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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Hi!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

will you still love me

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Good job, jaymc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

So...what's everyone doing this weekend? Or did we cover that?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Review by William Ruhlmann
It is an article of faith in corporate lore that everyone is expendable, and Chicago Music, Inc., responded to the departure of Peter Cetera by hiring another blonde, bass-playing tenor with sex appeal in the person of Jason Scheff. Some people were fooled, especially by the power ballad "Will You Still Love Me?," but others weren't (the album stopped at gold), and longtime fans were dismayed at the re-recording of "25 or 6 To 4."

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Weekend: food, friend's art show, grad school open house, maybe haircut, band practice, probably more Lost on DVD, probably the gym. I want something to be EXCITED about though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

oooooh, grad school open house. Are you allowed to tell me more?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow I've got to go to a wedding (outdoors! in October!) of some people that I strongly dislike. Then a big gig on Sunday. I also anticipate finishing the movie Dead & Breakfast tonight and watching some Arrested Development.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I thought "blonde" only applied to women?
I may try to get up early tomorrow and go "jogging".

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Dudes can be blondes!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

This came out at the same time as P. Cetera's SMASH HIT Solitude/Solitaire, featuring

GLORY OF LOVE.

And "Next Time I Fall"

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

The next time I fall in love it'll be with yoooooooooooooooooooou.

The way that Peter Cetera songs have invaded my brain is borderline criminal.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

My weekend: pizza with wife's recently-come-out-as-lesbian co-worker and her First Real Girlfriend, probably movie like Were-Rabbit or Constant Gardener, going to pub at break of dawn tomorrow to watch football game with Alex in SF, followed by huge Southern breakfast, then lots of studying all weekend.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i'm just catching up with the lesbian couple i am a part of & we have a two pet pugs, one of them is amanda & they were matching argyle sweaters, but in slightly different colors.
whew!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

hi everybody. John did do a good job. Got the image right and everything. You go, John.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

oooooh, grad school open house. Are you allowed to tell me more?
-- 400% Nice (adamr...), October 7th, 2005 11:53 AM. (nordicskilla) (later)

What do you want to know?

I want to see Were-Rabbit movie too.

We will probably be playing We Love Katamari at some point too, I got it last night plus a second controller so Sarah and I can play it in COOPERATIVE mode.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Dudes can be blondes!!

I think Jocelyn is right. If I were getting married to Jason Scheff, he would be my blond fiance. If, however, he got a sex change prior to the wedding, she would then be my blonde fiancee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Yes, the other pug and I are proud to be a part of your new alternative family.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

People, people... I humbly request that in my absence, you do not talk fondly of Peter Cetera.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Kenan! Sorry I didn't call you back last night -- I felt like I'd already made plans with Renee and didn't want to back out...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow I've got to go to a wedding (outdoors! in October!) of some people that I strongly dislike

That is a recipe for obnoxious public intoxication if ever there was one.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Listen, that's not FONDNESS -- it's horror.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Hey, next weekend is MANDEEFAP 05. What are we doing for that? Where is Mandee?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

i am a man who will fight for his honor!

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Peter Cetera makes me angry.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Me too.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

nooooooooooo oh chris i kill you now.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Wow, blond/blonde, really? This never even occurred to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

That is a recipe for obnoxious public intoxication if ever there was one

YOU ARE CORRECT.

But I also want to be able to drive away as soon as possible.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

So "Blonde on Blonde" is about hot, lesbian sex?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

there's a possibility that leaf & i will be trying to round up some of his friends for drinking on saturday night. i can keep people posted if they like.

LEAF IS COMING NEXT WEEKEND!!!!!*

*excited spazzzz out

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Hey, next weekend is MANDEEFAP 05. What are we doing for that? Where is Mandee?

Kelsey and I also have friends coming into town that weekend. I have a feeling things might be crazy! I am half-considering seeing United State of Electronica on Thursday the 13th, and then going to see Superpitcher and Ada LATER THAT SAME NIGHT. Of course, that might only make sense if I took Friday off.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I have five gigs that weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Who is Peter Cetera?

I don't really know what I'm doing this weekend. Laundry, sweeping. Exercise!

Oh, and drinking.

― gib at work, Friday, 7 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

are you talking about daronco?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't know.

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

are you talking about daronco?

Yes, and Chris.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Jeff and I also have friends coming into town that weekend! Crazy.

Peter Cetera is the lead singer of 70s rock group Chicago. He later went on to reach new and as of yet unheard of levels of suck, and contributed to the ruination of my tastes for radio in the 80s.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

chris is coming?! fucking hell. so is my cousin. and leaf!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

OMG six minutes to SANDWICHES.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

chris is coming?!

Yeah, he texted me the other day! I thought you knew!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Someone (not me) should have a party to accomodate all of these people. Maybe this would be a good time for a Delilah's party?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

So "Blonde on Blonde" is about hot, lesbian sex?

I wouldn't say that it's definitely NOT about hot, lesbian sex.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea!! I'm actually a little stressed about all these visitors, I have to say . . . Leaf & I haven't seen each other in a month (which feels like forever) & then all these other people I love are in town at the EXACT SAME TIME!!!

amanda, I'd have a party, but people would stay longer than I'd want. I'm thinking about sending out an invite to have everyone meet up at the edgewater tavern or something like that.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

My wife *loves* that Peter Cetera song, the one from Karate Kid?

What do you want to know?

What are you going to study? Where are you applying? etc!

What's We Love Katamari like? I want to get it when I next get paid. I too bought another controller (for MY Sarah) so that we could play the first one, but she got bored of that mode.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I am thinking of doing a Master's in Journalism. I'm looking at a couple of schools here in Chicago. The open house tomorrow is for the school that it's vastly more likely that I'd actually get into.

We Love Katamari is great, but I've ONLY played it in cooperative mode so far, which is kind of impossible.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Tell me about these sandwiches, Jenny. Don't spare the details.

I just went to get a deli sandwich, but the guy said they were out of BREAD and sold me some garlic-pepper chicken instead.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Who runs out of bread?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Ah, my wife was once looking at at least one of the Masters programs you were looking at(the big famous one at the big famous school in Chicago). Well, good luck!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Apparently he was expecting a visit from the bread fairy in the next few minutes, but I didn't want to wait around.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

As of yesterday, I'm kinda considering going into policy.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I am eating veggie quesadillas from Picante, which they made last night by accident when I ordered spinach quesadillas but then gave to me for free because they didn't want to throw them away. They're pretty tasty!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

What kind of "policy"?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, stop being cryptic, Kels!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean "the police force"?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

As of yesterday, I'm kinda considering going into policy.

As in making it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

sorry! i wasn't trying to be cryptic . . .
i have two secret career wishes. one of them is to revamp school lunch programs. initially, i was thinking that i would do this via the nutritionist route, but now it seems obvious to me that i would be better served going into policy making for something like that.

(the other secret career is to be some kind of psychologist & do rehab/life support programs for people in need/prisoners/etc.).

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

one of them is to revamp school lunch programs

Jamie Oliver to thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I am considering trading in my Xbox for a PS2 just to play Katamari.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I am probably going back to school next year to get an accelerated RN, I just have to pass a college chem class first. (I never took chem the first time around)
We Love Katamari is great! I technically beat it last night, but I want to do some of the harder levels a few more times before doing the last level (roll up the sun). It seems a bit slow at first compared with the first Katamari, but once I got into it I enjoyed the options for most levels (As Big as Possible AND As Fast as Possible) Plus the animal barking song is not to be missed.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Hahah, you once told me to trade in my PS2 just to play Halo!!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha! Halo 2 killed my Halo love, and I can't think of anything else I really want to go back and play on Xbox.

I suppose I should wait until the new versions come out and no one cares about the old ones, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I tend to play one PS2 game exclusively for months on end. I'm not good at playing lots of games at once. Plus I'm a little obssessive so I get really upset when I can't beat them.

I still haven't finished Hot Shots 3!!!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I've never played a fancy video game. Only Pac Mac and stuff like that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I think that's kinda cool! Don't evenr change.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

ever

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I am the same way adam. I get upset when Adrian beats games in 2 days and I am still on the first level. I.E. Ratchet & Clank. But he has the luxurious life of a grad student, I suppose.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

The only video games I've really ever played have been Bust a Move and Parappa the Rapper in college.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

oh sarah .. .. .. i keep meaning to tell you that i didn't ignore your email about the cookie recipe. well, technically, i did since i haven't written you. but. i intend to give you the goods, it's just that this week has been crazy & the recipe is 1/2 made up so i need to figure out what components i alter/change/add to make it what it is.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I hope to have the luxurious life of a grad student!

I am about halfway through Ratchet & Clank 2. I finished the first one.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

My life as a grad student has been anything but luxurious.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, actually, mine won't be either if I really do get accepted to any of the places I am applying to. What are you studying?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Linguistics. But mine sucks because I'm working full time and going to school in the night/afternoons, not because my school is so prestigious. (It's not. It's good, but low profile.)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

linguistics sounds great!!!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I love it. I think I'm going to be sad when it's over. (May 06, if all goes well with my COMPS.)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I too, will be working while going back to school.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm at least 1.5 years away from grad school. Hopefully, I won't be working then.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

If my job had anything to do with my field, I would be better off. But I have a crummy job.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but you could work for TEH UN like Nicole Kidman!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

This job pays my automobills so that's enough for now.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm at least 1.5 years away from grad school. Hopefully, I won't be working then.

Are you and Jenny taking turns? That's nice.

That chicken came with mashed potatoes and fruit salad and it has made me fat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but you could work for TEH UN like Nicole Kidman!
You're dreamin', kid.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I like to dream!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

You're not the only one.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I have dreams that maybe someday I'll get my PhD. HA!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, I wasn't joking about Jamie Oliver. Do you know about his school-lunch program? It's http://www.feedmebetter.com.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Are you and Jenny taking turns? That's nice.

Yes, we are. She went first because I had that small problem of not having a bacholer's degree.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

correction, still have, hence the 1.5 years.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

someday I'll get my PhD

This has always struck me as an odd construction. Why use the possessive pronoun for something you don't actually have yet? It would make more sense to think of it as a Ph.D., and then once you attain it, it becomes your Ph.D. But I see this usage a lot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, that site has me confused re: the "school dinner" movement. Do they call lunch "dinner" in that crazy ol' UK? Or is he implying that it should be dinner-quality food?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

"school dinners" = "school lunches"

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

That makes no sense at all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

sorry!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of grad school, I sort of got depressed for a minute when talking to my dad the other day. My brother had his first day of teaching last week, and my dad (who's been a teacher for ~35 years)said that he was thinking about sending him a letter from one teacher to another, passing down the received wisdom and all of that. It made me sad because I thought I was going to be the one in that position, and I'm not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Jordan, I think it's like public schools vs. private schools. Best not to think about it too much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

1. Mark is teaching now?
2. Jaymc, you should still be PROUD!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

So if you bring your lunch to school, it's a lunch. But if you eat in the cafeteria, it's a dinner.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

you're a teacher of a sort, to your fans on the internet every day!

xp sorta

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

you're a teacher of a sort, to your fans on the internet every day!

Haha!

I am, of course, immensely proud of Mark. That goes without saying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

It's nice that you like your brother. Mine annoys me.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I wish my dad were that cool. My dad keeps asking me about my "contract" and I have to keep telling him that I don't have one.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

But it was only six short years ago that my dad and I went the MLA Convention together and talked about our favorite academics ("OMG I ran into Michael Berube in the elevator!"). Those days are over.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

"Contract"? What do you mean?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

My parents don't even know that I am applying to schools. I can't be sure they'd approve.

Who is "Michael Berube"?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost - That's exactly what I mean -- wtf is he talking about? I think he might be slipping, to be completely honest.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I dunno, I feel bad saying that. I just feel like he doesn't listen to me or remember anything I tell him.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

what about supper?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

supper is supper. but food that you have when you come in from school around 4-5 o'clock is known as "tea". and that is before "dinner/supper".

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

John, your professor dad sounds way cooler than my professor dad.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

i was just going to mention tea!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

when ya'll figure out what yr gonna do with the mandeefap05 dilly, post here or there (ye official thread) because my sis and i will be in town thurs fri and sat of next week.

psssst! jaymc, we will be @ the superpitcher show!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher is in SF the day after he is in Chicago. Crazy schedule!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I really can't decide if I should do this Journalism program or not. I have very mixed feelings about it. I still don't really know what to do with my life but I feel like I need to do something to get more qualifications soon so I'm not just an office jerk for the rest of my life.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I would really just get a better job without going back to school but that doesn't seem to be happening and I think I just have to be more proactive about all of this.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

ai lien = office jerk forevah

(x post)

i hope the night SP is in chicago is a good one. i mean, we are going there to hear him. (xx post)

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

also, sorry all for barging in on your thread like this. you are very nice.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Michael Berube is a literature professor at Penn State. He used to teach at Univ. of Illinois for many years. I like him because he writes about cultural studies quite a bit, which is what I was most interested in when I was most engaged with academia (1998-2000).

He had a fantastic article in The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he defended the teaching of popular culture in the classroom. Part of his argument was a counterpoint to those who claim that students are surrounded by popular culture all the time, so why make a point of teaching it? Berube had two responses to this: a) it's precisely because kids are surrounded by it all the time that it should be taught, because we can encourage them to think critically about it instead of passively consuming it, and b) there is so much popular culture out there that kids can't possibly be acquainted with all of it. He used the example of Elvis Costello, saying that he'd bring up Costello's name in the classroom and none of his current students (in the late 90s) had any idea who he was. (When I met Berube at the convention, I told him I'd heard the exact same claim made by an English prof at Kalamazoo, who taught a film-noir seminar called "Watching the Detectives," and none of his students caught the reference.)

He also writes lucidly and entertainingly, and though he engages with theory, he doesn't spout the impenetrable jargon himself. He is a big Gang of Four fan. He plays hockey. He is one of the most vocal supporters of unionization for graduate students. He writes a very good political blog. So yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Kelseeeeeeeeyyyyyy! c is for coooooookiiiiiieeeeeesssss!
At lunch today, I told everyone about our ..um.. performance, but not where and when. I mean, COME ON! I'm not that loony.
Also, I just ate a cookie from Fancy Pants Wh0le F00ds - chocolate chip with nuts - that was SO delicious.

Katamari is fun. Also, it's fun to sing the theme song.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

n/a You are doing the right thing.

You would make a good journalist. I can see your picture by a column if I close my eyes.

My friend took journalism and now he is working part-time at {BIG ENGLISH NEWSPAPER] and he is very excited.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

We have to find a place to have a party next weekend though, since there are going to be like 756 people in town from all over the WORLD and shit.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Would that be the Grauniad, adam?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I have mixed feelings about writing but I think it's because almost all of the writing I've done has been critical writing, and I'd probably prefer doing more just straight-ahead just-the-facts writing as in journalism.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn - yes

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, sorry ai lien, I totally forgot you were coming, too! This should be fun.

BTW Kelsey: There is an open-mic poetry reading at the coffee shop formerly known as Boogie's tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. Gail will be there (I wrote her today). Wanna go?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

totally!!! i will be there!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

i just sent out an evite to leaf's friends that we're meeting up at the 3dgewater tavern at 8:00 on sat.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

i just drank an entire litre of water in about 5 mintues. i think i need to go dispense something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

This Sat.? Next?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Peter Cetera is the lead singer of 70s rock group Chicago.

Right. Probably should have known that.

I, for one, welcome our budding journalists. n/a would obv make a good journalist, if only because he writes stuff on the internet all the goddam time. My roommate is a writer for the Chicago J____l, and his biggest problem is volume. If you can just write your face off, then you're all set.

Me? I'm going to medical school. (...once I've gone BACK to school to finish up all those classes I didn't take, oh, 3 years ago)

― gib@work, Friday, 7 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Writing all day on the Internet != writing seriously. I blah-blah on here all the livelong day, but when it comes time to write a two-sentence blurb on a pop song, I freeze up and it takes me like a half hour.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

next saturday, amanda.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on, now. Sure you can! It's just practice.

― gib@work, Friday, 7 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Nick - -I think you would make an excellent journalist. Kelsey, are you thinking of getting your degree in social work? That would enable you to be a therapist and to counsel prisoners...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

i was thinking psych, but i wouldn't eliminate social work as an option.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

i'm gonna email you...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

thank you!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

wayback xpost to Amanda re: contracts - Is your dad a union guy?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

No - I think he thinks I'm already part of a teachers' union, which I'm not...yet. I will be, but I'm not yet. My whole life I've wanted to be in a union and it's almost time!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

If you were in a teacher's union, you'd have a contract so that's probably what he's talking about. I'm taking Public Sector Collective Bargaining next semester so we can talk allllll about your future union membership!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for your words of encouragement, guys. Really.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Workers Unite! I'm gonna get a card and everything.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Nick, why not apply? Why not go? You'll know fairly quickly if it's really for you or not. If it's not, then you're out some money but I honestly think that the value of knowing what you don't want is just as, if not more, valid than knowing what you do want. It's a big step, but you have the strong support of Sarah & friends behind ya.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Nick, if you become a journalist, promise me you'll get a fedora. You can stick your press pass in the band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

He would look good in a fedora.

