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something like going grocery shopping with grover or having beers with dr. teeth or watching football with rolf. just doing something normal only with a muppet.
That's what it's like in Muppet Country. You do normal things, only Muppets are there doing them with you. Sometimes a chicken flies through the air.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to move to muppet country.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

in my head i'm singing neil young's "sugar mountain" but replacing those words with "muppet country". still works.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

Wait, now I need to hear that song to get it OUT OF MY HEAD

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

with the barkers and the colored balloons!

baby wizard sex (gbx), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It's so noisy at the fair, but all your friends are there.
Just close your eyes and make believe, and you can be anywhere.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.muppetsonline.com/images/muppetbabiestheme.jpg

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I just read a really interesting series of articles about this photograph:

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123050/2133481/2148159/060912_CB_911pic.jpg

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

links to articles?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.slate.com/id/2149578/

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't want to link to it right away because I wanted to see what your first reaction to the photo is.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

First reaction: still kinda surreal that 9/11 was such a beautiful day.

Second reaction: if you can't tell that's Williamsburg from the angle, you can tell from the hipsters.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

It looks like it could have been photoshopped.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

It did not occur to me that they were sitting there not caring about what had happened, because THAT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was going to suggest that the photo was altered, anyway.

Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It's sort of fascinating, though, how much we rely on body language in a photo like this: if it only consisted of the two women on the right, there's no way anyone would've accused the onlookers of callousness, because they look watchful, alert. It's the fact that the one woman in the center is casually leaning back and the dude on the right is facing away from Manhattan that gives the potential impression of the whole party being all "la-dee-da" -- despite the fact that she's positioned like that to look at him and he's positioned like that to look at everyone else, and presumably when they're not talking to one another (i.e., many moments not captured in this photo), they're casting their eyes across the river.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

My biggest problem is that the bike appears to be floating.

Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ummm... http://fflaneur.livejournal.com/29595.html

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit. glad he's okay.

JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

WOW

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

do not get shot ez k thnx

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

chalk up livejournal to sites blocked at work. what's up?

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It's EZ's live journal:

So I almost got shot last night. I was standing in a bus shelter at the corner of Fulton and Damen around 9:30. I heard a little pop no louder than a firecracker from a passing car, and the middle of the three plexiglass panels at the back of the shelter shattered in a fraction of a second.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's the rest:

My first thought was whether the car - red, something like a Jeep Cherokee - would come back around. Second thought was whether to get off of Damen (no cabs or anything nearby), but Fulton is nothing but loading docks and chainlink fences, nowhere to go really.

After five or 10 minutes a cab finally came by. The meter in the cab wasn't working, the driver starts doing all different kinds of math, figuring out rates at a quarter-mile and how many blocks I wanted to go, and I didn't want to listen anymore, just got out on Damen a block or two north of North and gave him a ten. Tried calling two of my oldest and closest friends, Geoff and Sarah G., who were on the phone with each other so didn't pick up until I called back a few times. Geoff and I went to the Beat Kitchen, and I had a big plate of gumbo and a glass of Makers Mark and ice. There was what looked like a company holiday party going on in the back room, with a stage full of people singing some big finale. In the front bar, surf and Chet Atkins versions of Christmas songs. Closing up the tab, the bartender said my eyes looked normal again.

The good thing is this. On the way home, I was thinking about if the bullet had hit me, and thinking about if that had been the end. And I felt good about choices I had made and what I had done yesterday, last week, all this year, and more (something I don't always feel day by day). For one, I had just been auditioning actors - I'm directing this obscure, tough-to-get-a-handle-on short play - and had a great time working with the actors on solving the play, and it was an engaging productive fun time. After auditioning 50 actors for my play and others, the casting director herself offered to read the scene, and she did great work and got the part. A good moment, and a good story. And that's why I was down near Damen and Fulton to begin with - so if I'd gone, it would've been while on the job doing what I love.

Thought about a lot of good conversations and good times over the past day, month, year; thought about the good work done; felt good about the life I've lead, and glad still to be here.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i would've taken getting shot last night.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

And of course it happened on the west side where there are no cabs!

See? It's not just about yuppified convenience. It's about life or death!

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

that's not exactly what i think about when i think "the west side". that's less than a mile from my house.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

In my own personal geography, anything west of Ashland is the west side.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i think of anything west of central park drive, maybe kedzie, as the west side. but if you say "the west side" to me the mental image i get is the corner of pulaski & jackson, which is one of the scariest fucking neighborhoods i've ever been in.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My very poorly calibrated internal compass goes super wonky once I hit about Western.

