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― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I have been virtually absent for two weeks. I'll try to keep up now that work has moved into the slow time.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

No one should have to apologize for their lack of ILX-ing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that an awesome album cover? It's their disco album, from 1979. Gets one star on AMG.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

It is, indeed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone want my black bean soup recipe? Because I have to tell you: it's really good. I wish I had the sort of house that could accomodate a large dinner party so I could cook for bunches of people all the time.

Were there any singles from Chicago 13?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

None that charted. Apparently, it was a big whirlpool of suck, and if there were any justice in the world, Peter Cetera would have offed himself before this was ever even conceived.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Manda, I'd like that recipe. I love Crescent Dragonwagon's Cuban Black Bean Soup recipe, but I'm always interested in other black bean recipes.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

jordan, i'm pretty sure i mentioned galactic pizza as a place to hit in minneapolis. maybe not. regardless, i'm a giant fan of their food, philosphy & costume wear.

kenan: you *did* hang out with public radio people. you totally met me for lunch that one time during my internship, remember? also, i realize i don't really count as a public radio person, but i am sometimes. sort of. does that count for something?!

p.s. please say yes as it's been a very stressful day.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

kelsey, you rock, radio or no.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

food, philosphy & costume wear.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

hey kelsey, remember when that girl tried to chat you up because she considered you well-connected? yeah. you're in there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

what?! i can't say that?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

thanks kenan, by the way.

oh! and amanda!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I just didn't know what you meant? Costume wear? Are they all dressed up or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

That's what I said, they dress up in SUPERHERO COSTUMES and roam the city!

Kelsey, I must have missed your mentions of that place before, but it sounds awesome. Surely a good reason to move there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

if you look at the homepage, you'll see the typical bright blue legging things they wear. also: capes.
when leaf & I had one of their pizzas delivered, they did it on bicycle. then again, leaf lives mere blocks from galactic pizza!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Bizarre.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

yet wonderful.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

you're all like pixies or something

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Ignore this if you're not interested in soup:

(First, there is no recipe, really, i don't think. my friend told me about the orange juice part from the moosewood cookbook.)

Cut up some red bell pepper and onion. Usually one of each. Saute it in some olive oil with a small spoonful of chopped garlic for a few minutes, until it's sorta mushy.

Add
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup orange juice
1 spoonful of cumin
1/4-1/2 teaspoon of either cayenne pepper or ground chipotle pepper or the spice element of your choice. use more or less depending on what you like. i like it spicy.

Cook for a while, then either use a hand blender and blend it in the pot or use a cup and blend small batches in a regular blender. Put it back in the pot. Add a handful/cupful of frozen corn. (after blending) Cook some more. Add other stuff if you want.

Add salt if you want. Eat. It's spicy and sweet and good the next day. And easy to make. And cheap. This will make enough soup for three modest servings.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

(Hey Kels, did you read my article?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

i did.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

(And?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

(Er, e-mail me if you like.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

i dunno. it feels too weird to read about myself.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

that was funny. you guys are having this awkward conversation and i'm in the corner shouting about bean soup.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Standing on a corner watching all the girls go by
Standing on a corner watching all the girls go by
Brother you don't know a nicer occupation
Matter of fact, neither do I

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.galacticpizza.com/imgs/DeliveryGuy1.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Standing on a corner watching all the girls go by

I sang this with a group of guys for a "cabaret night" in high school. I guess I should mention this on the Gay Musicals thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

ha! dan was in a barbershop quartet in high school too and i've not yet let him hear the end of it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I have met exactly one Chicago public radioperson, and that is Gr3t(h3n H3lfr!(h. She's saucy. You totally care about this announcement.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

i wanna read jaymc's article about kelsey. is it up on the interweb?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

yeah, me too.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/images/staff/grechen2.jpg

Is it me, or is she full-blooded elf?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/DMS/841284.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

ack. it makes me sound like i was really difficult to converse with.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

You are difficult to converse with, but only because everyone gets lost in your eyes and flustered.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i don't remember how to do the fancy link thing:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/ipod/archive/002023.html

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

why kenan! i believe that comment belongs on the flirty thread!

um, thanks!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Do you guys ever listen to DJ Lil John on WGCI 107.5 fridays @ 5pm? Cuz you should, you know. I bought one of his mixes at gr@m@ph0n3, we played it at n@te dey0ung's farewell party and it was awesome. I'm still sore from dancing.

― deej.., Monday, 29 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

deej, i picture your life as one non-stop dance party. is this far from the truth?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday, Sarah!!!! It sounds like you had a good weekend and I am very happy that you did!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, you were just in a particular place at that time in your life. I was, too. It's not meant to make you look bad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

kelsey --

i get lost.. in your eyes--and I feel my spirits rise

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

...like the wind, is this love that i am in?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

xp I mean, I don't even remember what that argument was about, tbh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

That was a beautiful review/article!

My b-day is September 6th. I'm taking the day off work to spend quality birthday time with my dad. I will be 28. He will still be 55. Basically, my life rules right now, because I'll have Monday AND Tuesday off next week- craaaaaaazzzzzzyyyyyy!!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

BANNED FROM THE NOISE BOARD

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

You are? What did you do this time?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Ha: re Gr3tch3n I think the least gross way I can put this is that she has certain physical attributes that are decidedly unelfin.

xpost edit

(Happy ^ADVANCE^ birthday, Sarah, I hope your cake ~~didn't~~ doesn't come pre-licked by too many kittens.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

oh no n/a, that's TERRIBLE! what kind of EVIL person could have banned you? OMG I wonder who it can be??????????

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Adam banned me because he's British and has no sense of humor that doesn't involve fat men running around really fast and smacking bald people on the head.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

she has certain physical attributes that are decidedly unelfin

I wouldn't know what that would be. Plz be extremely descriptive about this.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

MAGIC VAGINA

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a sense of humor, but one of humour.

would you like me to unban you? You do know you can unban yourself, right?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

rounded ears!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I bet Bjork has a magic vagina. All women from iceland have perfect pixie pussies.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

deej, i picture your life as one non-stop dance party. is this far from the truth?
-- The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (handy_mand...), August 29th, 2005.

It would be nice.

― deej.., Monday, 29 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Boy howdy. It's nice to get in on the ground floor of one of these threads again. Been feeling left out lately.

smacking bald people on the head.

You meant "pate," right? That's what they call them over there. "Pates."

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

no it isn't!

Why are there so many misconceptions about the UK?

Like the girl who asked me if I'd "heard of pizza"!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I should have put on my best Oliver Twist voice "no miss, perhaps you would be kind enough to let my try some of this wonderful pizza, at your earliest convenience of course".

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Maybe she thinks it's not called pizza when it's COVERED IN CORN.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but is there really good pizza in the UK?

ha, xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

LAGER AND BLUD PUDDING PIZZA

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

You meant "pate," right? That's what they call them over there. "Pates."

I thought they called them LOOTY LOOS. Or maybe jibbity blowholes.

No, no, it was LOOTY LOOS, I remember now. You always have to say it very loudly, head turned upward, and sing-songy. The streets of London are often filled with people shouting LOOTY LOO! and that's how you know they're talking about the top of someone's head.

You know how British people are.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Maybe she thinks it's not called pizza when it's COVERED IN CORN.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 29th, 2005.

Why are there so many misconceptions about the UK?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.missy-elliot.de/Neue_Dateien/Missy-8.jpg

LOOTY LOO!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I heard that all British people are born covered in fur. Some of them lose it, and some don't.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but is there really good pizza in the UK?

See, I can't really argue when it comes to the "bad UK food" thing, except for with the rest of the US because now I live in the BEST FOOD STATE.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

haf you eva seen an elf what is signifficontly curvy and what seem to haf gotten itz knockas from sam's club

― elf inspection team, Monday, 29 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I quite liked my pizza covered in corn in London! More pizzas in the U.S. should be covered in corn!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

You hated London. We know.

It's a hard place to be young and alone. I know. You could have met up with me and my crew.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Also, sounds like you had the misfortune to be VEGETARIAN in ENGLAND.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

is that why she's bending down awkwardly in that photo?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't a misfortune at all! Everything was clearly marked, much more so in the U.S.! It was great!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

what seem to haf gotten itz knockas from sam's club

My day has been made.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

ha ha. I was just imaginging adam chillin' with his crew or walking down the street with them all lined up in a row, with adam in the center.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

It's a hard place to be young and alone. I know. You could have met up with me and my crew.

I just ambled along Charing Cross Rd. for a while, making up drum-n-bass rhythms with my mouth.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

you also ate fruitcake.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

ha ha. I was just imaginging adam chillin' with his crew or walking down the street with them all lined up in a row, with adam in the center.

I have a picture like this, from the Navy Pier, all of my friends are in a row and I am crouched down in the middle and poking my head through a...one of those rings that they have on ships that you throw out to people who are drowning.

Maybe I'll post it

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

you also ate fruitcake.

Haha! Yes, I bought a fruitcake to take with me on my flight from Manchester to Paris. I recall polishing it off in Geneva. It was delicious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I also surreptitiously taped crazy evangelists in Trafalgar Square.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Did you travel through Europe?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Did you "find yourself"?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Sarah: I take back my birthday wishes, to be re-expressed on the anniversary of your actual birth. I am still glad that you had a nice weekend, though.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Why can't I stop eating? I've already had two sandwiches today, and I'm still craving nourishment. I hear you get like this after you climb a mountain, but I have done no such thing.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I was supposed to travel through Europe with a friend, but she had to be rushed back to the U.S. for an ear operation. So I wandered through the continent alone for about 10 days. Well, kind of alone. I had a friend in Rome, and another in Paris. So that was nice. My route was Manchester-Paris-Geneva-Florence-Rome-Nice-Barcelona-Paris-London.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

That's a very nice trip. I've never been to Geneva, and I was only a baby when I went to Florence.

I "found myself", I travelled across America for two months with Chuck Tatum. we went NYC-Niagara-Chicago-Memphis-New Orleans-Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Las Vegas-San Francisco. Then we had a huge argument and he went to Yosemite and I went home.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Also we were meant to stop in Texas and.or the Southwest but we went to Disneyland instead.

I still want to go to the Southwest.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

ooh... what was the argument about?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember! We always argue, he has a really bad temper. We had a physical fight in Chicago when he left his backpack in a bookshop. We just got on each other's nerves, it WAS two whole months and we were only 18/19.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Geneva was very pretty. I got there on the day of some obviously time-honored local celebration, so there was a parade winding through town and everyone was in costume there were little booths where you could purchase hot mulled wine. I never was able to figure out what was actually being celebrated, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

"costume AND there were"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

i used to get this amazing pizza in london

it totally had corn on it!!!

NO ADAM IT WAS NOT FROM PIZZA EXPRESS

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Pizza Express does good dough balls, plus it is amusing in it's FAKE swankyness.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey should tell WACKY stories about her time in BEIJING.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

What about n/a? DID YOU KNOW that he grew up in a number of places, among them India and Bulgaria?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

he never tells bulgarian stories, just indian

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

he talks about Bulgarian MTV

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was Yugoslavia?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

There's a Bulgarian woman in my program at school and she's very nice. She looks a lot like Shelly Duvall.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't he in an Indian commercial as the token white child?
Pizza Express is not as good as it thinks it is. Some Britisher girl at a bus stop asked me if I was friends with Jennifur Aniston. I also had some old man on a bus stare at me while rocking back and forth and yell "you arright hen?" at me every few minutes. Theory: Bus stops in Britain are weird places.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I have gotten to the point in my book involving evil Bulgarian monks.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Some Britisher girl at a bus stop asked me if I was friends with Jennifur Aniston.

Are you the new Jon Williams, Jocelyn?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't he in an Indian commercial as the token white child?

God, I really hope so!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Bus stops are great. Especially in the provinces. They are teh focal point for some small towns.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Did a Britisher girl ask Jon if he was friends with her?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

i got more action under lewisham bus shelters than i ever have in my life, man

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Mandee, I'm sorry that you had to live in South London. That's awful.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I enjoy that the Chicago thread is now three non-chicagoans talking about England.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

"On the other side of THE RIVER"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

it was okay at the time, adam - i didnt know what i was missing, up NORTH of the river

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Ciabatta

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

That's, like the quinetessential North London word. Especially if you are a wealthy woman in her mid thirties and you are screaming it from a convertible.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

huh? isn't that a type of bread? can we talk about chicago again?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

yes. yes. no!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

okay

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Is there anything left to say about Chicago? There have been 13 threads on it at least.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Why am I the new Jon Williams?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

oh yes, that.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

i thought of starting a regional denver thread - but then realized no one would post on it.

so i'll troll your chicago thread, i guess. for all eternity!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't know.

xp - I'll post to a Denver thread! I've never been there, though. My wife lived there for a month or so.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

so it'd just be you and me?? okay

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

okay. do you want to start it? or should I?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

could you? if i start it i'll look lame

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

of course.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

adam do you like Fables? Or was that just a random image?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I guess there's not much left to say, is there. At least until we start planning our outfits for Sarah's b-day party.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

i'll post on it, if it means you'll be there, mandee. i don't have anything to say about denver, though!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

the DENVER thread

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Where did Adam post a Fables image?

If I started a Madison thread it would just be me and Haikunym talking about beer and jazz.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

What's Fables?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

this thread title keeps reminding me of...

http://www.dmcrecords.com.au/images/product/2_72.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Fables is a very excellent comic book.

http://www.marsimport.com/images/FABLEST02.JPG

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Does it contain fables?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I figured. That sounds neat. I don't know anything about comic books.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

They live in New York!

(The fables, that is.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Okay, we can talk about Chris Ware. That should bring things back to Chicago.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Chris Ware.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Adam steers with a gentle hand.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

i have a small chris ware story.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

do tell. i'm listening.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

so i was interning at TAL & ira asked if i knew who chris was b/c he was coming in later so they could work on the architecture thing they put together. i told him that i was a fan of his, but he had gotten kinda depressing, so i quit reading the comic that was in the reader. he wanted more details, so i told him all about that one comic with the bee that kept getting trapped & stuff, he's saying, "oh yes. that one. very sad."
later that night, i need to stop in to ask ira something before i leave & sure enough, chris is there, in ira's office. ira introduces us to one another, chris is turning pink as we shake hands. then ira cheerfully adds, "kelsey quit reading your stuff because it got too sad." chris turns bright pink. i am feeling a little defensive & say, "well, it was the bee that got me." and then chris is turning beet red as he explains that it's okay & i don't need to be a fan or read him at all. and i'm stumbling around trying to say that i do like him, it was just that one story that was so crushing. & here we are verbally fumbling & chris's face is so very very red & finally i just realize that it'd be better if i left, so i said good night & that was that.
my chris ware story.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

i cannot emphasize enough the redness of that man's face.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

do you think he suffers from the epidermal condition known as rosacea? that sounds awkward. maybe someone could have refrained from announcing that you stopped reading his stuff?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I think he suffers from being EMO.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

i think he's just painfully shy & a bit socially awkward. ira liked to stir things up. i agree he should have refrained, but it doesn't surprise me that he didn't.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Chris Ware did a little talk with Dave Eggers in SF a few months ago and I took this picture of him:

http://www.buffaloisvenus.net/images/chunky2.jpg

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

haha, jordan.

i think i've mentioned this before, but the one time i met chris wave, he waved goodbye to me exactly like the way todd louiso (dick) waves goodbye to sara gilbert in high fidelity: a fluttering hand close to his chest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

chris WARE! not chris wave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Chris Ware and Art Spiegelman at the Eisner Awards:

http://www.frozentruth.com/photos/albums/userpics/10001/chunky_tea.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Dan Clowes, yesterday

http://www.lambiek.net/1/artwork/eightball_cover2_b.jpg

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Adrian Tomine and gygax!:

http://www.lcomics.com/IMAGES/allsorts/event_tomine93.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

gygax is older and not as built as that guy.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to be rude and just crash this chicago party! i've got a question though: was that an all-red building i saw in the skyline? i wanted to go look at it, but we were limited on time. tell me!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I saw Adrian Tomine and Dan Clowes eating in Sconehenge in Berkeley, Tomine lives in NYC now.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I totally have that issue of eightball somewhere. I need to sell all my comics and magic cards.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I love that cover, it makes me laugh!

I have it too!

comics don't make money any more, thouhg! :(

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

well that ruins my retirement plans, then!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I know what building you're talking about, but I don't know enough to tell you what it's called or anything. I'm sure jaymc knows.

There's a place called Sconehenge? I made scones last night.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! I love it there.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Sounds yummy. I'm outta here -- see you all tomorrow.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure jaymc knows.

Oh no, I know nothing. I'm sure Kenan knows, though. He's the Chicago architecture expert around here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

gygax is older and not as built as that guy.

the only photo of gygax! i have seen was that one where he's sitting on the floor in shorts holding up the devo album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

he looks like that, but a bit older. There's a more recent picture of him with Mr Toad, on the noise board.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

He used to be nice.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

is this him?

http://c.myspace.com/00020/39/30/20120393_l.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

The red building is called CNA Plaza. It's pretty boring apart from the fact that it looks like someone colored it with a map pencil.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

that's him!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh, THAT red building? Haha, that's right next door to my building.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I just yelled at a curly hair freak running down the jackson el stop steps. He paused, and then continued on. I was just saying hello!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

i'm still at work.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm not at work. I had 2 calls today though, from people that could get me fired if I do something wrong. It is very likely that I could do something wrong, especially since this is only my 3rd week. sigh.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

!!!

I looked back but no one was there!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

(Also, my Internet is back up at home. I am so relieved. I think it was scheduled to not come back until tomorrow, but the woman I talked to this morning said she would try to "expedite the process.")

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I was looking over the railing, I didn't expect you to hear me. IT'S A OKAY.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

I lived in Yugoslavia, not Bulgaria.
I was in a radio commercial in India, being a token American, but not a token child, since I was 16 or so.
I talk more about India because India was more fun. Yugoslavia was mostly gray and dull, but there were some good times there too.
Feel free to ask me any questions you may have.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Were you a corny Indian fuxxx0r?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Actually, they call it maize.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Nice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

Good morning. My baby sister gets married in T minus 3.5 hours (!).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Gooooooood morning. What is your sister wearing to her wedding? Did she get a special dress or is she wearing something she already has and likes?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I have more training today. Joy.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Also, I'm wearing the same clothes I wore on my wedding day, today. The pants are really comfortable. I should be nice clothes more often.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

are she and the soon-to-be husband going to visit and have an extra celebration in the states sometime? because, excuse for an additional big party!

gmorning!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Actually, we're all trying to go over there for Christmas to celebrate and meet his family.

She was going to wear a dress she already had. She took it in to get it refitted. Then my other sister bought her a nice dress and my mom bought her pearls, but there was this huge screw up with Fedex. Firstly, they were going to charge my sister 300 euros in taxes if she accepted the package. Secondly, you aren't even allowed to bring pearls into France, so even if she could come up with that much - which would be as much as buying them brand new - she wouldn't have been allowed to accept them. The dumbest! So now she's back to wearing her previously owned dress/jewelry.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

would you like me to unban you? You do know you can unban yourself, right?
-- Adam In Real Life (adamr...), August 29th, 2005 3:38 PM. (nordicskilla) (later)

Well, you know, if you get around to it.

I had pizza in Yugoslavia once, it came with a BIG FRIED EGG on top of it. Most of the time I lived there I only ate civopcici, which is like ground beef sausage I think. They eat a lot of meat there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Mediocre morning, Chicago!

I am SICK. And at work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

i'm leaving today for a conference at notre dame.

yay for your sister, sarah!

sorry you're not feeling well, jordan.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I realized a few minutes ago that I had the time difference wrong. She really gets married in T minus 1 hour 39 minutes!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I will be stuffing envelopes and posting on ILX all day today.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Couldn't she at least do a webcast, Sarah?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I know, right? It's 2005 for god's sake. THIS IS THE FUUUUTTTTUUURRREEE!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

pearls are supposed to be bad luck to wear to weddings anyway. not sure where that silly belief is from, but hey.

i wore fake pearls to my sister's wedding nonetheless because i'm all classy that way.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Morning Chicago. Aren't you glad you don't live in New Orleans?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I mean, fuck.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey, that sucks about the storm...but I need some advice. I desperately need a haircut and I'm desperately tired of looking at my head as it is right now. Most of you know what I look like...could you suggest 1) a haircut or 2) a hairdresser who could suggest a haircut good for someone with lank, thin, totally straight hair?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm desperate.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Desperate for a new haircut, that is.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

the local news blurb last night about NO was all, oh yeah, new orleans, and how oh how will it affect our gas prices, chicago? because the drama has to be about how death and destruction somewhere else affects US locally. dumbass news. (no i dont' watch local news, but there was a blurb during prison break)

(also, ooo, prison break was good)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Is prison break shot around Chicago? Does it take place here? Maybe both?

Amanda, I don't know. I usually go to Art&Science. It's pricey. Thus, I haven't gotten my hair cut in a while. I'm aiming for next month, which is pretty soon.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Amanda I think you would look good with a BEEHIVE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

it does take place here, and i guess they film it at some no-longer-used correctional facility in joliet.

there was one scene in millenium park. i think. i've never actually been, but there was that big face screen in the background.

xp. hey, i was going to say bouffant. is a beehive different from a bouffant? i don't even know. i'm not up on ridiculous coiffures.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

at some no-longer-used correctional facility in joliet

Joliet Prison. Same as in The Blues Brothers.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

beehive/bouffant is not an option unless i choose to employ a massive hairpiece. i guess i'll take my chances at the aveda training school again, although that has proved disastrous in the past.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

i'm leaving today for a conference at notre dame.

YAY SOUTH BEND

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Here's where I got my haircut, be warned it is NOT in Chicago.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, New Orleans is fucked up, I haven't heard yet if our friends in the Quarter and the 9th ward are okay yet, but I'm also breathing a sigh of relief that the city wasn't completely wiped out of existence.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I lived in Australia as a child, and I had a hamburger in New Zealand with a fried egg and slab of beet root on it.

Freak folk kind of sucks.

Why are Broken Social Scene and Jimmy Eat World playing together? And why is it at the oh so shitty Metro?

This is going to be a random thoughts post kind of day.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I only have two days left of work, for a LONG time.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Joliet Prison. Same as in The Blues Brothers.

This is still very much in use. I used to live fairly close to it when I was a tyke. It's such a classic-looking prison: a huge, imposing house on a hill. I used to get creeped out by the "Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers" signs along the road outside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Years?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I need to do something new with my hair, too. It just looks like.. I dunno, a big floppy mess... I thought I would grow my hair out, but long hair just looks stupid on me.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Amanda: i have the PERFECT hairdresser for you. she's more on the spendy side, but she's awesome. i have fine, thin hair & she's awesome with it. her name is Leanne & she works at Orbit salon in wrigleyville. i have a coupon i can give you. i think it's for 10% off or something. i love leanne!!!! she can do really crazy hair, funky hair or just great simple style. plus, she's easy to talk to & she takes her time & talks with you a lot about your hair.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, this could be you, on the left:
http://www.autobahn.com.br/B_52s/B_52s.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Also:

1. Amanda, I mentioned to you once that I go to Orbit salon, on Clark just south of Addison. My stylist's name is Leeann. She's pretty reasonable (for a salon, that is), and really nice. Kelsey sees her, too, so you could ask her what the women's price is. (XPOST HURRAH!)

2. BSS and JEW is definitely a weird pairing, although the latter used to have way more indie cred before Bleed American. I had friends in college who listened to them alongside Jawbreaker and Promise Ring, etc. (And I actually think their sell-out single, "The Middle," is a really good song!) However ... what's so shitty about the Metro? It can sometimes be annoying when it's crowded and hard to move around, and beer is obviously way overpriced, but the sightlines are pretty good for a venue of its size and if you manage to get fairly close to the stage, the energy can be really amazing. I'd much rather go to a show there than the Vic or the Riv.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I first went to her b/c I loved the haircut that she gave both john & his brother. I had no idea what she could do with girl hair! Now a handful of my friends go to her for their hair as well.
xpost!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

oh, bless both of you. i will call leanne. i will spend $$ if it means i don't cringe every time i look in the mirror.

n/a - why i can't see that picture?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I lived in Australia as a child, and I had a hamburger in New Zealand with a fried egg and slab of beet root on it.

i had the most disgusting hamburger i have ever had in australia. i had no idea hamburgers could be ruined so effectively. i was rather disturbed by the tendency to put butter on sandwiches, too, and mayo where it seemed that it didn't belong. i'm rather opinionated about such things. but a fried egg seems especially excessive, and beet root?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

n/a - why i can't see that picture?

I can't either, but Show Properties tells me it's the B-52s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

It was an awesome pic of the B-52s. I'll try and find another.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theb52s.com/gallery2/p2.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I can't think straight today, help me out. When writing a comma-delimited list, should you use a comma after the last item in the list? I.e., is it "A, B, and C" or "A, B and C"? Is either appropriate?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahaha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

i was always under the impression that either is technically fine, but i prefer to lose the last comma.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Forgive me, Jordan, but that's something that's been argued on ILE quite a bit. No one can agree! See, for example, comma roundtable -- beginning with this post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Either is fine, unless you have a particular style guide you're supposed to use. Grammar is dumb.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I have absolutely nothing against fried eggs and butter, and I can imagine a yummy open-faced, grilled ground beef sandwich that would include both, but I would not call that a hamburger.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

On the side of the final (serial) comma: me, Nabisco, Kenan. On the side of omitting it: Martin Skidmore, other people. Nabisco makes some v. good points arguing for it based on comprehension; however, I use it mostly because a) it's what I learned as a kid and so I'm very used to it, and b) both editing jobs I've had have required it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I omit it.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Haha, thanks guys.

In the end we had to omit it for this thing because it would have been too complicated to add programming to have the final comma, but omit it when there are only two items in the list. Personally, I always use it though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I was always taught to include it growing up. I think it's a US/UK thing too, though my boss insists on the omitted comma.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I made an appointment with Leanne for Friday night!! I'm looking forward to it. Dan has a haircut on Wednesday, Junior (my 13 year old cocker spaniel) is getting his disgusting hair shaved off on Thursday and I have one on Friday. We're going to be at our spiffiest by Saturday.

What's everyone doing for the long weekend? We're to Iowa to visit/cheer up Dan's dad.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to London for my "long weekend".

I think it's a US/UK thing too, though my boss insists on the omitted comma.

My wife omits it, and she is a writer and editor.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I made an appointment with Leanne for Friday night!!

I'm seeing her on Saturday afternoon. I'll mention you. :)

I think I'm picking Bhabi's Kitchen for Restaurant Club. If anyone isn't getting their hair cut on Friday night, you're welcome to come. It's at 7 PM. I doubt there will be very many people there, since it's on Devon. (In fact, Renee told me she'd come to RC "as long as it wasn't on Devon." I can't please everybody, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

At my job they require the final comma. As such, I've started using it constantly.

Has anyone ever heard it referred to as "the Harvard comma?" I had a rhetoric teacher in college that did that.

I don't like the Metro for a lot of reasons (some you mentioned, like the drinks and the crowd.) I guess I'd just rather see a show in a little club than a big hall.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'd just rather see a show in a little club than a big hall.

Oh absolutely, me too. But if I'm seeing someone like Sleater-Kinney or Sonic Youth, I don't really have much of an option. (And incidentally, both put on incredible shows at the Metro.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

My Dad will be here this weekend, so I'll be hanging out with him.

Oh, why do I think about cheating on my stylist so much? I really like how he cuts my hair. But this Leanne sounds good! I wonder if she's as pricey as mine.

DUDES! I can't believe my sister is getting married. I wonder how soon afterwards someone will call me to tell me it's done.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

i know this is stupid, but i'm really excited about my professional haircut. i haven't had my hair cut in 6 months.

i bet it's done now, sarah -- it has been 1.35 hours since you last told us of the time change. your sister is married!??!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Should I feel like an asshole for picking Bhabi's Kitchen, even though it means Renee won't come now (too far, doesn't like Indian food)? Or is that her problem?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

i get to go to NEBRASKA this weekend

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I guess it's my problem if no one else comes. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I would come to Bhabi's but we will be hanging out with Sarah's dad, and he's not one for exotic foods.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's fine. I don't expect any of you guys to come. Right now I'm just trying to figure out if I'm being a complete jerk to Renee by "excluding" her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Come on, now - it was big of you to overcome the Hema's-Bhabi's rivalry and choose Bhabi's. If people don't wanna go, that's their choice, isn't it? Is Devon really that far?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

yay for the Leann love! i wish i could get my next cut from her. the new person i have doing my hair is equally easy to talk to, but doesn't give the same consistently great cut Leann would...without my even having to tell her what to do. also, i want delicious indian food. but, i might be headed up to the only ethiopian restaurant in orange county tonite...i'm slightly scared.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

it's her, not you, J.

I think Leanne might be in the $40 range for a haircut? I can't remember . . . BUT SHE IS SO WORTH IT!!!

Leanne once told me that I'm one of her favorites b/c she can do whatever she wants to my hair & I don't get freaked out. Thus, for awhile I had this little crazy "tail" in the back that we kept joking about & talking about as though it were a little person.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

i liked that she would always tell me when i walked in that i didn't need a haircut. because then i would think, 'well, it hasn't been as bad as i thought it was, and it's about to get even better!'

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

oh boy. i can't wait. what do you guys think of this haircut

it looks like the same haircut i had my junior year in college, in the final stages of growing out an ill-advised pixie cut. is it wrong to get the same haircut you had at 20 when you're 30? i don't think so.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I like the sound of this Leanne.

$40 IS CHEAP!!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

That haircut is foxy & would be perfect for fine hair. Take the photo to her . . .
the first time i went, I didn't have anything in mind whatsoever. So she had me look through some books & since i couldn't find exactly the right cut, i just showed her some things that i liked & some things i wanted to avoid at all costs.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

she might be $50. fuck if i can remember!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

i would pay BIG BUCKS to feel foxy.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

It's always key to try something *brave* if you feel you are genuinely extending your finances for a haircut. I think so, anyway.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

i agree. my grown-out chin-bob is a blank slate and is ready for the razor.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I think the main thing about the dinner thing is that Renee was looking forward to hanging out with me on Friday, and now she "can't." I think part of it's that it's far (she lives in Wrigleyville and doesn't like to drive) (although whatever, I always think people complain too much about various places in Chicago being too hard to get to ... get one sense of adventure) -- but also that her "tummy doesn't like Indian food."

But I've already made my decision and sent out the e-mail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

She can always order it mild, or without spice. I think they could accomodate her, it's a small family place, right?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes it is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm not going to worry about this anymore. She asked me if it was close to public transportation and I said "the Western bus?" and she wrote back and said, "sorry, I'm out."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

her loss, i say. john, doesn't she read this sometimes?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

i haven't said anything on this thread i wouldn't say to her directly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know if you thought it was weird that she might read about your conflict. Unless you maybe wouldn't mind that she read it so that she knew you were conflicted.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

She knows. I told her I felt like an asshole about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Enough of this, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

right.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Back to hair!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Mine is way too shaggy right now!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Hair and Indian food, hair and Indian food. DON'T YOU PEOPLE EVER TALK ABOUT SEX ANYMORE??!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I DEMAND ENTERTAINMENT!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Amanda as I haven't met you is your hair straight or wavy? Because cuts like that don't work on wavy hair. I've tried. Also, it looks like the ends are razored so you would have to decide if you can deal with razor cuts as they grow out, because they tend to get strange. Other than that, I think it's cute!
I need to get my hair cut too. My layers are growing out unevenly so one side of my head is curlier than the other. Also, I dyed it at home two weeks ago so it was MAGENTA for a few days but now it has settled down to its ideal shade of red. I look slightly like a Russian mail-order bride though, I think.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Jocelyn, it's straight.