― gib@work, Friday, 7 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

i think we can all agree on that.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

totally!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

we'll be seeing his "Capote"-style biopic soon, I'll wager. WHo will play him? Or Sarah?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

The fact that adamrl is here reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask the Greater Chicagoland massive:

Where does a guy do yoga up in this piece? I sorta soiled on my plans to become a karate master, and should probably just stick with what I know.

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Jason Schwartzman/Maggie Gyllenhaal?

xp haha

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Jason Schwartzman/Maggie Gyllenhaal

TOtally!

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I can wear a fedora, hats are my dad's thing.

This is totally irrelevant but it make me laugh a bunch: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/9/28pendarvis.html.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Schwartzman/Gyllenhaal is kind of too perfect.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Okay....Tom and Nicole. Reunited.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

i read "soiled my plans" as "soiled my pants" & boy did i ever feel bad for you.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

it would really suck if you meant to become a karate master and you ended up soiling your pants.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

It's a big step, but you have the strong support of Sarah & friends behind ya.
Wait, I didn't say that. In fact, I told Nick he better not go back to school, because if he gets any more learned than me, this relationship is OVER! I ain't goin' out with any high-fallutin' book-learnin' man!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

"Kind of too perfect" was meant approvingly! I don't know why I felt the need to qualify that statement so much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Which is funny, because in yoga that means you've reached enlightenment.

xp!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

**CRAP**

"Can I have my black belt now?"

"No."

"Shit."

"You said it!"

"Oh shut up, Wizened Sensei."

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

sarah, there are support groups for women who are with learned men.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I think Nick is too cool to be played by Jason Schwartzman.

Gib, I don't know. I took yoga at my gym and it suuuuuucked. All RAR ARM STANDS ON THE FIRST DAY bullshit, with an instruction who didn't use any definite articles: "Put left leg on floor. Put right arm behind head. Turn hip toward door." I wanted to kill her.

I also took classes through school with a really, really nice and calming and spiritual lady but it was more about being peaceful and calm once a week than anything particularly physical.

xpost: I thought he crapped his pants at karate class, too.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

If he goes back for another degree, I think I'll start prefacing all my statements with, "Ya think yer soooo smart, huh?"

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I tried one karate class and gave up. I found it much harder than aikido/taijitsu/ etc. I just couldn't do the "chambered" movements and almost fell over.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Wicker Park's gotta be chockablock with yoga studios. If all the Young Ladies Walking Around Looking Pretty* is any indication. Maybe I should just ask the Internet.

*We don't have these in my hood. Just old Mexican men that I play pool with. At Ronny's! Come check it out, players.

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yelp.com/find_results?context=TYnDgHsr98uKmiKGd2x3lA&previous_url=%2Fhome%3Ffsid%3DTYnDgHsr98uKmiKGd2x3lA&action_find=1&find_desc=yoga&find_loc=chicago&action_find.x=&action_find.y=&action_find=Search

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, Jenny.

There are two yoga places in our neighborhood that I know of: one right at the Damen/Division intersection on Division where Sarah took a few classes, and one on North right next to Sound Gallery and across from Kinkos.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

...more like 400% HELPFUL!

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm outta here in 30 minutes!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Sweet! I probably won't be able to leave until at least 4 PM -- are you going straight to Bell's or what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

How far away is K4l4m4z00 from Chicago?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

About 2.5 hours.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Now ask how you can get there, just so that I can say "PRACTICE!".

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, Jenny.

For what?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I think Nick is too cool to be played by Jason Schwartzman.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't know how to feel about the Schwartzman comparisons. Isn't it basically "You've got a big nose and floppy hair"? His band was playing at Plan 9 once in Richmond and I wandered in after they played and he walked by and he's at least 3 inches shorter than me, and I'm not a tall dude.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

we might try to grab a bite to eat beforehand.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah, no problem. That dude annoys me for some reason.

As for his band, I like that song that they made the zombie movie video for, but all that enjoyment must be balanced against the deep, deep hate I have for the "California" song.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

It was you that originally mention the Schwartzman thing. He looks less like you now. I don't find your nose big nor your hair "floppy".

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know what that song is -- the only movie I've seen him in is Rushmore. He's good enough for Zooey...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

i heart zooey.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

What? Are they dating or something?!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Um, yeah! At least they were the last time I cared.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

jordan, i just "lj'd" you, in case you're wondering who "chinesetwine" is. it's me.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2004/2/t04i-2-283.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

t minus 11 minutes. i am so restless!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Dig the smug look on this guy's face

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

he's cute!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Curse you, Schwartzmann, curse your loathsome hide.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I can't see anything! (but I'm not blind)

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I think they're pretty cute together.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

kel, I emailed you, but I forgot your gmail address, so if you can check your yahoo.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

bye everyone!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Byee! Have a great time!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

hey, they're both showbiz kids, they UNDERSTAND each other!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Then again, it's not like I want her to go back to Chris Kattan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I think he's cute, but not as cute as NICKYPOO PRECIOUS SCHNOOKUMS.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Fuck Jake Gylenhaal, too. While we're at it.

xp-that post is a GIFT

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I bet he's great in Gay Cowboy Movie. Man, I really wish that was the real name.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

me too!

Alex does a great impression of the trailer. Think of a full on hands-on-hips lisping queen saying "You don't go into that canyon to FISH!".

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, Zooey. Oh man.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Hey it's almost time for SOX vs SOX Pt. III.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

no, not baseball talk!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I've still got 3 hrs to go!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I've got about two hours to go and I've got envelope tongue.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I have 2+ hours and my pants feel too tight.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Is this why?

Caterpillar eats lion. Caterpillar explodes. [NSFW but well worth your time]

― giboy-YO!, Friday, 7 October 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that Schawrtzmasmdfan guy is not cute. Not enough baby animal face.

Maybe Sufjan Stevens should play Nick.

And I have this issue with Zooey because of her character in All the Real Girls, who was kind of a bitch, or at least not very self-aware.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

but totally beautiful and captivating.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

She's certainly not ugly, but captivating? I guess if you like the broken-winged type.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Adam OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Jenny, you might have trouble finding a male on this thread to agree with you on those last two statements.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I fell in love with Noel.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think she was attractive.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

gender traitor

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

::sputters::

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Zooey is one of those attractions that a woman can't truly understand, like how I can't understand how Sarah STILL finds John Cusack attractive. Maybe like 10 years ago, but NOW?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Older men are sexy, dood.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Good man, Jeff.

Who are you guys talking about, now?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it's funny that so many of us like Zooey, because I always thought that she was kind of designed for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

He looks like he's wearing eyeliner - ALL THE TIME.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

what does "broken-winged" mean? It sounds like a major diss.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I bet she likes guys with accents.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Zooey is one of those attractions that a woman can't truly understand
Wrong again, boyo. I understand it; I like to watch her acting and singing. I'm just a little jealous that someone can be so talented and cute and pale and pretty and privileged.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Is this who we're talking about?

http://www.celebrity-pictures-world.com/pics/z/zooey-deschanel/zooey-deschanel-009.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

He looks like he's wearing eyeliner - ALL THE TIME.

Who? Cusack?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm not in love with Noel.

How many of you have been to San Francisco? What's the coolest neighborhood to stay in? I'm not planning a trip there or anything, just playing online and fantasizing about planning a trip.

Also, I think more men should wear eyeliner.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh that's a really bad picture of her. Ouch.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Cusack.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Adam's been there!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

How many of you have been to San Francisco? What's the coolest neighborhood to stay in? I'm not planning a trip there or anything, just playing online and fantasizing about planning a trip.

I'm in San Francisco 5-6 days out of every week, Sarah.

I don't know what the coolest neighborhood would be. Depends on your interests/sketch factor. Probably the Mission or the Tenderloin. It's only a small city, not like Chicago.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I just stayed downtown, in the Financial District. But Adam's right: it's small enough that you can get most places fairly easily from wherever you are.

Ick: that Zooey photo is bad.

I have a photo of her as the wallpaper on my computer desktop at home, but I can't seem to find it. I think it was in Vogue or Elle or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Please, everyone. Come to San Francisco.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Yes, the seismograph is very encouraging.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Message from Mandee to Chicago thread - Her internet access at work is being monitored so she cannot check ILX. Also, " I had this really GRODEY cereal for lunch; it was like twigs and dirt, or at least looked like it."

Message ends.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

This is a cute photo:

http://www.fedge.net/~zdeschanel/images/misc/sundancechrysler3.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Yes, the seismograph is very encouraging.

Haha! Well, you know, come prepared.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Eric Z. - if you're around - I see that you are performing at Squeezed as well. Would it be possible for you to bring a copy of your CD to the Beat Kitchen so that I may purchase it? If you have any left, that is? Thank you.

Hmm I don't like that pic of Zooey much either.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

SHE IS INDIE DO YOU SEE

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Also: WHITE SOX 1 RED SOX 0

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Now: WHITE SOX 2 RED SOX 0

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc she looks like the Can4sta fan I was talking with in line outside the Annex! Kind of!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

She was also indie!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

OMG DID YOU GET HER NUMBER

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I prefer this picture:
http://media.mnginteractive.com/media/paper210/102004_zoey.jpg
Now I will say no more about Zooey or I may be in trouble.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I am probably already in trouble.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

No, she wasn't my type.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

BOO

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure all will be forgiven if you take her to the gay cowboy movie.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Actually I meant to point her out to you, but after going inside I didn't see her again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Actually, if I had a girl who looked like that and smiled at me like that and accompanied me to gay cowboy movies, I WOULD SO BE SET.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I meant that for n/a, btw.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I know what you're thinking, and let's not open that epitaph thread, okay?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't thinking that!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I love the epitaph thread, I've put a couple of good ones up there. I don't think anyone has made one for me though. Is it because I'm so COMPLEX and DIFFICULT TO SUMMARIZE?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Like me, you are an ENIGMA.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I think she's cute in the pic Nick posted. John, in the one you posted, she has a haircut very similar to other girls you've liked in the past!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

An ENIGMA wrapped in a RIDDLE swaddled in WON TON WRAPPERS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Sarah's right, y'know...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, i don't get the zooey love.

Speaking of Cusacks:

http://crazy4cinema.com/Actress/imgs/cusack2.jpg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Sarah's right, y'know...

What do you two know about it, anyway? Name names!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I was afraid you were gonna say that...I only know two women you've dated. But they both have haircuts similar to the one in that photo!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Admittedly, I don't know CRAP!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't know crap about crap.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

WHITE SOX 2 RED SOX 1

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

2-2 now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

This IS exciting!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. It might even qualify as awesome.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Long time no see, McGee.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Hello?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Where IS everyone?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Feverishly trying to finish my work before I leave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm here but it went all baseball so I switched off.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Man, I've been really unproductive today. I mean, REALLY unproductive.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

but they're letting us at at 3! yay!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

xp - me too! just look at ILX!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

There's a really peculiar charm to listening to baseball on AM radio.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

AM 1000, BTW. If you're not near a TV.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

The White Sox survive the fifth inning. Are we all listening to this?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I am following it online because I am at work. However, I will be leaving in 15 minutes and the WS will be on their own after that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Here's a baseball question I'm too embarassed to ask elsewhere: what is it about a knuckleballer (like Wakefield is throwing) so hard to hit? They've got the speeds at like 68/69 as opposed to a 90 mph fastball, and he's not mixing them up, it's just knuckle, knuckle, etc. What's the deal?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing there's lots of movement?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Ah, White Sox 4-2 off Konerko homer!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

yup.

I know when the announcers start yelling that something good is going on.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

The color commentary is great, too. "Scorched throught the infield!" etc.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Why do they hold baseball games in the middle of a weekday?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I love how we're making this thread boring for everyone except for like you, me, and jaymc if he hasn't already left.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing there's lots of movement?

That's the idea. I'm getting the idea that Wakefield is really good at it. But I know shit on shit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I love how we're making this thread boring for everyone except for like you, me, and jaymc if he hasn't already left.

http://www.eddielandreth.boche.net/Treehouse_3x.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Bleh. I'm here for 30 more minutes. I'll check in periodically to see if you're talking about something aside from beisbol.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckleball

I'm fascinated by knuckleballers, and I wonder why some kids don't try and pick this up, there have been so few of them in the majors.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Also, knuckleball pitchers throw the knuckleball 95% of the time.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I wonder why some kids don't try and pick this up, there have been so few of them in the majors.

Probably because it's so hard to do right. I'm sure a lot of people TRY to throw a good knuckleball, but few succeed. A good fastball takes a strong arm and an impervious elbow. A good knuckleball takes another skill entirely. It's more like flicking a booger at 70 mph.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.marvelarchiv.de/filme/daredevil_bullseye.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but if I was a kid again, and I knew what a knuckleball was at the time, I would practice it like 8 hours a day. It would be my secret weapon, since I suck at baseball anyway.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm real good at flicking boogers.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I had a pretty decent arm in my day. Never tried to throw a knuckleball or a slider, though. Just threw fast and hard and on target, and in little league, that worked great.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

haha "my day" = the ages between 11 and 13.

Ramirez just hit one out.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Ball Four by Jim Bouton is a good book about a knuckleballer's days in the league.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

which makes it 4-3 White Sox, btw.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I throw like a girl.

(it's 'cause I'm lefty, but learned to do all that sporty stuff righty)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

A girl who can't throw, that is.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

A girl who can't throw, that is.

I think we've already established that the girls are no longer interested in this thread. You can be politically incorrect if you want to.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Sweet. Girls be throwin' like bitches.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

It's so true.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Hold up. I'm still here, honkies. 8 more minutes.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Actually, whatever. Go for it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Pronounced dead: 5:26PM.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

it's kind of funny to hear the strained way the radio announcers keep saying "White Sox" and "Red Sox" when you can tell they're dying to just say "Sox."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Hey Nick - Spent the afternoon working - yeah, I'll bring a copy of the CD to Squeezed, great great.

Home now, off to review a play tonight...the constant-work cycle is almost over...we'll see what Monday morning holds...

Yo Manda, Yo Manda. Hey, I ran into The Other Amanada yet again -- she was at the Cultural Center on Wednesday night, but just by coincidence, not to see the show I was playing. I told her your story about the P.O. and the matching outfits, and she remembered.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

bye, amanda. I miss you.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

fucking shit. bases loaded. no outs.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Ha! She remembered. That makes me feel better for having remembered an insignificant but amusing anecdote.

I think I'm getting a cold. Yuk! The good news is: back from the dead!

This baseball game is TENSE.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Bye dudes!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Bye laaaady

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

(Hey, nice work on making this thread long and complicated in the couple of hours I was away.)

Now it's 5:30 and just a sausage-fest, eh, K.?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

bye manda. yes, this baseball game is awesome.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Now it's 5:30 and just a sausage-fest, eh, K.?

*smacks Eazy's ass*

You know it, daddy!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Infield fly rule invoked!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

FUCK YEAH! Fucking Damon struck out. that was the longest bottom of the sixth I've ever sat through.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I bought some Kalamazoo Stout tonight, in solidarity with J & K.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Lookit, music people: beautiful original vintage 1974 YAMAHA GX-1 synthesizer.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

That is something else. For a mere $200,000, I could pretend I'm Manfred Mann.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

OOh. Or John Paul Jones, Keith Emerson, or Stevie Wonder.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I was casually offered a part-time weekend job at my local video store today. I'm kind of tempted to do it because the dudes that work there all seem cool and I would get a little more spending money, but I don't think I want to give up any of my weekend free time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Kalamazoo was so fun. Lots of people I hadn't seen in years, many of whom I didn't even care about but was suddenly struck with nostalgic goodwill toward. Now I have to go to bed and get up in six hours for the marathon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 October 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Well WE had fun too last night, to the extent that I've been hungover all day (no headache though, just dizziness/nausea).

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

fuck graduate school. lame people, no cute girls.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 9 October 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I had fun on Friday, too! Even though I was visibly intoxicated. I had fun last night, also - went to see 2001 at the Music Box. I have actually never seen that movie before and I really, really liked it.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

sorry for the negativity. i'm feeling marginally better about the whole situation today. and i still like school, i just have to stop going to parties on campus and expecting to have a great time. i should focus on my work anyway.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Hi Mark!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

My pogo dancing is now immortalized, for better or worse.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Ha! How was the video? Rachel and Ben told me you called them looking for extras because not enough people showed up.

In other news: My car may have been stolen. :( :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh no! Why "may have"? Do you think you might have been towed or something?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

HI DERE

its gonna snow here!

eek!

i'll be in chicago SOON

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I am still crossing my fingers and hoping that it was towed. I called the pound and they didn't have any record of it, but they also said their records were really backlogged because there were so many cars towed today.

I'm kind of anticipating the worst, though, because there's no reason why it would've been towed -- I wasn't in a tow zone, there were no signs, there were other cars on the same side of the street that were still there, etc.

I also had someone drive me around the surrounding area to see if it had been relocated (which the city does sometimes, for unfathomable reasons) -- but no such luck.

So I filed a police report. We'll see. This was in Greektown, btw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

This was in Greektown, btw.

Delicious. Sorry about your car.

btw: Sultan's on North Ave is fucking awesome. Holy shit. Holy cheap!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

I think Sultan's Market may be the Official Chicago ILX Eatery.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

I've had friends in that situation where the car ended up being relocated by the city. Hope it turns up.

