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― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Whee!

I tried to send folks my phone number in case there are last minute dinner plan changes, but now my mail is acting up. So call me if you didn't get my phone number. If you know what I mean.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want to see GZA and DJ Muggs Wednesday? I know this is prob a random-ass question for this thread but I thought I'd give it a shot. Also Jeff Chang is giving a talk about his book tomorrow i think.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

one of the people on this thread has a show that night as well.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

[hint: it's the same man who laughed when i told him that last night, a soccer ball was kicked into my neck]

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

can we do ez's album next for the chicago thread?

Chicago: You're Talking to the Wrong Guy

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also the only person on this thread that deej has spent a significant amount of time with (he's met Nick, Sarah, and Eric briefly).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

What is this mysterious black album cover atop this thread?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Spnl Tp

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

so how do i know when it's time to switch to a new chicago thread? is there an expiration period for threads?

― jesseOooooooo, Monday, 27 February 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Usually when there are more than 1000 posts, it seems appropriate. But I feel weird about starting a new one so soon after the old one, so I don't mind letting it go up to 2000 posts sometimes. It's usually at Kenan's discretion, anyway. I've only started two or three, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Let me guess, John has never seen Sp|nal T@p.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen it. I didn't much like it. Which is funny, because Waiting for Guffman is like my favorite movie ever. But making fun of the excesses of over-the-top stadium-rock acts didn't strike me as all that original or amusing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Like as in, they're already cartoons.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

ts: GZA vs Jaymc

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

in '95 it would be GZA in a walk.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc on this day in 1995

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, GZA wins.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

what's GZA?

― jesseOooooooo, Monday, 27 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was tempted to start a 'Chicago: World Clique' thread over the weekend.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you totally should have. I was only reminded of the length of the other thread this morning when I visited it without logging in first, and it took 5 minutes to load.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Me too! I took a look in the airport on Maddie's laptop, but said screw it after it took a minute for the first 1000 posts to load.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, Red Eye = stupid ass movie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Like as in, they're already cartoons.

Well, yeah, but I think the movie still works so well because after a point, it's more about its characters than about satirizing anything in particular (like Guffman, I suppose). And it has some of the funniest dialogue anywhere. "He choked to death on vomit... but not his own vomit."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

what's GZA?

One of the Wu-Tang. AKA The Genuis, Ghostface (right?) Cousin to RZA, IIRC.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jay, I saw "Spinal Tap" once, too, and didn't find it all that funny, for pretty much the same reason. Maybe it gets better in repeated viewings, iike "Last Days of Disco"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, GZA is not the same person as Ghostface.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

SHIT

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I spelled Genius wrong. I should leave the hipping and hopping to the people who know what they're talking about.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Last Days of Disco is pretty good. Is that really what it's like working in the NYC book industry, Laurel?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Not in the slightest.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

So, now Indian food is ON?

I hope Nick feels well enough to go, because that sounds yum to me. OTOH, he generally dislikes Indian food.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but he lived in India!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe that's a classic "despite the fact, or perhaps because of it" thing for him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

uh huh But I've played a part in making him become more tolerant of Indian food, so maybe..

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I could go for some Indian food. For some reason I never like it as much as takeout, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

(not that it stops me from getting Indian takeout, of course)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I love spicy food therefore indian = best food ever to me. Devon ave and western = my idea of (eating) heaven, except for the whole far-north-west-side-not-being-near-the-el thing.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the name of the Vietnamese place that Jeff mentioned in the old thread, but if it was Hai Yen I went there the other night and it was bad ass. Ironically, right below their veg menu is "7 Courses of Beef" and the vastly inferior "5 Courses of Beef."

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been there but I was just talking about it this weekend! Did you the the 7-spot? Looks tasty.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

So, 7pm? Where?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

That place on Lincoln is good! We order there from work sometimes

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

No, I got the Red Snapper (very tasty.) My housemate had gotten the 7 courses before, and said it was insane... Brought out by a procession of waiters all at once, he didn't know where to start!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

We also got parts of the 7 courses as appetizers and they were very very good. Vietnamese is my new favorite.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm definitely going there this week sometime.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also itching for more german:

http://www.eatchicago.net/archives/000103.html

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

This pro-Guffman, anti-Tap madness is madness.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I quote Guffman at least a couple times a week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

So who is Indianing? Jenny, Jesse, Chris P?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, can you come?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

If you are meeting at 7, I'll go, then I can come right from work and be home before 8:30.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Nick and I are up for it. We just need to know where to go.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Someplace on Devon I imagine?
We've only been to one - Hema's, I think it was called - so I'd like to try a different one this time.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, Jeff.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Corner of Lincoln and Wilson. In Lincoln Square. Essence of India.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

(Not that I'll be there, but trying to be helpful.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Unless it's far away, I couldn't even get up to Devon in an hour.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

And yes, at 7.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Brown Line, bitchez.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

So, I'm guessing that place is good, John? Sorry if you already said so before.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

What Indian place could you get to that you like, Jeff?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

The one in lincoln square is fine, I Can get there quick.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ok. We'll be there at 7pm. Please call us on one our cells if the plans change.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been there. But Jesse said it was good. Am I wrong, though? Is that not where you guys were planning on going?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are meeting there at 7pm? If, for whatever reason, I'm kept late at work, I might join you.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

That is the place we are going.

I hope you are kept late at work, then.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Guffman sucks!

― Cousin yogurt beard (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, I realized a long time ago that you hate everything I love. 'S cool.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

I love beards.

― Cousin yogurt beard (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Do you still have one? I'd love to see it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I have one. You'll get your chance.

― Geological fondue (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, when I finally meet you, we will not watch Guffman together.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Great!

― Geological fondue (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Just to clarify:

Indian Food at 7 pm at Essence of India on the corner of Lincoln and Wilson in Lincoln Square of the Western Brown Line stop.

Be there!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

A regular day at Worker Justice, Inc...

Jesse asks if he can help me with anything. I say that he can write a letter to one of my workers about an EEOC mediation in progress. This is what Jesse writes:

I hope this letter finds you well. I can only imagine the ravages the stress must be taking on your handsome chest. Know that I am here to ensure that the pressure does not affect your virility; I will be a harbor for you to bury your pain when you need it I am always there to embrace you with my arms and my folds of feminity.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Note: I did not mail this letter to the worker.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm leaving work on time.

But MAN, do I like Indian food or what?!

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha "folds of femininity"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Getting a Boner

Um....

― jessssse, Monday, 27 February 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I'd known this morning that I'd be going out to dinner with cool people. I would have made more of an effort to not dress like a soccer mom.

xpost: I KNOW! I'm generally very pro-vagina, but that made me want to wash. Possibly douche.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

That was deeeelightful.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

MMMMMMMMMMM.

― jesseOooooooo, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

Fresh!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/30025762

A search of the former Wham! frontman's car reportedly yielded small amounts of cannabis and the club drug GHB, also known as Liquid Ecstasy, according to London's The Sun

Former Wham! frontman?? Liquid Ecstasy? I have not heard either of them called either of those names in a loooong time. GHB is certainly not liquid ecstacy. It is Liquid Rape.

― jesseOooooooo, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

It was Liquid Asking For It!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

Heteroflexible! That's the term I was trying to think of, in the previous thread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

What about me now?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

You'd like Portland.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

(You're one of those people who doesn't "do" AIM, right, J.?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes, why?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm actually about to go to bed, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, sometimes I am chatty. And I don't have your screen name. Etc.

(But if you or anyone else wants to say hi, I'm themin0rth!rds, but not googleproofed. Try me if I'm set to "away", I set it there when I'm "in and out" often.)

(Even though I should go to bed soon, since I'm going to a class early in the morning.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'll be damned.

I learned a ton about sushi just now.

http://www.youtube.com/w/sushi?v=E8c2fMDatoU

― jesseOooooooo, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to a class early in the morning.

Me, too. *yawn*

I had a lovely time at dinner last night. "Chris" is very nice. Nick and Sarah, too, but I totally already knew that.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I looked a bit like death, at least according to the bathroom mirror there. That food was yum though.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Chris"

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

The food was absolutely delicious.

Sarah, you looked fine, but you seemed very frail. Nick too. Poor fuckers. Poor sick frail fuckers....

― jesseOooooooo, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Fake F1ctions new 7" - "Frail Fuckers"

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hi! I'm back. I feel extremely disoriented today. Part of that could be that I've been reading that Karen Armstrong book about myth (got it from the library on my field trip with the stoods on Sat.) and not only is it absolutely NOT as difficult to understand as the rest of her books, it's like an E-Z version of ancient history. I've learned so many things! It's great. Recommended for anyone interested in a quick and easy read about the history of human-deity relations from the Paleolithic age to the present.

I feel like I've been gone forever. It's really only been 2 days, I guess.

Also, dudes, Spinal Tap is the funniest movie ever. One more thing: I am STILL SICK and have a yucky scratchy voice. Not as bad though.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Recommended for anyone interested in a quick and easy read about the history of human-deity relations from the Paleolithic age to the present.

Christmas shopping: CHECK

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. I feel you Amanda. I am definitely getting sick, but I couldn't call in today because I have a few things that absolutely have to get done. And I have to meet Maddie's dad for dinner and play a three hour gig tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

HI!!!! Amanda, I missed you!

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Whee!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

It has been a really weird weekend --I heard about two surprising new romances, a completely unforeseen breakup with rather serious consequences...I'm having doubts about whether or not I'm actually done with school (thinking of getting my teachering certificate for the K-12 system). The moon must be in a special cycle of general upheaval or something.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm single now...and it's weird. Good in some ways, weird in others.
I may be in Chicago next weekend (the 11th) with my dad and stepmom for some family time while in job limboland. They tend to retire early so if anyone wants to meet up for drinks, etc. let me know. I will know more details soon.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

When did this happen, Jocelyn?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

(btw, my band is playing at the Green Mill on the 11th)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

OMG -- see? That's another breakup for this weekend, and I just heard about another one just about 5 minutes ago! Jocelyn, I'm sorry to hear that, but you sound like you're doing alright - are you alright?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

(Poxy fuled)
I'm alright. Friday night. I just realized that our lives were going in different directions and that I needed time to myself to think about some stuff, and to work and study, and he wasn't allowing me any of that time. Also, I was starting to feel like a mom instead of a girlfriend. I'm keeping myself very busy and doing all the stuff I want to do for myself, like working out and reading three books at a time and making strange food concoctions.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

That happens, I guess -- better that it happens now than 10 years down the road.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I'm sorry, Jocelyn. :(

You should definitely come to the Green Mill with us (that's when I'm going, at least).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

How long were you guys together, Jocelyn (if you don't mind my asking)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jocelyn, I have been where you are -- I'm sure lots of us have, but in particular that's how my last one ended. So congratulations to you (whether it feels like or or not) and really do enjoy the hell outta your Personal Jocelyn Time, now that you have it. Drop me a line any time you like.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

You're very brave, jocelyn. I'm sorry I won't be here when you might visit. I'm going to Memphis that weekend to visit me mum avec ma sister Hev.

Jenny, last weekend I felt like a sick cat. You know how a sick cat walks all stiff like with its back arched? Well I did that, walking across the living room to get water from the kitchen. Nick was like, "uh, sarah, what are you doing?" and I was like, "duh, walking like a sick cat."

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

You mean, like, on all fours?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. I didn't go that far. I was acting, but it required some imagination on the part of the audience as well.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, what do you play? (have we gone over this before? I dont think so)

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I play drums, and in the brass band I play bass drum most of the time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

You play trumpet, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, or I did thru college (meaning I haven't for almost a year now). I feel guilty about not still playing. I was pretty good for a while! In high school I used to practice like 3 hours a day. College destroyed my motivation in a wave of partying : (

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh fleeting enjoyment

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

anyway cool that yr playing at the green mill. Tell me more about it...?

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you should come to the Green Mill, deej.

We had band practice last night w/o Matt or Megan, so we worked on some "nuggets" (new song ideas that haven't yet been fully fleshed out). One of them now has a disco chorus (which is hilarious, b/c Elizabeth told Colin "give it sort of a Phoenix feel," and what he played was perfect, and then he confessed, "I've never even heard Phoenix") -- and the other song to me sounds really late 90s alt-rock/emo. But AWESOME.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

so we worked on some "nuggets" (new song ideas that haven't yet been fully fleshed out)

silly rabbit. You know what a "nugget" is!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000AFWZ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tastebudingredients.com/images/BigNug1.jpg
Mmmmm. Nugget.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.worldofrockhounds.com/huge-gold-nugget-sm.JPG

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is that weed?

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's gold!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I need to get my eyes checked.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe recalibrate my monitor!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Good weed is way more valuable per ounce than gold.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was weed too.

Deej, I play in Mama Digd0wn's Brass Band, which is a New Orleans style brass band with sousaphone, two drummers, trumpets & trombones, etc. We're playing the 10th and the 11th at the Green Mill, three sets per night. We usually start out playing traditionals there and move into the street stuff as the night goes on, although I think they were a little concerned about us being too loud last time. Our trumpet player is really really good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just said the word "nugget" over and over while I was in the bathroom until it started to sound really weird.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds awesome. I should go.

My jazz band in college played with Bobby Broom, who I know plays at the Green Mill regularly. He's a nice guy! And incredible player obv.

This makes me want to practice again.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Uhhh should go to the green mill that is, not the bathroom.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Deej, you should definitely come.

Nugget.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I just said the word "nugget" over and over while I was in the bathroom until it started to sound really weird.

I did the same kind of thing in the car yesterday with the word "Muqtada."

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I will try to make it to the Green Mill. I might bring my dorky dad! He loves jazz.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever done that w the word "bag"? I think thats the funniest sounding common word. "Bag."

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Mug is weird too.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell, I think I have Smell-O-Vision. As soon as the nugget appeared on-screen, I breathed in through my nose, and the air smelled like spicy fried chicken -- or maybe Filet-O-Fish.

I should probably now listen to Yo La Tengo's Electr-O-Pura

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I remember first doing this as a kid with the word "turtle".

I learned a new word yesterday: "matudinal".

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Enlighten us!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think thats the funniest sounding common word. "Bag."

You would be wrong. It's obviously "pants."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that stumps OSX's Dictionary. xpost

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I messed it up already, it's "matutinal".

Pronunciation: "ma-chu-'tI-n&l; m&-'tüt-n&l, -'tyüt-, -'tü-t&n-&l, -'tyü-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin matutinalis, from Latin matutinus -- more at MATINEE
: of, relating to, or occurring in the morning : EARLY
- ma·tu·ti·nal·ly adverb

As in, "my fiancee is not a matutinal person."

I wish I had the Samuel Delany paragraph that I encountered it in handy, 'cause it was a doozy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

John -- I keep forgetting what that band was that sounded like classic rock and was from sweden or some shit. I need more fodder for my podcasting habits.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Dungen!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. What a great band name.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, for a very certain kind of band.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I always think of Dungeon Family when I see that name.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

They were a snoozefest for me at |ntonation - though it could have been the pot brownies.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I see that Edith Frost is playing at a tiny club here in Madison on the 22nd, I should probably go to that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

BAG

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

PANTS

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

BLOUSE

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

SKIVVIES

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Blouse is a weird-ass word.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYIN'.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

All words are weird.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so totally going looking for The R3nt@ls first album at Reckless this evening.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Cat" is not a weird word. Nor is "KRAKATOOM".

