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― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:19 (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

i can not think of anything more depressing than going to midnight mass.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I do like Latin.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never been, is all. Maybe I'll find out how depressing it is.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd definitely be interested in going to a Latin Mass -- does anyone know of any that exist around here?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd definitely be interested in going to a Latin Mass -- does anyone know of any that exist around here?

http://www.cantius.org/

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

haha non-catholics. because Catholics are a bit creepy, yanno.
(should really capitalize consistantly but meh.)

i used to play violin duets with my sister at midnight mass every year at christmas.

i wonder if i should have a christmas movie marathon--elf, bad santa, and it's a wonderful life.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Elf has that one girl with the funny name who is pretty.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Now you know.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks Otto -- yeah, I know where that church is. Right by the Chicago Blue Line stop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

When you're a kid and you go to Midnight Mass, does that mean you sleep late on Christmas morning? Or is there just huge napping that afternoon?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

no, we just didn't get much sleep. when we got older we slept late on christmas mornings.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I always wondered what went on in that church. Or any church, for that matter. I imagine fantastical goings-on.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Elves and fairies and chipmunks and dancing ponies and the like.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

when you're a kid there's no such thing as sleeping late christmas morning. you crash later.

i wouldn't mind finding a place with a polish mass. i'll bet st. helen's must have a few polish masses for christmas, it being the polish archdiocese of chicago and all.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Now you know.

that Catholics are Creepy?

xp, oh yeah, i loved those dancing ponies when i was little.

i think the most fantastical thing about our masses was chocolate donut holes afterwards. and my lovely violin stylings of course.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

When my Indian mentee doesn't understand something, she always says, "Why so?". It's really fucking cute.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

And I don't mean cute in an R. Kelly way, more in a chipmunks and dancing ponies way.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

she always says, "Why so?"

Well, it's depend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Guys, I don't know what to say. A senior citizens' chorus has performed Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Go old people!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: apples vs. pears. Go!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

they also performed a cold play song

― grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

pears.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

An amazing pear at the height of its ripeness trumps all apples, but such a pear is a rare thing indeed. Outside of that ripeness window, pears aren't very satisfying, whereas apples are just fine at least 80% of the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^ correct

― grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

that seems right. I think it's related to how I feel about pie v. cake, too: the best pie is better than the best cake, but in this fallen world one often gets better cake than pie.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Apples bore me lately. I can't find any good Granny Smiths. I want an apple so tart I won't be able to talk for an hour.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, I just has one of those amazing, perfect pears that jaymc described, so I choose pears.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

just HAD

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i would gladly pay a man tuesday for an apple pie today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

apples might be better than pears in pie. I don't think I've ever had pear pie.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Pear pie sounds like it would be good, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

pear pie would be full of mushy goo. Pear cobbler would be possible, I guess. But really, anytime you cook a pear you end up with something more suitable for spreading on taost than anything else.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a little awkward to say, with the alliteration. but it sounds delicious, yeah.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

spreading on taoists? sounds kinky.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the diff betw a pie and a cobbler?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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