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yesterday i went to the jewel on ashland/milwaukee/paulina along with roughly 900,000 other chicagoans. i brought my handy shopping list provided by handymanda with the intent of making chili. i crossed off what i had at home, got the remaining ingredients and some other things i needed. they were all out of loose red potatoes, they only had the pre-packaged 5 lb. bags and as i was walking and already had a ton of stuff i decided not to have garlic mashed 'taters for thanksgiving. when i got home i got my pot ready for the chili, i opened the cans of beans and diced tomatoes, i got a skillet ready with some oil for the onion and celery (and garlic). it was at about this time i realized i never got around to buying any ground beef. so, dejectedly, i put everying into ziplock containers and will give it another go tonight. i had grilled cheese and ruffles and onion dip while watching football. all in all not a bad day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Does it hurt when your claws come out?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

what did you do jenny?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny made stuffed squashes and they were awesome.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny grabbed the glass lid of a casserole dish with her bare hand, intending to clear counter space and do some dishes, not realizing that said glass lid had just spent 30 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to put that squash recipe on the blog. I'll put the mac and cheese recipe up, too, if anyone wants it although it's not of my own devising.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

in the past, when i have been unable to find pot holder i have been known to take a chance and bet that my pain threshold is greater than the time it will take for me to take something out of the oven and put it on a counter. i'd say i'm right close to 40% of the time.

xpost- mac me up!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't want the recipe. I just want you to make more of it and give it to me.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, hey, i didn't realize that was an option. i'll take that instead too please.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Check this out:

Average Money Spent on Private Car Ownership (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey 2003-04)

Vehicle Purchases $3,618
Gas and Motor Oil $1,449
Other $2,445
TOTAL $7,512

Typical Transportaton Costs (per year) for an I-GO Member:
Car Sharing: $1,080
Transit $ 900
Rental Car $ 300
Taxis $ 240
TOTAL: $2,520

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

pain in the assness because every one of the four cars within a 1 mile walk of my place being booked almost 24 hours a day for 5 days in advance? priceless.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

that mac and cheese recipe makes me salivate.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah me too. i would do something rash for some mac 'n' cheese right now. oh, wednesday night i woke up in a panic because the CO2 detector was going off in my apartment. turns out it was because the batteries were dying but for a brief 2 minute span when i wasn't quite awake and unable to process what was going on i was in a disoriented state of panic.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, stuffed squash recipe is up, too. I realize that I have no idea of the actual measurements for most stuff.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, you made an awesome meal.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I only made two components. You are forgetting Nick's asparagus and cheese biscuits, Sarah's sweet potato casserole and cookies, Jesse's green bean casserole, Courtney's sour cream pie (I think you missed the sour cream pie course) and razzleberry pie, and beer.

Stuffed squash and mac and cheese alone would have been kind of sad.

Damn, we had an awesome dinner, didn't we?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

You're right, of course. I also LUUUUV asparagus.

Stuffed squash and mac and cheese alone would have been kind of sad.

This is not right.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Cookies! Oh, those were some good cookies.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Did we ever get a definitive answer on wtf a razzleberry is?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds like the testicles from the drummer to hanoi rocks to me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I want Nick's asparagus recipe. I like it baked on a cookie sheet, drenched in balsamic vinegar and salt. But Nick was on some other shit, and the shit was good.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I am watching the movie Misery. Apart from Carrie, which is the best, and The Dead Zone, which is awesome, this is the third best Steven King movie.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

HELLO THE SHINING CALLED AND WANTS YOU TO RETHINK YOUR LIST.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

THE SHINING CALLED AND WANTS YOU TO RETHINK YOUR LIST?

That's a Kubrick movie. Duh.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

STAND BY ME THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ew. Middle school.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

STILL A GOOD MOVIE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never seen cujo in it's entirety. i liked christine, though i realize it wasn't a very good movie.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Uh... I guess. I kind of think of it as being the same as The Breakfast Club, only 7 years younger. "You have issues appropriate to our age? Wahey! So do I!"