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

"folds of femininity". Not at all weird.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if I still have that cd? I doubt it.

I tried to get together some cds to sell at reckless this weekend. I had a decent sized stack going, but Nick laughed at it and was like, "Come on, Sarah, they wouldn't take ANY of these..." so I sighed and put them all back on the shelf. What was in there? Hmmm... that I remember...THE TRANSFUSEd, THE FAKES, DEEP LUST, ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND, MATES OF STATE... If this sounds good to you, please come shop at my apartment.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. I just found it on someone's iTunes here at work. It's like it's 1995 (?) all over again. I've listened to "Waiting" probably 4 times now.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

THE TRANSFUSEd, THE FAKES, DEEP LUST, ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND, MATES OF STATE... If this sounds good to you, please come shop at my apartment.

This all sounds great, but that's based only on the band names.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

'folds of femininity'
anagrams to
'Sniffily if to demon.'

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why wouldn't they take those? I've never sold anything at Reckless. I'm mildly interested in All Girl Summer Fun Band and Mates of State, but only if it's the Mates of States album that has the song where they go "it doesn't matter / it hardly matters / let's unravel the sands of time" etc. etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'll trade you a pint of good beer for the All Girl Summer Fun Band.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

In the elevator on my way to lunch I was informed it is supposed to be over 50 degrees tomorrow!

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Why, Mr. Dr4ke, have you heard it's supposed to be a balmy 52 degrees to-morrow? Tut tut!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

it was a man who looked like he would talk like that. He didn't, unfortunately.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.arnadal.no/film/actors/images/hitchcock_portrait.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, 50 degrees, an agreeable temperature for an old Knickerbocker like myself!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

(shamelessly cribbed from the Simpsons)

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoy that television program as well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

FUck a Brit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I just gave work notice!

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

In the words of Sarah C. J0hns0n:

BOO YAH!!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

It feels so good to quit a job.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost that's Sarah Fiction to you, pal. Miss Jackson if you're nasty.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes it does!

Keep March 25th open everyone . . . I'm havin' myself a PARTY!!

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be there with sequins on. I miss me some Kelsey.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

[CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT]

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

that's real sweet of you to say, kenan!

(p.s. i'm jumping on jaymc's bday & having my party on his special day)

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

[CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT]

me no understand.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

I never touched her! I swear!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

She wouldn't let me!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't a response to you!

I will probably have a bday party the weekend after.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my. If that wasn't a response to me, I just aired some dirty laundry that I could have kept in the laundry bin.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think I should do some work now. Yeah, that's it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, kelsey! Yay for parties!

I am thinking I should retire my BOO YAH!!!!s, but I still feel the same.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

You're the second person I know of to give notice today, Kelsey. Congratulations!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

People breakin' up, quittin' jobs: somethin's in the air.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

My bad.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

maybe we should all live in the "starting over" house or whatever that daytime people fix it show is.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I know we haven't met, but I'm including you on my party evite. Is that cool w/ you?

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe that's just the glove we're smelling.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, Eric and I had lunch at India House today -- the buffet was delicious. I'd totally be up for lunch/dinner there sometime again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

i eat at indian garden quite a bit.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I know we haven't met, but I'm including you on my party evite. Is that cool w/ you?

Of course! Sorry I'm such a flake and haven't gotten out yet. Perhaps we will meet before your going away party!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

A gold flake:
http://www.goldfun.com/Mining_Trips/Gold_Nuggets______/_gold_flake.JPG

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Don't blame yourself, I'm part hermit.

In other News About Kelsey . . . what about this for my 'harmonica name' Sweet Tater.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Very good. Appropriately hobo-ish.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine at work said this:

"Love sweet tater.
Is that like sweet potato?
Heard at the back of a bar:
“Man, can that drunk girl blow?”
“You said it Cleetus. Think they call her Sweet Tater, she’s outta Chicago.”
“Don’t matter much where she come from Jebediah, so long as Sweet Tater’s blowin, I think all us fellas will be linin’ up for a front row seat.”

I’ve reviewed this endlessly and simply cannot rid it of a certain overtone, or double meaning…pesky language."

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm in love with Sweet Tater. I'm changing my name on here to it now.

― R. Kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

But R. Kelsey is so good!

Oh, ok.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like Sweet Tater.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Ate Her.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, which co-worker wrote that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Durno.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

how do i change my email to a fake one?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

test.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

bravo

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

does it make me a bad person if i kinda like it when people call me 'toots?' i kinda do like that.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

aw geez. you have to change it every time?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

no, did you save your settings?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, you can change it under Settings. BUT if you do, it will reset your password and the new password will be sent to the new address. If it's a fake address, you can tell it to send it instead to a Private E-mail Address. I think. There have been so many reports of people fucking this up that I haven't even wanted to try.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

I did it and it worked fine.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i don't really care about it that much. i am a fan of amanda's email, though. it makes me a tiny bit jealous.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, it's the subliminal effect of "blow" and the fella- prefix in close proximity.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

but is it really that subliminal?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, I guess not. I think he wants you to sit in the smoking section.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Zing!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing like a harrassment lawsuit to get you settled in Mpls.!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I misread that post at first, too -- but the co-worker is the one who's "reviewing endlessly."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

huh?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

right. got it. yeah, i included the author's comments.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of some joke about involving Rudloph the Red-Nosed Reindeer along the lines of 'I got so drunk at the bar last night I blew five bucks.'

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of want the story of Sweet Tater to be made into an old-timey cartoon!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Self-mythologizing is key is you're going to be a blues player.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Tater: I Yam What I Yam

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Jordan?
I'm more just out to amuse myself. It's not like I'm even good at harmonica.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Or, alternately:

What I Yam Is What I Yam

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

EVEN THOUGH yams and sweet potatoes are not technically the same thing, everyone thinks they are.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, at first I thought you meant cartoon as in comic, and I was gonna say, you should ask John Cei Douglas to illustrate it for you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of some joke about involving Rudloph the Red-Nosed Reindeer along the lines of 'I got so drunk at the bar last night I blew five bucks.'

Why is a reindeer necessary to this joke?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Tater: I Yam Woman

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

This is reaching "Saffire the Uppity Blues Women" standards of pun atrocity.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

does he do that sort of thing? i was thinking something more old timey, though. like those cartoons where people have flappy feet & the film seems scratchy.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

For reals:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000009ZX.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Because, K., a buck is an adult male reindeer.

I played Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women on my college radio show and a friend called in to complain.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

How do you know these things?!?!?! xpost to amanda.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Because, K., a buck is an adult male reindeer.

OOOOooohhhh.

I don't get jokes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

So you don't get yourself?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

waah-waah

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Tater will turn a blind EYE to such remarks.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

get it? potatoes have eyes!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

How do you know these things?!?!?!
Like about Saffire the Uppity Blues Women? I used to work in a music store, that's my only excuse. Eazy has no excuse for having PLAYED them on his show! They're the worst. They're permanently stuck in menopause-joke mode.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

SAFFIRE!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Are Saffire, um, sapphic?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

My friend toured with the AGSFB once. La la. That is all.

― casuistry!, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I took chances on the Rounder/Alligator/Tomato records that I found in the station, so that's how I ended up playing it...

The song was 'Sloppy Drunk'.

Jesus, though, look at these song titles!!!
http://www.uppityblueswomen.com/record.html

SILVER BEAVER.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but do they shave their pussies?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

"There's Lightning in these Thunder Thighs"

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

No J.! Hence, SILVER BEAVER.

Oh, but they do sound like that gal at squeezed who sang about not shaving hers, yes!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wow.

I'm leaving in 15 minutes for more food and drink and music than I should be indulging in with this cold. Happy Mardi Gras!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

(Heh, yeah, that's what I was referrring to.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just discovered that the Uppity Blues woman named Gaye is sapphic. She is also the genius behind "Silver Beaver", methinks.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

what is sapphic?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Gaye

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.indiamusicinfo.com/new/rock%20and%20popular%20music/images/Gaye,%20Marvin.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

She may have spent some time on the Island of Lesbos, if you catch my drift.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.judaica.com.br/materias/gay_talese.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Enola/images/Enola.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

/http://www.nndb.com/people/317/000023248/william-safire.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I like that euphemism. "He may have dropped an atomic bomb or two, if you know what I mean."

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/82/88/6158828/2244704691707l.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, my friend Alec has a big photo essay up on Slate! Nice!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

(Sorry, inside joke to Kelsey.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hey - so Alec's essay is a slideshow of his photos but a very This-American-Life style voice-over-and-music story too.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Link? I couldn't find it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's on the front page, with the big photo of Niagra Falls.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

So! Another friend of mine and B.'s is coming to Chicago for a while. He arrives tomorrow. This barely one bedroom apartment is going to get very crowded.

So if anyone was planning on seducing me while I was in town, it's getting to be a good time to do it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

(I don't recommend it.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

I TRIED! God, how I TRIED! But somehow you resisted my masculine wiles.

That's OK...I'm 5'6" and you're like 6'5", so the only possible outcome would be comedy. Or tragedy, if one of us stumbled.

― jesseOooooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

(I don't recommend it.)

Way to sell yourself there.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Let's just say, I've given the car a few test drives, and she's not road worthy.

Jesse, did you really try? I mean, really? Really really?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I think I just accidentally undersold myself to a level even I can't accept!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

I ordered you the desert made of cooked carrots. I had our leftovers bagged together. I said, "It was good to meet you, Chris." What more do you want? A ring?

― jesseOooooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, if you can't even let Jesse blow you, you've sunk pretty low.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

Now you see my methods. I come online, I insult everyone. It's been fun, folks!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you flirt!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not the one who ordered the carrots.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, BTW, you are a treasure. You have to stay on this board, for all of our sakes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I gave the carrots a taste.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

I did not, admittedly, give Jesse a taste.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Though he almost certainly tastes better.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

He's ok, but a little greasy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can blot that off with a paper towel, no?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've smooched Jesse! This is a moment burned into the memory of everyone present except for me, because I was fucking drunk. At, like, 4 in the afternoon.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am a failure of a human being.

Jesse, on the other hand, is really funny.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it was mentioned.

xpost -- the smooch, not the failure.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Is this, like, Chicago ILE legend now?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

You're famous.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

All I ask is you attention. Good or bad, doesn't matter.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Where's Jesse?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

Earning his beads.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

PANTS

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Jordan. Who's on AIM? I should of course be sleeping, but as per usual, I am not.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

STORY OF MY LIFE.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kenanhebert, BTW.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to decide whether I'm going to call into work tomorrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

DO IT!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

Okay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Let's get margaritas!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Where's Jesse?
-- Paunchy Stratego (fluxion2...), March 1st, 2006.
Earning his beads.

-- Casuistry (chri...), March 1st, 2006.

I'M HERE!!!

Jesse, BTW, you are a treasure. You have to stay on this board, for all of our sakes.

-- Paunchy Stratego (fluxion2...), March 1st, 2006.

― jesseOooooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

I want a fucking margarita!

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

What is "xpost?" ??????????????????????????????????????????

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Where are the women?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I've made a mess of things. 2 posts up (with all the italics) I was trying to write something about being overwhelmed by all the male attention I was getting on here, but I fubared it and got distracted by margaritas on preview.

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

ILX, where the men are men and so are the women.

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Takes one to know one.

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to bed. I don't recommend inviting me to stay on any boards again. EVERYONE, TO FRM!!!

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

We're on AIM now, Jesse.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

Talking about YOU.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

What did you say about me? I went to bed had some pretty amazing sleep (I took an abs class and treadmill training class last night taught by this dislocated New Orleansean (?) who takes out her feelings of alienation on her pupils by snapping her fingers and pushing us to the point of puking.)

(Most of this post is in parentheses.)

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, everyone.
Good morning, Sweet Tater.

It is such a sleepy day! I just organized my desk drawer! I'm trying to wake myself up with exclamation marks but it isn't working!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i usually just lurk, but, i live in chicago so i feel like i have to support this thread. nuggets.

― bobpeck (bobpeck), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

We said nothing about you that you haven't heard before, Jesse.

Good morning, Sarah, and everyone. It's cold this morning, and I did not get quite enough sleep. But I'm going to put a positive spin on things.

Oh, and then I had a dream where I won $700,000,000 in a lottery, but I had bought the ticket with two other people, and then for some reason I had to split my third with two further people, so I only got 1/9 of my lottery win, and then I was sad about this. Which, now that I can do the math, still isn't so bad, but I got really depressed about it in the dream, and debated running off with the money and not telling the other people about it. Since I had the ticket. But then I decided I was just not that sort of person.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. I just took the morning off, so it is a good morning. I made Maddie some sour cream waffles with candles in them, which is the closest she'll get to a birthday cake from me. I'm going to go back to bed soon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin' everyone. Is it really supposed to be warm today? I hope so. I wore a dress. A dress! A dress with a sweater over it. And a coat.

Happy birthday Maddie!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

44 and showers, says my Firefox dongle.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I need to know what you said so I can log it in my journal.

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

Subject: New way to ride the El to avoid the weather.

If you look down the tracks and your train is nowhere in sight and a train going in the opposite direction is coming along, hop on that train and ride it a few stops in the wrong direction. It is best to get on the very front car so that you can keep an eye out for the train you want to be on.

This is one of my favorite discoveries-- you wait exactly the same amount of time as you would on the platform, but you avoid the elements and the feeling of waiting.

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Chris, I made key lime pie AND scones last night. I felt very kitchen-efficient. Have you been to the Spice House since you've been here?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I used to do that all the time when I took the El to work from Argyle - there's also the bonus of the greater chance of getting one of those individual seats during rush hour.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Train hopping makes me think of Easy, no doubt. Mornin' all!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I am completely fucking frantic today with roommate and moving stuff -- I think no one except me gives a shit whether anything gets done or gets done with any degree of competence...so all the work falls into MY lap.

I'm sorry that sounds awfully shrill -- I try to restrict my bitching to the extremely frivolous to blunt the edge but today is not that day when I can keep my shit together.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

laurel! i wish i lived in new york right now . . . i could give you sparkles or help you in some manner for real & stuff. i'm so sorry. i know what those days feel like all too well.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Did you save some key lime pie for me? Where is this Spice House?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

There's an entire pie left! There are two Spice Houses, one on Wells (closer to the action) and one in Evanston (in the northern burbs.) I don't know how much more time you have here, but you MUST GO. They have freshly ground spices of ALL varieties. See: thespicehouse.com for more deets. It's world-class, I think.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Kelz! Some day I will visit Chicago....

