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link

I believe if a small group gets there around 6 PM ish on Saturday, getting a table shouldn't be too difficult.

Bear in mind, I am often wrong.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link

I would be willing to be part of the drunken vanguard.

― thejenny, Thursday, 8 December 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link

jenny, i loved fingersmith--i should read more sarah waters. i keep thinking i shld read tipping the velvet and then i keep forgetting. (the bbc series for that one is great fun, saw it yrs ago so i won't remember the plot enough to spoil the book)

i'm in a rut, alteranting btw trashy YA fiction and literary short stories. victorian lesbian fun might help.

― julia, Thursday, 8 December 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

You say the BBC series for Fingersmith or for Tipping the Velvet? Because I will watch all the BBC serieseses for all of her books forever.

This book has all the delights of a Victorian novel. I feel kind of old and jaded and unable to be surprised by plot twists but I've been totally taken off guard about four times by this book. Also Victorian lesbians = A++.

― thejenny, Thursday, 8 December 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link

i'm in a reading blank spot right now, not sure what i feel like reading. downloaded a history of WWII last night but it might be too grim.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

I'm Hunger Games-ing it.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

Jenny, Al posted this on FB and I thought it might be of interest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-6yVip7bgCg

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=-6yVip7bgCg

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link

cutn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=-6yVip7bgCg

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6yVip7bgCg

I'm really sorry

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 8 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

Hey not to take over all planning but re: Sat night at the Fountainhead (is this even okay w/ tza?), please think about your availability and confirm your attendance by Sat afternoon so I can give them a reasonably accurate estimate when Jeff and I arrive and start binge drinking around 6.

― thejenny, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

Ha, are you back on the bottle?

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

Yes!

― thejenny, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link

I have a perpetual bottle.

― Jeff, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link

Either I or Sarah and I (in shifts) should be attending - I think one of us can probably get there earlyish as well, maybe not right at 6 but earlyish.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

i will share that bottle with you, d may or may not come
count me in at least

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

Tell d if he comes I will play mad Carcassonne with him the whole time.

― thejenny, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

jenny, i meant the tipping the velvet BBC series. so entertaining.

between my silliness and short story reading, i'm reading a novel that's good but kind of slow at times. for my ridic attn span, anyway. red on red--crime fiction that isn't so genre-y, more character based and less actiony. i keep checking out the ebook again and again because i'm too scrambled to read much of it at times but want to keep reading.

― julia, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

I and/or Sara will probably be up for some fountainhead, especially since it's across the street. However, I'm working on Saturday so I might end up getting there a bit later on...

― well in (advance johnson), Thursday, 8 December 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link

Can Taco come?

Where is Terehsa staying?

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

R and I went to a beer tasting/beer talk gathering for a charity she's involved with last night at Hopleaf. Besides the tasty beerz and interesting factz we learned that Hopleaf is expanding, basically doubling in size, taking over the space adjacent to them to the south.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

Interesting. I may be going to H'leaf on Sunday.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

I'm reading Andrew Earles' book on Husker Du, which is like terribly disappointing. For one thing, he couldn't get Mould to take part (which, can't fault Earles for that since Mould was writing a book of his own), so there's a whole lot of "blah blah said that Bob said" stuff that makes me uncomfortable. Additionally, its just really awkward reading in general. Each and every time he talks about a peripheral person, he describes them by full name every time, like "tour soundman John Smith" and three paragraphs later, "so thought tour soundman John Smith". And there have been more than a couple places where nearly word-for-word paragraphs have been repeated at various points.

Anyway, I'm disappointed because I've really been wanting to learn more about Husker Du and there seems be a lot of interesting things to say about them, this book just isn't cutting it.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

you should just listen to tons of husker du!!

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

did you read the grunge oral history? you should read that instead, it's fun.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

listening to a shit ton of husker du will be way more entertaining than reading that book, promise

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

I am listening to tons of them! This week has been full of pre-Zen Arcade stuff, which is the era I always kinda ignored.

That grunge oral history is on my list, probably get to it after Electric Eden which is currently on deck.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

would you guys agree that husker du is "humorless"?

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link

Bob Mould seems to be so from all his interviews from the band's heyday, but I don't think the band as a whole was humorless. I mean, they used to cover the Gilligan's Island and Mary Tyler Moore themes live! If anything, we can shift some blame of the ubiquitous "ironic" cover song to them, but I don't think they were devoid of humor.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

how to skin a cat is funny

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link

the baby song is terrible, and not very funny, but an attempt at humor?

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link

Electric Eden will take you like 100 years to read, prepare :)

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

I thought the Replacements "invented" the "ironic" cover song with their cover of Kiss's "Black Diamond."

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

psssshhh, which band covered Steely Dan, Van Halen and Creedence Clearwater Revival?

― William (C), Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

on the same album?

― William (C), Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

Minutemen

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

It was "in the air," I guess.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

speaking of covers, what do y'all think of this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBs382Z5PA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnGQ31YOYM

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

i can't listen to that right now but i only found out this morning from ned's this mortal coil review on pitchfork that they made a cover of "you and your sister" by chris bell (ex-big star) featuring vocals by kim deal and tanya donnelley, which is total sarah-bait

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

it's a pretty lullaby btw

i like that chris bell song but it's not "speed of sound" (my favorite chris bell song)

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

still sounds good though! anything with kim deal is good.

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link

it's a pretty straight cover but it's a great song and i like kim deal singing anything

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

did chris bell or alex chilton write "thirteen"? because "you and your sister" is pretty similar to "thirteen" to my ears

― n/a, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

i thought it was chilton but you're right
huh

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

I've never heard Chris Bell's "Speed of Sound," but I'm going to go ahead and assert that Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" is better.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

Actually, I recently learned that Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" was musically inspired by Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill"!

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

baaaaaaaah
assert this, buster

― league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link

Well hello. I stink at ilxing when I'm on work trips, but i am up for wherever you guys want to go. To the person upthread whose identity I am not quite clear on, I an staying downtown(?) near the gleacher center.

― tehresa, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link

Oops I just reread I know who jesse is! It was another id I was confused about.

― tehresa, Friday, 9 December 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link

You're staying not far from where jaymc and I work (we work in different places, but close to each other).

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link

Idk gleacher center. Huh.

Surprising bus bunching this morning: 4 Halsted buses together ~1 mile from the start of the line.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link

I've heard of the Gleacher Center, but I couldn't tell you where it is.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link

(I mean, I just looked it up, so now I know.)

― jaymc, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link

the trains were all bunched up too, there was some problem in the loop again

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link

Y'know first light dusting of snow of the year.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link

I know!

I heard on the radio that Brown, Purple, and Orange lines were rerouted through the State St. subway due to a problem at Clark & Lake.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 9 December 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

Huh. I guess they fixed it by the time I got here.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

apparently the holidays have already started because this place is a GHOST TOWN

― league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

my work is going to start adding QR codes that connect to our website on all of our business cards. this seems like a terrible idea and i hate it.

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

Huh, I never knew the name for those.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

I'm convinced people only use those 1. in Japan 2. when they are going to get something for free

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 9 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link

BECAUSE NO ONE USES THEM
xpost

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link

also they're going to make our business cards look really really ugly

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link

and our website is short and easy to remember! i could just tell them the website and they would remember it!

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link

How do they work, anyway? A smartphone scans them? Idgi.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

yeah i think you need an app on your smartphone to scan them and they take you to a website.

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link

in case all of your fingers are unable to type

― league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link

it kind of makes sense if you're taking someone to a specific page on a site that might have a long URL but our url is basically www.nameoforganization.org

― n/a, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

you can also tell that people got to your site via the QR code, hence the "getting something for free" promotional aspect

we used the things for some PR/communications tests for the soccer crew, it wasn't really worth the hassle in the end for us

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 9 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

Hey, PP is doing clinic escort training again if anybody wants to stand out in the cold and get yelled at by religious fundamentalists.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

Can we yell back? :D (I kid)

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 9 December 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

xp actually, you can't! But you can take great comfort in other people yelling back.

Also, my favorite QR code misuse is when businesses send out emails w/ QR codes in them, because if you get the email on your phone, you can't scan the QR code with your phone, and if you get the email on your computer, just click the link to go to the website.

Also, I hate QR codes.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link

are you gonna do it jenny?
i might could do that

― league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link

I did it for years until I took a "break" about a year and a half ago, that as it turns out, might be "the conclusion" of my stint as a patient escort. I half burned out and half couldn't take the abuse on my poor, wretched knee.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link

I still do other stuff like phone banking, showing up at protests, shit like that.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

i would stand out in the cold with you but maybe not by myself
although i would relish getting yelled at by those cretins

― league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

well giving them the eye while they yelled at me

― league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

The Good Emily still does it. She's been doing this since before we started law school. I don't know how she manages, frankly.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link

every week? wow.