And why are plastic spoons so g-d small? I'm trying to eat soup here and it's like eating it with a doll's spoon. Inefficient.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Plastic spoons. (Nicholson Baker, eat your heart out.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I hope he has an adequate spoon. HaHAAAAAAAAAAA.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

wow.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I missed something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

you do? what could you have missed? there's not a lot going on here. i just angrily threw my plastic spoon in the trash and sipped my soup straight from the bowl, but no one could see me. i don't think anyone saw me.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, an adequate spoon in which to eat his heart out? Sorry, I'm tired today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm having sex this weekend!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

um, that was for kenan.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

hmmm

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

he said we weren't talking about sex anymore!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

part of the reason why i've been putting off seeing the 40-year-old virgin is that i'm afraid it would hit too close to home.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

YOU ARE NOT A VIRGIN. Also, you don't wax your chest hair.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I think sex and Galactic Pizza might constitute a perfect evening. You should consider it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna say -- are you a virgin? because you're NOT 40!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

not that i really thought that you were. but if you were that would be 100% cool. but you're not. so there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

i might as well be!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

PLEASE!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

that was more like "PUH-LEEZE"

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

kelsey says I don't talk about sex.

I'm not sure what's going on with my hair. I haven't gotten it cut since I got it cut really short, and I wanted it to grow back some but it's sticking up in weird places, so I should probably at least go get a trim, but I don't want it back as short as it was when he first cut it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) i'm just saying, it hasn't happened that much in my life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for Kelsey's sex! I wish you much affection and stickiness, from the bottom of my heart.

The reason I don't want to talk about haircuts is the same reason John doesn't want to see 40-Year Old Virgin. I need it too bad.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

Man, now that I'm sick I'll be missing out on post-engagement sex.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

n/a there is a man at my workplace who reminds me of new short-haired you.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

JOHN OR ADAM PLEASE UNBAN ME ON NOISE BORED NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT FREAKS AND GEEKS

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

SORRY "JAYMC"

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

You can always try taking massive doses of Emergen-C in order to get better faster.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

jaymc when's the last time you DID IT?

im becoming practically a virgin, too!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I've indulged in the galactic pizza & sex night before, actually!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

i was actually listening to hope sandoval this morning & thinking about sex. maybe that's why i've been so productive this morning!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I think it would be creepy for me to talk about sex because the person I have sex with also posts here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

jaymc when's the last time you DID IT?

Almost exactly a year ago. But 90% of the sex I've had in my life took place within several months prior to that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

This thread is better already. See, it just needed guidance.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

This, however, does not prevent me from posting the words "MAGIC VAGINA" at any time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

N/A, I don't know how to unban you ...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

The unmistakable odor of copulation and sugary confectionry pervades the air in this room. Might I be dreaming?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Last time I boned was in may 2004! So, I kinda know what you mean. Also, I totally haven’t had enough sex – I’ve had sex with a fair number of partners, I just didn’t, like, erm, date them for very long, or something. I can probably count the individual number of instances I’ve had sex, which also probably means I’m rubbish at it. Oh well.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

KENAN IS IN MARCY'S PLAYGROUND

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, I figured it out. You are now unbanned. Post freely!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

i don't think a year is a significant dry spell. try three.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Marcy? I know not this Marcy of which you speak, nor her playground, which sounds to me euphemistic of a certain moral unsavoriness.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Our new girl at work is named Marcy.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

i don't think a year is a significant dry spell. try three.

I did. April 2001-April 2004.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

xpost: nick, i think i said i was surprised to hear you talk about it?!

amanda, you're not talking about being married & having a three year dry spell are you?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I had sex the day just before yesterday! I need to have more sex this week because will be UNDER PARENTS' ROOF again for the next two consecutive weeks, except for three days in the middle when I will be having BERLIN HOTEL SEX.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm going to regret posting that.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

i regret posting the above post of mine about me and my sexual history

p.s. adam dont your parents know you're married and therefore allowed to have marital sex in their house?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.arccds.com/mn/m/Marcy-Playground/Sex-and-Candy-Phantom-CD-SINGLE-B000006EFD.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Allowed? Maybe. Creeped out? Probably.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

BERLIN HOTEL SEX.

is this like "alabama motel sex"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

kenan's got it

xp I guess!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but sodomy is legal (and encouraged).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

boom!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

pow!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

why does sodomy sound so much worse than anal?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

My parents are extremely liberal (not politically, but you know, they let me do pretty much what I wanted as I was a kid) but I still don't want to think about them thinking about me having sex in their house, or even worse think about them thinking about me having sex in their house while I am having sex.

you see?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

hah "encouraged." Sign in the hall: "Thank you for buggering!"

(only in German, where it sounds even less delicate.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

why does sodomy sound so much worse than anal?

too Biblical.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

And technically, oral sex is also sodomy. I think technically, it's sodomy if you flip her over. Sodomy includes most fun things.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.biscottiland.com/images/jpegs/Me%20&%20Momus.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

too Biblical.

I'm gonna gomorrah your ass.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

hah "encouraged." Sign in the hall: "Thank you for buggering!"

(only in German, where it sounds even less delicate.)

Apparently, this is "danke für das Bummeln". I felt pretty weird typing THAT into Babelfish.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

xpost - but isn't doing in in places where you're not supposed to be doing it more fun?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

merci de lambiner
gracias por maldecir
obrigado amaldiçoando
вы для buggering
σας ευχαριστώ για

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

i meant doing IT in places. you know what i meant. i also meant locations. like a parents' house.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

no word in Russian for "buggering", apparently.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Another reason I can't have sex in my parents' house - the fucking awful wallpaper.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

The Portuguese version sounds beautiful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Just the whole general decor.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

obrigado amaldiçoando

I'm imagining a lovely brown-skinned woman whispering this into my ear, while a soft southern breeze blows outside the window, and the gauzy curtains ripple... mmm. Buggering in portugese.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

too much chintz?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

"chintz" makes it sound interesting! It's like being punched full in the face by BLAND.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

if i'm not mistaken, the spanish and portuguese versions are not translated to relate to sex -- it's more like naysaying, or shit-talking. i could be wrong. i am often wrong.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

No, I think you are right.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

The Spanish one certainly sounds like "shit-talking," if translated literally: "to tell bad."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes it is just funny to see what Babelfish comes up with.

For a while I was going to post by getting Babelfish to translate all my posts into French and then BACK into English before hitting submit, but it was too much hassle!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

For example:

Sometimes it is simply funny to see with which Babelfish goes up. During one moment I was going to announce by obtaining Babelfish to translate all my posts into French and again in English before striking then subject, but it too much was argument!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Haha! I sound like a comedy cab driver.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Haha! I resemble driver of cabin of comedy.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.allthingschristie.com/archives/200px-Borat.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I would translate that, but

the language of film is universal
la lenguaje de cinema es universal
la langue du film est universelle
die Sprache des Filmes ist allgemeinhin
la lingua della pellicola è universale

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I wrote this little Brazilian-sounding song and I was going to use Babelfish to translate lyrics into (presumably) awkward Portuegese, but I, uh, forgot.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

haha!

LANDMARK THEATERS

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

You know what's great about Babelfish? I think it's the only website that I used in like 1997 that I still use today. Maybe IMDB, too. I can't think of any others, though. It's still the premier language-translation site.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Amazon? Ebay?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Yahoo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Maybe what I'm getting at is that it seems like something should've overtaken Babelfish. Like it's still at the Altavista domain, which used to be a pretty good search engine back in the day, but who uses it anymore? And for what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

It just seems so archaic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

my in-laws only use web services from the late 90s, for some reason. They're the kind of people who still find weather.com amazing.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Remember Prodigy? I think they use that.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I was gonna say, do they have Compuserve e-mail addresses, with a string of numbers?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

my parents think AOL is the internet.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I was so envious of my friends who had Prodigy in 6th grade.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, my mum is asking me to hurry up and get Skype.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

i used to only search yahoo.com for stills from urusei yatsura (around 1997)

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, I unlocked you on the noize board if you care.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I bought a 7" by a band called Urusei Yatsura (around 1997)!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, I unlocked you on the noize board if you care.

Democracy in action! Look out!

I didn't even remove my own yellow card when I unbanned you, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

They became "Yatsura" later.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

My father in-law found me checking MY email at their house last xmas and he obviously didn't realize that email isn't localized. He sighed and said "welllllll, the only thing that would surprise me is when you tell me what it CAN'T do".

"it" being the internet.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

oh jaymc I figured out we were talking about different bands called "Feathers" the other day. Hence the confusion about the sound. I saw a Feathers EP in Reckless that was most definitely not by the Feathers that I saw open for Smog.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't really remember what they (Yatsura) sounded like. I think they were Scottish. Were they friends with Bis or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

"wellllllll" is also like my father-in-law's catchphrase.

That and "I just don't know what to tell ya".

xp I saw Uretsei Yatsura (sic?) with Mogwai in NORWICH.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Re: my sister
She is now married. Sadly, she broke a toe a few days ago, so she had to don flip flops to the wedding ceremony. Also, since the dress and pearls didn't arrive on time, she had to make do. It is also her special time of the month, they can't afford a hotel room for their honeymoon night (or a honeymoon), and her husband's (!) sister is staying with them for a few more days. However, she is happy.

And now - drum roll -
* My Sexual History by Sarah Johnson *

6th grade: bf asks if he can kiss me. I tell him no. He tells the whole grade I'm a prude and dumps me to go out with the girl who everyone knows has already started her period. She has big boobs.

Middle school: complete wasteland

High school: I had a different boyfriend every year, one at each school (4 schools) and one the summer after school. Each one tried something. Nobody got any action. I say I believe you should wait until you're married.

College: I get a boyfriend. I decide, This is it! I'm going to do it! And then he gets all into his religion, and our best friend couple gets pregnant. So he says we should wait until marriage. Then at the start of my senior year, on my birthday, he breaks up with me because I'm not marriage material (ie: not the same religion). WE WENT OUT THREE YEARS AND I NEVER GOT ANY!

The next month, I met my soulmate.

THE END, sailing off into the sunset, etc

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

hahaha -- that sounds like my parents. for a long time they wanted to print out all of their email to "save" it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Wikipedia tells me they sounded like Pavement, which is probably why I was interested in them in 1997.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, that is very sweet.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

hahaha -- that sounds like my parents. for a long time they wanted to print out all of their email to "save" it.

I actually just discovered recently that I have lots of e-mails that I printed out from the first few months of college! It was the first time that I was e-mailing on a regular basis, and not just as a novelty, and so I naturally treased these texts as much as I did the notes that friends wrote me in high school. It was fall 1996.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I like this thread, I think. It's so refreshingly free of confrontation. I'm used to having to defend myself.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

i wish i had saved emails from college -- they were on our DOS-based campus system though. i didn't even know that you could get internet email until 1998, when i got my first account that wasn't school-related. in 1997 i was still writing letters.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I used to print out all of Sarah's emails when we were forced to spend months apart.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

that is way cute, sarah

YOU AND NICK 4 EVA

p.s. i am glum, cheer me up. i dont want to take pictures of food anymore :(

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Not that Sarah, obv. Another one.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

why do you have to take pictures of food?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

mandee, you should listen to the bedazzled soundtrack. dudley screaming "love me!" is enough to shake anyone out of a glum-coma.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

because it's part of my job :(

i have about 4 huge boxes of shit left to shoot, the most annoying crap is about 30 of them are different varieties of ben & jerry's ice cream, and they want group shots of several different pairings, like "shoot cherry garcia and chunky monkey!' on and on, like an INFINITE NUMBER OF PAIRS OF BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM, and it gets annoying.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I think it's a sweet story too, but also I've been really gushy lately. I think I might be twitterpated.

I have a Yatsura cd! It's pretty good. It is very Pavement-esque.

My middle sister, Hev, the one who was just visiting, has a few binders full of old emails. She read some to me a while back and it was really fun because she would read me emails I wrote her back in 95 or so about everyday things I'd totally forgotten about. I kind of wish I'd done something like that with some of my emails from my old college address.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Adam, reading your new username after some of your posts is making me chuckle.

I had my first web-based e-mail in 1998, too. Before that, I only used my college account. But then, when I moved to the UK, I signed up for Hotmail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i had an AOL account for like, 6 years.. heh.

i used to go into the EMO chatroom!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

No!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I loved my old college email! there was all these groups and networks you could join, kind of like a proto-Friendster! I also only got Hotmail when I was studying in Paris.

xp Mandee, what do you DO?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

i wish my history were as sweet as yours, sarah. "sweet" is not the word i would use to describe it, so i won't describe it at all.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I was on AOL beginning in early 1995, and then whenever I came home from college for a few years. I believe Kelsey and I used to send AOL mail to each other in the summer of 1998. I had two AOL screennames/e-mail addresses: TastyViola and SpiralStrz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

haha. my aol name was reprimanda.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey's was PoetSnack!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha!

I always had "Nordicskillz" and it stuck. Such a fucking stupid name, but I made it when I was like 18!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Mine was MyMomSays, from like 1997-2004!

also Homosexual II was my screen name briefly!

Adam I am in "marketing" - but i work for a grocery store chain, so I take pictures of their food for their ads/brochures/website, etc. That's not all I do. It's only about 10% of my job, BUT IT'S THE MOST ANNOYING BIT

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

So are you a photographer?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

uhh i used to go in the AOL SPIN chatroom, too

a LOT

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

no, i am not a photographer, actually.

they didn't see the point in hiring someone with photography experience i guess

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Oldest email in my Yahoo account, from 12/29/2000:

Hi, Nick.
Quesadillas? Coffee ice cream? mmm... I'm so jealous.
Richard brought us bagels for breakfast but I still never figured out
what
to do about lunch. I'm so hungry! Woe is me! Maybe I should get
something
out of the vending machine and then just go get something to go for the
road
somewhere on my way out... hmmm...everything's kind of out of the
way...
Today has been going by fairly quickly considering I worked through my
lunchtime. Right now I'm working on transfers since Jon's not here to
do
them. Janice is supposedly leaving soon. Then it will just be me, Mark,
and
Richard. THAT will be cool.
Hey - it's 1:23 o'clock.
1234-5678!!!!
Hi.
***
I forgot I was writing this email! so now it's 2:05. I updated my web
page,
worked on the transfers some more, Janice left...
You are such a good son to help your dad clean out the gutters!
Last night someone called for "Nicholas" and I was like, "This is
Sarah, my I help you?" and it turned out he was a telemarketer. He was
like,
"There is no man named Nicholas in this household?"... He was weird.
Hi again.
I should send this so you can reply again. :)
I need to look for food now so I don't die of starvation.
**Sarah**

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

My first longterm college boyfriend and I used to use AOL to IM each other A LOT in the summer of 1999. I had a friend who saved all of her IM conversations from high school in a binder. I think it had kittens on it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

xposties: B-but who gets to eat the ice cream??

I sure talk about food and work alot.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Sarah was I in Hong Kong on 12/29/00? Or was that the previous winter?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

It was Christmas 2000. Your family invited me to come too, but I couldn't afford it or take time off, so I was crushed. :-(

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I used to have all the emails saved from a guy I dated 1999-2000 - after he dumped me, I was pretty devastated, and for about 6 months or so I would read his e-mails all the time, trying to pinpoint the moment he became less interested in me.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I had all sorts of theories why he dumped me at the time, but it was probably just because I was annoying

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

(Oh, wait, no... maybe it was 99? I mean, you would cleaned gutters at your parents house here, right? When did they move here?)

That's sad. I have lots of old love letters I've obsessed over.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah if I was cleaning gutters I must have been in Virginia. Duh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I had all sorts of theories why he dumped me at the time, but it was probably just because I was annoying

Mandee, I realize in retrospect that this is the #1 reason I was dumped too, on more than one occasion. I'm annoying. I'm not saying that you were annoying, but I can confirm: yes, I am somewhat annoying, in varying degrees.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Seriously Mandee, do you get to keep the ice cream?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"Cleaning gutters in virginia", isn't that by Charley Patton?

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I am totally annoying

I seem okay at first, but then the real me comes out. I am totally passive aggressive and moody!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

jordan.. they are empty cartons :(

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha for some reason I just remembered when jaymc, kenan, and I were drunk on Saturday (well I was drunk) and we went to Picante to get Mexican food and as we were standing outside this topless old guy on rollerblades came by playing with one of those hippie stick things where you flip the stick around in the air but he wasn't good at it and kept dropping the stick and circling back around and looking old and intense and topless. HA HA!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah! Then that weird girl with massive scar tissue on the back of her left leg tried to commiserate with us.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

old and intense and topless

this will be the title of my biography.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I didn't see her scar tissue, but I remember talking about fruit. I made a great joke about how it was cruel to make pluots by forcing plums and apricots to have sex.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't all that noticeable. It was just one of those things where the second you notice it, it's hard not to be like, "whoa, what happened, dude!" Yes, your joke was appreciated, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

That's...awful, Mandee.

I told you guys that the wedding I played on Saturday had a Ben & Jerry's ice cream bar instead of a cake, right?

Ev@n asked the ice cream bartender if he eats the ice cream and he saID, "Nah, you don't get sick of it, but you get spoiled. Like, if a buddy of mine comes over with a carton of Blue Moon, I just have to tell him no, you know?"

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

He lives in an ice cream world with ice cream friends!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

That's cool. Jeffpttl & pullapartgirl's wedding reception had cupcakes and pies instead of cake.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could have been there.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

He gets paid $5/scoop!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

xpost - yeah, me too. i love fruit pies. some of my best friends are fruit pies.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

He gets paid $5/scoop! Uh-uh!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of cake, I love it when people leave this office because they always buy mad gourmet cakes to say goodbye. It's also cool because I barely know anyone here so it's not even sad. It's just free cake.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I like too many desserts to limit the options. At my wedding reception, I'd probably have to have a plate of chocolate chip cookies too.

It looks like a huge wind tunnel outside!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

He gets paid $5/scoop! Uh-uh!

That's what he said! Or at least that's what they charge the happy couple.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

You'd think there would be a discount buying in bulk!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

We didn't have any fruit pies, alas. Pecan, coconut cream, and lemon meringue. Not that I am complaining, mind you, because pecan is my favorite but I do love some fruit pie.

Well, I guess lemon is a fruit but this pie was made by Jeff's southern grandmother so I can guarantee you that absolutely no fruit was involved in the making of the pie.

My first email was my junior year of college (1993). I emailed a professor. I expected her to respond in class, so I never went back to check the email again and my feelings were hurt when she never addressed the question I asked her "in real time." This was a shell account and it confused me so I just never bothered to find out my password after I forgot it.

My frist internet experience was posting on an URG3 OV3RKILL message board, and I got yelled at for talking about Delaware instead of Urg3 0v3rkill, who at that point had fucking broken up and weren't doing anything interesting anyway. Then I got a hotmail address. Then I got a website. Then I met Jeff. Then we got married and had pie.

The end.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

SWEET STORY! And it makes me hungry!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Sarah do you want pasta for dinner again tonight, except this time I make spicy pasta at home instead of going to Pizza Metro and paying too much for average pasta?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

i think the only e-mail i printed off and cherished was the one the hunky french exchange student sent me asking me to prom!!

once I found, in a notebook (this has nothing to do w/ emails) "I think I'm in love with Jeff" --- I CANNOT REMEMBER, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, WHO JEFF IS/WAS.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Well, I guess lemon is a fruit but this pie was made by Jeff's southern grandmother so I can guarantee you that absolutely no fruit was involved in the making of the pie.

hahahahaha.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Nick, Yes.

Mandee, my family had a french exchange student after I went off to college, so I never met him. His name was Xavier. Hmm...I wonder if that's when Leslie discovered she wanted to go French!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

when i was in high school i tried to convince my parents to get an exchange student because i had the ulterior motive of wanting to seduce him. he was going to be from the UK or Poland, he would have black hair and be my BFF. they never did because they said that we "didn't have enough room" and i was disappointed.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

do they even have exchange students from countries that speak the same language?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

i would have been happy with a spanish-speaking exchange student as well.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

this french exchange student was name PIERRE-JEAN and i was tooooottally in LUV with him, but he liked the german exchange student, OLGA OR WHATEVER

I remember one snowy saturday pierre-jean invited me over to his house to watch "the full monty" - one of his grodey francophile nerd friends was over - after the film it was revealed the both of them were going on a double date - I NEARLY DIED/CRIED

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

My family had an Indian exchange student. The "official" language of India is English, so...

Also I know another family who had an Australian stay with them.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

ok, so i wasn't totally DREAMING. it was possible and my parents must have wanted me to be celibate and miserable.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I always wanted to be a foreign exchange student, so I could be a novelty and get correspondingly seduced.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

ditto, jordan

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Me too. They told me I was too old (fuck Rotary.)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I had no desire to ever be a foreign-exchange student or seduce foreign-exchange students!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I remember there being an Argentinian girl at our school who was seriously seduceable. Too bad I was in 9th grade at the time.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

jaymc are you INSANE?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

we had an adorable french boy at my school. he had crazy hair and wore these really colorful clothes. i think his name was Mathieu. he was sort of childish though, not at all the sort of boy i was interested in seducing.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I'm insane. I don't remember any of the female foreign-exchange students at my school. I was sort of friends with a Hungarian kid named Dani3l H0rn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I WENT TO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS! First serious crush was on a British girl.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Are you hstencil?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Yes, because everyone who has ever had any kind of relationship, even an unrequited crush, with a British girl, is hstencil, including the entire straight male population of the United Kingdom.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

well later on I realized the exotic and hip exchange students at my school were really just big nerds

they all wore colored jeans

or then there was the german exchange student, SEBASTIAN, who was into grunge like BIG TIME, and it was 1998!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for clearing that up, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

NO PROBS BRO

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I SEDUCED AND MARRIED AN "EXCHANGE STUDENT".

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

It's our 2nd wedding anniversary tomorrow!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

there was a french foreign exchange student at my school named olivier. he was incredibly hot, and had the sexxy accent and all of that, but he was an egotistical prick. he was hottest from a distance.

xp happy anniversary, early.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Also, my wife invited a hott Swedish exchange student to be her date for high school prom...and he then proceeded to try and hook up with the other (male) hott Swedish exchange student AT THE PROM. Now he works for a fashion designer in Milan and is proudly homosexual.

xp thanks! I've just been in Sephora on my lunch break, looking for gifts. that place makes me sneeze like crazy.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I just found out I was deceived. Jimmy Eat World is playing with American Analog Set. I can never trust anyone ever again...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

those rotten bastards. I had no idea American Analog Set was still a band.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

That's still a weird pairing! I like AmAnSet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Hi, you guys post too much.

Devendra Banhart and Bunny Brains is a weird pairing too.

I want to go see the following upcoming shows:

Xiu Xiu
Wolf Eyes
New Pornographers.

Thanks. see you tomorrow.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Hi, you guys post too much.

Yeah, it's sick. I should really be fired.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

My biological father and stepmother got a foreign exchange student from Germany or some Scandanavian country and proceeded to treat him like the son they always wanted, despite the fact that my father already had a son. It was actually really infuriating and sad.

I AM HERE TO ANNOUNCE A PARTY:

Robin, our friend and yours, is having a party on Saturday, September 3, in celebration of September birthdays, including her own and Sarah's and Jeff's, even though Sarah can't come. She invites you all to her home and since I feel weird posting her physical address on a public message board, email me if you are interested in coming and I'll send you the details. Party starts at 8 or 9, you know, party start time.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn it I really wish we could go. I need a party.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there a party in your pants?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I SEDUCED AND MARRIED AN "EXCHANGE STUDENT".
This is what I call "living the dream."

Jenny - I would like to come to Robin's party, but we're going to be in Iowa this weekend.

How is everyone this morning? I got stuck on the train and was late to work.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I checked in my pants and there was no party but I threw some Chex Mix down there and we'll see what develops.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I am doing pretty good today. I am stuffing 1784 envelopes for work but I just realized that if I open a really long thread and set it to scroll down automatically I can read and stuff envelopes at the same time. I R GENIUS.

Totally self-serving question: for those of you that have heard Fake Fictions, which type of FF album would you prefer to hear:
a. a pretty simple, stripped-down but loud rock album that sounds pretty similar to the live show, or
b. a more ornate album with extra guitar and keyboard and percussion parts that's different (hopefully in a good way) from the live show

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Definitely B.

But A would be good too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

B, i think. i like when live show and recordings are different.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Happy anniversary, Adam & Sarah!

I don't know what I'm going to do with my dad. He'll be here almost a full week. Unlike my mom and sister, he doesn't love love love to go shopping and eat and watch movies. I guess he loves popcorn though, as I do, so we'll probably end up going to see a movie in the theater at some point. I'm guessing it will be something along the lines of MUST LOVE DOGS, as we both like romantic comedies. Are there any other romcoms out right now that might be dad-friendly?

I do wish I could go to that party. I don't know. Maybe you could go without me Nick. *sigh!*

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I'm a little scared of B. But we have a couple of months before we will be recording so I guess we have plenty of time to plan things out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

TAKE ONE DAD TO ONE PARTY

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you could do something in the middle, i.e. not get bogged down in over-arrangement and production but plan out some choice keyboard and tambourine parts?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

haaaaaaaaappy anniversary adam! do you have any wedding photos to post so we can all share in the happy moment of requited exchange student matrimony?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Well I think my ideal plan would be to record a kick-ass A version, and then lay some other stuff on top of it so that we have an A version and a B version that we can listen to but oh noes so complicated!

Happy anniversary to Adam. Keep on rockin' it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Or seduction photos?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Do you know if you guys will track the main instrumental parts live or one at a time?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey, you guys:

http://catsinsinks.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

My cat prefers to stretch out in the bathtub.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, guys!

I got Sarah a giant Vanity Fair photo book and she gave me a folder which turned out to be filled with all my grad school application forms, painstakingly filled out! It was like the best present ever! Tonight we are going to eat seafood and watch The Constant Gardener!

I have still never heard the Fake Fictions (I'd like to, though), but I go for B. Though A would be great too.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I choose C -- all mellotron, all the time.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

We will be tracking the guitar, bass, and drums live, but it sounds like we will be able to get enough seperation that we should be able to erase and replace the guitar or bass parts afterwards without too many bleed issues. I can't imagine trying to record the parts seperately.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's the best idea. That's what we did. I think there's some guitar parts that were from the original takes, but the rest of the band was tracked afterwards.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I vote for B.
Jordan you beat me to cats in sinks but I present http://www.stuffonmycat.com/
Adam please tell me what you think of The Constant Gardener. Although I am willing to see it just to fuel my 10-year secret mega crush on Ralph Fiennes. (I've even seen Maid in Manhattan, for shame)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I am a member of a cats in sinks flickr group! I only have one pic to contribute though.

Some buyer just made my blood boil a few minutes ago. It was dumb. All he said was How can I get an actual person on the phone when I call here? I answer the phone, but I've been told many times that my receptionist duties come last. So I spend a lot of time in the work room making copies and faxing and so-on. I answer the phone if I'm at my desk. I guess it was just the way this guy said it that made me mad. But then I ate half a crueller and got over myself.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had a crueller. I just ate a juicy plum though.

Thanks for all the input, guys. I worry I talk about FF too much on here, but as I was telling jaymc the other day, it's the generally the most exciting thing that's happening with me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I spoke on the phone to a guy in Tennessee who wanted someone to buy his land. He insisted that "government planes" kept flying over it and if they continued to do so, he would shoot them down. This had absouletly nothing to do with my job.

xp - yay excitement!

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what a crueller is. I'm assuming it's a pastry of some kind.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Stuff on my cat OMG.

This is proof to dog lovers that cat's aren't fun enough by themselves.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

You gotta be crueller to be kind.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Right on. So you'll be tracking at the same time but in different rooms? And is this on your own or in a studio?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Haha Jocelyn, Stuff On My Cat is awesome. I looked at it awhile ago but there were only like two pictures.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I wish I made music.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

It is in a little studio run by some guys we know, not a professional studio but they've got a lot of room and have done several things there. We will all stand in the same room, with the drums, but the guitar amp will be in a different room and the bass will probably just go direct in. It should be interesting, but I think it will be cool to record something with someone else being in charge of all the technical stuff.

Adam you make music with your body.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

12:04 pm - The Physiology of the Music My Body Makes, Pt. 2: Hand Music
* Clapping: Sound created by the force of two hands striking each other. Pitch could potentially be controlled by changing the way that the hands are cupped, which parts of the hands strike each other, and how much force is used, but I find this difficult to do in a predictable fashion. Even trying to maintain a consistent clapping sound is difficult over a period of time, which is why so often recorded handclaps are done by multiple people or overdubbed multiple times (to cover any inconsistencies).

* Finger snapping: Sound is created by building force/tension between the middle finger and the thumb, then removing the thumb and allowing the middle finger to strike the fleshy part of the hand below the thumb. Pitch can be controlled slightly by the placement of the other fingers, but volume is lost pretty quickly and so pitch alteration capabilities seem to be minimal. The middle finger-thumb combination seems to be the one that works best: pointer finger-thumb and pinky-thumb create no snap, and index finger-thumb creates only a minimal snap. This could be due to the angle that the other fingers must travel, potentially making them brush against the thumb, losing velocity; the other fingers not striking the right part of the hand due to being shorter; or inability to create enough force to create the satisfying smack!

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11:52 am - The Physiology of the Music My Body Makes, Pt. 1: Mouth Music
* Whistling: Sound created by air forced through mouth and lips, either by exhalation or by inhalation. Pitch controlled by movement and placement of tongue within mouth to change shape of oral cavity; lips and cheeks remain stable.
Question raised: people who can't whistle - is it due to tongue inflexibility? No, because they would still be able to whistle, just not control the pitch. Must be due to lip problems.

* Tongue clicking: Sound is created by creating suction between tongue and roof of the mouth and then pulling the tongue down to create a click/pop sound. Pitch is controlled by movement of the cheeks to change the shape of the oral cavity. The lips are moved slighly as a result of cheek movement, but I don't think this is the primary pitch controller in this instance.

* Cheek tapping: Sound is created by striking the cheek like the taut skin of a drum. Pitch is controlled by changing the size of the mouth opening, which in turn (through the opening and closing of the jaws) changes the size of the oral cavity.

* Humming: An exception to the mouth-music rule of controlling pitch through size of the oral cavity, humming is created by the vocal chords. Is it even "mouth music," just because the sound emanates from the mouth? I would say no, and one could equally say that the sound of humming emanates as much from the nose as from the mouth.

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― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Cruller:

http://photos7.flickr.com/7367914_f5601fd986_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I do clap sometimes. And I sing in a Pavarotti voice (or a bad approximation of one) when I'm doing the dishes.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Beans are the musical fruit, you know. You could have more beans.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

How old are you, Kenan?

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

too old for fart jokes, i assure you.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

i'm probably too old to really learn how to play a string instrument very well, but i'm trying to teach myself to play guitar anyway. it's going alright, but i'm sort of stuck.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that sounds like a great setup, Nick. I forget that you can do that thing with the amps in another room, because I haven't recorded with a band that uses amps for so long (and even when I did, I tracked the drums first to a click + pre-recorded guitar guide track)!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I liked that post, Nick. You should continue the series.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Pavarotti! Pavarotti! Oh oh oh ohoh!!!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I pick B because that's the kind of thing that I tend to like more and for longer periods of time, and because I'm really excited and curious to see what my talented friends in the FF can do.

Happy anniversary, Adam!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

There's someone in my class whose last name sounds like "Roffle" and that makes me think ROFL and that makes me ROFL inside a little bit.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Guitar is pretty easy as long as you're not planning to sound like Eddie Van Halen or anything. I essentially taught myself, but then again, I had a couple of years where I had no friends and spent all my free time playing guitar and recording on the 4-track in a basement. It's harder if you're trying to have a life too. But if you set aside a certain amount of time every week to work on it, you'll pick up the basics in no time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Pavarotti! Pavarotti! Oh oh oh ohoh!!!

yes, this was the inspiration for said antics!

