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― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

I love this graphic so much.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that picture is truly frightening Jesse.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.a1c.yahoofs.com/personals/43ee962cz6262e082/personals-1139708790-446518/__sr_/6a89re2.jpg?psIVyPEBORqaZBZe

I doubt that works, but whatever. TEST.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAHHH, no!! Make it stop.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow. It worked.

I think that this is a bad start to this thread.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

The first graphic is so big that we won't be able to see orange-man after very long at all.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

When I was picked on and shunned in high school, and when I saw others treated poorly I thought it was unfair. But I really would like to pick on this guy. Kick his ass a little. (And after I say that I hear Chris P1uma's voice of unconventionality in my head arguing in this guy's defense.)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.larrydunstan.com/img/book1/b111.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

I could and would totally want to see you kick this guy's ass.

xp: goddammit!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Those pics are from the same photographer who brought you this:

http://www.larrydunstan.com/img/book1/b11.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

oooookay...

Derek, if you're here "Rosanna" totally rocks "Africa," no questions asked.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Larry Dunstan is his name and the series is called Dist0rted Be@uty.

http://www.larrydunstan.com/img/book1/b112.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

I believe
That when the hurting and the pain has gone
We will be strong
Oh yes we will be strong

And I believe
That if I’m crying while I write these words
Is it absurd?
Or am I being real

I believe
That if you knew just what these tears were for
They would just pour
Like every drop of rain
That’s why I believe

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

You're just trying to ruin this for me, aren't you? What happened to CUTE overload? Or sloths, even?

xp: haha, so fitting!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about Tears for Fears.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a sloth. Well... PARTS OF A SLOTH (BWA HA HA HA HA!)

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/crofoot/deadslothjpg.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Donnie Darko is overrated, but probably still good.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I don't like that movie much, but the "Head Over Heels" sequence is so great.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Charles was pointing out a lot of ET references to me, and I would like to see ET again and then watch DD afterward. I think that could be cool.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

So i am seriously on my manstrual cycle.....I was reading the transcripts from the cockpit recorder from United flight 93 while eating at a Pakistani restaurant and I teared up and had to put it away b/c I was going to cry.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! Maybe you guys should go on a double date! To hell!

ahaha

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

WTF happened with the suddenly calm weather? Fucking prickteasing stormofabitch.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

After all that, it's not "Sex over the phone"? Jesse no longer loves me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

What now? What's not?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

The thread title!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't start this thread!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! Why did I think you did?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I see why:

[unicorn pic]
-- regular roundups (daphim...), April 13th, 2006. (Dave M) (1 trackback) (later)

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I love this graphic so much.

-- regular roundups (daphim...), April 13th, 2006. (Dave M) (later)

Wow, that picture is truly frightening Jesse.

-- regular roundups (daphim...), April 13th, 2006. (Dave M) (later)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

YOU ARE FORGIVEN, MY HUCKLEBERRY FRIEND.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Because a certain someone was TALKING TO HIMSELF.

Wait. I do that on here too....

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

No you don't.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

No really, I do.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

That's OK dudey....I still love you. Let's go make love, you wanna?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

You killed the thread, ASSHOLE!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Are you done?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I was referring to orangey.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

He was referring to this creature:

http://personals.yahoo.com/preview/preview?view=1&adid=personals-1139708790-446518&ss=1&m=4

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

dammit.

THIS CREATURE

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

ALERT

white castle = GI DISTRESS

ALERT

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

I did a quick search on Yahoo's personals thanks to Jesse's linkage and the first one I bothered to look at said he enjoyed "smoking, drinking, fourtwenty, but no drugs", and I marvelled.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, do you want to hatefuck that guy?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

In order to really get an idea of what a douche this douche is, click on his image to make him full-sized.

xpost to Evan: White Castle don't call them Sliders for no reason. Try this creature, it helped me yesterday.

http://sacredheritage.com/normita/images/sloth-3.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

that guy (not the sloth) looks like a total fucking douchebag.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, do you want to hatefuck that guy?

Nah. He's gross but I don't hate him.

Anyway I prefer hatefucks with people I like/love. I think I've gone over this before--fucking like you hate with someone you love is the bestest fucking in the world.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

xpost-- not the guy with the sloth either i hope.

he really really looks like he needs a lot of mockery and slapping to help him snap out of whatever confusion has led him to be so orange and girly. i can't tell just from one pic, but i suspect that a kidney punch is in order too.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

This is a nice-looking man, in my opinion.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

That's a systems error page.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

My last boyfriend had a lot in common with him then.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Plan" was a type. I meant to type "friend."

Eating White Castle gives me gas that smells like, um, White Castle burgers. Same with Burger King food. It's near the top of my AVOID list.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

PLAN WAS A TYPO.

