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

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Depends on what kind of sick.

I just listened to Eric's interview! He's so cool.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, Eric's interview was great.

horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 8 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely Kev is sick partially because he is frozen. I feel like we should take up a collection. To what end, I'm not sure. But damnit, I feel almost like in Kevin, I have my first homeless friend. YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT HEAT IN THIS TOWN. SOMEONE HAS TO DO SOMETHING.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Why doesn't Kevin have heat? I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's illegal in this town. I've got a pal over at MAP - should I give him a call?

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

YES! By his reports, he has no heat. And as we can plainly see on night like this, that's really fucking criminal.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Unless he's squatting.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Heat would be known as an "essential service" - http://www.tenants-rights.org/index.php?page=heat#q1.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, I called Kevin a while ago, and I feel like a dick again. (Again, you say? Yes, again.) This is none of my fucking business.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I did not go to TT. Nor did Courtney. This is because we made some big mistakes last night. We were going to go to see For Your Consideration but wound up futzing around with her iTunes for too long, so we just went to the Beuna bar where we drank 2 bottles of wine and something else. Then I walked home and got a bite to eat at Crew and had a beer. I wound up hanging out at my house with a friend I made there. Today sucked.

Did you know that Carhartt jeans are considered pretty fashionable? They are popular amongst gay men. Maybe because they flatter the booty like no pant ever has before. They're like the Wonder Bra for butts.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin - I put Kenan up to calling you. Plz don't think he was a dick - I was the dick.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Nobody was actually a dick. I just shouldn't be worrying about people's business, is all.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, if you find out we don't have heat and the temp drops to single digits outside, please call and worry about our business. I will do the same for you.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think anyone's a dick, i appreciate the concern but no one needs to be worrying about me.

unrelated: i have taken more cabs in the past week than i have in probably the last two years. took one home from delilah's the other night because it was too cold to walk to ashland, took one home from the holiday club last night because i just wanted to be home as fast as possible, took one to work today because i was running behind and the next bus wasn't due to arrive for another 15 minutes. i forget how handy having an auto can be. it took me almost 90 minutes to get from the ukie village to uptown last night, the trip home was completed in less than 20.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Kenan, it's called CARING. It's all the rage with the kids these days.

I don't feel like doing work today! I have more Christmas shopping to do.

My tree looks beautiful. I finished decorating it last night. I used strands of the huge colorful bulbs that blink AND tiny white lights that cascade in strings. I also managed to work in every single ornament we own, except for these tiny bows that Nick nixed, or Nicked if you will.

Calico (calico), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I listened to Eazy's radio dingus this morning as well, pretty great. I had no idea about the freakish guitar playing style.

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm supposed to be going this show tomorrow but i'm not sure, getting out of town for a night (even if it is just to milwaukee) would be fun but i should probably do some xmas shopping or something.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Kenan, it's called CARING. It's all the rage with the kids these days.

This is new and strange to me. I want to know more.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone up for this? i'm giving it some thought.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

that would be awesome

but i have no santa gear

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

me neither but i love the idea of a group of drunk santas on state street in the middle of the afternoon.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

for some reason I read that as "dark santas"

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

with the amount of bile and self-loathing i have welled up in me i can assure you i would be the darkest of dark santas.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i can challenge you on that

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

My tree looks beautiful. I finished decorating it last night.

Ha, Kr said last night that her mom asked if she had a tree, and we had a good laugh because we have never known anyone in Chicago to have trees. I stand corrected!

For the record, I like Christmas trees, but considering I barely have anything on my walls, it's not exactly a high priority. Is yours real or fake, Sarah?

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.chickenshop.co.uk/acatalog/SM22993.jpg

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Kingfish has done the Santa convention before, either in Portland or Detroit.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

my first xmas in chicago (or oak park to be more accurate) the only place me and jen knew that was selling xmas trees was on harlem and lake, i carried a 7 foot tree from there back to our place on washington two blocks west of austin. my arms were so cramped when we got home i couldn't put them back down to my sides.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

OH BTW YOU GUYS: I just beat a parking ticket this morning. I had an in-person hearing with a judge, and I was totally like "Look, I wasn't blocking an alley or parked in it, I had my blinkers on, and it's a pretty wide alley, vehicles could totally move past me" and the judge said, "This notice says 11:31 AM," and I said, "What? No, it was PM," and she punched a few things into her computer and was like "You're right, all the other tickets the officer wrote that day were at night, too" and I was like "Well, yeah, I wouldn't have been in an alley at all at 11 in the morning," and she was like, "The notice is factually incorrect, which is grounds for dismissal," and I was like, "Awwww yeah, you just saved me $150" -- or $145, actually, because I then took a cab to my office.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a fake tree. My Dad bought it several years ago when my family descended upon a dorm room in Charlottesville for Christmas. It wasn't even my sister's dorm! It was someone else's she was staying in during the holidays whom she barely knew. Anyway, we had my whole family there, and even the other sister's boyfriend for a while (though the rents didn't know about that). Anyway, when it was over, my dad said I should have it because I am the oldest (but mostly because I was the only one out of school and in an apartment).