The video shoot was fun -- they had about 30-40 people, so a little less than planned. Great, great song. Brought back memories of hanging out at City Center and waiting for the city busses in Mpls in the middle of winter.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Was the song about Mpls? I mean, I know C. Finn is from there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

I had a hunch, googled, and discovered that we were a year apart at the same high school, and I'm pretty sure I knew him then but it's so long ago.

The song was 'Your Little Hoodrat Friends', and it's packed with Mpls references (City Center, Osseo, Stillwater, and just the general geography of the place).

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

(There's a free MP3 of the song on their site, and it's so, so good.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, that song rules. It's also like the only song of theirs I know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I grew up one town over from Stillwater! So did a handful of other, notable ILxors.

xpost jaymc: it is? I'm totally going to start hanging out there. It's the closest!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

It was a funny expetrience this weekend to connect so much with the lyrics and the details of the song, and then to discover tonight that we were at the same parties and had the same English teachers, so no wonder.

What's one town over from Stillwater -- Afton? St. Croix Falls?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

(xp) But I have seen them twice -- once at Intonation Festival and once at CMJ (on a makeshift stage in the lobby of Lincoln Center) -- and I suspect that you would like their stuff, E. Most of it's in the same vein.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Afton, basically. I lived between Hastings and Afton, in the sticks. Mile away from Afton Alps.

I unabashedly love the Hold Steady, even though some of my friends think they're "hipster scum." Which makes zero sense to me.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

My equivalent of Charlie Brown's red-haired girl was a red-haired girl in Afton; if she's on here (she was a music buff), what a crazy strange full-circle world this would be. Worked at Dayton's in downtown St. Paul long, long ago.

I bought the HS CD today, and I'm excited to hear the rest of it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

OK, who didn't show up for the midnight-to-8-a.m. shift here?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Hi Everyone! I got a cat this weekend from the shelter people at PetSmart. Well, he's technically Adrian's cat but he will soon only answer to me. He is 6 months old and orange and white. He still needs a name, but we're not too keen on human names for cats.
I also went running and now I feel like I have been beaten by a very large man wearing brass knuckles.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys. Man, am I tired today. Out until 1:30 at a gig, but it was a blast. We cooked corn, potatoes, and sausages out on the street and fed the crowd after the second set.

I have that gig in Chicago at Fitzgerald's tonight, but I seriously don't know if I can go and I'm stressing about it. There may just be too much work to do and I'm not sure what my priorities are today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Good morning!

I'm really sore too, joce, but it's my arms that are killing me. When I was lifting yesterday morning, I was thinking HEY! This isn't that hard at all! Bring it on! Now I am in pain. I drank a big protein shake this morning though (strawberry Spirutein) so here's to hoping it helps.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I guess Kenan starts his new job in my building today. Hi Kenan. If you're reading this, you shouldn't be on ILX on your first day at a new job.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

John - I am crossing my fingers for you that the city relocated your car. Why do they do that? This city is weird with cars.

Jocelyn - YAY cat! Cats are so great. Two of our cats go by people names--Ed and Francie--but they were named for characters (Radical Edward and Black Frances) so it just kind of worked out that way.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Yay for Sarah & lifting!!!! It's only gonna make you hotter . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

When Kenan was wasted the other night, he said he didn't like girls who look like they work out or are too athletic or something. So, less Kenans will like me, but more Kelseys will like me. I can live with that.

By the way, I joined that girl's book club after all, so I started Million Little Pieces last night. I really like it so far!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

What's up dudes. Sarah - I tried to call you back last night but the phone was busy. I didn't answer the phone because my hands were covered with...with...they were covered with chicken. I was making chicken soup. Yuck, I know.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

The soup, though, turned out very well. I like to put cilantro in chicken soup. Who's with me?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

It sucks you in. Seriously. I felt like I couldn't do anything until I read it. I just started "she's not here" last night . . . about r1chard russ0's best friend who was male & is now female.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, I made soup last night too, sort of. I told Nick want to put in my soup, ha ha (vegetable soup from a can + frozen peas + frozen corn + half a baked potato). It was good, but ended up more like a stew or hash because we didn't add any water/broth.

Yeah, MLP is so easy to read. There are usually only one or two sentences per line. And, of course, it's interesting. I suck at reviewing anything though. I often end up with the "It was Interesting" assessment. Just ask Nick.

Soooo, when I go to Amy's book club (a week from this Thursday), I'm in charge of bringing a bottle of wine. It needs to go with veggie lasagna. Suggestions?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

BOON'S FARM 1943.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Also - My preggers friend had her baby last night. It's a girl. Yaay. She said that she's ready for visitors (??) so I'm going to visit a one day-old baby after work tonight. I'm a little wigged out.

As for the wine, I don't know much about wine except that I like to drink it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

It makes sense that I come back after a Friday off and weekend out of town and there's a new thread.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

eric is really the vino expert. that said, most anything from trader joe's is a) CHEAP & b) decent or at least decent enough.

there's this roughly $8/bottle wine at whole foods called morrow valley or something, it's a shiraz i believe & it's quite tasty.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Binny's is having their big annual wine sale. Good deals all around.
http://www.binnys.com/inc/mailer/10052005/October2005mailer.pdf

Good matches:
Around $10:
Castle Rock Pinot Noir.
Rosenblum Vitner's Cuvee (red blend).
Marietta Old Vines (red blend).
Rock Rabbit Syrah (California).

Around $15:
Kangarilla Road Cabernet (Australia).
Roederer Estate (California - sparkling, but a good match).

And Kelsey's right -- Trader Joe's is pretty consistent all around.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Thank you!

Merci boucoup!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Castle Rock and Rock Rabbit both use surplus grapes from fancy vineyards, so they may taste differently from bottle to bottle, but they're often both a really good deal.

That guy at Clark/Foster Liquors has good suggestions too. I always like reading all the notecards in there, and the ones on display near the front are usually pretty good.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Hi!

Sorry to hear about your car, Jaymc. I've been in that car.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

the guy at clark/foster liquors hasn't recommended anything i like thus far!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I love the guys and clark/foster. Of course I hate wine. And they never recommend me beer, only compliment me on my choices. They are aces.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking about going to school for an MSW. It seems really practical.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear about your car, Jaymc. I've been in that car.

You haven't, actually. This is a new one. The old one broke down about a month after you were in it. I've had bad car luck this year.

Kels: I started reading She's Not Here when you were getting ready for dinner on Saturday. As soon as I saw that she was Richard Russo's best friend, I remembered that I had in fact heard about the book. I was totally engrossed in it from the first few pages. You'll def. have to let me borrow it when you're done.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

MSW?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Master of Social Work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, I think that's a super idea. It's a really versatile degree from what I know.

Jaymc, I'm really sorry about your car. That sucks massively.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm in charge of bringing a bottle of wine. It needs to go with veggie lasagna.

Melville pinot noir. Not cheap, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I've known a handful of people who got their MSW and were pleased with it.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

The old one broke down about a month after you were in it

What are you suggesting?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry about your car, John! I'm super protective about mine, since it's the most valuable thing I own. I always have to check behind guests who ride in it because everyone assumes we have automatic locks. Nick's sister was mocking me during her last visit by saying, "What.. are you afraid someone is going to steal your cds or something?" YES! And the stereo... again. And the car!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

It sounds awful to have your car stolen. Berkeley is meant to be terrible for car crime but I've never had problems. Sean Penn had his car stolen when he was parked up by campus, though. The cops found his unlicensed gun in it!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, well, I had about dozen CDs in it, as well as both of my keyboards and my clarinet and Matt's trombone. Eek.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

My car was sideswiped badly by a city vehicle and they left a police report plastered to the window. I mean, thanks for reporting it, but then I had to appeal to the city for the repairs, which I HAD to do immediately because I would have been ticketed for having a broken windshield andd also because I had no rearview mirror on the driver's side. AND I had just bought and applied my city sticker, so I had to buy another one because I bought a new windshield. Thanks City of Chicago!

Aggh! Jaymc, how are you NOT freaking out right now? I would have lost my shit.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. I mean, there's not much that I can do about it. Luckily, we don't have any shows or anything until November 18, so I have time to figure out what to do if the car never turns up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

as well as both of my keyboards and my clarinet and Matt's trombone

Oof. That made my stomach knot. Yes, you are my calm-in-the-face-of-crisis hero right now, too.

Amanda, when I lived in DE, my coworker was getting out of her car and a bus came by and took her door off. The state refused to pay for the repair. I don't know the details, but I would have freaked the fuck out until somebody paid for something. Christ.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and they never paid me for the windshield. I spent about $400 in repairs. Eventually I sold my car to a junkyard for...are you ready?

$75!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Hey, jaymc, I have a shitty Casio keyboard you're welcome to use if you want? It doesn't have a a/c adapter but it runs on batteries.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, my wife has her MSW. She did social work for about 5 years, now she does research.

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, that may come in handy, for rehearsal purposes at least. How many keys is it? And do you know how big the tone-bank is?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty big, keys-wise. I don't know exactly how big the tone-bank is, but i got it at best buy for $99 some years ago. It's probably got 100 sounds? Maybe less? You're WELCOME to it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Cool, thanks. I'll let you know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Dan will be so glad to hear that I've found a use for it other than gathering dust in the corner. I thought I was going to be brilliant on it, but I was WRONG. I am not at all brilliant on it. I bought it when I was living alone, after the crazy roomie moved out about 5-6 years ago.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Man, that's awful. At least trombones are relatively cheap and easy to come by. Let me know if you need help finding one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

You can also borrow my KORG if you want something slightly more...sophisticated.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Have you talked to the cops?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, I like Public Image.

Don't become another Alfred Soto!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've filed a police report.

Matt was actually thinking about getting another trombone, anyway, since this one is pretty beat-up.

Korg: yeeahh! There was actually a moment where I thought, hmmmm, what if I get something completely different to push us in a new direction? And then I thought, but I still have to use that keyboard (or something similar) to play all of the album songs live.

Haha, what does "don't become another Alfred Soto mean"? He likes PiL, too!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I thought he just hated fun.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. I thought Soto was mostly known for championing stuff no one else wants to stick up for: Liz Phair, Rolling Stones, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE the Rolling Stones!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Even the new stuff!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I paid a FORTUNE to see the Bridges To Babylon tour, like an idiot!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Then Soto's your man!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

you LOVE addressing people by their last names.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I would stick up for Liz Phair! Not new Liz Phair though. Okay, so really just Exile in Guyville and Whip-Smart.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

JT Leroy is not a real person. He is Liz Phair.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

They're both obsessed with young boys and sex...come on now people, are we not SEEING THE CONNECTIONS?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I meant new Liz Phair. I saw a couple of reviews of Somebody's Miracle that basically said, "You know how everyone hated the last Liz Phair album? Well, actually, in retrospect, it wasn't that bad. But this? This is bad." Not so Soto. He loved it.

Adam (or should I say "Levine"?): I only really call him Soto because I'm uncomfortable with the name Alfred (should I call him "Alf"?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry about your car and your stuff, jaymc. That makes me paranoid, because after a show we tend to drive back to our apartment, load in the stuff from the back seat, but leave the stuff in the trunk in the trunk until we can get to the practice space. So I always worry someone will break in and steal a guitar or drum pieces or something.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I'd stick up for Liz P. as being consistent on her end, even if she's not consistently making music for the same audience.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I kinda like a few songs on Liz Phair.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Cunn1ngh4m, have you told Soto you're "uncomfortable" with using the name his parents gave him?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

No. It hasn't come up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I like Liz Phair's voice. Around the early '90's there were all these female singers with squeaky little girl voices, like Juliana Hatfield, but Phair always sounds kind of husky and flat (in a good way). Unfortunately, I don't especially care for anything of hers after Exile.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Whip-Smart was fun.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I concur with Justice N/a.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

sounds kind of husky and flat (in a good way).

I always thought she sang too low in her range. She sounds fine when she sings higher but has a tendency to go off-pitch otherwise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc OTM -- I think she sang low and off-tune on purpose, because to sing pretty was to be like every other girl-singer and she didn't want to be every other girl-singer (ie, Juliana Hatfield, etc.) Now she has a perfectly decent singing voice. But before, she was "cool."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

hi all. i was out to lunch.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Literally or figuratively?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

xpost - This is not a good explanation for why her new lyrics have to suck so hard, which is my own beef with her new songs. I don't really care about the production, but the lyrics are terrible! Lyrics still matter sometimes, don't they? I think they do.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I am a lyrics person - bad lyrics will ruin what would on all other counts be a perfectly good song, as far as I'm concerned. Conversely, good lyrics can save an otherwise dreadful song.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Until she writes another song like Dance of the Seven Veils or Divorce Song I'm not really interested.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

just going off the liz phair thing for a sec, i got so drunk on friday night that i blacked out. i don't remember buying the pack of cigarettes that were in my coat pocket saturday morning. i don't remember smoking the two that were missing. since i had this pack, i totally smoked more this weekend than i planned. i threw the rest of the pack out this morning, but all i can think about is how badly i'd love a cigarette right now.

also, thanks for the kind words on the MSW. i fear that it is such a different career move from radio that i am uncertain. radio just feels too self indulgent for my tastes. i am feeling a real pull to do something more directly with people in need, no matter the spectrum of need.

okay, liz phair everyone. thanks for indulging me.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

no problem!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Those look like three verses to a great Bright Eyes/Liz Phair collaboraction, Kels.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Collaboration, I mean. Ech...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

K., I think social work is kind of like teaching, where it makes sense to get some hands-on experience (maybe you have) to make sure that you like the actual work of it...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I am a lyrics person - bad lyrics will ruin what would on all other counts be a perfectly good song, as far as I'm concerned. Conversely, good lyrics can save an otherwise dreadful song.

The only time that bad lyrics have ruined an otherwise good song for me is when they call attention to themselves in a way that I can't ignore them. Sometimes this is because they're stupid and juvenile, like, I dunno, Bowling for Soup.

Good lyrics have never saved an otherwise dreadful song for me. If the music is dreadful, I'm not interested at all. Write a poem.

A lot of the new Liz Phair songs don't really bother me because the lyrics aren't cringingly BAD so much as just cheesy and generic. In other words, like most pop songs. Although I do think that the "you don't even know who Liz Phair is" line on "Rock Me" was clever. I go back and forth on "average everyday sane psycho supergoddess" -- it sounds kinda clumsy in the context of her trying to be a pop star (it makes me think of Alanis Morrissette or Meredith Brooks), but I also feel like it could've been a line on one of her early albums. And anyway, as good as some of those early songs are, the lyrics of "Polyester Bride" have always seemed sort of awkwardly constructed to me, esp. the bartender's dialogue.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I am all for career changes. People change with time, their priorities and tastes change, so it would make sense that their career aspirations would change.

Kelsey, Eazy has a point - perhaps you can get involved in some volunteer work that is along the lines of what you think you want to do with the MSW or meet with schools that you like and see if they have mentor programs and stuff. MSW programs are generally the kind that provide A LOT of student support and cater to adult students, at least from the observed experience of my friends.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

John - I agree that some songs are beyond saving, and the musical end of a song has to get my attention enough for me to even notice the lyrics before the lyrics can save it... But I think that some of my favorite lyrics would not work as poems, either. Maybe that speaks to how well the lyrics go with the music, which would indicate that good lyrics alone can't save a song! OMG! I have to think about this for a minute.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I'm an asshole about this, don't worry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

A lot of the new Liz Phair songs don't really bother me because the lyrics aren't cringingly BAD so much as just cheesy and generic
But when Liz is the gal you turn to when you need someone who knows why you feel like shit and who understands why things are so complicated -- and she turns around and writes dumb, generic, cheesy songs about why she can't breathe and how she's a psycho supergoddess, it's the equivalent of seeing your best friend jump shit and hang out with the popular kids. It's like being told to "buck up." It's sort of insulting, I guess.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

jump SHIP, not jump shit

hahaha

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, see, but I never had that kind of relationship with Liz in the first place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I'm an asshole about this, don't worry.

I didn't think you were being an asshole! But we can fight about it later when we're drunk, if you want.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Yes!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Awesome.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I've only heard 'Exile In Guyville' once, in a Walkman while walking around Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis late one summer night. It was like seeing a movie once -- had a good time, I still remember it pretty well, especially the airplane song.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

liz phair blah blah liz phair.

My new job starts tomorrow. I'm watching Freaks and Geeks and downling Deep Purple's Greatest Hits. Later, I will air guitar the house down.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I never owned Exile until quite recently, but I remember hearing it while driving to Los Angeles with Rach3l and B3n and Jas0n Hendr1x and realizing, "wow, this is pretty good." It may have been the first time I heard the album all the way through.

Heh. Funny that Adam's brief mention of Mr. Soto prompted all of the Liz-chat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty influential.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Exile is one of my all-time favorite records.

So's Exile on Main Street.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

My last comment on the Liz issue:
Ahh, see, but I never had that kind of relationship with Liz in the first place.
I totally did. Exile came out when I was 18 and I bought it immediately. It sort of does feel like losing a friend to hear those cheesy, generic, platitudes coming from the same voice who used to offer meaningful observations. I know it's not the same for everyone, but that's how it was for me.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Work totally bites today. I wish I had a job where people were forced to take responsibility for their own actions, instead of firing off snarky reply e-mails without reading the whole original message.
I remember hearing Exile for the first time when I was 14 and thinking OMG dirrrrty at the "Flower" song. Now that I'm older Flower seems so trite with its overly in-your-face attitude of I'm going to say Fuck and Blow Job Queen.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I have a question for n/a and Kittens, if they are still here.