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Get off at the Sedgwick brown line stop and walk EAST on North Ave, then turn RIGHT at Wells - it's about a block down. I think those are accurate directions. Is there a better way to get there?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry Laurel, someday all of the incompetent people will smell like dog shit and we can evade them simply and efficiently using only our olfactory senses.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

B. is very excited about this news so we will be going. Also there will be a midnight pie raid, key lime pie is one of my favorites.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel-I care! And most of my days here are like that, which is why I am leaving. I just got an e-mail from a friend who just started a new job in Philly saying that she spilled hot & sour soup in her new company laptop, so that makes me feel a bit better about my day.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Oh good! I want to hear about all of the stuff you bought. I recommend everything they have there, but don't leave without some cinnamon. Best part about the Spice House: not expensive. Also, taste the cacao nibs. They're great and your vanilla ice cream will thank you.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

There's a cool fish store near the Spice House on Wells, too. Like, Finding Nemo fish.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

which cinnamon do you recommend?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I started a new thread. It's selfish & I'm mainly needing opinions about which bar to have my party at, if any of youses have idears.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

And the House of Glunz, the oldest wine store in America, is at Division & Wells. You don't have to care about wine to enjoy it - it's like an old musty gothic house.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

And the teensy ginger nibs too, put some of those puppies in a butter cookie, feed them to someone you want to influence and you will get anything you want.

I like the China Tsungsing (Tungsing?) because it's slightly spicier, but the Vietnamese stuff is TOP NOTCH.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am glad you are not trying to "influence" me, for I would be powerless to resist.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea of amanda trying to cajole her husband into doing things by dangling cookies with ginger in them.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately for your purposes, Amanda, I am not susceptible to ginger. But try Thin Mints!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, perhaps you would enjoy my mint-in-the-middle butter cookie?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yessssssss, perhaps. *Tents fingers and waves them a la Evil Genius*

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

now my brain is very confused as to whether i'm craving mint cookies or those trader joe's ginger ones. better to crave the ginger ones, since i actually have some. gmorning.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Let the record show that Trader Joe's Triple Ginger cookies are fucking awesome.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine a small, round butter cookie about the size of a quarter. Small, apparently harmless. Inside of the cookie is one single Junior mint. Mmmmm. On top there's a light drizzle of melted junior mint. Also done with Andes mints.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

TRIPLE ginger?! Are they of the ginger snap variety or more like those sandwich cookies?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I currently brush my teeth with 'gingermint' toothpaste.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Know what mints are also good? Those "After Eight" mints. Mom would always get them for 'special' occasions. Love those things.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm ginger snaps. I am currently in love with Carr's ginger-lemon cremes. I've been eating two every single day with tea at 3:30pm.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

You & your cookies are hilarious & excellent.

I can't let myself do that at the moment since I'm on the 'new' health plan. I think I've lost two pounds, though!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

i am in full agreement about the TJ ginger cookies, of course.

fuck breakfast/lunch, maybe i'll just have those.

they're not sandwich cookies, they're like gingersnaps, only they taste way way way more gingery than most gingersnaps. i never realized that gingersnaps were supposed to taste like ginger until i had the TJ's kind.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

also, they have chunks of candied ginger in them.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

sweet jesus. i'm totally getting some!!! fuck a health plan!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

i like to eat chunks of candied ginger. they also probably aren't too terribly bad for you - remember the meringue cookies?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

xp you will not regret it. they rock. when my appetite is iffy (which it is sometimes), they're one of those things that i can always eat, because they're just so so good.

ginger is good for your digestion, too. and, no, they're not too bad for you, as cookies go. gingersnaps generally have less sugar than most cookies, for one thing.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

OMG HandyManda -- the Andes mint cookies are like my dream food. Have you tried the Russel Stover's French Mint bars, too? Their lovely smooth consistency makes me think they'd melt well, although I've never tried.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, I've never tried those, but they sound gooooood. The cookies are pretty easy to make too - just make a butter cookie recipe and then wrap a blob of dough around the mint (all the way around) and drizzle some on top when you take them out of the oven. Try not to make them too big, because they're pretty rich.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I can't bake worth a damn, but I made red curry last night, and it was bad ass. I heart my spice grinder.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I can't make red curry to save my own life. How did you do it?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I also love the TJ ginger cookies. Also, I'm eating a LOT of thin mints right now because someone brought in 5 boxes of them to work.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I am big-time craving Thin Mints -- I bought 4 boxes but they haven't been delivered yet!!

Ginger is excellent for settling the stomach, along with anise & peppermint & a few other things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a big believer in Sprite, myself.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Red Curry: I used a variation on the the old standby J0y 0f C00king recipe. Coriander seeds, peppercorns, etc. Toast 'em up, grind 'em up. Food process with lemongrass, lime juice, garlic, galangal, cilantro, red chiles (I used dry and fresh), shallots, and salt. Mash in shrimp paste and you're done.

Then you fry the paste in some oil, mix it with coconut milk, let it thicken a little and stew with your vegetables/tofu/chicken/whatever. Flavor with fish sauce, basil, and sugar at the end.

I'm going to go eat my leftovers now!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds more involved than what I tried. I guess I'll try again...[sigh].

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling particularly broke today. I've been trying to get a handle on my finances, but it feels like trudging through mud, even with my great raise!

Sorry to be a downer in the middle of yum food talk. The Thin Mints were indeed as wonderful as you're imagining.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah... I tend to get way overly involved and it ends up taking forever. Perhaps it's the beers I drink while I cook?

I get the pre-made curry pastes a lot, and they're really good too. Last night I was just feeling like throwing down.

xpost

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

it's understandable. finances are scary. i just had to ask my dad (argh no no no) for money the other day because i always confuse what i have and what i can afford. i have great new glasses though.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for new glasses!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I love the Newman-O's ginger cookies.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Where is Jay today??

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Good call. I'll try calling him.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

He stayed home today.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Lucky boyo. Is he sickish or having a mental health day?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Just finalized some plans - I'm spending this weekend here (with a special friend of mine ;) ): http://www.duvallhouse.net/

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe J is getting geared up for his show tonight? I'll be there!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, Dan!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I just bought some hair dye: Espresso: Deepest Brown. Get ready for a new me, people.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yo. Yeah, I stayed home. Not sick, but I just needed to get a good night's sleep and run some errands this afternoon, so you do what you hafta. Eh. I'm about to go do some laundry, but I hope to see some peeps out tonight at the Bottle!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I just bought some of these boxed soups (carrot ginger, squash) at Trader Joes. Has anyone tried these?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoy the butternut squash. I usually add cumin or ginger or nutmeg to it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda! You should henna!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I like them - good and light. I should put that on the kitchen confessions thread. I buy and enjoy boxed soups.

Unfortch, you can't henna over regular hair dye. Your hair will turn green.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Rather, my hair will turn green.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

poop. really? green?

i think you'll look gorgeous with luscious brown hair.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

How about that? You're right. I took this from hennaforhair.com

"Compound henna does NOT play nice with commercial hair dye and other chemical residue in hair.

People who have itching, blisters, or serious allergic reactions to para-phenylenediamine hair dyes often want to change over to henna hair dyes.

Compound henna often reacts badly with synthetic hair dyes and other chemical hair products! If you use compound henna soon after you have done your hair with para-phenylenediamine dyes, your hair may be brittle, trashed, and may turn frog butt green or offshore sewage outlet black. Compound hennas have metallic salts which react disasterously with the ammonia in synthetic hair dye. Problem is ... many pre-mixed henna powders do NOT have these ingredients listed!"

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you! It's time for a change. I'm ready. I know a girl who that happened to and the results were tragic. She had pretty hair too.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

sounds cool. dying your hair is fun, and dark brown is of course hott.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am irrationally excited about the hair dyeing adventure I am about to undertake. I might even do it tonight, unless I decide to do homework instead. (Note: I should really do homework...I have a take-home exam that is staring at me with the most evil set of eyes.)

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my dear sweet baby jesus this is making me laugh. Possibly NSFW (profanity)...

Choose Your Own Adventure (SomethingAwful style)

I guess it kind of helps that I read a lot of those books growing up.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think my favorite was "Holy Shit Where Am I?"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Of Course they Gave the Black Kid a Knife" made me lose my shit.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the Mircale Worker cover.

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

And "Get Up or Get Back to Bed" (Choose from 2 possible endings)

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

CHOOSE YOUR OWN SICK DAY

If you want to go back to sleep, turn to page 36.

If you want to make coffee and watch Star Trek TNG dvds, read on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Why does everyone have smudges on their foreheads today????

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. Ash Wednesday often comes as a surprise to me. But not today. Today is the beginning of a profitable time in the seafood industry. My Fridays especially!

― jesseOooo, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Let the record show that Trader Joe's Triple Ginger cookies are fucking awesome.

THE RECORD WILL SO FUCKING REFLECT.

I need some Trader Joe's ginger cookies, STAT.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why does everyone have smudges on their foreheads today????

There was a fire. A big, big fire.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

When does the Jaynasta show happen? Hm? Who will be there? I will! Who else?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD The book that is now "Buttfucked by Gayzilla" and was originally "Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons" was seriously my favorite CYOA book. Ever. EVAR.

Especially the part with all the buttfucking. By gayzilla.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Not me, alas. I got insufficient sleep last night, and I'm going to yoga where I will likely fall off my mat, a lot, and then I'm going to go home and die.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

A good ending to a good life, I suppose.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

But Jenny! You've got an appointment on Sunday! You can't die!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

I've never known anything about ash wednesday. I thought it was all just a big joke people were playing on me.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's a big joke the Catholic Church plays on Catholics.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

So I guess I am going to this show alone? Ah well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I would go with you but I live WAY UP NORTH and I have loads of hair dye on my head.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Meaning: I am going to have a new head of hairs shortly. I'm excited!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had a religion where I could draw on people's faces.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Look out world: I have a whole new head, and if I do say so, it looks remarkably good. At least right this minute it does. Yay! New hair!

It's not green, it didn't fall out. A success. You'll see it soon.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You could invent one. A friend and I once invented a religion called "urinism," one of whose major tenants is that you must always urinate facing north. The holy text is called the Book of Stu. Stu was quite a guy, it seems.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Amanda! New hair is very exciting.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care how north you live, Amanda, you are still required to meet up with me at some point.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

All right, who's the joker who left the ILX-related graffiti in the backstage bathroom at the Empty Bottle in Chicago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for jaymc's benefit: We ended up walking the whole way home from the club. It was a nice walk. In Portland, we walk places.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Good for you!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

You should have walked with us.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm much further north. Plus, I had a car. Which, now that I realize it, means I probably should've offered you a ride. But I still had to schmooze a bit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

You are someone who it does not pay to be subtle with, I suppose.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Aw man.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's totally cool, it was a nice walk, A. and I got to talk about assorted things. But, you know, I will try to be more direct in the future. It is not my strong suit.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not dead. I just slept as if I were.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yaaay, Jenny's not dead. I have brown hair. Chris, how long will you be here?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

PICTURES, AMANDA!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had some -- I can't get photos to download from my camera to our new computer but maybe I can figure that out tonight. So far no one at work has even noticed. What's up with that?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was exceptionally tired this morning, dispite getting ample sleep . . . maybe all of america suffers from the same?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

That must be why no one has noticed my new head. Too tired.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait for 24 hour living. This month's New Scientist has an article on the next wave of pharmaceuticals that will allow people to stay up 48 hours with little to no ill effects. Sign me up.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm afraid of that. I read that article, too. It didn't look all that revolutionary. Just sophistocated uppers and downers.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

See, and I already do that. Sleeping pill last night, coffee this morning. I'm golden.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am still sick-ish, but back at work and better than yesterday. A sore throat is much easier to deal with than a head cold.

xpost, do you people hate sleep?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

the sophisticated uppers and downers don't even work for me, alas. not well, anyway.

and sleep is a wonderful thing. i wouldn't want to avoid it. i wish i could get more!

amanda, what color was your hair before? maybe people aren't saying anything because each person doesn't want to be the millionth person to comment. a lot of people have seemed not to notice my new glasses, which are quite different from my old glasses and rather obvious.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not dead. I just slept as if I were.

-- Nutsy the Squirrel (rabbitrabbi...), March 2nd, 2006.

I am feeling a little sore from yoga. After yoga I had beers and I fucked up some chorizo nachos, thereby cancelling out the health benefits of prior workouts.

― jesseOooo, Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I take sleeping pills now, but I'd gladly get rid of them to stay up all the time. I like sleep, but I'd much rather have that time to be more productive, or at least continue procrastinating.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

My hair was varying stages of red before. Right after I dyed it, it was vibrant RED red, then it would fade (rather quickly) to red. After a while, it was "muted orange-brown." Naturally, it's brown, but it had been red for a loooooong time. On and off for 6 or 7 years. I felt like I had been stuffing my bra, so I went back to natural dark brown.

The coworkers finally noticed - everyone seems to like it.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I spent the first night in new bedroom last night, and predictably enough couldn't find anything this morning. Had to wake my landlord up to get back into my old room. All dust still not settled, everyone's moves should be over by tonight or tomorrow morning, then it's just the arranging to do. Still v stressed.

Amanda I love having new hair and I hope yours is awesome!! And I wish I had been at the C@n@sta show last night cos I liked what I heard last time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, new bedroom -- when you woke up, were you pleasantly disoriented or unpleasantly disoriented?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

After yoga I had beers and I fucked up some chorizo nachos, thereby cancelling out the health benefits of prior workouts.

au contraire! beer and nachos can tap into the mind-body connection. the beer relaxes you, the nachos make you happy because NACHOS RULE. this positive effect on your psyche can enhance the benefits of yoga because it adds to your overall contentment.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, nachos.

I am going out for beer and clam chowder after work for a post-Maddie Gras celebration. Surely one beer can't damage my frail constitution too much?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

No disorientation, nice clean sheets, and the relief of having my personal little isolation bubble (aka my bedroom) relocated, even if there are masses of other things still to be done. Am looking forward to the new arrangement. Thanks for asking!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

nah. you can always veto last call, sign your bill & go home for a few amendments.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

that is far dumber out loud than it was in my head!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am still reeling from the revelation that Amanda is not a natural redhead.

I keep imagining the new hair, and I like it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just had someone take a photo...stay tuned!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

i can't hold my breath forever!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

the guy who took the photo isn't at his desk right now for me to pester him. it's permanent hair dye, so it'll be this way for a while. doncha worry, pet.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

What's your natural hair color, again?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

"brown" -- the color now is much closer (though a leetle darker) than my natural color.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

That makes sense.

Maddie dyed her hair very red before New Orleans, didn't like it, and then died it dark brown the next night. I think. I have this weird thing where I can't tell much of a difference until two weeks later, when I say "oh yeah, you did dye your hair."

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I bet everyone was just too intimidated by your beauty to say anything at first.

After my next payday (yeah, my last one was just yesterday, but I'm already pining for the next one, ha ha) I plan to get a haircut and highlites again. I can only afford to get them once a year. ha ha.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know who would be intimidated by this: Dig the new hair, which is flat and greasy because I haven't washed it for three days. Also dig the purple sweater and hunchback.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I am here until, oh, probably Tuesday.

Also I think I am still drunk from last night. Whee! : (

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Also I think I am still drunk from last night.

I felt that way when I got up, too. Now I think I'm just tired.

