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Who do you love more, me or Dan?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The Green Mill calendar doesn't provide show times.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

nevermind. I see now that you can click on the name of the act and get a showtime.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm. What to do.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Who loves me more, Dan or John?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm gone chicago, hope your holidays are everything you wish them to be.

peace & love.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Q: How do you make a mix CD for someone in an age when they're able to routinely burn hundreds of songs from your hard drive and put them on their iPod and thus already own the songs you've played for them thinking they'd like?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

make it a mix cd with a flow to it. that they'd listen to in a car or as a playlist. so, basically you're just parsing and organizing them.

― robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey! The pixies ripped off that riff (or paid tribute to it?) in nimrod's son!

Oh, but it goes so much deeper than that. I was a fool before. I did not know enough to recognize that Motorhead is rock. They are the pinnacle and the nascent form all at once.

Christgau has a clear thought for once:

The stuff is so pure it's almost rarefied: no operatic declamations, no schlocky guitaristics, no satanism or medievalism or sci-fi or sexist s&m. Just aggression, violence, noise.

YESSSS!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, so I have to tell you about how I bought a couch today. I went to that strip of Milwaukee between Ashland and Damen that is just lousy with crappy furniture stores. That and shoe stores. The are more end tables and Nikes on that block than anywhere in Chicago.

So I went to four of these furniture stores, and saw a lot of overstuffed things and a lot of grandmotherly things and a lot of just plain bullshit. It's a lot like looking for records in the dollar bin. But then this one couch jumped out at me. There was a soft glow behind it, and angels sang. I knew it was meant for me. It's a chocolate brown number with no arms and tapered and angled steel legs.

This is the conversation I had with the salesman:

Me: "I really like this one."

Him: "That's... yeah that one's nice too. It's very retro." [emphasis his]

Me: "I'll take it."

Him: "You're some kind of artist, aren't you?"

Me (flattered): "I'm a designer."

Him: "I could tell by your glasses."

So I have an artist couch, apparently. It will be delivered tomorrow.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and it folds out into a double bed. I laid on it -- very cushy. So feel free to crash at my place. Bring a friend, even! A friend you like a whole lot!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

hi! i'm enamored with chicago again. it's a nice feeling. midafternoon beers at 3rd coast + dinner at lula + drinks at danny's + ending the evening at the zebra lounge = A+. although maybe it was just the company. so good to see old friends and meet some new ones as well. plus, the superhot bartender at zebra lounge was all smiley at me and told me i had a cute haircut! i'm taken, but that'll get me through the week i'm away from my gf just fine...

― robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link

john, you might also be interested to know i ran into n1ck luck1ng! he's following me everywhere. he came to 3rd coast with me and dan!

― robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

No Dan at the Green Mill. No nobody, except for Jordan. So I left the cramped space and met Sayjal at Crew where we had quesadillas. Then we went back the the GM at 1.

After that we went to Nick's Uptown where we drank vodka and sodas until 4. I am strangely about my wits and I do not like it whatsoever after the money I spent on hard liquor (5 hours of drinking) that was to have taken me outside myself.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

So you're at work, it's Xmas eve and you are saying goodnight to your favorite wonderful mother-surrogate, white-haired, Twisted-Sister-loving, pothead, gives-you-a-hug-when-she-sees-you co-worker and what do you think you might say to her?

How about, "Goddamit--who do you have to blow to suck some dick around this place?"

Then I got a hug. Yay.

HAPPY XMAS EVE!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sry guys. Everything happened later than anticipated, and ppl were tired.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I'm gonna go drive home. Merry Christmas, Happy Haunnakah, Krazy Kwanzaa, and all that to all y'all wonderful people.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Weird drunk. I drank vodka all night and then came home and polished off a whole bottle of wine at about 5. The thing is that usually I can't handle hard liquor. Strangely, I have only a normal hangover. Not that it doesn't completely fucking suck, because it really totally does.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

vodka is a surprisingly clean drunk.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anyone tell Jesse that it's not xmas eve?

― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, it's not xmas eve.

I am in Virginia, watching "White Christmas" with my family.

― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wodka is deeeelightful. Sadly I have none. Actually vodka (more than any other liquor, for me) is for going dancing and being manic and/or coked up and busy. Everything else is for down times.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am speaking to a limited audience here, I know, but I just went to a good restaurant that you should all know about. It's called Glenn's Diner, it's on Montrose near Damen, and they serve seafood. I'm normally really skittish about ordering fish at smaller places, but they seem really good.

