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

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Someone throw a beer can in the direction of Montana, would you?

gbx, i have a fridge with 13 frosty old styles in it and before she left my friend said she stashed a 30 pack in the bedroom closet for me (there was a party here two nights before she left). i have no want for beers.

but my arm isn't that good so if you want to partake, star walking.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm the fuck out. Have a good weekend Chi.

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

okey dokey

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like a half-dozen beers, plz

grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i immediately regret that

hee! people saying this is my favorite thing.

horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! I almost posted that here! Funny.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

In news that is likely only exciting to me, a friend of ours writes stories for video games and named a non-playing character in an upcoming game after me.

"Specialist Burg3ss is in the tavern of the main base, talking about ethics and morality and the ignoring of the Geneva Convention."

I'm in a tavern! Talking about ethics and morality and international law! IT IS LIKE REAL LIFE!

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Reading Robert Frost is like eating Jenny's stuffed squash, or like doing a chore that you find satisfying like running the weedeater: it's delicious, wholesome, plain, yet nuanced. You can kind of feel the poetic nutrients absorbing in the fabric of your mind. It's like a snack of nuts and berries, or charcuteries.

And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.

This piece is great, but so much better on a re-reading, with knowledge of the end:

They listened at his heart.
Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

Now I'm off to the Holiday Club to meet Satchel for a drink.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 2 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a trumpet play in front of the Jewel playing Christmas songs. He or she is not good.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 2 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a wonderful day with Julia. We watched TCM and stumbled across a movie that hardly seemed worth watching, until, of course, we started watching it. "Paper Moon" with Ryan O'Neal and a ten-yr-old Tatum O'Neal, who apparently won an Oscar for it. Just charming as all hell. Very funny, too.

And then I came home and watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," which is my second favorite Hollywood musical. Sexist? Oh, hell yeah. On one level it's ludicrously sexist, but that's all parody. On a deeper level it's good ol' fashioned 50's sexist, and that's harder to swallow. But know that going in, and it's just marvelous. The songs are great, and I sing them in the shower sometimes. ("Bless your beautiful hide / Wherever you may be.") The dance numbers are so great that they made me a little misty, no joke. There are not a lot of movies that make me choke up because of how unrepentantly JOYOUS they are. They don't make those at all anymore.

The #1 musical, though, is always "Singin' In The Rain," which I watched on Thursday night. And yeah, I don't know what it is that makes me get all misty when Donald O'Connor does "Make 'em Laugh," but it gets me every time. It's a totally different kind of misty than at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life"; less sappy but somehow more nostalgic. It's not tugging at the heart strings, but it's tugging at something. It's a feeling of, "Now THIS... this is perfection."

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

First thing out of bed this morning, I regaled Julia with a number fron Singin' in the Rain.

Don't bring a frown to old Broadway
Ah, you got a clown on Broadway
Your troubles there
[flourish] THEY'RE OUT OF STYLE
for Broadway always wears a smile

etc.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not a homosexual.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Methinks you doth protest too much.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I did once march down Broadway in the driving sleet to the tune of a bagpiper playing "Singin' in the Rain". We twirled around a couple of lamp posts for good measure before we froze solid and had to be chipped out of our ghillies.

Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Methinks you doth protest too much.

I know I do. But if only you knew how very very much I like girls...

The liking of musicals is harder to explain, is all.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Methinks you doth protest too much.

I ALWAYS PROTEST TOO MUCH. ABOUT EVERYTHING. I PROTEST ABOUT EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I'M COLOSSALLY INSECURE. This should not be news, exactly.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

...neither should it be endearing.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

bah, i was supposed to watch charade last night and there was a change of plans.

young tatum o'neal reminded me a lot of my sister when she was little...probably that whole little-girl-who-looks-like-a-boy, not the adorable/manipulative thing. my sister didn't look like tatum o'neal when she got older though.

WHY THE FUCK AM I AWAKE. so fucking sleepy. i woke up at 6:30 and dammit it's sunday.

JuliaA (JuliaA), Sunday, 3 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Good times:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bP21zUrMh7s

whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 3 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw that guy once, it was fun. Probably the best one-dude singer/songwriter gig I've seen.

JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I am sad to say that I am considering taking a money-saving measure that will reduce my enjoyment of life: I may be saying goodbye to cable TV. I considered 86ing Netflix too.

Which will it be? Netflix or Cable?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Biggest bills:

Rent
Cell phone
DSL (landline and internet)
Cable
Electricity
Gas

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeh, and

Student loan goes in right after Rent.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

netflix >>>> cable

JordanC (JordanC), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, plus Netflix is less than $20 a month! Cable is like twice that, isn't it?

Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I would ditch the landline. Unless you can't. I would keep cable over netflix, you know, since you like watching sports so much these days. Call up your cable company and tell them you are leaving so that they give you a better deal.

Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

tcm >>> netflix

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

or maybe i should say
tcm + dvr >>> netflix

Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Nashville is laid out in a very confusing circular pattern. It is a nice place to visit, though. This is the first time I've returned to Chicago from visiting another place where it really felt like home coming back. I like that.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Singin' in the Rain too, and remember liking Paper Moon too, though it's been a really long time since I've seen it.

n/a (n/a), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

tcm >>> netflix

Jesse doesn't get TCM anyhoo. I say fuck a bunch of cable.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I would ditch the landline. Unless you can't.

This is the evil of AT&T dsl. It comes with a landline, no option. Canceling the dsl means getting rid of the phone, and vice versa. They make you sign a contract.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been through this before. SBC (as it was then) charged me $40 a month for dsl and phone with no long distance. Then I got a bill every month for nearly a hundred dollars. Upon examination, the bill was FULL of wrong charges and mistakes. So every month I called them, and every month they told me they would take the charges off the bill. Sometimes they did, and sometimes they didn't. By the time this constant tug of war was over, I had paid them everything I did not owe them, and swore never to do business with them again. And I will not. Ever. I would rather have bamboo under my fucking fingernails than ever deal with a phone monopoly ever ever again.

So I have a cellphone and I have a cable modem. So far, no troubles. I don't anticipate many, either, since both of those companies have real competition.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Calling and bitching at Comcast, in my experience, can accomplish huge feats of cheapness. I once yelled loud enough that I got my cable bill cut in half. IN HALF.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I made Yenny's stuffed squash last night with acorn squash. It was great! I added a little bit of mushroom powder to the stuffing and it added an earthy sort of taste. Verdict: DELISH. Thank you for posting the recipe!

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I cooked, too! I felt so accomplished last night, tho my apartment was surprisingly cold and not-heated-like. I stewed a chicken and put up the extra stock and made soup with the rest!

Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I made some other stuff too but I won't bore you with deets.

I do wonder, though -- I ordered some stuff from that Alchemy lab of perfumery and I was wondering how long it would take to get here. Has anyone made an order and received it? How long did it take?

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Nevermind, apparently it takes 14-21 days.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I made a big fuck-off fried salami sandwich last night. It was for nostalgia's sake, I hadn't had one in years but I loved them as a kid. I think it made me sick (or at least dehydrated), I was up around 1 am drinking water.

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I had un-fried salami. It is also good. And a large salad full of red bell peppers.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Good morning! With the wind chill, it was ONE DEGREE for my walk in from the bus. Exciting!

I'm having some hot chocolate at my desk. None of my coworkers have commented on the crazy dye job I got this weekend. I look Calico, in a good way, or at least I think so.

I haven't received my Alchemy lab order yet.

Calico (calico), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not supposed to wear jeans on any day but Friday, but this morning I decided they could eat me. I was not going out there in thin slacks to feel my legs quickly go numb.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

BPAL should send you an email telling you when your stuff ships. It took mine a good two weeks, I think. I know I was really antsy and sending Jeff text messages about "Did it come yet???" because we have packages shipped to his house since who freaking knows how to get packages delivered into the compound here.

Jesse, get rid of your electricity.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I waited for 20 minutes for a train yesterday in the nasty, windy cold. Fuck the fucking CTA. I have had really bad luck with them lately; they made me late for work twice in one week. I feel sorry for Brown line riders this weekend because you suckers were on "Brown Line" buses or SOL a lot of the time.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what's weird? When it's around 40 degrees out, my apartment is chilly because the heat doesn't come on at all. But when it gets really cold the heat comes on and never goes off. Last night was blazing hot, as it is now too.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe wherever your building thermostat is located is drafty? In my last building the 'stat was IN THE FURNACE ROOM, meaning that it got hot in there in about 15 minutes and kept the heat off all day.

Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I added a little bit of mushroom powder to the stuffing and it added an earthy sort of taste.

I ate my leftovers of Jenny squash with some turkey cold cuts and gravy, to which I added mushroom powder (Spice House?), and as usual, it made me happy.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I have had really bad luck with them lately

No joking. Seems like with all the Brown Line crap, if you live north of Belmont, your arrival time to work is in the hands of the Transit Gods. Even leaving the house early does not guarantee anything.

Last night was blazing hot, as it is now too.

See, my trouble is that when it's 40 outside, they leave the heat just as cranked as if it was 20. My skin turns to parchment and my cats begin to char around the edges. But when it's 20, it's juuuust right.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost But does the landlord set the thermostat at 60 degrees or what? I think she put the sensor outdoors and set it to go on at 15 degrees, because that's the only time I get (way too much) heat. It's very nice when I'm up and lounging around the house in shorts and flip-flops, sipping Mai-Tais, but at night it's miserable.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link


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