I played a little bit of We Love Katamari on Friday, and my question is - do I really need another Katamari game? Is it still addictive? Is there new stuff? Do the levels get more interesting?

Thanks,
adamrl

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

There's also Exile, whose single "I Wanna Kiss You All Over" was #1 for four weeks in 1978, is pretty great, and can still be heard on the jukebox at Calo.

Manda, your relationship to Liz sounds kind of like the two gals in 'Ghost World'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, and I ran away from home and didn't fulfill my potential too, just like Enid. I did, eventually, get a job. This is a familiar pattern for female friendships though...one person grows more conventional and alienates the Best Friend by being extremely ordinary. The other friend fights it until she can't fight it. They exchange birthday greetings and holiday beers.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I love Ghost World (the comic). Part of my senior thesis was about it. That is, the part that wasn't about Raymond Carver, Mike Leigh, The Ice Storm, Woody Allen, and Dawson's Creek.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

My senior theses were about Dogme 95 and Berlin town planning!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

i'm testing out chairs. supposedly we get to choose a new chair.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

My senior thesis was about international drug policy and the flaws of the de/certification program.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

What I'm sitting on

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Daerest Adam,

While I am not n/a or Kittens, I would like to put in my two cents. You do not need We Love Katamari, but it is a fun addition to your video game library. The new levels are great (underwater! in a school!), and as I mentioned before, the animal sounds theme song. Plus there is a jukebox option so that you don't have only one song attached to a level anymore. I think it took me longer to beat than the first one.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, at first I thought your post was about YOUR senior project (part of which involved completely coating a chair in raisins).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Sory jocelyn, I forgot you had it too!

thanks!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

There's a whole genre around 2000-2005 of women singing songs about asserting their independence by aiming to be pop stars. There's Shelby Lynne's "I Am Shelby Lynne"; there's "Extrordinary" ("Yes, it's meant to be an ordinary pop song!"); there's Nelly Furtado's "Shit On The Radio"...

My undergrad thesis was on Mamet, Carver, and the painter Susan Rothenberg, and how each of them, in the very same years (1975-1980) created images through a kind of "negative space" by leaving out details, and how then all three of them changed styles around 1980-1986, where they began adding more detail and literal qualities to their imagery.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

OMG. Do you still have that, Eric?

Actually, I think you've told me about that before, but I forgot about it until just now. It's so totally up my alley.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

My senior thesis was about authors recreating the pre-war time period in post-World War I novels, and the experience of nostalgia and the mourning/healing process in Ulysses and To The Lighthouse.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

adam, how do you like that chair? i bought one for home use & ended up missing the back too much.

my senior thesis was about functional objects used in non-functional ways. sort of.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I've got an old dot-matrix-printed version of it somewhere, J. Since I'm moving at the end of the month, I'll keep an eye out for it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE my chair!

Everyone else at work thinks I'm crazy. I have three chairs in my cube which I switch around.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Do you have the GIANT BALL CHAIR?
http://www.healiohealth.com/images/products/ergonomic-chair.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

But he's got the biggest balls of them all.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

it looks like she's keeping her egg toasty.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

You know what I don't love? My desk. It's huge, and L-shaped and has all the room a guy could ever hope for and is about 6 inches too tall. Too tall is a bit of a deal breaker for this guy.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking more about those independence-asserting top 10 pop songs, and how they really are kind of about throwing away whatever's cool and going for something commercial as a way of just "being themselves" -- and that if they stayed cool, they would be too self-conscious to "be themselves"...And interesting that Shelby Lynne and Nelly Furtado are bankrolling their own less popular careers now having taking their shot at the top 10...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I'd take a ball chair.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I would also like a ball chair.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

This is a familiar pattern for female friendships though...one person grows more conventional and alienates the Best Friend by being extremely ordinary.

That happened to me and my BFF from KINDERGARTEN in the middle of high school. Sad! But necessary, I guess.

I don't remember if I did a senior thesis - I'm guessing that I didn't. I took a senior seminar on mid-century Irish poetry, and I did an honors English thesis on a comparison between the embodiment of women as expressed by male and female beat poets. That's all I got.

And I would also take a ball chair, but only if I could adjust the height to make sure it matched my desk height appropriately to avoid wrist and elbow strain, which is a problem for me.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Let's work together on this next joke. First, I'll say:

"I'd take a chair ball."

Then, someone (adamrl?) post a screenshot of Katamari with a bunch of furniture stuck to it!

Go!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd take a chair ball.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm... maybe I never actually graduated from college and all this law school stuff is a Jacob's Ladderesque fever dream.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

SORRY I didn't mean to ruin the joke, but I still don't know what a Katamari is so I'm ignore all references to it.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Joke ruiner.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I can fix it:

I'd take a ball chair.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what a Katamari is either. But my desk is too tall and when my seat is tall enough to make it comfortable to type, my feet don't touch the ground and my knees ache at the end of the day from dangling. I sit on a booster pillow.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

oops. i ruined the joke again. sorry.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

http://ps2media.gamespy.com/ps2/image/article/624/624061/we-love-katamari-20050609104736149.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

That ball chair is so ugly! But does it feel good? The lady in the pic thinks so.

Adam, I love We Love Katamari. I enjoyed the original, but this one seems more exciting to me, or at least I am learning to love the Katamari enterprise all over again. Plus, now Nick has that second controller so I can kick his ass a little faster.

The sound track and story boards are, as you might expect, completely wonderful.

My desk is nice, but I have to hunch over to use the keyboard.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Good one, dude! haha

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I was not aware you could pick up children.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

But I thought you were reading up on Jeffrey Dahmer a couple weeks ago...

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Eww gross.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

ZING!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

I love the sumo level on We Heart Katamari, because the physics are different. (You'll see)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

That wasn't Dahmer. It was Gacy that liked children. Dahmen only liked black homosexual men, and then only after they were dead.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

But let's not go there again, ok?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Really? I thought he picked up 14-year-old Cambodian kids.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

That game looks fun. But every time I have attempted as an adult to play a game that looks fun, I end up frustrated unto tears because I can never get the hang of it enough to stop being annoying and stupid and start being fun.

I am still good at Centipede, though!

xpost: He picked up the one who got away and was delivered back into his custody by the police. NICE ONE, guys!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that one. One of the three victims who were not black, homosexual men.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm putting my stress aside and coming to Chicago tonight. The gig is Digdown and the Stooges Brass Band at Fitzgerald's (I don't even know where that is), and if it's anything like last night it's going to be a blast.

I know it's a Monday night so I don't expect anyone to come, but you know, if you're not doing anything. It's going to start pretty early, 7 pm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

NICE ONE, guys!

Oh, I know. Isn't that just the most infuriating story? And when the boy went missing, the woman who found the kid tried calling the police over and over, and even the FBI, but since Dahmer had told the cops that the kid was his gay lover, the cops were all like, "Whoa! Ok! TMI! We don't want anything to do with all that gay shit."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Cops are such pieces of shit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, sorry, J., can't make it! It's in BERWYN.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes they are.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Where the fuck is Berwyn?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, that sounds like fun, but I have to visit my friend's wormy NEWBORN tonight.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Berwyn, what the hell? Where is that?

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Watch out for larvae!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/map.html
aka I still have no idea

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

wormy newborn?! ahahahaha!

fitzgerald's is a really cool joint, but it's far the fuck out.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Is it the burbs? Man, no one's going to come out to a brass band show in the burbs on a Monday night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah. but it really is a cool place!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I think I've mentioned this before, but lots of Bloodshot Records folks have shows there. Jon Langford's always doing something or other at Fitzgerald's, it seems like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Fuck a burb. Anyone know about the (free!) show at the Empty Bottle tonight?

(sorry Jordan)

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. I wonder why it's free.

Looking at the E. Bottle calendar, I see that the Mtn. Goats are playing this weekend. I'd still like to meet J0hn someday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Beausoleil played at Fitzgerald's over the weekend, Maddie loves them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

FitzGerald's doesn't feel suburban, in the way that Oak Park doesn't feel suburban.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Beausoleil played here last Thursday and I missed them.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I saw them once in Cleveland and it was fun.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I think all Monday night shows at the EB are free.

I'm hanging out with Julia tonight to watch 6FU, the LAST DISC!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I am practicing my piece for Squeezed. I hope it turns out ok.

I concur with jocelyn and Sarah re: We Love Katamari. It's not necessary but it's totally fun fun fun. I LOVE the underwater level.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Can someone email or point me to deets about Squeezed? I want to go but I'm not sure if it's a go-home-first type of evening or a straight-from-work type of evening.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I got the 411 from Kelsey and Sarah - I'll forward you the email.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

You should all come; I'm doing my first public non-musical performance piece since I was in high school plays. It should be...interesting. I just hope that people realize that what I'm doing is intentionally ridiculous, not unintentionally.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Nick - Are you doing stand up comedy about your period?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Are you dancing about architecture?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaybe.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

If I had more time, I would track down and insert the drawing of Henry Rollings with his arms crossed -- SPOKEN tattooed on one arm and WORD on the other.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

(Rollings?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

rollins?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Here it is -- this is one of the goofiest things I've ever seen:
http://orion.csuchico.edu/Pages/vol42issue1/entertainment/e.rollins.gif

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

he's a mook.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Why is the name of the album coming out of his ears?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Because he has HAD IT and HE IS BLOWING OFF STEAM. Steam in the form of an album, so people can purchase his steam.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

so who is going to squeezed tomorrow?! besides the performers among us . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i am.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I hope he didn't really get SPOKEN and WORD tattooed on his arms. If he did, maybe he was out drunk with his buddies when it happened.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I guess it's a way of saying NOT A and ROCK CONCERT.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone expect H. Rollins to sing anymore? I saw him open for a Jane's Addiction show in 1991 or 92. He was super aggro. I remember what I wore to that show: b/w striped tights and a black trapeze dress.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

what's a trapeze dress?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

It's like a tent dress -- it's totally shapeless and makes a giant hoop around the body. It sort of drapes all over and has no waist or shape or anything. It did have arms and a sort of clingy top. Mine came down to right above my knees.

I'm off to see the WORM!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.retrodress.com/images/dr65a.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I am still on the Squeezed fence because I have class until 8:30 and I fear that by the time I get to the venue, I will have missed everything that I want to come see. But I want to go, so perhaps if someone assures me that they will hang out and have a beer with me once I get there, that will probably tip the balance in favor of my attendance.

ALSO I bought some excellent new tights at Marshall Fields and I am excited to show them off. (Big sale on tights there, FYI.)

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Note: I will not be wearing my new tights under a trapeze dress. I think that only someone the approximate size and shape of Amanda can get away with wearing a trapeze dress and not look like a pear wearing clothes.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/27/51409414_7f5833285d.jpg
Nameless kitten!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Is that A.??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Good morning, Chicago! I am about to cycle my bicycle to work!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

name the kitten JACQUELINE

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Yes, do! I've been listening to some learn-french-on-cd-in-the-car discs and the woman's name is Jacqueline (jack-LEEN).

It's a perfect morning for that, giboyeux.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

It's a he! But Jacqueline is a good name. He is going to be named either Quincy or Cosmo, we are in some disagreement over this.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

name the cat peardust.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn, yer boyfriend's cute (btw).

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I'd vote for Tuesday.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Peardust?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

why not wednesday?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

don't ask, j. it's just a combo of two short words that i like. plus, NO CAT WOULD HAVE THAT NAME.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

you could call it pear for short.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

i'm on a fruit kick. maybe pomegranate is a better name. "pom" for short?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Thank you kelsey. I think he kind of looks like n/a, but with a longer jaw.
How was Squeezed? Or is it..Tonight?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

or a cat named "banana!" you could nickname it nana or nanners.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Wednesday's been taken (Ricci). Thursday's been taken (band). Friday's been taken (Ice Cube). The rest are up for grabs.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

for some reason i thought ricci was tuesday...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Squeezed is tonight.

Thank you kelsey. I think he kind of looks like n/a, but with a longer jaw

Ha ha. So that makes it ok for me to say he's cute too, right?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Apple's been taken (Gwyneth). Kiwi's been taken (NZ). The rest are up for grabs. Pluot? Like a dyslesxic Pluto?

Bo and Jo are bad names because they sound too much like No, and the cat will be traumatized.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

What about:
BIMBO
COPY (CAT)
MR. CHUGALUG STRIPEYPANTS
?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Blueberry is taken!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I like Mr. [anything] as a cat's name. Sarah's right -- no austerity.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Chugalug!

Good morning Chicago -- I cradled a brand new human (14 hours old)in my arms last night and I didn't freak out! She was really cute and had little hairless alien eyes and a teensy tiny chin. The experience was positive. My friend had a private room, so that helped a lot.

I think the cat should be named Leonard von Bingen.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

so it wasn't wormy?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Meowy McMeowington
Spike (in memoriam of my ruff old cat, RIP)
Peyote
Lindsay Lohan
Bianca
Bianchi
Peppermint
Vindaloo
Heathcliff

Biking to work was most pleasant.

xpost I'm guessing it was probably wormy

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I like Mr. Chugalug Stripeypants. I also like anything with Mr.
To be honest, newborns freak me out a little bit in their worminess. Once they hit 2 months they're really cute, but the hairless mole-like quality is a bit disconcerting.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

It was a little bit wormy -- that can't be avoided, I don't think, after being squished up in someone's belly for 9 months. But overall, it was more like a little football or something. So TINY! You should know that I don't particularly like babies (surprise!) but I like this one. She cooed a lot. And it was tender seeing my friend in the hospital with her baby.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Who doesn't like babies?! Jesus Christ.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Q: Who doesn't like babies?!
A: Jesus Christ.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

A: Me.

They're ok. But I'm not nuts-for-the-newborns.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm... I'm kind of the other way around. I love the idea of having a newborn, but I'm scared to death of toddlers that are kind of heavy and harder to control.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Toddlers are a riot.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Wormy would not be a good name for a cat.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Wormsley, though, that's kinda cute.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Lord Ronald Wormsby, Feline Esq.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Wormsley is good.

Gibo, what route did you take today? I rode down Clark . . .

Also, do you have a bianchi? Was it the source of your inspiration?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

DOCTOR Chugalug Stripeypants

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Nuts

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Captain Lugnuts.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Captain Chinnigan

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Peanut

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I like Mr. Wormsley and Lord Wormsley. I guess the idea is that the cat is the lord of the house and we are but his/her servants.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

And Lord Ronald is a classic ballad, so he would have a historical context to boot!
I vote for Lord Ronald Wormsley. Except Lord Ronald was poisoned, so I don't know that this is the fate I wish for little Mr Peanut...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Good morning all.

You were right, Fitzgerald's is a cool place. I feel like I may have been there before. There wasn't a whole ton of people there, but they weren't not there either. The music was good and the club made these amazing posters to sell, I think I'm going to get mine framed.

I'm so tired. I was going to see Tortoise tonight but I don't think I could handle another 1, 2, or 3 am bedtime.

Chairman Meow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I will be trying potato pancakes for the first time today. I went for the apple sauce instead of the sour cream, I hope that was a wise choice. I will report back later.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Chairman Meow! Oh my!

OK, in between leaving messages here I found a few minutes to slowly quit my job -- gave notice, leaving December 9...

I'd really like to see that Tortoise show, more for Daniel Lanois. (I thought it was last night, though.) Squeezed calls, though. And I ended up getting tickets from a co-worker to see The Boss solo on Thursday.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Lucky duck! Free?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

haha! one of my early threads was about the cat name "Chairman Meow!"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Nah, not free, steep for a concert, but it's something I know I'll be glad to see...

c/p Are there other cat/dictator names? Purr Pot?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Congrats on quitting yr job, EZ. Maybe I should give notice for a date like a year from now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Idi Ameow.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Meowdonna.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

EZ - I saw the earlier acoustic tour this year and it was INCREDIBLE! If you love -- or even like -- Bruce, you'll enjoy it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

We're on first-name terms, me and that guy.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Imeowda Marcos

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Nikitty Kruschev

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

General Meownel Noreaga

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Morning guys. I am at work. It's all so exciting.

In my absense, see if you guys can get 500 posts IN ONE DAY. I know you can do it. You have some great people on your team.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

KENAN YOU SHOULD NOT BE POSTING ON ILX ON YOUR FIRST DAY AT A NEW JOB

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Nikolai Ceaucesmew

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, good to hear the concert was good, Manda. I'm excited.

Nick, give your one-year notice! Just think what 2007 will be like if you have a year to scheme it out.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

KENAN YOU SHOULD NOT BE POSTING ON ILX ON YOUR FIRST DAY AT A NEW JOB

Mind your own, asshat. All the bosses are in some kind of crazy yelling meeting, and I've been told to "chill."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I went for the apple sauce instead of the sour cream, I hope that was a wise choice.

This was not a wise choice -- it was the only choice.

I'd really like to see that Tortoise show, more for Daniel Lanois. (I thought it was last night, though.)

It was last night in Chicago, but they're playing in Madison tonight!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

I'M JUST TRYING TO LOOK OUT FOR YOU K-DAWG

We should get lunch later this week, once you know your schedule.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Some kind of meeting? Don't you know they're all sitting around a little black-and-white-monitor with a screen-shot of your screen next to it (and pretending to "yell at each other")? Look up, dude. Smile for the camera.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Thank, Nick.