Sorry I bailed w/o saying bye last night, C and J - I went out to talk on the phone, saw a bus, and took it.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Totally.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I was starting to think the girl bartender was really cute. Not to say that she wasn't, but generally when that kind of thing starts happening to me I've had enough to drink.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

You've had enough to drink when you think she's cute AND might actually be TOTALLY into you.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Totally.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

She was cute, but not as cute as the gal who did the sound! OMG. Of course, she was exponentially cuter because she was a SOUND GAL. At one point, after sound-check, she was sitting at the bar reading some sort of sound-engineer magazine. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like the bartender at the emptybottle that gives me free sodas.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even remember a girl bartender. I was mostly thinking, "oh, this is such a relatively reasonable price to be paying for this Maker's, how can I not order it?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

My blog is working again. Hooray!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I know that girls have had too much to drink when they are actually totally into me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

is your girlfriend drunk, like, all the time?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

She doesn't count, but as it happens, yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I like the bartender at the emptybottle that gives me free sodas.

i like the ones that give me free booze.

did the show go as well as the soundcheck?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know I stole it from Eazy, but I really like using the word "gal" now. Guys are always "guys," from when they're teenagers until they're old men -- but it's rough transitioning from "girl" to "woman." "Women" always seem like they should be much older than I am, but at a certain age "girl" can start to sound condescending. So for now, "gal" it is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

The show was fine -- there were a couple of blatant mistakes (band members either coming in too early or too late), but otherwise I thought we played pretty well!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

but it's rough transitioning from "girl" to "woman."
You're tellin' me.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a gaaaaal
In Kalamazoo zoo zoo

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. Anyway, I like your hair, Amanda! My roots are starting to show but I can't afford to get mine dyed right now, so I'm using that new John Frieda color gloss thing in the hopes that it will make dull brown more auburn. My used didn't used to be dull brown, that's the sad thing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Do it yourself, at home! I did. I think it looks better than those pictures represent, but maybe I'm wearing rosy glasses.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

PS - Thank you.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think men are always boys...hence me hollering from the 3rd floor last night, in order to get help moving heavy things: "HEY DOWNSTAIRS, I NEED A BOY."

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sassy.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

What should a sick boy eat for lunch? Salad?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

XP: Not really. I think you'd have to see the boyz/men involved to understand just HOW not sassy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

All the same, boys love hearing that kind of thing.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda: love the hair!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/Boyz-II-Men-photo/48256C71003578A2482568A3000B12CB/$file/boy.jpg

ohhhh

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Does that encourage manchildish behavior though? Because the manchild is not to be encouraged. He has enough fuel.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

is everyone moving and breaking up at the same time? definitely makes me think spring is just around the corner.

i moved on tuesday and there isn't a part of me that isn't still aching. when i was putting my bedframe and bed back together tuesday night the king sized mattress almost flopped over on top of me. i envisioned being trapped under it and dying there alone in my basement apartment only being found when i didn't show up for work for 3 days straight. when i successfully got the mattress on the box springs i was, for the first time in a while, genuinely pleased with what i'd done. i felt victorious. then i remembered that all i'd done was put a fucking mattress on a box spring. i think i should be aiming higher.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

king sized bed? !!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

also: i don't know how i feel about gal. i want to like it, but i kind of don't.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/17351.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

king sized bed? !!

i'm all arms and legs, i need the room. plus it's fun to have all that room for, well, y'know.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

All the same, boys love hearing that kind of thing

Sure, but it's getting the sassy ones within earshot that's the problem. Also, yeah, to nix the manchild fodder I might have to move on from "boys'.

Kevin, next you put the boxspring on a bedframe. THEN you celebrate.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

But you like "toots", Kelsey?

I *wish* I had a king size. Maddie and I both sprawl too much for a queen.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a big fan of "lady." Especially when adressing my female friends, because it adds a touch of class to conversation.

Alternately, it adds a touch of Jerry Lewis.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I was searching for the Britney image, but John beat me to it. Has anyone else seen Crossroads and enjoyed it?

Dan, but watch out for "ladyfriend" - gals take offense to that sometimes, especially if you've got something going on with them, especially, like, occasionally!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

LADY! FROM THE MOMENT I SAAAAAW YOU...

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Love "toots." Although, if someone I didn't know called me toots, I'd be all, "Who does he think he is?"

I had to watch Crossroads for a job I had at that time. The best thing about it was the DVD extra where they show you how to make the t-shirts the girls were wearing. I'm saying girls here on purpose.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I loved Crossroads!

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

(Speaking of which, last night I watched the Sopranos episode from the most recent season where Tony meets his father's mistress, this Kennedy-era bombshell played by Polly Draper - man, was she great.)

xpost- that's a beautiful song, Manda. For my 7th grade chorus-class evening cabaret concert, I sang 'Babe' - maybe I should've tried 'Lady' instead.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I know a couple of dudes who say "ladyfriend" all the time, and it comes off as totally smarmy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

The best triple bill would be:
1. Where the Boys Are
2. Satisfaction
3. Crossroads

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about "the ladies".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have a friend who says either 'ladyfriend' or 'womanfriend' because he cannot stand 'girlfriend.'

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I need to see Crossroads. Actually, I wonder if Crossroads and 8 Mile might be a good double feature.

Until I posted it, Britney was the spectre haunting this thread.

I really don't like "lady" for some reason.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I love "girlfriend". I'm going to say it even after I'm married.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

i use ladies and fellas.

i also use "girl" and "woman" when talking about a girl or woman and for me it's not an age thing it's a maturity thing. i've dated 32 year old girls and 25 year old women. hopefully there's something going on with this 28 year old i've been seeing around. i'm leaning 60/40 towards her being a girl.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Not "lady", "the ladies".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

chick

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

worst

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

"The ladies" is one of those words that shouldn't be made singular, like "scissors" or "pants".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.worth1000.com/web/media/70470/chick.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Saffire - now those are ladies!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I use "lady" in more the regal context (Lady XXXX) and saying silly shit like "Hello, lady, nice to see you."

Never ever ever never ever "ladyfriend." I called a girlfriend that once, in her presence, and that was enough!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am a big fan of "lady" but it DOES make me grab for a full skirt to lift when I'm going up stairs...you know, to keep mud off the hem and show a little ankle at the same time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I can never hear "ladyfriend" again without thinking of The Big Lebowski.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

True!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm... ankle.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Lady. I'm your knight in shining armor. And I love you. You have made me what I am aaaaaand -- I am yours"

"Lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear, and lovely
You're my lady"

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sparkling, clear and lovely? Is she a mountain stream? The winner is Kenny Rogers by a mile, for evoking more chivalrous times.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you mean "you're my LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAY?"

xpost: Oh I thought that was Styx! hahaha

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Is there anything worse than "mujer" though? Let's be honest.

It is! I did mean that.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I guess "mujer" isn't so bad, depending on who's saying it.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

punta?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

you mean puta?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

yeeeah, that's worse. but that's obviously a pejorative term.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i would rather be called "chick" (as gross as it is) than "whore" anyday.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think "chick" is that bad, really.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

(I mean, it depends on the context, obv.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Woman just sounds weird, I rarely use it.

Lady, too old fashioned.

I use girl a lot, peppered with some chicks.

Gal reminds me too much of NC.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

You all know I hate the word "buddy" to denote "friend," right? Hate it.

(xp) interesting about the Southernness of "gal," I suppose -- that never really occurred to me since I've reclaimed it

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Doll?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Shiela?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bird?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, what about SOW? That's a good one. How about person. If you're using a pronoun, the person's sex is already clear.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

"dudette"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I would rather be a great person than a great girl/woman/lady/mare.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ultimately, though, I'm not insulted by any of these.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

XX?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

You know, as in the chromosomes. "That was one fiiiiiine dos equis bartending at the Empty Bottle last night."

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Please refer to me by my identification code, 82375538.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

You're my milllllkmaid of the morrrrrning...

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't see your bar-code tattoo on your forehead in that picture!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, you're a shining example of your sex.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's on my neck, not my forehead. You couldn't see it through the purple turtleneck sweater.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Note: Trader Joe's boxed sweet potato bisque soup is both 1) very tasty 2) very smooth and 3) very filling, for a simple pureed vegetable soup. (I just tried it today.) Thumbs up.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

scratch that "both" - i added an extra.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like those TJ boxed soups, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Good to know - I haven't opened my soup boxes yet. They don't have to be fridged until after they're open, right?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Correctamundo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

For the $2.99 or whatever you pay for 'em, you get 3 or 4 good bowls of tasty, low calorie soup. Can't argue with that. These really should be more popular, if people weren't needlessly terrified of bright orange soup. This guy in the kitchen had the balls to sneer at me and ask what "the heck" I was eating. Whatever, hoss -- my lunch is better than that guy's anyday.

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

dos equis it shall be from this day forward.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like the trader joe's box soups. Very good. I only get 2 servings out of them though.

I miss Amy's Split Pea though, I haven't been able to find it lately.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think I just bought an Amy's Split Pea from the Whole Foods on Ashland last week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

"hoss", awesome!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't usually occur to me to buy soup from the store, but I got some good chicken noodle from the deli today, and Maddie made some great beef burgundy last night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

People are terrified of bright orange soup? I mean, your standard cream of tomato soup is bright red -- what's the difference?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know -- ask the guy who turned his nose up at my lunch. I just noticed that I've been unbanned from the noise board. How did that happen?

― The Milkmaid (of human kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Someone took pity on you?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

(I could've done it myself, but I forgot that you were banned in the first place.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Has anything particularly amusing been going on there? For some reason I only look at it like once a month.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Noise Board is always amusing. I liked the ddb crush thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

The noise board seems like the wrong place to talk about my television crush on Rachel Ray.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can't figure out what I have to contribute to the noise board. I have added my identification number to my name, since no one can see my neck tattoo.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've never posted there, for some reason.

Is it standard to have tomatoes in chicken noodle soup?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I know of -- are there tomatoes in yours?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

All over the place!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

The noise board seems like the wrong place to talk about my television crush on Rachel Ray.

Let's talk!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, guys and gals.
I'm excited about chicago's finest hour (tonight).

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

There is but one reference to Rachel Ray on the Noise Board -- Ian Johnson asked Scott Seward if he saw her on Martha's Vineyard (where Scott lives) when she was filming there once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I find her to be fun, spunky, and smart. I like how she can cook and talk at the same time (I know this is a prerequisite for all TV chefs). I was watching her a few weeks ago and she was making a bruschetta and saying, "When I lived in Denmark for three months - don't ask me how that happened - and I was broke, I made this every day for lunch."

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. I've never seen her show(s?). I only know what she looks like because weren't we talking about TV chefs on this thread a few months ago? She does seem somewhat attractive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I find her cloying.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

But inoffensive and avoidable, so I don't really care. I mean, she's not Dick Cheney.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've never actually seen her show, but her cookbooks are unimpressive.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Me and my buddy watched her show pretty religiously last winter. She's a treat. On TV, at least.

But yeah, a bit cloying.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow I'm charmed by her cloying side, kind of like the "charming asshole" appeal that some gents must have. I like the fantasy of me and Rachel Ray having Lisa Loeb and her boyfriend over for Scrabble and Schnapps.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

You do know that people are talking about Rachael Ray on the Food Network thread right now, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I didn't!!

And I know so little about cooking, I wouldn't care if her recipes are actually good (except at dinnertime).

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Ugh, I don't like that I've used that "You know ... right?" construction twice today.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I love Rachel Ray. That chick needs bigger cans though.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand what's up with Giarda whatever though. I mean, Maddie and I and whoever else could get together and have a Nice Rack! (of Ribs) show if that's all it takes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

"101 Ways to Cook Potatoes, with The Milkmaid"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

roffle

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

1. Mashed
2. Baked
3. Chips
4. Fries (Wedge)
5. Fries (Skinny Drive-In Style)
6. Fries (Waffle)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

7. Sweet Tater

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

8. Pierogies
9. hash browns
10. make your own potato liquor

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

11. soup

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Up next on the Food Network: "Melons with Maya"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

12. twice baked

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

how could we forget AU GRATIN.

We don't need to talk about potatoes all day. I just ate 10 kalamata olives.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I could talk about olives all day. Olives and potatoes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet tater ate a sweet tater today.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Weird, Jordan. I just turned in an edited article ("Fig"), and the next one on my pile is "Olive."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

13. Latkes

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

14. Oven roasted

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Limber, Kelsey!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, is the next article called "Date", or perhaps "Apricot"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

15. scalloped

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's "Plum." And then "Peach."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

At my work they make the tartar sauce with potato flour. It's absolutely the best tartar sauce ever to hit my palate.

― jesseOoooo, Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

16. potato salad

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I love potato bread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, where do you work Jesse? I always meant to ask you that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.monkeyview.net/id/462/variousandrandom/catch35.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

this thread has given me a pierogie jones.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might change my name to Pierogi Jones

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

my real name. to hell with amanda. she's dead to me. long live Pierogi Jones.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hi
Sarah said that something might be happening Chicago ILX-wise next weekend (NOT THIS WEEKEND). Is that true? Sarah will be out of town and I'll be looking for things to do.

Hi.
Come to the Hideout 2nite.

Hi.
I'm going to go eat some chocolate frosting now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think that's when Jordan's show at the Mill is going to be, yes? I might try to get in on that, depending on circumstances.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a bunch of friends coming to town next weekend. You're welcome to come out and hang with us.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, next weekend my band is playing at the Green Mill on both Friday and Saturday, and Jocelyn might be in town as well. There will also be Hot Doug's, come hot dogs or high water.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

John, how did you find that picture?? Yeh, that's where I work.

― jesseOoooo, Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might change my name to Pierogi Jones

Then you could join several other Polish women on a daytime chat show called Im Wodik.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I'm stalking you.

Kisses :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I might have a massage with Eazy's housemate tonight. If she calls me back. Certain Noise Board posters think it's weird to wear any clothes whatsoever at a massage -- and I'm not so modest to reject that notion out of hand, but I feel like it's a little different since this a friend-of-a-friend at a house, rather than a professional in a professional setting. (I was just planning on wearing boxers, btw.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I mean, at least wear your u-trou.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's a little weird to not go without at a massage, but I understand the mitigating circumstances. Why don't you ask the masseuse when you get there?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Do people groan during massages? This is an honest question. I mean, it has to feel good, but do people generally vocalize? I would imagine not, right?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I did last week, Manda; I would think that the Customer Is Always Right and that The Masseuse Has Heard It All.

I hope that works out, John - I'll be off at a pee wee hockey game in Wilmette.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, you know, I've never had a massage in my life (I mean, a real one, not just like a shoulder rub from a girlfriend), so I don't really know the protocol. I guess I'll ask her. I just know that Eric kept his pants on. But also: what happens? Do you undress in front of her? Or does she leave the room and come back with you lying on your stomach? Am I supposed to keep my ding-ding hidden from view?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha. i think there are towels involved, and modesty regarding the ding-ding.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

The only distracting thought I had during the massage was whether the ultimate point was the pleasure during the massage or the please of how your body feels after the massage, but I guess the same question could be true of sex too.

xpost - John, it's all taken care of in the process - they want to make you feel comfortable and that nothing is inappropriate. She'll leave the room and you get under the sheet, something like that. There are sheets involved. I kept the pants on instinctively more than out of shyness but unbuttoned and lowered them a bit when the time was right.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

That's helpful, thanks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I've only had one real massage, and it was in Switzerland. I can't recall if I undressed in front of her or not. I do remember that I groaned enough to be polite, but not so earnestly as I would if I was getting a massage from my girlfriend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

She won't hear you groan through the ball-gag anyway.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, I thought I was lucky when I got the attractive Asian woman and Evan got the old Italian dude, but my she ended up being in a hurry and cutting things short while he threw down some cranial sacrotherapy that was apparently transcendent.

xpost, ha

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey folks, 2 items for you:

1: Eazy: can i get in on the massage action? Help me out. I neeeed a massage.

