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Oh, I like Skia too.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 2 September 2006 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't do Optima anymore, just because it's the Planned Parenthood font, so it makes me think of condoms. I like "Extra Black" sans fonts. Frutiger, Univers, and the classic Futura.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

This is on my corkboard at work. Which is where I am, BTW.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/xtrabold.gif

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 2 September 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Solar Anus rocks.

― Jeff, Saturday, 2 September 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Kenan, I asked Jeff because he's a big font geek. I didn't know you were too, but I am 100% certain of it now.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 2 September 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

You'll find a lot of these quasi-primitive, aboriginal culturey woodcuts if you spend much time in worker justice offices.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 2 September 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Happy labor day, comrades!

I went to Jewel without a bra on this morning. It's the dawning of a new area of grocery shopping while inappropriately dressed.

Man alive, Jeff cleaned all the cat hair out of his keyboard yesterday and it types like a dream now. That's kind of disgusting.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey are we here or on the other ILX? I'm lost and a little bit confused.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

yay

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

AAAHHHHhhhhh. That's more like it.

― Laurel, Monday, 16 October 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

What? What's more like it? ILX IS STILL DOWN!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but at least we can bitch about it here!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

If ILX being down had got you down, calm yourself with the soothing sounds of Robbie Dupree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qyzlWRbCtU

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Greetings patriots. Armando Grouse, at your service, offering a full apology to Laurel for not being able to hang with her this weekend. I was busy dancing my feet off and losing my digital camera. :(((

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not happy about that last bit at all.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

so,um, how was everyone's weekend?

i kinda went to a party friday. went to ronny's saturday night, dan martin was there as was a pig carcass. i tore pig ribs off said carcass with my bare hands and had the most savagely satisfying pork for pizza ever. went to a 4 o'clock bar around 2:30 and walked into a bachelorette party. the 4:00 bar was still serving me at 4:30, i left around 5, saw a rat run across chicago avenue. ate bacon, eggs and pancakes at a diner at chicago and western around 5:30 with polish day laborers and 2 drunk girls. one was named april and she was very chatty. that night i had a dream about santa claus. sunday i slept in, watched football, then burned 3 albums to put on my itunes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I do find myself oddly soothed by the sounds of Robbie Dupree, though.

and had the most savagely satisfying pork for pizza ever.
well done!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Armando: no denying it would have been good to see you, but I didn't really expect to (so the disappointment was bearable). xoxoxo Hoorah for dancing! I was in no shape to get up on Saturday, anyway, seeing as how I fell asleep on the C train and went to the end of the line and back, getting home around 5am. The funny thing is that it wasn't really that bad!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Widget of the day

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I got your message about falling asleep on the train, but I figured that you were in good enough shape to write it which must mean that you're safe at home and alright. I am really hoping to be back to Brooklyn as soon as I can so I will see you then FO SHO. I am just now recovering from Saturday night. I was not only UP but OUT until 5:30AM. We went to O'C's after the wedding and that may or may not be where I lost the camera. I definitely helped buy new shoes for the Smirnoff children this weekend.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Awww, I like O'Cs and I would have been happy to show up on Saturday...I stayed in only because Noize events were taking place in Wburg and I didn't feel like treking up there. OH WELL. Will yr friends be checking for the camera? O'Cs is quite close to me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

What is OC's?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm hoping against hope it's a bar dedicated to carrol o'connor.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I went there yesterday before we went to the airport and there was nothing. We looked around with the flashlight but nothing came up. The only hope now is the car service, but YEAH RIGHT. So I just have to take my lumps and accept that I stupidly lost my camera.

xp - O'Connor's. A bar where the groom used to bartend.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

went to a 4 o'clock bar around 2:30

Wait, this wasn't the Underbar was it?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

no, wound up at the continental.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

O RLY?

http://brainylady.blogspot.com/continental.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.planet99.com/pix/16653_1.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to have band practice right near there.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I have been to Feed. It is good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, I just misplaced a pencil behind my ear for, like, 15 whole minutes. I even went into the supply closet to get a new one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Chicago is so weird -- there's a grassy empty field right next to that building?? Would never happen here, the lot would either be built up or else desolate and filthy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i love feed, if it had been open at 2:30 in the morning you can bet your ass i would've been in there with a quarter chicken and some mac and cheese in front of me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

laurel, there are a lot of empty lots around there. that's pretty much the northern edges of where chicago burned down during the king riots of '68 and for the most part the lots have been vacant ever since. it's kind of weird around california and lake because every other lot is vacant then there'll be this stunning louis sullivan building or something like the honeymoon apartments that frank lloyd wright designed.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, monday morning.

This morning haze hasn't burned off yet, even after two cups of coffee. I don't knw what else to do. Maybe I should eat something? Or will that just make me sleepy? Only one way to find out...

I think the grassy emptiness might be part of the rail yard...?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Nevermind. Not rail yard. Just empty lot.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

and it is pretty desolate and filthy, you just can't see it with the weeds growing in the lot. that's a great area though, "up and coming" as they say. the clipper is two blocks away, humboldt pie across the way, humboldt park right there, ronny's 12 blocks away...

xpost- no, there used to be a building there, i think the foundation is still there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a weird area. I once had to walk past there because the North Side pound is just a block or two south on California, and it did feel pretty desolate.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

At least I hear the gang activity has calmed down a lot on the west side.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the rest of the Continental building looks pretty dark and sad, then there's the contrast of what looks like a nice, evenly green space next door! Plus in NYC the buildings would hardly ever be ONLY one or two stories tall. Funny -- I've never been to the outlying parts of Chicago, and now that I only know Bklyn it's super weird to go to other cities. Baltimore was equally odd, although I'm aware that statistically Brooklyn is probably the anomaly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

But see, you're seeing an anomaly for the city of Chicago. It's this weird dead zone. Most of Chicago is a lot like Brooklyn, actually.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Laurel, are you still coming to Chicago?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

It's this weird dead zone.

yeah, that's kind of an understatement. i almost moved over there almost 2 years ago, there was a place north of chicago on fairfield. landlord was teh hott and she lived upstairs. awesome place but i found a better deal on augusta later that week.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Kenan, I don't know. My autumn weekends are suddenly filled up with either other things or my boss being out (so I can't overlap). Looks like pre- or post-Thanksgiving is the soonest I could manage. Will people besides the Jammermans still be in town?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i won't be in town the first full week of november.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, first wkend of Nov is when my parents are coming HERE, so that week was out. Or did you mean December, Kevin?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be around until Christmas.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i will be out of town the 6th through the 10th.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

november 6-10.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

What is up, dudes. This weekend I:

--Partied in Oshkosh on Friday night, really overdid and had to play a parade + two sets on Saturday morning with a crushing hangover.

--Made a bacon veggieburger

--Saw horrible, horrible hip-hop band from Mpls and had to leave

--Watched the first half of the Battlestar Metallica mini-series. You're all right it is good stuff.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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