Oh. I thought it was your name for a vagrant in your neighborhood or something.
Soft “g”
“Vag-rant”: The poor woman’s Vagina Monologues
lolz
Tee hee.
Having seen the Vagina Monologues, I would prefer Vag-rant, I’m pretty sure.
>>I know, dingleberry. but we all know it’s not the same there.
Why is it not the same here? Because we don’t have a vast archive of the last 6 years of ILX, which you’ve been around for like 10% of?
Jesse believes in God now and thinks that Jesus died for your sins.
Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not Jesse’s.
hi. i’m crazy.
Holy shit.
hahaha
There’s worse kinds of crazy to be, but yeah, that’s pretty crazy.
I get to go home at 3! Labor Day is like Christmas around here.
this fucking office is dead. people come, there’s flurry of meetings and donuts for a few days, and then everyone leaves. and my favorite union dude is in amsterdam.
This is my office. The girl by the window is AMEDB. The girl by the door was typing on her laptop like that for a good 10 minutes.
A Flickr user identifies that nice lady as Mona Monkeywrench.
Jesse, when are you coming back?
Here she is again!
I was just browsing an old ILX thread .... FOR WORK.
More articles on pop music, please.
John Mark Karr:
Matthew Herbert:
Something isn’t right.
There must be something wrong.
My mother sent us these bowls as a house warming gift and I love them. They make me think of Sarah and I don’t know if that’s because they are somewhat mid-century reminiscent or because I think that getting this excited over bowls seems like a Sarah thing to do. But either way, new bowls!
ihttp://images.crateandbarrel.com/is/image/CrateandBarrel/6PcBowlSetF06?$lg$
SON OF A BITCH
top ten things i miss about chicago now that i live in hawaii:
1) trains
2) lakeshore drive
3) victory’s banner
4) tuesdays at red-i
5) version/select media
6) reckless/grammaphone/dave’s in one afternoon
7) dog beach.
8) inexpensive middle eastern food
9) architecture (seriously. honolulu is on par with sarejevo in the dept.)
10) critical mass
Waaaah, I live in Hawaii. ;-)
i love it here.... but i’m just getting kind of misty knowing its september 1st and there wont be an autumn coming.
Remind what you’re doing there...?
living and working. indefinatley.
working for the same company i was working for in chicago, basically doing av for meetings and conventions at a hotel.
I had a hard time adjusting to a different season schedule when I lived in the south. It made me crazy when it was November and still warm.
Jeez Louise. 2 1/2 hour meetings — dud.
I have Nino Rota movie music in my iPod. I will sooth myself with this while I sit here and work some more. I will try not to think about how I get no Labor Day weekend at all. Not even one day, much less three.
What? Why?
I would not like to live in Hawaii. If I lived in Hawaii you would hear me say “Wah” for sure. Of course I have never been, but I’ve never conditioned my hair with dog poop either, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like that. The difference being that while I would not enjoy even trying a dog poop creme rinse, I think I might enjoy a visit to Hawaii.
Southern Decadence. This year’s theme (as in every other single year, and every night on the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann): Pectorials on Parade.
That 2nd picture is so fucking cute!
No weekend: because there’s a big event next week (don’t make me explain, plz), and marketing does everything at the last possible minute.
Overtime?
Do I have to register for this poop board?
guess not. I’m bored.
Jeff, I used Futura as the font for my name and address on my business cards. Do you approve?
That won’t open. Is that Crispin Glover on Letterman? Cuz if so, buddy, that’s good TV.
No, it’s the trailer for his new film. Which everyone should go with me to see.
I don’t know, I’d have to see the card.
But really, for most business cards, I like the classic serif typefaces.
i met a guy at a party last weekend who moved here from chicago. his wife loves it here and he wouldn’t stop whining about how much he missed chicago. all i could think was “please god do not let me turn into this guy.”
I wanted sans serif, but a more serious one.
Which serif fonts do you like?
