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i just read "notes from underground" today because of that 1001 books thread. i really liked it a lot.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 30 November 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Does Devon Seafood have $6.00 PBR buckets?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Devon Seafood could be good for when it's time to have fancy drinks.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, I like the cut of yr glower.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

there will be no TT for me tonight as i will still be in western 'burbs watching house and spastic dog and one of the cuddliest cats i've ever met.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Otto! How long was yr commute this morning?!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

it was HALF the time, only 45 minutes. and 23 minutes of that was the walk from N's house to the oak park blue line stop. if i had access to a bike i could've biked to the train in probably 7 or 8 minutes or biked to work in about 25.

it's about 25 degrees colder than it was yesterday though and raining so that 23 minute walk seemed to take forever. it kind of made me blue walking through oak park last night and this morning, lots of good memories in that village. saturday i'm going to do some xmas shopping and walk through the old neighborhood and spy on the old apartments. let the self-flagellation begin!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Think of the extra sleep! Yay.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Devon Seafood sounds nice, though I worry it might SMELL like seafood. Hmmm...

Why did you have to wait so long for the signing, Jesse? Were you early or was Sedaris late or was it just a long line??

I made pumpkin walnut bread to have for breakfast this morning, but I'm waiting for the coffee to finish brewing first.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Just so you know, that pumpkin bread is fuckin delish - perfectly fluffy, moist, and flavorful. If only I had packed more!

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Here are some cat videos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6036658873440327262&q=cat
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6497257644936185526&q=cat

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Hee hee. I'd seen that first one, but not the second.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, I am supa jazzed. I just got the syllabus for my feminist jurisprudence class and I've already read half the books she assigned for it. Sweet!

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh, i'm feeling a headache coming on. it feels like something is boring it's way through my left eye and out the back of my head.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel super calm and un-surpriseable today...maybe I finally got enough sleep?? I don't even know what that feels like.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you have an earwig like Chekhov in Wrath of Kahn.

xpost to Kevin, but you know, maybe Laurel has one, too.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Can I just tell you that the Danes know how to make a god damn shoe? These clogs are the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

They also write FANTASTIC fairy tales.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have paid $20 this morning to stay in the car listening to the reggae radio show and fall back asleep.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Fall back asleep in the car?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Why not?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr is forever fantasizing about being paid to stay in bed all day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't get a great amount of sleep last night, i was in a strange bed that isn't as long as i am tall and i had an 80 pound dog sleeping next to me. and a kitty, we were all in one bed. i probably won't be getting much sleep tonight either but thank god tomorrow is the last day of work for the week.

saturday i'm hitting all my old oak park haunts, gonna go to breakfast at the maple tree (or if that's too crowded, to eric's), go to a movie at the lake theatre, lunch at new pot, do some shopping on oak park ave and lake street, do some people watching in scoville park, walk around my old neighborhood(s), maybe hit the pawn shops on north avenue then get a pizza at edwardo's.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and of course go look at the f.l. wright houses north of chicago ave (which kind of ties into walking around my old 'hood). they always look so nice at xmas. rich people with good taste are a great combination for home decor.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to go check out Oak Park again. I bet it's very pretty all decorated.

Now that they are saying freezing plastic creates carcinogens, how edgy is that I'm currently consuming a half-frozen bottle of water?

I love being in bed. I used to think it would be awesome to be paid for sleep studies.

Someone recommend me a great starter site for crosswords. I never do them, but I want to start.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe Kr can find a sleep study that pays.

xpost!!

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

dunno but the guy who drives the water truck said temps have fallen about 10 degrees since he started work at 7 am, he said he has ice on his windows now. :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr and I have been talking about going out to Oak Park on a weekend. She's never been. Which at first I thought was weird, but I've only been there so often because a) I have family there, and b) we used to rehearse out there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

best times of my life were spent there. haven't been back in a while.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh but what I was going to ask: Is there a Fr Ll Wright tour of some sort? I'm sure there is. Someone tell me about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Spooning dogs in bed may not be classy, but it's CLASSIC. Especially when it's this cooooooooooooooooold.

In other news, I think I may have an injured wrist! I can barely write a sentence, though typing does not seem to be a problem.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thinking about doing this THING where I obsess about one topic for an entire month and do as much as I can to drown myself in information about that subject. Then the next month I would pick something new. I need a new hobby of sorts. This way, I might actually learn something. Also, it will up my quirkiness quotient.

I was going to wait and do it in 2007, but I might as well get a jump start since December starts tomorrow. Any ideas on what my first topic should be?

xpost - YES! I went on it with my Dad. Well, we did a house tour anyway. It was very interesting. I'll find you a site. Then we just walked around together on our own around the neighborhood.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Here you go, John

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

yes there is, jen was a docent at the flw home & studio when we first met. it's pretty interesting it's a guided tour of the flw homes around his home and studio on chicago ave. depending on the guide it can be pretty informative. i'd recommend going in the spring, as walking for 30-45 minutes in the cold can be pretty brutal plus if there's snow on the ground you won't get to see some of the details of the houses.

once a year there's a fundraiser for the flw home & studio where the owners of the houses will let the tour come INTO the house so you can see the interior details but that's big $$$ (relatively) and i've never gone.

but the tour is fun, if the weather is crappy you can always take the tour of the home and studio, it's interesting, indoors, and gives you some insight into flw.

xpost to john.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thinking about doing this THING where I obsess about one topic for an entire month and do as much as I can to drown myself in information about that subject.

Sounds like you already have a hobby right there.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Opium
Communes
Stem cell research
Tuberculosis
Lady scientists
Greenland

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't even go INSIDE the houses on the tour? That's bullshit. I could drive around the outside of 'em myself.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The history of indoor plumbing
Rats and their habits
Gypsies and their lifetstyle
Sudan
Alexander Graham Bell
Prehistoric man

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

yes but you wouldn't know the stories behind the houses. would you know which was the house where he met his mistress? and that she left her husband and he left his wife and kids and ran off together? or which houses got him fired from the employ of louis sullivan because he was doing side work when he still owed sullivan money (they are now known as "the bootleg houses")? or which houses were built before his trip to japan and which were post?

xpost to laurel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah's first project: Learn everything you can about the former owners of the now defunct K3mp M1ll Records.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Btw, has anyone read The Omnivore's Dilemma? It's the next book club book (not my pick).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I could look all of those things up on the internet, or in books about FLW of which there are more than a few. But okay, to get the info pre-compiled for you I guess the exterior tour's all right.

Jordan, no, but it's on my reading list.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Those homes are privately owned, but the house/studio is more of a museum.

I know, Jordan. I meant I'm thinking of doing that as my new hobby.

Thanks for the ideas, Amanda! I like the Opium suggestion especially because I was fascinated by the Opium dens during my Colette obsession.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

luckily i used to live with someone who gave the tour so i got the info gratis anyway. though we did pay for the tour when her parents came to town once.

whenever our folks would visit we'd treat them like we were baby sitting 4 year olds, walk them until they're exhausted, feed them constantly, and take lots of naps.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost Ooh! I've been meaning to read that! Michael Pollan is awesome.

Interview with him here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5336252

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, NYT review

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Second project: Uncover my address in Truckee, CA in early 1995.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, Jenny.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

One idea I had was Orchids. I've always liked them, but know nothing about them. Plus, my curriculum could include reading the Orchid Thief, which I've been meaning to do.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I should only study subjects that begin with the letter O, just to be as weird as possible.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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