― league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link

No! Once a month/every other month. I don't think there is a human alive who could do this every week.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link

I think I would be great at it.

― Jeff, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link

so, just curious, but what kind of being yelled at are we talking about? "you're going to hell, die in a fire" kind of yelling?

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 9 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link

didn't you say the florist down the street gives the protesters flowers and calls the patients sluts?

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link

Pretty much, yes.

The less batshit crazy people just stand around and sing hymns or pray. There are a handful of totally crackers people who like, do this kind of harassment for a living, and they are the ones who really get into the "YOU ARE GOING TO HELL FOR KILLING BABIES" type stuff directed at the escorts, specifically. There's also a healthy dose of misinformation about various Constitutional rights, so like if you offer to walk someone into the clinic because she is getting harassed by one of the more aggressive protesters, you'll get some YOU ARE VIOLATING MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH type stuff.

Oh and one lady likes to fling holy water around. She's not supposed to fling it on the escorts, but if you aren't watching, she totally will.

xp yup. Please do not EVER buy flowers from that guy (LaSalle and Division). He is a hateful, hateful piece of shit.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link

do they attempt to provoke the escorts? (assuming so...)

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 9 December 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link

Definitely. The crazy ones aren't trying to accomplish anything with it. It's more like they are just filled with hate and rage and if you are in the way, you will get an earful of it. Some of the more "normal" folks are crafty and evil and will try to provoke the escorts on purpose to make us leave or break the law. Like, I think some of them would love nothing more than to provoke an escort into punching them in the throat so they could use that to their advantage.

― thejenny, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

Have you all ever listened to Aziz Ansari's stand up album? It is really funny and I have one of the songs he sings as a punch line stuck in my head and it might make me lose my mind.

― thejenny, Saturday, 10 December 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link

I watched his standup on netflix I think?

I would also like to note that 2011: The Year of Excuse Me is drawing to a close. Pay your respects.

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

i guess the enrique song was technically released in 2010, but anything that was in the academic year of 2010-2011 kind of blends together in a painful excuse-riddled haze for me
this wiki is cracking me up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_%28I%27m_Lovin%27_You%29

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link

"Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)," also known as "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" when played on radio during daytime, is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. It features American rapper Ludacris and producer DJ Frank E. The song was released to the US radio on November 1, 2010,[1] and it was released digitally on November 22, 2010.[2] The song was included on the French Limited Edition of Euphoria[3] as well as the New Edition of "Euphoria" which was released in 2011. The official remix features American rapper Pitbull. The clean version of this song was also performed at Fuse's Z100 Jingle Ball 2010 on December 16, 2010.

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

Clinic escorting is something I give serious thought to. I should do it, and frankly, the only thing standing in my way is laziness.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

I mean, I'm pretty much meant for the job, you know?

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link

PLANNING UPDATE:
I have given TZA my digits and confirmed that we (some of us) will be at Fountainhead ~ 6 or so (roughly) and that there will be more people coming after that.

Lurkers pls rsvp via webmail, see the rest of you fools there.

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link

I will be there, as will Courtney.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link

Amander are you planning to arrive at 6?

― thejenny, Saturday, 10 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

I'll probably be there closer to 7.

― n/a, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link

roughly 6 but i am not good at being on time (unless it is for work, and then i am obsessively early so that i can be on time) so don't count on me being there at 6 on the dot.

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link

Stoked!

― tehresa, Saturday, 10 December 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

Don't keep those expectations too high, you'll surely be disappoint in us.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

Okay so YESes are:

Tehresa
CrunkleJ
Courtnoodle
Nick/Sarah (in shifts, so counted as one)
Amanda
Jeff
Me

MAYBES are:
d
John
Kr
D@n M.
RR

I know I'm missing somebody. Help.

― thejenny, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

I was just skimming this thread and found this:

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:46 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

― thejenny, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

Dr Advance Johnson said he and S would come I think?

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link

Sarah's not coming, just me, sorry.

― n/a, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

Aw, bummer. I mean, YAY NICK but also sorry to not see Sarah.

Okay, Dr. J and S - noted.

― thejenny, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link

i just accidentally loaded all messages and there are some real nuggets of gold up there wow

i also see that i have been soliciting sentences from ilxors since 2007
haaaaaaaaaa

9. Bonobo monkeys are very affectionate.
This is going on my quiz for tomorrow in the "identify the parts of speech" section.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:23 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

― league of women voters, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

TROLL 2

― thejenny, Sunday, 11 December 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link

HEY I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to Amanda or Kenan or Askance J.. We were outside w/ John and a cab came and we got in it. So goodbye! I had a delightful time.

And Tehresa! It was great to meet you! <3<3<3

― thejenny, Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link

― jaymc, Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link

― Kenan, Sunday, 11 December 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link

It was very nice to meet Tehresa for me as well, though I must admit, she looks and acts and is as intelligent and engaging as I expected. I think I've known her online for so long (six or seven years, at least), and know so much about her that I would have been MORE surprised to be surprised. If that makes sense.

― Kenan, Sunday, 11 December 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link

it was really nice to meet/see you all! you are all treats.

― tehresa, Sunday, 11 December 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link

You're right, I am a treat.

― Jeff, Sunday, 11 December 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link

Call him "tastycakes" from now on. That would make me laugh.

― Kenan, Sunday, 11 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

<3 TZA <3

We had fun: it's official.

― league of women voters, Sunday, 11 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link

― tehresa, Sunday, 11 December 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link

Anyone who feels like showing up at Burke's and watching football with me is very welcome to. More than welcome. Encouraged.

― Kenan, Sunday, 11 December 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

TZA, it was a pleasure.

Jenny, our gchat was hilarious - that last line was exquisite.

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

Sorry to have missed Saturday nite drinks.

R, K8s, and I went to brunch at JAM in the square yesterday morning, twas good and all but maybe still some growing pains? One to watch for sure.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link

That reminds me -- @ fountainhead there was a guy I saw out of the corner of my eye several times who I thought was you, and everyone agreed that it did sort of resemble you, but that you were way cooler. He was kinda stuffy.

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

lol

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

Oh and this might be of interest to Nick at least, but maybe jvc and others? It's the internet posting of the final album by the predecessor band to my friends' group SAH that you saw... more noise pop/rocky and with a real singer but with many of the same elements.

http://manray19.bandcamp.com/album/shady-hinting-shady?autoplay=true

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

hey remember when we used to have our blog? those were different times, eh. i was just thinking that we should compile a chilxors favorite things 2011 mix but where would we put it?

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link

thanks dan, i'll give that a listen later
are you thinking music or things, amanda?

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link

music -- i don't actually have any favorite things from 2011

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link

like "products" or w/e

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link

I'm going to give that Shady Hinting Shady a listen later as well, sounds interesting. I'd be curious to know what the chilxors liked this year.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

i feel like most of my favorite albums or whatever this year are pretty boring choices, things i see lots of other people liking, but maybe i can think of a few underrated albums or songs

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link

where should we gather these things? should we do only new or also new-to-you?
no bashfulness, just music you bugged over in 2011

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link

lowest-tech option would just be a shared google doc with links to youtubes?

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

but will anyone listen to them that way?
should we each choose 3 tracks?

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

will jesse choose the same antlers song 3x?
will anyone listen to my songs if they are over 15 min long?

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link

dunno, sure, probably, sure

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

Ok then

* three tracks
* find a youtube or link of some kind

remaining questions:
* only new in 2011 or also new-to-you? either is ok with me.
* who's gonna make the doc

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link

i'd be ok with a grooveshark or spotify playlist also, though not everyone has spotify

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link

we could include spotify/grvshrk links in addition to youtube links?

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link

if it's only three songs i think i can manage

i'll try to stick to released in 2011 unless someone tells me otherwise (afaic this includes comps of previously unavailable material and/or available only in difficult to collect formats -- like the mark mcguire comp and my old friends at soundway)

i think i am done with my list tbh, if i only get 3 songs!!

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

I will participate.

I am also looking forward to sharing my best-of-2011 playlist on Spotify.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

I'll contribute three songs, that shouldn't be a problem.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

WHAT IF THERE IS OVERLAP

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

i made a spreadsheet, so far dan, john, and amanda can edit. jon, email me at naamme at gmail if you want me to add you as well, i don't have your email. or you can put it in here if you are ok with that.

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link

dammit i just did too

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

first come first dibs
someone else chose yr song, boo hoo choose another one

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

here's the link to view, anyone who wants to be able to edit it needs to let me know

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlI79Z6eAgusdGxTcHB0Z1VEZjBxMFZ5X01nbUJpRnc

xpost are we using mine or amanda's?