The card will have this logo
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Plus my name, address, phone, email, website. (No title since I’m not too sure what my title is. Maybe Jenny could help me with that. When cornered on a sign-up sheet I wrote “Acting Director”)
shitfucker
Jexxe Kexr
35oo C@n@l Str33t
N3w 0rleans, LA 7oll9
504–555–1212 www.www.org jkkk@www.org
http://www.linotype.com/2209/seriffonts.html?PHPSESSID=33409b89a2
this is a good list. I’ve always loved Caslon. I’ve probably used Garamond more though.
I can’t work with that logo.
It’s the only logo I got. It’s a little hippyish though.
Jeff, I used Futura as the font for my name and address on my business cards. Do you approve?
Why teh heck do you ask Jeff and not me?
And yes, thanks, I do approve. I used Futura earlier today, actually. The building we’re promoting is an old art deco number, so I felt it appropriate. I went with a demi-bold, spaced at about +50%. Niiice.
But really, for most business cards, I like the classic serif typefaces.
OTM, really. But I like Futura.
Jeff’s right, though, about the logo being very, very bad. With that, I don’t think it matters what font you use, it’s going to look like a card with a horror of a logo on it.
(But sans-serif is probably better.)
Srsly, it looks like you’re advertising a pre-school for wood carving.
What you need for a logo is this, yo:
I’ve always loved Caslon.
Conveniently, a really nice cut of it comes with Adobe CS!
I’ve probably used Garamond more though.
Yawn. You and everybody else, since Apple used it in their logo.
(My own company also uses it in their logo. It’s bolded and italicized and unrecognizable and unspeakable.)
Serif:
Bodoni
Minion
Zapf Humanist
Sans:
Optima
Zurich (Extra Black if you’ve got it. The best!)
Oh, I like Skia too.
I can’t do Optima anymore, just because it’s the Planned Parenthood font, so it makes me think of condoms. I like “Extra Black” sans fonts. Frutiger, Univers, and the classic Futura.
This is on my corkboard at work. Which is where I am, BTW.
Solar Anus rocks.
Kenan, I asked Jeff because he’s a big font geek. I didn’t know you were too, but I am 100% certain of it now.
You’ll find a lot of these quasi-primitive, aboriginal culturey woodcuts if you spend much time in worker justice offices.
Happy labor day, comrades!
I went to Jewel without a bra on this morning. It’s the dawning of a new area of grocery shopping while inappropriately dressed.
Man alive, Jeff cleaned all the cat hair out of his keyboard yesterday and it types like a dream now. That’s kind of disgusting.
Hey are we here or on the other ILX? I’m lost and a little bit confused.
yay
AAAHHHHhhhhh. That’s more like it.
What? What’s more like it? ILX IS STILL DOWN!
Yeah, but at least we can bitch about it here!
If ILX being down had got you down, calm yourself with the soothing sounds of Robbie Dupree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qyzlWRbCtU
Greetings patriots. Armando Grouse, at your service, offering a full apology to Laurel for not being able to hang with her this weekend. I was busy dancing my feet off and losing my digital camera. :(((
I’m not happy about that last bit at all.
so,um, how was everyone’s weekend?
i kinda went to a party friday. went to ronny’s saturday night, dan martin was there as was a pig carcass. i tore pig ribs off said carcass with my bare hands and had the most savagely satisfying pork for pizza ever. went to a 4 o’clock bar around 2:30 and walked into a bachelorette party. the 4:00 bar was still serving me at 4:30, i left around 5, saw a rat run across chicago avenue. ate bacon, eggs and pancakes at a diner at chicago and western around 5:30 with polish day laborers and 2 drunk girls. one was named april and she was very chatty. that night i had a dream about santa claus. sunday i slept in, watched football, then burned 3 albums to put on my itunes.
I do find myself oddly soothed by the sounds of Robbie Dupree, though.
and had the most savagely satisfying pork for pizza ever.
well done!
