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

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Suck it up, son.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Hepatitis C is attacking my head.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I sympathise quite a bit. Not at the moment, but your description is exactly why I can't abide champagne.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Champagne is teh evil. If you're feeling fancy, have martinis all night. For all its evils, gin is still a better hangover than champagne.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Gin and tonic until about 3 and then switched to Grand Marnier. At 4 we went back to my co-worker's house and drank Champagne. I love Champagne. I'm drinking some right now. And I do mean stuff from Champagne, France.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

How to Drink
by Kenan Hebert

Dozens sold!

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think Julia likes the Marx Brothers as much as I do. She kept saying, "This is so silly!" I mean, with a smile on her face, but still. Silly is an understatement.

The "Going to War" number in Duck Soup, where a huge grand room full of people sing and dance about the joys of war, and end up writhing on the floor like some vaudeville version of Guernica... wow.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

the marx brothers were fun.

happy new year all.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know about you guys, but there's no way I could drink martinis all night. That's why I finally took up Bud.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Liquor then beer, never fear.

It took me a long time to figure out that the reason that rule works is because if you start putting beer on top of liquor, you're going to have to go to bed soon.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of hangovers! My favorite morning-after scenario ever:

http://www.tomatonation.com/morning.shtml

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Movie line of the night, from Foreign Correspondent: "If you knew how much I love you, you'd faint."

That's awesome.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

* Jenny's squash risotto was great. I was full and I still ate seconds.

* The Descent and A Scanner Darkly = both worth watching, I'd say. Neither is genius, but both were entertaining and successful at what they were trying to achieve (A Scanner Darkly = trippiness, The Descent = scariness).

* Driving to J&J's house = a bad idea. I don't know why I did this, even after Jenny told me not to. Nowhere to park. Ended up parking at Damen and Addison and taking a taxi over.

* Taking a cab at 1:30 A.M. on New Year's Day = fun. Lots of stupid drunk people standing in the street trying to hail your cab even though you're already in it.

― n/a (n/a), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

JBR and I tried to get a car service home, but they were charging FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS for a $15 trip. We got out of the car and took the train home.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Champagne is better with orange juice in it!

When Amanda and Dan come back from EUROPA I think we should schedule another karaoke outing.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's such bullshit! Champagne is delicious!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

No it's not! Shut up you stupid cow!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Shouldn't that be, "fucking dyke"?

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I still don't get the deliciousness of champagne. But Jesse and I have had this argument before, and I'll not revisit it.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Good bubbly is yeasty, citrusy and smells of sugar cookies. It's as much about the smells as the taste. Moreso than regular wine I think.

― Jesse is posting on Jenny's (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I conceded last time we had this argument that maybe I wasn't drinking the best stuff. If not, I'll do so now.

THE END.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Good bubbly is yeasty, citrusy and smells of sugar cookies.

Yes.

Still holed up in Rogers Park, but considering Hold Steady/Sybris/ChinUpChinUp at House of Blues in a few hours...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Hold Steady is doing another show tonight?

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep, in the main room. Tickets are something like $18.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Starts about 7, with two bands opening.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll pass. once a year is fine. I'll play the new album at around 10 and feel a certain repartee.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

that's not at all the right word, is it?

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

what's the word I want? Like a metaphysical connection.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

XP: Nope.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

You need to just shut up.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

You head hepatitis is making you very curt.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That's Jesse who has headpatitis.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunset makes me sad. Because for a few minutes right before sunset, there's this big orange glow in the room, and every time a train goes by it blocks the sun, so I get a little blackout. And I'm like, "Who dimmed the lights? Oh, riiiight!" It's kinda cool.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the few advantages of living 100 feet away from train tracks, right at eye level.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm staying right near the N. Rogers Park Metra stop, so every few hours a train passes by and I hear the clanging bell as it slows down.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes I wish for every few hours, instead of once every two or three minutes. Like at about 6 in the morning, when I'm not sleeping well anyway.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be at the hold steady show!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost And oh God, when the Purple line starts running! It goes by at full fucking speed in the morning, and it's deafening, and it shakes the floor, and I wish to hell Chicago had a subway system instead of this stupid El thing.

xpost
Hi, Todd!

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I'd hate having a dark underground subway ride from Howard to the Loop.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

hi kenan!
happy new year folks!
i had a nice time getting wasted at a friends place and drank some dom perignon!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched a little bit of The Blues Brothers a few weeks ago and was trying to figure out where their railroad flat was - on Van Buren, maybe?

Clanging bell outside right now.

Nice way to roll, Todd - how was the Dom?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

truthfully, i am not well-versed in champagne, but it was amazingly smooth and tasty compared to the other bottles we had which cost between 5 and 20 dollars each.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

We've decided to stay in today. Yes a shocking decision.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with you, bruthaman.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that the Blues Brothers' hotel is a long-demolished rat-house in the loop. I read it somewhere. Can't find it again, though.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

All I wanna do is zooma zoom zoom.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

np. Blues Traveler - Run Around.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Went to see Children of Men this afternoon, then dinner at Siam Country. Now I feel like collapsing, totally exhausted after the last three days.

NYE was fun, but we were sharing the bar (it was split pretty evenly between our group and another), and so it didn't seem appropriate to hijack the sound system, even though I'd put in a good couple hours putting together a dance playlist. I was promised that we'd go back to our usual style next year.

Drinks: about four gin and tonics, and a couple of Harps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

* Driving to J&J's house = a bad idea. Nowhere to park.

OTM

Although I eventually did find a spot nearby on Friday after about what, 25 minutes of circling around?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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