CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (5123 of them)

I think out of some misguided notion that it would give the admissions staff a more personal sense of us, or something. it just seems very impractical and like a lot of deserving students with unreadable handwriting might not get full consideration. i have very good handwriting, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot to tell you guys that this morning I spied a young hipster listening to Richard Marx on his ipod.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

IRONICALLY i'm sure.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Richard Marx is a
REPEAT OFFENDER
http://www.still-life-vinyl.com/images/3714.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

His hair accounts for about 8% of his total height there.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Sez the tall guy in the back.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I laughed at the hipster. You can't sit there and listen to "Hold on to the Night" without me laughing a little bit. Sorry, kiddo.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLD ON TO THE MAAAAAAAAAAMMARIES

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

if only that were an option.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

1. we waited that long because we showed up at 6:50 for the signing and there were 1 million people there. And she did a reading for those who arrived early, so that ate up a long time.

2. Devon does not smell like seafood. Good seafood restaurants never do. Courtney and I discussed how it would make a great TT place, but we were concerned that we might have a poor turnout because some people might think it was too pricey. Drinks are about normal. No $6 buckets of PBR, but not over the top either. The apps make it all worthwhile.

3. Snow. That's ok with me I guess. I don't care.

4. Amy S. signed my Strangers w/ Candy DVD.

ihttp://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HC2OBO.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39796032_.jpg

She wrote on her ass "I'm thinkin bout pussy" (because she's lusting after the girls in the background, you know) and scratched out "thumbs" from "two thumbs up" and wrote "dicks."

The hispanic guy in front of us in line said "I wanted you to sign my ass," to which she replied, "No, I need a flat surface and everybody knows you Mexicans have those big asses. Sorry, it's late and I'm punchy. And racist."

― this is not jenny, but it is jesse (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Richard Marx was one of the 80's most tortured troubadours, though this is not always apparent from the highly produced pop sound that send him to the top of the charts. Just beneath this facade is a man prone to despair and existential angst, expressed blankly in his guileless poetry. Consider the 1987 hit, "Don't Mean Nothin'":
Cause it dont mean nothin
The words that they say
Dont mean nothin
These games that people play
No, it dont mean nothin
No victim, no crime
It dont mean nothin
Till you sign it on the dotted line

Here in a single chorus he expresses not only a feeling of personal emptiness, but spits bile in the face of the very record companies that sustained him. The song also suggests a national emptiness brought on by the heartless greed of the Reagan years.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

oops

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HC2OBO.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39796032_.jpg

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Truly, Richard Marx deserves to be our National Poet Laureate.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't want to go back to work because i hate my job so much

― jesse here (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

and work makes me want to be dead

― jesse (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

there was some beef between him and chicagoist or gapersblock a month or so back. i guess the guy still lives in the area and makes tons of $$$ as a song doctor.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

WELCOME TO MY WORLD JESSE.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

or jenny, whichever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess the guy still lives in the area and makes tons of $$$ as a song doctor.

Yup, he's written a bunch of pop-country songs, actually.

Some theatre professor at my college who retired before I had the pleasure of taking a class from him was apparently good friends with Richard Marx -- as in RM was the guy he called when he was visiting Chicago and looking for a place to stay.

"Hazard" is pretty good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

His wiki entry lists an assload of people he's worked with. He's been busier than you'd guess.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Would I like Richard Marx?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm going to do some serious booze restocking after work. I'm talking beer, prosecco, irish cream, that starbucks liquor business, vodka...

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Would I like Richard Marx?