OMG I am in your building.

I wish someone would tell me what to do.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Good morning

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Good morning-o.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Everyone here looks exactly like they work for a web design company. Especially the bosses. The founder of the company, who I met this morning, has my exact glasses. That has to be points, right?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I was going to say...so do you.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I really do. I will do well here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Golda Meow-ir

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Kitty Dukakis

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Catty Purrst

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

"Kitty Doc" Duvalier

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Adolf Catler

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Trotsky

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Klaws Kinski

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Margaret Catcher

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Robert Mu-gato

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

The Thin Red FELine

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I think we have a winner.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Benito Mew-solini

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Pawson Welles

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Gibo, what route did you take today? I rode down Clark . . .

Also, do you have a bianchi? Was it the source of your inspiration?

I work up in Lakeview, so I go Armitage (east) and Damen (north) and Irving Park Rd (east).

I have a Bianchi Pista! Fun fun fun!

YOU SHOULD NOT BE POSTING TO ILX ON YOUR FIRST DAY AT WORK.

Name your cat after me! zhee-boi-yeuh.

Where is Squeezed? And when? Maybe I will go!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Squeezed is 8:30 at the Beat Kitchen! 2100 W. Belmont. Not really el-accessible, but close to the Belmont, Damen, and Western bus routes!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Kittila The Hun

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Napurrleon

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Squeezed is 8:30 at the Beat Kitchen! 2100 W. Belmont. Not really el-accessible, but close to the Belmont, Damen, and Western bus routes!

MOTORIZED VEHICLES ARE FOR GRANNIES.

xpost: Napurrleon wins!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I also ride a pista!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Place is super close to where I live: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from%3A+2100+W+Belmont+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60618+to%3A+2000+n+california+ave,+chicago+il&f=d&hl=en

xpost: let's be friends!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

(Come to Squeezed and hear me sing a song about how great the fall will be when I've left my job, which I'm now not leaving until late late fall.)

Gib, you must be right by Hot Doug's!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Did you ride in the Critical Mass? I saw a gang of chicks on Pistas, and then another on Surlys. I was expecting some kind of West Side Story blowout.

I am! Only eaten there once, thoguh.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

"Napurrleon" gets the added bonus of leon ("lion").

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

And Nap too, J., as in cat nap!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

i have never done critical mass. maybe i'll do it this month though. do you have one of the shiny silver pistas from this year or last? mine is a 2003 i think. i sorta inherited it. i've been toying with spluring on a surly frame, but i just can't swing it.
also, if you come to squeezed, i'll be dressed as R. Kelly!!!

but i'm probably driving there b/c i'm taking two other people and costumes (& neither of them have a bike....)

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

i am biking home though. yes indeed.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Mine is shiny!

I, too, really want a Surly (and almost got one), but now is not the time. Maybe next spring.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I think I want/need a geared bike first. I thought about the volpe (have you seen this year's COLOR?!?!!!) but I just don't have the cash.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

You mean the pukey green? Yeah, I saw it allright. Thought about getting one (i have a thing for cx bikes), but that might have to wait.

Secretly, the best bike in the whole world is the Surly Cross-Check. Geared if you want it, fixed if you don't.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

that's the one i was considering!!!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

GEEKING OUT TO THREAD.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I've sort of been mean to bikes all over ILX, but now I see those hipster bikes, like stupid BMXs or low-riders, and I sort of want one of those. Really, I just miss my Goped.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

what's a hipster bike? a cruiser? a paul frank bike?!?!?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Also, because this is the craziest/best (maybe, if it works out) thing that's happened to me in a while:

So, I was thinking about flying out to NH for an Event (with friends, etc. in attendance). The cost seemed prohibitive, however. I casually mentioned to a friend of mine that she should have a bake sale to raise money for a ticket. Thought nothing of it. Emailed today and found out that she is organizing the 5th Annual Giboyeux's Real Name Chili Cook Off (I have a chili cook-off named after me!) and having it three months early in order to raise money! It's being held next Monday!

xpost I LOVE GEEKING OUT.

OMG!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

a paul frank bike?!?!?!

haha

American Apparel bike.

Yoga Men should not be mean to bikes, Adam. WE ARE UNITED.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tomsimpson.org/albums/may2004/CRW_3720.sized.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have anything to say about biking or bikes. I have a second-hand Huffy and I usually find myself wishing it had a roof or a protective cage around it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Nice, Gib! A chili cookoff in your name!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Whoah. You weren't kidding.

xpost That's ok. We can talk about, uh...babies. Kittens. Babies and kittens playing together in the plush-toy basket of a Paul Frank bike.

awwwwwwww!!

xxpost I'm so honored!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

sorry. that picture is ginormous. I wasn't kidding. there are more versions of it too . . . like an orange one, i think. there's also a john deere bike.

are you going to have veggie chili? if so, i'll totally go.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

NAME THE CAT 'MIKE'

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

okay there are way too many paul frank bikes!!!! here's a link to one b/c the photo is HUGE.

http://www.nirve.com/main/largeimage.asp?id=1624

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Really, Chicago has always seemed like a good city to drive around, and parking is easy.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I want a beat bike for the loop. I also need to take mine in for a tuneup.

xpost, parking is easy? Not in my neighborhood.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I am writing copy about a BMW Cruiser bike right NOW.

I'm sure that there will be veggie chili. Many of my friends are dirty hippies. The cook-off, sadly, will be held in NH.

xpost - It's almost like you enjoy killing the planet, adamrl. You are Yoga Man no more, I say. Good day, sir.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

The Clancy Cruiser? My dog's name is Clancy.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I miss my bike. I gave up on it after the front tire went flat like 50 times despite replacing the tube and the tire. I think I just need a new bike.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

i'll be there eating veggie chili in spirit then. are you coming to squeezed?!?!?!

p.s. to jenny: i'll hang with you once i'm not onstage!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

does anyone want a very heavy green vintage schwinn cruiser?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I will try to come to Squeezed -- I MAY have to work late tonight (deadlines!). It's on my way home, though

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

have you met many of the chicago ILX crew?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't enjoy killing the planet at all, but I moved from somewhere where it is utterly pointless to have a car to somewhere where a car is near-essential and also allows one to take some of the most amazing road trips anywhere on said planet. It's a trade-off. That said, I really only use the car about one day out of every week so I reckon I achieve a nice balance. A bike might be handy if I lived IN SF proper, but for commuting from the East Bay it just wouldn't work.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I met giboyeux for about five seconds at Intonation. I think others met him for longer!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

We use our car mostly for going to the grocery store. A tank of gas usually lasts around 3 months.

I met giboyeux, he was hot.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Because it was like 97 degrees that day.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Five secs, give or take. I've met quite a few, all at Intonation. Not for very long, though, and I haven't been out much, unfortunately. Chicago-ILx is real nice, though.

xpost - It, and I, were both totally hot. So was everyone else. Kenan was a little drunk, if I recall correctly. Me too, though!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Kenan was a little drunk, if I recall correctly

I'm sure you are recalling correctly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

i just wanted to make sure that there would be some recognition in case he comes to squeezed b/c i have no idea who giboyeux is or what he looks like.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I'll be in a trapeeze dress.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm studying french online.

Nick fait besion de faire la vaisselle.

Does anyone know how to say "change the kitty litter?"

I miss riding my bike. I haven't ridden it in a while now because Nick's bike is out of commission. He needs to take that bike off your hands, kels.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I'll be wearing striped tights.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I know what giboyeux's awesome dog and late cat (RIP) look like, but not the man himself.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I'll recognize Gibbie. I even remember his real name. (First name, that is)

I'll be wearing a trapeze dress, striped tights and a Bozo wig.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Hey jaymc, I don't know if you met Nick B4rtell, but he's a short saxophone player who played with us one of the nights at the Green Mill. He and Evan grew up together. Anyway, I saw him at the show last night and he just moved not too far from you, I believe (a couple blocks away from the Mill). His rent is dirt cheap!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

it either needs new tubes or just some air. the tires are relatively new & unused. it's heavy & old, just so you know. but it's yours if you want it. i was going to sell it on craigslist eventually, but i'd prefer to give it away to someone who'd use it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

ps - I don't think you're killing the planet, adamrl.

xpost:

He and Evan grew up together.

No, we didn't.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

But I do play saxophone!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Too many Evans!

I've never run into this problem before.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

(he's also looking for band, if anyone knows one who's looking for a great sax player)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

A band

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

change the kitty litter

errrrr, changez la poubelle du chat?

total guess.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i used to play sax too. my endeavors didn't last more than 4 years though.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I don't remember meeting this Nick fellow!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating potato pancakes. They taste less potato-y than I expected. Mainly they taste like grease with apple sauce on them. Good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

a textbook chicago thread post.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

My sax player is moving to Japan to be with his wife, so I may need some a replacement next year.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Nick, change la poubelle des chats, s'il vous plait.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Better check that, I could be wrong!

I haven't had call to use my French for almost five years.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Mais ne cachez pas les drogues dans la poubelle des chats.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I am now eating a very large and mediocre salad.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I am sipping green tea.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I thought M. White started posting on this thread for a second.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I don't remember meeting this Nick fellow!

I think he might have played on Friday, and you guys came on Saturday. He's a really fun dude. I believe he's trying to break into media stuff, like editing or whatever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Nick, did you ever figure out why yr front tire kept flatting??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

NICK, WATCH OUT FOR VOODOO

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I just found out I have Thursday off (for Yom Kippur) -- why can't I have Friday off instead so I can go see Superpitcher?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I think I've seen superpitcher. I've always been so loaded in the SmartBar.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I saw Superpitcher at Summerfest. He looked European.

What is it like outside? Should I go read outside during my lunch break or is it too cold?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I might still go see United State of Electronica earlier in the evening at Schubas, and anyone who likes to DANCE to SPARKLING FUN HAPPY DISCO-POP SONGS should join me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, why do you get off work for Yom Kippur?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't get work off for Yom Kippur.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Neither do I. Although my boss said I could have it off if I could really convince him that I would be in a synangogue/fasting for most of the day. I could not convince him.

I saw Superpitcher at Summerfest. He looked European.

He's from COLOGNE.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

It's like a scene from the Birds in the park across from work. I'm talking 4 digits at least.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I can't see Superpitcher OR Plasticman this weekend because of GREs.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm putting my "game face" on.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm not entirely sure that English people have "game faces."

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Do they?

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.1966england.co.uk/gallery/greatestmoments/beckham(1).jpg

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

It is not a game face if your tongue is hanging out.

Unless you're Michael Jordan.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Or Gene Simmons.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Both of whom are American.

I prefer to put a European spin on the concept, like Superpitcher.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

COLOGNE

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Hey, as our resident English person, have you ever heard of the Lyke Wake Walk? Have you ever done it? I'm currently obsessed with the idea of walking 40 miles across the moors for no apparent reason.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

where is plasticman playing? please tell me it's on friday nite. please.

people, go to smartbar so we can dance together!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, why do you get off work for Yom Kippur?

I don't know, maybe the owner of the company is Jewish?

Guess where I just had lunch? Burger King.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I love potato pancakes. I put the sour cream AND the apple sauce on them.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, on Saturday morning when I was really hung over all I wanted to eat was GREEEEASE so I when I walked down to Chicago to pick up our car from where we had left it I bought HASH BROWNS and APPLE PIES at McDonald's. It was my first non-road-trip-related fast food consumption in years. It was crazy in there, the staff was insanely busy and they were all yelling at each other.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Amanda-I've never heard of it, I'm afraid!

But I'm a Londoner, and a very London-centric one at that.

where is plasticman playing? please tell me it's on friday nite. please.

Saturday. In San Francisco.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

For some reason, I really had a craving for a veggie Whopper (everything but the burger), and I had just been to the post office in the Thompson Center, and so the next thing I knew, I was making my way down to the food court.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Gene Simmons is Israeli, I thought? I wonder if he lets KISS get off on Thursday for Yom Kippur.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I just had tasty Indian buffet for lunch to make up for a crappy morning. The saag paneer there is heavenly.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Ok. Thanks anyway, A. I've been googling.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Now I want off for Yom Kippur even though I would probably just sleep in and play video games. This is bullshit.

On the way back from Chicago we stopped at the Belvedere Oasis in hopes of some gyros or Greek salad, but of course the only thing still open was McDonald's. I had a slimy grilled chicken sandwich, but the vegetarian in the band ordered two cheeseburgers w/out the burgers!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

For some reason, we are not allowed to schedule meetings on Thursday for Yom Kippur, but we ARE expected to come to work.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I had Quizno's. mit salad. Decent. I made curry last night, though

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

When I used to work in the Physics building, a whole bunch of the staff used to bitch about not getting Good Friday off and having to take a vacation day. Finally the head of the department got so sick of hearing them moan he shouted "If it wasn't for people like me you wouldn't even have Good Friday, so shut it!"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Okay, that doesn't make much sense out of context, but I tried.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Squeezed is gonna be BANANAS tonight. PARTY OF THE CENTURY.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

BLOWOUT

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

My computer won't burn CDs anymore, so I am bringing the mix CD I made for THE BOMB (which was pretty good: "Cherry Bomb," "B.O.B.," "Ask," etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

It would be funny if your boss gave you Yom Kippur off work just because you look Jewish.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

For music tonight, you should just play the "Blow It Out Your Ass, It's Veruca Salt" EP over and over again.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

And maybe a song by Blow and something from the Blow soundtrack.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Play Chicago Sold Out, that's a good song.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Kurtis Blow, "The Breaks"
Snoop Dogg, "Let's Get Blown"
Eve ft. Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
Delfonics, "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)"

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

Cpatain Beefheart, "When It Blows Its Stacks"

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Something from Johnny Griffin "A Blowin' Session"?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I own "A Blowin' Session"! Isn't that the one with the flock of birds on the cover?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

No "Blowin' In The Wind"?
Or, my favorite, "Blow My Buzz" by D-12.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

i'm getting really excited! and nervous!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Blowing For Soup?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Birds -- yes!
"Blow the Man Down" -- nothing like a sea shanty to raise spirits

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, you're going to dominate, just like R KELLY.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Maybe someone else could burn a cd for tonight? I mean, this is the LAST SQUEEZED! You need a special NEW mix! DO IT!

I'm excited and nervous too.

Ben called last night and tried to get the down low from me about our performance and Nick's performance, but I was so vague and mysterious about it that I'll doubt he'll show up with his ladyfriend.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, what's going to happen if you're onstage, and you see sitting in the back of the room...a man with a fedora...sunglasses...a mustard-colored suit...a cane...and an entourage of schoolgirls...

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

he should show up alone & hook up with someone new!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

eric, i will spring to mother fucking life.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

...and next thing we know there'll be a wicked harmonica solo in "Sex in the Kitchen, Part 2".

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

a man with a fedora...sunglasses...a mustard-colored suit...a cane...and an entourage of schoolgirls...
Is that what you'll be wearing tonight?

I'm tired of being at work today! I studied french online until my eyes hurt.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah, will you be wearing school girls?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

The FF's should do a song en français.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey Nick, instead of re-writing those lyrics you don't like, you should just translate them into French!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics I don't like have a couple of lines in French, but they are too twee.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I am getting nervous about tonight too, and I am NEVER nervous about shows. I guess it's because I'm doing something different for me. I can't decide how straight to play it. I have a feeling that I'm just going to end up playing it "nervous."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling that I'm just going to end up playing it "nervous."

That's how I usually do.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

i can't play it nervous b/c i need to channel r. kelly

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Channel "R. Kelly in the courtroom"

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Guys like R., they're fine on-stage -- it's offstage where they get plenty nervous (in the closet, etc.).

c/p Exactly, gib!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

is anyone planning on bringing a video camera?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Nope. I'm pretend to have one, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

i'll bring my regular camera if you want me to...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

R. is, Gib!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

(or K., I mean)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm bringing a tape recorder to record my thing, but that won't help you very much.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

We have a video camera but it is broken. In fact, it has never worked.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kbtoys.com/g/toys/big/124853.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

amanda, if it's not too much trouble, that would be awesome!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I'll bring it, sugarbear. Don't you worry.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I am going to Squeezed! And debating taking a cab so I can get there faster.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Yaaaaay!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Because, technically, according to the CTA's website, if I can get on a red line within 8 minutes of my class ending, I can get to the BK by 9:05. But! I probably won't make the 8 minute deadline because I'll have to pee and go to my locker and it takes 8 minutes to get an elevator in this shit hole of a school and since when is the CTA ever EVER as on time as their website claims?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Never ever.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. I'll cough up for the cab and recoup my losses taking public transpo home. So nobody I know go on stage until I get there! kthxbi

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Currently Nick is scheduled to go on around 9:20, and Kelsey/Sarah around 9:55. I have no idea how accurate this will be as the evening progresses, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you in charge? Make it accurate, maaaaaaaan!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah dude, bring the hook.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Next proposed ILX vacation: CAMDEN, NJ PARTY BUS

It's in Camden, NJ!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

thank you all 4 coming 2 squeezed!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

It was good!

...chastening request: what does one do when one's friend self-immolates?

Seriously. I'm a little...uh, put out.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

(this is not snarky. I just don't know how to ask.)

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Um. I think I need more context, gib.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

G'morning, and g'to meet you guys if only too briefly...