2: http://frograbbitmonkey.gerousia.com/index.php?topic=1221.msg20173#msg20173 for those who are registered users.

― jesseOooo, Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

after battling with my furniture the past two days (not to mention laundry last night) i could use a massage. or a jacuzzi. or a vial of flexeril and a fifth of tanqueray.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I emailed your roomie, Eric.
All the massages I've received involved nudity and a sheet and massage oil.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I've sort of been hoping that I would fuck my back muscles up somehow so that I can justify getting a real massage.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still very much interested in a massage. My bike is sore basically all the time.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps it just needs the oil, without the massage?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Did I send you the info, Gib? (I sent Jesse the info.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think you emailed it...?

moc.liamg@ylwoks

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am quitting my job in, like, 15 minutes, btw.

NERVOUS

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Aggh! So exciting. What are you nervous about? Do they not know that you're leaving?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I guess obviously they don't. Duh. But they don't know about the Montana plan?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

The know nuzzink.

I'm giving them four weeks. In four weeks, they were expecting to take me on as a fulltime employee.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh, I see. You're not fulltime now?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fulltime contractor. They were supposed to have offered me real employment, oh, 4 months ago.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sons of bitches. Don't be nervous, everyone gives notice sooner or later!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know! But I'm the THIRD person quitting in the last week!

THEY THINK THERE'S A CONSPIRACY

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

gimme me some more tough talk.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, no kidding. Buh bye. Maybe they should hire people permanently from the get-go and they wouldn't take off so much.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

They will not remember your name five years from now. Might as well leave and forget theirs too. BUH BYE.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Good luck!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's weird how so many jobs are dream-like in that way - they're important while they're happenening in the present, and then afterwards it's as if they never happened. That's why it's strange to think of the people who are still at a job that I left years ago - people who are still working in an office I worked in 10 years ago, even.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Evan, don't let them make you feel like you owe them anything! It's true, companies will toss you out if you become inconvenient -- however bad your immediate superior might feel about it, they're not going down for you if the company is reorganized or whatev. So do what you need to for YOURSELF.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

THE DIE IS CAST

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

RUBICON? CROSSED.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am not the Scrabble champion of Chicagoland. No way.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

GO EVAN GO!!!

Now you get four glorious post-notice weeks. Those are the best. The best!!! It's a veritable FUCK WORK FUNZONE!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

Massages:

I've had lots of massages. You can wear your pants if you want - I like to be buck nekkid. You get under a sheet and lie face down while the MT is out of the room. When she massages, she only uncovers the part of you that she's going to massage. So she'll pull the sheet down to your waist and do your back. Then cover your back and uncover one leg up to the thigh. Etc. When it's time to roll over, she'll do this nifty trick where she lifts the sheet over you like a tent, and look away, and you can spin over without wiggling your bits at her.

Dudes (me, I like to say ladies and dudes when I'm being all funny and shit, but try to stick to "women" for ladies and "men" or sometimes "guys" for dudes when being serious. I strongly dislike girls, gals, chicks, or any term that infantalizes ladies. But that is just one lady's opinion!) often get boners during massages. Sometimes people make noises. People also fart, although I would rather die.

My best friend is an LMT in Oklahoma (and previously in Delaware and Oakland and Atlanta) and OH the stories she could tell. You are not the ugliest, stinkiest, fattest, skinniest, or most malformed that the massage therapist has ever seen.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hair:

Amanda, your hair looks really fabulous! The purple sweater really compliments the hair color, and your eyes are like zing! zip! zow!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Potatoes:

17. vichyssoise

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, she didn't call me back. Let me know how yours goes with her, Jenny -- I'll probably try to schedule for next week instead.

Also: what's infantilizing about "gal"? Because it's derived from "girl"? See, I thought it had the advantage of being an all-purpose sort of word like "lady" -- which I only don't like because "lady" makes me think of a very specific sort of woman, like some Upper West Side dowager with a mink stole. "Ladies Who Lunch," that sort of thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

hi guys, i'm at home avoiding a take-home thai exam. thanks for the kind words, yenny!

"gal" is fine, so long as you don't overuse it, like singing "buffalo gals" all the time and punching people in the shoulder constantly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

not that you would do that, of course.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, of course not.

(All right, I'm off to see Los Fake Ficciones.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

tell em i said HIEEE

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

What's vichyssoise?

I never say "gal", but it seems like a viable feminine version of "guy".

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

vichyssoise = cold potato soup

gal = girl, except you're a cowboy or a redneck. I just tried to OED it to back myself up, but "gal" doesn't have it's onw entry. It is, however, mentioned in the entry for girl as follows:

old girl: Applied colloq. to a woman at any time of life, either disrespectfully or (occas.) as an endearing term of address, spec. one's mother or wife; also, a former pupil of a girls' school or college; also attrib. Similarly, to a mare, etc.
1898 J. D. BRAYSHAW Slum Silhouettes 220 He lets aht that Liz an' 'er ole gal was going ter the Crystal Palice.

d. More fully, a girl about or of the town, a girl of ease: a prostitute. a kind girl: a mistress.
1851 MAYHEW Lond. Labour I. 477 The ‘gals’ are sure to be beaten cruelly..by their ‘chaps’.

So I don't know. Buffalo Gals is a good song and makes me think of Jimmy Stewart so it could be worse. I think "lady" is funny exactly because it evokes that image of staid haughtiness.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well, here. American Heritage has "gal" as informal for "girl." Webster's Unabridged has it as just "girl." Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary has gal as follows:

gal (GIRL)
noun [C] plural gals INFORMAL OR HUMOROUS
a woman or girl:
You're just an old-fashioned gal, aren't you, honey!

But, since people I like think it's cool, I will pretend that if someone calls me "gal," they mean to suggest that I'm a unit of acceleration equivalent to one centimeter per second per second. Because that's totally awesome.

And speaking of the big list of dictionaries on DePaul's on-line research library, lookit! A Dictionary of American Regional English!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah one more thing - "lady" is super funny when you use it in conjunction with "dude." see:

'Cause I'm your laaaadddddyyyyyyyyyy
And you are my duuuuuuuuudeeeee
whenever you reach for me
I'll try not to be ruuuuuudeeeeeee

Although I also like it when Jesse says "Ladies and Germans."

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Those Fictitious Fakers sure do lay down the sweet rock!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am in town, it looks, until Tuesday afternoon. If anyone hasn't met me who wants to meet me (and I do want to meet you!), I am available for coffee, lunch, dinner, cocktails, and even for meetings up that don't involve calorie intake. So, yes. That also goes for anyone who has met me and wants more of "the flavor". Tomorrow looks especially free.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

Although I also like it when Jesse says "Ladies and Germans."

-- Nutsy the Squirrel (rabbitrabbi...), March 3rd, 2006.

I say that? I guess I recall that. That's pretty funny. I'm pretty funny! (and a master of html, it seems, considering all the italics!)

― jesseOooo, Friday, 3 March 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

-- Casuistry (chri...), March 3rd, 2006.

We're back to tasting again. Most meetings I have with people involve calorie intake.

― jesseOooo, Friday, 3 March 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

One tablespoon at a time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, also, thanks to... (Amanda?) for the tip about the Spice House -- it was a Nice House. Although I didn't buy anything, because it is a long train ride back to Portland, etc. But B. did, and he is completely in love with the place.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hi hi. I have two days of work left in this job. I'm so happy.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 3 March 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

People be quittin'!

Last night a friend invited Maddie and me down to Chi for St. Patty's Day shenanigans. Between the gigs next weekend, that, and Kelsey's party, I could spend the rest of my month in Chicago if I thought I could handle it!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Rolled out of bed two minutes ago. In my dream, there were these two girls that I know who had formed a band called "Truckload of Dirt" and were singing an acoustic version of Jaymc's jingle at a liquor store at ten in the morning. I didn't know liquor stores had in-store shows, but... well, anyway.

I want to see a spelling bee where this evil judge keeps trying to crack the kids up by making them spell things like "titular" and "morass."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Up till 1.30 cleaning and helping old roommate get stuff out -- then waiting up to make sure he had a place to sleep last night. SOOOOO TIRED. His flight is tomorrow, I will relax only once he's on the damn plane. Did I mention he has no form of ID other than an expired passport? Dear god.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

hey laurel: that's his problem, not yours. relax!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, i'm still in tough love mode)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

No, actually, it will be my problem because can I let him be homeless in New York? No, I cannot. I realize that you are brilliantly right and OTM but it's a moot point....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Expired passport, that seems about 50/50...

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I would totally go to a show in a liquor store. It's got to be the best example EVAH of bringing the mountain to Mohammed...so to speak.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

OH NO

"Oh, by the way, Hot Doug's will be
CLOSED FOR VACATION
Monday, February 27
through Saturday, March 11.
We will re-open Monday, March 13"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

okay, ssshhh, I'm sneaking out to go ~~play a gig~~ to a doctor's appointment, kthxbye

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

One of those 10 a.m. liquor store gigs, eh?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Or 10 a.m. liquor store doctor appointments?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

dr. mcgillicuddy

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

didn't know liquor stores had in-store shows, but... well, anyway.

Cal's, dude!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, does anyone want to hang out somewhere on the Norf side Monday night? I have class until 7:30 but then I could meet people out. I want to meet Chris at some point and maybe someone else would like to get a beer or two?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds plausible!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I can't on Monday! But I have already seen Chris like four times, and I am growing weary of his presence. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://mchammer.blogspot.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ok -- well we have a few days to figure it out, but I'll plan on it! Yaay.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Do you really think he posts all of that from his Sidekick? That's a lot of typing on a bunch of teeeeeeeny little keys. I smell a rat.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Then again...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'd think it was a hoax except for all of the photos that are obviously of him and don't appear to be the kind that you could image-google for.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

But I thought he was just "Hammer". Did he re-adopt the "MC"? I haven't been keeping up with his career lately.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

His "sidekick" is his personal assistant, Charles.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Kalamazooans, Maddie and I tasted our homebrewed clone of Bell's 2-

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

And was it good?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I tried to be clever and make a heart symbol but instead I am dumb. Anyway, yeah, it's pretty good and I will try to bring a couple bottles down next weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is anything fun happening this weekend?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

No, nothing fun is happening this weekend. At all. Anywhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

my friend arman's band is at the hideout followed by my friend norah dj'ing. or preceded by her dj'ing. i'm not sure which.

and for really, REALLY fun times anyone who wants to can come over to my place and help me unpack. i seriously fucked up my back last night lifting the sleeper sofa so i could use the help.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Saturday is the International Women's Day conference at 333 S. Ashlande from 10 AM to 3 PM, co-hosted by yrs truly and featuring speakers from NARAL, the Brazillian Landless Movement, JANE, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Apna Ghar, Guatemala, Coalition to Protect Public Housing AND MORE!

You can download a PDF flyer with more information here: http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=5242726.

I should have a program soon and I'll upload that, too.

― jennybee, Friday, 3 March 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just tried to Gmail something something to J. and I can't tell if it went through. And just after I was thinking it was so super awesome!

I am lingering at base camp today, although I don't know if I'll get what I planned to get done here done at all.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Which J.?

John
Jeff
Jesse
Jenny
Julia
Jocelyn

― jennybee, Friday, 3 March 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jamanda

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan

― jrules, Friday, 3 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I just got it, dude. Thanks!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jamanda! Hahahahaha!

Jesse used to call our friend Courtney "Jourtney" to cure the defect of her name not beginning with a J.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

That one.

The John/Jaymc thing is just too awkward on this forum.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

For a good long while I only dated guys whose name started with J. I don't know how it happened like that, but it did. I even calculated the number of people I had smooched whose name started with J and it was somewhere in the 70% range. This was some time ago when I had the spare time for such endeavors. And wasn't married.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Note: the sample was not large

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

For a long time I only dated guys named "Matt". To the point where it became clear that if your name was Matt, and I wanted to sleep with you, then you had no choice in the matter.

In fact, the last time I visited Chicago, in 97, I was visiting a "Matt".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

You can call me John, I don't mind.

I think one time when my brother was posting, he referred to me as "jaymc," which was weird.

I have been romantically involved, to varying degrees, with two Woods and a Woodward.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Weird, I have never even been interested in a Matt. Or a Wood.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Statistically, I gravitate toward A's and M's.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't recomment Matts, necessarily. None of them post here, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Of course not.

(except for Cibula)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Not on this thread.

I know quite a few Matts. Although one is technically a Mat.

The only ones I can think of on ILX are Perpetua, Cibula, and Chesnut.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

See, I do think it's a little odd to be referred to as "Chris" here, although I posted here as "Chris" for a few years, and it's hardly a secret, etc., but since I'm not one of those people who changes their screen name every day, then...

Well, it's all complicated.

I will call you Jaoyhmnc from now on.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also Matt Coastaltown. And nothing against any of them, but I'm not sure I want to sleep with them.

Then again, I have more or less forsaken sex, so what does that even mean?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

It means you don't want to not sleep with them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Matt DC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

These are the Matts I know I know, these are the Matts I know.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

The John/Jaymc thing is just too awkward on this forum.

Greatly simplified by just calling him "Jay" all the time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer "Juancho".

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had any compunction about being known by my real name -- I just picked a weirdo screen name three years ago not realizing that I'd be doing this for as long as I have, and I've just stuck with it out of habit, I guess.

People who know me in real life are certainly welcome to call me John, since that's really what they think of me as most of the time.

It's kind of funny when some people on ILX pick up on my real name and then start using it. I think Jess called me "John" once. Pete Smith calls me "John" all the time now.

Then there are some people who call me "Jay" in real life, which is weird to me, because I don't feel like a "Jay." Maria Tessa Sciarrino did this accidentally a few times (and I didn't want to correct her), but some people (cough*laurel*cough) insist on it even though they know better. (HAHA XPOST)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

(JC, however, is fine.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

jaaaaaaaaaaaaaymmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmccccccccccccccccccc

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's what [CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT] calls me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I knew one girl who insisted on calling me "J." all the time. Hated it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have no problem calling you John in real life but that is not how you call yourself here. And I prefer to call people what they want to call themselves. And yet "Jaymc" is a mouthful and "Jay" is wrong. So, I have gone with "J.", which is almost a pun.

On another forum where I used this same nick, people called me "Cas", which was fine, except then when I started using it here people shortened it to "Casu", which I kinda liked, as it was a cross between "kazoo" and "cashew".

