Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

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Alright, roommate has officially skipped out on me.

en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, crumbelievable.

Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Doug's hit with fois grae fine.

Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Other other woman that was on Check, Please! (not the violinist from Chicago) was A-nnoying.

Agreed.

jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

E was great, though. And she's right on about L. Mitchell's. I just ate there this morning, even, and it's fine but it's nothing freaking special. Just an omelette, people, nothing to see here.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010900864.html

Some restaurants in Chicago are ignoring the FG ban and serving it anyway, or offering it as a "complimentary" accompaniment to a dish since only the sale of FG is banned. Hot Doug's was issued a warning letter which the owner framed and displays.

Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

They should go out of business!

Jeff... (Jeff...), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Who? Hot Dougs?

Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"In a world of very limited public health resources we're being asked to drop some things so we can enforce a law like this," Hadac [spokesman for the Health Department] said. "With HIV/AIDS, cancer, West Nile virus and some of the other things we deal with, foie gras is our lowest priority."

Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanted to go to Hot Doug's today but the Universe conspired against me.

Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

2x

Also, hangover.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i had to take a cab home from my local last night. jameson + high life robbed me of my ability to walk.

chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Saturday, 17 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I just bought wittle kitty beds for both kitties. This was after I noticed the smaller one sleeping in an unused paint pan I had left out, and it inspired pathos in me. I was like, "Oh, we can do better than this."

teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

YAY! kitty already discovered it, jumped in, and started making biscuits with her paws. She feels love.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, she's back in my lap now. much as she love the cat bed, it does not generate heat. that's fine with me. they had heated beds (for about $70), but i can't afford that and don't even want it. if they have heat and furriness and a partially enclosed space, they will stay there forever and will only need me for food and will never use me for warmth again. this will equal sadness.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Dobbs!

Totally unrelated: You know what drives me nuts? When people who don't know did about how lawsuits work make a big stink about how "CRAAAAAZY" lawsuits are ruining the legal system. How can all these worthless lawsuits go to trial?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

THEY CANNOT HI DERE SUMMARY JUDGMENT

I mean, I know. I know! I'm in law skoo and thus have a specialized body of knowledge that most people don't have. So most people don't know about civil procedure. And that's okay!!! I don't want people to know about civil procedure, or else they won't need lawyers and then the student loan people will come and harvest my organs because I can't pay them back in real money. BUT IF THAT IS THE CASE, SHUT YR FAT MOUTH ABOUT IT, OKAY???

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"CRAAAAAZY" lawsuits

define

teasing your poultry (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The one that people always pull out is the "old lady sues McDonald's b/c coffee is hot LOL" but see here for a nice summary of the, you know, ACTUAL FACTS OF THE CASE. But pretty much whenever someone hears that some jagoff filed a lawsuit against Miller because he drank a quarter keg by himself and got alcohol poisoning or something like that there's a big "DEATH OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM OH NOES" stink, almost always made by people with 1) an agenda and 2) no fucking clue what they are actually talking about.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

what agenda?

(i'm not trying to ask stupid questions, just simple ones)

teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually an argument that plaintiff's lawsuits are ruining the medical profession, or similar.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

and wow, i never knew that about the McD's coffee case. Skin grafts? That's some hot-ass coffee. Company refusing to pay medical bills so she was forced to sue? You never hear about that.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually an argument that plaintiff's lawsuits are ruining the medical profession

Oh, I know that argument. It makes me want to kill. It makes me want to start the bloodbath at the corporate offices of insurance companies.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/myths/articles.cfm?ID=785

That's a pretty good explanation of what I'm talking about w/r/t the McDonald's coffee thing.

My point is that I hate that. My thing I hate. Let me show you it.

xp - yeah! I mean, srsly, the US legal system has some problems. Some big, fat, harmful-to-society problems that are very critique-worthy. But the fact that individuals are able to sue large companies for injuries and sometimes get judgments in their favor is not one of those problems. Unless you hate people and love giant corporations, which I understand some people do.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The Hot Doug's foie gras story made the Wii News Channel.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG last night we watched TROLL 2 and it is the most awesomely, ridiculously ATROCIOUS movie I have ever seen. I can't even begin to tell you how great it was.

http://www.cult-cinema.ru/pictures/screenshots/troll2/troll2_7.jpg

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a picture of me with my new haircut, btw, for those of you with images turned off.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