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

In fact, the only word I sing in this voice IS "Pavarotti", just with varying intonations.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

You should get your wife to learn the Portuegese rap parts and you can do a duet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

The word "Portuegese" doesn't look right. Am I spelling it wrong? "Portuguese"? "Portugese"? I'm weirded out now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

It's harder if you're trying to have a life too.
This is what I'm finding, especially if I have work + school + teaching + home duties. I really enjoy it though. I have no intention of ever performing in front of people, so that takes the pressure off.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Portuguese.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Your first spelling is right. I agree, though, it's one of those words you can't look directly at or else it starts squirming.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

PORTUGal/uese

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, jaymc's right. I looked at your spelling and saw that one. Christ.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

portugeese

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

porchugeez.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

porch geese

http://www.goosecloset.com/images/sports1.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I edited Maddie's next wine column this morning, it was fun. So much easier than writing.

Luckily, it was not a Portuguese wine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

So much easier than writing.

I know! I want to be an editor! I mean, I am one. But I want to edit things like columns about wine. And make decisions and suggestions and in general have some sort of say.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I thought I was going to have a nice easy day, settle in to my vacation, but:

1) The temp I am meant to be training as my replacement for the next two and a half weeks has not shown up.
2) My boss is sick and so his boss just met with me to discuss dividing up his (difficult!) workload for the next two days.

Why is life CRUEL????

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

CRUELLER AND CRULLER

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I think there's something in the air today, something bad. First, there was that guy who was talking down to me because I don't spend my entire day by the phone waiting to take his calls.

Then there was this lady who just walked in because she was waiting for her daughter, who works in another company. This happens all the time and I hate it, because these people just come in and are like, "What does this company do?" And I always try to make them leave with nice, quick explanations, but she kept asking more and more questions. So I tried to give her a business card for our broker and she was like, "I do not want a business card! I want answers!" And then the owner of my company was walking by and was alarmed by this lady so he helped her, and she kept pointing at me and saying I was unhelpful.

And THEN I go get my lunch out. I set down my glass of water at the table where I want to sit. Then I go prepare said lunch. Then I walk back and sit in my chair and my coworker I hate snaps at me, saying, "I just told my daughter to sit there!" So I try to say I'd left my water there and she interrupts me and is like "WHATEVER! I'll just have to find another chair for her!" Yes, my coworker has been bringing 3 of her kids to work with her all week.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Sorry for whining.

Chicago, I promise it won't happen again, at least for a few more hours.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I just got back from the library, where I saw jaymc's twin!

"How did you know it wasn't jaymc himself?", you ask?

Well, despite his uncanny physical and sartorial similarity to jaymc, this guy was filling out an application for a library card, so surely that's not him, since he already HAS a library card.

It's a good thing I realized that too, because I was going to say hi and I don't know this guy AT ALL.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha weird. What was he wearing?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

jeans, shoes like yours and a green ringer tee with dark green rings.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

That's like how there's this guy who looks a lot like Kenan who works in my building, and he's always outside smoking, and last week Sarah saw him when she drove here to pick me up and she was waving at him and yelling at him and he just put out his cigarette and went back in the building.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, and then I saw him yesterday too and it took me a second to process that it definitely wasn't Kenan. I had my glasses on too!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, that's ridiculous.

My work day is sucking ass as well...I took the afternoon off to go home and sleep off this cold or whatever I have, and the EXACT INSTANT I lay down in bed I got the call to come back in. So, here I am!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

To be fair, I did give a guy my cell number and told him to call if he figured out this one issue this afternoon, but I didn't expect it to be so soon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

and you went back? jeez. you're more dedicated than i am.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

There's a woman that I work with who for some reason does not like me AT ALL. I have always tried to be polite to her, smile, say hi or whatever, and I have never said anything to her beyond this. She has never said a word to me. Today I was waiting for her to get some paper towels from the bathroom and when she left the bathroom I smiled. As she walked away she was talking to herself about "That girl is so .... I can't stand it. Shudder. Ugh" The word I couldn't quite hear was either overfriendly or overtrendy. What the fuck is her problem? I think it's because I don't go to church. Honestly.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

overtrendy

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea whether most people at work like me or what - because it's always so damn quiet all the time and no-one talks. Stupid editors and their silence!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Well, that sucked. You know my bike, the one that the back wheel was stolen off of? Well, the cops decided this morning that it was an eyesore. Jessa wrote me -- "They're taking your bicycle." Lucky for me, the regular cop kit couldn't get through the super-duper expensive lock I had on it, so while they left to get more heavy artillery, I raced to her place in a cab, got my poor bike, and walked it home.

I'm back at work now, and I'm sweaty.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I think the only way to get her to like me is to wear this:
http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/model-commies-L3.jpg
After all, she did a truffle shuffle victory dance for Bush this year.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Why is everyone having such a bad day?

Jocelyn, your coworker is a peabrained simp. Don't listen to a word she says. And don't waste your time being nice to her! She sucks!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

My day has been fine so far! Sorry guys!

Of course, now that I say that, the ceiling is going to collapse on me.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

yes jocelyn, I think you should wear that

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Jeff say the real jaymc running down the steps at an el station last week. He yelled "JOHN" and John stopped, but didn't see Jeff and so ran on.

So jaymc, if you thought you heard someone yelling your name on an el platform recently, it was Jeff.

I am having a medium day. A little annoying at times but not bad. I finally ironed out a struggle I was having with my mother and some cousins about a "reverse bridal shower" the cousins wanted to give me in September that I most definitely did not want. It's now settled that we will all go out to dinner together.

YAY.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

say = saw

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea whether most people at work like me or what - because it's always so damn quiet all the time and no-one talks. Stupid editors and their silence!

I could've written this exact same post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Jenny -- Jeff and I have cleared that up already!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

On the bright side, I really like this Futureheads CD that I got in the bargain bin outside of EB games for $1.99. I like to make up "Scenarios" about why the person sold it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I love that shirt. Where do I get one?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

It reminds me of these communist shirts that Sarah and I bought at the Statue Park in Budapest - it's the best place ever, a graveyard for GIANT old communist statues!

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

check it out:
http://www.szoborpark.hu/images/seta15.jpeg
http://www.szoborpark.hu/images/seta9.jpeg
http://www.szoborpark.hu/images/seta7.jpeg

bear in mind most of these are, like, 20 FEET TALL

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I am having a fine day! A fine day indeed! I got to listen to some really good reggae before work and during lunch, and my boss isn't here. My eyes kind of hurt though.

Ben got his bike stolen OFF OF HIS PORCH, while he was inside taking a nap, and he lives on the second floor! He didn't have it locked up though, the goof.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Kenan you don't want to buy it because it's from some horrible on M!chelle M@lkin's site that I found when trying to find hurricane relief information. You could make one!
I really want to visit Budapest. Those statues are amazing, esp. the first one.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

OH MY GOD.

I just discovered that someone here is sharing "Enter the 36 Chambers" over the network. All I need is a blunt rolled with shitty ditch weed and this afternoon could be 10th grade all over again!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I am posting pictures of great European park statues all over ILX today.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Should I be worried that I can actually feel a draft through a tiny hole in the seam of the crotch of my jeans?

Is this an appropriate question?

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

probably not

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Those statues are kicking my ass. That's so so awesome.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

yeah. i would like to see more photos of the first one. what's it called?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

John: I'm glad you cleared that up. Sorry for being behind the times.

I just had a coversation with a friend about the subject of her upcoming law review article and now I'm raging with conficting emotions (again) - relief at not having to deal with law review and rage and shame at missing the top 10% cutoff by like mere points.

Commie statues are awesome.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.internationalposter.com/ru-text.cfm

http://www.internationalposter.com/pimages/rul06304.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Adam you make me proud to be a little hunyak.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

wow, that poster site is so cool! why can't there be cheap reproductions of those? (i guess they would end up at pottery barn or something, that's why)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I've always wanted to research Soviet Propoganda Posters. (You could find an art book of them and make color copies, but they wouldn't be as impressive)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Why can't I spell today?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Have any of you ever been to Stanley's fruit & veggie store on Elst0n? I was thinking of stopping by there after work to check out the selection.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it is very good! So cheap!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

xpost
In case you are drawing a blank, the sign shows a guy (Stanley?) smoking a pipe and riding a watermelon.

So, good quality, then? Like, better than Edmar?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah -- it's pretty good. Lotsa produce, decent prices. Just eat the food FAST or it goes bad. I mostly went there before the recent renovation, so maybe it's better now.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

In other news, remember how I was hoping for a review/raise? Well, I finally spoke up and now I will have a formal review when I get back from my birthday/labor day weekend. Eep!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

When my boss said he'd take care of it, I thought he meant I'd just get some sort of raise on my next paycheck. I mean, I'm glad I'll get one, but... eep! I hate reviews!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I am pissed. I had lost 4 pounds through the first three weeks of August, and I just weighed myself, and apparently I have regained all four pounds OVER THE PAST WEEKEND. I have birthday cake and brunches to blame, but mostly me. PISSED.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

My review was scary, but i went well. You'll be fine.

There are two temps opening mail in the room behind me and they are totally "macking" (I beleive this is what you American say) on each other.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could have a review. I really need to be paid more. Preferably at another job.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm pissed. I went clothes shopping at lunch and could find NOTHING. San Francisco is many things, but unless you like very expensive clothes, a threads-shopping city it is NOT.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

i just got back from notre dame where, on the ride home with the co-worker i do not like, i fell asleep. as a defense mechanism. i think she's onto me. she seemed annoyed at me. oh well.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Did you ride the South Shore line?

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

adam, usually one person macks on another. i don't know if it's often used as a verb for two people toward each other. also, and correct me if i'm wrong, but i think "macking" is reserved for the boys. girls don't usually mack on guys, linguistically speaking.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

i think it's hilarious that you know about the south shore line!! the said co-worker drove her car.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I got stuck at...some Illinois town on the way down to South Bend at xmas. It was so cold my ipod didn't work.

xp-thanks kelsey, i genuinely didn't know that.

Most of the macking was being done by the male subject, so I think it was appropriate. Also this is SF, so it could have very easily been two boys.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

hahaha!!! i don't know if that changes the "rule" or not!

the macking thing . . . it's just a guess on my part based on how i've heard it used.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

where is everyone? i thought this thread was still alive after five . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I've ridden the South Shore line many times! I love the name. And I love it when it sort of goes through streets and you can stare at people on their porches.

Taken on the South Shore line last xmas:
http://photos2.flickr.com/2833352_0defd2ee0d.jpg
http://photos1.flickr.com/2833346_6f70457ffa.jpg

I think the second one is Michigan City.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was "mack to." < /inside joke>

― michael mullan3y (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

nick, I have gained 9 lbs. in a weekend before - could be worse.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Do you ever make a joke post and then after sending it think about all of the ways you could've improved it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

never

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

hahaha! it's funny, john!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

why did i not know
that the 7-11
down the street sold beer?

― jaikunymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

you only went there for slurpees, remember?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

this is the 600th message! and now i'm going to bed.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

why are you up?!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

HELLLO CHICAGO! I got to work at 6:45 today! Welcome to my new FALL SCHEDULE!

The most disturbing thing about today is that I didn't mind at all. The pre-dawn hours are my very favorite hours of the day. I seemed to enjoy everything just a little bit more: the dog-walking, the coffee, the music I was listening to, my book. Everything seems more beautiful as the sun is coming up.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

That sounds nice. I wouldn't mind working earlier because then less people would be walking in the office and calling so I'd get more peace and quiet.

It's pretty nice now though too. The sun is coming in the front windows/doors. I'm eating strawberry yogurt.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Did I mention yet that my mom bought us a french coffee press since our coffee maker was broken? I really do think the coffee tastes better this way, though I was really suspicious at first, mostly because it requires a tiny bit more work.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

i've thought about getting one of those but i have to admit that i don't know how to operate one. it's not hard, right?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

ps sarah - i have surprises for you for your BIRTHDAY!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

YAY! SURPRISES!

No, it's not hard. It's like this:
* grind the coffee beans and put them in the bottom of the container
* heat up some water, but don't let it boil
* put a spoon in the container and pour the hot water in
* stir
* put top on and let it sit for four minutes
* slowly push down the top

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if this image will show, but this one looks alot like ours. By pushing down the top I meant the knob.

http://www.bodumusa.com/shop/images_products/big/103_01_a.jpg

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Great! CIH is here with her kids!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

that sounds not too hard...i had a cup of coffee on the train this morning which i was able to drink because there wasn't a human sitting next to me and taking up all the room.

the surprises aren't gonna rock your socks off, but they're something.

GREAT, KIDS.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

are the kids the type of kids who are bashful because they're in an adult's world and they're taking up space and they prefer to occupy themselves and be as unobtrusive as possible or are they the sort of kids who are like "i'm here, i'm a kid and therefore i am the center of the universe"?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I still like surprises. I mean, I don't expect you to beat the car stereo Nick got me. :-D

The kids aren't too too bad, but they fight over who gets to use the extra computer with the dvd player, wander around the halls when they get bored, and take up chairs at the kitchen table (HUMPH!). I don't really care that much. It's just a little annoying.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey! I just found out that chimp-lady Jane Goodall is giving a free lecture at my school! I wonder if she'll bring any monkeys.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Good morning, Chicago.

I'm in a good mood today, because I ended up getting my nap yesterday + a full night's sleep. Now my head cold has moved down to become a chest cough...that's progress, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I think it's certainly possible for a girl to mack on a guy. I don't think there's a gender implication in macking.

I reweighed myself this morning and it's back down 3 pounds from my weight yesterday afternoon. I don't understand. That was the NICK WEIGHT UPDATE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I told you that you would weigh less in the morning than the afternoon!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm taking a banana break.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I agree with n/a about macking. I thought it was a synonym for "flirting with intention." (As opposed to "flirting for sport.")

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Re: French Press....I think the general theory on why the coffee is better is because it retains more if the oil from the beans. The oil acts the same way fat does & "grabs" the flavor.

I'm certainly open to having a girl mack on a guy, I've just mostly heard it the other way around. "He's totally macking on that girl over there" just sounds more natural to me. But, you know. This is AMERICA & that means GIRLS CAN MACK ON BOYS.

Also: I'm totally in the best mood ever because I'M LEAVING FOR MINNEAPOLIS TONIGHT!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone interested in seeing radio awesome guy, Dave Isay speak next week? It's free & I think I'd like to go. I believe it's on Wednesday...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

WHO IST ISAY?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

He is in charge of Sound Portraits Productions & his latest project is StoryCorps.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

I got two free passes to the MCA -- but only two. Who wants to be my date?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone gotten fitted for a tux around here? Where does one go? I just have to get this little card filled out and sent to the Twin Cities... Maybe I should go to some way fancy store downtown.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I think they just take your measurements, it might be nice to go to one that's not busy since you're not spending money with them.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Dan (my Dan) got his wedding suit at Men's Wearhouse. It's nice. Nice enough.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, a not busy place would probably be best. Is there an ettiquite to this? Am I supposed to tip somebody? Why does this feel like the plot line to an episode of Curb your Enthusiasm?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I found a bow tie on the bus yesterday. I think I'll wear it without a shirt.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

with a G string?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Your Larry David moments (Warning! Blandness!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

i tried donating to the red cross this morning & their phone line was busy. that's kinda awesome, right?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

john, isn't your life a larry david moment?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Yes. You know, because he says what we're all thinking.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he says what YOU'RE thinking.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

We probably don't need to hash this out again.

by the way, i felt awesome last night because i changed the headlight on my car by myself!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I found a bow tie on the bus yesterday. I think I'll wear it without a shirt.

http://img.snl.jt.org//arc/epskit/90-10-27-10.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF!!! But leather pants are so much more do-able than a g-string! How exciting for Kenan!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I can't access the main Red Cross site, but this donation page is working:

http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate/

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Or are those satin pants? Regardless. D O A B L E.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I had trouble getting my card to go through on that one, which was why I tried calling.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I'm here for a limited time only, with all my energy today.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

i did something i've never done before. i complained about an employee to a higher up.

i'm probably earning a reputation as a difficult employee.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

chicago is sure empty.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

one more excitable tidbit:

I realized last night that the cd player in my car (it's new via my brother) plays mp3 discs! the amount of music i can listen to has quadrupled!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

i'm pulling an n/a with all this talkin' to myself....

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

also: i'm not talking about sex.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

hi.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i was reading about the hurricane damage.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty awful, huh?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah. i mentioned this on the big katrina thread, but i didn't realize the extent of the damage until last night when megan told me. i thought n.o. had mostly been spared. shows you how much i pay attention to the news.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally jaymc, it looks like our NOLA benefit show is going to be at the High Noon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i thought n.o. had mostly been spared.

NO is mostly gone. It's creepy. For at least several months, it will be a totally dead city.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

i'm here too. been here since 6:45AM!

NO looks scary. I wonder if there are dead bodies floating around, from all of the above-ground mausoleums. Or mauso-boats.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Hi, kelsey, jaymc, and Jordan.

I want to remind everyone to keep the night of Saturday Sept 10th free to come celebrate my birthday with me. Nick is supposed to call (*cough cough*) to make reservations. Then I'll give you times and places. How's that for a deal?

I bought the Ditty B0ps cd last night. I will write about it on my blogalogalog eventually.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Also, hi Amanada and Kenan. That was an xpost x 2.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

This is small potatoes, but have they figured out where the Saints are going to play yet? Not that I even care about football, I just think it's an interesting dilemma.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Potatoes. I'm hungry.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if there are dead bodies floating around, from all of the above-ground mausoleums

There are lots of dead bodies floating around, but I was wondering myself if some of them might be from the cemetaries as opposed to hurricane victims. None of the news stories have mentioned the possibility.

Honestly, the whole New Orleans thing is really fucking me up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

That's what I meant, Jordan -- not new-dead, but OLD DEAD bodies. Bones and whatnot.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I usually have a soft spot for the macabre.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

But right now you don't? I still do. I can't help it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

(That probably makes me grim and loathsome, doesn't it.)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

No.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I will admit that there is a small part of me marvelling at the "post-apocalyptic fiction come to life" aspect of it all. I sometimes wonder if in a year from now it will be a forgotten city, like in Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

That article about the Superdome that Ned linked to on the Katrina Aftermath thread: yikes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

It is surreal. Especially the sharks and alligators.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

And snakes and floating balls of fire ants.

(Jocelyn just made the post of the beast!)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

The part about NOLA that has thrown me for a serious loop is that there are sharks swimming in the flooded streets.

Like, a major US city and tourist destination where I have spent some time is now under water and lives are destroyed and the economy will suffer for a long time and it's fucking CRAZY and SURREAL enough as it is, because this is the USA dammit and this shit doesn't happen here, and as if it's not hard enough to wrap my brains around all that...

There are three foot sharks swimming through the streets of New Orleans.

xpost: Jocelyn, YES! We were thinking the same thing at the same time. ESP up by 150%. Apocolypse imminent.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I have this massive fear of being in the water and looking down and seeing snakes.
I also keep thinking New Orleans was fought over in TWO wars. And now it's...gone.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

How did the sharks get there, anyway? Did they swim upriver?

xpost, I still can't bring myself to accept that. It's majorly fucked up, yes, but it'll be back one way or another.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

And the Superdome situation is beyond my ability to really understand. All I keep thinking while I read the articles is, "What kind of 2nd Amendment arguments am I going to have with my ultra-right wing stepfather about this when I go back to DE at the end of September?"

As in, how is he going to reconcile his staunch belief in the right of Americans to keep and bear arms with the insanity that's happening in the Superdome and I am terified that his reconciliation is going to have some sort of racist/classist basis about who should be allowed to own weapons, which will probably destroy our formerly wonderfull but recently extremely damaged (thanks to opposing political views) relationship.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

that's a handful.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Chicago burned to the ground and they rebuilt it in a year or something crazy like that. So New Orleans isn't gone forever. Although I worry about the politics, corruption, financial mismanagement, and general fuckimoral that's surely to be involved in its rebuilding. If the political and financial leaders don't cowboy up and take care of business without worrying about bullshit politics and constituents and lobbies and putting money in the pockets of their friends, it's all lost.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I am a Chippy Charlie this morning, ain't I????

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, some of the shit is just plain fucked up. For instance, I have no qualms with "looting" for survival, but reports of automatic weapon fire at police stations and people trying to tip over an ambulance, there's just NO REASON for that except an atmosphere of anarchy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Good morning?

Could someone point me to the Superdome article that you are talking about? I read the New York Times over lunch yesterday, and I had to actually put it down because I couldn't bear it anymore. Very very sad. Even the London bombings, as close as they were to home, did not make me feel like that.

I had a nice anniversary. I cooked and we decided not to do Constant Gardener and sat out in a hot tub under that stars instead. It was great! And then we watched Fat Actress, have any of you actually seen Fat Actress? I didn't know what to make of it.

Sarah - we use a coffee press, and it is great. ONE VITAL THING-washing it constantly with soap can damage the press and also make your coffee tatse bad. I think you're supposed to rinse it with vinegar or something. I started a thread about this, I'll try and find it.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Hi Adam!

Superdome article

I'm glad you had a nice anniversary. Where was this purported "hot tub under the stars"? That sounds awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

n/a: as a Weight Watchers veteran, I can tell you that your best bet is to weigh yourself in the morning, before you eat or drink anything, but after you, um, releive yourself to the best of your abilities. It's best to weigh yourself once a week at the same time wearing the same clothes (or lack thereof) to get a better idea of your progress. It's psychologically impossible for me to weigh myself only once a week when I'm trying to lose weight, but I do at least try to only do it in the morning.

xpost to Jordan: I saw on Fox news (I know, I know) at the gym this morning that the police have been instructed to abandon search and rescue efforts and concentrate on stopping looting. Of course, I also read that the notoriously underpaid and corrupt NOLA cops are doing their fair share of looting themselves. But telling people to stop saving lives and start saving property strikes me as one of the more perverse things about the situation, almost as surreal to me as the sharks.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I saw a picture of some dolphins in a swimming pool somewhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

We run vinegar through our normal coffee pot! Not often enough, though.

You have a hot tub, Adam?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I never weigh myself, I just look at my belly.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Okay, the dolphins were intentionally moved to the swimming pool:

There were three unusual guests at one Gulfport hotel Sunday afternoon. Three saltwater dolphins were brought to the Best Western in Gulfport from Marine Life.

Dr. Moby Solangi says the dolphins were in a shallow water tank at the Gulfport Oceanarium. Because Marine Life is right on the beach, the dolphins were moved to higher ground for protection from Hurricane Katrina.

The dolphins, named Katelin, Cayenne, and Jonah, seemed to be enjoying the attention given to them from other hotel guests. And the guests seemed equally excited.

"I love them. This is my first time ever seeing them this close. I have never been to Marine Life, I have never been to Ship Island. I've been here 38 years and have never come this close," Earlean Winters said.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I have been doing this "8-minute abs!" thing. It is killer the first few times but I seem to be getting a little better.
I remember when the Danube flooded a few summers ago and people spotted some Zoo animals, seals and the like, swimming down the river past Prague.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I never weigh myself, I just look at my belly.

me too!

We don't have a hot tub, we went to a spa in Oakland. Even though it is in a busy area, it is strangely quiet and there are tall trees and you could be...almost anywhere!

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Should I get a muffaletta sandwich at Cosi today, as a tribute to the town that birthed it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Shit, I'm going to do the same thing. No, wait, fuck it, I'm going to New Orleans take-out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

my abs hurt today but the only thing i did yesterday was run a little over a mile & 1/2 & then I did 30 crunches on an exercise ball. i feel like it's not really all that much, but maybe the run combined with the crunches did something.

i have a frozen burrito at work, but i feel like getting something else.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Can I ask a sort-of legal question? Today, in the plaza with the post office and the giant orange statue thingie on the corner of Jackson/Adams, there were these circus tents set up with tons of proselytizing Scientologists inside.

1. Is this public land?
2. While I'm glad we have the freedom to do whatever we want on public land, why do they have to set up giant CIRCUS TENTS?
3. I wonder what sort of rigamarole people have to go through in order to set up there and if the Scientologists are just more tenacious than most organizations and therefore get to set up giant circus tents.

That said, this being the day of long posts, when I was in Bogota there was an elephant on the loose from a traveling circus in my neighborhood. I didn't get to see it, but I heard alllll about it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

yikes, i just read that superdome article. i had no idea how bad things were.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I have procured a shrimp po' boy, creole cheeseburger soup, and (for Maddie) shrimp creole.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

where was the article about sharks in N.O?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, I'm pretty sure that any sort of "event" like that requires a permit from the city. From my limited experience organizing demonstrations in Chicago, the first thing you've got to do if you want to gather a bunch of people in a public area (even if it's not specifically public land) is get permission from the machine.

Being as they were Scientologists, they probably already owned the plaza and the permit granters anyway. Creepy bastards.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

A little blurb here talks about officials reporting a sighting of a three-foot shark swimming in the streets. I haven't looked for anything to coroborate that.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I have procured a shrimp po' boy, creole cheeseburger soup, and (for Maddie) shrimp creole.

Man, that would only make me sad. You know it isn't going to be half as good as you can get in NO.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, what are you doing on Saturday? Want to go to a party at Robin's? I miss you a little bit. Also, I'm going to get drunk.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if my dad is making gumbo -- he's been perfecting his gumbo for years.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Man, that would only make me sad. You know it isn't going to be half as good as you can get in NO.

True. I'm eating my muffaletta right now, and I told the guy behind the counter I was ordering it as a tribute. He said, "Man, I've had muffalettas in New Orleans, and lemme tell ya, they're a lot better than the ones here." I said, "I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it."*

*Possible dialogue embellishment

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Man, that would only make me sad. You know it isn't going to be half as good as you can get in NO.

Absolutely true, but on the other hand the po' boys I've had from this place never tasted as good as the one I had totday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Jenny:

I saw you and Jeff (and Jesse?) crossing Foster yesterday, walking north on Clark. I was about to shout out "JEFF!" a la the subway debacle from the other day -- except you were too far away from me, and I was running late. So I sent Jeff a txt msg last night that said "how was simons?" -- assuming that's where you guys had gone.

JH (this morning): "Eh? I havent been there recently"
JC: "Uh huh. I'm on to you, Heath."

I'll show him!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

This is totally off-topic, but every time I feel kinda pukey, like I might get sick, I think of the line "Chinese food makes me sick" from that atrocious song and I laugh out loud. Sometimes this makes me forget about being nauseous and sometimes it doesn't, but it's always funny.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

What song is that from?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

OH GOD

Isn't that the "I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch" song?

I feel so dirty knowing that. But not as dirty as I would if I actually knew the title.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

The same one that does "I like girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch, Chinese food makes me sick" I don't know what it's called. But it's hi-larious.

yeah, that song.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, I just looked it up. "Summer Girls" by LFO. I think I've heard that once. It was a hit in the wake of Bloodhound Gang and Barenaked Ladies' "One Week," as I recall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I remember the video now. I also remember that those dudes looked like everyone I hated from high school and college. Now I'm all mad. I'm going to go listen to punk.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Songs like that are the worst.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

it's HORRIBLE. i don't know how something can simultaneously be so nauseating AND act as a remedy for nausea. i felt the same way, Dan! like "these are the dudes i always hated, and they're singing about Chinese food."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Watch me defend the first Soul Coughing album, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

thanks john

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

TS: Summer Girls vs. Steal My Sunshine (either way, your ears lose!)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i just remembered that the big studball quarterback in my high school was named Wh!tn3y T!llinghast. That's as bad as Blaine.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I think what grates about songs like "Summer Girls" is that part of the point of the song is that they don't have to actually put any effort into writing a song, they can just fill it with non-sequitur rhymes. And while in theory I like the idea that a song doesn't have to mean anything, per se, there's something sort of smug and smirky and self-congratulatory about the song when LFO is on a major label and getting lots of airplay, like "Wow, we really don't have to do anything to get rich, do we?" I know it's easy to hate on bands like Hoobastank or whatever, but if you listen to a song like "The Reason," it's actually a really well-constructed pop song. This, on the other hand, I don't know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

LFO?

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

That's what they're called.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.swr3.de/__pix/cover/500x435/6183.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Ugh. I need to stop thinking about bad pop music.

Chicago accidenal paths-crossing story:

Last night I was at a party populated mostly by art students from the School of the Art Institute. I only knew the hostess, whom I went to high school with. After some semi-awkward introductions, I noticed a dude I kind of recognized. Turns out it was one of the guys from a band I had tried out for and been asked to join, except because of a series of tribulations we hadn't gotten together for a month and a half and I was starting to wonder what was up. Anyway, we kind of looked at each other and said "hey, I know you!" He was there with his girlfriend, who is one of the art students. I love it when that kind of small world shit happens, especially in a town like this where I have a very limited social circle.

Also, there were lots of cute art girls there.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Lite Funkie Ones!?!?! Goddamn it!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I love art students. and fashion students.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000HIN.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

COVER CONNECTIONS!

http://fusionanomaly.net/urgeoverkillsaturation.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Cute art girls are awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Thta's one of my favorite covers ever, the UO one. I like the record, too. See? It's chicago.

I WORKED IN AN ART SCHOOL!!!!

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

As much as people hate on hipsters, a lot of them are pretty hot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

One was from Iceland. I'd never met anyone from Iceland before.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I want to be a hipster.

Spencer says I am one (in a good way), but he is wrong!

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I want to meet Spencer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised he and Mark haven't hung out more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Spencer is great fun. He showed me an awesome time when I was last in LA, it was *very* LA! Mark is awesome too!

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

It's amazing how many ILX people I've met actually, for someone so shy!

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

It's not like I actively collect ILXers a la Ned or Gareth, but it's nice having someone to meet up with whenever you go somewhere.

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

OK I'm going to get a muffeletta too.

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

i feel stupid asking, but what is a muffeletta?

i keep thinking it's a fancy italian trim for a woman's pubes or something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

obviously it's a food. i gathered that from context clues!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I had completly forgotten the existence of the Abercrombie & Fitch song until now. Blast.
I think I may go to the Cajun Connection soon and get some tasty food. I am thinking about bread puddin with whisky sauce.
(Side note to Jordan: I don't think we'll be coming to Madison after all this weekend, due to unforeseen gas prices, unpredictable weather, and me feeling like I'm being stabbed in the abdomen with a knitting needle)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

"fancy italian trim"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm at lunch. I have to go to 1500 s jefferson tomorrow to pick up stupid ups packages. I hate when they jsut don't leave them in the foyer.

I'm ready for the freakin weekend. Would anybody be up for happy hour drinks friday at around 6? Somewhere downtown. Wear your business casual.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

hey, jeff - if you call them you might be able to arrange to have the package delivered to your office. i did this once and they were nice about it. tell them you were out of town when they tried to deliver it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

i googled it. nevermind.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

MANDA.

I'll do that next time, I don't want to have to go through the trouble of dictating those tracking numbers again over the phone. That's hard work!

I'm having everything delievered to my office now. It's nice to have a job.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

adam is shy?

hipster guys are OKAYISH, although i am getting so tired of that hair dripping-in-product look

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

That's okay Jocelyn, we'll be pretty busy breaking the engagement news to various and sundry parents this weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Would anybody be up for happy hour drinks friday at around 6? Somewhere downtown. Wear your business casual.

Oh shit, I totally would. But I'm going to Bhabi's Kitchen.