Armando: no denying it would have been good to see you, but I didn’t really expect to (so the disappointment was bearable). xoxoxo Hoorah for dancing! I was in no shape to get up on Saturday, anyway, seeing as how I fell asleep on the C train and went to the end of the line and back, getting home around 5am. The funny thing is that it wasn’t really that bad!
I got your message about falling asleep on the train, but I figured that you were in good enough shape to write it which must mean that you’re safe at home and alright. I am really hoping to be back to Brooklyn as soon as I can so I will see you then FO SHO. I am just now recovering from Saturday night. I was not only UP but OUT until 5:30AM. We went to O’C’s after the wedding and that may or may not be where I lost the camera. I definitely helped buy new shoes for the Smirnoff children this weekend.
Awww, I like O’Cs and I would have been happy to show up on Saturday...I stayed in only because Noize events were taking place in Wburg and I didn’t feel like treking up there. OH WELL. Will yr friends be checking for the camera? O’Cs is quite close to me.
What is OC’s?
i’m hoping against hope it’s a bar dedicated to carrol o’connor.
Well, I went there yesterday before we went to the airport and there was nothing. We looked around with the flashlight but nothing came up. The only hope now is the car service, but YEAH RIGHT. So I just have to take my lumps and accept that I stupidly lost my camera.
xp—O’Connor’s. A bar where the groom used to bartend.
went to a 4 o’clock bar around 2:30
Wait, this wasn’t the Underbar was it?
no, wound up at the continental.
O RLY?
I used to have band practice right near there.
I have been to Feed. It is good.
Ha, I just misplaced a pencil behind my ear for, like, 15 whole minutes. I even went into the supply closet to get a new one.
Chicago is so weird — there’s a grassy empty field right next to that building?? Would never happen here, the lot would either be built up or else desolate and filthy.
i love feed, if it had been open at 2:30 in the morning you can bet your ass i would’ve been in there with a quarter chicken and some mac and cheese in front of me.
laurel, there are a lot of empty lots around there. that’s pretty much the northern edges of where chicago burned down during the king riots of ’68 and for the most part the lots have been vacant ever since. it’s kind of weird around california and lake because every other lot is vacant then there’ll be this stunning louis sullivan building or something like the honeymoon apartments that frank lloyd wright designed.
Oh, monday morning.
This morning haze hasn’t burned off yet, even after two cups of coffee. I don’t knw what else to do. Maybe I should eat something? Or will that just make me sleepy? Only one way to find out...
I think the grassy emptiness might be part of the rail yard...?
Nevermind. Not rail yard. Just empty lot.
and it is pretty desolate and filthy, you just can’t see it with the weeds growing in the lot. that’s a great area though, “up and coming” as they say. the clipper is two blocks away, humboldt pie across the way, humboldt park right there, ronny’s 12 blocks away...
xpost- no, there used to be a building there, i think the foundation is still there.
It’s a weird area. I once had to walk past there because the North Side pound is just a block or two south on California, and it did feel pretty desolate.
At least I hear the gang activity has calmed down a lot on the west side.
Yeah, the rest of the Continental building looks pretty dark and sad, then there’s the contrast of what looks like a nice, evenly green space next door! Plus in NYC the buildings would hardly ever be ONLY one or two stories tall. Funny — I’ve never been to the outlying parts of Chicago, and now that I only know Bklyn it’s super weird to go to other cities. Baltimore was equally odd, although I’m aware that statistically Brooklyn is probably the anomaly.
But see, you’re seeing an anomaly for the city of Chicago. It’s this weird dead zone. Most of Chicago is a lot like Brooklyn, actually.
Laurel, are you still coming to Chicago?
It’s this weird dead zone.
yeah, that’s kind of an understatement. i almost moved over there almost 2 years ago, there was a place north of chicago on fairfield. landlord was teh hott and she lived upstairs. awesome place but i found a better deal on augusta later that week.