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving your cd, Eazy! We started listening to it on the drive home.

Giboyeux, what sort of problem does your friend have?

My mom accused me yesterday over the phone of having self-destructive behaviours just to create more stress for myself. Her only evidence was that I said I don't check the mail every day.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

It was nice to meet you, too! Everybody did so great! I was sorry we had to leave, but we had to leave.

Evan... did someone you know set himself on fire?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Jenny & Amanda, I forgot to give you Secret Project cds I made. Remind me next time I see you... I brought copies to Squeezed but then forgot about them until the last minute.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I second/third/whatever everyone on last night being a complete success! I was a little remorseful that I chickened out of being part of the Golden Showers, but you guys were so great that it was better without me, I'm sure. Sarah, I am looking forward to hearing your secret project.

As for your friend, Gib, are you serious? Because I had a boyfriend who actually tried that once and it was, needless to say, a harrowing experience. You can't drop a bomb like that on us and not elaborate...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Also, not on the topic of immolation, I am glad to have finally met EZ. His songs were super.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to his album this morning, iPod-stylee. It's great and I recommend it to you all.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

So what did y'all end up performing last night, exactly?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Nick's spoken-word thing was AWESOME. I would love to see more stuff like that. I forgot to ask: what was the music you used?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could have gone. I had another long day today, though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Nick created that music himself - in our guitar room! He has a whole bunch of crazy projects like that.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

No way, really? That was awesome!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

A current CNN headline:

Microsoft, Yahoo to lol as bff on IM

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Uh, sorry about that. I was drunk and wallowing.

Yes, a friend did just set herself on fire. Although, sadly to say, it wasn't entirely unexpected, as she's a heavy-duty paranoid schizophrenic. Anyway, she's "ok" now, insofar as she's not dead and is now in the ICU.

EZ's songs were ace. I can't believe you thought I was a chick. A CHICK! OF ALL THINGS! Geezum. I'm sorry I missed nick's thing, and I'm glad that I caught RKelsey and the Genuinely Funny Comedian.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I'm genuinely sorry to hear about your friend, Gib. What a mess.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Ah, shit, G. That's horrible. I hope she gets better physically and gets the mental help she needs, too. And it's okay to get drunk and wallow. Just ask Kenan.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

(note: that wasn't meant to sound insensitive, but on second thought, i could have chosen a better phrase. i apologize sincerely for posting in haste.)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

That's fucked up, giboyeux, sorry.

Yeah, the music was a collage of a few different things that I've done over the past couple of years. It was two different drones (one made up of layered e-bowed guitars, one of delayed bowed guitar) that happened to fit together, preceded by some guitar/bass/drum stuff I did about a year or so ago.

So none of you have seen the ILX threads related to the story I told last night? If you figure out what I'm talking about, don't give away my secret identity please.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

God, giboyeux, I assumed you were speaking metaphorically. I'm so sorry to hear that.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Aww, I wish I could have heard your piece, Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I taped it, so maybe it will be on the internets eventually.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

No, it is a mess. No apology necessary. She's been getting mental help since she was 13-14 (she's 19)...has a full-time personal care assistant and everything. In a way, I feel more sorry for her mother, who basically has to quit her job and take care of her fulltime for the rest of her life, all the while fielding death threats from who is, most of the time, the sweetest person on the planet.

xpost: secret identity?! RELATED THREADS?

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

ANYWAYS, Kelsey was R. Kelsey, performing a dance routine to "Sex in the Kitchen," featuring the Golden Showers back-up dancers, of whom Sarah was one. I think they brought the house down.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Oops, that ANYWAYS was supposed to come after my post. Now it looks like I'm dismissing gib's horrible story.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

The lights really did work well with Nick's performance. So did you write that thing? Did someone else write it? Are we not allowed to know that?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Hey, thanks you guys. Nick, your story reminded me of Joe Frank's radio pieces -- creepy stuff that works well especially when all you can do is listen and not watch.

Really consistent night all around! It's so tempting to write, in response to "I was a little remorseful that I chickened out of being part of the Golden Showers," that I'm sure you're not the first one to do so...

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

What was the name of the commedian who was funny?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Let's not code his name so that he can read the kudos -- it's Rob Buscemi.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

No, I think Jenny left before Rob performed, she's talking about Kumail.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right! And there was the earlier guy who I missed most of who did the whole CompUSA story...

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

http://mmedia.ozon.ru/multimedia/person_photo/fiorentino_linda03.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I liked Kumail.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like an awesome night. Jaymc, maybe you should consider making this into a regular thing?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Not to say that he's not funny, because he might be, but I didn't see him. But there was a guy on before the break who made me L-O-L. He talked about how his cell phone tries to make him use "shiv" instead of "shit" when he texts messages.

"Shiv" is one of my favorite words to use randomly in conversation. As in "I'm going to shiv that bimbo."

xpost: Right! Kumail. He was hilarious. The CompUSA guy wasn't as funny to me, but he seemed like a nice person.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, is that Linda Fiorentino?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, it has been a regular thing, but this was the "last one." Though it will probably return next year, it sounds like.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

"The Last Seduction" is a pretty good movie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

INDEED.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

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I was wrong. Linda Fiorentino wasn't in the Day After Tomorrow.

Sela Ward (?) was.

Kumail was Genuinely Funny. "Sietag."

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Morning all! I slept in as late as humanly possible this morning. I'm wiped!! Brooke & I headed back to our apartment where she made pizza & we watched the bonus DVD of "Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-5)" before heading off to bed.

It was great meeting you, Evan! Sorry to hear about your friend.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I feel weird-ish this morning. My lungs hurt and I'm tired. Probably just all that cigarette smoke. I'm making some tea.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I just realized jaymc didn't perform last night! He usually talks about music. What gives?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I wish Jenny and I didn't have to leave early, but I didn't get home until 11:30 and I get up at 6...so...that's a little late for me. I wanted to see Edith F.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm just crazy tired, like considering skipping the class taught by my wonderful professor who looks like Craig Finn tired. But I'm going, and on the way am leaving the following note on the Suburu station wagon parked in front of the house:

To Whom It May Concern:

Your car alarm went off twice last night and once early this morning for approximately 45 minutes each time. If you must park so close to where I sleep, please consider disconnecting your very sensitive and very loud car alarm.

Thank you,
A very sleepy neighbor

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

My lungs hurt because i need to not smoke.

nick, i genuinely liked your piece a lot & EZ is right . . . it reminds me of joe frank as well.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

jenny, that's great.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

and sucky. the note is great. the situation, sucky.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I think I use "very" too much in that note.

Oh well, too late, I already wrote it. Perhaps the Suburu owner will understand that I am very serious about how very upset 45 minutes of HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK made me at 4 AM.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah jenny - you should leave that note. it's succinct.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't know who Joe Frank is! I will have to do research.

Once I went to the grocery store and there was this huge SUV in the parking lot, parked across two spaces. I left a note on the windshield that said "Maybe if you drove a normal-sized car, you wouldn't have to take two spaces." ZING.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I think if I ever do a performance like that again, I will try to:
a) Make it more obviously humorous, at least in parts, and
b) Try to sound more like David Byrne.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

But I liked that it was quietly humorous -- not like HAR HAR HAR funny, but (small chuckle to oneself, 'my word --that's clever') funny.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

1. I think I know what Nick's secret identity is, and I have to confess, I haven't read the threads that I think he's talking about, if I'm right.

2. I am in awe of the fact that you created that music yourself. It FUCKING RULES. I thought for sure it was some Lee Ranaldo piece or something.

3. I didn't read anything last night because I DIDN'T NEED TO. You all were great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking of starting a website that would be a collection of DRONES. My drones, and then drones that other people would submit. I probably would, if I had a high-speed connection.

Anyways, thanks for all the kind words from everyone, my ego is now the size of a large grapefruit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

my word --that's clever

No one says that. Do you say that?

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I think that sometimes, though I say it rarely. I'm well-preserved for an 80 year-old, huh?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

It was tense-funny. An audience laughs when it gets off on the suspense of something without getting freaked out by it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Nick, Are you a grateful grapefruit? Also, do you really need a high-speed connection to upload DRONE MUSIC? ha ha

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I saw this going down, it was a car being towed directly behind the alarming car. It would go off, and the tow truck would just set it off again.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, it has been a regular thing, but this was the "last one."

I know, I was just giving him shit, har har.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

It will rise once again, not unlike the phoenix of popular mythology.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could have been there.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

You would've ruined it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I know!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

p.s. to sarah, as i was driving katie home, she & brooke COULD NOT SHUT UP about how awesome you are. seriously. mostly i kept saying, "i know. i know!"
they're in the sarah mclusky fan club BIG TIME.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

As am I, mind you!!!! I didn't mean to sound all grouchy about it!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I didn't see the tow truck, but the alarm went off at 4, 5, and then again at 7... that's a long, drawn out towing process.

I got up to see what car was honk, honk, honking because our car alarm is the same (HONK HONK HONK) so I got worried about it maybe being our car, even though to set our alarm off you have to open the locked door from the inside, which means it only goes off if you lock somebody in the car and they try to get out or somebody breaks a window and tries to open the door from the inside. But we live in A-ville so our car was parked out of hearing range from our actual apartment.

And that's the problem with car alarms in the city.

The End.

PS: Somebody left a note on our car calling Jeff an "asshole" because if he had pulled up an extra two inches, she (it was girlie handwriting so I'm guessing) would have been able to park, too. Of course, she didn't consider that the other cars might have been arranged different when Jeff parked. Bimbo.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

People should not be allowed to eat broccoli-cheese casseroles at their desks if they don't have a private office. The odor is truly overwhelming.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I agree, yet that sounds delicious anyway.

I'm have soup to reheat today. It's a good soup day.

KELSEY! Your friends rule too, as do you. I'm glad I'll get to see them again soon, and you too.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, you need to go do girly things with Kelsey's friends that you can't do with me. Like go see "In Her Shoes" or put your hair in curlers or paint your toenails or go clothes shopping or something.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Brooke & Katie are good for that, actually. I don't typically enjoy those types of girlie things, but when i do . . . it's with them.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of girlie - I am having Fun with Eyeshadow these days.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I like playing with hair and makeup, shopping not as much.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I like shopping for eyeshadow.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

You guys should all go see "In Her Shoes," so I don't have to see it. I'll go see Wallace & Gromit or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (when it comes out).

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

What is it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

That movie will make me depressed because I don't have a sister. I'm not allowed to watch movies about sibling bonding because they send me into the pits.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

In Her Shoes is a movie based off of a book by a "chick-lit" writer that Sarah likes.

Wallace & Gromit are clay.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a meta detective noir movie with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, written by the guy who wrote The Long Kiss Goodnight.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Amanda I will be your sister.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I'll take all the siblings I can get.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

How come I don't hear about new movies anymore? I knew about Wallace and Gromit, btw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Well I don't think KKBB is actually coming out for another couple of weeks at least, I just started seeing ads for it on TV.

I am REALLY sleepy and weird-feeling. I wonder if I'm getting...ill.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I wanna see Capote real bad and I don't even like biopics, but I love PSH. Does that come out this week in Chicago?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Next week, according to Ebert's site.

Ebert also says that In Her Shoes is not a "soppy chick-flick" in his 3.5-star review. Curtis Hanson (Wonder Boys, 8 Mile, L.A. Confidential) directed it!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

When I put Dan's glasses on Junior, my elderly cocker spaniel, he looks exactly like Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys. Jowlicious.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I really want to see Touch the Sound. It's by the guy who did Rivers and Tides, which i adore.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I was gonna say that Curtis Hanson made "In Her Shoes". Ladies, if you need an escort to the cinema, ignore these brutes and call Mr. Z.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Curtis Hanson is a very good old school-style Hollywood director. Don't forget The Hand That Rocks The Cradle or The River Wild!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I admire the cut of his jib, this anti-auteur thing. Clark Johnson does this too.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I guess you call them "directors for hire" but they have a bit of class.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I saw Kenan outside. He says his new job is fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I just ate a free lunch and watched two Simpsons episodes, courtesy of the Outlaws, LGBSU law student group. Three cheers for the Outlaws!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I'm going to pass out I'm so tired. I don't know how I'm going to hack going to the gym and having band practice tonight. I want to go home, play some We Love Katamari, and go to sleep.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I want to see Serenity.

There, I said it. I haven't even seen any Firefly episodes. I just want to watch a space drama. Touch the Sound looks pretty good, too. Also, this weekend is the Music Box Massacre!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I did that last night, except I played Winning Eleven 8 and watched The Outsiders.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

This weekend is going to be crazy, but what is the Music Box Massacre?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Sarah leaves on Sun morning for Las Vegas, so for Sun, Mon, and Tues I get to do a bunch of GUY STUFF and ME ALONE STUFF. Which usually entails: eating a bunch of fake meat and watching '70's action movies.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

LAS VEGAS

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I would like to see Serenity as well, and I DID see all the Firefly episodes. I liked it, but all the Whedon fans gushing and overhyping the movie are a turn-off.

Last night we did the homemade pizza + beer + Arrested Development thing because I've been having a stressful week. It was awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

VIVA

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

A 24-hour horror movie marathon at the Music Box Theatre!

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/Massacre.html

xpost: Shit, Sarah, I still have that dress if you want to try it on!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I just hustled to Marshall Fields and back for their hosiery sale. I was gone 15 minutes more than I should have been. Oops! And I'm sweaty.

They're showing THE CRAZIES at that festival, aren't they? That movie was good.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Yes, they are! And did you get some hosiery? Let's talk tights.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Return of the Living Dead is an awesome movie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I got (1) pair regular black since mine are ancient and have holes (1) pair black with hexagonal pattern and (1) pair bright turquoise, for wearing with my pink or red shoes.

I think you can tell which ones I'm most excited about.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Ooo I saw those turquoise ones! They will look excellent with pink or red shoes.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

i have a pair of turquoise! i might steal your idea of pairing them with red shoes!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

That's a good festival line-up, I've only seen four of those (Nosferatu, Scanners, Return of the Living Dead, and Near Dark (I heartily recommend Near Dark to everyone)).

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

i have a pair of turquoise! i might steal your idea of pairing them with red shoes!!
Can we make a pact to call each other if we're going to wear these to a gathering where we will both be in attendance, so we don't look like poopsie twins?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

fair enough.

so my new co-worker just brought mcdonald's back to her desk. if there is a smell i hate more, i can't think of it right now.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

both of our coworkers can suck it with their nasty lunches.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

It's $20 for the whole festival, and since movies at the Music Box are usual $9 each, I figure if I go see three during the 24 hour period, I will come out ahead. And the only movies I've seen in that line up are Return of the Living Dead, The Howling, and Two Thousand Maniacs. (I have a Hershel Gordon Lewis soundtrack CD at home that's pretty sweet in a "CD of strange low-budget horror movie noises" kind of way.)

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

It looks really fun but I think we are busy that evening.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

It's almost Halloween. What's going on? I'm thinking of dressing up as "JT Leroy."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

seriously. i HATE this smell. i was literally thinking just the other day, "what is my least favorite smell?" it's mcdonalds.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking of dressing up as "JT Leroy."

Haha, you should!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

It's a crazy busy weekend. I definitely want to see some of those movies, but it might not happen. Who knows???

Halloween - I know of some people who might have partie, but I don't know of anything specific. I don't know what to be, either! It's driving me nuts!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I think everyone can guess who I'm going to be this year. . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Jenny - I liked "sexy zombie Rehnquist."

Kelsey - you really embodied the spirit of R. your moves were stellar too.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I could be a dead lawyer, similar to the dead librarian of a few years ago. I could wear my suit and have something deadly and law-related sticking out of my head, and carry my old contracts horn book around.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

thanks!! i was just hoping i wouldn't showcase my nervousness.

jenny: hahaha!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

what about an aged copy of the constitution?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could go to that festival. I've seen Nosferatu, the Howling, Creature from the Black Lagoon (though not in amazing 3-D), and Return of the Living Dead, but the others look cool.

Maddie and I are going as corporate zombies this year. It's the Year of the Zombie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I want to be a zombie something or other, too. Zombie lawyer? I could make it as if the constitution was skewered into my chest with a knife to represent the death of our constitutional rights under the boot of our current president and his idiot cronies.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

bwah hahahahaha!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Zombie lady of justice?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

a zombie judge might be somewhat more obvious...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

you know, black cloak/graduation gown, a gavel (or a meat tenderizer!) & if you want to be all judge judy-like, a lace collar.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

meat tenderizer!!!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

you could also wear a creepy grey wig that has powder poof out of it when you touch it, like dust!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Jenny, I still haven't bought tix to the Music Box massacre. Should we do that? We've got cats in the morning, movies, courtney in town, etc?//

The only one that I would be sad to miss is Nosferatu. Live organ accompiment!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone see The Unknown at the Block Cinema when Pinetop Seven performed with the movie? That was SO COOL. It was one of my favorite "I'm so glad I'm in Chicago and can see cool stuff like this" moments. Have I mentioned this like 100 times? It was THAT COOL.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Cool cool cool. Three more times for your pleasure.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh, man, I don't know. I do want to see some of those movies. Just Nosferatu alone would be worthwhile. I wish we could buy tickets a la carte.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

If you even see 2 movies, you get your money's worth, minus $2...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I want new tights so badly, but seeing as how I had -$100 just two days ago, I can't. OW! It hurts not to be able to buy tights!