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

YOURS

i changed the title of mine to FORGET THIS
haha

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

i feel like most of my favorite albums or whatever this year are pretty boring choices, things i see lots of other people liking

P. much but I'll look over my playlists and see what I can find.

Oh wait I've got one already!

― thejenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

i also made the font larger and more orange on yours because i want it to look less like a work doc and more like fun :)

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link

sent my email to n/a

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link

added u

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link

thanking u

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

Dammit, my one song is from 2010. Fuck!!! FUCK!

― thejenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link

I've narrowed it down to like a dozen.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link

I hate music.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

My second choice was also released in 2010.

2011: the year the music died.

I'm going to put all Pit Bull songs.

― thejenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

As usual, I am overthinking this. Should I focus on songs that you guys probably have not heard?

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link

I'll see what I can do but, yeah, I fear all my choices would be boring, like PJ Harvey.

Listening to the cosmic dead as we speak and enjoying it.

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link

i personally am focusing on the maybe less-heard, more underrated songs i liked (so i look cooler) but you should do what you want

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

Hahaha, oh shit, two of my songs are eliminated. Well, only one was an exact repeat, but I feel like it would be silly to just throw on another track from the same album.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

that psychic paramount album is amazing

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link

I have been really lame wrt new music this year but I think I can remember up some favorites.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah I was going to throw up another Psychic Paramount track and THE SAME EXACT Cosmic Dead track.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

DONE
i left psychic paramount for nick because he was the one who told me to listen to it!!

Should I focus on songs that you guys probably have not heard?
this is what i did

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

HAHA sorry jvc
that song rules though amirite

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

you are very rite, glad to see someone else liking it tbh

Are we okay with live stuff that was just released this year?

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link

sorry dudes. having trouble deciding on a third song.

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link

Blargh, I am already regretting the one song I put up. Can I get like 10 songs?

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link

this doesn't have to be done today
i decided hastily, as i do with virtually every task of this nature -- just give us three songs you liked and you think we will like from 2011

if we want a round 2, we can do a round 2!!

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I'm going to have to add mine tonight. Can't find YouTube links for a couple of mine and I'm having trouble accessing my Spotify.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

OK, I included Yuck b/c it's probably my #1 song of the year, even though probably everyone that would like it has already heard it.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

OK I am happy with my choices for now.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

it's funny to see the spreadsheet update while looking at it,

jmc I accidentally erased one of yr entries for Yuck but I think I fixed it correctly

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link

Oh yeah, it looks fine.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link

other stuff i was thinking about: liturgy, action bronson. destroyer "kaputt" is probably my album of the year. worried i'm forgetting stuff because we lost some albums when our old hard drive died. sarah's going to contribute too btw.

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link

don't think i've heard "the laziest river" though!

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link

u guys srsly that youth lagoon album... it's one of those that makes me embarrassed to like it as much as I do

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link

I think my top albums are Destroyer, Toro y Moi, and Bon Iver.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link

Which are all plundering '80s soft rock in various ways.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link

i am not listening to bon iver ever again if i can help it

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

i don't know if i've ever heard any of his stuff; i think i just assumed i wouldn't like it but maybe i was wrong

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

i made extra columns for listener comments and complaining

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

the only bon iver song I know is "skinny love" and they once played it while I was browsing in a bookstore and I will admit to being moved by it.

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 12 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

i look forward to listening to these while i am at the office today

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link

ha ha our VP just walked through the library while i was listening to the laziest river and she probably thought i was jamming out to smooth jazz

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

Ha. I was pretty indifferent to the first Bon Iver album, but I kind of love the new one. And I also take some glee in the fact that a lot of dudes who were down with Vernon's lo-fi strummy heartsick cabin songs can't wrap their heads around the adult-contemporary signifiers.

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

Is there a setting I need to change on my end? Its only letting me view, not add anything.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link

i don't know - i've definitely got you enabled to edit

― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

Works fine now, maybe I just needed to close and reopen it.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

I'll think of a third song later. But for now I'm listening and enjoying!

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 12 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link

i don't think my comments column is going to work because you will have to identify yourself after each comment, which could be a PITA
well anyway, this came together nicely
good job everyone

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link

Updated my Falloch, realized I linked to the wrong track.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

Amanda, have you heard much Lindstrom?

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

Nope. Should I?

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

Okay, I uploaded my three tracks. Was originally going to put up one of the Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson live tracks, but couldn't narrow it down to which one.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

damn that album is SO GOOD
i was gonna put one on there too -- lyman place (?) is the only one that's < 10 min

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link

xxp I think you might like some of his stuff, maybe? Norwegian "space-disco." Cosmic pulses. Etc. Where You Go I Go Too is the one that people usually enthuse over -- it's probably his most focused work -- but I actually prefer his most recent collab with Prins Thomas, titled II.

Here is a track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpAW4RWI18

(Fun fact: I sampled the bass line for my cover of Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love.")

― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

That's a great album, I really love Lindstrom, particularly both albums with Prins Thomas.

― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

my connection at work is slow (wonder if people are watching jersey shore in the library again? hm?) so i have had trouble listening to these songs very efficiently

argh

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

ok i have now officially jammed many of these jams. thanks for submitting!

also i would like to encourage anyone to participate even if you think your choices are not partic exciting or obscure or whatever you think they should be but aren't. if nothing else it's a funny little archive.

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

which means it needs some pitbull

― league of women voters, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

I feel confident that I can find something a little more interesting than Pitbull. I just need to check out the playcounts on iTunes. A year is a long time to remember something.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link

john have you heard this song? i only heard it this morning but i feel like it's in your wheelhouse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv3pMACSbI

― n/a, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

Yes! Of the songs on the Pitchfork singles list that I hadn't heard before, that's definitely one of the ones that I liked best.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

oh duh same place i heard it. i downloaded the album but have only listened to the first three songs, of which that one is clearly the best. i also downloaded the unknown mortal orchestra album based on their song on the pfork list ("ffunny ffrends"), the album's a little same-y but the tom vek fans on this thread might like it, same kinda lo-fi funk drum loops with indie songs on top of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-36lCKovBg

― n/a, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

The second half of the Sandro Perri reminds me of Arthur Russell a bit.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

And yeah, I liked that song, too. And the Thundercat.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

so the marriott hotel downstairs has a little illy coffee bar in their lobby, which also has a fireplace, and every day i think maybe i should go down there at lunch and get a coffee and sit by their fireplace, and today might be the day i actually do it. unless they kick me out for not being a hotel guest.

― n/a, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

That sounds cool: did you do it?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link

this coffee bar is ILLY

― league of women voters, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link

still waiting on whether or not i'll be invited to chicago for a final interview this month or not, but i got some good news just now. i had been despondent because i did the interview a week or two back and still haven't heard back, but it turns out that they interviewed 24 other people and just finished the process late last week. and just now, they called one of my references and apparently seemed impressed (fools!!). *crosses fingers*

― Z S, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

hmm well it was more just like paying $4 + tip to drink a cup of coffee in a hotel lobby, and the chairs next to the fireplace were reserved, so it was mostly just overpriced and weird. i think the illy coffee bar is just in the morning, at lunch it turns into more of a bar.

good luck z_s

― n/a, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

suerte to you, ZS -- and zip it with the "fools" business!!

― league of women voters, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

what what

― Jeff, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

thank god
so bored 2day
i cheated and added a fourth song to the spreadsheet

― n/a, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

greg kott named the serengeti album his no. 1 best album by a chicago artist in 2011
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-20111214-best-chicago-music-pictures,0,6109778.photogallery

― n/a, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

I'm so grumpy today. grump grump grump

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link

sarah is too, you should be in a grumpy club.

i'm doing pretty well. things are quiet at work because of holidays and one of our members sent a letter (actual snail mail) to our president highlighting some research i did for him so that was pretty cool.

― n/a, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

my present shopping is DONE

this may be the earliest I have ever completed this bs

I am happy

sorry for happiness in the face of grumpitude, you can have some if you like

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link

I am not grumpy in a way that begrudges others happiness. I'm just tired and kind of cold and having trouble concentrating so I feel like I'm working uphill against the wind and a few people in my life (none of you wonderful people) are irritating the crap out of me.

I have one more gift to buy for my mother, and I have no idea what to get her. It doesn't need to be anything fancy - just a small secondary gift to even everybody out. I'm drawing a blank. I'm also slightly hampered by not wanting to pack/ship anything too complicated.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link

I always like buying little kitchen and food goodies for my mom -- flavored vinegar/oil, or spices, candies, just generally ingredients she can't get out in the boonies where they live. this year she's getting a couple of pounds of israeli couscous to supplement her main present (a book)

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link

we're not doing a lot of presents this year (except for evie and her cousin) but we still need to make pralines this weekend to give out

― n/a, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link

No one get me anything. Thanks.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

The couscous is a neat gift.

