Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

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I can't go to the droning show b/c I'm going to be in the burps.

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I think I just got a dab of srirachia in the little kitty's eye.

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I think I just dabbed Srirachia in his other eye.

:D

Wait, what? I started this thread?? Weird!

My dearest CrunkleJ!

Jeff, this seems relevant to your interests:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/hanson-to-launch-mmmhop-beer-20113011

Whoa those Hanson brothers are real lookers.

Also, it's an IPA! http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/11/30/hanson-launching-what-might-be-least-socially-acceptable-beer-in-history/

Also LOL at the Hanson/beer intersection of Jeff's interests. Who would have guessed? What's next? Patrick Stewart puts out a running shoe?

They are lookers, but that dipweed on the left has nasty hair!

It's amusing to see beer nerds on twitter get so outraged by this.

are you serious?
people are outraged by mmbop beer?

lol blue line (I think)

http://imgur.com/gallery/mHj7H

i was thinking about if i end up going to this show by myself: lots of people use cell phones to kill time at shows between bands, and i've taken paperbacks to shows before when i've gone by myself, but i think taking a kindle to a rock show would be unbearably dorky.

Haha, yeh, for some reason a Kindle would seem really dorky in a way a phone or book wouldn't. But then, maybe not dorky, but just weird b/c iPad would look out of place too. So might a magazine, maybe.

Dan, where did you find that image? I wonder if that's from Halloween.

I would take any and all of those things to a show. I'd take this to a show if it was easier to carry around. http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/e762/

i don't have much of a hard time going to shows alone. i even sat (stood) through two opening bands to see cave and it never really even reached a noticeable level of discomfort. if i can't sit somewhere, it helps to find a place where i can put my back against a wall though. but that would be true with or without a companion.

usually bring phone and emergency book.

I downloaded that Cave album, btw. Good stuff, esp. the opening track, which is super-derivative but also right in my wheelhouse.

xps someone posted it on facebook, and yeah I was figuring halloween

oh i don't mind going to shows alone, but i'd rather give my ticket to someone if they're going to use it than just waste it. also i don't want to be bored in between bands.

just give it to someone outside if no one you know is a taker

i kind of want to take the opportunity of the sandbox to just be a total dick to everyone and then when real ilx comes back, claim that someone else registered my name and that i didn't even know about the sandbox.

You realize you just ruined your own plan…

because i knew i wouldn't actually do it lol

Here are some door hangers you can print out for use over the next 6 months:

http://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/pedestrian/sidewalksnowremoval/Hanger_11_1_2011.pdf

I think it was easier to go to shows alone back when I smoked. I could just stand in the corner chain-smoking and looking surly.

xp oh shit I am printing 10,000 of those

that door hanger is an ink-suck.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3972007/Worlds-biggest-ever-insect-found-called-the-Weta-Bug.html

I recommend you all read that URL and make an informed decision as to whether you want to click that link.

foul pole

i saw those pics earlier today, pretty gross

the pics of jesse's foul pole that is

(I fuck chickens)

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While I was in the elevator just now I thought about your saying this, and that reminded me of this clip. If somehow you haven't already seen it, definitely watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8LDBNcsWc

Watching the other anchor's reaction in slo-mo is awesome.

Anyway, back to the elevator to think about you fucking chickens. Ta!

Lakeshore buses are the best. Such great views.

i was thinking about how even though i've been in this city for almost eight years, i still always look up from my book when the el goes over the river - it's such an amazing sight each time for me

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I still do this too.

I love that view.

I haven't looked out a window in years.

That's probably not true.

When I used to live off the Red Line, I would sometimes take a Brown Line from the Loop to Fullerton/Belmont and then switch, just so I could enjoy watching the skyline recede from view.

Now that I take the Brown Line every day, I don't pay attention as much. But it still beats the subway.

Thats why I try to take the purple line home at night rather than the red, even though it means walking further out of my way to get there.

Who are you?

jon/via/chi

happy friday, chicago! love, minneapolis

xp (I'd assumed as much when I did a search on the login a few minutes ago and saw that he'd posted about metal, Smashing Pumpkins, and Community, but the Purple Line ref confirmed it.)

Good day, Minneapolis!

kelsey my sis in law just is about to have a baby (first) and i have to get her a xmas AND bday gift

tell me what to get her (please)

are you looking for baby specific gifts or gifts for her as a new mom or ...?