Another Friday perhaps? I'm all about that kind of thing in the future.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Adam isn't shy. He was very gregarious the first time I met him. He was a bit quieter the second time, but he had been travelling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i look forward to meeting adam. according to jaymc, i'd like adam a lot.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

my wrist gel thing by my keyboard is leaking out little globby booger things. it's annoying.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

"Muffaletta" has an alternate definition in the Cunningham family, i.e., when you're at the swimming pool with your dad, and he lifts you up and throws you forward.

Or wait, never mind. The pool itself was the "muffaletta." The throw was called a "Taco John." Or sometimes a "Taco Louise."

Fuck, I'm getting confused. Robotsinlove to thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I should get my dad to post here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

There's a taco restaurant in Iowa called Taco John's.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I think it's a chain in the Western U.S.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

That's sweet.

I think the Cunningham family did a very good job.

I am staring at a Muffaletta right now! It is too big for my mouth!

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I apologize for a "my family is so wacky" post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Is Louise your sister's name? I like that name.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Your dad threw you into a pool full of olive sandwiches? That seems like a waste of food to me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

John: We were going for SUSHI at Sushi Lux3, which is tasty but sloooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. We're still there waiting for our food, it's so slow.

Note: That party invitation is of course extended to e'rebody, but Kenan was nonresponsive to my previous invite and I don't recall that he had other plans so I singled him out upthread.

I love you all equally. In different ways.

Note to single boys: There will be hot single women there.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc has a sister????

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah you should jaymc

i should get my dad to post, too! he'd be a riot

if my dad posted 4/5ths of the wrights would be ilxors - scary!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Is Louise your sister's name? I like that name.

Nope, don't have a sister. Not really sure how Louise came into it.

My brother and I once made up a game called Butthole McGaffigan. It was pretty gay. You draw up an imaginary map of different stores and then you just take turns going around and talking about the stuff in them that you want to buy. Like baseball cards. Okay, I guess it's not really a game, exactly.

It was named after this fellow:

http://www.sportscollective.com/premier/jwhcards/storepics42/89611.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Note to single boys: There will be hot single women there

Tell me more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

xpost: My colleague from Iowa swears that every Tuesday, all across the state, tacos are two-for-one. She says it's a state-wide tradition known as Taco Tuesdays. Can anyone confirm or deny? Because if she's right, I'm going to visit Ama. like, next Tuesday.
I asked Dan and he said that it "sounds familiar" but that he could neither confirm nor deny this rumor. And he grew up in Fairfield and went to college in Iowa City.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

My brother and I had a game like that as well, only it involved spinning a globe first and then making shit up about stuff you can do and buy in different countries. Then we ended up shooting each other with banana guns in Ecuador.
x-post We seem to have Taco Tuesdays and Wings Wednesdays here in IN as well.
I would like to meet adam as well. He is a prince among men, I think.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Me and my brother played the alphabet game. And many football video games.

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

It was pretty gay.

I realize this is sort of offensive, and the thing is, I never say stuff like this. I never even say "retarded."

But c'mon, it was pretty gay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Did you two have impure thoughts about McGaffigan's Butthole? Is that why it was gay?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

But does he fuck men?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

inside joke, sorry.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.servingpapers.com/images/shawnlogo.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/18/inaugural.wrap/link.ricky.martin.pic.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

the story is this:

we're all hanging out at this smokey coffee house doing homework & chatting about crap. ricky martin's sexuality is brought up. we're discussing whether he's actually gay or not. our friend, shawn, in ALL EARNESTNESS, asks, "well. but does he fuck men?"

it was hilarious.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

it was in the cafeteria! but yes. it was really all about the earnestly quizzical look on his face.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

the other day i said to someone that i had gone on a 'taco b.r.' -- i.e. a bicycle ride.--another m!ke cunn!ngh@m-ism.

yeah, the pool was the muffaletta, the flip thing was a taco louise, and butthole mcgaffigan was pretty gay.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

(xp) i think he seriously thought that if we just could pin that one down, then we'd be a step closer to knowing the truth.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

i don't remember "taco b.r."!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

are you sure? i thought it was at 4th coast....

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

positive. because we were all sitting around the table and shawn had come in with his tray to sit down, and he was all, "what are you guys talking about?" so we say, "oh, you know. ricky martin. whether he's gay or not." and then shawn said "oh. well, does he fuck men?" that's why it was funny, like he thought he could get to the bottom of it and save us from the extensive debate.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

and i seem to remember a small smile maybe crept over melissa f0x's face.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS THE KALAMAZ00 C0LLEGE NOSTALGIA THREAD

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

First off, I will have no badmouthing of "Steal My Sunshine" by Len. It is a great breezy summer song.

Secondly, I admire "Summer Girls" by LFO, and here's why: all pop music is stupid, but most of it has some pretense of being about something (e.g., love, sex, money, etc.). This song is about NOTHING, and LFO admits as much, and so I admire it for its aggressive stupidity. In that way, it's more punk rock than, say, Pennywise.

This makes me think of the Canasta song where Matt sings something about "To sing rock and roll, you should always have something to say," at which point I always have to resist jumping on the stage, yelling BULLSHIT! and going on an extended rant involving the words poppa oom mow mow, wooly bully, who put the bomp in the bomp-a-lomp-a-lomp, and shimmy shimmy co co pop.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Also, I'm not sure there are ANY non-sequiters in the Summer Girls lyrics - it's an extended mood piece about nostalgia!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately my boss is here today so I won't be able to expand further on this thrilling theory.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

so wait, what was a taco louise?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

(and all of this is unrelated to my long-planned Canasta response song, "Chicago SPEED UP!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

"To sing rock and roll, you should always have something to say,"

Haha, no no no! It's the way the line is broken up that gives you this impression, Nick. The verse goes like this:

"Still, here I sit, minutes to go and I'm losing my cool
I start to resent all those of you that swear by the rule
That great rock and roll isn't just something you pick up and play
But great rock and roll should always have something of value to say."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I mean, the whole song is about how Matt doesn't like how people pay so much attention to him and especially his lyrics, when there's a band playing awesome music behind him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I have ever heard "Steal My Sunshine," unless Andrew Unterberger a/k/a The Good Dr. Bill played it on a Stycast a few months ago. Which is possible.

And I've only heard "Summer Girls" once or twice. So who knows.

I actually almost erased my post about it, though, because I felt like what I was saying went against most of my philosophies about music and lyrics and "meaning." I mean, this is why my favorite bands in 1996 were Beck, Pavement, Soul Coughing, Cibo Matto, etc. The difference between them and LFO, though, is that I appreciated the way those bands used words in interesting, creative ways -- even if they didn't traditionally make sense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, I turned on the "last 100 posts" thing but it doesn't seem to be working! That's okay, my work connection is fast so refreshing a whole thread isn't really a big deal.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

...I think a stray thought just went missing.

Anyway, I'm totally going to download "Summer Girls" when I get home tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

It's not really a very good song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Haha. I would like to have it, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Fuck Barenaked Ladies, though. That shit is weak.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe how little mainstream pop music I heard while I was in college. So sad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, it is working!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Me either, but I'm not sad about it. College radio rulez. xpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I never heard a single Aaliyah song while she was alive!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

That's horrible, jaymc! The videos were great too.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I like Chicago Sold Out.

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Man! Sakes alive! (or as I like to say it, Snakes alive!)

I just called this dude who wanted to take a look at my Marshall guitar amp head. We've been playing phone/email tag for over a week. But now he says, "Yeah, the thing is, I was really looking for a TUBE amp, so.. yeah, good luck with everything." Mine is a valvestate. VALVESTATE! It has some of the benefits of tube amps with a little solid state thrown into the mix. Don't hate it for being a mixed breed! But mostly, I just want to sell it and he was my only bite, with the exception of one really sketchy email from some guy who wanted my bank account numbers.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I'd buy your head if I played guitar, Sarah.

Actually, right now I'm trying to dig up a spare, good-quality snare drum and bass drum for the Rebirth drummers who lost theirs in the hurricane.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

When do I get to met adam? Jaymc I would like to cuddle him.

I think the friday afterwork happy hour should be a weekly event, free floating, anyone can come and go. Different location each time. I nominate the first location as Italian Village, because it's right beside my building.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm bout it bout it.

Adam will be here around Christmas.

Wait I can't tell from your sentence whether you want to cuddle him or me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Either/Or

Also, what is this about me in Simon's last night? I swear I wasn't there. Unless I sleep walked and then sleep drank. Which is entirely possible.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Read upthread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Ah! yes, we went to sushi luxe. that was a good assumption on your part though, and I should have went there.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

bye! see you in a few weeks

adam

― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Hello kiddies. I'm still freaked out about New Orleans. The more the enormity of this sinks in, the worse I feel. It wasn't a sudden shock -- like jaymc said, at first I heard that they didn't get a direct hit, so I fugured everything was ok. But no. This is Southern Gothic Apocalypse, no fucking shit. It's so totally horrible.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to be a bummer.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Bye Adam! Have a safe trip!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

HEY NICK, i just wrote you e-mail - to the correct address, i hope - someone you went to highschool with messaged me on myspace.com wanting to get in touch with you

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

weeeird.

jeff: i may be able to do happy hour tomorrow after all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

That's weird, Mandee. What if it's an exgf! And she tries to steal him away! Oh noes!

DUDES. I want to go see the New P0rn0graphers play at the Metr0 on October 20th with Destr0yer. Who's with me?? Huh huh huh?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

she claims she was BEST FRIENDS with nick back in the highschool days

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

mandee, I didn't get an email, send it to the same naamme @ yahoo.com address where you always email me dawg.

So yesterday I spent the day stuffing envelopes, and I couldn't play on ILX because my boss was there, so while I stuffed envelopes I had lots of time to think about things. I thought a lot about FF recording ideas, and I also designed an arched bridge for an electric guitar so that it could be bowed properly, like a cello or viola, though I'm still not sure how to go about building it. But mostly I spent that time working myself up about how I should be getting paid more and about how I should ask my boss for a raise and about how everything's getting more expensive really fast and about how I'm basically just a robot and how my one-year anniversary was FOUR MONTHS AGO and still no performance evaluation/raise. But finally I did the smart thing and went in and asked her to schedule my performance evaluation, so now I have a performance evaluation in 3 weeks.

xpost UH OH I AM SCARED IT'S MY CRAZY EXGIRLFRIEND WHO I REALLY DON'T WANT TO TALK TO

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Lemme at 'er!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Nick, if you fathered a child or anything, it's ok. You know, just in case... Got to get that sort of thing out of the way... (ha ha?)

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, I don't think I can make happy hour tonight afterall. I have two gigantic packages I have to lug home and I don't want to keep them around while I have drinks. SOOOOON THOUGH.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, I've been feeling worse about it every day. I didn't do shit at work yesterday afternoon except read the Katrina thread and newsfeeds.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Today I'm going to try and get my company to donation-match for the Red Cross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I had a weird creepy dream last night involving New Orleans, but it didn't have anything to do with flooding. It was about witches.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Good morning everyone! I would respond to the LFO-nonsense lyrics conversation, but it seems to be past its prime. Suffice it to say that I enjoy countless songs with nonsensical lyrics (the entire GBV catalogue, for instance) but I cannot be won over to the merits of "Summer Girls."

I'm getting a haircut today! Hey!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Witches are also a problem.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I have dreams that are like video games, and this was one of them. I was locked in this dark room and I had to get out, doing something involving a bucket and boiling water, while avoiding these two witches that were in mud pits and kept thrashing around.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Me too! I have dreams about having to perform a series of actions in order to achieve "freedom" or get out of a uncomfortable or dangerous situation. The actions I need to perform are always difficult but I always know what they are. I bet this is fairly common, like the house-dream. I have never played video games though.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

oooh, i wrote "a uncomfortable situation." please know that this was a typo. eeeeeek.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

The corpse in the lawnchair made it into my dreams last night. I didn't need to see that.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad I didn't come across that. I have my images turned off.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm so fucking depressed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

K, would a flurry of compliments make you feel better? We could arrange that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Not really, but thanks.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think so. It was worth a try?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

You're sweet. Thanks.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Not really. You should have heard the callous and grossly insensitive things I said about my classmates last night after Day 1 of class.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Hi everyone.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I was scrubbing my desk at work this morning and then was realized it and was like WTF am I doing?? I think I'm just kind of nervous about my dad's visit. I want to be home cleaning instead of sitting at my desk doing nothing. Even though, as Nick can verify, the apartment is pretty f'n clean right now.

I feel for New Orleans. It was such a beautiful and bizarre place. Honestly, parts of it gave me the creeps. There was this very mysterious, ancient feeling there. It wasn't just like anytown usa.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm not feeling too good about it either. I need to stop reading news and websites but I feel like if I do, I'll be abandoning these people like our worthless fucking federal government did. No nightmares last night, but I did have an AWESOME three hour span of sleeplessness during which I thought about nothing but New Orleans.

I gave some money to America's Second Harvest and the Humane Society's Disaster Relief Fund, because my final breakdown came after reading an account of rescuers pulling a dog from a little boys hands because the dog couldn't get on the bus with him.

Errrrr I think I'll go study. I have a feeling I'm not going to do much for the mood of the internets today.

I also wrote to my senator and representative and demanded that they open some sort of inquiry into the horrible response to the disaster. It's one thing to send army guys over to die far away in some foreign country for a reason (read all the sarcasm you can into that), but to let citizens and victims of a huge natural disaster about which our government had warning die is just utterly fucking unforgivable.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

That sentence? That starts with "Errrrr" should close my lovely missive, not bifurcate it. kthxbi.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Honestly, parts of it gave me the creeps.

oooh yes. And if not the creeps, the fear. You could either get shot or have some evil spell cast on you. But in the meantime, relax and have the biggest goddamn sandwich you've ever seen.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Nick, the girl's name is DANI

is that your creepy exgirlf?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I still don't understand why she wrote YOU about NICK?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I think it's because Mandee set up my myspace account for me, I don't even remember the password.

Oh that's Danielle. I don't think I really want to talk to her either. She was an annoying friend who I stuck with because I was in a pretty miserable place at the time, but yeah, I have no real interest in communicating with her now. I guess I'm an asshole.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Is she hot?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

No.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

No, she's not hot.

And she has one of those sparkly myspace pages with MIDI.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

so should i tell her that are uninterested in getting in touch?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I think maybe you should just not reply. Like maybe the message "didn't get through" or something. Or say I died.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't want to hurt her feelings or anything.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I just won't respond.

How are you today, Nick?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty good actually. Selfish me. But I get out of work at 4:00 and I ate some donuts and I gots no boss today and I applied for three jobs online this morning (none of which I'll hear anything about but it still makes me feel productive).
If anyone wants to call me at work today, they can. It's toll-free!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I think I might order some books on Amazon. I want a book about reggae, and "No Man Knows My History" by Fawn Brodie, which is a biography of Joseph Smith, and I kind of want that "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder" book too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I hate hospital billing departments! GRRR!

Nick, you should reply to her and just be nice and brief. What harm could it do?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I just really don't want to think about that period of my life at all. I am much happier now than I was then and I'd rather just leave everything related to living in Maryland behind me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I hate hospital billing software!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

ha ha Jordan

That's understandable, Nick.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I have an urge to check out a bunch of WERNER HERZOG movies (namely: AGUIRRE: WRATH OF GOD and FITZCARRALDO) but I won't be able to watch them because Sarah's dad is going to be here. :( I never get to watch artsy German movies.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Hey, maybe he'll take us to go see THE WHITE DIAMOND. That movie can't be too offensive or upsetting, right? Aside from dude talking about the cinematographer that died?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

OMG YOU GUYS OUR GOVERNMENT IS TOTALLY USELESS.

BY DESIGN!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I'm having a political blog-induced breakdown over here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

KENAN

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you need a break from the internet

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I will be sitting outside my work from 12:30 - 1:15 if you want to come visit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you need a break from the internet. I felt that setting in yesterday too, when I was reading about NO and thinking about the prez's "working vacation." I could actually feel myself getting more and more worked up as the day went on.

Also, I just remembered which celebrity people used to say that I looked like. It's not flattering.

http://www.mindspring.com/~stevejordan/images/data.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I think I'll nominate The Constant Gardener. It got great reviews.

I thought about Me and you and everyone we know for about 5 seconds, which is how long is took me to read the R RATING explanation: R - disturbing sexual content involving children, and for language.

KENAN! Hi.

The owner left early this morning. Two coworkers are on vacation, one of which is CIH. Another coworker is leaving in a few minutes. Another is at a job site. Another doesn't come in on Fridays.

I looked at all 80 pages of the associated press katrina photos via yahoo this morning. Also, jenny, that story about the boy and his dog was so sad.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

No way, Amanda! Did you post the wrong pic??

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I did not post the wrong pic, I'm afraid. I went through a black-hair phase in high school and people in my journalism class agreed: she looks like Data, from Star Trek.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you need a break from the internet

I think I need a tax break!

I may also need a hug.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

disturbing sexual content involving children

It's not disturbing, it's cute.

Uh, I mean ... there's no good way to put that. It can be uncomfortable in a nervous-tittering way, but it's not disturbing.

Probably just as well to see The Constant Gardener instead. My film-critic friend Brian say it's his favorite of the year so far.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I think there's nudity and death in The Constant Gardener too. Basically we're going to end up seeing Must Love Dogs or March of Penguins, I know it.

I ended up donating to the Red Cross instead of ordering books for myself from Amazon.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Good for you, Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I really want to see The Constant Gardener, but I'm afraid a movie about corruption in the government will make me even more depressed than I already am.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I just donated too, and I really want to give blood since I'm type O+ but I'm afraid it would stress my body too much right now : (

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I want to see Filthy Ball Draining Cum Sluts 4. Anyone know where that's playing? It's getting great reviews.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what's gotten into me today. I'm sorry.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

they're having a blood drive at my work, but i'm kind of scared. should i try it? i've never done it before.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. It's easy and relatively painless.

Where can you give blood for money? I need money.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Here

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

i'll think about it. i'm not even sure what my blood type is. ok, i'll be honest. i have NO CLUE what my blood type is.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I have the red kind.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

mine is red and scary.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I have the blue kind. It's not bad, just remember to eat something substantial first. You also can't give blood if you have been to certain countries in the past 6 months, like the UK due to BSE.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I donated blood like ten years ago, in high school.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Re the ban on "men who have had sex with other men since 1977," it's cool if I sucked a dick or two, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

YES I KNOW I KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT SHUT ME UP SOMEONE

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I've always been fascinated with my own blood. Even when I was a kid, I used to love to watch the nurse fill the little vial. Also, needles were never a problem -- I was giving myself allergy shots when I was seven. I'm all mentally prepped and ready for a long hospital stay.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

No I am not goth. So I've read all the Anne Rice Vampire books. So what? Shut up. Leave me alone.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I have no problems with blood. Vomit, on the other hand...
There's a business in town that has these scary advertisements yelling "Students! Give your PLASMA for cash! Short for Spring Break? Get $200 naturally!"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I guess you're talking about the noise board, john?? Oh, no, wait - you're still talking about giving blood. It probably wouldn't be ok, since you can get HIV that way. But I'm sure you were joking.

I've never given blood. I freak out if I have to get finger prick.

I'm pretty sure my youngest sister sold some plasma at one point. My mom was pretty pissed about it.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Me, hanging out with some buds:

http://www.moviesection.de/v3/img/datenbank/1068153957vampire1.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

That's fine. I don't have to feel guilty for not giving now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I have no problems with blood. Vomit, on the other hand...

IS PURE SEXY.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

For the record, you can get HIV a lot of ways, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

i don't like the idea of my body's natural highways being punctured by a needle that sucks the life out of them, it just...i dunno. it makes me feel violated.

wampyr!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Actually, one time in college I made myself build up the courage to give blood, but then they didn't want me, because I'd had mono the year before.

You should write a song about that, jaymc, in which you say which ways you can and can not get HIV.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

I don't mind giving blood at all, but I've only ever done it when there's a convenient drive at work or school. Never gone out of my way to do it (but I probably should now).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't know that I want to hear a song that includes the words "ejaculate" and "rectum." Not too snappy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

but if it's a really catchy tune...

i gave blood once in high school and it fucked me up, i guess because of my low blood pressure.

i used to know some people who regularly sold plasma--you can get $20 or more.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Hi Julia.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

blood grosses me out more than any other substance - I gag and feel faint whenever i see - even on TV! pretty sad.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

hi kenan.

i've always liked watching getting blood drawn, actually. it's kind of cool to watch, especially with the big needles. i am a bit strange that way, possibly. i suppose it's a good thing, as i've had to deal with a lot of needles.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind blood, but I've been feeling very vituperative towards blood-fetishists and goths in general lately.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Also, re: blood being drawn, c'mon guys, free cookie!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Wow. You don't get a lot of vituperative anymore.

I've been feeling very vituperative towards blood-fetishists and goths in general lately.

Dude, New Orleans is wiped out. You can ease up.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

You know what really sucked in N.O.? The titty bars. It's such a party town, and things get out of control so quickly, that the laws about titty bars are insane. You have to be standing so high off the ground, you can't touch the customer with even your hair, the customer cannot touch you in any way, and a stern elderly schoolmarm must chaperone at all times. It's no damn fun.

― should I have logged out for that? (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I have been to exactly three titty bars in my life, one visit each, just so you don't think I hang out there a lot. But the ones in Texas were better.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm really all about glory holes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

i was sort of wondering if you were an enthusiast...of GLASS BLOWING!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I've been to a surprising number of strip clubs/bars with my bandmates, but oddly enough never in New Orleans!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I've never been to a strip club! I don't really understand the appeal. I mean, obv. I understand the appeal of seeing naked women, but it just seems like an uncomfortable atmosphere. Like you're there with your friends? Eew.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Only one hour until I get to leave work.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

HOO RAH FOR MOI

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I am not looking forward to driving to O'Hare in rush hour traffic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

On a holiday weekend.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

xxpost Your friends are more the point than the women. It's a place to go and say, "Dude, do you like boobs? Me too! High five!"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

"Dude, we are SO not gay!"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

HI YOU GUYS

im bored and feel sick from too much food

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

It's a place to go and say, "Dude, do you like boobs? Me too! High five!"

Yeah, see, I don't like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

That's cause you're gay.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Strip clubs are amusing, I'd go to another one. I always seem to end up at seedy ones though. Look! meth teeth!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I like SOME boobs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

As long as you don't overdo it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Must be nice! j/k
I want the first words out of my dad's mouth to be, "I'd really like to take you two to a nice restaurant tonight..."

I want to start thinking about getting a lighter-weight bass guitar because mine is SOOOOOOO HEAVY. It hurts my back after just one practice session. Do you think this gibson is too heavy? I don't think it would be hard to find one lighter than mine, but also I don't want to end up with a bass guitar that looks too wussy.

http://www.gibson.com/Files//USABasses/bat4hcbc.jpg

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

There's a time and a place for everything.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Sarah I think most basses will be lighter than the one we have now, which seems to be inordinately heavy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Look! meth teeth!

EW!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm just a) embarrassed about my sexual preferences, and b) never been given to wink-wink nudge-nudge behavior, especially of the all-male variety. The whole tongue-wagging "c'mon, we're all GUYS here" thing is kind of distasteful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

No, jaymc, I'm with you, it doesn't sound like a particularly good time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

turkey baster tans, meth teeth and nerf boobs! is it the weekend yet?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Also knowing that a lot of the women are doing it as a job, just to make money = DUD.

I mean, I'm glad they're making money, but that makes the whole thing decidedly less sexy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

some boobs are pretty uggers

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

the idea of all that kinda bugs me. xp

i had a male stripper at my apartment for a friend's bachelorette party once a long time ago, and it was really awkward. i turned bright red and laughed the whole time, because it just seemed ridiculous. the next day, i found a can of whipped cream in my couch cushions.

someone just told me that my voice sometimes sounds like miranda july. i have no idea what she sounds like, so i don't know what that means.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

And some boobs are utty preggers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

And some boobs' utters are more preggers than other boobs' utters.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

No jaymc, they're doing it to meet nice guys LIKE YOU. :>

Ugh, why do I waste time arguing with people on livejournal, of all places.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Juliaaaa, you can listen to a couple of radio pieces Miranda July did here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

boobs are uggers especially when they don't move. i bought this "music from Russ Meyer movies" CD because I thought the music would be really good, right? well, it's OK, but...it's mostly moaning. and the liner notes are ALL BOOBS.

i mention this, though, because they're mostly real boobs, which is refreshing. the CD sucks though.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

http://images.radcity.net/5151/234449.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

you're lucky, miranda july has a cute voice - mine is far too deep and flat sounding

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Also knowing that a lot of the women are doing it as a job, just to make money = DUD.

It's true, going to a club where the girls were getting naked just to unwind would be much better.

"Ladies, I say we go to that place tonight. You know the one. The one where we get naked and dance while men watch us." "Hooray!"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Julia, you do sound like Miranda July.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, why do I waste time arguing with people on livejournal, of all places.

I mean, I know it undermines my point and just makes people angry when I call them a smug fucker after putting forth an intelligent argument, but I just can't seem to help myself today. I guess lj commentors are the safest outlet for my anger (as opposed to ilx0rs, who generally aren't idiots anyway, or people in real life).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Whose LJs are these, Jordan?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

This girl I went to high school with, who I like fine but haven't had much contact with then or since.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm taking a break from LJ personally, but I bet I'll be back at it when I return to work next week.

I have never been to a strip joint or seen any strippers. The male stripper pix I see for Chippendales ads are not my taste AT ALL. Their necks are too big for me to take them seriously or um sexually.

How about this bass? It's an Epiphone, so it's cheaper:
http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/51/518077.jpg

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

How about this one, Sarah?

http://www.stevesmyth.com/sweetleaf/kurt-bass.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

This girl I went to high school with, who I like fine but haven't had much contact with then or since.

Looks like she only does friends-only posts these days.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I like the Epiphone one!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Anyways, I'm almost out of here. Try and have a good weekend, hombres.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

(I like the Gibson one.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Peace, Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Peacenik.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

BTW I just called Cafe Tapatio about Sarah's b-day party and they don't take reservations, so depending on how many people are coming, that might be a little dicey. Suggestions for other places in the area would be welcome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

(The area of Lincoln Square Lanes)

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I still think Garcia's would be a good option, if you're not put off by its standard Mexican fare.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

anyone ever been to Jalapeno Sabroso?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it sucks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm serious: it's some of the blandest Mexican food I've ever had.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

These places are all near the bowling alley.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

huh. i've just driven by it. i wasn't actually suggesting it, or anything.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, there are far more restaurants in that area than that Metromix list names. I mean, off the top of my head: Square Kitchen, that one Japanese place I can't remember the name of, Essence of India, Daily Grill, the new place that just opened that replaced Toucan, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

huh. i've just driven by it. i wasn't actually suggesting it, or anything.

Oh, I know. It does look like it would be good, though, doesn't it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, there are far more restaurants in that area than that Metromix list names.

Not to mention all the Thai places, like Opart and Spoon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

That was just a .25 mile radius -- the search can be expanded. I like that feature. Metromix, eh, but that's a nice feature.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Or Pizza D.O.C.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

MMM -- they have GOOD pizza!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

That was just a .25 mile radius

Oh, okay.

I was sort of underwhelmed the one time I went to D.O.C.! I think I was sick, though, and didn't have much of an appetite.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I thought it was really good. I got their pizza rustica and Dan got the potato pizza. Our server kinda sucked though. He rushed us.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I wish we could go to Gulliver's!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.carmenyuen.com/v37.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/lynz685.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Forget about a new bass. You should either take up smoking.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

or...

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Being Asian?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

That's what I was gonna say.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Being Asian.

Or wearing leather. At any rate, the bass seems immaterial.

http://www.athenaez.com/athena_partbw.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Another day, another thread beaten within an inch of its life.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

But hey, three day weekend! Woo hoo!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

My iPod on shuffle just put "Wait (The Whisper Song)" (a/k/a/ "beat the pussy up") in between the suave sounds of Getz/Gilberto and the Aluminum Group, respectively. This is kind of hilariou to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, there's a mouse living under my shelves at work! It's very cute. And fast.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

16 minutes left!

I'm eating carrots one after the other after the other because it's all i have to eat at my desk and i'm HUNGRY.

90 minutes til haircut!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, haircut! I hope you like Leanne.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

And by "at work", I mean in my cubicle!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I can't wait! I printed out the pictures of my haircut ideas and everything. I even dressed up so I would feel fency.

Jordan, I'm glad to hear you've found a friend, a pocket-sized friend.

Have a great weekend everyone! I'll be in Iowa with my new haircut, maybe eating wild game!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I just bought cheapo used records. Patti Smith, REM, and Leo Kottke. I am happy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm, game!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

hey - a quick note to john and kelsey --
-- my haircut is great! i love it! i don't look too hipstery but i look cooler than i used to. thank you for the recommendation!!
-- if leanne says anything about me, she will say that i was mildly fussy and that she had to give me the low-octane version of what she wanted to give me.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

yay! i am at renee's house & drunk. we were playing trivial pursuit with this annoying accountant who looks like ron howard and puts on stupid accents when he is reading his trivial pursuit card.

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 September 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

a night later, still drunk., wait i am not jeff-pttl this is your odl frriend jaymc and i am in umy underswear ad drunk and kenan and i are goging to fo got bed now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 4 September 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/30/39960290_8d81e46e2b.jpg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha for some reason I thought Jenny was Thurston Moore in that pic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Er yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Kenan has some good photos, too. We all got fantastically drunk and spent the night at Jeff and Jenny's, as you might have surmised.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

:( I miss you guys. But Sarah's dad is paying for us to eat out a lot and for us to go to movies (Constant Gardener was excellent) and do other fun things.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Not as fun as getting fantastically drunk though. Probably.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm listening to dub on headphones.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Le sigh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

My hangover finally hit in full force at around 6pm. And it still sucks right now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Maybe some dub would help?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha for some reason I thought Jenny was Thurston Moore in that pic.

If I had a dollar for every time someone said that...

Hey, we will get fantastically drunk with you and Sarah next weekend! I'm looking forward to it - I missed you two.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm downloading Kraftwerk.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

http://oink.me.uk/details.php?id=201740

oh yeah

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Canasta could so easily rip off these Chicago covers.

I think "Hot Streets" with the Canasta ensemble would be a beautiful cover.

As would this one.

Somehow late-night googling has inadvertently directed me to a page with so many of my comrades...

― Flaneur, Monday, 5 September 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Eric!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

ÀNSWER #1000

― THAT'S MR. FAGGOT TO YOU, Monday, 5 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Mr. Z1egenh@gen. Another Chicago music scene celeb in our midst.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

DUDERS (but particularly jaymc):

I am working on EVITES for Sarah's crazy birthday celebration next week. I need an email address for R@CHEL and B3N, if anyone has one.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I'll e-mail you...

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Small, small world. Nick, I think I've been playing Literati with your wife without realizing it was her, for, like, months. (When I read these messages last night, I was thinking to myself "where have I seen that x77tigeretc before" and then ohhh...).

― Flaneur, Monday, 5 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

* Here's Dara Moskowitz, the best food writer out there, writing about Galactic Pizza:
http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1233/article12318.asp

* In my day job as an editor, I'm required to drop the serial comma per the AP Style Manual, but I love the serial comma. I hate the idea of a list of three items in which one is separated from two others. It confuses me. It hurts my eyes. After the revolution, comrades: after the revolution.

― Flaneur, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I am a fan of the serial comma. According to Wikipedia, the serial comma is also known as the "Harvard comma" and the "Oxford comma." That should tell you something right there. I mean, if it were known as the "Gun and VCR Repair Correspondence School Comma" I might feel differently.

Legal style and citation guides are either silent on the serial comma, or classify it as optional but I have noticed that most court opinions and law review articles omit it. Being a Chicago Manual of Style girl from way back, I vow to include the serial comma in all my legal writing.

