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Yeah -- he's alright. Apparently he was on the last train that made it to Chicago before things got all messed up, but he was trapped underground for the better part of an hour. Scary.

In other news, I think I have some sort of wrist problem! It has hurt severely for days now. I made doc appt. I feel old and creaky.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. How so?

I said I was calling in sick for the morning, but then I hedged and mumbled something about car trouble. I should know by now that my boss is a nice guy but he's strictly by the book, and you must be SICK to take a sick day. He was all "well, accounting doesn't allow you to use that time for anything other than being sick, so...".

Basically I'm forced to lie so he has plausible deniability, I guess, not that anyone would ever question it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Like that time I couldn't use a sick day when I missed my flight out of New Orleans, but if I had been SICK and missed my flight it would've been cool.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Personally speaking, I was unprepared for the snow because the first snowfall of the year wasn't just a light dusting, it was a serious fucking snowfall -- and also because IT WAS IN THE MID-60s ON TUESDAY.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

In a way, laziness is a sickness.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Better dose up the lazy people with Lyproxin, or Epetrex in a pinch. These drugs have been specifically designed to cure laziness with a mininum of side effects.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

omg i just got an email from a student telling me that she can't come to class tomorrow. she signed it

"west wishes"

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.midlandmemorabilia.co.uk/IMAGES/ADAM%20WEST%20SIGNED%20PHOTO.JPG

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, i'm going to the bookstore to do some xmas shopping and i'll be picking up a book for myself, anyone reading anything that's knocked their socks off? blown wind up their skirt? otherwise affected their clothing?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/movie/img/photos/photo5.jpg

West wishes, my pretties!

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I am thoroughly enjoying BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. Also good: Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America and Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950.

Wow. I can't wait for break and fiction.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Death in the Haymarket and Radical Unionism in the Midwest are two different books. Sorry.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I am bored with that Simon Reynolds book. So I went to the library the other day and got THE RULES OF ATTRACTION by BRET EASTON ELLIS and THE BLIND ASSASSIN by MARGARET ATWOOD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i almost bought death in the haymarket last time i was at the bookstore! when i was an everyday green line rider i used to look for the spot of the riot on my trips into the loop, it's a parking lot now. :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

THE BLIND ASSASSIN is partially on the recommendation of that bartender at that one bar that I met Jeff and Jenny at before we went to Hema's Kitchen with those people, you know the dude who looks like Tom Cruise? But remember the bartender who was like quoting Margaret Atwood poems at us?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep meaning to read The Blind Assassin. I just bought the new Richard Powers novel, The Echo Maker.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

That just won the National Book Award, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

yes! I've been so out of the (contemporary) fiction loop I hadn't even realized he had a new novel.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Where's Jesse? I had a dream about him last night where he brought a witch* into our house to do cocaine in our bathroom but I was trying to take a bath, sort of, or just make a tub full of non-newtonian fluid with baking soda and water (I was trying to walk on the bath water but kept failing) and our landlord, or a representative of the property company anyway, was hanging out in our living room and suggested that maybe we shouldn't let Jesse stay with us anymore if he was going to bring witches over to do coke in the bathroom.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoops.

* http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/4690/serenacz3.jpg

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

For Laurel, if you haven't already seen it (though I suspect you probably have).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I had not, despite the fact that one of our books is reviewed in it! Esp like the end bit re GOODNIGHT, MOON. She's right.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, we had a huge house party and I ran into this guy I used to have a big old crush on in high school and he was kind of puffy and old looking (as happens alas) and he had ten kids by a number of different women and he kept picking me up and saying, "Wow, I can't believe it's you!" and then I spilled a cooler full of ice and raw chicken all over the floor and accidentally wiped my hands on one of his ten kids and he got angry and stopped talking to me.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I just read THE BLIND ASSASSIN. It was pretty alright. Goes on a little too long.

I am reading a nonfiction book about the birth and the eventual death of the universe. It's actually really readable, but I'm still having trouble motivating myself to read it because I've gotten lazy about having to think about what I'm reading. It's all sciencey.