I do not belong on the internet today.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Nor do I, but here I am! ALSO: I biked into Manhattan and up to 14th St last night, like a big girl! Maybe someday soon they'll let me cross the street by myself, too. Not taking Manhattan Bridge again, though, and need to find better cross-town route than through Soho cos I got stuck behind cabs. A bit of the ol' refining fire, that's all it needs. And then I'll just be, like, "sure, no problem -- I'll pop in ON MY BIKE." Ahahahahaha.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

and need to find better cross-town route than through Soho

Good luck with that. Isn't the conventional wisdom that there *is* no crosstown route through Manhattan?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Laurel, where do you live?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Crown Heights, Bklyn. It was only maybe a 5-1/2 mile trip but I got bogged down finding the bridge approach for bikes, and also getting out of lower Manhattan. Riding up the Bowery was a treat!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know how much longer I'll be in C Heights, though, since my roommate announced this morning (before I had even washed my face), that she had a dust-up with our landlord last night and she wants to move out for June 1. She actually offered to look for a 3-bdroom apt so that I could move in with her and her boyfriend (!!!) -- I think she thinks that will make amends for leaving me in the lurch, sort of. BUT NEWSFLASH I DON'T WANT TO LIVE WITH THEM AND THEIR 4-YR OLD SON. Fuck me. Time to start trolling the block for openings.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Time to start trolling the block for openings.

there's got to be a better way to phrase that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

i would love to bike through the bowery . . . i'm so jealous!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

The steakhouse last night was pretty alright. I had an "open-face tenderloin steak", which apparently means a small (but thick) piece of meat adjacent to two halves of toast. I also had way too many hashbrowns and fried mushrooms followed by a beer rock n' roll practice, which left me EXHAUSTED. But at least I missed the hate fuck conversation.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Come to think of it, I dunno if it's "the Bowery" or just "Bowery." I notice that it's not a street or an avenue or anything: it stands alone. Iiiinteresting. I don't want to work anymore, I just want to ride around all day and look at things. (Cue Evan crowing about how that is precisely what he does now, in between oggling girls at wifi-having coffee shop. SHUT UP.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

HALF-DAY TODAY!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

EXCEPT FOR AMANDA!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

and me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

and me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have a 1/4 day today . . . i'm doing another tape sync. it should take two hours or less, i think.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wow Dave, you weren't kidding. OS MUTANTES.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel -- I found this wile poking around the other day: a biking map of New York. Maybe you'll find it useful.

http://www.transalt.org/maps/bkmap.pdf

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

*crossing fingers HOPING and PRAYING that Jesus will answer my prayers this Good Friday and let me be off work*

Shit. I just prayed but got His machine that said, "Hey, it's JC, I am out of the office getting crucified today. I'll be back Sunday."

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

i don't live in new york, but that map is pretty sweet!

oh wow. i completely forgot that today is good friday. i guess this gets me off jesus' christmas card list or something.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.billrotelladrumbeatings.com/rimshot.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

. . . hey diggy, diggy . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

There's a handy bike map of Chicago, too, broken down by neighborhood:

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Transportation/bikemap/keymap.html

But this no longer helps Kelsey.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

i guess this gets me off jesus' christmas card list or something.

do you think he sends out christmas cards? i mean, wouldn't that be kind of gauche?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps I will honor our Lord this Good Friday by listening to Bauhaus' "Stigmata Martyr" on my way to work at a seafood restaurant which stands a good chance of being busy being the day it is.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) "Look at me, it's my birthday, tra la la!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if they have santas on them. probably not, he must hate that fucker.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

no time to comment, i have to go do that thing. i'll talk to everyone laters .. . . . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

And then as the attention whore He is, he was like, "Harumph, well they didn't give me what I wanted for my 30th so I am gonna just get myself killed. That'll show them. Oh! And I can say I was dying for everyone's sins and shortcomings!"

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

As thanks, K. I'd printed out those liddle bridge maps yesterday but a) forgot them in wrong bag, and b) got Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges confused and ended up way out of my way both coming and going. Not very bright, me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I bought me a new murse yesterday.

http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/merchantfiles/4897578/1360%20copy.jpg

Mine is navy and black. It was on sale at That's Our Bag. But I just looked at the online price and realized that That's Our Bag was jacking up their price a bit. I paid $20 after 2 discounts from the original $46....

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Nice. I love murses.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, if you could eat dinner anywhere in Milwaukee, where would you eat? We'll be there tomorrow night.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Beans and Barley was good.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Manana.

(Add your own accent mark. Is it called a tilda?)

It should be a good, quiet day.