The other thing: I don't generally refer to people by name. In fact, my high school girlfriend (it didn't work out) got very upset because I never referred to her by name when speaking to her. Which seems totally odd to me, but then again, I never refer to anyone's name when speaking to them. Even when trying to get their attention, I'm more likely to go just "hey!" rather than "hey, John!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

That was an xpost that ended up being on a related subject!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

"J." is cool, too. Nabisco and Eazy both call me that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I am the same way about referring to people by name -- it really bugs me when people always say "Hi Amanda" every morning. Aren't we sort of past that? We see each other EVERY SINGLE DAY. I know this is stupid, but it makes me feel weird.

On the other hand, I have to remember my students' names, which is sometimes difficult, so I have to keep saying them.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

ILXors with the initials JC:

J0hn Cunningh@m
J0rdan C0hen
Jeremy C00mbes

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

J. is cool, but not Jay?

xpost I am also against saying "Good morning" to coworkers every day, as if it hasn't become one long ongoing blur. But I realize I might be in the wrong on this one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

matt perpetua loves to be called "matty beebs". no joke.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

wait. is chris male or female? i thought chris was friends with nickalish . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kanye West

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, chris. i just spoke about you like you weren't here.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't mind "Jay" so much online (since it is, after all, a contraction of my screen name) -- just in real life. I like "J.," though, because it hints at intimacy (I know your name is John) but doesn't want to be presumptuous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

This Chris (a/k/a Casuistry, from Portland, Ore.) is different from that other Chris (a/k/a Dale, Cprek, etc., from Lexington, Ky.). Both are male.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez, and just an hour ago, I wrote up a Guide to Ethan Padgett Pseudonyms on the Stylus staff board.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff is my third Jeff.

And FINAL Jeff.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also - put on your critical thinking caps, Chi-ILXors, and tell me what is wrong with this link:

http://www.volgagirl.com/2006wd/russian_brides_womensday2006.html

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am, however, maler.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - It's this one dude in particular that bugs me. He says "Hi Amanda" in exactly the same borderline-lascivious way every day and it just gives me the oogies. He's got this pasted-on smile and a blank stare. It also seems like a very salesman-y thing to do, to assert that you remembered the person's name. Again, I know I'm being dumb in rebelling against this. Still, though.

http://i2.tinypic.com/qnwfme.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also - put on your critical thinking caps, Chi-ILXors, and tell me what is wrong with this link:

"western-oriented man" should probably be "Western-oriented man"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

The sad thing is that there is possibly nothing at all wrong with that link.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Using Women's Day to celebrate mail-order brides?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, right. That.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

ahahaha

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Attendance at this dinner will have the anticipated effect to boost the confidence and morale of those involved, directly benefiting those men who are corresponding with them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

And then, at the bottom:

No longer an exclusively socialist holiday, International Women's Day is now a time to rally support for women's rights around the world, commemorate the progress we've made, and honor the efforts of individual women who have helped bring about greater equality for all.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

BY SELLING RUSSIAN WOMEN TO WESTERN-ORIENTED MEN.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

If becoming a mail-order bride really is a more "pro-woman" step up from their current situation, then maybe! But I don't know enough about the situation to say. A friend of mine (or, a friend of a friend of mine) was doing her PhD dissertation on this sort of thing, and, well, apparently she found it a litle upsetting at times. So to speak.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

occidentally-oriented

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Accident-prone.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

But, see, I didn't KNOW Jaymc's "real" name was John until well after I'd formed a mental image. I cannot be held responsible for my mental images.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

xp, yes exactly, amanda!

i have that annoyance at people who use your name a lot. i have a neighbor who has stopped by a couple of times, who i really just met. he immediately wanted to call me by a nickname, which i nixed. i go by 'julia', 'julie', or 'jules', (or JA, come to think of it), and isn't that enough?

and then he would pepper his conversation with my name, which is just all schmoozey and salesmanlike. it's one of those things they tell salespeople, isn't it--that you should use a person's name a lot to make them feel important or something?

i like being addressed by my name, but not when it seems all artificial and smarmy like that.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Mail-order bride" is more often than not a nice way to say "sex slave" or "domestic abuse victim." And mail-order bride brokers are more like human traffickers than, say, match.com-type services.

And no, being marketed, packaged, sold, and shipped like so much exotic Beluga cavier is not a more "pro-woman" step from their current situation, which may not be as great as say, my US current situation.

Ask yourself - what is a man who seeks a Russian mail-order bride really looking for in a mate?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dumplings?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I will tone down the fiery feminist rhetoric (not that I think opposition to human trafficking is really all that controversial a stance, but I recognize that's kind of a heavy topic for a Friday afternoon).

occidentally-oriented/accident-prone = LOL

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hot.ee/iljaaa/PICS/pelmeni.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

The same thing that my classmate sought in his "data collection" from Thai prostitutes, I would imagine.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

EVERY DAY IS WOMANS DAY

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

SINCE THEY GOT THE VOTE

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I DRANK COFFEE

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

EVERY DAY IS WOMANS DAY

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN IS IT MANS DAY?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

GO GET ME SOME COFFEE, SUGAR BRITCHES.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY'S GOT A CASE OF THE MANS DAYS

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

THAT IS TRUE. I ALWAYS HAVE A CASE OF THE MANS DAYS.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

ROCKIN OUT TO DON CAB

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I totally (and obviously) agree with you about what happens to them after they get sold and married and all that. But I don't actually know about what their current, pre-marriage situation is. My question boils down to: Why do these women do this? And I realize they might not have much of a choice in the matter. But then I think, surely a horribly abusive situation in the U.S. offers more of a chance of escape than a horribly abusive situation in Russia?

Or do they never end up getting married off, and are just trotted out as escorts to desparate and horny Westerners? That could be the worst case scenario.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) THEY ARE A MATH ROCK BAND. GIRLS CAN'T DO MATH.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I mean:

JUST ANOTHER MANIC MANDAY.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

GIRLS CAN'T DANCE TO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN'T DANCE TO

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

AND THEY DON'T LIKE THAT

BECAUSE THEY ARE GIRLS

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

THE GIRLS LIKE TO BE WITH THE GIRLS

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hey who wants to do something cheap 2 nite?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Cheap 'n' greasy?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I would, but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to respect myself in the morning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Do you respect yourself now?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm doing cheap n' greasy tonight - live band karaoke w/beer and pizza!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling that we will check out a movie, watch it, Sarah will fall asleep and then I'll waste a couple of hours watching dumb tv or reading or playing video games. This is not a complaint.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Do you respect yourself now?

Not really.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Have you finished RE4, Nick?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

SORRY THIS IS LONG BUT CHRIS ASKED SO HERE IT GOES...

Chris - the women are lied to, kidnapped, sold by their families. And it's generally easier to escape from an abusive relationship in a country where you speak and read the language, have other family or friends, know your way around, and are a legal resident than one in which you have only ever lived as a slave.

Trafficking in Human Beings: From Himalayan villages to Eastern European cities, people – especially women and girls – are attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job as a domestic servant, waitress or factory worker. Traffickers recruit victims through fake advertisements, mail-order bride catalogues and casual acquaintances.

Upon arrival at their destination, victims are placed in conditions controlled by traffickers while they are exploited to earn illicit revenues. Many are physically confined, their travel or identity documents are taken away and they or their families are threatened if they do not cooperate. Women and girls forced to work as prostitutes are blackmailed by the threat that traffickers will tell their families. Trafficked children are dependent on their traffickers for food, shelter and other basic necessities. Traffickers also play on victims’ fears that authorities in a strange country will prosecute or deport them if they ask for help.

Bill To Curtail 'Mail-Order Bride' Abuse Advances in CA: Many women find themselves victims of domestic violence after participating in largely unregulated 'International Marriage Broker' industry matchmaking.

. . .

Nationwide there have been several dozen cases of domestic violence and even murder committed against women who come to the United States as mail order brides. There are at least seven documented cases in California; many more are believed to go unreported. California is believed to have over 70 marriage brokers operating in the state.

Trafficking and sexual exploitation: Girls as young as 13 (mainly from Asia and Eastern Europe) are trafficked as “mail-order brides.” In most cases these girls and women are powerless and isolated and at great risk of violence.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Bride Trafficking: While traditional and modern bridal practices are not in themselves forms of sex trafficking, traffickers use these cultural systems to help facilitate the selling of women and girls. In some countries, women are considered the virtual property of families, or are treated equivalently, and may be unwillingly sold or bartered into marriages.

The dowry system in many countries also facilitates bride trafficking. Traffickers take advantage of poor families by promising to marry their daughters to grooms in other countries who require little or no dowry. After receiving the family’s permission to take their daughter to a foreign country, the trafficker can then force the women or child into prostitution. Sometimes, the family knowingly sells their daughter into prostitution because they are unable or unwilling to pay a dowry.

In certain areas of China, where men significantly outnumber the women, grooms pay a ‘bride price’ to the bride’s family before a marriage. This practice has created an increased demand for cheaper brides, and traffickers meet this demand by trafficking women from poorer regions of China or from other countries.

Mail-order bride systems in the United States and other Western countries also facilitate the trafficking in women and children. While many unions are legitimate, traffickers work through mail-order bride companies to bring women across international borders where they end up in sham marriages leading to prostitution or in violent and abusive relationships.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Mail-order Brides: Exploited Dreams

That one is long so I won't excerpt it. Just google for "mail order bride human trafficking" and if that's not enough, try "marriage brokerage human trafficking" for much more info on the topic.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

I miss video games.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have not beaten RE4, I got to another point where I am frustrated, the part where you battle one of the big monsters in that series of suspended cage-rooms and then they act like it falls into the pit but then OH NOES it crawls out of the pit and is impossible to kill. So I haven't been playing it for a few weeks. I started Jak & Daxter II up again in the meantime but now I'm frustrated with that one too (way too hard) so then recently I was working on We Love Katamari trying to find all the cousins which is also impossible.

Seriously, if anyone wants to hang out tonight, and just do something relaxed and cheap, give me a call. I am broke but want to have the weekend.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am rocking out so hard to this Don Caballero album, so good! I've got it up loud.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

So, to continue on this tangent, if most of the humans being trafficked got that way by having decent enough lives but being fooled by promises for better/more exciting/free-er lives in the U.S. (or wherever), or if they were kidnapped/abducted, then yes, I take back what I said. If it's the choice between an abused life in Russia or an abused life in the U.S., though, I might still think that the people in the U.S. have a better chance of getting out of their abused life, that the meager resources we put into helping such people are probably much greater than the resources Russia puts into it.

None of that is meant to condone mail-order brides, of course!

I hope that makes my small point, which I am at best provisional about, clear enough.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Just don't put salt on the food I serve you, goddammit, or you will PAY WITH BLOOD.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Not really.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I salt everything.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to copy and paste a few things from the last linked article about why an abusive relationship in a woman's home country is easier to escape from than an abusive relationship in a foreign country. I can also cite you a number of articles about sex and labor slaves trafficked into the US who don't escape for similar reasons if you'd like, but I won't belabor the point unless you want me to:

Commercial Stereotyping in the Mail-Order Bride Industry

Matchmaking organizations build their business by taking advantage of and marketing cultural stereotypes. . . . Many matchmaking websites advertise their mail-order brides (implicitly, or in some cases, explicitly) as submissive, docile, faithful and loving domesticated wives who are looking to build a traditional, old fashioned home in which they will cater to their man. It is not unlikely . . . that a man who is seeking out a submissive woman is not seeking an equal partnership, but rather a relationship of dominance and control. . . . It then becomes likely that if a wife turns out not to “live up” to the advertised standard, the husband, who was seeking control in a relationship, might turn to abuse in order force the wife to live up to that standard.

Inherent Bias Against the Mail-Order Bride: Exploitation of Conditions of Vulnerability

Informational Vulnerability

While matchmaking organizations have incentive to provide their paying male clients with “quality” brides, the incentive is much smaller for providing the prospective brides with similar information about their possible husbands, especially considering the seemingly endless supply of available brides. Matchmaking organizations commonly do not screen their male clients for past criminal records or records of domestic violence, abuse or restraining orders. . . . The industry therefore almost en masse ignores the potential repercussions of these marriages on the women, while focusing squarely on the potential repercussions of the marriages on the men, leaving the brides to be in a more vulnerable position than the grooms.

Economic Vulnerability

[H]usbands tend to come from wealthy, stable economies, while the brides originate from economically unstable or vulnerable environments. [W]hen these brides find themselves married in the first world, they are dependent economically on their husbands especially in the early days of their lives in a new country. They thus continue to face economic vulnerability and dependency until the time comes when they are able to support themselves financially.

Cultural Vulnerability

An additional bias stems from the fact that the brides enter a foreign country, a foreign culture, and a foreign community, in which few of them have any networks of support other than the husband . . . The husband, who has brought a wife into his natural environment, is by default in his comfort zone, while the wife is vulnerable to the intricacies of a culture she is not familiar with, often without the knowledge of the language.

Legal Vulnerability

In the United States, a woman arriving on a fiancée visa is to be married to her proposed fiancée within 90 days of entry (there is no legal way to extend this limit), or she is to face deportation. Upon marriage, she is granted a conditional resident status, which is again dependent on her husband, as applications are filed jointly. Again, before the expiration of the continued status, the wife and the husband must appear in court together to request removal of conditionality. Divorce cannot be an option for two years, otherwise the wife loses her immigrant status. The bride is therefore continuously placed at the mercy of her husband and lives under the constant threat of possible deportation.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, to say that a human trafficking victim should have an easier time escaping from an abusive relationship in a foreign country also completely overlooks the huge difficulty that US-born women have in escaping abusive relationships in the US itself. Women living in oppressively anti-women nations (like hard core Islamic states and theocratic nations) suffer under similar legal, economic, cultural, and informational vulnerabilities as women trafficked into the US. Add to that not knowing the language, not knowing the laws, not knowing any other human beings, not knowing how the money works, not knowing the geography, not being able to read signs.

Or, conversely, imagine a US woman in an abusive relationship, and think of the difficulties she has in escaping. Now imagine that she doesn't know the language, the laws, the currency, the geography...

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Not to be completely frustrating, but what you've done here is shown how difficult it is for a woman to get out of an abusive situation in a foreign country, which I already knew about. What you haven't done, unless I am being totally oblivious to something, is pasted the parts that explain how it's easier to escape the abusive situation in the native country, and how a greater percentage of women escape such a situation in their native country than they do in the foreign country. That's the part that I am making uninformed assumptions about!

It's possible that that is mentioned in the article you posted, though, which I admit I haven't read yet, because I suck.

(xpost)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, we both agree on how insanely hard it is for these women to escape their situation in the foreign country, and how terrible and appalling the whole situation is.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Or, to put it another way, I haven't been trying to say that they get married, move to America, land of the free, and suddenly it's all milk and honey for them and they can easily get out of the abusive situation and get the services they need and open a bistro. That is very much NOT what I am saying, but it feels like you're arguing as if that's what I'm saying.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe you salt your mail order brides, Chris.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

(I am already home and drunk and pizza'ed)

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

Went to that chocolate place on W. Randolph tonight after a friend's art opening - so nice.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. I am going to a house party in a couple minutes that's literally a block away from my apartment. This is awesome. Instead of having to flag a cab and fumble through my pockets for wadded up bills when I leave the party drunk, I can just stumble home and be inside my door in 30 seconds.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

I did fuck-all tonight. There's not really anything I want to do, though. I wonder if there's a late-night coffee shop type place nearby.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

What part of town are you in?

