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

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― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Also - what consequences, if any, do you face for giving away your guest's credit card? Do you think you are screwing up on purpose so you'll get fired and have to find a new job because you are afraid to quit even though you hate it?

None. The guy was the father of a regular bar guest--a really nice girl from from the building, Le0 Burne77 I think. On one hand a mitigating factor, on the other hand something that made it so much worse! He called and cancelled his card. The manager slapped his forhead and I made myself scarce.

And then tonight was so. fuuucking. bad. We had a gross "Detroit ghetto" party of 25 who insisted on seperate checks-- which we simply never ever ever do. They told the manager that I had agreed to this and he fucking capitulated. I had to ignore stop taking tables, and spend 45 minutes processing their checks (for a fucking lousy $800 for 25 people) while one guy kept interrupting and harping because their limo had been waiting outside the whole time.

Anyway, I felt like I was back at Ganache and I had a very shitty night, with even shittier money.

I no longer want to be a waiter at all, but for fuck's sake, if I am, I'm supposed to be in a "professional" setting here and I would like to have some of the perks.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The fun part came when some fucking guy who talked like Chris Farley in his "Da Bears" SNL sketch corrected my handshake. He introduced himself, we shook hands and he said, "No. You gotta grip like this," and pulled my index finger out so it extended down the inside of his wrist.

Who the fuck does this?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

When will Oscar De La Hoya EVERREWRRERERER come and rescue me from this? I have been waiting for about...10 years or more for him, and I'm afraid it might not happen.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/249741~Oscar-De-La-Hoya-Posters.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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http://members.tripod.com/miguelburgos_1/oscar_de_la_hoya.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey does anybody want to straight copy edit (no content changes, just typos/spelling and grammar) a 30 page paper on solidarity unionism?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Jesse, he'd probably just beat you up a lot. And if not, he'll be dumb as hell before too long. The human head just isn't meant to take that kind of abuse.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just thinking, has he ever taken a hit to that beautiful face? I used to have an enormous crush on him when I was around 20, and he is just as cute now as then. I'd play rope-a-dope with him anytime. What a fucking hot man.

Did you know he has been a recording artist? I'm afraid to investigate this.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You're better off just pretending that all his songs are love ballads to you, I am almost sure of it.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://members.tripod.com/miguelburgos_1/oscar_de_la_hoya.jpg

Oscar talks. He is actually more articulate that I thought he would be.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

He says, "Image hosted by Tripod."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, stop threatening me over email. If you have something to say, you just say it right here to my virtual face.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Motherfuckga;glkjds

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YoyNxoyhms0

oscartalkshe'smorearticulatethanihogua;hioewr;wgan;egivnaweg;iohwg'3w98h23

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been reading Prep. I don't ever want this book to end.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

This is one of those books that make me feel anxious after I get halfway through if I don't have another sure thing lined up.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1180471.stm

Goddammit. Old news, but this makes me mad because it slightly dissapates my disgust towards Madonna.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

If you missed JT on SNL, you missed the vocal performance of the year.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i finally finished my xmas mix this weekend and it's pretty goddamn good. too bad i waited so long i can't send it to anyone in time for christmas.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

sendspace

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously, post that thing on the blog.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

where do i upload stuff to blog?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

sendspace

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been reading Prep. I don't ever want this book to end.

This is one of Kr's favorite books. I gave her the follow-up (The Man of My Dreams) for her birthday, but I don't think she liked it as much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

PS Hi everyone. I was in Chesterton, Indiana, all weekend with the band on a songwriting retreat. We have several new songs now, in various stages of completion. And arguing was at a minimum, although not entirely absent, as yesterday afternoon will indicate. I also got really stoned on Saturday night, like top five ever, like curled up in a ball on the floor giggling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Has Amanda seen the ILM thread on Pentangle yet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I just quit my clerk job! I said, "I'm really sorry. I love working here!" and my boss said, "Obviously not enough!"

Ouch.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

ILM? I thought it did not exist.

Man, I miss the days of getting so stoned all I can do is giggle. The last time I tried that all I could do was cower in abject terror of... well, pretty much everything.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

No, she hasn't.

I had the worst nightmare last night, y'all. I can't shake it.

I second Jenny on giggling. I don't miss being paranoid though.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

holiday mix is on the blog.
what was the nightmare about?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I could not fall asleep until approximately 4 A.M., two and one half hours before I had to get up. Needless to say, I am tired.

I had dreams last weekend that I stole books from the library and then gave them back as a donation. I was haunted all day by a sense of being a complete asshole. Kind of like how I feel when I smoke pot!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i was getting drunk txt msgs at quarter of three this morning but luckily i couldn't sleep and was awake to answer them. i think i slept about two hours last night.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

AND THEY WEREN'T FROM ME, FOR A CHANGE!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

true.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

the dream was about this total creep i dated in high school (irl) and it was horrible and lurid. let me just say that i was publicly humiliated at a grocery store, in the parking lot, and he was responsible. then he asked me how to "write a good paragraph" because apparently he was going to immortalize my public humilation and publish it. it was a real, honest-to-goodness nightmare.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

not that i mind drunk txts, they are probably my favorite part of owning a phone. sending, receiving, it's all so much fun.

er, xpost. that sounds really really horrible amanda.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

usually i'm relieved to wake up from nightmares, but this is spooking me good.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate that feeling. And that dream sounds truly awful.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Fortunately, it was not real.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Where are these magical less than $250 suits I hear so much about?

My friend got a vintage suit for his wedding over the weekend, at a place up here. It's from 1928 (seriously, it has a little inscription with the last guy it was tailored for and the date) and it only cost, like, $175.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

OH oh oh I saw a TV commercial for TWO suits for $150 at some discount men's store. They are probably made from craft felt, but when the first one disintegrates in the rain, you'll have a back up.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh ooh and then you can pull my favorite old man joke:

Person 1 touches the shoulder of Person 2
Person 1: "Is that felt?"

Person 2: "I dunno.."

Person 1: "Now it is."

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Except it works better when the garment is NOT made of felt.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey word nerds, check out this book I'm getting for my dad for Xmas.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/169948.ctl

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

(OK, maybe not word nerdery, but ...interesting applications of words)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got an Amazon gift certificate over e-mail from "Pappy Cunn1ngh4m." I'm guessing it's a Christmas gift from my dad. I wonder if he realizes he sent it to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a really good weekend. Lots of chillin, movie watching (Life Aquatic and Burden of Dreams), productive rehearsals and a good gig. All of a sudden D1gd0wn has like seven new songs.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG so tired...

I have to do a considerable amount of work on my paper tonight. I can't decide if I should take a nap for a couple hours in the hopes of being more productive or just power through until bedtime and go for volume production.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, Hot Doug's is going to be open this weekend. There is no way that I am not going this Saturday.

I don't suppose anyone wants to get dinner or something on Friday? I have the day off so I might drive in early-ish.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, do you play Friday night?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Friday and Saturday

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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