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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

Hooray.

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

Things I have learned so far from my parents' cable TV connection:

1. The new Nas single samples "Inna Gadda Davida."
2. The Prince song "Black Sweat" kicks ass, and the video is pretty great too.
3. Cable kinda sucks (I already knew this, but I forget it).

― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago was fun, now I'm in Milwaukee at my dad's house. I just gave a drum lesson to a little Hasid kid named Moshe.

Black Sweat was definitely one of my singles of the year. I think I'm going to go watch some cable now.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

me too!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I've had a headache for the past two and half days. This has never happened to me before, waht is wrong.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 25 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I took a nap yesterday and the the weirdest, most intense dreams I maybe ever had. I kept falling asleep and going into this totally real alternate reality, where I would be doing mundane things, like talking to my coworkers. Only one of my coworkers would be someone I totally made up, someone I have never even seen. And I'd say to myself, "Wait a minute. This is a dream. I don't work with any light-skinned black guys!" Then I'd force myself to kind of half open my eves to check in with the real world real quick before going right back to sleep and doing it again. It was strange waking up. For a good half hour, I still wasn't entirely sure that this was the real world, and I kept looking for signs that something was wrong with it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 25 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, you know what, guys? Merry Christmas.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 25 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Merry xmas bros. Made a good haul. Lots of books, including two copies of the new Pynchon (going to return one). Donald Barthelme's 60 Stories. Sweaters. The Residents' Commercial Album. Good stuff. I am sleepy. Watching "Mythbusters" in my parents' freezing basement.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 25 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Barthelme is a hero of mine. That's an awesome book. Get ready to laugh a lot.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 25 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Merry Xmas. My neighborhood is a place that Xmas forgot--all the stores and restaurants are open and the sidewalks are full of people and Vietnamese women menacing pedestrians with their BMW SUV's and Volvos.

Last night Sayjal and I went to Tweet for brunch, then had a salty dog at Big Chicks while I filled out a job application. After that we saw The Queen (good) then went, had Chinese in Chinatown, and returned to Big Chicks.

Sayjal had to work today so she left me and my other brown friend Sheila joined us. We had only had a couple sips of our beer before a drunk man told Sheila and me that we were "beautiful, gorgeous people," and that he was from the Lower East Side and not since he was last there to had he seen such good-looking people. Strangely, he correctly guessed that she was Guatmalen and I was Mexican. He tried to buy us a drink, but we turned him down, to which he responded, "I'm really sorry to bother you but it's just that you're both so beautiful that I'd like to penetrate you both."

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 25 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi everyone, Merry Xmas and stuff once again. I'm relaxing on the couch and thinking about the eggplant and mozzarella baked ziti dish I'm making for dinner tonight. Got some good books (Iraq Study Group Report, the Motorcycle Diaries) and a MIDI keyboard (!) among other things for presents this year, and everyone seemed to like what I got them. I helped my dad set up his iPod (his big present) this afternoon, and I put a bunch of music on it for him. I can't wait to see him listening to N.W.A.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 25 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The papasan chair is gone. I'm sorry if anyone wanted it, but I doubt that anyone does, given the reaction it got last time Jenny offered it up. First I noticed that it was enormous and crowding my living room. Then I moved it into the bedroom, and noticed that it was even more enormous in there. Now it's enormous in the alley.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm glad it was in my living room for a couple of months, though, and I was thankful for it when I had nothing else to sit on. I watched movies in it. I fell asleep in it.

*cue Oscar-style montage of me watching classic movies, intercut with shots of me sleeping in a big-ass chair*

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Saw Borat tonight and couldn't stop with the laughing. Hilarious, with great satiric sensitivity. It rode the line beautifully.

After watching episodes of Ali G. on HBO on demand I thought I would cringe through the whole thing, but instead I busted a gut. I loved it the mix of candid and scripted material.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, Borat. So, so funny.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Drunk! Typing accomplished only slowly, with many corrections. Poss the bset night of my home time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, time to play truth-or-dare, L.!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Could do! Who but you and I are around?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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