I just bought her something - a mounted heart-shaped map of Chicago.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

I was super grumpy at my useless umbrella and completely inaccurate bustracker this morning.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link

This is what I got. I am posting it because I think it's kind of precious, and also I miss my mom:

http://img3.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.273335651.jpg

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link

you guys i am a total failure at getting people to learn things
i'll take a little bit of grumpy if it means not feeling like everything i do is totally pointless

still, i can almost see a little tiny light i'm going to make it shine if it's the last thing i do

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link

Sorry Leaguechera. You are a hero, even if you don't feel like it right now. (No sarcasmo.)

Jenny, that map is pretty cool.

Good luck, ZS.

Good luck, everyone.

I'm watching Beavis and Butthead, Season 1 on Netflix streaming. I wish it had music videos.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link

Commerce updates:

1. INSANITY: This Will be a Walgreens That Has a Sushi Bar and Nail Salon

http://chicago.racked.com/uploads/sushi%20and%20nails-thumb.jpg

"INSANITY" is actually pretty OTM.

2. The Bally's in the Century Mall was purchased by L.A. Fitness. I bet this means no more unbelievable $12/month membership.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link

ty 4 yr post

― jaymc, Thursday, 15 December 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link

You know what is very satisfying? Seeing Isaac destroyed in Children of the Corn. I really want to stuff that kid's squawking face with corn until he -----

shit. As I was typing that, the little shit came back from the corn.

FUCK I hate that kid's face and voice.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link

yknow. that video for water 3 has increased its views by nearly 100% since i put it in our spreadsheet! it was at 44 when i c/p the link and now it's at 85!
seriously, i just bought that record like a week ago but i liked it so much that i put it in there because i knew no one else would listen to it otherwise.
wtg guys.

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link

i feel better btw -- yesterday was a rough one but i am on the upswing for sure. teaching is just really demoralizing some/much of the time.

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link

eh, that's an exaggeration
still, lots of hard work sometimes does not yield anything resembling the desired result
but that's ok, happens to everyone i guess.

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link

Teachers should get far more respect, adulation, and pay.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link

i don't even count when people think about "teachers" -- but i can tell the students who had good teachers in high school and the ones who didn't, that's for sure. the vocab section is what really bummed me out.

anyway

ALMOST DONE
like metaphorically 5 more min of work (starting now) and i will reach the finish line. but you guys know how i feel about racing, so i am taking my sweet time.

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link

i'm going to assume jenny's also feeling better today because now i feel like crap

― n/a, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link

And the universe retains balance.

― Kenan, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

i'm going to assume jenny's also feeling better today because now i feel like crap

I do, actually. I am sorry you don't. :(

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link

i deserve it for being overly positive yesterday. negative karma.

― n/a, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link

stay posi guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gMaBh0cmkI

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link

Stay poz.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

my exams are totally buoying my spirits today -- somehow a magic wand touched them and made them able to write clearly and accurately (compared to yesterday, which can only be described as a total grammar bloodbath) things will be ok!

like soon, maybe within the HOUR!

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7E0lCqmIPY

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link

really i just need some sleep. been sleeping like crap all week.

― n/a, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link

Stay poz.

OK.

Jenny, I cun't believe you didn't comment on the bizzaro Walgreens coming to your work hood.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

i need some sleep too. man, like 4-5 hrs a night? i am turning into a crazy person.

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link

xp I tried to click the link and it didn't go anywhere so I forgot about it. I'll probably get my nails done there.

Our power just went out in our office for the third time in two weeks.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link

I haven't been sleeping well either. Our bedroom gets really hot when the temps are over like 38 and I think that's why.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

Oh, weird. The URL contained the sandbox url + the correct one. Anyway, it's going to be a Walgreens w/ sushi, hair salon, and wine bar. There is a Duane Reade in NYC that is similar - it is simply *opulent* - marble floors and columns, luxe boutiques, etc. Like Nieman Marcus or something.

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

http://chicago.racked.com/archives/2011/11/24/insanity-this-will-be-a-walgreens-that-will-have-a-sushi-bar-and-a-nail-salon.php

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

loving the use of "jizz" in this title/url

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/duncan-biddulph-whiz-with-cod-jizz/Content?oid=5144442

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

also there's another article in the same series that details the use of gjetost, R's favorite scandinavian sweet goat cheesey product

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/lula-cafe-jefe-jason-hammel-digs-gjetost/Content?oid=5176664

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

i feel like everyone on ilx is teaming up to troll me today. i should do something else but i'm too tired and bored.

― n/a, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

I am not saying they aren't, but when I feel that way, it usually means I need to take a break from ILX at large. Also you're tired so you may not be as impervious to the slings and arrows of loltrolls on ILX. Also, do you want me and Jesse to go take care of anybody for you?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

no it's definitely because i'm tired and grouchy, it's the usual annoying people but getting under my skin more than usual

― n/a, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

the sandbox breeds that sort of thing w/o the everpresent threat of the sb

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

alternately spend some quality time gossiping about it via email

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

(haha not that i would ever do that haha)
haha

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

haha

lol

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

(the "haha" was sarcastic, the "lol" was sincere)

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

i have been bitching about people (not on this thread) to jesse on gchat, since he's the only person aside from sarah who talks to me on gchat

― n/a, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

oh this is probably not the best time to tell you this but it is a positive thing so i hope it lifts your spirits a little

i shared (via link) our best of 2011 doc with a few other ilxors in the outloud room and they thought it was a novel way to collect and share recommendations AND they thought our recommendations were interesting
or at least that's what they said and i choose to take them at their word

― league of women voters, Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

piranhanananananananananananananananananananaaaaaaaaaaas

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 16 December 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

This is a great shot of Chicago. It's a view you don't often see. In fact, I had to look at it for a while before I was sure it was Chicago.

http://i.imgur.com/filcn.jpg

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link

certainly not a recent shot

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 16 December 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link

Where is that?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link

It's really compressed, which is probably throwing you off a little.

You're looking south down Franklin. The train is leaving Ogilvie Transportation Center. The black shiny building is Citicorp, and the you can see an El station on Lake St.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link

My guess is Ogilvie Transportation Center, and the street is Clinton (looking south).

― jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link

Oh. Yes, I guess it is Clinton, not Franklin.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link

I was going to guess Ogilvie because it's downtown, there are a lot of Metra trains, and it's not Union Station.

Neat!

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link

xp obv!

― jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link

Wait -- I meant to say "My earlier post was obviously a x-post." I didn't mean to say "Obviously!" as an x-posted retort to Jesse.

― jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link

Your meaning was clear.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link

just got an email about the chicago job. sounds like they really want me - in Louisville. :-/

i'm going to call at 9am and try to persuade them that i'm much more suited for the chicago job (which is true - it involves enviro/energy efficiency work; louisville's is about developing a regional export strategy), but my chances just went down to about 0.42%

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link

fuck. i spent so much time the last few months working on this fucking thing

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link

anyway that picture jesse posted above is beautiful, really miss chicago, hope to return some day

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link

I hope you are able to convince them that Chicago is the place for you! But if you take the job in Louisville, you will be a lot warmer, so there is that.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F33yAP1eW8U

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link

louisville is pretty cool iirc

― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link

you will be near mammoth cave too, so there's that
i'd be pretty excited about that tbh

― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link

Does it do any good to try and contact the CTA about bus complaints? Second time this week I've waited more than 40 minutes for a bus that's supposed to come every 20-22 minutes. Today I finally gave up and took a cab to Howard because I was freezing. Bustracker, which is normally good, was virtually useless today. When I got to the stop it said 43 minutes to next bus, which was obviously not right. Then it jumped down to a more reasonable 20, but every time it got down close to about 10 minutes it jumped back up to 24 or 28.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link

Omg I'm at our closing arguments in federal court & a skunk just walked into the courtroom.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

liveblog the entire experience please

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

The judge banged the gavel and said "ODOR IN THE COURT."

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

zing!

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

Jon- it would be a public service if you contacted them. Who knows how much they pay attention. Maybe contact the blog "Going Public."

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

ZS, that stinks. Louisville is no substitute, but it's pretty.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link

well, i'm not accepting that interview - the job in that position doesn't have anything to do with environment, so it doesn't really get me anywhere.

all of these 5 positions (there's one in the mayor's office in 5 cities) involve taking a big pay cut, so i'm only willing to accept the one that lets me work on energy efficiency (the chicago one). there's still a chance i could get offered an interview for the chicago job. it's just that they're having trouble finding people that have applied that are willing to take the louisville position, so they checked with me to see if i was willing to go for it.