Jenny, where could we rendezvous? I bought a super cheap dress at.. get this... WET SEAL last weekend just in case, but I would love to try yours on.

I am up for any and all Halloween festivities. If we don't come up with a plan, I might want to just go to the Ice Factory.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Here's a word problem for you:

So when I was buying the tights, there was this lady in front of me. She was buying a huge stack of pantyhose because she thought they were 25% off. She argued with the clerk for 5 minutes about whether or not they were on sale for 25% off or "buy three get one free."

Now, according to my calculations, "buy three get one free" is basically 33.3% off, correct? And that would be a better deal than what she wanted, which was 25% off.

Now, I'm terrible at math, but was she complaining for no reason? I know she wanted to buy a whole bunch, so "buy three, get one free" would have been a perfectly good deal for her, right?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Is "buy three get one free" (assuming you're buying in factors of 4)the same thing as 25% off? Why am I so bad at math?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

No, buying 3 getting 1 free is essentially getting 4 for the price of 3, which is a 25% discount.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

So it's the exact same thing -- that was my initial thought. So she was hassling the clerk for no reason. Only a major bitch would buy $100 worth of pantyhose and then complain about her discount.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

She was complaining about nothing, which means she is no better at math than you are.

Sarah, what's happening at Ice Factory on Halloween? I never get their emails.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but I didn't make anyone late with my complaining. I did bother you guys with it though. Me and that lady are bad at math. We are both sorry for our transgressions.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

love it. that was one of the more amusing things i've read all day.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Although, if she is buying a number of pantyhose that is not divisible by four, so she can buy three, get one free, she would want to argue for the 25% off. If she bought ten pairs of hose, she would get two free and pay full price for eight. But if she got 25% off, she would get that discount on the two remainder pairs as well.

Right?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Right, I think. But she was being overtly bitchy to the clerk, so she should have to pay full price.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

She should have to pay a BITCHY BIMBO tax!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I feel like we'll enter a different age when we reach the end of Chicago's discography. Full-on no-summer-left fall will set in. We'll enjoy the mulled wine and our scarves, but something will be gone, too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

No more undie talk?
I saw vintage corsets in Marshall Fields today and they were ornate and painful looking.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Where does one buy cool boy undies? you know, like not for dads or frat boys.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I regret that I have to take leave of this conversation and attend a "meeting." I will be back.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DID I SAY?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I said that I would regret leaving! I have to go stand in the cafeteria and listen to SALES STATS! My teeth hurt.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. My stock of underwear is way low. I really need some more. I usually just go to Old Navy or somewhere boring like that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I thought guy panties were pretty straight forward... Boxers, briefs, boxer briefs, or a thong with a little tuxedo on the front.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I sorry, I should have said "man panties."

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

MANTIES

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Men's clothes SUCK.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Everyone goes to the same places and wears the same things. I am never entering a Banana Republic again.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Jeff buys all his drawers at Target. I recommend it.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I will take a look at Jeff's drawers.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I have some from Target but they are super-cheapo and the elastic kinda hurts.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

My delicate underwear region.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Most of my drawers are from Target, too, come to think of it. I buy bras at VS, though, because they are comfortable and last foreva.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I saw some briefs in H&M that were so hideous it was quite cool. They were vivid green with yellow piping, and some kind of Dutch/Scottish looking crest printed to the right of the crotch.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

My tender, baby-soft nether-regions.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

I was told yesterday that I need to buy new underwear, because at the end of a week I have to don the "back of the drawer drawers" shredded boxers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Anyways, why are all boxers really boring or stupid novelty boxers with like Tweety Bird on them? Why can't they be STYLISH?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I want UNDERWEAR EPAULETS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

In other news, Sarah and I have both decided that we are too tired to go to the gym tonight.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I want racing stripes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Hi nick. Wanna give me a ride, if you're not doing the gym thing? I can meet you out front.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Tell us about your underwear, Kenan

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

What?

No.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

The stylish drawers are at Filene's Basement. Perry Ellis.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I need new drawers. I buy packs of colored hanes briefs. I need some more, because most of mine are too big. I think I'll get those ribbed for my pleasure ones next.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Click on "personal furnishings" and then "boxers" and you'll see the kind I'm talking about:

http://www.perryellis.com/frame_one.htm

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

So you'll post pictures of your underwear but not discuss them, Kenan?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I just didn't have any context for that question. Maybe if "underwear" were in the thread title.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

The greatest line from the meeting:

We're not focusing enough on overcommunication. We are under-overcommunicating.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Haaaaa.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like just the right amount of communication.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I am so bored. Please help me. Jenny -- what was the name of that author who wrote good (not cheesy) historical fiction?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Hello!

Those P.E. undies look like biker shorts to me.

Boys, you all need to go clothes and underwear shopping together.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I had to rescue this thread from the very bottom of the board, wtf?

I listened to AC/DC this morning.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

But unlike biker shorts they billow!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I think we lads should all pick out matching outfits for a party sometime. We can be a posse.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Matching as in identical.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I listen to Cannibal Ox this morning while reading Uninsured in America. It was the most depressing train ride ever.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

what was the name of that author who wrote good (not cheesy) historical fiction?

...Patrick O'Brien? master and commander!

I like him.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Will someone please recommend me a novel with one or all of the following elements?

1) historical setting
2) witchcraft OR
3) pagan ritual
4) a lurid element
5) suspense

I am itchy for a book that will keep me curled up in bed all day with THE FEAR.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Something that's NOT LIKE A CHILDREN'S BOOK.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Maybe a Patrick McGrath book? I've only read Spider, but Asylum sounds like it matches your criteria better.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

You should read Jonathan Strange! It is most excellent!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

The historical fiction author I had referenced before was Phillipa Gregory, but she borders on cheesey. I think The Other Boleyn Girl would fit your criteria nicely, however.

Ooo ooo I loved Jonathan Strange!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Or The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Also: The Magician, by W. Somerset Maugham.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

'The Plot Against America' is out in paperback and is unpredictible and suspenseful. No wiccans, though.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

We have that and would gladly let you borrow it. I started to read it, but then had a hard time getting into Phillip Roth's writing for some reason.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Currently ranks as the Last Good Book I Read.

That was...June?

Correction: Middlesex! (July)

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Thank you. I need to escape the pit of despair I've been wallowing in all morning.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I've had a hard time getting into a lot of Roth's books, but then all of a sudden 'The Plot Against America' and 'The Human Stain' floored me. I just loved the overall structure of both of them, the unpredictability page by page, the giant changes that characters make in their lives (in completely credible ways), etc.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I've only read Portnoy's Complaint.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

I just read The Great American Novel by Roth. I would like to borrow The Plot Against America sometime, if that offer applies to me as well.

Another spooky book recommendation: The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

i totally missed the underwear conversation yesterday!!

i'm thinking of buying underwear at the gap. only b/c the cotton is soft & thin (yet seems to last) & i'm a fan of the hipster fit b/c bikini undies make me feel like i'm cupping my belly which, as you may know, does not feel sexy.
i think leaf often does the filene's thing. or used to. i don't know what he does as a student. he probably doesn't buy new underwear b/c if he's going to buy anything it'll be for his bike.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

sorry, old post. i got the stop when i tried to post it earlier.

books!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Nick, you can borrow the book, too. Tell me about The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham. Spooky you say? I like spooky.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I like spooky too. Spooky + lurid is pretty much my favorite combination.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone ever read Harvest Home, by (former actor and full time bohunk) Thomas Tryon? That book RULES.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I mean, it's not great lit or anything, but the story is good and it's pretty scary. Dan's mom used to tell him "If anyone ever asks you to be the harvest king, say NO!"

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I didn't like 'The Plot Against America' that much. I can't quite remember why though. Maybe it was the ending.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

i think i'm on some kind of memoir kick...i read "a million little pieces" now i'm reading "she's not there" & next is some book about a woman, wolves & the great outdoors or something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I want to read a million little pieces

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm about a quarter of the way through it right now. It's what I'm reading for the new book club.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a non-reading rut and it's depressing me. I either need to set aside a couple evenings to finish that David Mitchell book (which I think is really good, but I guess it never quite sucked me in) or just put it aside and go on to the Sam Delany ("Stars in My Pocket...") that I've got waiting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I've been reading lots of comics, though. Last night I read an Adrian Tomine book, it was really good, if emo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

jeff, it's good. it's something i'll probably breeze through again someday. the only negative thing that has come out of it is the fact that i tend to overly channel whatever it is that i'm reading. often, the style of the author is how i chat with myself in my head. and he's tough & he could throw back 2 bottles of wine in 20 minutes. so, for about four days i felt like i could up the ante. probably not the best line of thinking when you're reading a book on ADDICTION and overcoming that. but, you know, whatever.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

p.s. if leaf doesn't want to borrow my copy when he VISITS THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!! then you can borrow it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

are you SO excited?
he's staying at your place, right?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

i tend to overly channel whatever it is that i'm reading. often, the style of the author is how i chat with myself in my head.

I do that, too!!!!!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I stayed up really late last night reading a book based on Bluebeard, set in one of the religious "utopias" of the 1840s, and it freaked me out. It was really well written, but the actual Bluebeard elements were very grotesque.
Amanda, you can always (re) read The Secret History. That's what I do when I want some trashy-disguised-as-literature occult stuff.
My friend Colleen highly recommends Ann Patchett's memoir "Truth & Beauty", about her best friend Lucy Greeley. I have not gotten around to reading it yet, as she said it made her weep for days.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

What is the name of this Bluebeard book?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I need some lit. Right now I'm reading "Anarchy, State and Utopia," which is hard work, and "The Republican War On Science," which is aggravating.

Maybe I should just get over it and read Harry Potter.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

The Bluebeard book Fitcher's Brides, by Gregory Frost. (It also draws on the Grimm story of Fitcher's Bird)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh Lucy Greeley - is that the woman with the face? That sounds sooooooo sad. And good. Books about best friends = classic.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I read Lucy Greeley's autobiography & it made me kinda angry. It was good, for sure, interesting . . . but something about her outlook on her situation made me really angry.

jenny, do you ever wonder if this means that neither of us can really be writers? will we always be writing in a voice that isn't necessarily our own?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

That Bluebeard book sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. I will look for all of these things today at the library.

Isn't writing in a voice that isn't your own what makes a good novel? I can't stand it when I hear the author coming through TOO much. I like it when they stand back more.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I mean style? I don't know . . . I agree with you though.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

I think I could never be a writer (of fiction, anyway. I can write the HELL out of a software installation manual and have the lucite tech writing awards to prove it) for a whole host of other reasons more obvious than not being able to find my own voice. But in general, I don't think it's an automatic bar to being a good writer. If you read enough books, eventually your internal voice might be such a mish mash of other writers' voices, plus your own contribution, that it becomes your very own.

Also, I feel like if you were to write in emulation of writers you admire, you would still eventually develop your own style if you kept at it. But, as mentioned above, I'm not fiction writer so what the hell do I know.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Good morning!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I think some of the best creative writing I've done is stuff that, in retrospect, was totally channeling Don DeLillo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Hi Adam! Happy Yom Kippur!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I used to just copy Douglas Adams when I was 12. Then I copied James Ellroy for a while.

oh yeah! I forgot! HAPPY HAPPY

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Writing in emulation of another author, either on purpose or not, seems like it would also be a good way to practice.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I think so. Whenever I write in "my" voice, I absolutely HATE reading it back. Using someone else's voice is a way to get over the sheer hubris of writing something that you intend others to read. Writing in character also assuages the fear of writing something that has nothing to do with your life, something you don't feel "qualified" to write about.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Happy Birthday!!!!

And Amanda, yes I am EXCITED & yes he's staying with me!!!!!! So far, I know that he comes in on Friday (probably around 9 at the latest) & we're just taking it to the bedroom & watching Arrested Development Season 2 & snuggling like it's our job. I cannot wait!!!!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Dang, I'm hungry.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Using the phrase "at your earliest convenience" makes me feel like a politeness whore. Who's with me?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking about signing up for a ceramics class at Lill Street. I keep thinking about "thin bowls" for christmas presents. I just called & if I sign up, I can come in anytime while a student & take advantage of open studio time. It's spendy, but not terribly so. the class I think i'd take starts nov. 28th.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

"At your earliest convenience" always seem to come off too bitchy for me.

I just ate most of my lunch (!). I was practically shaking I was so hungry.

Reading Million Little Pieces makes me feel weak and hungry. Also, it brings back memories of throwing up (I have a weak stomach) and going to the dentist (my whole mouth is basically silver/black now). And yet, I still really like it.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I have such anxiety (from childhood root canals, etc.) about the dentist that it's pretty gratifying and peaceful once I get in the chair.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Do you get nitrous gas in the chair? Because childhood trauma has caused me to have mega-anxiety freakouts at the mere mention of dental work. I don't get that way about anything else. Just teeth. My dentist doesn't use gas, so he has to give me valium.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I never got any laughing gas.

I did avoid getting my jaw broken and reset (ie: I begged and pleaded to not have it done). This means my jaw pops alot, my teeth are crooked despite braces, and I'll probably get TMJ later on down the road. BUT! I didn't have to get my jaw broken. I drew a line in the sand.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I've got gotten the laughing gas once. Other than that, it's been novacaine. My hands still grip the dentist chair, so it looks like I'm in pain even when I'm not.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I had to get some fillings put in or maybe my wisdom teeth removed & they gave me gas, I think. Some kind of something. Anyway, I don't do so well under drugs. I HATE the feeling of not being able to control my body. I was conscious but unable to move my arms. I started freaking out & the previous day I think I'd read something about a dentist that "took advantage" of his patients. I called for the dental hygenist & said, quite firmly, "You are going to be here the ENTIRE time, right?"
I don't remember if I said that I didn't trust the dentist, but I'm sure I made it clear.
Thank god the dentist had probably seen shit like that before & thank god dentistry isn't like waitressing . . . he could've spit in my mouth or done shitty work & he didn't. I was too out of it after to apologize.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I really have to go to a dentist.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I bit a few hygenists in my younger years. They actually had a little note on my official dentistry file about it to warn everyone.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Last time I got my teeth cleaned, my dentist (great guy, best I've ever had, if you need a dentist I'd recommend him) asked if I floss. I told him when I floss, I floss a lot, and he said, "Oh, a binge flosser, huh?"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I hated my dentist. He was South African and he always made inappropriate sex jokes to my mother.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

a guy just called b/c his dad passed away & he wanted to talk about what to put in the obit should people want to donate in lieu of flowers. having conversations with someone who has recently lost someone are so difficult. the balance between sympathy & professionalism is hard for me. i immediately start thinking "what if it were my dad that just died? how would i want someone to treat me on the phone?" & i fear that i am neither sensitive enough nor professional enough. therefore, i end up having people chat with me for a time, sometimes talking about their recently deceased, and i'm not expedient enough to say, "here's what you need, i'll do this for you & have a good one."

it's frustrating & sad.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I did get my jaw "broken" (ie cut) and reset because I could not face the thought of TMJ. It hurt like hell, but now I have neat-o little screws in it that show up in x-rays. But I did have to live with my brother eating chips in front of me and going "MMMMM CRUNCHY!" While I could only respond with "MDAJLJJFFF MFFF"
I love my dentist, I just hate what he does to my mouth.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Okay, that was kind of an inappropriate x-post.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i didn't think so!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Dental care I have recieved in my life:
* Cleanings twice a year, I seem to build up tarter quickly
* Removal of 3 wisdom teeth
* Removal of two incisors that were extra teeth, from the roof of my mouth
* Braces for 2 years
* I was supported to get a dental implant, but I couldn't afford it at the time, so in 2 more years, I had to have braces again.
* Finally got the dental implant, which was a 6 month process
* Got a crown for an undersized tooth
* Numerous fillings.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

supported = supposed to

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I lost my crown will eating a bean burrito, so had to spend $800 more dollars on a replacement.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

This is why I'm terrified.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

That's like $15 for each black bean.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I popped by bottom fixed retainer out eating a baby carrot at the Frozen Custard place, and I never did get it re-glued.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

and the sad thing is that my teeth still aren't that great, i'm really overdue for a cleaning. My implant looks a little weird. IT was a congenital missing tooth, so they had to graft gums there so that it would look natural. Didn't quite work.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I, also, really have to go to the dentist. I've had dental insurance (I think) for the past year, but haven't figured out how it works/found a dentist/made an appointment/gone.

Before I got braces, I had four permanent teeth removed to 'make space'. I got put under for the first time in my life, but the recovery sucked. Later I got two wisdom teeth out, which wasn't all that bad...the dentist had done some pro bono in Rwanda where he took care of like thirty people an hour, so he just popped 'em out like it was nothing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I need to go to the dentist.