Speaking of the west side, fucking Orange Line derailed today: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/19/national/main2281320.shtml

I think we should start a serious letter writing campaign to all our elected officials. There has been a major CTA delay every goddamn day for the last couple weeks.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Pulaski and Jackson... is that North Lawndale?

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And of course it happened on the west side where there are no cabs!

See? It's not just about yuppified convenience. It's about life or death!

roffles

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i guess that would be lawndale. it goes from kedzie to cicero, and 22nd st to the ike i think?

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

re: cta, kreusi has to go. between the brown line station closings fiasco, the (literal) DAILY MAJOR DELAYS, and the fact that more than 30% of the tracks in use are in designated "slow zones" because they are in such a state of disrepair that they're unsafe at normal speeds someone needs to be held responsible for this.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Hasn't the state underfunded maintainence projects? I'm woefully uninformed about the specifics of their budget woes. Seems like both sides probably share the blame.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

underfunded based on kruesi's expectations. the state says cta lacks fiscal responsibility. truth is probably somewhere in the middle. but all the same, the brown line and blue line projects are funded with federal money so there's no way the brown line stations should have been shuttered. ESPECIALLY after saying for two years leading up to the project that they wouldn't be closing stations. you think that would have been an influence in your decision to say, open a business or move into a new residence if you knew that the el station closest to you was going to be closed? dude has to go.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr went to Beans and Bagels (next to the Montrose stop) yesterday to get her usual bagel with roasted-red-pepper hummus, and they said that they're no longer offering the hummus: apparently their business has plummeted since the station closed and they've had to cut back on some of their offerings. I just hope they keep the fresh-squeezed orange juice. :(

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

See? CTA mismanagement has a devastating impact on people's lives!

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to start a letter-writing campaign to get the operator of the ~8:40 Blue Line run to shut his yap for a change. Dude just talks and talks and talks. Isn't that what all the robot announcements are for, and do we really need to be scolded into "using all available doors" at every stop?

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i had to wait almost a half hour for an outbound blue line yesterday. i was on the western/congress platform at 7:21 and the next one came at 7:48. since the advent of the "service improvement to the west side" morning rush trains are supposed to run every 6-8 minutes. obviously that's not happening. the most frustrating aspect is that there is no communication with the riders about the reason for the delay either. i've heard more announcements about delays to the redline while waiting on the platform than for the blue line. the last time i heard an announcement regarding the blue line was about 2 or 3 months ago when a car jumped the jersey barrier on the ike and wound up on the tracks.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

CTA mismanagement has a devastating impact on people's lives!

Certainly.

However, it must be said that I have been getting to work on time and even early for several days. The train has been moving for the entire route, sometimes even relatively quickly. I am convinced it's all a coincidence, and I will be an hour late any day now.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

this morning when we pulled up to forest park we sat for 4 minutes with the first SIX CARS at the platform and the last two still not there. we were waiting for "signals ahead". it was great to watch my bus pull away even though i was at the station.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait... you know what? I am totally misremembering. I got to work early Monday because I took a cab. I got to the platform, it was so crowded you could barely stand, and there wasn't a train in sight in any direction. So I said fuck it and hailed a cab on Broadway.

So basically forget everything I said in the previous post. The CTA is a constant nightmare.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Not for me.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

the most frustrating aspect is that there is no communication with the riders about the reason for the delay either.

THIS is what the operators should be talking about, not "this is Damen coming in to Damen bound for Downtown and Forest Park PLEASE use all available doors coming in coming in" etc.

xpost: Yeah, I really have to say I have few complaints as of late, but I realize it's probably luck.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just innocently looking at pix on flickr when I tried "Winter Cats" and ended up not being able to turn away from a monitor full of destroyed feet - blood, toes, inside of feet...ARGHGHGHH!H!!!! YUCKYPANTS!!!!!

AURGUTHGLAJSKLDJFKSLA

Anyway, I'm in a great mood today, aside from knowing the kinds of images that will show up in my nightmares tonight.

Calico (calico), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

what do winter cats have to do with mutilated feet?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

My co-worker Laura just told me that the guy in the cubicle next to her, an old curmudgeonly dude in his 60s, has been surreptitiously looking at hentai all day.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no clue, Kenan. It's someone's emergency room pix. THANKS FOR SHARING, DUDE!

Great. Now I have to go google hentai.

Calico (calico), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG that might not be a good idea. At least GIS-wise...

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link


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