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I have read that they are v. good indeed. ANTHONY BOURDAIN STRIKES AGAIN.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi. This is Sarah. In case anyone CARES, I'm home with the FLU. I feel craptastic. Thankfully, Nick just got home from work so he went and got me a movie and poured me some more gingerale.

What did I miss? Let's see...

The boots sound way cute. OMG what am I going to wear Thursday? I have my xmas party in the early afternoon and then Nick's office party that night.

I always get a window seat, preferably one right behind an exit row where there's lots of extra leg room. Whenever I get tix, I pull up the diagram of the plane to see the available seats and which ones have more leg room.

I never had a slut phase. I was going to start one around the time I met Nick, but look what happened!

Ok, back to being miserable.

― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

gas face to the motherfuckin' flu

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, Sarah! I hope you feel better sweets.

Amanda - was it the slow cooker sweet potato and chicken stew or was it the Puerto Rican chickan and rice soup?

Oh man Cesar Milan is totally schooling a vet on how to deal with dogs. Jutzpah!

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

In Puerto Rico, they are called "chickans."

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

however, sheep's testicles are less disgusting than american hamburger is, as described in the book that julia was reading in august.

it seems that we could start a new chicago thread...

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I will take whatever chickan soup recipe you think is the tastiest. I think it was the crockpot chickan-n-yam though. is it zesty?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Aye. I'll post it to the blog. Both of them.

OMG there are these adamndorable little poofy poodle/chi mix doggies on Dog Whisperer that BATTLE like fucking pit bulls and I know it's terrible but they are hilarious when they fight!

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

chi's are insanely protective and fearless dogs, they have no sense of relative size. when we lived on the west side linus used to go ape shit at any of the numerous rotweillers in our 'hood.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

These three little poofs are battling each other. It's like watching stuffed animals come alive and start attacking each other.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm jealous.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda, I posted the chicken and rice soup recipe, but I can't find the stew recipe. I think it went like this.

Put all this in a crock pot: Pound of boneless skinless chicken breasts or thighs, cut into stew-sized chunks, two medium peeled and cubed sweet potatoes, one chopped onion, a can of diced tomatoes, frozen corn... Maybe something else but I can't remember. The spices were salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, nutmeg and I added a dash of pumpkin pie spice b/c we were out of cinnamon.

I'm not sure how right that is, but I'm sure you get the idea and can take it from there.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome, that's what i thought it was. i think i might add some chipotle powder (or pepper?) for smoky goodness. thankee.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds like a nice addition. Sweet potatoes and chipotles are good together. Witness:

Peel and cube some sweet potatoes and cook (steaming is recommended, I understand) until soft. Mash with one diced chipotle pepper (canned in adobo) and butter and a little sour cream and salt.

Amazing.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

if you could use some exotic booze theres a bar in far bombay...

i could really go for a stiff drink right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

2x, today has been brutal

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm fighting off a cold so I'm going to have a greyhound with my chicken wings tonight.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

test in t-minus 15.

let's do this thing!

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

ps - if someone can tell me how to annotate the genome of both eukaryotes and prokaryotes in 50 words or less, i'd really really appreciate it.

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

also, alternative transcription lol

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I just looked in my spam folder and I have email from:

Humiliating E. Gaiter
Phosphorus E. Handymen
Handgun O. Mendocino
Rectory L. Mentor
Hassle H. Malignants

There is also a new twist on the Nigerian bank account spam that comes from Captain Scott Morgan (US Marine Force) and invites me to help him deal with $10.2 million he found in a box in Iraq.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Good luck, Evan!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks! it wasn't that bad.

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay Evan! Here's hoping my Friday exam is not that bad, either.

Meanwhile:

http://static.flickr.com/138/318872980_04dcdd559f.jpg?v=0

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me of Julia.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, kittens are too weak to lift up pitchax---oh, i see what you did there

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link

hi. i'm home late.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i often get that kitten-with-pickax comparison.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's your pointy ears and whiskers. And that pick ax you always carry around.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

bye. i'm going to bed.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=4535&rtn=index-topten&nsfwfs=yes

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Colbert + John Zorn, now this is some funny shit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPdrXMZTks

Hip-hopketball: A Jazzebration!!!!

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny -- that's not real, is it?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the corpse book is getting to me. i just had elaborate dreams about rotting corpses. of course, they were underwater, and there were also pirates, and leo dicaprio was in love with a badly decomposed dead girl, so it wasn't a total loss.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i smell movie rights!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

of course, the reviews said that after the gripping opening scenes, the story settled into a lame Treasure Island rehash. Yes, my dream included reviews.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i bought a space heater last night. takes a while to heat up but it was nice sitting on the couch last night and not shivering. when i came in from my last cigarette of the night around midnight i could FEEL ACTUAL HEAT WITHIN MY APARTMENT!!! you have no idea how happy that made me.

i also went to the dominick's in roscoe village because i was up that way and i was totally underwhelmed by the place. nothing was in stock and there were only two checkout lanes open at 7 p.m. that is unacceptable. so despite spending almost $150 at the grocery store i still have to stop by the jewel near the division el stop after work today. but i need to get some nails to hang my x-mas lights so i'll go to the kmart that's over there too. and i need drano. and beer. i should be writing this down instead of typing it here.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

HOORAY HEAT.

I have slept for my second straight night without having to kick off the covers. We're all reaching some kind of equilibrium.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

add interpunk.com to the list of blocked websites at work. so for those keeping score or just can't seem to get away from my incessant blathering about this, we're up to flickr, youtube, interpunk, goner, shit sandwich, and itunes. that i've noticed, i'm sure there are others.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

how do they determine what to block? because if they were monitoring traffic, seems like ilx would have been blocked a long time ago.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i got an email from a student last night addressed, "dear sir"

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

how polite.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

From a paper on children's television programming:

"...unlike older shows, that were made just to help teach kids life's lesions."

[a native speaker, btw -- a good kid with a startlingly bad work ethic.]

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

kenan, i'm not sure what the creteria is. for instance, the arts & entertainment section of the boston globe is blocked but the business section is not. flickr is blocked but photobucket isn't. certain parts of espn are blocked seemingly without rhyme or reason. almost everyplace with the word "record" in the url is blocked.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the girls in the office just came in expressing frustration over having tried to help her nephew, who's in 6th grade, with a homework assignment. The assignment was to go online and find a picture of a can of avocado green paint with the price listed next to it. I can guess what the teacher was thinking, I suppose -- something like one of those Wal Mart ads in the Sunday ad supplement. But nothing like that exists online. Nor would it. First of all, why would anyone buy paint online? And secondly, assuming you were going to buy paint online, why would you insist on seeing a picture of the frickin' can? And I had a sudden flashback to every stupid homework assignment I ever had.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds like the teacher is redecorating her house and wants the kids to do the leg work on the comparison shopping.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds like an important life lesion.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.marions-kochbuch.de/index-bilder/avocado.jpg http://www.karensscrappin.com.au/resources/images/stories/Paint%20can%201.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

goddamn it, add music direct to the list of blocked sites. i'm trying to buy a zerostat gun as an xmas gift but have had bad luck with lp gear in the past. so now i have to spend more time looking for this thing. IF THE SITES WEREN'T BLOCKED I COULD GET BACK TO WORK A LOT F'ING FASTER.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yay for Kevin getting heat!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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