Viva!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

I totally did not have galactic pizza this weekend, but I think we're going to hit it when I go back in two weeks. After that, I'm done driving to minneapolis for a while.
We did eat fried cheese curds, though. Jordan, you're a lucky man to live in a state where those exist. They're amazing.

I realized that after the large discussion about commas, I starting throwing in the one I am aesthetically against!!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I'm at work early & I'm staying late. Also, I have cramps. Joy.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

I am going to repost Eric's last two comments from the old Chicago thread, so we can keep the newer thread the active one:

Yes, yes, I found this on the way to the Ditty Bops "fan fiction" sites.

But, back to business:

Canasta cover art should identically mimic the "Hot Streets" cover, with (left to right): Megan, EL, Jaymc, Colin, Priest.

-- Flaneur (ericzie...), September 5th, 2005 4:40 AM. (later) (link)

P.S. I guess I could look this up, but are there "band fiction" sites?

-- Flaneur (ericzie...), September 5th, 2005 4:46 AM. (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, Colin

No, thanks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I had an ok weekend. I had a... useful weekend. After drinking enough Saturday night to put down a cow and waking up with bruises, I think I'm finally aware of the fact that I've been drinking to punish myself and not deal with the world around me. After convalescing Sunday and yesterday, then having hard sleep with strange, terrifying, and entirely too emotional dreams last night, I feel much better. I feel like I'm ready to not do that anymore. I need to clean my apartment. It's a mess. I've been a mess. Gah.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Also, I woke up with a sad-ass Carole King song in my head. I can't believe what a wuss I am sometimes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

See, at least getting fantastically drunk with you guys means I'm being social and saving myself from getting into too much trouble on my own.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

(Not by drinking, mind you.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Music therapy! See, this is how you start the day. Not with Carole King.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting my day with Superfolf . . . the album put out by Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney. The fact that Matt Sweeney is my rock star crush aside, I'm totally into this cd. It's chocked full of a neil young-ish mellow rock flavor, drizzled with sweet pluckings & toasted crisp with that will oldham melancholy.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

seriously. it's awesome. my crush was in quiet mode but this album is bringing it all back . . .

http://www.southgatehouse.com/NewWebsite/Images/EOTM/Superwolf_small.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I started out my day with THE STOOGES, a mix of Fun House and Raw Power. Yes.

So our upstairs neighbors have a dog, named Jabba. They let him roam around the back yard, but sometimes people forget to close the gate and he gets out and runs around the neighborhood. So last night, at 12:30, our doorbell rings repeatedly. OVER AND OVER. I finally stumble out of bed, throw on some clothes, and answer the front door. This guy, across the street, yells at me:
"THAT WHITE DOG - HE'S OUT AGAIN, RUNNING AROUND, AND THIS HAPPENS TOO MUCH! IT'S TOO MUCH!"
Me: "Oh, the dog lives upstairs, on the second floor. You have to ring their doorbell."
Him: "I KNOW WHERE THE DOG LIVES! IT JUST HAPPENS TOO OFTEN!"
Me: (Mumbles something, goes back inside.)

That pretty much ruined my sleep for the night (well, that and the garlicy scrambled eggs with hot sauce I had for dinner).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

ooh, kelsey, i love that album. i'm tired this morning. i made some bread over the weekend and brought some in for my coworkers and three people rejected it. hmph! people need to learn how to enjoy caraway seeds.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I like that the dog had irritated him beyond even the most basic form of reason. That's one annoying animal, right there.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Would any of you describe me as "protean"? You can say no, it's ok. I don't really think I am. I just have this sudden hankering to be described by someone as "protean".

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad I'm not alone in the love! Amanda, I um, bought you something this weekend. Is that okay? It's small. A belated birthday present of sorts.

Isn't Mollie Katzen all about caraway seeds? I seem to remember a mac & cheese dish where she instructed to throw in some caraway. In your co-workers defense, I do think it's an acquired taste. Then again, it's also an adult taste. So they should grow up & appreciate good bread!!! I would!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

It's a really sweet dog, some of you guys have met him, I think.

I could use some homemade bread. But I brought in some fresh mango with cayenne pepper on it for later, mmmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

haaaaaaaaaaaaappy birthday SARAH!!

kelsey you bought me a present!!? that's super. i can't wait. you're coming to the party this weekend? there are going to be presents all around, then.

mango is my #1 favorite food. this morning for breakfast i had canteloupe with cinnamon on it and it was surprisingly tasty.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

it's not the dog's fault. dude should have buzzed yer upstairs neighbor. what does he think you're going to be able to do about it? take the dog in when the dog is tempted to run?
this actually pisses me off . . . if you're going to have a dog, you're responsible for the well-being of it.
not to be all la-dee-da about it, but if it were my dog, i'd be OCD about the gate.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Not that anyone cares, but our dogs had a great time this weekend running around in the Iowa countryside. Carl ran away briefly but he came back.

Oh, and as I told Jenny -- Taco Tuesdays are REAL. (confirmed by D@le Kr4us, Dan's dad.)We went to see that penguin movie and it was ok. It was pretty. Good lord, I sure am boring today. Sorry.

But my hair looks good!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Mango + cayenne sounds interesting.

I have a pear and some cheese.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Ew, sorry Amanda, I haven't broken the caraway seed barrier yet.

We did eat fried cheese curds, though. Jordan, you're a lucky man to live in a state where those exist. They're amazing.

That's the thing though, I'm not! The way I understand it:

Minnesota = fried cheese curds

Wisconsin = the regular kind

It's been too long since I've had some farmer's market cheese curds.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I had cheese curds this weekend! They squeaked properly.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

really?! i'm moving to a state with fried cheese curds in it? i thought it was a wisconsin thing since i've picked up curds on my way to mpls. i do love the curds, i must add.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I hate commas, I never use them.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there are cheese curds pretty much strewn across I-94 through Wisconsin, but I've only seen fried ones in Minnesota. Great curds are...great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I was afraid of them (curds) at first, but then I tasted one. I wish I had brought some to work.

Has anyone here ever been to the Spice House? (There's one in Old Town and one in Evanston) I love that place. I mention it because the cayenne pepper I bought there is so excellent and not just hot, but flavorful that I put a little bit of it on virtually everything. The cinnamon is also delicious. I didn't know cinnamon could taste so good.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Not Spice House, THE Spice House

The other one is a porn site.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

There's a place like that in mpls, called penzey's or something. they have about 5 different kinds of cinnamon. i thought there was only one!! so it really is different, huh? i should check it out. i'm a salt whore, why not a spice whore as well?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

i am a total freak for the spice house. they have like 8 different kinds of curry, garam masala, whole cardamom pods and all sorts of excellent stuff. their cinnamon tastes like candy, not like sawdust. it really is worth it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I also love the Spice House. It's right around the corner from here, on Wells. Someone said of one of their gift boxes, "This is the best gift I've ever gotten."

― kenan, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

There's a Penzey's in Madison too! It's AWESOME.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

There are fried cheese curds in Michigan. Unfried ones too. The best of both worlds!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

There's a Penzey's on Lake Street in downtown Oak Park, too.

― Flaneur, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Caraway seeds reminds me of the rye toast that Kenan had on Sunday at Tweet Let's Eat. So good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Right! I remember seeing that one!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Oooh... that toast was so good. And the butter! That was some serious butter. Actually, that whole meal was amazing. Even the Bloody Mary. Thanks for taking me there, you guys.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

EZ: since you're on here . . . I need yer phone number. I thought I had it, but I couldn't find it when I was going to call you Thursday to talk about our debut.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Also: I used to walk by the Spice House in Evanston all the time (it was next to Subway and across from Foodstuffs) but I never went in. It seemed dark and intimidating. Also, I still have a whole bag of spices that I inherited from my aunt, so I'll be set for decades.

My hair looks good, too. I think the best cut Leanne's given me, actually. Also we talked a lot about dating and relationships. I felt like I'd seen a therapist. Except one that talked about how she feels about guys going down on her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

And how is that?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Lemme guess -- she's for it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Debut? Do tell.

Also, I still have a whole bag of spices that I inherited from my aunt, so I'll be set for decades.
NO! You have to get fresh spices or they're gross! When is your birthday?

Also, Leanne and I talked about dating a lot too. She told me a disturbing story about stains on a bedsheet. She also asked me if I know knew what myspace is. Hahaha.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, you'll have to get a haircut yourself to find out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

we talk about dating too!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I have got to get a haircut from this woman.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

She was extremely forthcoming in our conversation. I liked her a lot. I also liked that she didn't ask me a lot of questions beyond hair questions - I can't bear the "So, what do you do?" routine.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

She liked you, too -- she told me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I got my hair cut at the salon behind my house a couple of times and I swear I had the EXACT SAME CONVERSATION, word for word, with the EXACT SAME GUY, twice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

WOOH this is some spicy mango!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I have many haircut horror stories (the horror is in the conversation, not the cut).

What dub were you listening to yesterday, Nick?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I've had fried cheese curds in Wisconsin.

Mango + cayenne pepper = part of a tasty pico de gallo (the rest would include jicama and cucumber and lime)

I need a haircut, like bad. But I'm too cheap/busy to bother with it right now. I'm waiting for a special occasion. Like our first anniversary.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub

Spices are too expensive. I buy GOYA brand spices because they are cheeeeaaap.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I am listening to the new Kanye West and I like it more than I originally thought I would. The Gold Digger song is very, very catchy.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm coming around on "Gold Digger." I hated it at first and gave it a 3/10 on Stylus. But in the context of the album it sorta works.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I need to listen a couple more times...it hasn't "grabbed" me yet, but I can tell I like it. Right now I'm listening to emilana torrini & trying to decide if i like her or only a couple of songs on this cd.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Spices are too expensive. I buy GOYA brand spices because they are cheeeeaaap.
They are cheap, but also sawdusty. I priced Spice House versus grocery store and it was a matter of pennies. The taste difference will sell you. Maybe I'll make it there before Saturday...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I've only heard a few Kanye songs (Jesus Walks, Gold Digger, Diamonds in Sierra Leone) and am not impressed by any of them, is there something wrong with me? I did have Gold Digger in my head when taking a shower this morning. I think maybe Kanye's production style is a little too dense and orchestrated for me, it makes his songs sound a little soft.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub

That looks good. For some reason all I've been listening to is that Studio One Rockers bootleg and Dub Trio. I can't listen to much brass band music right now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost I like "Slow Jams" a whole whole lot. Especially Twista's verse.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

No, I burnt out on College Dropout really fast. I'm not into his rapping, but I want to hear the new one for the Jon Brion-isms.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

It is good, though a little samey. I cannot recommend the King Tubby "In Fine Style" two-disc comp on Trojan enough though. Great stuff.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm sending K. my phone number, but I want to run something by you all. When my friends have a new phone number, I love when they put the new number in the subject of the e-mail. Then, when I'm searching for their number a year after they sent it, all I have to do is type '312' or '773' into the subject-line search option in my mail. Easy, eh?

Vietnamese men with little English cut my hair. No talk of nookie.

Jaymc, I was in a car Friday night listening to some new record that Kanye produced (Billstein? Something like that? Some rapper with a German-sounding name), and the guy driving the car told me, "Yeah, this one isn't dropping until the end of the month."

All of us who make music should now only refer to our CD releases with the verb "drop." It sounds so good.

― Flaneur, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, btw guys, Rebirth Brass Band is playing in Chicago on Sept. 16th at Martyr's. They're either donating a portion of the money to hurricane relief or there will be a booth there for donations. I saw them there a few years ago and it was the best non-NOLA set of theirs I've ever seen.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Right now I'm listening to emilana torrini & trying to decide if i like her or only a couple of songs on this cd.

I'm interested in that. Sasha Frere-Jones wrote about her in the New Yorker a couple weeks ago.

Which reminds me, I think I let my subscription slide. I need to call them and re-up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I guess I like Kanye fine, I just don't understand what's supposed to be so amazing about him.

We saw Wedding Crashers yesterday and I also don't understand the appeal of Vince Vaughn at all. He's not attractive, charming, a good actor, or funny - he can barely talk!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Then, when I'm searching for their number a year after they sent it, all I have to do is type '312' or '773' into the subject-line search option in my mail. Easy, eh?

Gmail, dude. Full e-mail search.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

THE KIDS THESE DAYS WITH THE HIPPIN AND THE HOPPIN AND THE JELLO PUDDING POPS

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

The breakfast scene in Wedding Crashers re-justified his existence for me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

vince vaughn is beefy. that's his appeal.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Nick:

Slow Jams

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, you can totally borrow it.

EZ: Jaymc emailed yer number. We're all good.

The Jon Brion-isms are great. You can hear them sprinkled in there. It's funny because that was one of the things Leaf mentioned to get me to get into the album more . . . "your jon brion guy was one of the producers..."

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm now switching gears to the new books album & after that, i'm going to give late registration another listen.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

"Slow Jamz" is great. Maybe the best track on College Dropout. The only reason I put "Jesus Walks" on my best-of-2004 mix was because of flow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh, let's try that again:

Slow Jams

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I think teeny really likes Emilia T., IIRC. All I've heard is the song she did over The Two Towers credits.
I am getting new glasses in a few minutes! Be prepared for pictures.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to think of this rapper with a German-sounding name and coming up short. Beanie Sigel?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Can't listen to music at work, duderz.

Wedding Crashers was pretty average, don't get the orgasmic hype. Will Ferrell's cameo was hilarious though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of pictures: Kenan, you need to post some photos from Sat. night. I don't think there are any of me lying face-first on Jeff and Jenny's floor with my pants around my ankles, are there?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Heh, nice. I'd love to hear Jon Brion do some hip-hop tracks by himself, with all of the mellotrons, treated pianos, big Matt Chamberlain drums n' shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

When I first heard "Drive Slow" on Late Registration, I was like, haha awesome, here's the Jon Brion: that straight, unaccented twinkly bit totally smacked of his style. Then I looked at the liner notes and saw it was one of the few tracks he didn't co-produce.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there are any of me lying face-first on Jeff and Jenny's floor with my pants around my ankles, are there?

No, but there is one adorable one of you and I hugging that Jenny took. I'll get you some of those when I get home.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

No, don't post that one. My ass looks stupid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

The best song I heard by this German-rapper-sounding guy (and believe me, this is going to be embarrassing once I figure out who it is) was this great song about "she's just my friend" -- an ode to friends-with-benefits.

― Flaneur, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Otto von Biz Markie?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

BIZ MARKIE!?!?!?!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

haha

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Marquis de Biz

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

the two towers song is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from this "fisherman's woman" album. it's folky & icelandic. i thought the two towers song was a little too pretty for my taste. i like 'em a little rough 'round the edges...which is maybe why i'm on the fence with this album? it's still kinda pretty. but nice. not as orchestrated.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

jaymc: did you notice that "My Way Home featuring Common" has G. Scott-Heron listed?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Yup, the album is very sample-heavy. The final 30 seconds or so of "My Way Home" is just GSH singing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

i just put this album in.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

i'm on the curtis mayfield song.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

And in a nice touch of sequencing, Gil Scott Heron is name-checked in the next track, "Crack Music":

How we stop the Black Panthers?
Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer
You hear that?
What Gil Scott was hearin
When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I guess I like Kanye fine, I just don't understand what's supposed to be so amazing about him.

For clarity, I don't find him amazing, and College Dropout never did much for me, except for the New Workout Plan, which apparantly I'm not supposed to like. But I do. Give head, stop, breathe, get up, check your weave.

I think Gold Digger sounds spare, rather than orchestrated and that's what I like about. And the vocals, which I guess are Jamie Foxx, which is too bad because he gives me the creeps a little (in the same way Don Rickles gives me the creeps) but they work with the song.

And that is why I don't write music reviews.

xpost: I like the Crack Music song, too.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Someone pls burn and send me all of the dub, kthxbye.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

And the vocals, which I guess are Jamie Foxx

I was having trouble discerning what's Jamie Foxx and what's Ray Charles, who is credited as being sampled on the track.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Jordan email me yr address and I'll send you a copy of the King Tubby comp.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Oops, Jordan, I keep forgetting to send you the Klosterman book. I just need to get an envelope appropriate for sending a book in.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

that emiliana torrini album is, yeah, pretty. not spectacular or anything, but mellow pretty likeable.

i like her 'unemployed in summertime' song. that's from earlier, i think i'd actually gotten it from teeny's blog.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm on the curtis mayfield song.

You know, I listened to the original "Move On Up" last night. What a great song, and you don't even notice that it's like nine minutes long.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Sweet, thanks guys. Jaymc, now that things are quieting down around here I will send you that mix cd soon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

You know, I listened to the original "Move On Up" last night. What a great song, and you don't even notice that it's like nine minutes long.
I LOVE THIS SONG. That's all I want to say about it. I love it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I am torn between feeling like I should probably do at least a tiny bit of work today so I don't feel like the work day has been a total waste and feeling like I don't really have much of anything to do anyways and my boss isn't here and I'm lazy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I really prefer to put things off until the last minute. I feel like I get more done that way.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

i'm bored & want to move. i feel stuck.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

what's keeping you here -- job search in mpls? (not that i want you to leave, of course...)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Kanye's workout plan is his best song.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the job search. if i had enough $$ to move there & pay rent & expenses for a couple of months, i would move without a job. i don't have that money. i don't have a job. thus, i am here.
i was talking with john a bit about this last night & i think i'm just getting really restless here. every time i've come back from mpls, it's been increasingly difficult to both say good-bye to leaf & to get geared up to be here. i just like the way minneapolis breathes. i think i'm ready for the smaller, progressive town.
not that i'm totally down on chicago. i do like it here. i'm just ready for the next thing.

p.s. (xp)i'm lukewarm on kanye's workout plan. i get burned out on it easily.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

There's temp work up there -- you'll do fine. Just head on up.

― Flaneur, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

How reliable is it?

I'm also toying with applying for an internship with MPR, but I feel like I should be not interning anymore. I'm frustrated with my professional life.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

is it time for bookmaking school?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

(BTW, Eric, Sarah & I aren't married. I thought about perpetuating the myth but then figured I should tell the truth.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Meet up in person with the radio-related folks I've sent your way, go meet up with my friends who have experience in radio, advertising, sound stuff, and just start meeting people up there and they'll think of you for fun and lucrative work. You just kind of have to throw yourself into it, but even in this space age it still helps a great deal to be in the actual city you want to work and live in.

(Not married?? I'm so lost...)

― Flaneur, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

your SOULS are married.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

it's always time for bookmaking school. but if i actually went, i think i'd be extra stressed about money.
geez. sorry to complain about shit so much! i am honestly mostly happy & content & all that. i just miss my bf & like the town he's in & want to be there too. oh, and i don't really know what i'm doing with my life. there's that whole thing.

yeah, eric. you're right. i also recently got another contact person (the sister of someone at WBEZ that i worked with remotely as an intern). i just wonder if i'm going to have to work part time at a place like target to foot bills & use the other time to get the radio ball a-rollin' . . .

this freelance stuff is a lot of hard work & i'm not that interested in reporting!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

kelsey I'm in the same place with being very satisfied with my life except for my professional life. It just sucks because you spend 40+ hours a week at work.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

(OK, this is better than Flaneur. And this is a better e-mail address than the main one.)

But P.S. Kel, I've known a lot of really talented people who work hard and get great opportunities in their early/mid-20s, and then they get too picky about opportunities and wait around a few years without building more experience in their field.

So maybe the answer, if MPR won't hire you as a producer, is to find a way to do Third Coast-type things with Annie B. or the other creative radio people up there who need outlets for the creative part of their work. I could list a few people off the top of my head -- three at least -- who would be into doing creative audio work up there.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm in my late 20's. Am I too late?!

Kidding.

You're right. You're very good for this kind of advice. I just feel so fucking lazy when I think about what I need to be doing to get these balls rolling. I'm also frustrated because then I start thinking about how my energy might be put to better use doing something else. Maybe I should be working to change school lunch programs, work with disabled youth, or I should become an animal advocate. Leaf & I were talking about me getting an alpaca later in life & it made me think about starting up a rescue or working for an existing one. Just something that didn't make me question if what I'm spending 40+ hours a week on is worth it. This job does do that. Radio often does that. I think this is partially why I've been so slow to move on radio opportunities . . . I'm ultimately very conflicted about it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.marmalade.ca/photos/animals/alpaca-02.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

hello little fella!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

the ones we saw had very muppety hairdos. maybe more like this lil' guy:

ihttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.alpacajack.com/resources/images/main-alpaca.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.alpacajack.com/resources/hms_index.aspx&h=246&w=188&sz=22&tbnid=zmTkz0tpTPEJ:&tbnh=105&tbnw=80&hl=en&start=24&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalpaca%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DRNWE,RNWE:2004-51,RNWE:en%26sa%3DN

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

aw poop.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

this guy:

http://www.alpacajack.com/resources/images/main-alpaca.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

(Not married?? I'm so lost...)

Lost like their SOULS, from living in all that sin!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Man. Those things are spendy. The cheapest one I found on a quick internet search was $15,000. Yowza.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

i haven't taken a lunch yet. i wish i had made one. i am at that point of feeling a little lost on food. nothing around here excites me. i want to maybe get a frozen thingy from the grocery store, but then i can't be out of the office during lunch b/c i'd have to come back here to heat it up.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I ordered a muffaleta, but then Maddie wanted to go out for lunch and vent about some stuff, so now I will have a muffaleta dinner!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

i miss having leaf around to lunch with.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly endorse FLAMIN' HOT CHEETOS as a grade A junk food snack.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I have been eating:
aforementioned mango with cayenne pepper
butter cookies one of my coworkers brought in
fake turkey sandwich
FLAMIN' HOT CHEETOS snack bag

I still have some carrots in the fridge for later.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fritolay.com/images/cm/cheetos-flaminhot.gif

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I bought an oatmeal raisin cookie at Cosi, along with my mozz/tomato sandwich, and then proceeded to eat the whole thing on the two-block walk back to my office.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

wots this spice house? i love spices! should i bring extra money for spices when i come to chicago?

i also want to go to this merz apothecary place

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

How big is your rack?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Your SPICE rack, that is!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

WOKKA WOKKA!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

take a look at the spice house website before you come, so you can get an idea of what you want. otherwise you'll want to buy everything. it's not that expensive -- you can buy little 1 oz. bags of whatever you want.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

my rack can accomodate any load that comes its way

is it www.spicehouse.com ?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

no! that's porn. it's linked upthread.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

This is it, not the porny one.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

my rack can accomodate any load that comes its way
is it www.spicehouse.com ?

Yes, exactly.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why you'd assume that was porn. The website is under construction and just happens to feature a Pamela Anderson-esque busty blonde in a bikini, skimpy safety vest, and construction helmet. Well, okay, maybe.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

haha

wow i should get a MORTAR & PESTLE

i think i am getting overly ambitious about my cooking skills (of which I have few)

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

also because if i'm looking for cumin, i don't think that's what they're selling.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

What about rubs, though?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Anise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I also like their pepper grinders.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

C(umin) on T's

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Their salad toss is excellent.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Nutmeg.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I mean, anise extract is just a fancy word for santorum, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Also consider getting their nutmeg.

xpost. hahahah.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

dill weed.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

last time i was there i bought some cacao nibs.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

MAGIC VAGINA

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

their magic vagina sprinkle is great on pasta AND popcorn!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

erm...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

So. Yesterday I told myself that I was going to try to not eat candy for a week. I didn't last a day. I just ate a mini-Twix. And it was good.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Chicago "celeb" sightings:
1. Steve Alb1n1 walking down Division last weekend while me, Sarah, and Sarah's sister got a drink at 1nnjoy. Sarah recognized him!
2. A somewhat haggard-looking S@lly T1mms, pulling a suitcase and with a small guitar strapped to her back, near the Division/Ashland/Milwaukee intersection on Saturday morning.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

ESSENCE: Emeril's Cajun Cock Blend!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

BAM!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

But stay away from the Paul Prudhomme products.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.avatarproductions.com/assets/images/chefp2.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

He looks like an animatronic Santa.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Paprika.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

cardayrmom

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

http://dwh.hug-luzern.tiscali.ch/special_pics/DV%20Deutsch/Inserat%20DAR-VIDA%20Paprika.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

she might have just enjoyed some rubbed sage. or stuck with the less messy ginger bits.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Ew ew ew ew ew.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

GROSS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

She looks like she's been eating a gingerman's ass out.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

That pic reminded me that at my HS cafeteria they used to serve these doughnuts that were covered in sugar, and we would play a game where you would eat a doughnut without wiping or licking your lips the whole time so that when you were done your entire mouth was covered in sugar.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I would sprinke her on my deviled eggs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who finds that photo kinda hot, then?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

You don't wanna just lick the paprika off her lips?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

i don't think it's that gross. i mean, i don't want to lick her, but i'm not repulsed by it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and change the subject here - jaymc, did you ever download "Summer Girls"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

LICK HER

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Wait, what?

No. I forgot to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought we were getting one step closer to the threatened watching/commenting-on-porn-together FAP.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

"Summergirls' reminds me of the film "Ladybugs" - yeah, the one with rodney dangerfield and jonathan brandis in drag.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I only watch porn with very specific people.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Rodney Dangerfield?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

jonathan brandis in drag.

Be still my beating 13-year-old heart.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I did not expect to see the word "heart" after "13-year-old" and "beating."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Jeff has this groovy crafty-man idea for building a magnetic spice rack and now I have this wonderful idea of a trip to the spice house to replace our dried out icky cheap-ass spices. Sublime!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

we have a mouse problem at my house. i don't know what to do about it because the humane trap DID NOT WORK & i have pet rats, so i have to be wary of rodent repellents. it's really frustrating.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to de-rail from spices. spices are better.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

LICK HER

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, mice! If my cubicle mouse holds to its routine, I expect it to come out in about an hour.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

a cubicle mouse would be cute. the mouse/mice we have poop everywhere. i thought they'd left, but actually, they just got better at going undetected for a time.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd lick her paprika.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

See, that's where we differ. I would at the very least demand to shower with her first. You can tell she's a messy girl.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

is anyone else here really, really, really bored?

i'm so bored, it's pathetic, ILX isn't even keeping me entertained

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

MANDEE I AM SOOOOO BORED

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

SWEET BAJEEZUS I AM BORED
Things I would rather be doing than being at work:
1. Drinking beers
2. Watching artsy movies
3. Going to a loud rock show
4. Making out
5. Eating some tasty food

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i'm starting to get really stressed at work & actually GRATEFUL i was planning on staying late tonight. so fucking awful.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I so feel you.

Except for the loud rock show part. I don't like those.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

ditto on the BORED. i just devoured a mango like a coyote eats whatever coyotes eat. people shouldn't eat this way in public but i just did. and i don't care if it's horrifically gross. it was a good mango. and mangos are my favorite food.

now i get to GO TO A MEETING!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

OK, OK, I told you I was going to be embarrassed when I figured out who the rapped with the German name is.

It's Rhymefest. (Der Rheinfest?)

http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/022105/

His song about "It's cool, she's just my friend" is going to be the big jam of 2006. It's so good.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been to a good LOUD rock show in eons. Last shows: Canasta, Smog, etc.? I should check and see whether there's anything good on Thursday or Friday.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I'd like a big indian buffet right now, all for me. I'm on a diet again, and hungry. Every week I repeat the same thing -- Monday - Friday, diet. Saturday and Sunday I eat so much I then gain back any kind of weight I lost during the week. It's pretty dumb.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Aww, dude said Canasta is QUIET. You gonna take that shit jaymc?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm so bored that I wish I were going to a meeting!!

Nick would you fax me again?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

try eating a mango. it will make you feel like a she-wolf.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Canasta isn't really quiet, because there are 6 of them after all, but they don't really BRING THE ROCK.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Right. And what month are we in, Nick?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

ROCTEMBER

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Right!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have anything else interesting to fax. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

More Rhymefest streamin' here:
http://www.rhymefest.com/

(He did the original 'Jesus Walks', too)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

im drawing a picture for you right now, nick

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit I better work on something too. Is your fax number the one in your email signature?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I am drawing a blank - LITERALLY.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

draw a giant pickle taking over a small farming community whilst demanding they all eat more ketchup/catsup.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

the pickle is personified.

or, the pickle is growing real big & some of the residents are yelling "we should have eaten more ketchup/catsup!"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

in that way, the pickle would remain a vegetable.

jesus. i need to get back to work.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

how about a sympathetic portrait of sally jesse rafael.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I drew an ode to one of America's finest rock and roll combos.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

you could draw a folding chair contemplating whether or not to eat a donut. maybe there's a director's chair in the background telling the folding chair, "that donut will go straight to your legs!"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

oh, i see. rock wins.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Now I'm just waiting for mandee to confirm that I have the correct fax number for her.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I've always wanted an elaborate turn-based strategy videogame based on rock, scissors, paper.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

apparently, RCP is a hot bar game in mpls. i read it in city pages.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

http://kniazeu.by.ru/images/music/red_hot_chili_peppers.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

that's quite a drawing, nick.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

i really like your use of lighting.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

nick, yeah, thats right!

whats your fax # again?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I'll email it to you.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Chad Smith = Will Ferrell?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

wow, i just got nick's rad drawing!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Chad Smith = Will Ferrell?!
-- Jordan (jordan...), September 6th, 2005 4:02 PM. (Jordan) (later)

I have been saying this for years but no one ever listens to me!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, cool picture, mandee. Is that supposed to be someone in particular on the top part of the page?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Haha, awesome.

Has anyone heard of the Asylum movie with Ian McKellan? Any good? It's playing down the hall and I may have a free evening.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Asylum got pretty good reviews, that's all I know.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah its this guy i see around town who i call 'dripping with product'

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Cool. I wish we could scan these, esp. so you could see how I used yellow highlighter for shading in mine.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

let me just say that in my head, my octopus/corn/tomato thing was going to be amazing, my limited drawing skills made it suck

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Where is everyone?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Just while we're being honest, I had to look up the band member names on Allmusic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

you guys should make drawings with the computer & then post them to flickr or something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

i'm still here. procrastinating.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Sometime when I'm really bored I'll do MS Paint portraits of you guys.

xpost!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

i'm back from my high powered meeting.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm making a CD cover. It's fun.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm hungry. I just bit into a plum and it tasted horrible.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Editing research on the Canadian health care industry whilst listening to this Rhymefest mix...

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/jaymc.jpg

Jaymc (beardy version).
I also tried to draw Kenan but it did not turn out well at all.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

At 27:00 on this mix, there's a song built around a sample of The Storkes' "Someday".

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

that's cute!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Why is kenan so hard to draw? I think it's because he has no beard.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Here's me:
http://tinypic.com/dfivpe.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

i have no beard.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Canasta was asked to make a mix CD for this thing. I'm gonna do it. Apparently each mix is auctioned off and the proceeds go to a youth music-education program.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

This is an old self-portrait:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/sp.bmp

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Now I have a devilish goatee:
http://tinypic.com/dfiwrs.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/MANDEE.jpg

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Eric are you referring to "A Stroke of Genius," with the Christina Aguilera vocals over the Strokes song?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Nah, this one's a rap on the "mixtape" steaming on the Rhymefest website.

I want a velvet version of that Chili Peppers photo. Are those storm clouds behind them, or is it a volcano?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I did Kenan.

http://www.cleftandcloven.com/kenan.bmp

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

That's a pretty good Kenan!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Ha!

I did a self-portrait. It may turn out small, though:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/jaymc1/self.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't figure out how to make it bigger. Oh well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/nalrax/ugly.jpg
I totally messed mine up, so I turned it into a super-Centaur.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha awesome! (to both jaymc and jocelyn)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn's is my fave

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I love mine.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Kenan's sort of reminds me of

http://www.tvmagazine.com.br/sattv/arquivo/minimaxheadroom.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn's is great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Quick, everyone invade the "what do you look like?" thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Feist show on thursday night. I can't think of anything more rocking.

