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Actually, Jordan, let me know if you're definitely coming, because I'm going to make a reservation tomorrow. I will say, though: Kr might not come (she's still deciding), and I don't think you'll know anyone else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

John, are there good veg. options at Jin Ju? My sister doesn't eat teh meats.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes! There are a some delicious vegetarian offerings at Jin Ju. There's one that's a bowl of rice and vegetables with an egg on top and you mix it all up and it's great. It's not Bi Bim Bap because that has beef in it, but it's the same principle.

xpost - that waiter worked at Simon's and Svea for awhile and then got fired, I think! Or at least I seem to recall him telling me that. But I was probably drunk, so who knows. His name is Sh@ne.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay John. I should probably say no, since I don't know if I'm giving someone a ride yet. I would be fine wandering around or reading at a coffeeshop anyway.

His name is Sh@ne.

Of course it is.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Sh@ne. He was behind the bar at Simon's no more than two weeks ago.

And Jenny is teh correct about vegetarian offerings. This is what I get whenever I go:

San Chae Bi Bim Bap rice topped with bean sprouts, spinach, carrots, shitake mushrooms, shredded raddish, sweet potato stems, red leaf lettuce, fried egg and a spicy red pepper pastre sauec. soybean paste soup served on the side

Word, Jordan. No prob.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you wanna read, Jenny?

We went to the library last night to get books for the train. I will be reading about vanilla and a mystery novel involving orchid enthusiasts.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

My holy grail magazine is Off Our Backs because there's an article in the current about women in the loony fundamentalist "Quiverfull" movement written by a blogger that I like, but the odds of me finding that anywhere besides Women and Children First are pretty slim, I realize. I thought Unabridged might have it, but they don't. The other one I want is Harper's and I should be able to find that anywhere!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

San Chae Bi Bim! That's it. I highly recommend it. Super delicious.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

DO you guys know that you can look at the menu for pretty much every restaurant in Chicago at Menupages.com? Well, you can.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

waht is quiverfull

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Menupages can be useful but I have seen some pretty glaring errors in their menus. Mostly spelling-related, but still.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/45/175866636_d86626afc4.jpg

More info.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, what the farg you talkin about? is that like lady archers for sexual equality?

"our quivers are full and our arrows are pointed at the patriarchy"

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

oops. quite the opposite i guess. their quivers are full of eggs.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

oops. quite the opposite i guess. their quivers are full of ~~eggs~~BLESSINGS FROM GOD.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

That photo looks creepily like a lot of the fundie familes (apostolic lutheran) from where I grew up, except they don't all have blond hair. The biggest one I ever heard of had 24 chilluns. TWENTY FOUR

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The woman in that photo was actually giving birth as the picture was being taken. They didn't notice until they were packing up to leave.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds like Orthodox Jews.

Btw I watched my replacement copy of Trembling before G-d last night. It was very good, if not quite as revelatory as I hoped.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://womensspace.wordpress.com/

That's the blogger who wrote the article. She was a Quiverfull mom and has eleven kids. She used to run a fairly popular homeschooling magazine. After a harrowing escape from an abusive husband she was excommunicated by the church and started writing feminist articles for a variety of publications. She seems like a really interesting person. Too bad I can't get up to A-ville to Women & Children First before we leave for DE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Word on the streets is that my uncle only had relations with my aunt three times, resulting in their three children. Is that quiverfull?

I got my family Christmas cards last night. The annual family letters were depressing. The only 'godsend' was that no one mentioned Christ's blood this year. They must have just forgotten.

One family's letters always begin with something like, "It has been another trying year for our family, full of challenges and sadness, but the Lord is with us still." The other family writes things like, "We are so blessed that both of our sons are Christians! And we are doubly blessed that they have found wonderful, loving Christian wives! The Lord provideth!..."

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I prefer the latter, I guess.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that quiverfull?

My understanding is that quiverfull would require them to have as much sex as is necessary to keep the kids constantly coming until the woman hits menopause.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My understanding is that quiverfull would require them to have as much sex as is necessary to keep the kids constantly coming until the woman hits menopause.

holy crap, time to bust out one of my favorite sayings... "IT'S A VAGINA, NOT A CLOWN CAR!"

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

If only Flickr was not blocked for you at work you would see that we've already covered that one.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

lol I was just going to say that

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

aw fudge.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

But still, it was Kevin's invocation of the phrase that gave me the mental image of a vagina as one of those magician tricks where the continuous string of handkerchiefs is pulled out of the guy's sleeve. Priceless.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't someone post a YouTube of a woman doing exactly that at the Juste Pour Rire festival?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Though I've never seen or heard of it until now, considering this is the internets, I'm going to say "yes".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

And you would be right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i am crashing hard into my post-lunch coma, the 16 ounces of coffee is not helping. i would seriously pay $100 to go sleep in a bed right now.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

The video was this woman pulling a scarf from a piece of clothing and then taking it off until she got down to nothing and then she pulled a scarf out of her va-jay-jay. It was pretty cool. I saw it on Metafilter where the thread immediately devolved into a discussion about whether the woman was attractive enough to dare to take her clothes off in public.

xpost - that's it!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

This just makes me more pissed no-one made it to the Fourth of July flag-out-of-the-ass thing.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Psalm 127:3-5

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD,
And the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
So are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them

"Children of the youth"... Does this advocate teen pregnancy?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This just makes me more pissed no-one made it to the Fourth of July flag-out-of-the-ass thing.

I know! Me, too.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Have fun on your trip if I don't talk to you before you leave, Jenny!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, thanks! Same to you!

I am all kinds of ready for a 12/28 Thirsty Thursday if anybody has any post-holiday energy left. I miss my pals!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, yes, and yes. I will be rolling back into town that day.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh guess what? I agreed to go to CHURCH with my mother on Christmas Eve. I haven't been to church for anything other than a wedding in yeeeeeaaars. I think halfway through the sermon I should stand up and throw the hymnal down and yell, "Man, this is bullshit!" and then leave.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

We aren't getting back until late on the 30th, but we need New Years plans. We should create some sort of wacky New Years tradition.

Have fun with that!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

nye i'm going to the bottle. i think i could easily be talked into TT on the 28th. in fact i think i just was talked into TT on the 28th.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, we just had a work "Naugthy/Nice" Xmas drawing. I got a $50 gift certificate for C35!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

NYE is so tough. Right about now I am ready for ANYTHING but by the time the 31st rolls around I just want to hide from people and go to bed by 10.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What is C35?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

the restaurant where I work

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the "Naugthy" bag was for over-21 people, the "Nice" for the under-21ers.

Other gifts: a bottle of ketchup, a magnum of good Chardonnay, fifths of vodka, tequila, Hennessey.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I am a dumbnuts.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

And free stays at the Sheraton, Hilton, and Hotel Burnh@m.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

So a restaurant gift certificate is "naughty"?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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