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link

Oh, I don't think that means you're out of the running for Chicago then. I think it just means they are asking everyone they want to hire to please oh please move to fucking Kentucky please. Not "Move to KY or gtfo."

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, that's what i'm hoping. but still, i'm assuming that the competition for the chicago position is most intense. they're trying to identify a "final round" of interviewees that would include 3 people vying for each of the 5 positions. the other cities are atlanta, louisville, memphis and new orleans. i made it to the initial first round of 25 people, but now i'm trying to squeeze into that final 3 for Chicago.

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link

whoa, just got this email yaaaaaaayuh!!

"Dear Zach,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to a final-round interview with M*** N**** for the Bl00mberg Inn0vation D3livery Fellowship in Chicago."

!!!!!!!

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link

Congrats!

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

thanks! although i still have two more people to annihilate in gladiatorial interview combat. i'm hoping i'm the only crazy enough to fly to chicago for an interview in early january!

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

o man, this would be v cool

― v-shasty, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link

i had JUST slugged a high noon-trippel brew when i got that email, too, since i was feeling really dejected and it's my day off. i hope they don't call me in the next few hours!

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

That's awesome!

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

if they called right now i'd be like

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/007/447/hello-yes-this-is-dog.png

hello job

yes, this is dog

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

<3 that meme

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 16 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link

I would drink all of this beers with Z S.

― jaymc, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

^^^ otm

Except I'd probably want him to draw animated gifs on napkins after we had drank all of this beers.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

i think we should carry him around on a throne like ancient mayan king

http://searchforthemaya.com/images/mayandrawing.gif

― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

Amanders can I just say that the notion of someone explaining to you what a churro is = quite hilarious.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link

haha
see that? that's "turkey droppins"

― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

Hello I just wanted to announce that we won a trial!

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link

wooooooooooooooo go law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfe1bX8bII

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

USA! USA! USA!!!!!

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link

Which party was it that we called "Party till you puke"?

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

The Libertarian party?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

Oh - I didn't read Z S's post. Good job, dog. There's a Three Philosophers on me waiting for you when you come here.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link

by the time i get there it's a possibility that my blood may actually contain more than 50% three philosophers! but in case i'm somehow walking and breathing, i'd take you up on that! :)

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link

Sorry, we only serve Malort to out of town guests. But let us know when you're coming and we'll have your shot and your Blagojevich wig waiting.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link

OMG yes. What was I thinking.

Z S, do you know what Malort is?

It's what puts the "puke" in Party Till You Puke.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link

holy shit, i don't need to go near that stuff!

"yeah, i had finally nailed down that interview, bought a suit, everything was going fine until the night before in chicago, had some a few Malort Gimlets and before i knew what was going on i was in milwaukee and it was 4pm the next day

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

no regrets!!

― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

No no. It's not overly strong. It's just very flavorful.

lol @ Malort gimlets

lol/barf

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

The lawyers invited me to go out for drinks after court, location TBD. The court order of closure came through a while ago, which means court is well over and now I'm getting a little bit

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/110321/kaling_211.jpg

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

Oh god, speaking of, we're having some interminable department holiday lunch next week and one of my coworkers is going to be on vacation. Since she would miss the big shindig, her boss said that he would take her out to lunch today. At about 1:00 pm, he packed up his stuff, wished everyone a good weekend, and left without mentioning their lunch plans.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 16 December 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link

They contacted me and i joined them and now there are 2 (welve) Bergopff beers in my gut pouch.

There were a lot of man hugs. The partner of Jackassery, Ltd. who i usually really revile hugged me most and most frequently. He sucks but he did OK today.

I'm not drunk tho and you can tell bc I'm on the Clark bus and not a cab.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link

I'm keyed up and lonely.

Sound tempting? Text me and I'll give you a taste of that jelly.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link

jesse omg
that made me lol

post on my hablamos español thread now pls

― league of women voters, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link

Sí.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 17 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link

R's work holiday party 2nite = open bar/food at HoB

words fail me now to explain the douchey weirdness of the owner/most of the people who work there but it was still pretty fun

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Saturday, 17 December 2011 06:46 (twelve years ago) link

What's HoB? Is that H0m3 B1str0?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 17 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link

house of blues!?

in other news: beautiful snoo!

― league of women voters, Saturday, 17 December 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link

i am listening to this and making to-do lists for the next week
(not writing them on my hand tho)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhTnwcgQvY

― league of women voters, Saturday, 17 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link

It really is lovely snow!

I've been waiting to enjoy this day in my new apartment for a long time!

Though does anyone have advice about how to keep storm windows from steaming up? They are almost completely steamed over and it's impeding my full enjoyment of this snow.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 17 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link

Stop being so hot

― league of women voters, Saturday, 17 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

Open the windows.

― Jeff, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

Stop being so humid.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

JESSE

AMANDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTAtsHh-yc

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 17 December 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link

Truly wonderful.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 17 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

I am a little freaked out by the crawling sloths and the bucket o'sloths, I have to say. I don't want to drown them, necessarily, but I don't think I want to go work at the sloth village, either.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 17 December 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link

that disappoints me quite a bit.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 17 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

Cmon they are ADORABLE. The music is a bit quaint, but they (the sloths) are exemplary.

― league of women voters, Saturday, 17 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

owls in chicago.

http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/ct-met-snowy-owl-20111214,0,6052048.story

― julia, Saturday, 17 December 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link

Those have been spotted on Northerly Island.

― Jeff, Saturday, 17 December 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

that disappoints me quite a bit.

You're right. I'm sorry. I DO want to drown them.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link

We went to see Protomen (lol all ages show, we're home by 9:00) and... they were kind of amazing.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhpectDVQD1qeomrno1_500.jpg

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link

All ages show and Protomen were the second band, I should say. We'd still be there if we stayed for the headline. But instead we came home to watch STAR TREK.

THAT'S RIGHT.

STAR TREK.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbqi9cJ2Hh1qz9muno1_400.gif

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

That picture of the Protomen is not from the Metro, obv, but it was the best representation of their live show, which is very theatrical and kind of bananas.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link

There is a mid-20s, normal, clean cut guy on this brown train carrying an half-drunk 1500 ml bottle of red wine. Just sat down, stretched and yawned loudly and amiably.

Now he's drinking from the bottle and muttering.

Point is: Incongruous look + behavior.

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link

Then there's the late 40s guy who looks totally normal, except he rode and got off alone with two empty strollers.

― Sandbox Jesse, Sunday, 18 December 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link

I am stocking up on tea, orange juice, vitamin C, and airborne (even if those things dont work at all) today in the efforts of being the only one not sick at our house. The little one has croup and I can honestly say that hearing those coughs come out of your kid is frightening as hell.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link

Is the croup a specific thing or a name for a bad cough?

Even though I know there is no evidence that loading up on vitamin c or echinacea etc does any good, I do it anyway. (though actually maybe echinacea does something since doctors warn people with immunity problems to avoid it)

Anyway, good luck.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link

Its specific, but ultimately little more than a really horrible sounding cough. Its one of those things that sounds worse than it really is, because even in the middle of one his most horrifying sounding coughs last night, he was smiling and laughing about all the attention we were giving him.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link

da croupier

― jaymc, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link

Sadly enough that display name did pop into my head at the doctor's office early yesterdau morning.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link

sarah's mom came into town ahead of them leaving for DC this morning, but she has had bronchitis so now i'm paranoid that one of us will get bronchitis. i was awake for about an hour at 3 a.m. because she was coughing in our living room and every time she coughed it sounded like someone firing a shotgun.

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link

people please stop being sick, thanks

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link

i am also getting sick today. sore throat/cough. :-/

btw i am just pretending i live in chicago now, hope that's ok

― Z S, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link

that's cool. we've had other regulars in these threads who don't actually live in chicago.

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link

Speaking of which -- where has Jordan been lately?

― jaymc, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

(o not 0)

― jaymc, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I actually haven't lived in the city for 4 years now.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link

evanston counts imo

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

or wait... skokie? waukegan? wisconsin?

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

it doesn't look like Jordan's been on ILX much at all recently, I know he's doing a lot of music stuff (as usual).

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

Airborne is just a fizzy, drinkable version of Vit C.

My fave cold avoidance strategy besides washing my hands like an OCD sufferer is that at the first sign of getting stuffy, I take Sudafed (the real kind). It keeps my head clear and (gross alert) prevents my ears from getting clogged up, which seems to be the trick in avoiding ear infections, which is pretty much the endgame for any cold I catch.

Also, I think I'm going to resurrect whiskey and honey as a cough remedy now that I've read numerous articles about how cough medicine doesn't actually do anything and thus ruined the placebo effect. Might as well just knock I myself out.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

you should read the new yorker article about the placebo effect and how placebos work even if you know they're placebos as long as you believe in the placebo effect. then the placebo effect will be restored.