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Logan Square.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

Is Lula open late? Or you could take the blue to Wicka Park.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I had dinner at Lula. Lula has enough of my money for one day.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

I just wanted a nearby place to hole up and read a book and vaguely peoplewatch.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

If you took the fullerton bus, you could go to the bourgeois pig, though I think they might close at 11. But that's a great place for what you're looking for, near Fullerton/Lincoln/Halsted.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'll keep that in mind.

Maybe I'll go to Walgreen's and just wander around the aisles for a few hours. That sometimes cheers me up.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

I fucking love Walgreens. I want to have Walgreen's babies.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 4 March 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Happily, Walgreen's wants to have your babies too!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Don Cabellero rocks my lame ass.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS jesseOooooo!!!!!!!

I had already registered twice, but forgot the 2nd one under this name. Anyway, welcome to the new me, now with expanded posting capability.

― unclejessjess, Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT DOES XPOST MEAN?????????

????????????????????????????

― Jesse C Kehr (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! that was putting my full name up on here.

I will continue posting back and forth to myself until 2 AM.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Which one, K.? American Don?

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

K? Me? Que?

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, how long are you in town?

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

Like I said "stumble home in 30 seconds." Ha. I bonded with someone over a girl that we both tried to date with limited success. It wasn't us, it was her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to registrationworld! You came on just as soon as I gave up.

I am here until TUESDAY AFTERNOON, I think.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "xpost" is a "crosspost", it is when you were typing something and then someone else typed something. So it means "I am not responding to that just above, but something way above that." If you need to clarify, you can say "xpost to barfybunny" or whatever.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO you will note that I am up way too frickin' early for a Saturday morning. Bring me some Frosted Sugar Puffs and some Bugs Bunny cartoons! Bring me my chariots of desire!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Chris

I'm living to Eminem. I'm getting ready to pay my $100 parking ticket from my RENTAL CAR. I just say that the fine for a late payment is EQUAL TO THE ORIGINAL FINE! Fuckin' A, man.

I got up at 10 this morning because I'm in that habit, despite having drunk a bottle of wine last night to KILL THE PAIN IN MY SOUL.

XOXO, Jesse

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Contest that bitch!

I am debating what to do today. I would go to Hyde Park and wander around various bookstores, but it is not very convenient to the public transit. I mean, busses, urgh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with busses?

When I first moved here I was intimidated by busses, I guess because of the number of bus lines and stuff. In cities I visited in the past I always took the trains and subways but never ever busses because they seemed confusing.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

They seem slow, and it's nicer to walk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not really "anti-bus" though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

A fried from Seattle said that when she went back to visit her friends could not believe she was riding the bus because it's a whole different class of people who ride busses in car-friendly cities.

Busses are slower than trains, except for God's Own Busses, the Express busses.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the last time I heard anyone other than me use the "God's Own..." construction.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

My most common use of it is when describing Alleve: "God's own hangover cure."

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

You know what is God's own fruit? Fresh cut golden pineapple. Esp when you buy it at the Mexican grocery for 1.49 and it yields more than the pre-cut which costs at least $3. Fresh pineapple is the only fruit I've eaten that has never ever let me down.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Don't eat the hard middle bits!

I think I am off to Hyde Park. If anyone wants to meet up later, give me a call. If you don't have my number, get it from Jaoyhmnc, Jesse, Jenny, Nick, or whoever else has it. Who knows! It might be fun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, I didn't get your email until this morning. So that's why I didn't reply. Not because I'm an asshole. Though I am. I think we're going to go to BROADWAY ANTIQUES MARKET in a few minutes, because Sarah has been bugging me about it for like 6 months.

xpost I don't have your number.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

i keep reading Jaoyhmnc as "jahoymc".

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I got up earlier than all-y'all (6:45, anyone?) so no complaining! I just got back from my class, where I was trying to teach the stoods* about how to have a civilized argument. We were discussing phrases and terms to suggest that we "strongly agree" (rather than half-heartedly agree) and I refrained from teaching them to say "OTM." It was hard, because I enjoy indoctrinating people with inappropriate and sometimes inaccurate information, but I restrained myself.

*My students are referred to frequently as "the stoods"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 4 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i still had not been to bed at 6:45.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 4 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

haha me neither!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 4 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm falling-down tired but Ben is on a plane, going home (after an astounding series of mishaps, any of which could have resulted in a missed flight)! And half the old apartment is sparklingly clean! Of course I've only unpacked a fraction of my books, but that seems like a minor annoyance right now. Now I'm going smoke a pack of cigarettes, shower, nap, and then start looking for someone to start trouble with tonight. WHO'S WITH ME??

― Laurel, Saturday, 4 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

What's going on tonight? Anything? We've been out and about all day at destinations ranging from Promontary Point (at 55th Ave) to Broadway Antiques Market (6130 N. Broadway), quite a range!

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Duke/Carolina

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

My dream evening: someone, not me, invites the crew to their pad for brews and maybe a movie or something. Low-impact.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, I thought I put my phone number in that e-mail.

Either way.

Apparently this evening we are going to [have dinner? hang out] with B.'s current "fling", who I haven't met yet. I really want Jesse to come along with, otherwise it will be hard to endure.

― Casuistry!, Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to a punk rock show at the Big Horse Lounge (in Wicker Park) in about a half hour, if anyone wants to join me. (I'm not sure what time the band I'm going to see is starting, so I'm just going to go down there and find out.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Will it be loud?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Not to be completely frustrating, but what you've done here is shown how difficult it is for a woman to get out of an abusive situation in a foreign country, which I already knew about. What you haven't done, unless I am being totally oblivious to something is pasted the parts that explain how it's easier to escape the abusive situation in the native country, and how a greater percentage of women escape such a situation in their native country than they do in the foreign country.

You're not being completely frustating but you are being a little oblivious - what that article describes and what I pasted are the challenges facing foreign-born women who are in the US as mail-order brides when they try to leave abusive relationships IN THE US. Those challenges are not in place for a woman in her native country where she speaks the language, has citizenship, knows other people, and is familiar with the culture and the currency. It does take logic to get from point A to point B, but it's not difficult to figure it out.

Another statistic that might help is to look at the number of mail-order brides who are killed by their husbands (it's in those links posted above). If it's so easy to leave, I doubt they would end up dead - they'd just leave.

I haven't been trying to say that they get married, move to America, land of the free, and suddenly it's all milk and honey for them and they can easily get out of the abusive situation and get the services they need and open a bistro. That is very much NOT what I am saying, but it feels like you're arguing as if that's what I'm saying.

What I'm reading is that you're saying that it is easier for an immigrant woman to leave an abusive relationship once she arrives in the US than it is for that same woman to leave an abusive relationship in her home country. And to be quite blunt, you're wrong. The freedoms here in the land of the free explicitly apply to citizens and not documented immigrants, and explicitly do not apply to immigrants with faulty documents . The services that these women need are few and far between and very difficult to navigate for native born women, much less women with the oft-listed vulnerabilities (as a matter of fact, HR 4437 aka the Sensenbrenner Bill would make it a felony for any individual or organization to assist undocumented immigrants; this would make providing domestic violence services to a woman without legal status a felony).

So, just to summarize - the US is a bad place for women suffering from domestic and gender violence. The US is a bad place for immigrants. The US is a bad place for immigrant women. The US is a really bad place for immigrant women suffering from domestic violence. QED

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

I will give you that a woman in an abusive relationship in a theocratic or fundamentalist state (think burkas and honor killings and bride burnings, although those things also happen in immigrant communities right here in the US) is in an even draw with an immigrant woman trafficked into the US who is stuck with her abuser. These bride services offer women from third world countries, but not from theocratic or fundamentalist nations. Women from those countries are generally find themselves in abusive relationships in the US as a result of arranged marriages, debt marriages, or match-maker type brokers rather than the "Bride Warehouse" type on-line women catalogs, which is more what we're talking about. Or more what I was talking about, anyway. Perhaps that is our miscommunication!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

See, and I really should let this drop, but you're doing the same thing again -- you're saying that A is worse than B, and then you're describing how terrible A is, and I completely agree with you about how terrible A is, (and in fact the whole point of my first comment about how "sadly it might be better" doesn't come across unless you're on the same page about how bad things are in the US -- and we are on the same page there!) but you're not saying how B is better.

Because, for instance, above you refer to deportation as one of the likely bad effects of women trying to get out of their abusive relationship -- which just makes me wonder how much worse it must of have been in their original country!

I have been agreeing with this all along.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Dinner was fine, but it would have been approximately one zillion times better with Jesse. Ah well. We went to some vegan diner in Andersonville. The Chicago Diner, I think it was called?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have definitely chosen my favorite episode of "First Person with Errol Morris." Apparently someone agrees with me -- this one episode is available separately from the "complete series" DVD (unless they are all, which I doubt). Please ignore the official Amazon product description -- it's misleading, overly dramatic, and just plain wrong. Anyway. He's this dude with a nearly 200 IQ and more crazy stories than you can count -- like making up fake identities to re-enroll in the 12th grade just to see if he could finally get high school right, or flying a banner over LA with an equation on it that he believes explains something fundamental about the universe (something to do with Planck's hypothesis), or his plan to appear nude in every civic division of the greater Los Angeles area, or his epic battles with the producers of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, or scarring himself to look more like Conan the Barbarian on Halloween... we were laughing for 20 minutes after the show was over. At first he seems like a huge dork, then a serious OCD sufferer, then a mad genius. There's just no getting your head around this dude. Highlight of my week.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Dinner was fine, but it would have been approximately one zillion times better with Jesse. Ah well. We went to some vegan diner in Andersonville. The Chicago Diner, I think it was called?

-- Casuistry (chri...), March 5th, 2006.

Awwww....I just blushed so hard I bled on my keyboard.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

A Google search on this guy confused me at first. At first I thought, no this can't be the same Rick Rosner. And no, this has got to be a different guy. But read the articles, and yeah, that's him. Crazy fucking genius who now writes jokes for Jimmy Kimmel.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

Now go clean that up, Jesse.

Errol Morris is pretty awesome.

Tomorrow, Milwaukee!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

I want to fucking go to fucking Milwaukee! Take me! It'll be one zillion times funner with me!

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

Milwaukee does strike me as a place for a romantic gay getaway. But it's true, it will be a zillion times funner with Jesse.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

seriously. i'll skip work to go with you to milwaukee.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

c'mon chris. You totally have to take Jesse.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

You can be Laverne, and I'll be Shirley.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

"We're gonna do it!"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

Give us any chance, we’ll take it.
Give us any rule, we’ll break it.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin’ it our way.
Nothin’s gonna turn us back now,
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true,
Doin’ it our way.
There is nothing we won’t try,
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there’s no stopping us.
We’re gonna do it.

On your mark, get set, and go now,
Got a dream and we just know now,
We’re gonna make our dream come true.
And we’ll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true,
And do it our way, yes our way,
Make all our dreams come true
For me and you.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago Diner is in Boystown, not Andersonville. Get your gay neighborhoods straight!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Har har. Anyway I suppose I should have fact checked and not just trusted B. to know what neighborhood we were in.

Jesse, we're going Milwaukee mostly to go to a bookstore, possibly to go to a museum, and B. wants to check out some antique stores, if we find any good ones.

So it's not the most glamorous trip we're planning! Plus we're probably going to miss the Oscars, no? Also it's B. and A. and me going, which dampens any rrrrromantic factor, although I suppose we'd have the back seat during the drive...

I do agree that it would be a hundred mazillion times funner if you came along, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chris,

I met someone new. He's taking me to Madison.

XOXO,

Jesse.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Who are B and A? I don't know these people do I? Amanda? I love Amanda. I neeeeed Amanda. Hug and Kiss, that is.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

No, you don't know these people. B. is my ex, the one I've been staying with. A. is another friend in from Portland, the one who commandeered my inflatable mattress so I've had to share the real bed with my ex. Which, you know, whatever.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

They are both Quality People. We are all Quality People.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse and I just called each other at the SAME TIME OMGOMGOMGOMGOGOMG.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

It was fucking amazing.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, Chris, you are officially making me crazy so drop it we shall.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mean to make you crazy. And I think we're agreeing about everything important anyways.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

What are you doing in Madison, Jesse?

I've decided that I'm finally going to see something at the Madison film fest this year, so I'm going through the movies.

Self-important Emp1r1cal Film #3, with Voice-over
Wisconsin’s Own

USA, 2005, 5 min, Color, DVCam
Madison Premiere

Directed By: Dav3 Andra3
Sponsored By: travelwisconsin.com, Eastman Kodak

A clinically depressed filmmaker takes his audience on an irreverent, self-deprecating journey through his innermost thoughts and anxieties, complete with voiceover. Dave Andra3 is a graduate of UW–Milwaukee.
- Travis Gerdes

HAHA. I went to high school with this dude, and OF COURSE this is the sort of film he's making. And I'll be it's really not that self-deprecating.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to Madison. I was playing crazy mind games with Chris. Now he's off balance!

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm also all for a day trip to Madison, but it seems further away, plus we already settled on Milwaukee.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to decide what bothers me so much about this one:

Mardi Gras: Made In China
Y'all Gonna Learn Chinese

USA, 2005, 71 min, Color, BetaSP
In Mandarin, English with English subtitles

Directed By: David Redmon
Producer: David Redmon
Executive Producer: Deborah Smith, Dale Smith
Cinematographer: David Redmon
Editor: David Redmon
Music: Matthew Dougherty
Cast: Ms. Pearl, Roger Wong, Ga Hong Mei, Lio Lina, Qui Bia, Ling Ling, Dom Corlone

Sponsored By: UW Asian American Studies Program

In a squalid Chinese factory, Ga Hong Mei spends eleven hours a day yanking strings of hot beads out of a dangerous machine. She struggles to fill enough bags to prevent her wages from getting docked. On the other side of the world, New Orleans native “Ms. Pearl” squeals with delight as she catches her zillionth tangle of glistening bead necklaces from a Mardi Gras float. Mardi Gras: Made in China portrays the immense disconnect between the factory and the consumer that arises in a global economy. The cultural and economical differences are stunning, as is the Chinese workers’ reaction to the sticker price of the beads and the astonishing way people “win” the beads. In tracing the path of the disposable commodity of Mardi Gras beads, filmmaker David Redmon tells a story about globalization in which CEOs aren’t really the bad guys, we are. Official selection, Sundance Film Festival, One World International Film Festival, Amnesty International Film Festival, and Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
- Heather Shimon

Maybe because it seems like an easy target? Or because it seems like a tastleless time to be down on New Orleans?