I've got a 1.000 career average on no-cavities, and I'm freaked that they're sneaking up on me.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I, also, really have to go to the dentist. I've had dental insurance (I think) for the past year, but haven't figured out how it works/found a dentist/made an appointment/gone.

this is me. I can't figure out the US health insurance system, it's totally baffling. How can people just go to doctors/dentists and have no idea if they're going to end up being charged hundreds of dollars?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

No shit! If I could be guaranteed that it would be covered without loopholes or what have you, I would be more likely to go.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

(Jaymc, sorry for taking your name in vain on the Jew thread.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah, health insurance in the US is a pain in the ass. but of course not having it is worse.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

haha, thats OK, Jordan. i think s1ocki revived that thread because we were talking about yom kippur on AIM just now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Is there such a thing as a career counselor? Like a guidance counselor, but for adults? And that helps you find a new job?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Totally!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

psychic maybe?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

My mother-in-law saw one.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

xp!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

My mother went to see a psychic/medium, in the late 80s after her mother died. All of the conversations are taped and you can hear the medium saying that my mother's oldest son (i.e. ME) would spend some of his life in the United States!!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I just made a dentist appointment for the first time in five years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

My mom's seen a psychic a few times. For some reason, the psychic always has information about who I'm going to marry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know that, J!!! Details!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

xxxpost - I just had to skim all of the dentist talk because it makes me freak out. Dental trauma makes me physically ill.

Oh! And I got two of your recommendations at the library -- The Grotesque (McGrath) and the bluebeard book, Fitcher's Brides. Thanks for helping me out, homies.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I dunno, it's always kind of vague -- I think she's supposed to be 5'3" with brown hair or something? Whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

PS -- I have a friend who is a career counselor for adults.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

My Career Counselor Friend. Not to be confused with My Therapist Friend.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I think she's supposed to be 5'3" with brown hair or something?

Sounds hot, dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Does s/he have a website, Amanda? I have no idea what a service like that would cost.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I am having a mopey day. Despite skipping both the gym and band practice last night, doing nothing but watching the end of season one of Lost and parts of the baseball game, and going to sleep at 11:00, I am really tired again today. I think it's allergies. Then I had to spend my entire morning standing in front of a photocopier, doing the world's stupidest assignment and fantisizing about quitting my job. I also had a really disturbing dream about Sarah last night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Does s/he have a website, Amanda? I have no idea what a service like that would cost.
She was sitting right next to you at my b-day party -- she doesn't have a private practice or anything, but I'm gonna email you in a second...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

My Sarah dreamt she was a fish, a small Nemo-type fish and that a big monster was chasing her, so she turned around and roared "RARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" at it, and then we both woke up because she was screaming "RARRRRRRRRRRRRR!".

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

jaymc-Did you ever find your car?
I worked on my resume last night, but I am one of those people who is such a perfectionist about professional business that I never actually get around to handing it in because I'm worried it's not good enough.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Adam-I had a dream about you the other night! It's on the ILXDreams thread.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

So, after work I'm helping a friend pack/move and then Maddie's taking me to see TRENT REZNOR'S YOM KIPPUR SPECIAL.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Okay, it's just a Nine Inch Nails concert, but I'm hoping he wishes the crowd a happy Yom Kippur (possibly before Closer).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

i saw a psychic once!

she said I was going to marry a blonde from iowa!

also, is Jeff PTTL coming to the FAP on Friday? i have a girls aloud badge JUST FOR HIM which i will bring

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

a blonde from iowa!

Brad Pitt?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

oh actually i think he's from OK

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't you mean a BLOND?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I want to visit a psychic.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I might have already told all of you, but just in case: I'm supposed to marry a red haired man named Dennis, so keep an eye out for me, please. :-D

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

JEFF - what was the Family Guy movie like??? I am waiting for you to rate it!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I am glad I got it for free from thee internet because it was definitely not worth the $20 that they want you to shill out for it. Maybe 10 good minutes out of the whole thing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

oh!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

A red haired man named Dennis? No way. That's so specific. It's the total opposite of what Jaymc's psychic said, which could cover at least 66% of women in South America, Asia and beyond.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

You're always so helpful and quick to answer my queries, it's great!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Family Guy movie, yeah, it was so so. I'd give it 2 stars out of 5. I mean, I laughed hard during some parts of it, but there was a lot of meh.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

does anyone feel like coming out for drinks with me & my co-workers?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Tonight? I feel like I know them so well, since I interviewed there for 2 months.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

My next two Netflix movies are Rope and Good-Bye, Lenin! I'm excited.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't know where you work or what you do there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking last night that I really don't know what Jeff does.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I work at Northwestern. In the development office of the med school.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I tend not to ask the "what do you do" sort of questions because i don't like to be asked myself, but i guess it's pretty weird to not know what my friends' jobs are.

Really? Do you want to know what job I had made up for you?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Jeff builds submarines.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I would, but instead I'm gyming it up and having band practice, both of which I was supposed to do last night. Plus, I'm going to bars Friday night and Saturday night and then leaving for Vegas early early Sunday morning.

Not that I have any money to spend on anything right now, especially a one-time-use Halloween costume, but which flapper hair would look better on me? The Lulu or Finger Weave?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Finger weave!!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

my hair used to look like the Lulu, but i could never get away with the FINGER WAVE/WEAVE.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Finger Weave!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

of course i do!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Ok -- K - I thought you were an audio engineer for a commercial radio station. I don't know what that means, but that's what I thought you were. Maybe talk radio?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Oops! Time to go to class! See you all tomorrow.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

nice. my side life is as a radio producer for public radio. engineers are more on the tech-side of things . . . not my style so much.

but i like it! i like it!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Check it out. My roommate for the Vegas trip just bailed because she's a workaholic. So now I could either be paired up with someone else.. or or or.. .maybe just maybe I'll have my own big hotel room. BOO YA! Then I could be as social as I want to be.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

In the development office of the med school

PUT IN A GOOD WORD FOR ME OK?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Are you applying to med school here?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I do desktop support for a extremely large law firm.

and build submarines.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

When it comes time to apply, probably. I might be doing my post-bacc there next year.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

nice!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Do you get to stay in a fun hotel like Teh New York, New York, Sarah? Or is this a boring conference-style hotel?

Also - jocelyn, why are you not my netflix friend?

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

If you play roulette, put $1 for me on the row 10, 11, 12.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I am still "to the good" with Vegas. By $35.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I just got invited to design lights for a show because they'd liked the way I did my own lights in some shows I directed. I have next to zero knowledge about how real lights work, so I may have to cover the stage in lamps, but I'm going to give it a shot.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

yeah you are!!! that's great!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Adam, It's not a conference (!), it's just a you-guys-deserved-it trip. We're staying here.

Man, oh, man. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up but I would SO love my own room!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Quick, everyone give me their opinion of "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Great for screaming in the car while driving.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Kickass.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Woah! That place is NICE!

Not exactly errrr, understated but really nice. They have the most impressive fountain display I have ever seen. I've always wanted to stay there.

You are insanely lucky, even more so if you get your own room.

xp Australian-sounding

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I used to detest AC/DC in high school. Now, I think they really know how to rock, and that song in particular demonstrates a high degree of rockery.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

It has a great guitar solo that makes you want to smirk and move your head around all funky-like as you get into the groove.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

The owner (who is paying for the trip) was annoyed that this coworker bailed at the last minute, even though she's doing it because she'll be working. I hope he doesn't resent me if I end up with a room to myself at over 350 a night. I mean, I AM the receptionist, b-but, it's not my fault she's not coming!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I want to go to Las Vegas!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

As soon as I get there Sunday, I plan to don my new Target swimsuit and read by the pool.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

My work will never send me anywhere. Cheap-ass nonprofits.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it looks like it might rain this weekend there. :-( I'll be ok.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget to ride the New York New York coaster!
http://www.casinotravelnews.com/Las_Vegas/New_York-New_York_Manhattan_Express_Roller_Coaster.NEW00143.jpg

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

My work never sends me anywhere either except to the annual dinner which we have to pay $11 for a buffet + drinks, and some workshops on how to use Outlook.
Adrian was complaining that if he studies under the zany Italian professor he might have to go to Switzerland every summer. Poor bambino.
(Adam, it's not really my Netflix account. It's Adrian's. But I can ask him to add you. Are you comradecardindex?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm just me on Netflix!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

My work sends me places all the time, but I have to work for shifts and aren't generally supposed to have any fun. I get to watch HBO at night, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Bellagio! Holy moly, that's a nice place -- and to have your own room! Have fun!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I want you to have some high-class hijinks.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

me too!!! i wanna get drunk dialed!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I want Sarah to walk by a Texas tycoon and whisper the winning roulette numbers in his ear.

(I would also accept losing numbers.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Jenny? Are you around? Black dresses?

I will have many a free cocktail in Vegas, darlinks.

One of my coworkers gambled away some really old rich guy's money during one of her trips there. He was like, Hey, Sweetie, let's see what you can do. She would lose like $10k of his money at once and he didn't bat an eye.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

My job sent me to exotic Schaumberg today, and I got home about 45 minutes ago, and this means I did not bring black dresses to Sarah. And for this I am sorry and sad.

They are still in the car, even. *sigh*

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh also, I was in Women and Children First and bought a Million Little Pieces and wanted that Bluebeard book but I couldn't remember the name of it and I wasn't sure about the etiquette of asking for a book about a pirate who kills his wives in a feminist book store. So I skipped it.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

The bellagio is dope!

Vegas is fan-fucking-tastic in the most nauseating way imaginable. It is, in the truest sense of the word, awesome. Like, wtf is this place even DOING here?

If you can, get further down the strip, in the shittier, old casinos. So interesting.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Three years ago, I spent 3 days alone in Vegas, which sound stranger now than it did then. Was supposed to be with a group of people, but the one person I knew in the group ended up bailing at the last minute, and I deliberated about whether to hang out with people I didn't know or hang out with myself, and I picked the latter. Rented a car. Pricelined and got an amazing deal at the Hyatt resort in Henderson, on man-made Lake Las Vegas -- a 5-star and almost completely empty resort. I spent my days driving around (went to Mt. Zion in Utah - amazing - drove around the desert a lot) and at night played poker at The Mirage. I remember waking up around 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning at the fancy resort and going for a drive, listening to Sunday morning NPR while driving around amazing Lake Mead (nat'l park) and getting out of the car at a natural hot spring. And that's what I did in Las Vegas, alone.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

When I was in Vegas I bet against Ali in Africa.

Bumaye to me.

― Camtron (Cameron), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Quick, everyone give me their opinion of "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC!
Ok, I know it's belated, but I want to go on record stating that this is the #1 best song to strut to. Try to listen to this song and walk down the street and not feel like you OWN it. (The street, not the song)

I have a giant hole in the elbow of my sweater -- is this (1) ok (2) not at all ok (3) depends on the size of the hole?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

jenny, sometimes your postings make me want to live in your pocket. or your head....if not but for a moment.

amanda i'd say #3.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of pirates, there were a few people dressed up like pirates at Schubas last night. One guy with an eyepatch, another with a puffy shirt, still another with a Pittsburgh Pirates jersey. I couldn't figure it out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

The hole: It's larger than a quarter and lots of my elbow shows when I bend it. I'm embarrassed. I'm also 60 pages into the Bluebeard book and enjoying it. I'm hoping it gets more, um, explicit.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

It gets a lot more gory and there's some sado-masochism.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Ah, delightful! Have you read any of the other books in that series?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

it's friday. do you have casual friday?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I know it's belated, but I want to go on record stating that this is the #1 best song to strut to

I thought this was Green Onions?

I have casual Monday through Friday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm sitting at home in a towel. How fucking casual is that?

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

i was just thinking that if amanda had casual friday, then a hole in the elbow is probably not an issue.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

sexy friday!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

i was just thinking that if amanda had casual friday, then a hole in the elbow is probably not an issue.
Every day is casual day for us here at the hog farm. The hole is bad. I'm coming to see that.

Also, I would like to amend my former statement to include the phrase "rock song" rather than "song." Surely there are different types of struts for different moods.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Everyday is sex friday. Shiiit.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

LEAF VISITS TODAY!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

(speaking of sexy fridays & all . . .)

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

My new book club is going to order food from the grossest place I've ever eaten - Arturr0's tac0s. That makes me sad.

Amanda, I have the pointiest elbows in the universe so that happens to me sometimes. I still have one sweater that I wear like that, but not at my desk at work.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

For those who were unable to witness the R. Kelsey . . .

http://static.flickr.com/30/52420263_19033dd1fe.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Are there more? MORE PHOTOS PLEASE.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys.

I think my favorite thing about "You Shook Me All Night Long," and this is a trick that AC/DC uses a lot, is how it starts with this pretty, almost delicate guitar intro, before going right into the DUH - DUH NUH NUH, NUH NUH! DUH NUH NUH, NUH NUH! And then the bass doesn't come in until the first chorus. They are masters of space and dynamics in rock riffery.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

YES. Kelsey that's fab-u-lous.
(Amanda, I have read all the other books in the series when I was about 15 except for the Tanith Lee one, as I don't like her writing. I have most of them, except for The Nightingale and The Sun, Moon, & Stars because they are out of print)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/29/52420261_e4943488e8.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/33/52420259_5a893bfaa2.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I like how you wore the sweatband over your doorag, to secure it. HOTT.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

In all of those photos, the goatee looks drawn on in Photoshop!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I call it "GrouchoVision."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

By the way, I woke up this morning and found a letter under my door (I guess I didn't notice it last night when I got home) saying that my building is being sold and I need to vacate the premises by November 15. What a week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

John, you're kidding!!!! That's fucked up!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

What? You've been gentrified!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

That's horrible!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's terrible. Don't worry though, we'll help you move your stuff.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

(Who is the person with blonde hair and glasses?)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

you've been gentrified!

Probably! The cheap rent couldn't last forever...

I'm on a month-to-month lease, so apparently the short notice is legit. The annoying part is that while I technically have one whole month to leave, I only really have two weeks to find a new place, since most places start at the beginning of the month.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

1) Nick is OTM about AC/DC.

2) Haha, that beard looks paintshopped on!

3) Jaymc, WTF? Did you at least get your car back so you can live there?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

it's my friend, katie, joce.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I blame M. Henry.

And no, the car is still missing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Hey I just did a search on apartments dot com for 1-br in the lower Rogers Park area and there seem to be some nice ones within the same price range as what you were paying, although they're probably 1br and not 2.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

That's probably fine. I'm not sure I need a 2BR anyway, although I like having a room to just throw stuff in. (My smaller bedroom is basically a glorified closet.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, if you need help moving stuff into storage, that shouldn't be a problem, and i'm sure there are plenty of couches you can crash on while you look for a new place.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

John, that sucks, BUT this gives you a chance to start over in a new apartment. I suggest getting rid of as much stuff as possible before trying to move. It's very freeing.

SIX HOURS LEFT!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you want to stay in the same area or try something new?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I am a commitment phobe in the housing arena, but I love me a new apartment (though, oddly, I'm kind of stuck on the one we have now, for the moment anyway).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I found out recently that our landlord is planning on expanding into our floor of the building (can't blame them, they have 3 kids and live in the downstairs.) I think we have until the spring, which is good. I think I want to stay in L. Square, but I'm kind of curious about other areas.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if I want to stay in the same area. I originally moved up here because I was living with my brother and he was going to Loyola, but that's obv. not an issue anymore. The idea of a shorter commute appeals to me, but opening up the possibilities of moving ANYWHERE is a bit overwhelming.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

i'm leaving in about 10 minutes for a staff meeting that gets over at 3. then i get to go home!!! weeee!!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

No, John! It's fun! What sort of neighborhood tickles yer fancy?

Yay, kelsey!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

and leaf comes soon!!!!

bye all! i'm biking up to evanston!!! i feel like an exercise freak today b/c i'm going to the gym since i get out of work early & it's my "heavy lifting" day. so bike to work, bike to evanston, bike home from evanston, lift heavy things.
then nap?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Nap is right! Geez. Don't forget to eat something. Have fun with your MAN!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Sarah -- I actually do like the idea of moving into a NEW place. I was just telling someone the other day that because I moved into my current apartment when I had just turned 22, it never really progressed out of that just-out-of-college aesthetic, with creased posters on the wall and all that. I'm looking forward to reinventing my living space.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

And in fact, I'm kind of glad that I'm getting a kick in the pants to do it, because I wouldn't have done so myself. I probably would've lived in that apartment forever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

A couple of my friends just signed a lease to live in Roscoe Village. Is that like Wrigleyville Jr. or what?

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes. All of my 30+ friends who are married/engaged are moving there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Heeeeeeeeey now.

Jaymc, this could be the dawn of a whole new era for you.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Argh, why is my boss here today? She always works from home on Friday, allowing me to play on ILX all day, but today she is HERE. OH NO!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Not us!

What time are people meeting tonight?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

EIGHT O' CLOCKS

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

What's happening? I'm so out of the loop.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

(because I'm not a temp any more and I work in Hyde Park now. GET IT?!)

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Also, they call me Thread Killa

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Mandee FAP

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

you chicagoans have a lot of fun. us bostonians have none.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

deets here

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Arg. Dan M. already having plans and not being able to go to FAP shocka.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Bingo, what about April 15, 2004?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

never saw that. i hate you ;)

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

We have this work study student who is going to be the end of me. Last Friday she sat at the table twanging a rubber band like a banjo and giggling to herself for 5 minutes, then popping bubble wrap, this Friday we got a whole collection of Judaica books in, and she's felt obligated to explain the difference between Hebrew and Yiddish to every. single. person who walks by. In a "How much would my head weigh if it were made of cheese voice?" Most of whom answer "Yes, we KNOW" and then she started wondering why books about Jews were in some sort of Spanish language. I thought about being a smart ass and explaining it, but didn't even want to get involved.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

And then I went to get lunch and they were blasting Dave Matthews Band in the coffee shop.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

It's time.

Chicago 19

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

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