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

the next time jordan is in chicago i am going to make sure to go to his show. does anyone know when that is?

also, i am in ohio, whee

jenny, also whiskey tastes waaaay better than cough syrup -- skip the honey and do it up right

― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link

i believe in the placebo effect and i do believe i read that article
it's why i can drink whiskey when i have a cold instead of increasing my zinc ions or w/e

― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

^^^

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

Cough drops help, too. Placebo or glycerin/Mentho-Lyptus WHO KNOWS. And DON'T TELL ME. Because I can't do shots of whiskey at work.

My office is full of zinc pushers and I don't want to be all "SCIENCE SAYS THAT IS NONSENSE" but I also get tired of politely declining their zinc donations every time I sneeze.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link

Placebos working really depends on how you define "work".

― Jeff, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

Belief or not.

― Jeff, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

the last shit-cold I had, about a month ago, gave me a whole new appreciation for hot toddies with lots of lemon and honey

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

evanston counts imo

Yeah, Evanston.

That New Yorker article was pretty interesting.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

i don't like it hot though
room temp toddy pls

― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

Well a "room temperature toddie" just doesn't sound as inviting, tbh.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

to me it does!

― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

i find hot liquor kind of repulsive
mulled wine, etc

― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

I like Glogg, but I was kind of ho-hum on the warm sake I had the other night. (Chilled is better, IMO.)

― jaymc, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

Had Glogg at Simon's on Friday after some xmas shopping and it was suitably festive.

Today is my last day before we leave for Connecticut and trying to care about work is proving to be very difficult.

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

breaking: i'm flying into chicago wednesday night, interviewing thursday (and up for a fap anytime after!), megabusing to st. louis on friday morning.

― Z S, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

Good luck with the interview! Wish I could FAP, but I will be driving to Ann Arbor Thursday night, weather permitting.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

I am getting my hair done, which feels like a vain endeavor that I should gladly cast aside in favor of fellowship and libations but if I reschedule I won't be able to get another apt for at least a month and lord, you should see my roots now.

If y'all go somewhere nearby, I will stop by after.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

Which is code for "Jesse, organize this at Delilah's."

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

whoa, good luck with the interview Z!

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

i miiiiiiiiight be able to FAP on Thursday depending on how prepared i am to leave on friday (mainly how clean my apartment is).

i would be willing to do delilah's

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

good luck ZS!

― julia, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ct-books-chicago-favorites-2011,0,6237753,full.story

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

Z, where are you staying? Do you want to meet at Delilah's? It's right by Jenny's house, so you should just crash at her place.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

Delilah's http://g.co/maps/t7rdt

Where are you staying?

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

i'll most likely be staying with a friend around Logan Square for Thursday night, but i still need to ask about that!

― Z S, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link

Hey, my neighborhood! You guys should hang out there, there are cabs now.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

(good luck Z)

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

that list just seems like "every book published by a chicago-area author (except amanda's husband) in 2011"

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

i'm flexible on time and location for a thursday night fap. it looks like Delilah's is pretty close to where i'm staying anyway, but if people want to try another place that's cool too.

SO NERVOUS

― Z S, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link

Delilah's is convenient to Logan Square and if it gets Jenny there, I'd vote for it (it's right across the street from Jenny's beauty parlor).

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

I'm going to be in MN so idgaf really, have fun!

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

Good luck, by the way.

There are more cabs in Logan Square than there used to be, possibly. The trendy restaurants have attracted more of them. Dan, your mention of it reminded me of something I know I told Katie, but I don't remember if I mentioned elsewhere.

One Sunday evening this spring, I left Katie's house, and because of the Diversey bus' ABSURD Sunday night schedule (stops running between the lake and Logan Square Blue line at 8 p.m. Sunday nights), I was stuck at Logan Square. I wandered and waited at the CTA stop for 1/2 hour and there were no cabs, so I called one to pick me up at Diversey and Kedzie. When I got in the cab, he said "What are you doing here??" I told him I was visiting a friend, to which he responded that "You are a very good friend if you come here," and then went on talking about cab drivers not liking that area.

As much shit as I've talked about Logan Square, I was really surprised at that guy's opinions. At the Square itself, there are a lot of bars and restaurants that would bring people to the area, and it wasn't like he was picking me up in front of a smoldering crack house.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link

Not to mention the fact that I'm brown. It's not like he was picking up an Hitler's wet dream.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

Though what do I know about Hitler's wet dreams. Maybe he creamed his lederpajamas over young brown studs like me.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link

yeah I think you told that story, that cab driver is a tard

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link

USPS LOLz

As I was leaving for lunch at ~ 1:15, the line for the PO in my building was out the door and around the corner by the entrance to the GNC (so like half a block long). There was ONE cashier, and before her stood a man yelling (I could hear him as I walked past the open door) and waving his arms frantically.

On the way back from lunch, the line was out the door of the PO but no longer curled around by the GNC. There were two cashiers.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link

I've been forced to go to the Post Office twice in the past few days, and, yeah, it's been crazy. But I prepared myself (girded my loins, if you will) as best as I could and it was okay.

― well in (advance johnson), Monday, 19 December 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

I was just on hold w/ our credit card company and this song was playing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFQZyxxyyM

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

I just sneezed something terrifying onto my sleeve. HI!

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 19 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

work is nuts today, what's up with that

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

otm, I'm hoping all week won't be this bad, but I'm betting it will. Things get so hectic just before the holidays.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

it's so unpredictable when things are going to suddenly get crazy at this job. no rhyme or reason.

living the bachelor life for the next few days.

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link

my work is ridic too, but I'm taking like 6 days off so it's not that surprising

still I could do w/o this headache and the prospect of staying until 6

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

there's nothing like explaining something to four adults and then 5 minutes later eavesdropping as they try to puzzle out how to do the thing you just explained to them

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

lol

I'm struggling with a deadline for a project on Tuesday the 3rd. This deadline was chosen long ago by our clients so we're kind of stuck with it, but its turning into a nightmare because, for whatever reason, our firm is giving us Friday the 30th off but not Monday the 2nd. So we're here that day, but all our consultants on the project are off.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

if i can just straight-up be a dick for a second, there are too many olds trying to figure out databases in the library today

― n/a, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link

My work is extremely slow, as it always is around the holidays. Which is great, after the ridiculous 2 months we've had around here. And Liggy mentioned in passing that she was going to give herself and me bonuses. Hoping the Jerkstore firm is feeling generous after last week's trial victory and the hundreds of billable hours we put into it last month.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link

if I'm gonna be here past 5PM I am eating several holiday theme packaged york peppermint patties

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 19 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link

That is fair.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 19 December 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link

when sarah's out of town i watch lots of movies. last night i was really wiped out so i watched "scream." it was funny how many times they talk about the "cellular phone" in that movie. then last night and this morning i watched the david hyde pierce-starring horror/thriller/black comedy "a perfect host," which was pretty ridiculous but had some funny stuff in the middle and a complete unnecessary twist in the last 20 minutes.

― n/a, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link

jesse, z_s, et al - any idea for a time to meet at delilah's on thursday?

― n/a, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

So we are having lunch brought in today to celebrate the wedding of a coworker, which is super cool and so glad for free lunch. But we get an email five minutes before it starts saying, "please provide your own beverages". Except, we don't have a fridge to keep drinks in or vending machines anywhere in our building, so we'll all be stuck with water. How hard is it to plan to have beverages too when you get food catered?

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

What kind of beverages were you expecting? (I just drink coffee and water at work, but maybe that's just me.)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link

I typically drink water too, but like if we have an outside lunch presentation they usually bring a narrow selection of like sodas and juices. I'm weird, but I don't like drinking water with meals since I drink so much of it throughout the day.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

I think it's reasonable to offer soda with a catered work lunch if you work at a for-profit, private sector place.

Linguists and language enthusiasts: I would like to talk about leaving the object off prepositional phrases beginning with "with." Examples: Do you want to come with? Just bring it with.

Specific questions: Where do people say this? My childhood BFF's PA Dutch grandmom said it all the time. Why have I started saying this now that I live in Chicago?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

I feel like I've heard that all over the place, really. I mean, I don't think I could pin it to a certain demographic without paying closer to attention to who says it.

I can say for 100% certain that the quickest way to annoy my wife is to end a sentence like that, particularly with "at".

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link

Sentences ending in a superfluous "at" make me crazy. Just leave off the at!

The "come with" is a sin of ommission.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

NICK: I don't care. It will be at ZS's convenience, I suppose.

ZS: Report to Chicago thread, plzs.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

I mean, I work on Thursday, so probably 6 at the earliest.

jaymc, are you joining us?

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

Why have I started saying this now that I live in Chicago?