And Xiu Xiu on friday.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I invited Amy Ph!ll!ps to the Feist show -- I think we're gonna meet there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

who dat?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

She's the news editor for P!tchf0rk. I met her in NYC last year, but she just moved to Chicago last month.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Would I like FEIST?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

i don't know if she's ROCK enough for you, n/a.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

But I like all types of music!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Feist started boring me about a week after I started listening to it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I've only heard two songs but I don't think it's really my thing. I meant to ask -- did any of you go to any of the Chicago Jazz festival events this past weekend? No one has mentioned it and I wondered if it sucked or what.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I totally forgot about the jazz festival, things have been so crazy lately.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Feist live will sound like this:
http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&air_date=6/21/05&tmplt_type=show

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I didn't forget about the Jazz Festival, but neither did I go. I was busy. Busy watching horrifying news clips and wallowing in sadness.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I was just wondering. It seems to have come and gone without a lot of hoopla. 10AM? Already?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

CHICAGO: You may remember that a month or so ago I had to write a report on how my company could make money from BLOGGING. You will be delighted to know that I am now working on a report on how my company can make money from PODCASTING. YES. THIS IS SO DUMB.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I AM GOING TO QUIT MY JOB AND BECOME A HOBO.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

My co. is "leading the industry" in Katrina relief advertising. What's more vile?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

• What is a podcast?

According to Wikipedia, podcasting is essentially “a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet.” The way it works is that a podcaster records and assembles a program, usually similar in style to a radio show, on their computer. They then convert their program into an mp3 file and upload it to a podcasting service or to their own server. This makes it available to the general public to download and listen.
Listeners can use various search engines (e.g., www.podcastalley.com, www.podcast.net, etc.) to find podcasts that they are interested in. They can then “subscribe” to the podcast by adding it to their “podcatching” software. This software is also known as an aggregator, and it automatically searches for and downloads podcasts that have been updated, even automatically uploading them to an iPod or other digital audio device if wanted. This allows the subscriber easy access to new podcasts without having to remember to periodically check to see if they have been updated (and also benefits the podcasters by not losing listeners if they don’t update on a regular basis).
The word “podcasting” comes from combining the words “iPod” and “broadcasting,” although an iPod is not necessary to listen to podcasts. Anyone with an internet connection and the capability to listen to audio on their computer can enjoy podcasts.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Does that answer your question, Amanda?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

and all this time I thought I was just sticking shit on my serverr.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Whoohoo! Only three hours before I've downloaded last night's Daily Show!

Why are torrents so big? I really don't need 180 megs of the Daily Show, I just need to be able to see and hear it. It's called compression, you fuckers.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Note: I am attempting to make podcasting sound as complicated (and hence, as discouraging) as possible.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I thought you meant that I don't know what a podcast is.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't really understand the term "podcast." It's just a radio show, or other program, but in mp3 format. That doesn't need a new term.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

broadcast...podcast.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Especially when iPods aren't necessary, and it's not being broadcast live.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i apologize for that. i just annoyed myself.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Aside from selling advertising to suckers, how could you make money from podcasting? Subscription? You'd better have one hell of a great product.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I mean, the podcasts I listen to are ear-grating sometimes, especially when they're not playing music. The ones that aren't are NPR...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

No, I mean I get where the term comes from. It just seems stupid to call it that. Podcasters aren't really doing anything new. I mean, it's not like it delivers a radio show straight to your iPod without you doing anything. That would be cool.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I guess it does, sort of, if you subscribe to one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

The only ones I listen to are the ones on Stylus, and I just listen to them as mp3s in Quicktime. They take a bit longer to load, but otherwise it's no different from downloading something from Fluxblog.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

You could have it deliver a radio show to your iPod without you doing anything... besides setting it up to do so and never unplugging it.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm being bitchy. I'm tired.

Good morning, everyone!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I have never engaged in podcasting. My iPod is a shrine, I don't want just any old shit getting through its little walls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh and I didn't mean they're ear-grating soundwise so much as the people talking are lousy, lousy public speakers. And I come from college radio, so that's saying something.

*dead air* "ummm" *dead air*

xpost: 'morning

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

good morning. i'm having one of those days where i don't know whether the things i'm doing/saying/wearing are grossly inappropriate or ok or what. it's like the meter is off, or miscalibrated or something.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

i really enjoy podcasting. am i alone here?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

What do you enjoy about it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I would really, really enjoy podcasted shows from my old radio station. Rumor is they're working on it...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

(plug: WMTU - there is realaudio and streaming mp3 as far as I know)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Shit. They're off air at the moment. So it goes.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Hi, guys. Did you know that it is REALLY hard to go back to work after having a FOUR DAY weekend?!! Within my first hour here this morning, 5 different coworkers approached me with, "Sarah, I have a little project for you..."

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

i love being able to have On the Media at my disposal. I can listen to it at the gym if I want to . . . and sometimes I do. Sometimes it helps me lift to shift my focus ever so slightly off the weights.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

i also like the fact that it's making broadcasting more pedestrian, utilitarian, etc., even if the quality suffers because of it. the pessimist in me thinks that this is a limited time only affair before it gets all pimped out by corporations & whatnot. right now, anyone can do it & say whatever they want. Are there FCC regulations on podcasting? Is apple administering the content?
it's sort of this diamond in the rough thing that some people are on board with & others aren't, but regardless i think it's a fascinating communication tool.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

i have a technological question: can the tech department at my company SEE the files i've uploaded to my personal email account? (not company email, but internet mail) PLEASE TELL ME THEY CAN'T.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

where are they uploaded from?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Short answer: if you used company computers, they could at least make a good case to Yahoo or whoever to be able to take a look.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

my desktop. shit. it's not THAT bad or anything, i would just be embarrassed it it flashed across someone's screen or something.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

that's okay. i'm sure i've done far worse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

PHEW. It was a photo I sent to a friend but in the email I noted that it looked "porny" -- because it did! -- and i was afraid that if they did a search of desktops and the word porn that it would come up. Maybe this is naive. I know it's paranoid.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I now have my centaur picture saved to my computer, so if anyone is nosy ... It's next to glowstick cat gif.
xpost
I love it when my coworkers send out "all" emails about BLOGS: The publishing realm of the future! or "Oh Wow Podcasting! Get your missed lectures on your Ipod!"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, I don't think they can search your desktop like that. I mean, unless you gave the photo a name like "porn-pic.jpg." But your webmail is outside of their jurisdiction, as far as I know.

Also, do you remember the thread where I talked about looking at Suicidegirls at work? Yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

i do remember that, yes. ok. it was not named porny.jpg, so i'm going to stop worrying about it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

why are y'all so down on podcasting?
i think i'll have to accept i'm alone on this one.

in non-pod news, tomorrow i'm going to try deadlifting for the first time. i think it looks so...so...olympic or something. I'm a little nervous.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Kels, I'm fine with the actual phenomenon of podcasting, I just don't know why it has to be called podcasting instead of just downloading mp3s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Olympic ... can any of you that work in the Jackson/State area tell me the difference between the Olympia College students who wear green and those who wear blue? They often smoke in front of DePaul Center, or congregate by the subway next to Radio Shack/Jimmy John's. I think they must be nursing students?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I've seen them, but I can't tell you who they are or why they wear what they wear. There's nothing like nursing students that smoke though!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

because it's different than that.

lame xpost.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

i work near northwestern hospital & there are quite a few nurses smoking. the saddest thing is to see patients hooked up to breathing machines or IVs that are outside smoking. so sad.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I think it's a good word in explaining that you can hear previously broadcasted radio shows on your iPod (which is like saying "on your Walkman" in the 1980s -- not being brand-specific). Makes it clear to folks that now there's the equivalent of Tivo for broadcast radio programs.

No idea about the twin-tone students, Jaymc...

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Mainly podcasting is dumb for us because most of our subscribers are women who are 50+ years old, not the target audience for new technology. Most of them can't even access the PDF version of the newsletter we put on our website.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Deadlifting is bad ass! You can tell by how sore it makes you. Be sure to keep your back s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t and bend only at the waist. Also, I like standing on something to keep the weights from jarring if they hit the floor.

God, I sound like a jock.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I am nervous about it, but I also can't wait.

I think I'll do my first set with lower weights so that my form isn't compromised. Do you know of any good pics of good form?

* * *
I'm starting to get hungry for lunch, but not for what I brought. In fact, I'm not really in the mood for anything in particular. It was like this yesterday, too. I think I have a sudden loss of appetite or something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I learned how to do the more daunting exercises off this web page... here's their entry (one of many) on deadlifting:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/casi4.htm

Note: that web page is at least 90% ridiculous. But good for learning different exercises...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. That's pretty good. I'll have to check out the rest. Thanks, Dan! I've been really digging on this lady's site:

http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

that lady is pretty rad.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

it's been very inspiring. makes me want to lift more & better.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

i might try this next time at the gym. i think i've been not-going because i've been bored the last few times i went.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

she has routines on her site that are pretty good. it's helped jump start me into trying new things & not being afraid of the barbell. it's been too easy for me to use only dumbbells & i want to be a rock star. do you lift too?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

uh, not really. i'm a bit of a weakling and am aiming for "wiry" and "strong" instead of "puny." i need something new to do.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

You should totally lift. It's awesome. I'm getting kinda into it (not that you'll be able to tell when you meet me). It makes you feel genuinely powerful, it burns more calories & muscles are hot.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.neurodynamicsinc.com/images/instructions/guide_fig3.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I had lunch (work-but-not-my-day-job-work) at the Berghoff today. Had never been in there before, and it's elegant and German and spacious -- a little like the masculine version of the Ann Sather on Belmont.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, uh, that was for the headache thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Nice, Eric. The last time I ate there was probably 10 years ago, when my high school choir went on a field trip to the Lyric Opera. (Also the last time I went to the opera.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

i went there with c0l1n & his parents back in the day. it was not my favorite experience, but i think the space had no negative influence on the Events At Hand.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

My parents went to the Berghoff last time they were here and my dad couldn't shut up about their beer, about how good it was.

I finished my stupid report. Now I get to proof the newsletter, which is actually kind of fun. Hoorah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I have determined that the Feist album is popular among a) health-food stores and b) feminist-oriented sex shops.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I had the Berghoff root beer, from the tap, and it was so delicious. Dijon chicken and cream spinach, pretty good. Bread and butter, yum.

I didn't realize that there's a whole bar area in there (and there's also a cafeteria-style place underground) -- future possibilites for lunches and happy hours.

John, we could get our Jackson-Wabash posse to do Tiki Time at Trader Vic's sometime too ($4 mai tais on Thursdays).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

feist was a grower, not a show-er for me.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I want some Doritos, I'm going to go get some.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I was really disappointed with the bergoff. The food was horrible. I hade much better german in lincoln square at that place that is not the brauhouse.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm at depaul and kids are swaming every where getting new id cards. People are much more attractive than when I went to college. Of course that was in Bumfuck, NC.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

John, we could get our Jackson-Wabash posse to do Tiki Time at Trader Vic's sometime too ($4 mai tais on Thursdays).

Sure ... I'm only here for another five days, though. Tomorrow?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

John, we could get our Jackson-Wabash posse to do Tiki Time at Trader Vic's sometime too ($4 mai tais on Thursdays)

Man, this really makes me wish I didn't have class on thursdays! I love that place. One time I went there on a goodbye to a coworker/friend (mostly friend, incidentally a coworker) outing and I drank slightly more than I should have. I was loopy. Wait, am I part of this posse?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

You are now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

ouch.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

(It may be irrelevant though, since tomorrow I have to leave at 3 to make it up to class at 4:15)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Not meant to be an ouch! Actually, I am realizing now that not everybody knows Eric (flaneur/Eazy). He's friends with me and Kelsey, and has also met Nick and Sarah a few times. He's a playwright and a folksinger. (A dark night and a humdinger.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

We like him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh. I thought you meant that I had insinuated myself into the posse. No harm done, pardner.

Hi Eric. Me llamo Amanda.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

EZ & I did the Trader Vic's thing before! It was fun!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I have recently discovered BAKED DORITOS. It almost lets me feel like I'm making a health-conscious decision.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

i just had some dark chocolate. only a little (the whole "no sugar during the week" thing). i want more. a lot more.
no sugar stinks!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

no sugar stinks like nothing else. i eat a lot less candy than i used to, but man -- sometimes nothing hits the spot like a glob of caramel.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating some baked doritos RIGHT NOW.

Tonight I'm going to pick up my gym habit again, I swear it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I just had some chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and little ornate frosting flowers from sweet mandy b's. mmm...

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Hey Amanda. Both you and I have done some time in the 43022, so we'll have to trade stories sometime. If we talked for five minute, I'm sure we'd find 10 people we know in common.

Hey John - Didn't know you were leaving your job! This isn't one of those Suicidegirls/dayjob situations, is it?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

do it jordan! then we can compare lifting notes!*

*if you lift, that is. and i hope you do b/c i can't seem to shut up about it already.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

are you leaving it, john?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

(Oh, and I can't tiki this Thurs -- in the middle of a whole lot of...how do you say 6rant r3v1ews. But things'll be more open after this weekend. Tempting to check out Feist, though, especially with the Great Lake Swimmers, whom I like a good deal.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

i can't this week either. 1. i'm working late every night. 2. i'm sickeningly broke.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

No I'm not leaving my job. The office is moving to 331 N. LaSalle.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Should I have Googleproofed that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right! I forgot about that move.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

What are Gr. Lk. Swimmers like, EZ? I told Amy I'd meet her at Schubas at 9, but didn't know if we should catch the band or not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

What do suicide girls do for dayjobs anyway? Besides work at record stores/specialized boutiques.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Hey Amanda. Both you and I have done some time in the 43022, so we'll have to trade stories sometime. If we talked for five minute, I'm sure we'd find 10 people we know in common.

You mean, people like Philander Chase? P3ter Rutk0ff? Haaaaaaa. I can't wait.

Suicide girls are hairdressers too.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Random sample:

Adora -- OCCUPATION: Suicide Girl, Bath & Body Works associate, Furever Friends Animal Rescue volunteer

Djinn -- OCCUPATION: Illustrator

Gwendolyn -- OCCUPATION: astronaut.

Kokeshi -- OCCUPATION: student

Miranda -- OCCUPATION: Full time daydreamer

Pearl -- OCCUPATION: jet-setter

Sabine -- OCCUPATION: i wanted to be an astronaut. now i'm an officegirl...next best thing, right?

Vanessa -- OCCUPATION: Harlot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Actually Kelsey, I've always been kind of afraid of lifting! At least the kind with the barbell, since I do use free weights at the gym. There are all those beefy guys spotting each other, and I never learned proper "technique" or whatever. I guess I should look at those links above!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

(xp) I think some are lying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

There's a good Great Lake Swimmers song to download on this SXSW page:
http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/18690.html

They made their first record in an empty grain silo, and it's reverby and haunting. Mostly banjo, drums with brushes, etc. -- a little Will Oldham-y and a little scary and very sad. Opening lines to one song: "I have seen you in various stages of undress/I have seen you through various stages of madness."

I saw them down in Austin last spring at a daytime show, where Geoff and I were two of the four people seeing 'em play their first U.S. gig (they're from Canada, toured with Andrew Bird in France, etc.).

Yes, Amanda, and takes from the 43022 b00kstor3.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

There's a good Great Lake Swimmers song to download on this SXSW page:
http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/18690.html

Yes, Amanda, and tales from the 43022 b00kstor3.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Ugh. Still getting the hang of this.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I like the GLS. Probably as much as Feist.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the bookstore. I ate many bagels on my bookstore account. Are you coming to Sarah's b-day party? We can compare notes there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

On a related (?) note: Gr3at Lak3s Myth S0ciety

They're coming here on October 13th, and I'm gonna go. Everything I've heard about this band is good. Then again, I'm a sucker for just about anything from Michigan...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Gack I have a stupid head cold and I can't stop sneezing! Choo choo choo choo...

xpost: Suicide girls spend their days coming up with clever names for new recruits, like Grenadine, Sharky, and Monkey Nipples.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Also, do any of you guys know anything about the V1aduct Theatre?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I've seen a show there. What would you like to know about it?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's a small theatre space that periodically also does shows. I used to live right around the corner from it, but never went there. Matt Pri3st is booking some shows there, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Just impressions of the place. I've driven by, and I live a little ways down Western from there, so I'm interested just 'cause it's close. But I've never really had a reason to go.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I claim professional demimonde . I've always been a little frightened of free weights as well for the reasons Jordan sighted, but I did enjoy doing the weight machines in high school.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

The V has two theaters inside -- one big warehouse-y space and one more traditional. Various theater companies rent it out, so the shows vary, but there've been a lot of good shows there. And I saw Azita play a concert there once -- I think they book noise/improv/etc. music once in a while without publicizing it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

(Can you tell I'm an editor by my playful repetition of "vary" and "show" in a single sentence?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm impressions of the Viaduct Theater - it's small and dark. I liked the show I saw a lot (The Cabinet), which was a Red Moon production and I'm not sure what was Red Moon's doing and what was the Viaduct's doing. But after the show, theatergoers were allowed to closely check out the set and the props and that was cool. There was a vibe of community and support for other theater type people. It was casual, yet the quality of the show was very professional.

It was really hard to find, but if you've driven by and already noticed, you'll probably be okay.

xpost: I must have seen something in the small theater, then. I didn't even know there was a larger theater there!

Weights are fun. I learned from my personal trainer that if women work on their large muscles (chest, back, shoulders), their smaller muscles (biceps, tricepts) will tone up nicely without making them look like Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. Focusing on CORE muscles will make everything else fall into place.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I guess by free weights (the ones I do use) I meant "dumbbells".

Sarah Conner is awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

But, admittedly, not my ideal of "sexy".

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's been nice. i was doing routines where i lifted each muscle group, but with my new routine, i don't do specific bicep lifts. they get enough work on their own helping out with the other lifts.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Lifting is such a weird dichotomy. On one hand, I like being stronger, I like the benefits as far as attractiveness goes, etc. Not being huge and ripped but just... filled out. On the other hand, there are so many shitty things that come with it, like hurting yourself and being lumped in with the dudes who are like "guess how much I can bench, baby!"

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I think the benefits outweight.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that hurting yourself should be a part of weight training! I'm not a fitness expert, but I think that if you hurt yourself, you're probably doing something wrong.

As for meatheads, they are just part of what we have to deal with in America today, inside or outside of the gym.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

OTM.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Jenny, Bringing it on home since 1973 (tm)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

jenny and/or jeff: was jenny's first year at law school a difficult time at all for your relationship?

and now that i've asked such a personal question, let me say:

a) you need not answer
b) perhaps this is better discussed in person?

i am just wondering what to expect once i move to mpls & kinda wondering what to expect long distance.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, I believe I may answer this since I'm friends with Leaf's doppleganger (I believe I've mentioned him before) who is currently finishing up law school in NYC: expect him to be extremely busy and stressed out almost all of the time, but allow for occasional episodes of binge drinking that result him passing out naked on the living room floor.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

who is this? i can't recall if you've mentioned before.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh I realize if you hurt yourself you're doing something wrong. But it only takes one little mistake to hurt yourself. It's definitely not something I've done and kept doing!

Oh and we just make fun of the meatheads. It's important to have back-up when you do that, though.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

there aren't too many meatheads at my gym, thankfully. but the more i get into lifting, i am realizing that my gym is just too small & poorly equipped for me to do everything I want.
one guy at my gym saw me doing some shoulder lifts with dumbbells & said, "that looks awfully heavy . . ." & i just said, "i can handle it." it was insulting. i shot him a look.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Kelsey, he's a guy named Tom that used to play in Mama D1gdown's and looks eerily like the pics you've posted of your boyfriend. He lazed about for 30+ years and then took the LSAT and only got one question wrong.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

(xp) dumbass. that's why i've never gone to a gym in my life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Gyms are one of the many reasons iPods exist. What's really annoying is when people don't get the hint and still try to talk to you.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

no one has ever tried to talk to me at the gym. i'm 100% grateful for that. then again, i don't stick around too long.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

The only time anyone's every talked to me at the gym is when a gay Macedonian co-worker of mine loudly (and jokingly) accused me of faking my crunches.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

i had to strategically give bad vibes to one of the employees at my gym. we have to sign in & so a couple of times he'd say "hi kelsey" or, "ready to sweat?" and then i started ignoring him & then i wore my ipod & ignored him. it took awhile, but i think he finally caught on.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

how do you fake a crunch? you go to the gym with your coworkers? that sounds like a nightmare.

"ready to sweat"? EW EW EW EW

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

he's Captain Ew Ew Ew.

He asked my roommate if she was "trying to fit in a dress" when she came to the gym twice one day. she had actually woken up too late to do everything she wanted to do & so came back after work to finish.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I had just gotten there like 1 minute before so I hadn't yet broken a sweat, and I was like "Who's this dude looking at me? He's breaking the 'don't look at people' unspoken gym code," and then I realized it was this guy from work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

xpost - fit into a dress? nuh-UH. you should ask him if he's on his period. is he from this country? i forgive people who may be unaware of what's acceptable in gender politics if they grew up in a different culture, but man. that guy sucks.

your roomie, on the other hand, ought to receive a medal for her diligence.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, email me at jheathatgmaildotcom, I'll be glad to fill you in.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

i just did, tiger. thanks.

i think i just started missing leaf hard all the sudden. sometimes it just hits, ya know?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I started to post my response here but I'll follow Jeff's lead and send you an email instead!

My gym has meatheads, but they are all gay so I'm not the one they are interested in intimidating.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Both of you are awesome. Your emails are great & helpful & I'm totally going to write you back in a more thoughtful manner. I just wanted to say thanks first. You're awesome. Did I mention that already?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I just had my first practice with the band I've been asked to join, and it was so much damn fun!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Congrats Dan, what band is it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

GOOD MORNING CHICAGO! It's 7AM. Who's with me? Eh? Huh? Anyone?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm here! But now it's almost 8... I'm eating some mango at my desk. The sun is softly streaking across my desk. It makes me sleepy.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

HI SARAH! I'm still here! Mango is my #1 most favorite food. Are you excited about your party?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you two. I'm eating cereal at home. I just dragged myself out of bed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I leapt out of bed at 5:25 this morning. It's truly embarrassing what a morning person I am.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

I thought for a while I was a morning person, but I think the truth is that I just have slightly more energy at that point and then I use it up pretty quickly. I am a lot more cheerful at this time of day though.

I am looking forward to a party. Hearing my dad go on and on (and the weekend before that, my mom) about how he doesn't understand why people drink alcohol just made me wanna get CRUNKED! BOO YA!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

It is somewhat odd that the person I'm going to see Feist with tonight has her own hate thread on ILM right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

That's a sign that you've REALLY made it, huh?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Morning Chicago!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I just read about the new very tiny ipod. the NANO.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Good morning. I had a really nice night last night. I sent some clothes & stuff down to a friend who's staying in Baton Rouge, and then good beers & conversation with a co-worker afterwards. Then I went home to find that Maddie had left me a TCBY cake (!).

Today: stupid work stuff and a lunchtime mixing session.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Today is one of those days where I wish I could spend more time on my homework. I'm in a real mood for scholarship. I hope my brain doesn't die before I leave here at 3. Being here has the effect of making my brain feel like a water-bloated piece of fruit after lunchtime.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Like that gross fruit cocktail you buy in a can.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

You have homework?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I be in grad school.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

For what? I missed this somehow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Then I went home to find that Maddie had left me

The way my window was sized, the line broke here and I was like OH NOES!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

'allo allo.
Jordan I thought I would have your cd of dub and ska off to you today but it looks like I won't be mailing it until tomorrow. Sorry duderz.
Umm I don't have anything interesting to say. We tried to check out "Fitzcarraldo" last night but it had been checked out and so we watched "City of God" instead which is excellent so far.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Cake is much better than breaking up.

That's okay Nick, I got that acoustic Aphex Twin tribute and a Ted Leo cd last night, so I have plenty to tide me over.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

PS: YOU ARE ALL JOCKS!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN THE SUPER BOWL THIS YEAR?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

And I say that with affection.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Someone has to protect me from bullies. I nominate Kelsey.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Someone has to bully Nick. I nominate Dan.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Why me? I hate bullies!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

is it because i'm going to do a DEADLIFT tonight?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

The panthers.

What time does the show start tonight John? I don't want to miss GLS.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Linguistics/TESOL

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Jeff: the show starts at 9 pm.

I got that acoustic Aphex Twin tribute

Tell me about this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Btw, if anyone wants a free label comp of modern classical/experimental music, you can go here: http://cantaloupemusic.com/freesampler/

You just have to sign up for their mailing list. I REALLY like the Alarm Will Sound/Aphex Twin cd, actually.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey I want you to protect me from bullies because I enjoy subverting gender norms. It's just something I find fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I'd totally do my best to kick their ass.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3183

Alarm Will Sound, they're a bunch of modern classical musicians who are clearly not fucking around. A lot of it covers the pretty, ambient A.T. songs but there are some hot beats too. I loooove how they handle some of the rhythmic and textural quirks with the percussion.

I don't know, I'm some sure some people see it as rockist or gimmicky, but I'm eating it up like the two bowls of Product 19 I had this morning.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Dead-lifting: good for transporting Nick's lifeless corpse post-bullying.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Here's a song I just made up:

Subverting gender norms, pop a loppa pop a loppa
It's something I enjoy, wooh yeah wooh yeah
I'm heterosexual, pop a wheelie pop a wheelie
But sometimes I wear a skirt in public, you bet your ass I do!
Thank you very much.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

haaaaaaaa. i especially like the "pop a wheelie pop a wheelie" part.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

That should be Tuomas's ILX jingle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Nick, are you wearing MY skirts??

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

There were guys in Austin all the time who'd wear skirts. They... um... didn't smell very good. Or shave very much. They were mutant hippies. Like some kind of sub-species of Momus.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

my boyfriend in high school wore skirts. at the time i thought it was hot.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

My bass player friend Scott wears sarongs all the time. And no shoes, not even in the winter.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I think a sarong would be much hotter than a skirt & I'm not talkin' temperature here.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

I got asked to join Hunting Stories. They're in kind of a transitional period right now because they've lost both their drummer and bass player. I don't care though, I'm happy to have people to play with after a lot of looking.

Also, I'm not going to bully anyone, if I was the Dan referred to upthread. I am a sworn enemy of bullying.

Thirdly: fuck football, go Red Wings.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and dudes can wear skirts as long as they're not culottes. Those things look so stupid.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Woah, don't google img srch "culotte" at work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I thought about it, then thought better of it. Dictionary.com had all the information I needed... which was really just how to spell the word.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

why jordan?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Because you should not be using the internet recreationally while in a work environment.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Because I should not be looking at all that ass-flesh while in a work environment.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Did you accidentally google "looking up culottes?"

This morning is going by too slowly, even though I'm working my ass off - and I didn't really have much of an ass in the first place.

Nick and I are going to join a gym soon, or at least we talk about it a lot.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

We will! Soon!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Dan, I am pretty shallow, so I must say that band looks great based on their nice webpage and the photo section. Looks are important! ha ha. But seriously, I'll listen to them later when less coworkers are around.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I neeeeed to the gym. I feel fat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating chocolate cake as I type this, again.

Here's the offer of the month for Bally's for September:
Grab a friend on Thursday, September 15th

Gather Your Friends Who Share Your Commitment to Fitness and join us on Thursday, September 15th. Come in for special membership discounts and nutritional product offers. Plus, you and your friends can join our personal training staff for free partner-assisted stretch sessions from 5-8pm. Bring your fitness program to a whole new level by working out with a friend. And, if you are already a member, you'll receive three months free of renewal dues for sponsoring a new member.

So I guess we should check it out Sept 15th?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

That doesn't really sound like it would benefit us (i.e., get us cheaper memberships).

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

B-but it says "special membership discounts."

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Wait. So if I say, went to the Bally's in Rogers Park with Amanda, then I'd get in free for the day & she'd get three months free? Or would I have to join to score her that deal?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah yeah! Come to my Bally's! I can get you free passes too, I think, to see if you like it. I think you would have to join though. And also I think I would receive the discount after my initial contract is over, one year from now. Which is also totally great since I'm not going anywhere.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I just watched a little video on CNN online about pet rescue operations in New Orleans and it made me all weepy. I could barely take that, but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to then look at pictures at a bunch of babies that had been rescued and then read about the victims in nursing homes down there.

Also, in much much less important news, I think I ate too much chocolate cake this morning.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind guys in skirts as long as they are doing it because they are hot or too fucked up on pills to find pants, but I get really irritated with guys who do it just to fuck with gender norms. It's just too safe and predictible.

My cold won't go away. I sound like a fog horn. A sneezy, snotty fog horn.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Saw Shelley Sh0rt at the Hideout last night, and she's amazing amazing. We're playing together at Sylvie's in a few weeks. She moved here from Portland, Ore., where she made some music with the one of the Decemberists and others. Great songs, great arrangements. Songs on her website -- you'll see what I mean...

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I just realized that my coworker (who annoys me beyond the point of reason) reminds me of "Brian Fellows, Safari Planet".

"That goat has devil eyes."

She has seasonal desk decorations. Don't get me wrong, she's a nice human being, but...there's something about her that makes me want to be really really mean for no reason.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

T/S: seasonal desk decorations v. holiday specific sweatshirts

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, I'll totally go to your gym with you but I fear Rogers Park is too far north for me to join & go with any kind of regularity. That said, I'm going to check out cheetah this weekend (or even tonight) b/c I'm getting really frustrated with my current gym. I would like to not feel like I'm going to knock someone out because I'm using the cage to lift barbells in. The cage is right next to a walkway that is frequently used. God awful placement in this place. If Cheetah seems like it doesn't have the stuff I want, then I'd be more inclined to join bally's, especially if it's cheap. Cheap is a priority for a broke ass like me.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Let me tell you Sarah, New Orleans cats are some tough motherfuckers. When I stayed at a friend's house off of St. Charles, there was this street cat who I would find sitting on the roof of the car every morning like h/she owned it. It wasn't scared of people, but it didn't need your love either, that was perfectly clear.

There was also a scrawny street cat that hung around Joe's Cozy Corner, which was the brass band hangout, all the time. They would leave huge plates of meat outside for it, but I'm sure that cat is taking care of its damn self.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Kels, don't you have to pay an initiation fee to join a gym here? Aren't you moving to MN sometime?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I didn't/don't pay an initiation fee at my current gym (part of the appeal), and if I decide to switch over to Cheetah, I only will if I can bargain with them. Tell them I'm currently a member at their competitor's gym, only have X to spend & can they do anything for me?

I have NO IDEA when I'm moving. It's a sad reality.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's pretty far up there, kelsey. the plus side, though, is a cheap membership that may transfer to mpls when you move AND a large, well-stocked weight area populated by virtually no one. it's also above street level so no one can see in, even from the parking lot, which i like.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

What I really need to do is cool it on the weights a little bit and concentrate on getting rid of this gut. Stupid desk job and sitting around 7.5 hours a day... I'd really feel silly on an eliptical machine, but straight-up running gives me mad shin splints.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing embarassing about the elliptical!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Especially if you dance on it. (Note: I dance on it and don't give one shit.)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Could the splints be caused by the shoes you're wearing, dan? Or are you just prone to them?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I love the eliptical machine!