Are "we the bad guys" because, unlike most sweatshop products, drunk sorority girls show their tits to get beads? Not that abusive conditions for factory workers are acceptable, but New Orleans was a poor city even before Katrina and Mardi Gras pumps money into the economy every day of the year.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'm glad jenny addressed the gal thing up there. i am on par with her.

also: i am at an internet cafe b/c after working on my physiology take home test for SEVEN hours & not finishing it, I'm resorting to "ask the internet" . . . granted, we still have one class left so the information gaps will probably be presented on tuesday, but I'd like to be done with this shit.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like a very small industry to focus on and I certainly hope it is not the primary point of the movie, but rather a lens through which the film maker looked at sweatshops, etc. Could this film have been made had NO and Mardi Gras not been on our minds these days?

I assume the shock over the price is the result of the worker's surprise at how low the price is for something on which he worked so hard?

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure the price for the beads is more than they get paid, or at least makes obvious that they get paid shit.
I understand not wanting to target NO for a movie trying to illuminate discrepancy like this . . . but on the other hand, I think this movie sounds kind of interesting. I'm also a sucker for finding out more ways that I & fellow americans are oblivious & sorta suck.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I assumed it would be because the price is so high in relation to what he/she gets paid to make them.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

hey jordan! how's it going? i think leaf & i are going to try & catch your show next week.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like there is no shortage of films like that at the Madison film fest, Kelsey. :>

Chain
Global Visions

USA, 2004, 99 min, Color, digibeta
Wisconsin Premiere

Directed By: Jem Cohen
Producer: Mary Jane Skalski
Writer: Jem Cohen
Cinematographer: Jem Cohen
Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Cast: Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte
Production Company: Antidote Films, Gravity Hill Films

Sponsored By: UW Global Studies Program

Chain, blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, examines the world and the influence of homogenization and corporate culture. A Japanese executive travels to the United States on business to research amusement parks looking to create a similar one at home, while an American drifter haunts a shopping mall looking for work and a place to sleep. Both move through a vast, imaginary American city created from footage shot all over the world, though no one locale is discernable from the next. Chain stores, fast-food restaurants, and featureless parking lots abound as regional character and charm slowly disappear. Chain features an incredible score by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Recognized by the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards as “Someone To Watch,” Jem Cohen won numerous awards for his feature Benjamin Smoke (2000).
- Joe Beres

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet!

(tater)

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jem Cohen has done some good work, though!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think of that aspect of the price. I guess it would be mostly about how very little the worker gets paid? But that is the case for tons and tons of products. The beads retail for spare change for most styles. Why not focus on New Year's noisemakers or firecrackers or cheaply made dildos? I don't really think now is the best time to closely examine the repercussions of this very small industry that is focused in a place that is having its own serious hardships right now. Not when there are far more glaring and widespread injustices and inequities to look at. Perhaps a film best put on ice for a while?

Anyway I can't criticize a film I haven't even seen-- though I just did.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

HA! I'm all over it. This must be what people are talking about when they say, 'liberal guilt.'

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I never grew up with Catholic guilt, so I may as well take on the liberal guilt.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

nothing kills a thread like guilt.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have Lower-Middle-Class-Lapsed-Seventh-Day-Adventist-Gay-German-Mexican-American guilt. Which is pretty manageable after a couple of beers.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is it the 7th day folks that don't eat vinegar?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hell no. We ate vinegar like crazy. Mostly apple cider vinegar. We didn't eat pork (or other non-hoofed animals) or shellfish or fish without scales or other unclean foods. In retrospect it is interesting that I grew up with the word "unclean" as a not uncommon part of household language. It seems so exotic and biblical now.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

foods/animals with some kind of barrier are okay? does that mean that bananas are good but apples aren't?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Bananas are gross and apples are good. Thus saith the Lord, our God.

Food laws: think kosher, but less strict. Preparation does not matter, only source.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda? I love Amanda. I neeeeed Amanda. Hug and Kiss, that is.
You mean ME? I didn't even know that you liked me, much less LOVED me! Are you talking about me? I'm going to pretend that you mean me. I enjoy kissing, hugging and being loved and needed.

Also; I'm still up for hanging out tomorrow night, if anyone else is? I was thinking Moody's, maybe around 8? They have free peanuts and cheap pitchers...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't know people were hanging out tomorrow .. .. .. is it for laura's birthday?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

The snow, she is very pretty.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

it is nice, isn't it? i was going to run a 5K today (once i finish with this physiology), but now I want to go to a movie. or drink hot chocolate.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't know people were hanging out tomorrow .. .. .. is it for laura's birthday?
Nah, she's in Cleveland with her fam, but I thought that since I have a free evening and I hadn't met Chris yet, maybe it would be an ok hangout night. So far the headcount is: me.

Another nice thing about Moody's in the winter: two fireplaces.
On the other hand, you leave reeking of french fry, but that's not a big deal.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

what time?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Does that mean that you're in? Yaaaay! How about 8?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

It means, "it depends" more than "i'm in" at this point. i'd like to meet chris . . . i'd like to get out of my house . . . but there are other stress factors. like moving NEXT WEEK. i'm moving NEXT WEEK!! argh! that said, i can probably swing by for a short time if nothing else.

sorry to whine so much.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe there's this much Chicago thread activity on a Sunday morning, kee-rist.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry - I don't want to stay out late or anything, since I get up at 5 on Mondays and will be coming from class, where my brain explodes on a weekly basis. No pressure -- although if I'm the only one going, there's no need to go at all.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

John, I'm calling you! Check your messages!

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

he's on the phone right now . . . with me!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite hat just came to a sad end. I left it on top of the radiator, then turned the radiator on this morning, then smelled burning hair... egh. So now my room smells like charred animal remains, and my favorite hat has orange scorch marks on one side.

Fuck burning a hat.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

he's on the phone right now . . . with me!

well, that's ok, I guess. I'll allow it.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

And Nick just called me as well. Anyway, I'm going to my friend Brian's (a/k/a "jaymc's film-critic friend") Oscar party tonight. I might try to see Good Night, and Good Luck beforehand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. Away with you.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Old Orchard to take my computer into the apple store. I'M FINISHED WITH MY PHYSIOLOGY TEST!!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

DUDERZ: Last-minute impromptu Oscar-watching get-together at our place 2nite, around 6 or 6:30ish. You are all invited. We will make some kind of appetizers, but if you want beer or other alcohol, please BYO (sorry). Please don't come actually expecting to pay attention to the Oscars, except for when Jon Stewart is speaking. If you don't know where we live, email me or get my number from someone. If you don't know where we love, be prepared for a surprise.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I called people for whom I had numbers. Kelsey, the number I have for you is disconnected.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't know where we love, be prepared for a surprise.

Dude! Not in front of the children!

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Please don't come actually expecting to pay attention to the Oscars, except for when Jon Stewart is speaking.

I think I made the right decision.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

my number: 733.DAMN.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

email my gmail with your address. i'll totally be there!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Oh, we'll find out who wins and everything.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

meh . . . i'm going to be offline for the rest of today. call me later, taters!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Kelsey! I haven't seen Kelsey in, like, a coon's age.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I AM HI FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A COONS AGE

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't know where we love, be prepared for a surprise.

Maybe it's just me, but this is still making me laugh. Best typo ever.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

i just got a yellow card on the noise board, btw, for admitting i had a dream about killy last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't a typo, it was a weird joke. Intentional.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

This is a lame waffle, but unless I'm forgetting about something else I have to do tomorrow night, I'm up for Moody's.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

(But I'll double-check and know for sure, so that Manda is not left sitting alone in The Grotto next to The Fireplace eating The Fries on her own.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I would go to your Oscar party if I weren't already blowing off another Oscar party I was invited to in order to complete my take-home Thai exam, which is really hard and is due tomorrow and has already made my head blow up.

We can revisit the Moody's plan tomorrow if anyone decides to change his/her mind and join me in The Grotto of Moody.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

There's some funny wind action outside my window that is making the snow fall up, like the bubbles in a Guinness. Pretty cool.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I went to Tweet.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hi! Come over to Nick's tonite to watch the Oscars with Nick and Sarah and Me and Kelsey.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and bring Jenny. She's alright for a girl.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, maybe. Sundays are for sulking for me, and I hate to do that around other people. We'll see!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

You still have several hours left to sulk. If you get on that now, you will be tired of it by 6 o'clock.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

DEAR JAYMC SORRY I MISSED YOUR IM I WAS DOWNSTAIRS MAKING GRILLED CHEESE I WAS NOT HATIN ON YOU!

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

OKAY I AM NOT OFFENDED, I HOPE YOUR GRILLED CHEESE WAS SOYTASTIC

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, my new tea kettle sounds like a melodica when it whistles!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh nice. I need me a teakettle. I have an electric water-boiling thing which is cool because I can stick it in my bag and take it to work, but it's not exactly "homey."

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, I just bought a fucking dining table set.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, you're totally married.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

We don't even have a dining room and we're married. We eat on the coffee table in the living room.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's okay, we still have a rickety futon instead of a couch.

Maddie bought a wine rack too, but, uh, the holes are too big for wine bottles. We think it's a champagne rack, maybe?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe a bad wine rack.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Monday, 6 March 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. I had a terrible night: after waking up at 2 with one of the three worst headaches of my entire life, I wasn't able to get back to sleep for a couple hours, convinced that I was having an aneurysm (caused by my take-home exam, maybe?!?!?! it was THAT hard) and didn't get nearly enough sleep. Also, I don't think it's a great idea for me to drink beers with a headache that might come back, so I hope no one is too disappointed if I call off the Moody's fun-time fireplace-and-beer party?

How were everyone's Oscar parties? Oh wait, you're not up yet.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 March 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe a bad wine rack.

I was trying to be an optimist.

Good morning. Maddie and I actually ended up going over to Evan's to watch the Oscars, and it was good fun. Good people, good beers, good food, good jokes.

headache + beers = :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Boo!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry man, I really don't feel good! Why donchoo email me - handymanda at geeeeemail.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan came over.

I enjoyed Jon Stewart. I thought Reese and Drew should be BFF if they aren't already. The "It's so hard bein' a pimp" song had funny choreography, as did the Crash theme song.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Crash set/dance/song was the worst thing I've ever seen (esp. the "police molestation dance").

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, also "boo!" that you don't feel good.

We missed the early parts of the Oscars. Were there any OMG AWEXXXOME John Stewart moments then that I should try and download?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... I can't think of one in particular. He was pretty tame, but still funny. Kenan kept complaining they made him look old with makeup.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I thought there were some good JS moments.

"Do you think that if we toppled that big Oscar statue, democracy would flourish in Hollywood?"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

sorry i couldn't make it last night, nick, sarah & kenan! from saturday on I was pretty convinced I was getting the stomach flu.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

He is old.

We are all old.

I am way too old.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

And after the big self-righteous "Hollywood makes movies about IMPORTANT ISSUES, thus making the world BETTER" montage:

(very slowly and seriously) "...and none of those were ever issues again." etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

OH, I just remembered another one.

After a really long montage about epics, he said something to the effect of, "We're now officially out of film clips. Seriously, if you have ANY film clips at home, please mail them to us as soon as possible." Also: "Coming up next we will have a montage about film montages."

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Like with most big TV events, I watched about 5 minutes of the Oscars. But I did see the moment that Jordan just quoted, and it was enough for me.

My weekend in WI was fun. Door County is pretty nice this time of year, (the bed and breakfast was cheap yet opulent) but I don't know if I'd want to be there when the touristas are out in full force.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha. What's up with giving best actor and actress awards to people who do impressions? Also, Crash?

Jaymc: high heels
=
Me: Oscars

Traveling off-season: classic.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I thought you were just going to Milwaukee.

How cheap is cheap, if you don't mind my asking? I've never stayed in a B&B, but I love both of those things.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I liked PSHoffman's winning best actor, even though I didn't see Capote.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I did see Capote, and liked it, but still -- I guess it just seems cheap that both awards went to people in biopics.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was hypnotized by Reese Witherspoon's freaky prehensile eyebrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse and I took the trip to Milwaukee yesterday. To go to a bookstore. Which we spent HOURS at, and could have easily spent hours more at. Because it was a fantastic bookstore. Although Jesse did have to excuse himself at some point to take pictures of deer frozen into the river.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Cheap = $80/night. Bear in mind that this is in a mansion and we were the only people there besides the hosts. Breakfast each morning, for what we had, would probably have cost upwards of 40 bucks each day. There was an in-room whirlpool and free wireless. No in room TV but a big media room where again, we were the only users. All in all it was great. The price goes up (doubles?) in the warmer months, btw. xxpost

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Crash set/dance/song was the worst thing I've ever seen.

Oof. I know. I thought the dancing hookers for the pimp song were real fucking classy, too. Also, somehow I still fail to have any pimp-sympathy.

Thank you for the invite, N&S&K. Alas, I had to do laundry and read for class while watching, so could not incorporate leaving our apartment into the plans. Jeff and I both really wanted to come over, though, and we decided that it would be very helpful to us if you both would just move into our building.

xpost: OMG the eyebrow! THE EYEBROW! What was that all about?????

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jen Garner's makeup made it look like she had a horrible sunburn on her forehead.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

That's right. She lets me call her Jen.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Pimpathy.

OMG Chris, what bookstore are you talking about?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

W00dl@nd P@tt3rn.

I'm googleproofing it because it is shy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Best if you like: experimental 20th C. poetry. Also good for: A fiction section that is huge and has nothing you've heard of, or, as my friend pointed out, only the obscure books by people you've heard of. A bookstore where they had several books by people I knew on display. (They also had haikunym's books, but not on display. I didn't explore the children's section beyond that, because we were starving by then.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i watched most of the oscars but missed the pimp dance and the speech before/after somehow because i got bored and went online for a bit and was reading about this pic, which amused me.

http://cache.deadspin.com/sports/ooopstexas.jpg

it's not really nsfw, i would think, because you kind of have to look twice for what they are saying is an optical illusion.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am overloaded from the Oscars and then going out with Kenan, Chris, and Jesse. Soooo tired.

Disappointed about Crash, obv.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm not familiar with that place at all.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Every time I've been to Milwaukee there's been some kind of interesting underground music/theater/literature thing going on - very different feel than Chicago because it's actually underground there instead of something that's expected of its citizens.

Get well, Manda! The fries will wait. Perhaps the beer garden will be open soon.

I didn't see much of the Oscars, but I did see the Crash dance.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

The afterparty was a thick slice of overload, but in a good way. At least for my unemployed ass.

Juliaa, whaa?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Julia... Whoa! Is it an optical illusion because it's really the underside of his shorts fabric? I am positive that dudes keep their junk strapped in tight when they are running and jumping and quickly changing direction. You can see his compression shorts under his uniform shorts, so that would have to be a donger with a mind of its own to get out of there and say hello to the crowd.

My first thought was that you were posting the pic because the guy taking the shot was wearing boots. Ha!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he has two.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

One is tightly strapped (the one that works) and the other one just flops around for laffs?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

We're going to talk about basketball in labor law today. I wonder if there's any way I can bring up this photo...

xpost: A parasitic donger! Gross!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Something similar happened to one of my friends in high school - he had gone to visit his girlfriend's family and they took a photo of him and a her and a few others siiting on a living room couch, and he was wearing shorts and no drawers, and...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

the word "donger" is inherently funny somehow.

it was on the front page of some paper before anyone noticed what they say is just an optical illusion with something about the photography and the light and whatever. still, amusing.