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

WHATEVER TEDDY DUCHAMP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

oh shit i've been feldman'd.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

If you eliminate The Shining from your Stephen King movie list because it's a Kubrick movie, then you have to eliminate Carrie because it's a DePalma movie and The Dead Zone because it's a Cronenberg movie.

I liked Stand by Me a lot, even though it wasn't that scary.

Let's see... taking camp value and nostalgia as well as actual goodness into account, my list would go:

The Shining*, **
Carrie*
Creepshow
Children of the Corn
Stand by Me
The Dead Zone
Christine
Shawshank Redemption
Maximum Overdrive
Firestarter
Misery
Pet Sematary (sic)
Salem's Lot

Anything not on this list means not even camp or nostalgic value could save it from being utter crap. Inclusion on this list doesn't automatically exclude the film from being utter crap, either; it just means I have a soft spot for it.

*These movies would be in a top ten favorite movies list, regardless of Stephen King's involvement.
**Kenan does have a point, though, since Stephen King for some reason decided he had to remake this movie into a total steaming turd because he believed Kubrick somehow got it wrong.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a new IGo car location by my house in the Aon parking deck. I hope that the fact that they're always booked up means that they will continue to expand their service.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Between the day we moved in and last weekend when we reserved a car they had added a bunch of locations to our neighborhood, so I think they are and will continue to expand.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope they get a Honda S2000.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

who is crunkleJ?

and i forgot about shawshank, one of my FAVORITE MOVIES EVER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

It kind of smells like old beer and smoke in our apartment, and I think that's oozing up from our downstairs neighbors' apartment, who smoke and had a big old Thanksgiving fiesta yesterday.

xpost - it's Jesse.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

it's goddamn jesse.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

my apartment smells like stale incense, old sweat, and lies, lies, lies

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

(NIN lyrics)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

my apartment smells like the frozen pizza i made at 2:15 this morning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/107/303801171_0c0f1c462e.jpg?v=0

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Proof that Norman Rockwell had a dark and evil side.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 November 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I just made popcorn on the stove! It was delicious!

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 November 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi there. I don't know why I never really registered this in my brain before, but the microbrewery in my home town sells pints of beer for two dollars. It's insane. Think of what it would be like if there was a place like this in Chicago -- a place that would sell 5 or so moderately good to pedestrian American style beers until only 11 o'clock at night. The cross-section of people you'd see drinking there would be amazing.

But here, it's like the only game in town. It's big, it's cheap, it has free wireless. It's full of people from about 5 PM untill 11. Then the drunk people spill out of the place and the social strata of the town becomes clear. Certain people walk out and go to one bar, some other people go to a different one, and a few go home. It's really weird, and god damn I'm drunk.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 25 November 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I uploaded the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls soundtrack to the blog. Enjoy.

I never had realized that Mylo sampled it. DENSE>

― jefferson algounquin, Saturday, 25 November 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Hm. Seems that archive is empty.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 25 November 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"My" asparagus recipe is just the "asparagus appointment" recipe from ILX: take asparagus, brush/coat in olive oil, add salt and garlic powder to taste, and roast at hot (like 425) until tender. It's the recipe with the highest tastiness-to-easiness-to-prepare ratio that I know.

Anyone up for doing something tonight? Sarah and I are indecisive. We are considering:

1. Rock show
a) Dead Meadow/Pinebender at Sub-T
b) Pere Ubu and Mahjongg at Abbey Pub if it's not sold out
c) Oranges Band and Red Eyed Legends at the Note (probably not)

2. Movie
a) The Fountain
b) For Your Consideration

3. Something else. I mainly just want to get out of the apartment.

Call me.

― n/a, Saturday, 25 November 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah is making xmas ornaments, I am bored. I want to play video games but am bored with all of mine.

― n/a, Saturday, 25 November 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to Christmas music. Maybe I should post my favorite Tony Bennett number to the blog.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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