I am pretty sure this is a Chicago/Midwestern thing.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

jaymc, are you joining us?

Possibly. I haven't decided yet.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/tribu/ct-tribu-words-work-midwest-20101208,0,2295075.story

Which brings us to "come with," probably the most common example of Midwest speak. "I'm going for coffee. You want to come with?" (Also works for "bring with," "go with" and most verbs indicating movement.)
John Spartz, assistant professor in the department of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, explored the famous phrase in his PhD dissertation: "Do You Want to Come With?: A Cross-dialectal, Multi-field, Variationist Investigation of With as a Particle Selected By Motion Verbs in The Minnesota Dialect of English."
He says "come with" can be traced to the upper Midwest's heavily German, Norwegian, Swedish and Dutch roots.
"Basically these immigrants landed here, and in learning English took some of the nuances of their languages and mapped them on to English," Spartz says. "There are some super technical linguistic reasons that happened, but essentially the phrase is prevalent in a variety of those languages so it makes sense that it would find its way into English as well."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link

interesting graphical representations of a few different 'hoods

http://www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/

― v-whiney (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

John, thank you. That is interesting.

I am finding it kind of fascinating how the designer focuses on the present for some of the neighborhoods and the past for others. I don't aesthetically like all of the logo designs, but it's a really neat project.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah those are interesting, although I'd kind of like to see a couple different designers take this project on, if only to get some alternate views on what they'd come up with.

― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link

That would be cool.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link

jesse, z_s, et al - any idea for a time to meet at delilah's on thursday?

sorry, today's been insane, just now getting online. i'm with jesse, i'm flexible. but in general, the earlier the better for me. i'm finishing up interview stuff around 3 to 4pm, and will probably just kill time shopping and hanging out wherever until we meet up because the friends that i'm staying with won't get home from work until later in the evening.

― Z S, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link

Me and my hair will be ready to board the party train at 7:45 so just text me if you're all still around and I'll come over.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link

I couldn't get there until like 5:30-6 at the earliest.

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link

how about we just say 7pm?

― Z S, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link

Sounds good to me

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link

OK, I think I should be able to stop by at least. I may be going out after work with coworkers, but I can easily hit up Delilah's on the way home.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link

7:00 p.m. at Delilah's. I will be there, forcing Malort down Zach's face hole.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link

They don't have food, huh. They're going to have a DJ playing Otis Redding and Sam Cooke songs though. That's nice.

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe Sam can "Cooke" you some food.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

If Delilah's is too loud or whatever we have 1 bajillion other options, by the way.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

Other options w/in a block or two: Witts, Paddy Longs, Racine Plumbing*, Rocks Lincoln Park*, Rose's**.

*High likelihood of dudebro clientele.
**No food.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

Racine Plumbing? Is that really a bar?

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

Yes it is.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

Paddy Longs is selling Malort t-shirts now fyi guys

― v-whiney (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

sorry if hueg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/385039_10150457429909631_30053384630_8399889_2123075572_n.jpg

― v-whiney (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

I want to try Delilah's at least, if it sucks we can meander over somewhere else.

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link

Totes. I just like contingency plans.

So what are we going to do if there's an unexpected, sudden, and apocalyptic blizzard while we're at Delilah's?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

If I didn't live in Chicago, I would totally want a Malort shirt. I would kind of feel like a tool wearing it around here, though.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Plain_white_t

― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

What is our contingency plan if the DJ plays the song "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

Answer: burn down Lincoln Park.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

JOHN: have you heard/read about Tha Grimm Teachaz album? It's supposedly a lost rap album recorded for a major label but shelved in 1993, recently rediscovered and rereleased. In reality it's Serengeti and a couple of other dudes doing straight 1993-style rap (like Cypress Hill/early Wu-Tang) and it's also the origin story the Serengeti character who does "Dennehy." all the cultural references are circa the early 1990s and the guest rappers are old dudes who were rapping at the time, like son doobie. It's pretty fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jY5TRfNi7Y

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link

you can also stream the album on bandcamp and they have a bunch of videos on youtube

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

I think I read about it but haven't heard -- thx for the tip!

― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link

i don't know if it'll be your thing but thought you might be amused by the dennehy connection

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link

A vendor gave me a gift bag that included this toy beach chair, in which, per Jenny's request, I am letting my Wite Out relax.

http://i.imgur.com/iLSnc.jpg

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link

wow that's a large image. sorry.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link

Your White Out has never looked happier. It's positively glowing!

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link

Ah, the beach chair is for a cell phone, according to the rep's email.

Her email tone was weird. It almost sounds flirty.

Thank you so much for taking a moment out of your busy day this morning to meet with me! It was a pleasure chatting with you for a bit in the conference room. I hope you’ll get good use from the Starbucks card. I seem to need that caffeine fix right after lunch…and then again at 3pm… I hope your cell phone is in your little beach chair too!

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link

I think our boss just gave us off on Friday!!!

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link

Merry Christmas!

― Sandbox Jesse, Thursday, 22 December 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link

Haha yeah! I love Jesus now!

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, 22 December 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link

we get out at 3 on friday which is cool except i'm flying out of ohare at 8 and was planning to go straight from work to the airport. i don't want to come home because it's more awkward to get to ohare from my house. so i guess i'll go to a museum or a movie or wander around wicker park for a little bit.

― n/a, Thursday, 22 December 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link

i feel surprisingly good this morning, aside from a little tired. i went to the diner near my house this morning and had an omelet and potatoes, which i think helped.

― n/a, Friday, 23 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link

I was tired and headachey this morning, but I drank some coffee and that helped. Now I just want to go home. Also I'm annoyed at how obscenely productive I'm being today. I have churned out more work this morning than I sometimes finish in two days.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 23 December 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link

I made it through without a trace of a hangover. I could go for a nap, but that's no different from any day.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

I think the plan for the rest of the day is:

Shower
Take shirts to cleaners
Haircut
Sit at the neat little locally-owned tea shop and organize my Firefox bookmarks.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

i'm eating a chipotle burrito. i decided that i will go straight to o'hare when i get out at 3 and gamble on trying to get put on an earlier flight. it's too cold outside to wander around.

― n/a, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

I'm bored. Who is in town this weekend? I want to do some shit. I want to see people and I want to see life.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 23 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

Jesse: me too! We could do that kind of thing together, if you would have any part of that.

― Kenan, Friday, 23 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

Heaven help, my parents gave my grandmother a laptop and set up an email account for her for Christmas.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 23 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link

I'm at Ohare and through security 3.5 hours before my departure time. My flight doesnt even have a gate yet. But there's a semi competent lite jazz band playing Xmas carols.

― n/a, Friday, 23 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link

And directly across from the band, seats with electrical outlets!

― n/a, Friday, 23 December 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

This band is not very good.

― n/a, Friday, 23 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

Oh shit they're doing a seriously awful blues jam now. I guess they didn't learn enough Christmas songs.

― n/a, Friday, 23 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link

Ask if you can sit in and then

http://www.imedebe.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/marty27.jpg

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 23 December 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

AND THEN STEAL THEIR BANDWIDTH

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link

Haha, it took a minute for me to figure out that the image had been replaced. V. funny with the wrong one. What was the image supposed to be?

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 24 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link

Kenan, what are you up for? I may not want to drink? Email me.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 24 December 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

It was Michael J Fox totally shredding in the prom scene from Back to the Future.

My mother sent us six pounds of scrapple for Christmas.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 24 December 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

BAND WITH THEFT

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link

hey if any of you dingalings want to go with me to ikea tomorrow around 11 (date and time not negotiable) lemme know
i'm driving there anyway, might as well have some company

― league of women voters, Monday, 26 December 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link

We are at Maria's in Bridgeport and it is everything I hoped for and more. Also I might be drunk.

Amanda how was Ikea? Normally I'd be on that invitation but we were just there not too long ago.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 26 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link

Oh hey I added TWO SONGS to the spread sheet.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 26 December 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

It was fine! Not too busy, no traffic, and I got exactly what I wanted. Now my records have a slightly more dignified home.

― league of women voters, Monday, 26 December 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

Expedit?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 26 December 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

yup, what other options do i have? it's tons better than what i was using before.

― league of women voters, Monday, 26 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link

We have two! It's a delightfully versatile and cheap piece of furniture.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 26 December 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link

And we don't have any records.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Monday, 26 December 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link

i have one of your records and i cherish it

before today we were using this "coffee table" i made for dan for his 25th birthday to hold the stereo -- and knowing me, you know that tables/precision work/carpentry is not my strong suit. it was ridiculously conceived, painted red and aqua, and covered in superman comics and that lacquer people use to make decoupage or cover the wood on a bar. still, we've been using this monstrosity to hold the stereo for all this time.

today, on this very day, we have graduated to expedit.

