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From wiki: "Grok... is a verb that connotes knowledge greater than that which can be sensed by an outside observer. It is an understanding beyond empathy and intimacy. In grokking, one experiences the literal capabilities and frame of reference of the subject."

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Kevin -- there's that, too. The whole thing seems kind of gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

JENNY IS A FASTER COPY PASTER THAN I

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

john, yes, it is pretty gross, i'm not sure that i can consume enough alcohol to get me into a strip club now. at 24 things are different than 34.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I had a chance with one of the "Boys on the Bar" at a place in NO, but I figured I didn't really, so I didn't act on it. But now I think I did. But then again it was one of 2 bars that made up what they called the "financial district," so I may have had a chance with him if I was willing to pay for it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin, I have grown very fond of you but can you please stop calling the women who work at strip clubs "the talent"? It's kind of grating in a "totally dehumanizing" kind of way.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

jon, message sent, let me know what else you need.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the talent at boy bars are WAY more likely to be interested in their clinetelle than at a titty bar.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Ooops. Still not helping.

I think "talent" is no more degrading than "stripper." What else can you call the dancing women?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Women?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel, your explanation of "grok" makes sense. It still rubs me the wrong way somehow -- esp. knowing that its origins are sci-fi/geek. I will continue to use "get" and expressions like "I feel ya."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

STILL NOT HELPING.

I recuse myself from the discussion.

xposterooni

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny there are two groups of people who work at those types of establishments, "the talent" and "the staff". not all women who work at strip clubs are talent.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

JMC: And the world will go on.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Dancers?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Tits McGee?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

interrupting strip club conversation to report: just got my hair cut by Jenny-recommended stylist. it is my favorite haircut evah! Jenny, whenever your done with your finals, I'm buying you a drink.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be staying off the Brown Line @ Paulina.... I should probably get a book since I'll be solo a bit I think

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i think "dancers" sounds kind of june taylor-ish but if that's what jenny would prefer i have no qualms with that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

whenever you're done with your finals, that is. haircut-delirium-induced spelling lapse.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be staying off the Brown Line @ Paulina

Isn't this your hood, JMC?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

jon, you're better off asking anyone else on this thread about that part of town because i can't remember the last time i took the brown line north of diversey.

oh, wait, i did get on the brown line this summer after going to laurie's planet of sound to head back into the city. i remember it was really hot and instead of getting on the western ave bus and taking a 10 minute trip back to my sweatbox apartment i took the brown line back into the loop, then transferred to the blue line and took that out to damen just so i could stay in the air conditioned glory of the cta.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be staying off the Brown Line @ Paulina

This is a nice little neighborhood (Roscoe Village). This is my el stop twice a week, on days when I have band practice.

There's a Whole Foods a block away from that el stop. Also a few blocks away from Hard Boiled, an indie record store and video outlet specializing in Hong Kong cinema, owned by a mild-manner British chap named Mark. And Victory's Banner, a very good Buddhist vegetarian breakfast place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

(I live on Paulina and take the Brown Line, but the Paulina el stop is actually about 2 miles south of me.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! Anything east of Western and north of about Addison is still a semi-grey area for me.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

sayjal is from the poon-job region of india

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i met mark, the owner of hard boiled, at a party at joel's place right after i moved to chicago a bunch of years back. it's allllll related somehow.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay to HS for the good haircut! I'll totally take you up on the beer offer. Isn't Val B. the sweetest?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

she is! she's totally adorable. she picked out hair product for me, too. I am completely hair-challenged.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

My managing editor is hilarious. Here is her take on my avoidance of catching the garter at weddings: "Don't discount your chicks before they're hatched."

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Managing eds are a rare breed!

People really throw garters at weddings?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the last garter-throwing I witnessed was in 1993, at some cousin's wedding.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never seen a garter thrown. but I've mostly been to Indian weddings.

― horsehoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i would never want to catch a garter, i don't care whose leg i get to put it on.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I think just about every wedding (reception) I've been to has had that.

xpost: Yeah, her first question was "Will you try to catch the garter, or avoid it like the plague." I responded "Well, there are some pretty good hospitals here at the U."

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(meaning I'd take my chances with the plague... stupid typing)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse actually made me a bouquet so I would toss it at our reception, but I think he got drunk and forgot about it, which is good because I worked hard to avoid all that crap as much as possible.

I would rather elope than endure the garter toss.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

one of the people I'm staying with works @ r3ckless r3cords....

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

oh then you're fucked.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Reckless is down the street from our house.

Jon Williams, what do you like to do? Do you like to go to bars?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH..........

Oh god, someone help me up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

unless it's the reckless in wicker park. in which case it would be very far from your house.

and i suppose i should seperate my loathing for the store from the people who work there (with a few exceptions), i've actually known some very nice people who were employed there at various times. but the store sucks, and sucks hard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been known to go to bars.

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, good because I never know what else to do with internet people who come to Chicago.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

...except get them drunk and steal their wallets.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but the store sucks, and sucks hard

I saw you say this on another thread, and I forgot to ask you why you thought this. My only problem with it is that its dance section sucks, and it's not really the place to go if you're looking for something in particular (unless it's a brand-new release) -- but I've scored a lot of great used CDs there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

So who is actually going to be around Xmas weekend?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Reckless just fine, but I have much less specialized record store needs than most people. I'm happy as long as the clerks don't openly mock my selections.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Woe be unto the record store clerk who does that. WOE I tell you.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that's a myth borne out of people's insecurities. I've never been openly mocked, or otherwise treated derisively, by a record-store clerk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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