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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

Jeff and I just finished cleaning our little hearts out and now we want to leave the apartment before we trash it again.

We're hungry.

― jenny not jeff, Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Ok, done.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, tell Jeff that his BTVOTD OST is a bad file. Re-upload, plz.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick, I'd go out with you, but I have computer-related obligations that I am pushing to the very outside limit. Even as we speak. I shouldn't be dicking around with uploading music and shit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr and I are going to see Memento Polonia at 8 pm, but we're up for hanging out after the play if anyone wants to have drinks or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

if you're going to be in the neighborhood later, i maybe could use a beer.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

How many celebrities can you name?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bPIqX8gbyVA

My favorite guy: "Life's unfair, and Ernest Goes to Jail tells us that."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I put "Trill" by the Clipse on the blog. Download it for awesome misogynistic, crack-promoting rap.

― n/a, Sunday, 26 November 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

News of the day: I have another cat for December. The evil one, the Acker. She was supposed to bring her over a week or two ago, but... well, that didn't happen. Anyway. She's being surprisingly calm and sweet, and so is Dobbler. I think the apartment is big and separated enough that they're finding it easy to ignore each other. Perfect.

The new Tom Waits set is freaking awesome. The first disc especially is some kinda awesome bloozy Waits-essence concoction. And the third disc is so bleeding strange. Love.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't identify all the people on the cover. One is clearly Burroughs, which makes perfect sense, and one looks like a Modigliani, and one is some kind of gangster-looking dude. Dillinger? No... not him. Something like that, I'm guessing. And then there are these ghostly figures. Weird.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Supplementing my listening today with Skip Spence. Also very good. Been meaning to get this for freaking ever, but never got around to it until today.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought this would go away quickly, but when the windows are open and the train is really loud going by at all hours of the night, I still have train-related dreams. Last night I dreamed I worked for CTA, and was working on the tracks for some vague reason, but the trains kept going by and interrupting me and almost running me over.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

trains are huge and really very loud. I wish they could all be underground.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 26 November 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, this sounds like a great job

http://www.cta.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=DSPView&Lookupid=1218&CurrentPage=3

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Sunday, 26 November 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Makin' jambalaya! Hangin' out by myself, listening to UK pop hits from the '70s! Maaan, every day is awesome now. I went back to the old place to get some more stuff, though, and the cats had no food or water, the place is scary and squat-like and so dirty that I didn't like to inhale, and my landlord threw away my Netflix picks, the head-fucked bastard.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 November 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, this sounds like a great job

I don't know if "great" is the word, but that sounds like the job I'll have at 40 if I don't don't get more ambitious in a hurry.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the place is scary and squat-like and so dirty that I didn't like to inhale

haha My last place was like that for the whole time I lived in it. Cats and all.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, you don't think it sounds good? I suppose I'd like to see what it pays... but otherwise it'd be pretty cool!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 02:19 (seventeen years ago) link

(I also am not remotely qualified)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love a job like that.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I too often dream of trains.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-IAONYZaXGwvgM:http://static.last.fm/groupavatar/5398e914ce6e9cd562eb96ca07d8678d.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

2 Cheers and 1 Jeer for Ikea. Cheers for helping me stock my kitchen with (18-piece set (NOT 16!) of decent looking dishes (for $18), frying pan, sauce pan and a few other kitchencetera for a very nice price. Also for supplying Courtney with some reasonably grown-up looking furniture at a good price.

The 2nd cheer is for cheap eats: 99c breakfast (eggs, bacon, potatoes), $1.99 breakfast (eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, french toast) and Swedish meatball lunch, not to mention lingonberries at every turn.

1 Jeer for missing parts in their furniture. In the 3 pieces I put together tonight I was missing 1 screw (easily replaced) and 2 obscure fasteners. Grrr.

Also, Courtney made clear that I was forbidden from having sex at Ikea this time.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

boooo hiss

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link

This is where Jessa is going, and I'm really, deeply envious:

http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Eating steaks in Argentina feels like joining a cult. You find yourself leaning on friends to come visit, and writing YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND in all caps more often than feels comfortable. Argentine beef really is extraordinary. Almost all of this has to do with how the cows are raised. There are no factory feedlots in Argentina; the animals still eat pampas grass their whole lives, in open pasture, and not the chicken droppings and feathers mixed with corn that pass for animal feed in the United States. Since this is the way of life a cow was designed for, it is not necessary to pump the animal full of antibiotics. The meat is leaner, healthier and more flavorful than that of corn-fed cattle. It has fewer calories, contains less cholesterol, and tastes less mushy and waterlogged than American meat. And the cows spend their lives out grazing in the field, not locked into some small pen. You can taste the joy.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha: "Surely Solís was wearing one of those crucifixes that shows Jesus actually hanging from the cross. It must have been a simple mistake on the part of the natives, who saw him as a friendly gift from the visitors on the boat, complete with a serving suggestion suspended around his neck."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers for helping me stock my kitchen with (18-piece set (NOT 16!) of decent looking dishes (for $18)

I think I may have the exact same dishes.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

1 Jeer for missing parts in their furniture.

Ditto. I was only able to put my bed together through the good graces of someone's well-stocked toolbox, because the parts sure as hell didn't fit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Chicago. I am out of cocoon.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/cycleanim.gif

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

my face has been leaking yellow-green snot all weekend chicago and i don't like it one bit. a thoroughly disappointing weekend all the way around (with the exception of the pats game yesterday).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

does this work? testing testing

― Sarah Johnson, Monday, 27 November 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I have a name

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Job Title: ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Job Type: Full Time Regular
Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Proofreading; spelling Belmont correctly; remembering the existence of the Fullerton transfer; designing stickers to cheaply correct the last environmental graphic designers stupid mistakes.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

...possessive apostrophe skills...

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

My weekend was SO F'N LAZY. Let's see.. What the hell did I do? There was Thanksgiving... That was good stuff. Then there were a ton of leftovers. I spent most of the day after Thanksgiving napping. I tried to do some Christmas shopping, but didn't have much luck. I went to the gym a couple of times, had Indian food and drinks, and watched lots of Herzog and Kinski. I started watching Big Love. I got through most of my decoupage Christmas ornament making. I read some Christopher Moore bahhumbuggery. I put up fliers and then was sad when they were all ripped down basically 24 hours later. I played a championship boggle-trivial pursuit-scrabble game against Nick and won, so he has to treat me to a movie.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I'm not so ready to be back at work yet... Where is everyone?

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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