― league of women voters, Monday, 26 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link

i realize that the superman table is an object of love, but i'm tired of looking at it and wondering if it's ever going to collapse. still, not going to pitch it, don't worry.

― league of women voters, Monday, 26 December 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, Kr is throwing up tons of pictures of us from the wedding. My nap was interrupted by a fury of iPhone alerts of being tagged.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 26 December 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link

guys my sister is going to be in chicago for a few days later this week, with old college pals: what should she do???

― river wolf, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link

Dance like no one is watching and judging her clothing choices.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link

Maria's in Bridgeport

xp lolollllll

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link

lol

rw, what is she into, where is she staying, etc?

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link

Also, you know the town, so I guess you're asking for special events, new discoveries?

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

well i was pretty terrible at doing chicago-stuff while i lived there, i just hung with pals and went to bars, so i dunno??

― river wolf, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, Kr is throwing up tons of pictures of us from the wedding. My nap was interrupted by a fury of iPhone alerts of being tagged.

Argh -- sorry about that. It was actually me. I had no idea it would sent multiple notifications to each taggee.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link

I will think about what I would do. Is she going to be on her own?

A cop in front of Water Tower Place just remarked to another cop "it's like fuckin Ford City out here tonight." I can't think what that might mean besides that there were large numbers of black people pouring out the doors at closing time.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link

Xp its fine, I just wondered where all the pictures went.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

rw i don't know what your sister should do -- i would probably just send her to time out or the reader and look for things that are interesting to her. if she's hanging out with gal pals, she probably isn't like TOURISM, so they will have the resources to figure out how much or little they want to do while they're here.

― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link

also guys? totally going to this tonight, pls join if you feel you would enjoy it

Free with admission, takes place in MCA theater
J.R. Robinson is a Chicago-based sound artist who works under the name Wrekmeister Harmonies. He has exhibited his videos in numerous museums. Robinson screens his video, "You've Always Meant So Much To Me," and conducts a live score that is sonically similar to ambient black metal. Several renowned artists participating in this performance include Jef Whitehead (Leviathan), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors), Bruce Lamont, Sanford Parker (Twilight), Stavros Giannopolous (Atlas Moth) and Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded) as well as a string section and harpist.

― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

I remember seeing bloodyminded back at the wire fest several years ago. All of his songs were really short.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

Hey, I'm back in DC now but I meant to say thank you to everyone who came out last Thursday! It was a lot of fun, and Delilah's was a great choice. Hopefully I'll land some sort of job and move out there soon.

― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

now his songs are really long! or at least the band he has been singing with. i think this is going to be a pretty great show, and also FREE and AT 6PM and AT AN ART MUSEUM.

― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link

Hi ZS - it was really good to meet you. Good luck with the job. I assume no word yet?

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

likewise, Jesse. Officially, I find out on January 9th. So I have to wait a few weeks. But I'm hoping that I'll get unofficial word a little sooner? I'm not really sure what to expect.

― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

sorry i missed you ZS -- i was all over the place last week, lotsa miles logged
i have yet to be present when someone gets the malort treatment. how is that possible?

― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

double malort treatment. i was so malorted that i was coerced into buying a second round of malort. stockholm syndrome!

― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

You INSISTED on the second Malort!

Also, you tried to be a hero for the first round, so the second one taught you what's what.

TBF, the first round was not nearly as gross as I remembered.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

wait, how did i try to be a hero for the first round? as i remember, i accepted the malort with cautious humility and downed it in an appropriate fashion.

― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

You weren't duly fazed by it.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

then i wasn't trying to be a hero, it's just who i am

^to be read in the voice of Sawyer from LOST

― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

I could really go for a burger + fries from the Billy Goat. It's too far to walk today.

― Sandbox Jesse, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link

Hello. My #8 bus is lost. We are goin north on Lasalle. Just passed Oak St.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link

We are loooooosssssttttter than fuck.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link

Now we are out of space and time.

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link

There's a reroute for the #8 but that doesn't seem quite right...

Has anyone alerted the driver?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link

The reroute(in effect since December 2010 (are you Jensplaining??)) is supposed to leave Halsted by going west on North Branch, across Goose Island, East on Division, then back on route.

There might have been A re-reroute, bc the driver said we were going east on Chicago, on Larrabee, etc, but she couldn't fun Larrabee and now we are

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link

OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED???!?!?!?

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link

Poop, I thought the reroute would be over this December. I was looking forward to the treat of a slightly shorter commute, but instead they have just re-rerouted.

Temporary Reroute
Route(s):
#8 Halsted

Length:
Friday, December 23, 2011 - 5:00 AM
to Monday, April 30, 2012 - 6:00 PM

Why is service being changed?
Buses are rerouted due to reconstruction of the Halsted Street Bridge over the North Branch of the Chicago River (847 N. Halsted).

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link

I JUST WANT MY LIFE BACK

― Sandbox Jesse, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link

That metal thing at the art museum was so great! I only wish the video had been as interesting as the music but guess what - you can't have it all, especially not at that price.

― league of women voters, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link

bump

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link

lovely lady bump

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link

Oh hey, there's a new pizza place next door on Diversey. It's called Pizza Persona, and I don't recommend it.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

I considered biking across the new bridge yesterday. Is it open to Chicago Ave now?

― tanuki, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

a. The pizza is really not good. It's all quasi-personal-sized (10" I think) thin crust pizzas, which is fine. But the crust is not good, and the toppings were sparse and not great. It's cheap though, so I guess if you need calories but are short on cash - well no, if that's the case, just go to McDonald's.

xp - No, I don't think so! I was going to mention that - a while back a cabbie told me that they were going to be repairing/replacing *all* of the bridges and viaducts on Halsted, and that's what they're doing. The one that goes over the south branch is now under construction. :(

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link

I saw a car driving down it the other day and was thus confused. The bike lanes look nice.

― tanuki, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link

I went to the planetarium yesterday and saw Jupiter through a giant telescope. It ruled.

― league of women voters, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

(D and I went for our <3 anniversary <3)

― league of women voters, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

ha - I sneezed while reading LL and Corey's posts and it looked like "I saw a car and Jupiter driving down it the other day."

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link

Pizza persona looks annoying. I will never eat there.

― Jeff, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

"discover your pizzanality"

― tanuki, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

I ordered The Hipster by name and it didn't feel good to do so.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

Courtney and I ate there. Her opinion was that it was actually the worst pizza she'd ever eaten.

It was bad enough that we went and ate a second lunch at Noodles & Co., which has yet to let anyone down.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

what do you guys think about this dramatic caveman illustration?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6588560541_beec6eaf7b.jpg

― league of women voters, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link

(it's from a book about ancient humans)

― league of women voters, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link

i think i want that book about ancient humans

― Z S, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link

i've always really loved the artwork in this book and i finally got around to scanning it
this is one of my favorite images
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6588562073_750453f586.jpg

this is the cover
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6588603327_918a4974e2.jpg

― league of women voters, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

is all of the text on that burnt sienna background? that's awesome, if so. very primordial.

― Z S, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

yep. it's all red, white, and black. for an otherwise purely informative series nonfiction book about cavepeople, it's remarkably arty!

marek, our protagonist caveman, is wearing a bear pelt/corpse in that illustration btw

― league of women voters, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

Very nice.

― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link

I'm on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

― n/a, Friday, 30 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link

I'm on the Brown line.

― Jeff, Friday, 30 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

writing a dress code policy woo-hoo

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

10 minutes left until we close woo-hoo

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

Make it so everyone must wear a clever hat on Tuesdays.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

"Socks must match, except on alternating Thursdays, when socks are prohibited."

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link

T-shirts strictly forbidden, unless they bear the logo of 1) the library or 2) Big Johnson.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link

It would be wonderful to make the policy extremely convoluted and absurd. Though I guess technically it's not a policy but a clarification of a policy.

― well in (advance johnson), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link

loljenny

― v-whiney (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Saturday, 31 December 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link

things i need to do, but cannot manage to do so far yet today:

-- laundry
-- produce market shopping
-- washing the dog
-- changing out of my head-to-toe green loungewear outfit
-- going outside
-- combing my hair

I did manage to take a shower and eat lunch.

― league of women voters, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link

i look like a tired snowpea.

― league of women voters, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

I haven't combed my hair today either. Or gone outside or done laundry but tbf I didn't have very high aspirations today re: activity.

Fixing to make a roast chicken, sweet potatoes, and collards, though.

― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 1 January 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link

Yo, real ilx is back.

― Jeff, Monday, 2 January 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link

It's not loading.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 2 January 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link

never mind, it finally loaded.

― Sandbox Jesse, Monday, 2 January 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link

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