I feel so ick for eating more chocolate cake this morning. But starting now I'm going to be healthy. I mean, NOW! I brought my tennis shoes because my coworkers swore up and down - again - that they'd start going on lunch walks today, but now they aren't. HA! I'm still going on one though. I'm not even hungry at all because of that cake. Nick, want to meet up at lunchtime? I can run over there - though not LITERALLY - and watch you eat. Huh huh huh?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

You can tell I've never set foot in a gym before because I had to image-Google "elliptical machine" to find out what it was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

The thing is, I think I might actually have fun in a gym: it's just the whole making time to go and the hassle of memberships and feeling like a schmuck because I don't know my way around them that's the problem.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Your search - elliptical culotte - did not match any documents.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I like it for warm ups, but I've ceased using it as a primary source of cardio exercise. Maybe I should start up again, but I figured with focusing on lifting & pushing myself harder on my bike rides into work (I have shaved 10 minutes off my usual time!), my cardio was okay. I've also been running about once a week just to vary it up a bit.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's the shoes, I think it's that I'm just a big guy (6'5" and 240 or so.) I've got a great pair of New Balance and I could run around playing racquetball with no problem. It's repetitive, drawn out running that hurts me.

I'm going to swallow my false pride and try the eliptical. Has anyone else had the experience of it making your feet fall asleep? I've heard about that from a couple of people.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I totally did not picture you as a big guy, Dan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I think my bias against the eliptical machine stems from when I first started exercising regularly at the end of my college career. I went with a friend and there was a girl who was always at the student gym on the eliptical machine. At our school, girls were a little bit rare, and she became known to us as "the Eliptical Girl." Neither of us ever went and talked to her because for all our bravado we were (and remain) hopelessly socially inarticulate nerds.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Jenny to thread.
I think her personal trainer assured her this was normal.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm a gentle giant. The only currently-online picture of myself that illustrates my height is this one:

http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~klarola/pictures/tupac/sean.jpg

In which my associate Sean (height: about 5'6", I'd say) and I recreate the famous Abu Ghraib pose as part of a photo essay of people wearing a Tupac Shakur mask. Backtracking the image link to the parent directory will reveal the other pics (one or two semi NSFW). It's worth it, they're hilarious. I think so at least.

xxpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

And that's a nice stain on my pants, too. Goddamn it.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

you don't look like you need to work out. was it you who was just saying something about yer belly? or was that someone else? you don't have a belly.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's come back with a little force since then... That was taken at xmastime.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Genius.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

dan, you're a tall beefy socially awkward nerd? i had totally not pictured you that way at all.

also, the elliptical machine makes my feet fall asleep too. and jaymc, i had never set foot in a gym in my life until about a year ago, so it can be done.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I tried so hard to be a jock, but they all hated me! :)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I now want to join Bucktown Fitness instead of Bally's.

Eric, have you played at Sylvie's before? Easily my least-favorite Chicago venue (at least of the ones we've played). Just FYI.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Yes! Bucktown Fitness! We can have ilxor hour in the afternoons!

(My housemate/spotter/sidekick used to post semi-regularly before he got too sucked into his job. He went by the username "matttt")

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

why bucktown fitness?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Haven't played there before, Nick -- the booking gal was at a show I did in August and put this one together. Had a fun casual night there with the Nueva Cats last spring, and a fun night there last Halloween watching a Travelling Wilburys tribute band. At least the bill fits together (me, Shelley, and Zapruder Point) instead of a patchwork bill where there's a metal band too...

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

This is so weird writing here -- it's like IM-ing, except that our grandkids are going to be able to read this in 2045.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

And they'll know how we all felt about exercise.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

And that I'm deadlifting tonight for the first time!*

*Can you tell that I'm super excited about it?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

By the way, does anyone know where you can buy those tape measuring things that are made of cloth? Tailors probably use them? I want to start taking my body measurements & setting some real goals here.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

drugstores should have them. you mean a tape measure? i would look in the department with the odds-n-ends (shoe polish, heel replacements, safetypins, etc)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

yes, a tape measure. but not one of those metal ones. the soft cloth ones.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

right, a sewing tape measure. they should have those at drugstores, right? i feel like i can see it now, with the rubber band around the middle.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

a drugstore would be so easy! i hope so . . . thanks, amanda!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I've been too scared to take my measurements, but now I'm just going to bite the bullet. No one has to see them except me anyway.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

"it was s'posed to be so eeeeeeasy."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

if not there, check a grocery store, same section. there are so many more useful doodads in that aisle than i think there are. i've been daydreaming lately about being a lady plumber with personalized haircatchers that i give out as free gifts after removing a clog. they have those in the doodad aisle.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

we could have a craft night where we dazzle those up for ya. maybe put some custom faux gemming around the rim?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

that sounds so dirty out of context.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

that reminds me of when i met dan. he saw a yo-yo i had decorated for a mutual friend and he asked me (a stranger at the time) whether i would make one for him. so i did. and i also made a protective vessel for it. it was the most elaborate and ridiculous yo-yo i had ever seen. then i invited him over and gave it to him. at the time i felt really bold.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

That's an awesome story!! Did you hook up over the Yo?
That's probably personal, sorry.

I love stories like this!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of which, have Nick and Stephanie gotten married yet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

As an aside, I'm very much looking forward to meeting you this weekend.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

They broke up a long time ago, dude.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

(that was to Kelsey, my question was)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

thanks YOda.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Umm, last time I talked to Pfeffer, they were getting married.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

really? maybe they got back together then. ask pfeffer then! i don't know!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I had a teriyaki salmon bento box for lunch. It completed me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

that sounds really good although i'm still warming up to salmon. i should try it again b/c i prepared it myself & i've only recently started eating fish after 12 years of veg.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

xxxpost we didn't put any moves on until our next meeting, several days later. it was almost weirdly polite the first time he came over, which i appreciated.

(i'm looking forward to meeting you too!!)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

dan, you're a tall beefy socially awkward nerd?

If I wasn't already married to one of those, I would totally hit on you!

Elliptical trainer - yes my personal trainer assured me that everybody's feet fall asleep on it. She suggested stopping every 15 minutes or so and shaking your feet out, which I do, using that time to stretch my... whatdoyoucallem... big fat thigh muscles and drink some water. That seems to work well enough. You can also go backwards for about five minutes so that a different part of your feet fall asleep. Another trick I learned is to really heel-toe it on the machine instead of staying flat-footed.

Also, there are dudes all over the ellipse machines at Cheetah. I even think some of them are straight. So it's not just a girl's machine. Bad knees/shin splints are a pretty common ailment and the ellipse machine is a really good way to do cardio without aggravating them.

Now, if you ride on the sit back bike, I can't do nothing for you, man.

xxxxpost: Those tape measures are usually vinyl rather than cloth but still flexible enough for human body measurement.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Why Bucktown Fitness? Because it's just a few blocks from my house, hopefully alleviating my laziness about actually going to a gym.

I am eating peanut butter M&Ms and drinking Pepsi right now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

when leaf & i had our first date (a blind one) he thought it would be "best" if we didn't kiss. i totally didn't mind, but the next day i wanted to kiss him so bad!! his evil plan had worked!

xpost

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

ooh, a blind date? that's cute. my parents met on a blind date. i love love.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I tracked down that most elusive of prey for lunch: the tandoori chicken sandwich. I love the University Market deli.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I am having a DIET RITE

I had tuna salad for lunch, it was soooo good!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

what's with the surge in people drinking diet rite? i heard some lady talking about it the other day on the train.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Haven't you heard? Everything old is new again! Up is down, Black is white, etc. It's ironic!

I have no idea what I'm talking about.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

A blind date! I would like to hear that story. I *heart* first date stories.

Diet Rite has no sodium and a recent study showed that the sodium in diet soda contributes to weight gain, so I'll bet that's part of it. It's also made with Splenda and has no caffeine. Also, Coca Cola is into shooting union organizers in Columbia and that's getting more press, so perhaps people are looking for a soda alternative.

I only know all this because the pizza guy delivered a liter of Diet Rite with our pizza the other night.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

ooh, a blind date? that's cute. my parents met on a blind date. i love love.

The funny part is that Renee and I set them up, because we thought our exes should date. Their relationship has now lasted three times longer than ours did.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I only know all this because the pizza guy delivered a liter of Diet Rite with our pizza the other night.

Laurie's?

I still have a liter of Coca-Cola in my fridge from the last time I ordered pizza there, several months ago. I don't drink caffeinated soda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I mean, that's how I know about the no sodium, no caffeine, and Splenda. I knew about the sodium/weight gain and union organizer killings before we got the pizza. Although it would have been funny if the pizza delivery guy had told me all that while I was paying for the pie. Heh.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Again, Jenny - you are the voice of sanity. Thank you for that answer. Hey, on a totally different note, do you know of any books/materials regarding workers' rights and Latinos in the midwest? (Specifically in the midwest)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Socially conscious, activist pizza dudes are just what this country needs. I bet the tips would either be really good or nonexistant.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

So I should tell Leaf to quit buying diet coke?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I heart first date stories too. Maybe we should all spill the beans. I'm intrigued by Amanda's & curious about Jenny & Jeff's . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

no way -- you set your exes up? that's ridiculously cute. you guys are all so goodnatured. i remember that i thought i was so grown up when i met dan, but really i was 23. there's more to the story than that too, i just didn't want to bore anyone.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theskini.com/img/food/feature/03-05b.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

it *was* cute, but then it got complicated & weird.

yay for galactic!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I have an awesome flyer that someone handed to me on the way to work a while ago. It's a drawing of people floating dead in a glass of Coke, ridden with bullet holes and leaking blood into the soda. The glass is standing on a map of Colombia, and the caption says COLOMBIAN COKE FLOAT: UNTHINKABLE! UNDRINKABLE!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

why haven't i heard anything about this? can someone fill me in?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

That's the only reason why I knew anything about it. I still don't, really. The flyer has a link to http://www.killercoke.org.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

booooooooooooooo to coca cola. no more coke products for me. i don't know anything about it either.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.killercoke.org/images/cokefloat_th.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

when i was there i remember everyone preferring pepsi. some of them pronounced it peksi because it makes more phonological sense.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

It's probably bad that the only reason I didn't toss the flyer immediately is because I liked the art.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

The only soda that I drink is Diet Vanilla Coke, period. If I have to go to hell for that, so be it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

jaymc: Gigio's, the one that Ama. always said looked like it was run by rats.

kelsey: It's a tough call! I'm trying to avoid diet soda in general (see: sodium/fat) but D3P4ul has a contract w/ coke so even if I buy bottled water at school it's a coke product... I can't imagine that Pepsi is a totally innocent company, either. Being socially conscious is exhausting.

Also, Jeff and I met on the internet!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Here's my first date story:

Like John said, he & Renee set us up. There was all this talk & back & forth nonsense. People were planning bowling outings & such when Leaf just emailed me & basically said, "enough of this. we should just meet up before things get too weird & we won't want to meet anymore." I was at TAL at the time (& it was my last week there), and extremely busy. I could only meet up with him the very night of the email, a Wednesday, so we emailed back & forth, he changed some plans he had that night & we agreed on a place to meet.
I had only seen one photo of him that Renee had sent & it was, I hate to say, awful. He looked dumpy. I was nervous that this guy in the photo might be the same charming guy in the emails, but I was not attracted to him AT ALL. **shallow person alert** I kept calling his cell to tell him I was running late when really I was just stalling. Finally, I decided I should just go & meet him & it was only one date, so what the hell. I invented a back up excuse for leaving early & met him at the Four Treys in Roscoe Village.
It was pretty empty that night & I scanned the bar looking for the dumpy guy in the photo. No one matched up. There was this one good-looking guy in the back reading a book but I thought it would be really strange if that was Leaf b/c he was too handsome to be Dumpy McGee. No one else stuck out as being him though, so I went back & asked if he was Leaf. Of course he was! So then I got a beer, sat down & we chatted & smoked (we were both smoking at the time with some regularity) for HOURS. I can't really remember a lot of specifics, except we gave each other a lot of background info & were both cautiously flirty. He then thought it would be a good idea to scheme together & tell John & Renee that the date was horrible & that they should never interfere again. That's when I knew the date was going well . . . that, and he pointedly asked me when he could see me again (which I thought was soooo sexy). So we schemed & talked & realized it was getting so so so late. I had to go, he had to go, but neither of us wanted to. So I offered to give him a lift back to his house which was LITERALLY around the corner. When I dropped him off, I needed to pee & so I went in to use his bathroom. He put some hot water on & when I came out of the bathroom he asked me if I'd like a cup of tea. So then we sat on his futon & drank tea & talked until about 2 am.
Then I *really* had to go home, so we said good-bye & that's when he said something like, "I'd really like to kiss you but I don't know if we should kiss on our first date. Perhaps we should wait."

That's basically the story. I then invited him to the taping of TAL & he hung out with me & the crew after the show. I didn't know how much I liked him until our third date when he surprised me with a bunch of hard to find candy.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Now you guys go.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

aww

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Leaf is a player.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I mean that in a good way.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Good story - I especially like the part about the scheming.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you told me that the date was horrible, though, did you?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

It's hard to believe that Gmail has only been around for a little over a year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I want to wait to tell you in person, kelsey, because my story is too convoluted to write out right now.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

It didn't work though, Leaf emailed me the next day to say that he had already blown our cover. I think the whole scheme was a ploy to begin with . . . I think Jordan's right . . . he was a player! I didn't realize it until now!

amanda: good! i prefer in person!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

john, i can't remember. i might have told you that it was "only okay" or something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

The story of my gf and I getting together is convoluted too. Suffice to say we liked each other in college and neither of us did anything about it because we were/are wimps. Fast forward like 5 years and I move to Chicago. We're both available, and my housemate lets it slip that I'm interested. I think our first "date" was coffee one evening at the Hollywood Grill. It was another few months before we really got together.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

And it's been worth the wait.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, good story!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

You & Jeff met on the internet? For some reason I thought maybe you met in college!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Jeff in kindergarten when Jenny was in college?

OOH SNAP!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Let's talk about how old we are.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

ha, i just remembered a really funny story from our first week or so of dating. i was working at a pizza place as a waitress and really hated it. dan was in the middle of shooting hours and hours of footage for Sheriff. minutes before, i had just talked to my boss and had been canned -- FIRED! -- for having a "bad attitude."

i called dan immediately and was all upset. he was a little short with me and said something like "what do you need? i'm shooting right now." and i was in total shock and screamed "i got fired!" and right as i said it, a HUGE blast of gunfire went off on his end. he didn't hear me. afterwards he said, "i'm sorry, what?"

i repeated: "um, i got fired."

at the time it was like being in a Laurel and Hardy skit or something. hiiiiilarious.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

i forgot to mention that he was at a firing range. i'm a terrible storyteller.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

that is pretty funny!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Sarah and I met at an orgy, although neither of us were participating (I was writing a story on spec for Cracked Magazine, she had gotten lost on the way to the crematorium). We exchanged languid looks and then went out for a strawberry egg cream. I signed her copy of the Talmud, she kissed the webbing between my toes, and the rest is history.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

are you serious? nick i can never tell when you're serious!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

xpost- um, Yay! Romantic stories! Did everyone see the pic on my flickr page (and my blog) of my baby sister with her new husband?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Nick, that's our secret love story! You're not supposed to tell anyone.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Jeff in kindergarten when Jenny was in college?

No, smartass. Not kindergarten.

Junior high school. *ahem*

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

That's how my parents met

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Jessa and I, first date: sushi and then sudden sex.

I know, me? But I seem so pure and not at all sexually inclined!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I think Nick and Sarah have told their story before. It involved a bus from New York to Virginia, I believe.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

"bus"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Um, I told our story like 5 posts ago. Get with the program.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

How Nick and I met:
I was depressed, so I booked a cheap Euro tour online. I was on a train somewhere outside of Vienna, staring out the window at all the beautiful scenery, when he came up and asked if the seat beside me was taken. I said No. He said I Do. Then we stared into each other's eyes and starting making out.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

You forgot that it was a dark and stormy night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh right! I remember that story!

& Yes, Sarah . . . I saw the photo! They look very pretty/handsome & sweet. I was surprised at how much your sister looks like you!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I want to hear stories about how you met the people you DIDN'T end up dating.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

No, nevermind. You don't need to hear how I met my next door neighbor in 1996.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's right, and the homes along the tracks were dotted with lights from cozy lamps with pink shades, fireplaces, and the occasional street lamp.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

K - like my 12 year old crush resurfacing when i was 22? we went to a bar on our first date the night that princess di got killed. then he came to visit me when i lived in DC and we ate at the cheesecake factory and watched "Freaks" at a theater where you can drink beer and eat food. then he asked if he could move in, i said no, he wrote me a stupid letter where he said that i "brought him quidity" and he moved to vegas. the end. BORING.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Do tell, Paunchy!

How I met MY neighbor in 1992:
My sisters, mom and I moved in with my Grandmother that year. Some tall, yellow haired guy lived next door. My sisters and I were very giggley about it, daring each other to get closer and closer to the neighbor's house. I went up on the porch to read the last names on the mailboxes to try to figure out which was his family's. Then I ended up writing in my journal about how I needed to be more outgoing. I made myself goals like saying Hi to five different people in one day. And then I reached my biggest goal - to introduce myself to the neighbor guy. So then we went out all year and I broke up with him a few months after I moved to South Carolina the following year. But all we ever really did was sit on his bed and watch MTV.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

A few years ago I wrote a journal entry in which I speculated about a summer fling that I never actually had. I was trying to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction, imagination and reality, by writing it as a journal entry -- and I think I thought that if I wrote convincingly enough about it, it would somehow make it true. The girl's name was Abby Coltrane. We met at a party in 1998.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

(I'll see if I can find this later.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

i had a date with this vegan guy who could only talk about VEGAN ISSUES. before our food arrived (our date was at alice & friends) he asked me if i wanted to go see this political movie. i felt like asking him if he could back off so i could breathe. i told him i was tired. i was lame, but he was lamer.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I lived in a plastic bubble until '97, so I didn't "meet" many people.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

xpost - haaaaaaaaahahaha. i bet you brought him a lot of much-needed quidity.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

while i was dating leaf & also working on a story, one of my interviewees hit on me. it was sort of flattering, but mostly weird. he told me that my smile had lingered in his mind from the first time i interviewed him (which had been a couple or few weeks before).

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

there's more to it, but that's the basics.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, I know I learned something today:

Main Entry: quid·di·ty
Pronunciation: 'kwi-d&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English quidite, from Medieval Latin quidditat-, quidditas essence, from Latin quid what, neuter of quis who -- more at WHO
1 : whatever makes something the type that it is : ESSENCE
2 a : a trifling point : QUIBBLE b : CROTCHET, ECCENTRICITY

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Do you guys like how I am blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction? Pretty dope, eh?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

quidity is awesome, by the way.

also: who asks to move in like that?!?!?!?! A quidity person, that's who.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

hahaha! (xpost to nick)

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

so dope.

― Amateur!!st (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

the funniest part is that i know what he meant was "tranquility." he was SUPER DUPER DUMB. that's why he wanted to live in my 2 bedroom basement apartment with me and my TWO roommates. idiot.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

if it was tranquility he was after, why the hell did he move to vegas?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Aw man, I'm getting hungry again. Stupid Japanese food.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I dated a fallen Mennonite once.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Hi Amateurist! How's Iowa? I was just there this weekend. We got cheese curds in Kalona.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

The rest of her family went Evangelical, and I had easter dinner with them in Broken Bow, Oklahome. We drove and picked her sister up from the dorms at Oral Roberts University, where I also saw a full-length musical diversion with Broadway production values for only five dollars.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

It's not really me. I'm making a stupid joke.

― Amateur!!st (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

EZ tell more!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Or reference, whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

oh, see? who's gullible. i figured as much.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Her family's house was full of the parallel-universe Evangelical American pop culture stuff -- books by the Evangelical version of Stephen King; CDs and videos by Carman, who, depending on the song, is the Evangelical MC Hammer, Bon Jovi, Phil Collins, and Pearl Jam.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Maddie and I met in college. We flirted in one class we had together, but we were both dating other people at the time. We also each thought we were being avoided by the other person in later class. When I was a sophomore, I lived in the dorms and Maddie was a 'housefellow'. This meant that she made occasional rounds, and she recognized my name and knocked on my door. She was wearing a red sweater and I happened to notice that she had an ample bosom.

We started IM'ing and one night I asked her to go for a walk. We sat on the grass under the moonlight and I touched her cancer surgery scar. One thing led to another and I pretty much ended up living in her dorm room, then that thing led to other things and now we're gonna get married.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Carman is still around: www.carman.org

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I like the name Carman for a performer. It has so many levels: a guy who likes cars, an opera reference, sexual ambiguity, symmetrical structure, "NAMRAC" backwards, that whole "just one name" thing, etc. CARMAN! CARMAN! CARMAN!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I remember Carman! What about The Kelly Family? My favorite album is Over the Hump

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I mention them because I remember seeing late-night infomercials for both of these "internationally acclaimed recording artists."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008RGZF.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

The only disappointment was that she was enough of a fallen Mennonite that she didn't wear the sexy bonnet that the gals selling bread at farmers' markets have.

What's crazy about those acts like Carman is that they fill huge arenas, kind of like the "Diary of a Mad Black Woman"-type plays that sell out the Chicago Theater without any mainstream coverage at all.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

My relatives' homes were like that growing up. They had the usual place in the living room cabinets for videos and even video games, but they were all Christian themed. I saw Carman in concert (!). I had one cousin who was really into Christian heavy metal as a teenager. My cousins taped a Christian radio station in Dallas and mailed it to us once a month or so. I liked DC talk because I was a jesus freak.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm now going crazy trying to think of the choreographer who I thought The Car Man was by before learning it was Matthew Bourne. Some Brooklyn Academy of Music type.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it was Matthew Bourne, after all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Hey, when you saw him, did Carman do the whole "gunfight with Satan" that I saw on video in Broken Bow? (In the concert video that we watched from beginning to end, he also did an MC Hammer hommage called "J.C. Is In The House.")

(J.M.C. - it was Bourne.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.metalforjesus.org/history.htm

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

(How do you know what I was thinking!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I just had a conversation with a programmer in which I just BARELY succeeding in not cracking up at his post-Eugene Levy monolithic monobrow. I'm such an asshole.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Ok, first of all, I can't imagine why my boss asked me in to help him interview someone when he wasn't going to let me talk. Second of all, I can't imagine what my boss is hiring these people to do, and neither can he. He wants the web sites to be prettier, he wants the magazine to look better -- he needs a graphic designer. He's interviewing college students, because he won't pay for a graphic designer. So all of these people know much less than me about design, and I don't know much.

Anyway, the third thing I don't quite understand is why he would whip out the magazine in front of someone who just told him he was strictly a web designer, turn to a spread I did, then turn to me and say, "Kenan I think this could have been done a lot better, don't you? I mean, look at this, the picture isn't big enough, and this text gets lost here, and this line shouldn't be there..." This can serve NO PURPOSE except to humiliate me in front of a total stranger. The other guy in the interview isn't learning from this, and neither am I, because my boss is a fucking idiot who makes up complaints from moment to moment and constantly contradicts himself. He just wants... what? To feel superior to me? He IS superior to me, why drive it home constantly? Why in front of strangers? He may as well have thrown an egg at my face. I'm so angry I'm shaking.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I knew some Mormons in high school that would not stop lauding the musical greatness of Carman and Eurasure. Eurasure? WTF

On a side note, there was a show on the radio station I worked at called "Urban Unction" which featured prominent Christian rap acts such as Gospel Gangstas. I'm sure they were quite the pimps.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

kenan, i am so sorry. that is fucking awful. i don't have any advice.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that sucks.

I need something sweet right now. A pick-me-up, if you will.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

kenan, what about standing up to this guy in a professional manner? or is he just so bad that the only professional way to stand up to him is in a boxing ring?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

That is awful, Kenan.

I can't remember too much about the concert, because it was a really long time ago, but I do remember some sort of conversation he had with a loud, booming Satan voice onstage.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I think you should quit your job and let him and his magazine fail. Or at least drag someone other than you down with their leaking, sinking ship. The way I see it we're all working for ourselves, not other people. So if your job is making you feel that bad, it's not worth doing any more.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Wait, it's a boating magazine, right? That metaphor was an unintentional pun, and that makes me smile despite the shitty situation.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Cheer up, Kenan!

http://www.cleftandcloven.com/kenan.bmp

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Thanks guys. Yeah, there's no standing up to him in even a small way, no asserting your knowledge on anything at all, without him becoming enraged. His little Turkish face turns all red, and his eyes big out, and his silly little mustache twitches, and he says, "That's no way to talk to your publisher!" It's kind of funny, but never at that moment. He's a complete kook. I've said this before, I know.

You're right, Dan. I have to find something else. I've been so busy these weeks at work that I haven't had the time to look, but I think now I do again.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Now, Kenan, this isn't a recommendation, per se, but if I were in your situation, I would rearrange the text in one of the articles so that the first letter of each line spelled out a particularly obscene message.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

show up drunk, get fired, collect your fired ass monies.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

There is such a thing as fired ass monies??

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

ass moonies

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

ass moonings

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I need employed-ass monies. I can't quit. I can barely pay rent as it is. Matter of fact, I haven't yet this month.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I just listened to the new New Pornographers album. I'd never heard more than the odd song by them. I still don't think I really like them. But the best song is also the one with the best title: "Jackie Dressed in Cobras." Dan Bejar > AC Newman.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I kind of like the New Pornographers, in that I think they have some really good and well-written songs, but also find them very difficult to listen to. Their production is so loud and busy and everything is RIGHT! UP! FRONT! and LOUUUUD! and POP! POP! POP! You are right about Bejar > Newman, you should download "Jackie" off their first album if you don't already have it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I will use the stereotyped cliche and say listening to the NP is like eating candy - a little bit tastes good, but if you eat too much it makes you feel sick.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I was just listening to R. Kelly who is nothing like NP.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Wait, does Bejar have two songs about someone named "Jackie"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Apparently!

Maybe he is a big Mila Kunis fan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

My problem with NP is not the candy-like quality of their songs. I agree that they're all big loud pop songs, but very few of them do anything particularly interesting. "Jackie Dressed in Cobras" works because of Bejar's weird breathless vocals and this fast, syncopated piano thing in the chorus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

The best part in the other "Jackie" is at the end when he starts singing "Jack-eh-hey-hey! Jack-eh-hey-hey!" He IS a much more charismatic singer than Newman.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

J-M-C, I think you'd like the song on 'Electric Version' that ends with everyone going bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Carl Wilson at zoilus.com has some great thoughts on the NPs -- basically how not trying to be 'real' pop musicians hurts them. In his words, they could be the emperor of ice cream but istead they're the guy who created the curry cone.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and they aren't going bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum. They're going no-no-no-no-no-no.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

If I wasn't already married to one of those, I would totally hit on you!

Wait, if by beefy, you mean oddly misshapen and fat, and by tall you mean, barely above average. Then I'm your man! Socially awkward is right on though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

they could be the emperor of ice cream

Wasn't that poem about a pimp?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I love the NPs, but I don't have their new album. I have Mass R0mantic & Electr1c Version on my ipod. Both of those albums are really great and I can listen to them all the way through without skipping songs, much like the L1ke Young album.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

It's quite a good poem, methinks:

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

-Wallace Stevens

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Carl Wilson at zoilus.com has some great thoughts on the NPs

He only likes 'em cuz they're Canadian. :0

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

And as you can see, has nothing to do with pop music.

...or DOES it?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Jeff + Jenny -- do you have tickets for tonight? Someone just wrote me to say that it sold out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

(I already have tickets.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to comment on his NP article about how the NP lyrics have a lot of the same obscurity as Wallace Stevens, which is different than the argument he's making about them.

It's really worth reading, JMC -- he admires them but is also exasparated by them. His review is part of a larger series about what's wrong with indie rock, which has to do with it distancing itself from "real" pop music (and, though he doesn't say this, part of the larger picture of indie culture creating the idea that we aren't real grown "men" and "women"...that kind of societal distance). And with that can of worms, I'm out the door!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I would like to read that. I've said on one of these Chicago threads that I'm surprised that Wilson isn't more revered among ILM types -- prob. just because he writes for the Globe and Mail rather than the NY Times. He has posted on ILM a few times.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Ok, you wanna hear a really sad one?

Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back
- John Berryman

He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.
He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stair
where her papa found them bare
they became familiar. When the papers were lost
rich with pals' secrets, he thought he had the knack
of ruin. Their paths crossed

and once they crossed in jail; they crossed in bed;
and over an unsigned letter their eyes met,
and in an Asian city
directionless & lurchy at two & three,
or trembling to a telephone's fresh threat,
and when some wired his head

to reach a wrong opinion, 'Epileptic'.
But he noted now that: they were not old friends.
He did not know this one.
This one was a stranger, come to make amends
for all the imposters, and to make it stick.
Henry nodded, un-.

Mmmm... depressilicious!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

The last comment was not part of the poem.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

If we're going to post poems, this one is one of my favorites. It's by Robert Hass (who is also one of my favorites).

A Story About the Body

The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter, almost sixty, and he thought he was in love with her. He loved her work, and her work was like the way she moved her body, used her hands, looked at him directly when she made amused or considered answers to his questions. One night, walking back from a concert, they came to her door and she turned to him and said, "I think you would like to have me. I would like that too, but I must tell you I have had a double mastectomy," and when he didn't understand, "I've lost both my breasts." the radiance that he had carried around in his belly and chest cavity--like music--withered, very quickly, and he made himself look at her when he said, "I'm sorry. I don't think I could." He walked back to his own cabin through the pines, and in the morning he found a small blue bowl on the porch outside his door. It looked to be full of rose petals, but he found when he picked it up that the rose petals were on top; the rest of the bowl--she must have swept them from the corners of her studio--was full of dead bees.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

john - I don't know if Jeff has tickets or not. I'm not going because I'm sick and feel like somebody has spent the day running over my head with a truck (that is a blatant ploy for sympathy).

Kenan - your boss fucking sucks.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Thank you for saying so. I need to hear that. Sometimes I think it's just me, because there's no one else in the office to commisserate with.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

OMG I'll say it: YOUR BOSS FUCKING SUCKS!!! Really!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I still haven't accepted that your boss is real, Kenan. As far as I can tell you're talking about a sitcom.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

He's surreal even in person. Moreso than you're even imagining.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Chicago is sleepy at the end of the work day.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I know I am. And I slept fine last night. I just am tired of being here. You know the song.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone have nick's email? i have to ask him 2 quick questions...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

i'll send it to you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I suddenly got extremely tired, even though I got 8 hours last night. Maybe I just crashed from the Snickers bar (!) I had earlier. I just made some tea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

My problem is I always get handed a bunch of work at around 3 PM. Which is fine, except this time some of the work has been handed to me in incomplete form, which means that I have to remedy that situation. I wish the people who left it incomplete had finished the shit off...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, i don't have tickets. It's so hard to tell which shows are going to sell out. I believe jenny is calling shuuuuuba's for me to see if they will be selling any at the door.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Too bad. I got a frantic e-mail from Mark's ex-gf asking if I knew anyone with extra tix. I had no idea it'd sell out, either, but bought mine in advance just to make sure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Man, I fel asleep on the bus and missed my stop by five blocks. I never do that. I must be pretty wrecked.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

what show is this again? feist?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm sad now because I listened to GLS on the way to work and I really love that album.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

holy christ, you guys, we're posting to this thread at an average of >150 posts per day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

If only we wrote a novel together, we'd be done in a week.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

we're out of control

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

E. and I are at the Hideout, if you guys are restless.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

how are you posting from the hideout?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

hey i just realized that my buddy becky from work has a show with your buddy r0b buscemi. how about that. also, who uses that "insert" key? i hate that thing. i always hit it by accident and then things begin to disappear.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Good morning.