I love putting up the tree. I didn't do it last year because I was going to France. This year I'm going to DC, but screw it, I wanted it up anyway. It totally cozies up the place. I love it.

Calico (calico), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I mention I love it? Anyone who wants should come drop by to see it and maybe have something hot to drink and pet a cat.

Way to go, John!!

Calico (calico), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

my apartment has a menorah (roommate is jewish, but i requested we bring it down because i think they're pretty) and a single christmas ornament. i kind of like that level of holiday decoration.

xp yay on getting out of the parking ticket!

JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

You need to go full-on nuts with the Chanukah decorations. I wonder how one would do that.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was super-nervous, too, because the woman who was before me was this Trixie (with an Old Town address), and the judge was totally playing hardball with her. She got a ticket for not having a city sticker displayed, and she claimed that she ordered one online, but it never showed up, and she went through all this red tape to follow up -- and judge was all, "Sorry, it wasn't on your car. That's a violation."

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

trixies be payin'

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

You need to go full-on nuts with the Chanukah decorations. I wonder how one would do that.

Potato latkes hung from the walls.

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Odds are good we're going to be in town next Christmas and that being the case, I totally want to get a tree. I've got this box of antique ornaments that belonged to my great-grandmother Elizabeth that I have carried around with me from state to state and stubbornly refused to get rid of and dammit, I want to hang them on a motherfucking tree. Also, dammit, I love Christmas, or at least the tree/music/hot drinks/decoration aspect of it and I am excited to have a chance to make Christmas happen my way.

Congrats on getting out of the ticket, John! We got two parking tickets in one day right before we sold the car and I was all FUCK THIS I'M FIGHTIN' 'EM and I sent in the paperwork and then forgot to go to the hearing and Jeff was less than pleased with me.

Okay, I'm off to take an exam. Send me some positive, edifying vibes.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, speaking of which I'll be celebrating the end of Chanukah with breakfast at Ashkenaz deli.

Also, I had a jazz cd buying urge last night but was denied because (of course) the store didn't have anything I wanted, but I just realized I can go to the Jazz Record Mart in a couple of weeks! This makes me happy.

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

and then forgot to go to the hearing

I nearly did this as well. I finally got my license in the mail yesterday after my speeding ticket last month, and I was thinking "Hmmm, I wonder when my hearing is for the parking ticket ... oh shit, I think it's this week."

Also, dammit, I love Christmas, or at least the tree/music/hot drinks/decoration aspect of it

My favorite part of Christmas was always Christmas Eve, when we went to church and then came home and my dad made a special dinner (like Moroccan stew or linguini w/scallops or fondue) and then we'd sit around the tree with coffee and homemade cookies, and Mark and I would exchange presents, and then we'd get to unwrap just one present from our parents, and we'd listen to Mel Torme's Christmas album. Also the lights in the living room were dim so the tree-lights could glow.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My favorite part of Christmas is Jesus. I like to build a life-sized nativity scene and listen to hymns and hold my own private Mass in Latin and then roll on the floor in the holy nativity hay in religious ecstasy.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that what the kids are calling it these days.

Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the origin of the term "roll in the hay," if I am not mistaken.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

has anyone else heard the bruce mccullough album? specifically, "i just wanna say that i really love the baby jesus...." ?

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I luvses that album. "Answering Machine" used to be the song on my answering machine. It was so long no one ever left a message. Perfect.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't even see a manger without thinkin' about him

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i have two copies of that cd, one was jen's but it wound up with my cds. i happened to be listening to it the other day. "that's america" is timeless.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't even see a manger without thinkin' about him

i believe the quote is, "I can't even see a manger without thinkin' about him, eh?"

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I've wanted to hear that album for years!

JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Would any non-Catholics like to attend Midnight Mass with me? I wanted to do it last year, but for some reason didn't. I just think it would be fun to dress up real nice and watch a bizarre, antiquated ritual in a very pretty building. It'll be like theater! Who's with me?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link


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