The best part is their specials. There's the early bird special--seated before 6, you get an entree, soup, and salad for $10.95. The special that I'm reeeealy excited about is all-you-can-eat Alaskan KING crab legs for $29.95 on Tuesdays.

Tonight I had the Simon and Garfunkle tilapia, seasoned with--you can probably guess--parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, broiled (I think), and served with string beans and roasted red potatoes.

They have a small but respectable wine list. And you can order breakfast all day.

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=4b1&q=glenn%27s+seafood+chicago&btnG=Search

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

What's funny about crabs and lobsters is that they are the only animals I can think of that look appetizing when they are alive. It's kind of disturbing to pass the tanks in the window and get some mouth-watering action going on from looking at a living, moving creature. No other animals look so much the same alive and on a plate as these guys. This does not happen when I see a pig or a cow, but it would be funny if it did.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

JESSE YOU IDIOT I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT RESTAURANT ALL WEEK. I WENT THERE LAST NIGHT. I HAD THE POTATO ENCRUSTED WHITEFISH. THIS IS NOT NEWS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Me. I don't know what date we're going to come to your show yet. On Friday (the 22nd) I'm arranging for Restaurant Club to go to Glenn's Diner, a place a block away from Kr's apartment that specializes in seafood and also serves cereal all day. It'd be v. easy to just come to the Gr Mill afterwards -- it's relatively close -- but if that doesn't happen for some reason, then we'll def. be there on Saturday. Kr is v. excited.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 29th, 2006. (jaymc) (link)

Do you want to come to dinner with me at Glenn's Diner, for breakfast cereal and seafood specials?

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 18th, 2006. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Jordan -- the restaurant is Glenn's Diner at 1820 W. Montrose. I'll be there at 7, it'll be a party of 4 to 6 folks.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 20th, 2006. (jaymc) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I missed that due to skimming. Do you think I have the time or the desire to read every single post on here?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Now that I'm not spending my days in an office I have a huge backlog of unread posts when I come to visit.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Was Jordan there at 7? Because I was there from 5:45 to around 7:30 and did not see him.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Good job, Jordan, avec le Digd0wn.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link

uh oh. Girlfight.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad Santa is not just a good movie. It's hilarious. It's a classic. It's kind of amazing. It's bleeding genius.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

You know how some people watch It's A Wonderful Life every year and cry every time? I used to be that guy. Now I watch Bad Santa every year and cry laughing.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It's pretty good, you're right. Underrated.

John -- do you have OCD?

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-12/world-longest-diary.gif

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I slept for fifteen minutes, as sound as a dollar. Except the dollar is far from sound. It is worth about two cents.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link

For twenty years, Robert Shields has kept a written record of absolutely everything that has happened to him, day and night. For no less than four hours each day, Shields holes himself up in the small office in his home, turns on his stereo, and types. His diary, at 35 million words, is believed to be the world’s longest.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i hear that chicks dig that.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a raw, bloody place on each hand. I had a day. After I got my couch, I felt that something was missing, so I went to Brown Elephant and bought an end table, a lamp, and four dining chairs. The chairs were the bulk of the price, but I still got out of there for under $100. But I injured myself moving this stuff in several ways. Worst of all, the tip of my right thumb has a gash on it that didn't stop bleeding for hours. Ugly and painful. I hate using the space bar right now.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Then I watched His Girl Friday, and everything was ok again.

I like movies. A lot.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have OCD. Why do you ask?

I thought that diary you posted might have been of Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL).

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 24 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I was kidding about OCD. :D

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he asks because it was a little odd (obsessive perhaps, but not compulsive) for you to dig through old posts and repost them. And you do that regularly.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, have you ever tried using your other thumb on the space bar? I use my right one and I've experimented with the left one when I had a hang nail and it was nigh impopssible.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

impopsicle

― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

John. Question. Where did Nora/Norah rank in baby names in 2004/2005? I've met three babies with this name in the past week.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM HAVING XMAS EVE SUNDAY BRUNCH AT TWEET.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

kev: xmas mix is a real hit with the fam!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

raise up

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

This is from BC's website.

Look for beer tasting night coming soon to Big Chicks!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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