Who ended up going to the show? I want to go to a rock show tonight, but I don't know which one.

xpost - I hate the insert key too. When is the buscemi show?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Insert key is lame, but essential in DOS-like environments.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

I kind of want to go to Xiu Xiu/Frog Eyes/Yellow Swans at Bottom Lounge tonight, but it's at (ugh) Bottom Lounge. And it will probably sell out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why it doesn't function the same way in Windows/Word/etc. (i.e., keeping your cursor in the same place while moving everything after it one space over).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

It's Tuesday at Gunther Murphys. My other work friend and I are supposed to hang out, so maybe we'll go to that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I could maybe do that. I've been meaning to check out Buscemi at an event that I haven't personally booked.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

See you there, square! Kenan, I emailed you another job opening at cars-dot-com. Don't forget that they think you hung the moon.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'll go tuesday as well?! I'm going to a WBEZ event on Monday, which I'm kinda excited about. I think it's for "insiders" as I was invited by an "insider." I think they're going to be talking about programming stuff & goals & whatnot. I'll readily dispense any good gossip i glean.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh. And here's my dilemma for the day:

since i've been kinda obsessing over money lately (& it's only b/c i had to pay rent & car insurance on one paycheck & i also need to shell out $80 to update the tags on my car), i looked at my pay stub & my total gross amount is roughly $10,000 LESS than what i was quoted as making each year. WTF?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

ha. i figured it out. the amount is from jan thru dec. not from when i started until now. makes sense.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

eek -- ten gees is a lot of money. did you decide whether or not to go to the wedding?

also, please come to the show! my friend becky is funny and she needs people there early!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

funny you should ask about the wedding.

I decided a while ago (maybe a couple of weeks) that I wasn't going to go. The money is just too much to shell out right now, especially since I've been feeling all this distance from the bride. We'll refer to her by her first initial, E.
I wrote E about 2 weeks ago to tell her that I couldn't make it & told her why. It was a longish email with a lot of apologizing. I have yet to hear back from her, which only solidified my assumption that our friendship isn't what it used to be.
So. Last night I get a phone call out of the blue from our mutual friend, L. L called b/c she found out I wasn't going & very sweetly & generously wanted to let me know that she could lend me the money. She was insistant & I had to tell her that there's no way I could borrow money from her. She pushed a bit more, saying, "it's only money." Then I told her that *technically* I could take the money from my savings (which I call my "minneapolis money" & try to not take from), but I didn't feel compelled to b/c of the state of our friendship. I told L that if E & I were at the place we were a few short years ago, I'd do anything under the moon to go. But not now.
Long story short: L was surprised to hear about all the details about E not calling, not writing back. She said that E had written her to ask if I was going (what?!) & then later wrote L to say that she'd heard from me & that I wasn't going.
She still has yet to write me.
I suppose the dilemma now is to write E & tell her that we really need to talk. Maybe there was some miscommunication down the road, but aren't we cool enough to talk to one another directly?

ramble, ramble.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

People are weird.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Hey, WE should go to the show on Tues. too, I love Rob Buscemi! It would help if someone reminded me next week though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

oh boy. that sounds messy. you should be able to talk about it, but E doesn't sound too easy to talk to. especially if she did all that stuff that pissed you off and then didn't apologize or anything. i'm sort of confronty about these kinds of things, which often makes them worse, but recently, when i did it, it made things better. so i dunno. that sounds rough. i'm guessing that things will not go back to where they were, but at least you can make peace with her. right?

ps - everyone should go to the show!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm with nick. I'll probably need reminding.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I'm listening to ROCK & ROLL MUSIC today! Which I don't do very often.

(it's Ted Leo)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Consider me your DAY PLANNER. I'm made of mauve paper with a tasteful grey leather exterior.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Leaf really likes Ted Leo. He might be too ROCK for me since I'm Molly McMellow.

I saw this filofax in Minneapolis that is the first day planner I think i've fallen in love with. I'll see if I can find a picture of it b/c if i describe it, i'll fail.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

it's all about that vintage lady button, me thinks.

http://store1.yimg.com/I/dayplanner_1858_11652333

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

it also looks better in person. the colors look less eastery.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE THE ROCK MUSIC. But this morning I was listening to Celia Cruz.
Azuuuuuuuuucar!

I like plastic month-by-month calendars that come free from the mortgage place Dan used to work at.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I like Ted Leo, I think, (I used to be kinda obsessed with his old band, Chisel) but I have negative associations because Sarah's old band Times Ten opened for him at this tiny place in Arlington, VA, and since he was playing solo they left their equipment on stage behind him while he played. Well, he played solo, just him and his guitar, for at least TWO HOURS. Meanwhile, it was getting later and later and we had to drive back to Richmond that night but we couldn't leave because all their stuff was up there on stage. It was excrutiating.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

John, how was the show? Tell me it sucked and you regret going. right?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I guess I don't mean to imply that I don't like the ROCK. Because I do. Sometimes. I have to be in the right frame of mind . . . if I need to be chill, I can't quickly shift gears to ROCK. And because i'm a part-time old lady, I don't usually go to ROCK shows.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

There's a rock show I'm looking forward to. The Hold Steady (whom I've seen a bajillion times now, and if it was just them I probably wouldn't go) and the Constantines (whom I've only seen once, back in like 2000 when they just started, and whom I've missed seeing several times since.)

Beyond that I don't know of much coming down the line I'd be interested in. I don't really stay well informed, so it's my own fault I guess. My housemate is going to the Xiu Xiu show tonight but I couldn't bring myself to want to go.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, it was getting later and later and we had to drive back to Richmond that night but we couldn't leave because all their stuff was up there on stage. It was excrutiating.

Oh man, I would have been so mad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

i don't think i've heard a single xiu xiu song. i didn't even hear them at intonation. should i? they seem sorta, i dunno, melodramatic in a way that i don't think i like.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

hi guys.

Amanda, you rock.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

They are so melodramatic that it ends up going back around to funny.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm making pdf examples of everything I have online for my next resume. Should I link to all this stuff in the cover letter? Is that too much up front? Maybe I should link to a page that links to all this stuff, to keep the cover letter short but still guide people towards it. That's cool, right? If I have a page of work portfolio? Will they like that?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Wait. They're examples of your work? I'd put the links in my resume, if that's the case. The resume is more important than the cover letter.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

John, how was the show? Tell me it sucked and you regret going. right?

It was quite good. To be honest, I didn't really pay much attention to Great Lake Swimmers as I was catching up with Amy (and her roommate) -- we saw maybe the last 15 minutes of their set, and they seemed nice. A little mellow. But Feist was very charming. And the set was much more ROCK than you'd expect from her. She did some cool loop-pedal tricks, which I'm a total sucker for. (Kels, do you remember when Tara Jane O'Neil did that at the Empty Bottle?) Anyway, that's just a brief sketch, but it was really good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

i think that's a good idea kenan. it shows that you have moxie, which is good. the other good part is that they already know you and like you. i hope hope hope this works out!! they let us eat inside, outside AND at our desks here.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd put the links in my resume, if that's the case.

Maybe I'll just put the one link in my resume, the link to the portfolio page, which I'm working on presently.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like the best idea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Shit! I've never created a stand-alone page with Wordpress before. I have learning to do this morning.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

REBIRTH BRASS BAND TONIGHT.

I'm thinking about coming down to Chicago next weekend to see them again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I think if I didn't play and listen to rock music I would be 100% old lady - or at least an old lady with cats and a hot younger boyfriend). I'm not saying that makes you old though, kelsey. I mean, you lift weights and ride your bike and all that jazz.

It sucks that by the time I get to posting anything, I'm about 5 posts behind already.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I like Xiu Xiu sonically more than lyrically, although they are pretty funny at times.

I wouldnt mind seeing the Hold Steady again, but I don't really want to go all the way to logan square auditorim. Apathy is a bitch.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Plus, Logan Sq Auditorium blows.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

well, it certainly makes me feel old when i get tired so early in the evening (i am an early to bed, early to rise person these days) & if i've forgotten my ear plugs i rush into the bathroom to seek out paper towel or toilet tissue. i used to be so different. so much more of a night owl & a bit less anal.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I am such an old lady, for I do not play any rock music and I listened to Maddy Prior in the car this morning. I ordered that cantaloupe sampler that was mentioned upthread. I am trying to like modern classical music, I tend to be prejudiced to everything post-Rachmaninoff. I was talking about this to Adrian the other night and I received a blank stare. Then I proceeded to talk to him about how the 1812 overture is not about the American War of 1812, even though it's always played for the 4th of July. This dorkiness has to stop.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

They just play it on the 4th because it has CANNONS. Who doesn't like cannons?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

that's an awesome level of dorkiness. really great.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Tchaikovsky from Ohio? I'm stunned by this news!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, I believe your point about the 1812 Overture to be an important one.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I think the little known fact that Tchaikovsky was from Parma, Ohio should be added to Amanda's dictionary.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

what? ohio? i'm confused.

i like dvorak, satie, shostakovich, loud booming organ music and various film scores. that about does it for me and orchestral/classical music. i like choral music quite a bit but i'm not sure what it is that i like. i have verdi's requiem and i like it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Great, when we get our free samplers we can discuss the merits of modern classical music, Jocelyn.

I don't think classical musicians like modern classical music. I was once at a Thanksgiving dinner with a much of people from the Milwaukee SO, and they were bitching about having to play their instruments "not like instruments" and double on percussion for the "weird" modern pieces.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I like modern stuff and yet I never listen to trad classical music, because I'm kind of a philistine like that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, all of the classical musicians I know hate modern music as well. For choral, get Mahler's 8th symphony. Someone on another thread (Markleby?) said it sounds like the apocalypse and it really does. (I acutally secretly don't like much music before Mozart's Requiem, (except Bach's Goldberg Variations) it's too ordered and mathematical for me)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

OMG I just remembered my favorite classical music moment - I was in Barcelona and there was some sort of celebration going on at the big unfinished cathedral (Sagrada Familia) that Gaudi began and never finished. It was dark and this ensemble began to play a really cacaphonous piece that sounded ominous and modern and LOUD and then fireworks started shooting out of the cathedral and it was like a monster giant explosion of sound and light and power and sand and hearts. I stood there with my mouth open until it was over. I felt like passing out right there on the street it was so truly awesome.

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~wgriffin/photoAlbums/EuropeTrip_10_02/Barcelona%20Spain/images/019%20-%20Sagrada%20Familia%20-%20Gaudi%20side.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm embarrassingly not well versed in classical music.

Things I like:

Philip Glass, esp. Koyaanisqatsi, Glassworks, and string quartets
Steve Reich, esp. Music for 18 Musicians and Electric Counterpoint
Erik Satie, "Trois Gymnopedies"
J.S. Bach, "Suites for Solo Cello"
Samuel Barber, "Adagio for Strings"
G. Puccini, "O Mio Babbino Caro" (aria)

I was going to mention Bernstein, but I only really know his crossover stuff, like West Side Story and Candide.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I almost bought some Harry Partch the other day but then thought, "Wait, how often am I actually going to listen to this?" So then I bought Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killa instead.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

They are so melodramatic that it ends up going back around to funny.

This is so awesome.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I tend to prefer chamber music to big, booming orchestral stuff. I actually think that I would prefer pre-19th C. music to most 19th C. stuff, because I like the orderedness of it (cf. Bach).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

But guys, you guys, GENRES are such BULLSHIT and who is to say that GHOSTFACE KILLA isn't MODERN CLASSICAL MUSIC?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

PS - I was only in Barcelona that one time and I was totally traumatized because I had just finished reading JT Leroy's The Heart is Deceitful... and seeing this performance/pyrotechnic display was so intense I thought I might drop dead. I'm really not doing it justice.

PS - I also like early music ensembles, but only have records.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Pretty little Sally sat up by the tree trunk
White miniskirt with a Betty Boom bum
She had a ass like Deborah Cox, face like Lauryn
Waist like a Coke bottles scoring
Pretty young thing loved the swings
And times she got my ding-a-ling hard
When she said push hard, she kept vaseline
Open as she swung back, couldn't help her dress blue back
Now held accountable right for my actions
Right before the Wallabee Champ was rockin wallows
Drawin crads, sent her rap message through a bottle
Lines from Dolomite, few tips from Goines
Birthday, gave her two 50 cent coins
Puppy love, gorgeous face, amazed by lip gloss
Cherry cent, when the princess spoked yo it bounched off
Mole like Marilyn Monroe, threw a rose in her mouth
Wherever God go will be Mrs. Coke
Girl's so pretty, kids with little niddys
Hope the years go slow, slow
Surrounded by intelligence, life through education
Healthy minds will grow, grow
Catch me on a bus-stop, dustin, cursin out
The cops are still coming, vibe with me
Everybody's talking about Wu-Tang fronting
But you still telling lies to me

Beautiful in lightshows, having no intentions on love
But having strung eyes of oppose, here we go
It's not the way she bubbed the gum, shooked her ass
I'm not the one, double dus, waiting for the bus
The faggot Nore son, now year later
Lady 7th floor, building 7-80
Fancy fox, booties for her socks, nothing else can change me
Young Nefertiti, knowledge seed with no jewelry on
Tahitian fresh berry tree, she's a capricorn
I really liked the girl, had dreams about her
Thinking to myself some nights she got ("powered")
But hating, was Shinene and Grace and Key-lolo
Trick bitches jumped my boo at the school a few years ago
Hit me, you hit me, Grace got the last hit
Eh yo, the bitches started swinging and shit
So I jumped in
Those were the days, made faces in school plays
Paper trays, city wide test, made half a days
Shooting puppy water, might hump the pillow, dick a inch taller
Stapleton bum nigga, I'll pop her cherry for her
Fresh air fun, here's dunn, alphabets, berets
Jellies, bubble yum, soda tongue, too young to cum
Then engage him with them candy rings
Eh yo, I hit that shit, got jealous when she kissed Rob
I broked her chicko's sticks

[Outro: Ghostface Killah]
Guys and girls, y'all remember those days, and shit
Girls walk around in school, one ponytail with the beret
Next looking like baby powder, youknowhatImean?
Those were the days right there
Boston baked beans, girls come to school with mad candy
YouknowhatImean? You'd just come in school for half days, and all that
Just to see that little girl right there, ? to this
Go home and think about it, youknowhatImean?
May hump the bed sometimes on her, youknowhatImean?
Word, those days man, those, those were the good old days right there G
That shit was fun, lunchroom, see in the lunchroom, youknowhatImean?
Might get a little, go to the G.O. Store or something, youknowhatImean?
Word, buy a little chocolate, a little shake or something, youknowhatImean?
A little buttercrunch joints or something, youknowhatImean?
That's that real shit, G I miss those shits, man
I wanna go back to school, man
That's my word, man
For real y'all, those were, those were the... goddamn y'all, you remember...

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Music for 18 Musicians is very dear to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Those lyrics were not transcribed very well.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why it sticks in my head, but in an early (the first?) episode of Futurama they refer to Sir Mix-a-Lot as classical music. Or maybe it was Cypress Hill, doesn't really matter. I kinda miss that show.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I also like Music for 18 Musicians, probably one of the only modern classical recordings I own. I wish I knew more about this stuff.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure Alex Ross could make a case for Radiohead and Bjork and Missy Elliott being modern classical music.

Actually, I always feel dumb saying "modern classical" because of the oxymoron.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw one too many scenes from dumb 80s movies growing up in which classical music = old boring rich people. I loved some of the stuff my parents used to listen to - it was all early American... Or maybe it wasn't... Maybe it was more recent and I just didn't realize it. Appalachain spring I think it was called??

And you thought you were uneducated, John!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

This electronic composer/brilliant weirdo guy I knew introduced me to Penderecki's opera The Devils of Loudun. Probably the best "scary" classical music I've ever heard, but OOP and hard to find.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I was going to make a joke making fun of Alex Ross the comic book artist, but then I found this:

ihttp://photos1.blogger.com/img/26/1786/640/vampirebush.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Music for 18 Musicians is very dear to me.

Me too. Here's something I wrote about it, kind of.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Appalachain spring I think it was called??

Yes, "Appalachian Spring": it's by Aaron Copland.

I had a good class called American Music my freshman year of college.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Things I like the most:

Beethoven:
9th Symphony (esp. the 4th movement, Ode to Joy) Pastoral Symphony, "Emperor" Piano Concerto
Dvorak: 9th Symphony (New World, esp the moment when you realize it's just a bombastic version of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot)
String Quartet, the absolutely breathtaking Cello Concerto
Chopin: Nocturne in C minor which I want played at my funeral
All of the Russian "Big 5" esp. Borodin's "From the Steppes of Central Asia" and "Polovetsian Dances" and Mussorsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition and Boris Gudenov
getting into more modern stuff:
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 & 3
Finlandia
Mahler (most of which sounds like someone having an elegant nervous breakdown)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Aha! Thanks, John.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I will have to hunt down The Devils of Loudun and Music for 18 Musicians, possbily tonight. I think it would be interesting to have a collection of music based around the devil/witches/Faust, etc.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

my orchestra played the 1812 in this gorgeous outdoor ampitheater in the mountains once, and instead of cannons we had FIREWORKS. it was cool.

i'm not so into the modern stuff, but my sister plays too and she likes all sorts of modern classical.

holy xpostiness. bach cello stuff is awesome.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

DUDERS - They're giving away FREE MANGOS on the corner of Van Buren and Wells. They would only give me one. If I laid eggs, they would look like mangos. And then I would eat them like the heartless cannibal I am. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Why are they giving away mangos?! That's so exciting! And moreso for Queen Mango!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, you've probably heard a ton of Copland without realizing it. "Rodeo" was used in the "Beef: It's What's For Dinner" commercials. And "Fanfare for the Common Man" gets played at the Olympics. Some have said that he was the first truly (distinctly) American composer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Shostakovich's Op. 87, preludes and fugues for solo piano (modeled after Bach's Goldberg Variations), is my favorite piece of classical music. Keith Jarrett's recording of it is great, so human and fresh, as is the one by Tatiana Nikolaeva, who passed away onstage about 10 years ago while or after playing it.

There's a show every weekday afternoon on CBC from 2-5 p.m. called Disc Drive (no link because there's a strike at the CBC and they've taken the page down) -- but it's a mix of classical, jazz, 'world' music and some oddball stuff, and it's so well (and unpretentously) put together that I've found it to be a great source for new jazz and classical recordings.

('manda, did you spend any time in the Bemis Music Room at the 43022?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I am totally going to steal some of Jessa's opera records when she isn't looking. She ain't going to listen to them, god knows. I mean, I'll leave her the Caruso, but Pagliacci and Carmen are MINE.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

The fruit juice place is promoting mangos, I guess. People in my office are such puds -- "it's not juice?" "what am i a-sposed to do with THIS?" "what's a mango?" [said with a sneer] -- but i'm ecstatic. what a great day. fruit! for free!

EZ -- I didn't spend any time in the Bemis music room, unfortunately. I also never had a class in that gorgeous room at the top of Peirce. That room was soooooo pretty.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I don't care for much classical music. I do have a giant box set with like a million discs in mp3 of Chopin that I listen to sometimes though.

I want some Caruso records. If it's good for Fitzcarraldo, it's good for me.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I believe my mom has a copy of the Shostakovich. I will steal it from her. I also forgot to mention Smetana, whose Ma Vlast is gorgeous and the first movement, The Moldau, somehow became Hativkah, the Israeli national anthem.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Caruso is amazing. Also, easily downloaded.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

i heard a story about sex and mangoes the other day, and i really hope i can get that association out of my head.

there is a passage in carmen that is a 1st violin hell. but it's so cool sounding.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I got exposed to a lot of classical via my mom. She sand in a chamber chorus and also did some choral opera stuff. I couldn't name most of it, but Pagliacci and Carmen are both ones she's been in. I enjoyed the shit out of those.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

er, sand=sang

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, my mom is my biggest classical influence. She played violin for 9 years, Russian trained, and scoffs at this new "Suzuki" method which according to her "has no soul in it."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

nick, what ghostface song was that?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

this "new" suzuki method? ha!

it taught me to play by ear and for a while as a little kid i had total disdain for trying at all to learn to read music.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

xpost-I think her opinion is a little old-fashioned.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I once did a mash-up (though they weren't called mash-ups in 1997) of Enrico Caruso and Pavement. It sort of worked but it was a mess rhythmically.

I sang in choirs for two years in high school and another two years in college, so I know some choral stuff that way, but I've forgotten a lot of what I liked, and never really understood much of its historical context. Carmina Burana was pretty fun, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

The Bemis room is that one in Peirce -- so nice, with a painting by Mrs. Bemis herself on one wall. I was back in town for a wedding a few summers ago and wandered around and found that the room was unlocked. In the middle of summer! And air-conditioned on a 95+-degree day. So nice.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I did Suzuki when I was little! I just found a picture of my little kid self playing a violin "recital" the other day. Ha, maybe THAT'S why I'm such a slow (music) reader.

The only choir experience I've had was playing percussion for Magnificat in high school. It was awesome, lots of Latin and odd-time signatures. I've always meant to pick up a recording.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Who is Magnificat by?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

It was "Child's Play," robotsinlove.

Yesterday on the hip-hop station they were playing the vocals of "Hollaback Girl" over the instrumental for "Another Bites the Dust." It worked really well.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

i know it's been around for at least 30 years, probably many more than that. it seems that the majority of string players in the US start out with it, or work with it at some point early on...

i've played or heard lots and lots of classical, but i still never really bothered to learn the particulars of things--i can recognize the obvious stuff, and am familiar with a lot of the rest, but i can't name or categorize it a lot of the time, because i just forget details.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I enjoyed the shit out of those.
ha ha

You guys are making me tired talking about classical music. I guess if I had played a classical instrument growing up, I might be more interested in it, but I'm not.

I was always in choirs, but we mostly sang church hymns.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

The Bemis room is that one in Peirce
oooooh, i see. that's why i never went there. (except once, when i was poking around upstairs after a meal) i never knew what it was called. i'm really doing a bang-up job for the KC public relations team by not remembering anything about the time i spent there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

KC vs. K: FITE

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Who is Magnificat by?

Bach, I believe. Bachhhhhhh.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Bach humbug.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS - it's Sarah's birthday party tomorrow.
ARE YOU PUMPED?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

i'm trembling i'm so pumped.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Caruso is amazing. Also, easily downloaded.

Listening it digitally seems wrong. I need a victrola.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Ok, tell me what you think. This will of course be part of my resume.

http://giganticmag.com/?id=portfolio

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

the left hand side seems to be cut off? otherwise, very useful!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes, what Amanda said.

I do wonder, though, what the risks are of having this available on your site, which doubles as a blog that a potential employer can browse and see, for example, your rants about your current job.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

good point, jaymc -- veeeeeeeeery good point. Because they will browse (I would) and they probably won't like to see that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

hm. I may have to take posts about my job down.

Left cut off? Is this in IE? Screenshot plz?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Left cut off still.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Also: I AM SO PUMPED!!! My first social thing outing in a while!! I am ready for margaritas & bowling & beans & ALL OF YOU!!!!

MOSTLY THOUGH, SARAH!!!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Looks fine to me now (IE).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Nevermind. I just hopped on the PC real quick. That can be fixed.

Hey, thanks for using IE6, guys! What would I do without you. Look like an ass, that's what.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

also, i would caution about all highly personal posts. particularly if it appears that you're posting-while-working.

i don't use IE.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I just treated myself to a fudgecicle & man o man. it was so delicious. I might buy a box for tonight.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, Kenan, I would recommend moving this page to a different server if possible, or at the VERY LEAST removing the links from your portfolio page to the rest of your website. You want them to focus on the portfolio and not go wandering off and learning a bunch of other stuff, even stuff that might seem inoffensive to you or me but could be offputting to someone else for some reason.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I'd take it to a different site altogether. I say this because if I were looking at it, but there were no other links, I'd still toy around with the address & delete things until the real homepage popped up.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Alone in a new city

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

The portfolio itself is very impressive though!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that was a busy lunch hour. Went home, made a delicious pizza, dealt with band scheduling issues, did laundry, ate too much pizza, followed by unncessary cake, got sauce on shirt, did MORE laundry, had a minor self-esteem crisis, found new shirt, came back to work. I need to take a break after that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I agree! It's very impressive. I would just separate it because i'm PARANOID. i've always been paranoid.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I third the portfolio's impressiveness!

(psst, Kenan, Maddie's applying to write comics stuff for Bookslut incidentally)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Jordan -- that was an hour??

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

probably better to be a bit too paranoid about such things than too casual with personal stuff when you're presenting your portfolio. (so, yeah, what everyone else is saying). the ilx link probably is best done without as well.

looks really good! (well, yeah, that too, what everyone else is saying xp)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

HEY: what happened to giboyeux? Is he still lurking around? We met him that one time and then he disappeared. Did we frighten him?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Jordan -- that was an hour??

Yeah! A CRAZY hour!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

the ilx link probably is best done without as well.

yeah, i think removing the ILX link is a splendid idea.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Hm. I wonder how I can work this. I've kinda built it INTO the site. You guys are right, though. I don't want God and everybody reading my website.

But I don't have another server. I suppose I could put it up on Bookslut. Would that be weird?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I think it's time for http://www.hirekenan.com.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Thing is, I've done so little writing on this site that I could easily back up the database and delete anything that's not tech-y. I kinda DO want people poking around the site, just to see the structure of it and all. I built it, and I'm proud of it. I am not especially proud of the writing. The blog exists just to be designed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I would hesitate to put anything work-related on a website with the word "slut" in its name.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I think Jessa and I have diametrically opposing tastes in a lot of reading material.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i think you should put the commercial stuff in the front and the more personal "fun" stuff toward the bottom, since cars dot com is fairly conservative in its design, from what i can tell. they're probably looking for someone who can be flexible in that regard, with more- and less-commercial looking stuff.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

ps - i don't know squat about design.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

im coming late into this poetry convo.. but this is a scrap of one of my favorite poems, "time zone" by brenda hillman

--I hate being out of your time zone.
It hurts like being matter
when light got called away, at first,
... first we were darkness, then we were galaxies,
traveling too fast too far for me to call

throughout all that space goodbye
my twin my half
of the light, goodbye my little bit famous--

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

xpost Good suggestions all.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

mango + cayenne pepper + salt is so good it honestly makes me feel a little bit drunk.

i only put stuff on it if it's a little underripe, which this one was.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Amanda -- have you had the pico de gallo at Rique's? I was telling Kenan about this the other day: mango, jicama, cucumber, cayenne pepper, and lime juice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I think Jessa and I have diametrically opposing tastes in a lot of reading material.

Oh no. You not another Candace Bushnell fan, are you?

There there. We can get through this together. *hugs*

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Amanda -- have you had the pico de gallo at Rique's? I was telling Kenan about this the other day: mango, jicama, cucumber, cayenne pepper, and lime juice.
I sure haven't, but DAMN that sounds good. I have a cucumber in the fridge here and I should have eaten it together with the mango. Unless that's obscene?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

No, I don't like Candace Bushnell, but a lot of Jessa's comic reviewers just seem too...earnest and too interested in indie stuff and seem to have the FEAR of DC and Marvel titles. I guess I'm just used to the tone of ILC. I think Maddie would be a good addition, so that she can enlighten everyone about Dino-Rachel.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Rique's pico de gallo is so easy to make at home, even I have done a decent job of it.

Kelsey, I bought some of the deodorant you were talking about at Lush today.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

what do you think (so far)?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

That might be the only issue, is that Jessa's stance seems to be "review comics on the same level as normal books, without all the fanboy baggage". That's cool, but when you like mainstream stuff (as Maddie does) you can't discount continuity completely.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys!

I've been so busy the past couple of days at work. I guess that's what happens when you have a 3-day work week after a 4-day weekend.

Today at lunch, CIH was talking about her daughter non-stop, who just started at a very private, fancy pants high school. Apparently, she's REALLY popular, but also open-minded, so she's not mean to the geeks. And her mom (CIH) advised her not to go with any of the geeks to the upcoming dance (because they will obviously all ask her), but not to be too hard on them, because geeks are smart and she might need them on her side to help her study at some point.

I got food from L0ve's for lunch.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I was actually going to maybe get some of the henna shampoo you got last time even though i've fallen in love with the blue seaweedy one & i'm now out of it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

And her mom (CIH) advised her not to go with any of the geeks to the upcoming dance (because they will obviously all ask her), but not to be too hard on them, because geeks are smart and she might need them on her side to help her study at some point.

!!!

...

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure all the geeks are just drooling over her and can't see past her facade.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

(Kenan, I'm not trying to hate on Jessa or Bookslut, I do enjoy reading it, but I just think our tastes clash sometimes.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey - I haven't used it yet, but it's making my locker smell really nice right now!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, how were the deadlifts? I did a leg workout for the first time in like a month yesterday and today walking is a biiiig chore.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Continuing from the portrait trend a couple of days ago, here's a picture of me and Stevie Nicks:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/mestevie.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

HA! Nick! I didn't think it was possible to love you more, but now I do!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I saw that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Very well done, dude.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

you guys are making my stomach hurt. it's full of salt, sugar and cayenne pepper, which doesn't mix well with gutbusters like that.

jenny, you have a locker? do you have a picture of scott baio in it?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

< / pda >

I had a total OH GOD NO! moment a little while ago. I was making 700 copies on 2 different kinds of letterhead. When I returned, this thread was open on my desktop. I usually at least minimize it. Plus, it was showing my newest post again because there were several x-posts when I tried to submit it before. So, basically, anyone who walked by my desk in the past 15 minutes or so could have read what I said about CIH, and it would have been completely obvious who I was talking about. But no one said anything. And CIH is clueless. *BIG BREATH*

I've said it before and I'll say it again: J hates me. Even if she doesn't, she doesn't like vegetarians or people who read romcoms. Check and check! I haven't read any C.B., but I enjoyed watching SITC.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I did them . . . but only with 20lbs. b/c I wanted to make sure my form was good. I can tell that they are going to awesomely kick my ass in the best way possible though. I think they might be my new favorite thing.
I also more than doubled my bench press weight, which I felt pretty excited about. Not that I lifted much to begin with, mind you. I'm a baby lifter.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, I can totally see you as a mom with twins lifting them like weights in your hands.

I'M TIRED OF STAPLING THESE LETTERS! IS IT THE WEEKEND YET?!!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I have an even worse vice than Candace B. called REGENCY ROMANCE NOVELS. There. I said it. My friend Colleen and I used to read 'em like candy in college, but then purge ourselves by drinking red wine and talking about Marxism and such.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Also, how come Brokefuckingback Mountain isn't coming out until December?!! I felt like going to see it tonight.

Joce, you should write an over-the-top cheesy romance novel about marxists.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

My current fave trashy reads are James Ellroy novels, which aren't THAT trashy, but are really violent and are all exactly the same.

Speaking of Scott Baio, he's going to be on the new season of Arrested Development, which starts in 10 days!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

FYI: I would not recommend image-Googling "gay cowboy."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, I hope my post didn't offend you. It's just that when my mom and sister were here, she passed us in the street and I was like, "HEY! HoW'S IT GOING?!" and she kept walking without saying anything. So then my mom and sister didn't believe me when I said I knew her and thought I was crazy for yelling at a stranger like that. THE END.

x-post - No way, Nick!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I am working on one. It involves politics in the Austro-Hungarian empire and British empire in the 1850s. With lots of added SEX.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Can I be in the movie based on your book?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

the cheering was for AD. I just can't wait.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Ha, awesome.

I'm getting all amped up about this show tonight. I realized that I'm thinking of it as my symbol that everything is going to work out for New Orleans after all, after the misery of the last couple weeks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Yay for that too!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

My sister's boyfriend looks exactly like SCott B.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I made a new thread.

Chicago XIV

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I have scoured my blog archives. There is no longer any mention of work, girlfriends, kittens, Ben Affleck, or anything else. It's mostly now about photography and web design.

And Chicago. It's also about Chicago. But nothing personal. I think it will be ok. And it's so pretty!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 9 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

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