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

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I thought the Robin Thicke thing was a joke, too, but it's not! He even opened for John Legend recently.

Hey, so we went to Chicago Diner last night. The service was fine (I think we got lucky) and the food was good. We ordered chips and guac as an app but it was RAW chips and guac - they made the chips by dolloping corn goo onto a tray and dehydrating it. They tasted fine, but then we finished those so she brought us some regular fried corn chips and it was like, "OH that's what this is supposed to taste like!"

Anyway, I think being a raw foodist would be very depressing.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The coworker who gave me the Aldo card just handed me a glass of wine. If everyone in the office is drinking, this could make for an interesting afternoon.

Those chips sound weird.

Nick and I ate at the Handlebar the other night and I was wondering why we don't go there more often. We both got the three sides plate, and I got us chips & dips for an app.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"Shooter" was my summer jam last year

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

HI KIDS I WAS IN CHICAGO FOR ONE HOUR YESTERDAY. Now I am on le other side of le lake. Getting in trouble for stuff not-done at work. HAAAAAAY.

Sarah, enjoy yr presents! We get lots of edible stuff in my dept but everyone's on a diet so we try to spread the sugary, buttery cheer around the offices. The champagne's all mine, tho.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought you would appreciate that, John. It was a very successful prank. Unfortch, Meloy-as-Horshack has not had legs.

Laurel! SOrry I missed your txt. I was at the goddamned grocery store when i finally saw it.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The chips were kind of sweet and not very crunchy and they stuck in my teeth like craaaazy but the taste was okay. If those were the only chips I could ever eat, I would sit at home in the dark eating dehydrated corn chips and crying.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i like handlebar too, i'm not sure why i don't go there more often as well now that i think about it.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

BEGIN RANT
When I went to UBS for my tutoring dude I overheard some people actually COMPLAINING that there was a mountain of chocolate in their office. They said some shit about it being Carb Mountain and I wanted to remind them that there are plenty of people in the world -- and one in that elevator -- who would enjoy a piece of that mountain. People complaining about the hardship of sweets/treats in their office can zip it the fuck up.
/RANT

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

It is kind of annoying though, like I'm trying to stay in shape but I have absolutely no self-control when it comes to food placed it front of me.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Boo hoo.

Hey how much is the cover for your band?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd prefer to have the starving third world get most of the food that gets placed in front of me! I don't need that much food to live!

It's ten bucks. I wish I could put you on the list but we only get one slot per person, and I gave mine up because some dudes have lots of out-of-town family coming to the show.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I've actually always been mildly disappointed whenever I go to Handlebar. Like it's decent enough but never outstanding.

I haven't been to Chicago Diner in a coon's age. I generally think other veggie restaurants do the fake-meat thing better, but their gazpacho is the best I've ever had.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

carb mountain=happiest mountain evah!

I am feeling much better about being stuck at the airport after 2 bloody marys (consumed at 10am, special airport rules).

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

re: food
there is a time of year when you give in to The Plenty and this is it.

re: cover
oh, that's fine! i'm glad to support you and am very thankful that you will provide entertainment for my parents, because i had no idea what to do with them. they're excited!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS IS IT
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025JQ.01._PE32_.Kenny-Loggins-Alive._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to drink on that motherfucking plane tonight. Yes indeedy!

My sudden, sharp rise in incidental alcohol consumption (like, oh I will watch some TV. And drink a beer! or I've got to pack, I think I'll drink a beer!) since I finished finals suggests that I might actually end up being one of those proverbial alcoholic attorneys.

GOD THAT COVER.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Another rumor I like to perpetuate:
Kenny Loggins got married in the nude

(although I swear that I actually read this in Parade magazine at some point)

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, I think any kind of graduate school drives you to alcoholism. I've even convinced myself that 1 gin and tonic "helps me read."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how he's looking the opposite direction of all of the hands clamoring to touch his cockles. And smiling idiotically.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

OH KENNY
They know that they are considered bizarre. After all, their 1992 wedding began with the wedding party in the nude. "I saw it as a statement that [everyone] had nothing to hide," Kenny says. Julia says she follows only "far-out'' healers and therapists, and advises Kenny to do the same. He wonders: "Is that incredible wisdom or is she a New Age Gracie Allen?" She even inspired Kenny, who wore a beard for 25 years, to shave. "I was afraid Julia would say, 'Oh, I didn't know you looked like that!' " Instead, "she discovered a new erogenous zone."

Both had first marriages where their goal was "to get along." But introspection and angst pay off, Julia says: "The rough spots always lead us to a closer place."

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

amanda, you made me snort.

whoa crazy xposting.

has anyone ever done ebay sniping? i'm kind of tempted to.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I like how KENNY HAS NO EYES.

LOL @ one gin and tonic to help you read. Shamefully, I can identify.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

That cover is a perfect example of guitar-as-phallus.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I have, Julia! I got tired of being sniped, so I sniped back. It works.

One of my coworkers just complained about all the alcohol she is getting from the subcontractors. 'I mean, COME ON! I HARDLY EVEN DRINK!' Give it here, lady.

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Waaaaaaay xpost: The Bob in is having a show? WTF

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

INN

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobolink eating worm
http://www.birddigiscoping.com/bobolink.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi dere cute birdie!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i haven't been to the bob inn in years, that's where i'd go pre-show for shows at the fireside to avoid the high schoolers at the punk shows.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fauxto.com/edit/getImage.aspx?img=35DF96746C1A50B762AA1851562E5330

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.gironit.com/fotos/fib05/Devendra%20Banhart%202.jpg

separated at birth?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahahaha oh dear

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Shit, I thought that was an unwashed Crispin Glover for a minute.

Devandra B. would shoot white light out of his eyes and when the white light it the ground it would turn into tofu wraps and hits of acid.

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

What's awesome about that photoshop is I thought you whitened KL's face a little bit, but then I looked back and realized you didn't! Dude has natural corpse paint.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

If I had more time and proper image editing software I'd decapitate some of the audience members and maybe put some blood running out of his mouth.

Note: I edited that image using http://www.fauxto.com/, which is a web-based flash image editor. You can open an image from a remote location and when you save it, you save it to their servers. It's like the best piece of message-board related technology since the http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/lachen/laughing-smiley-014.gif.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

so is anyone going to be around for the xmas holiday or are you all going out of town?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I = leaving Saturday, back Thursday evening.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff and I = leaving today, back next Wednesday.

Jesse will be here.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hello chicago, i am among you. i'm meeting sarah for a girly cupcakes and wine thing early tonight, is anything fun happening tonight that i could come along to? or is anyone interested in eating leftover cupcakes/drinking leftover wine in my fancypants hotel room?

― colette (colette), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I will be in town, but out of commission on account of parental units.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ok. i think everyone i know is going out of town. colette i don't know who you are but upthread there's a link to a christmas show at a dive bar called the bob inn. that's where i'll be tonight. then saturday night my friends eric and jeremy are spinning at the continental.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

JESSE WILL HE HERE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone i know but jesse will be out of town for the holidays.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gone Sunday afternoon through Tuesday night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone i know except jesse and amanda, though she will be otherwise obligated, will be out of town for the holiday.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn right.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Kevin, do you remember that time you and Courtney and me were drinking at the Italian Village and you yelled PROVOLONE? I think about that sometimes and laugh.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick and I = leaving tomorrow after work and returning the evening of the 30th (Sat)

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i do remember that time jenny and in fact i yelled PROVOLONE today at my desk in place of the poly-syllabic swear word i wanted to shout.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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