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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

..."Baney taught show shave kids buying there fun."

this paper reads like spam.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

You shouldn't be shaving kids.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell that to Baney.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i've read that sentence 15 times and it's made me dizzy each time.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds like an important life lesion.

lolz

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

A friend just txted me that one of his students said she wants to shoot him and never see him again. She's autistic though, so I don't think he has too much to worry about (at least as far as getting shot).

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yikes Jordan.

Hi, guys. It's Sarah.

I'm glad for your heat, Kevin. I don't understand the website blocking. Is there just one person in charge of picking out websites to block all day? Do your coworkers ever complain about it?

I feel totally out of it today, but at least I don't feel as much pain. Also, I threw on some clothes to do some laundry downstairs and I just realized how totally awesome I must look. Consider:
* tennis shoes, no socks (but with orthodix!!)
* black slip, hanging out over
* pink gym pants
* covered on top by green t-shirt
= AWESOME

Now it's back to playing Sudoku on the couch and moaning whenever one of the kitties breaks something.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Lucky you.

Hi.

We played a show in Milwaukee last night. It was the worst monitor mix I've ever heard. Actually, the balance was fine. But dude did not know how to deal with my keyboard -- there was no low end whatsover. High notes were screechy and loud, low ones were completely inaudible. Makes me wonder if I should get an amp instead of going direct. Other than that, show was okay. Got home at 2 AM and am exhausted today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

John, was INDIEROCK$T*R worth seeing?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

For someone that's never really given a fuck about him in the past, I was pretty impressed. He has a cool voice: he strains for high notes, but it doesn't weaken the tone at all, it just gives it more character. Good backing band, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, I was also playing Tetris on my cell phone and reading The Rules of Attraction for much of the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(Still Sarah) How is Rules of Attraction going? Also, could you tell the keyboards sounded off on stage or did someone out in the audience tell you that later?

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

For someone that's never really given a fuck about him in the past

Not an SDR3 fan, eh? Guess I'm not too surprised.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I like "Seven" a lot, which a friend put on a mixtape for me in high school, but I've never really investigated further. (I didn't mean for that to sound negative at all.)

Also, could you tell the keyboards sounded off on stage or did someone out in the audience tell you that later?

It was the on-stage monitors. No one in the audience said anything, and we did have a couple of fans who made the drive from Chicago to see us (because they're also big J.E. fans) so it might have been totally fine out there -- but it was hugely disconcerting on stage. Also, it was a seated crowd that was there to see another band, so it was hard not to feel a little uncomfortable, anyway. I looked down a lot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I forgot about Sh4nk Hall. That place reminds me of high school (making my dad take me to see my drum teacher's band, etc.).

hey FF's

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan (and everyone else) -- this video has some neat drumming and wacky editing. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

That looks cool, I'll watch it when I get home.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

people be workin'?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

friend of a friend who went through a windshield on monday is a-ok! bike is FFF-ed and she got a bunch of glass in her back, but otherwise she's totally fine. and it wasn't her fault, neither, so hopefully her bike and her trip to the ER will be covered.

driver didn't have a license, though. :-/

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's good to hear! No scarring, even?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think so!

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

what neighborhood was she in evan?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey dudes and dudettes -- was thinking about taking Kr to Gr Zebra as a treat/x-mas gift. I know it's all about small plates, but that makes it hard to calculate an average check just by looking at the menu. How many plates would you typically want to get for two people? Just want to make sure this is in my price range. And I know a couple of you jokers will probably say JUST PAY FOR HER GODDAMNED MEAL ALREADY. And I will do my best to bite my tongue, thanks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

JUST PAY FOR HER GODDAMNED MEAL ALREADY.

fulfilling my duty.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we got 5 or 6 plates, I think. Dessert and drinks and ours was about $125 with tip.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Tribune dude says 3 plates per person. $125, though: man alive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i heard there's some place in bucktown called marrakech cuisine that's knock yr socks off. little place in the back of a retail store.

just fyi

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

and for the love of god, john, just pay for her goddam meal already

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard of that place, Evan. I get confused by it, though, because Kr and I had our first date at Marrakech Expresso.

Moroccans be openin' restaurants.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

What retail store?

Also: Just pay for her... etc.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

See, now I don't know if you guys are being serious or not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.marrakechcuisine.com/

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I was being serious, just put it that way because Otto got to ya first with the captials response.

And think of it this way: last year I spent only a little more on a nice piece of jewelry for my gf and things went to shit shortly afterward. At least this way if that happens you'll have gotten an excellent meal out of it!

/cynic

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

he's right, you know!

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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