LOLZ

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

prosecco

Isn't that just a fancy word for ham?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

All those Jesse posts were Jesse.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I just shoplifted again. I didn't even set out to. They made it too easy. I went to one register, and they said, "Closed. Go to the register over there." Well, over there was a long-ass way away, and in between was an exit. So I just left. Like they watch for that shit. Please. Saved myself a good $20.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a horrifying phone call this afternoon from ComEd (the electric company). They said they're going to turn my electricity off on the 6th unless I pay them $180 right now. I know for a stone-cold fact that I do not owe ComEd $180. So this afternoon I called them. Seems that my electric account is all paid up and totally on time, which was almost as much a surprise to me as anything else. It's Jessa's account that's horribly overdue, and subject to be turned off, and somehow that's still in my name. I explained that this is my ex, and acted extra surprised, and begged them to please not turn her electricity off, that I would talk to her. They gave her an extra month and took the account out of my name. Nice.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know why I LOLed at "so I just left." But it is making me laugh still.

"prosecco"

Isn't that just a fancy word for ham?

Are you joking? (In case you're not--Italian sparkling wine = prosecco; prosciutto = ham.)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=emb&view=att&th=10f3b3c18564a17a

Courtney sent me this and asked me to diseminate it. I don't quite get it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. Wait. Star Trek.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

In case you're not--Italian sparkling wine = prosecco; prosciutto = ham

I was joking.

Holy crap is it snowing.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Greetings, People of the Great Lake! It is late at night, and I haven't gone to sleep yet and this thread came to the top of New Answers and I clicked on it and it seems to already be approaching browser-busting length and I don't have time to read all of it, and i can't figure any of it out but it seems there are a lot of pictures of a kind of cute woman named Saywhat? who is most often photographed eating potato salad or something like that, but I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed meeting those of you who came to NYC for CMJ- jaymc, nick and sarah (nabisco was already here and doesn't seem to post to these threads anyway) and i guess i see ailsa posted as well so i don't feel so bad bumrushing your thread and i'll stop now k-thx stop.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

haha You're fluttery! Like snow!

That was an awesomely messy post. Welcome very much.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I seem to vaguely recollect an It's Snowing thread from late at night two years ago where the only ILX0rs still awake were you, me, jaymc and teeny.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 December 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello!

The bus was SO crazy this morning. It was the most packed I've ever seen it. An old czech lady was smushed between a bookbag and the door. A huge jerkoff refused to move out of the way for people and kept saying, "I'm from east LA! You best not mess with me! Stop shoving! I'm for real!" Every time we stopped, I had to jump back off the bus and into a pile of slush to let people out. It was all very dramatic.

Anyway, now I'm at my desk listening to Wilco.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

By the way, I did decide on ORCHIDS for my December topic, so please feel free to email me recommendations, including but not limited to: any songs by bands with the word Orchid in their name or songs with the word Orchid in the title, books you'd recommend, personal stories involving orchids, movies about orchids, places to see orchids...

― Calico (calico), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i had to wait 40 minutes for a bus today. it's extra freaking awful out there today. plus i get to go back to the place i'm staying and shovel the sidewalks, which sucks because the house is on a corner lot.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Bands: The Orchids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchids

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm 15 minutes late to work, and I'm still home. I called in late. REALLY late. Fuck this shit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

looks like we're closing down early, i may be out of here at noon. if so i'm heading to oak park for lunch at flat top and borat at the lake.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

can we discuss something that doesn't revolve around breasts, please?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

all tits all day, huh?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

get one sense of humor

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

would prefer two breasts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

weh

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, so in front of the desk i'm sitting at today is a window. out this window is a grass area about 50 yards by 50 yards surrounded on 3 sides by a series of buildings. it tends to create a weird circular wind thing in the field. so just a moment ago there was a strong gust that pulled up snow from the ground and blew it into the air. the gust was so strong and lasted so long that it looked like snow was falling in reverse, going from the ground into the sky.

this is the end of days, isn't it. c'mon, you can tell me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I am working from home today, on the futon, under a comforter, a cat sleeping on my lap. It's nice.

― n/a (n/a), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

my friend has the most affectionate cat ever but her dog chases him away whenever kitty tries to get my attention. the dog doesn't realize he weighs roughly 70 lbs more than the kitty.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost I think I may make an argument for doing the same.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 5023 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.