Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

2) Students enjoy hiring STRIPPERS for their parties, or so I was told in the paragraph I edited for one student named N0rma.

3) My students do not respect me, or so I was told after I was (basically) bullied into letting class out early by a tiny little gangbanger-lookin' dude.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANYO. Your birthday is my half birthday which means you are [x] years and 6 months younger than I am.

Yeah, I've seen that a couple times. I think I saw it once at an el-stop convenience store, where they had a big squirtable container of nacho cheese, and all the kids who bought red-hot Cheetos could step up and squirt it on.

The menu is not quite right on the website. It says the skate is "crabcake" but it's not. It's skate.

Jesse, no one is here anymore.

there does seems to be a special problem with Vista's over-security, though.

I HATE that.

1) D sick
2) only 1/3 of my class showed up for the library field trip
3) computer crashed, we had to restore settings and wipe hard drive, lost a bunch of shit including vacation photos from UK ;_; Don't tell me anything about backing up my files because I AM AWARE TAHT WE SHOULD HVE DONE THAT.
4) gas leak this morning, People's Gas are on their way.

;_;x100

As I understand it, visual effects is special effects, like CGI, scale models, explosions, etc., whereas art direction is like the cinematic equivalent of "set design." [i]Pan's Labyrinth[/i] was a deserving winner here because it created a unified look from the old house and the woods and the labyrinth: old and dark and mysterious. I think the category has to have some overlap with costumes, too.

Still can't log in at work, Kevin?

I am listening to Giant Brain.

from chicagoist:

You can't throw a stone amongst a bunch of hipsters in the Wicker Park / Humboldt area without a decent chance of accidentally hitting Plastic Crimewave's carefully managed -- and now more tightly clipped -- 'fro. Long a staple of the local psych rock scene, at least as a prodigious historian and record-keeper with a killer collection (some of which saw airtime on a recent Market Frenzy podcast), Crimewave is assembling what he calls his Vision Celestial Guitarkestra at The Empty Bottle. The idea is to get dozens of guitarists together to play a single chord -- admission is free if you bring your own axe and a short lesson on how to play the single chords will be given -- in an attempt to either a) summon our alien overlords or b) shatter every fucking window at The Bottle. Either way, we're curious to see how the whole thing pans out.
Empty Bottle, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m., $8 (free if you bring a guitar and play), 21+

You still can't get in from work? I think I type for all of us when I type: W.T.F.?

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seems like a LIFETIME ago already.

bump?

I wish people wouldn't change their handles so drastically when in the Sandbox.

Or whatever. But if you're going to, I'm going to eye you with suspicion and indignance.