I want to read the new Pynchon, as well as this novel called "Measuring the World" by some German author, and that poisons book that Laurel mentioned, but I have all 3 on my amazon wishlist so I have to wait until after xmas and see if anyone gets any of them for me.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to read the new JOAN DIDION OMNIBUS. I've never really read her before, although I've picked up random volumes like The White Album or Slouching Toward Bethlehem from bookstore shelves and been like "hmmmm." Wait, maybe I got one out of the library and didn't like it. Anyway, I still want to give her another shot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I love her, John! but the pinefox doesn't. :(

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Horseshoe has a spreadsheet TOO?!?!?!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm reading some more Dashiell Hammet stuff, and then onto the Omnivore's Dilemma.

I'm going out for FISH FRY tonight. Sooo excited, I'm going to throw down like I was Catholic.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Horseshoe is the nu-Jocelyn, I have decided.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

In other news, croissants are fucking delicious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

SO, my step-family is a little nutsoriffic and started a holiday traditional a few years ago of having a Christmas costume party wherein the guests must dress up as something fitting within a pre-determined holiday-themed category. I have managed to escape this particular indignity by coming home after the party happens but this year, they've scheduled around our visit. The theme this year is "Christmas ornament." My mother's plan:

We have all been directed to dress as some sort of an ornament. I'm going to drink a lot on the way to the party and come as a light.

I'm thinking we can all get loaded and go as a string of lights...

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

We can take turns passing out and go as a string of blinking lights.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

And before anyone gets all up in arms, I seem to recall Jocelyn making reference to the Pinefox shortly after she started posting to the Chicago thread in late 2004. Although I tried to find this and all I found was us making plans to go to IRAZU with Adamrl.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Your jokes are meaningless to those of us without spreadsheet access.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

You also mentioned that Sayjal had an improv show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember when we saw each other after Undertow at the CIFF?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

In other news, croissants are fucking delicious.

That's why they call them croissants.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know who Jocelyn is, but okay. I don't think I'm as good at the spreadsheet thing as John, but I do tend to remember posts that I like. and Amanda, pinefox and I had an argument about Didion really recently on ILBooks.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: cancelling an already booked show at an out-of-town club we've never played so that we can take a much better show at another out-of-town club we've never played, opening for an indie-rock legend, and risking being blackballed from first club forever VERSUS playing already booked show and probably losing lots of potential new fans that would be at indie-rock legend's show?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Depends who the indie dude is.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What did Amanda have to say about Didion? You know who also loves Didion is Reader critic and local scenester Jessica Hopper.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000035GC.01._AA156_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

fans vs blackballing?

i dunno. depends on what's in shorter supply: fans or clubs

i don't have squat to say about didion.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ditto Jordan. Also how big is the indie-rock legend venue? And which was the greater future consequences: being able to say "Opened for Indie Rock Legend" or being blackballed from a club?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

no, I had an argument with the pinefox, not Amanda. (what do you think of Didion, Amanda?) He wrote lots of smart stuff which you should read whenever ILX-proper returns, but basically he thinks she's too mean. I think she's nice.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I still don't know the indie rock legend of which you speak.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I misread your sentence, H. You were addressing Amanda, not including her as someone with whom you argued about Didion. That's a good example, though, of how the serial comma is much more effective. Your lack of it should've clued me in as to the meaning of the sentence. In the UK it would still be ambiguous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Everything is still ambiguous in the UK.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I recognize that pic, but can't place the band name.

Here is an excerpt from an embarassing college paper I just read online that made me laugh and laugh:
The orchid has even known to be erotic and influence sexuality. This species makes people just do the strangest things that somewhere in the world there has to be at least two people that have experienced love from their magnificence. I wouldn’t be surprised if two humans overlooking a genus of orchid became so moved by its presence that both were aroused to initiate intercourse; thus creating life and pollinating the world. It may be a little far fetched, however, in life, especially with orchids, there is nothing but flowering possibilities.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Indie-rock legend venue holds 300. But it's a solo performer, meant to be an intimate evening, etc. Plus it's not in Chicago.

No idea what the consequences are. I'm pretty sure we're going to keep the show we have, because we like to play by the rules and have a reputation as a good band to work with, but it's also kind of a bummer.

OK GUYS: Dude is J3R3MY 3N1GK from $UNNY D@Y R3@L 3$T@T3

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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