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Sweetheart, stop while you're behind: you've just suggested that everyone else's slut phases were "seamy and pointless". :D

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

honestly, though, laurel -- what was the point?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to change the topic now. I went to a clothing swap last night and scored this sweet pair of boots -- they're sort of like Mondrian boots, but instead of having white and red and black, they're just red and black. So cute. I also got some other stuff. It's like Christmas came early and I have whole new wardrobe!
http://www.cetteadressecomportecinquantesignes.com/Mondrian_fichiers/image004.jpg
It's good, because I was starting to feel really goddamn frumpy. My (1) grey hair made another unwelcome appearance.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm okay with the fact that i had the phase, but i also would be perfectly content & happy without it too.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/101803/quality-assurance.gif

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

slut phases, seamy or steamy?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

both, of course

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the point of the phase, or of needling Dan? Specific examples are best, Kenan!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

of the phase, i mean. I got out of it a bad taste in my mouth.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I sure do love these new boots.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

They look like they lack traction?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

heh.

take a picture of them, amanda?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

They're for looking cute, not for climbing mountains.

+fashion
-traction

I would take a photo if I had the camera. D has it and he is in an airplane right now.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, that response reminds me of something my ex would say. Right before she slipped and fell on ber butt.

They do look v. nice. I wish I was of a somewhat normal size and could do things like clothing swaps or shopping at resale stores.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I dunno. I'm not much of a long-term dater, so most of my opposite-sex anything has been in a couple of those phases.

LOVE THE BOOTS!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

that does not sound healthy. the phases, not the boots. although the boots also sound a little treacherous this time of year.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

watch me talk about what's "healthy," and feel free to crack up laughing.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, you can have rubber soles laid on those boots at a shoe place!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I retract my "no traction" comment.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, lots of womens' shoes don't have giant, ugly lug soles -- not a big deal. Don't wear them in the snow. Don't run on the ice. I am not wearing them today, but I could, since all of the snow is melted, practically.

I'm off to work, dudes. It's been a pleasure.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

then they wouldn't look as cute

xp to laurel

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't even see them, it's less than 1/8" thick. Just a thin layer of grooved rubber, like...I can't think of a non-shoe comparison. They cut it to the outline of the sole and glue it on tightly. Good for ages.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

something for which i have ilx to thank/blame: i now make snap judgements on women based solely on their boots. i learned at a young age to compliment a woman on her shoes but i find myself making silent but permanent judgements based on their boots now.

i wasn't always this way.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw a girl wearing purple-tinged Uggs (or similar) this morning, and totall snap-judged the shit out of her.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh boy, special Xmas bonus from work! UofC Pr355 LUGGAGE TAG! Truly this makes my past year's labor worthwhile.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, dan. that will bring in the big bucks on ebay, right?

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

it doesn't even need to be something as obvious as uggs dan, i find myself quietly commenting to myself and giving them the mental equivelant of the roman emperor's thumbs up/thumbs down to gladiators in the arena.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

wow. dudes, that was some heavy Chicago talk today.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

of the phase, i mean. I got out of it a bad taste in my mouth.

You were clearing doing something wrong, but I hesitate to ponder on exactly what.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a story to tell:

My cell phone battery went totally kaput this morning and I went to US Cellular to get a new one and this punk ass kid behind the counter said they'd have to order one and it would take TWO WEEKS! I said UNACCEPTABLE plz expedite and he said nowai can't do it and I said let me talk to a manager and the kid gave me some gruff and I said, "Listen, you've been very helpful so far, but the more reluctant you are to let me speak with a manager the more likely I am to speak poorly of you" so out came the manager. He called another store that was THREE measely blocks away and they had the battery right there in stock so I stopped there on the way back to school and got a new battery for free right away and now my phone works.

I also went to the Christkindlmarket and got some sweet cheese pancakes and applesauce on a total whim, which is possibly the best idea I've had in weeks.

So the moral of the story is: ask for a manager and never pass up a chance for sweet cheese pancakes.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay, I don't have to work tomorrow. (Because we are playing that show with $INDIEROCKLEGEND in Milwaukee.) The ability to sleep in is quite welcome, since I seem to be coming down with a cold.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, that's in Milwaukee? Where at?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me, I need to ask for next Friday off. I have a show with the rock band the night before, and then I'm driving to Chicago in the afternoon for the GM shows. Sleep will be key.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

NEW GLASSES GET

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd post a pic, but they look pretty much the same 'cept smaller and less silvery. Also I am not v. photogenic at the moment.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

nice bike person (who i only know tangentially) just got nailed at halsted/grand/milwaukee

keep it safe out there, ppl!

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the rider still alive? I passed a ghost bike on Houston the other day, obviously incredibly sad.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

JENNY WAI TO B POWERHOUSE. Am taking you on next customer-dispute resolution trip.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

still alive, as far as I know

(getting reports from friends back in Chi...)

and yeah, ghost bikes are the saddest. but that's why they need to exist

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Evan! I hope your friend is okay. It's a very wet and dangerous day out there.

What is a ghost bike?

I came in here to post this for word nerdz b/c of our conversation on gender determinism the other day: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003894.html

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

The US Cellular manager was very good at his job. He came out, shook my hand, introduced himself... basically came out of the box treating me in way that conveyed, "We are adults and we will do business here today." Not patronizing or obsequious or irritated at all. His name was Kirk and I was impressed.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

It's an old bike, painted all white and locked to an immoveable object at a spot where a cyclist has been killed in a bike accident, and left there presumably forever. Sometimes they're children's bikes (more common in Queens & residential areas), more often adults. I've never heard of the city or anyone going around and cutting them loose (which quite frankly surprises me) but maybe I just haven't been talking to the right people.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wow. That's kind of intense.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, the one on Houston had silk flowers wrapped around the crank & pedals like someone had been there recently. It's a lot of intense.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

there's one right outside the empty bottle (or there was). really nice hispanic dude that built his own choppers was on his way home and got hit by a drunk

i'm surprised the city doesn't clip them, either.

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder what it says about me that I find ghost bikes sad and lovely and respectful but am just irritated by plastic flower crosses on rural roadsides.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know!

the road up to where i "work" is absolutely littered with roadside crosses.

maybe it's because roadside crosses can often be the result of yr own bad driving, while ghost bikes are generally the result of jerkoff drivers killing cyclists. AND they reflect the personality of the person who died, because it's actually their old bike that gets locked up.

also, religious v. secular?

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

but yeah, ghost bikes are genuinely moving for me.

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

The saddest thing about ghost bikes, for me, is that they were all killed in auto accidents -- an unfair fight from the get-go. Of course roadside crosses can equally be the result of an innocent trip to the grocery store and being hit by drunk driver, and I know this rationally, but bikes being the big-time underdogs makes the warning/memory different.

Or what he said! I didn't know it was the victim's own bike, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Me, neither! That's super intense.

But you know, could be the person's own plastic flower cross, too.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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