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I think I have ranted about UP beer prices vs. Chicago beer prices before, so that's old news. But seriously: Winter White. Big glasses. Three bones. What a great deal!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 28 December 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

No Bells here at all anymore, doncha know, eh.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what is kind of surpising(and maybe a part of the post-911 US)? Grocery stores in (L.P.) Michigan have started posting signs saying that they will not accept Canadian coins. What kind of bullshit is that? Everything up to 99¢ Canadian was always OK in my growing-up years. When I moved to NC and they refused my QE2 coins I was pissed.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No Bells here at all anymore, doncha know, eh.

Waaah, chriiist eh?

I was telling some Kalamazooers that story tonight and they didn't believe me!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 28 December 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the exchange upthread where Jesse types "ily" and I pretend that it means something.

Good morning, Chicago. I love this city.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey. Sorry I couldn't come out with you guys last night. I've had a really rough week: family drama over the holidays and then me making myself anxious for no good reason over the last couple days. So meeting someone new wasn't high up on my list of priorities, although I'd like to see Jon before he leaves town.

I ended up at Simon's last night, where the glögg was not as good as I remembered it (or perhaps just not as good, or strong, as the glögg we get at work), but I was able to relax a bit. This morning I'm feeling jittery again, though. Fuck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get glogg.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Mulled wine when it's cold out... I get that. I make that at home, over a warm stove. Glogg is too commercial.

;)

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Does John Williams want to come to TT? Do we want to have TT at Old Timer's, just for shits and giggles? Does John C. want to come to TT? Does he want to have it at Old Timer's?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Kitty sleeps in a Far Niente box.

Classy!

May be able to make it to TTs Tnight.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that really your cat, Jesse? Are you sure it is not plush?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

ily

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Conversation I walked into in the coffee shop, between and old regular and the long-haired/mutton-chopped baristas:

Old guy: Gerald Ford! Gerald Ford! He was a giant! Giant!

Barista (to other barista): I thought he was talking about the guy from Princess Bride, you know, Andre.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay Eric! I will call you later.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, someone pick up the new Reader that should come out today and see if the FF feature is in there (I don't know why it wouldn't be, but it probably won't be online until tomorrow, so I won't get to read it until then).

― n/a (n/a), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't come to TT tonight: I have band practice. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, because I'm a pedant, no "h" in Jon Williams's name.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I knew that 30 seconds after i typed it. No sense in correcting it, though.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I wouldn't have even said anything had Jenny not repeated it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Lookit:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/336389775_0337129196_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/336389218_4b5edd499b_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/336382964_39374acceb_o.jpg

Why did people put hay and fingers on gravestones in the olden days? I used to walk past that graveyard on the way to elementary school and I finally made it back there to take some pictures when we were visiting for Christmas.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Picked up a copy of the Reader at lunch. Holy cats, that's a fine (and sizeable!) article about the FFs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

(Kendrick wrote a blurb about C-n-st-a, too!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy cats, that's a fine (and sizeable!) article about the FFs.

That's sweet. I remembered Nick mentioning something about an article in the Reader so I was checking for it last weekend when I was in town.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Great photos, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

C-n-st-a

I don't know what word I was trying to obfuscate here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

cunsta

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what I would call your band if I hated you guys (which I do not).

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Come here and entertain me, all of you.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Cunt Nasty

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Good start.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I spilled a few drops of Vernors on my laptop keyboard. What should I do about that? It's making my Enter key stick a little bit. I'm afraid to pull the key off b/c I've done that before and it's a bear to get back on.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry. I don't want to talk about that.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Cuntastic

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Cuntsta?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Clearly only the dudes are online right now.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you know?

33. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

45. Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

45a. BBC News online missed putting a period on that sentence, thus eroding their readership's esteem and credibility.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Love that Reader article, and Newberry's photo too. And you guys even get a blurb on the cover of section one. I really like that the writer works on getting the details of your stories straight, so that it covers the different influences and paths and becomes the opposite of pidgeon-holing. Viva the FFs.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm. It does not appear to be online.

I assume it appears in the music section? I'll have to go grab a new copy since I always dispose of that part.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll have to go grab a new copy since I always dispose of that part.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't read that part. I grab a copy and that and any inserts go in the trash straightaway. Sometimes I keep it with me on the train and throw it in the newspaper recycling bin.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's just funny because it's the first part that I go for.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

If I take it on the El on a Thursday afternoon/evening, I leave it behind, so that if someone is coming from Rogers Park or somewhere else that doesn't get the Reader 'til Friday they might see it as a gift.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

You can have mine.

I read the letters to the editor, Savage Love, headline articles, Perry Bible Fellowship, reviews of movies, and sometimes books and plays.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I have drunk SO MUCH Vernor's over the past week. Like, liters and liters. Cannot get in NYC. In fact there's a Detroit-theme bar called Motor City that has VERNOR'S SIGNS ON THE WALLS but doesn't serve it, the lying bastards.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i love vernors.

if anyone finds a link to the ff article online, can they help a minnesotan out? i can't find it...

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not online yet. It probably will go up tomorrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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