We bought wedding rings yesterday. Sarah's is tasteful, mine is crazy. I think it will give me superpowers. Then we went to Intelligentsia and I had a giant cup of coffee on an empty stomach so then when we had band practice I got all light-headed and woozy. Then we went to Earwax and had a giant linner.

n/a (n/a), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What a weird night. On my way home from the fundraiser we played, my stomach started to hurt. By the time I got home, I was feeling really horrible: the pain had increased, I had the chills, and I was kind of dizzy, too. It was hard to sleep at first, but eventually I made it through the night, and now I'm more or less fine. What the hell. I had a Tofurkey sandwich, some tortilla chips, and an apple at about 6 PM, then a gin and tonic and three beers at Nick's Uptown.

jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL at Amanda

Is Trolls 2 something you would have needed to see Trolls to really understand?

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I lived my dream last night of taking two advil PM and sleeping for 11 hours.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 18 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This was a fucking epic weekend, guys. It was great to see y'all, I wish I could have hung out more (and in a place where I could talk without shouting/coughing).

We accidentally recorded a live album at the GM! Rather, the bandleaders decided to record both shows (hence that mic by your booth that I didn't notice) but didn't tell anyone in the band so that we wouldn't be nervous and play timidly.

I got made on Saturday (mob style but not Pesci style). Long story but I was awarded my embroidered Digd0wn letter jacket for my years of service.

And I met a girl???

JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

OH YEAH I WENT TO HOT DOUG'S. It was everything I hoped it could be (no foie gras specials that day though).

JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, just so you know, the only sound you're going to get off that mic is me talking about Pockets.

n/a (n/a), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Trolls 2 something you would have needed to see Trolls to really understand?
No way. Not under any circumstances. My fervor for Troll 2 is so great that I would go so far as to suggest a group screening. It happens that we own the VHS. It was purchased from the video store across the street when they sold off their VHS collection.

Point 1: the evil people in the movie, the 'bad guys' are the ones who only eat plants. They are the trolls. Again: the trolls are vegetarians.

Point 2: Contains the worst acting I have seen outside of a middle school auditorium.

Point 3: Not relevant to Troll 2, but I just discovered that Troll (1) had a character named Harry Potter who was played by Noah Hathaway, known to millions of little girls as ATREYU.

That last part may be common knowledge among some crowd somewhere, but I am not part of that crowd and therefore I was amused.

WHY WHY WHY does my school not get tomorrow off? Do all of you have tomorrow off? President's Day. I'm so sure.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't been to Hot Dougs... 2003!!!!

Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

since

Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The Replacements aren't bad.

Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

How long has it been since you had a steamin' bowl of Wolf brand chili?
Well, that's too long.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The Replacements aren't bad.

No. But neither are they to be worshiped.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Unless you're me and you're 14 and your best friend is forcing you to listen to the Little Mermaid soundtrack and you're looking for something that speaks to you more strongly than "Under the Sea." Then worship is not only acceptable, it is the only option.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that "Don't Tell a Soul" is not a great album, but I remember putting my newly bought cassette into Shannon's (the best friend) tape player in her sister's old room, which was empty, and flipping to side 2 and hearing YEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW and "Anywhere is Better than Here" and really feelin' it. You can't argue with that. Sorry. She was scared of it. I loved it. She and I broke up later that year for obvious reasons.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Sunday, 18 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, that's about all I have to post for the week, ladies and germs. Now I am going to eat (a portion of) the chili that has been simmering in the crock pot all day.

Tootles.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, just so you know, the only sound you're going to get off that mic is me talking about Pockets.

roflz!

I'm ready to screen Troll 2.

I am sorry that yet again, I managed to avoid Jordan for an entire visit.

I knew a girl in college who owned three CDs and one of them was the Little Mermaid soundtrack and another was whatever Bette Middler atrocity had "God is watching us... FROM A DISTANCE!"

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda, I love Troll 2! It's amazing. The popcorn sex scene?!

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 19 February 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I just found out my sister's boyfriend proposed, and she said yes. It's kind of weird, but also not. Hmmmm.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Congrats to sister! Mawwiage!

teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I just picked up the movie "Brick" at Blockbuter for ten bucks. I LOOOve this movie.

teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link


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