I love the unicorn.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have a manana. No accent mark. But it does have a birthmark on the tip.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also, good morning everyone. [yawns] I had a nightmare last night that there were these cannibal farm people who were harvesting human bodies in their basement and I was about to be harvested. Has anyone seen Young Sherlock Holmes? The people were sort of like the people in that cult, the ones who said "hooomite homite, homiteeeeeeee homite" and then sacrificed a virgin by boiling her in molten gold or something. The people in my dream weren't sacrificing virgins, though. Any old person would do.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

i love beans and barley. are you a vegetarian?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Me? No. NOoooooooooooo. Any other suggestions?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

If we're talking about *me*, I would go to:

-Oakland Trattoria on Oakland, good Italian food for not much money and uniformly hot waitresses (and waiters)

-Trocadero, awesome French-style cafe, but I've only been there for breakfast (many times)

-Lake Park Bistro if you want to spend $$$

-Beans & Barley for veggie, good and inexpensive

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Super! We're going to be eating a sort of early dinner, so I'll pass these on to the mister and see what sort of decision we can come to. Thankee.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

One of my old friends from the restaurant is a sous-chef at a place in Milwaukee called the Un|vers|ty C1ub, but I have no idea whether they are open to the general public or not. It's probably way expensive anyway.

There is a Club of the same name in the Loop, too. Anyone know anything about it?

xpost You should probably listen to Jordan on this.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm way not vegetarian and I loved Beans and Barley. BEST BUTTER IN THE WHOLE FUCKING MIDWEST, despite the fact that it comes in little packets.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the Club looks like it ain't your (or my, or anyone I know) style. "Schmansy pants" comes to mind as a descriptor. Good gig for a cook, though, I guess.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've played weddings at that place, Dan. Super swanky, and the catering was good but I got the impression that it's not open to the public.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

i think lake park bistro was where we went after my graduation (marq3tte university). kickass good expensive food.

there was a place that was really good for different kinds of burgers, and i can picture exactly where it was. maybe i'll wander google maps and see if i can find it.

ha, i've been to the university club too, for some sort of reception once. i drank too much and don't remember anything about the food except they had good cheese, not such a surprise in wisconsin.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah: it's called a tilde.

Although I rather like Tildas as well.

http://www.welikesheep.com/archives/tilda.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason, I never went to B&B when I lived in Milwaukee, but I was there for the first time this year and it was really good. They have non-veggie options too.

What are you guys doing in Milwaukee? I was thinking about going down to see my mom this weekend, but haven't decided.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's time to get Jenny's assistance with some letter-writing. My TV is still in the shop.

-Samsung told the shop that they need a part for which the shop had no order number.

-Samsung provided the order number.

-Shop ordered part.

-Samsung responded: "Part not available. No estimated availabilty date available."

-Shop requested permission to exchange the entire TV.

-Samsung: "No. Part is on back order but not currently available from warehouse. No estimated availability date available."

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Fixing a popular name brand television should not be that freakin' difficult.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

J - We're going to that Vandermark show-thingie. [D's shooting it] I'm going to be the mic-stand assistant and general schlepper of equipment.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, nice! I have a couple acquaintances going to that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

this is friday! and i don't like the unicorn pic, so we should post lots so we can start a new thread.

marshmellow peeps stuck to otherwise-nekkid grrls (SFW, pretty much, because of the peeps covering everything)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I believe I can fly - WHOOOO!
I believe I can touch the sky

I'm tired. And bored. And hungry.

Hi, Julia! Yum... peeps...

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sacrelicious.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Actually not. I guess there's nothing particularly sacred about marshmallow peeps.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

i was looking at milwaukee on google earth, and what i think of as the main part of milwaukee is all blur, grrr. and i couldn't find my awesome burger place.

hi sarah! i'm not much fond of peeps myself, but a family friend gave me the best gourmet chocolate egg one easter...it was all rich and truffley and huge and pretty. i don't want candy this easter. i have requested moving boxes from my parents, because i'm all demanding.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Any idea what part of town the burger place was?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nor anything delicious. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Who am I?

Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme!!!

j/k

I like peeps, because they're sweet, but not so sugary that they make my teeth hurt like chocoeggs do.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Every year my favorite prof and some of her cronies would arrange peeps all around their building in long procession-style rows. Peeps in all kinds of formations, everywhere. Those who didn't know what was up found it very strange, but I thought it was funny when you'd come across a dried-out crusty one a week or two after easter.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I was being me. I'm looking at Anthropologie dresses online. I would like this one, please. And look! It's on sale!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

my mom is in pediatrics, and acts like it. she had us going on easter egg/basket hunts until well into our 20s (and my bro-in-law's late 30s, actually), until we told her we refused, and didn't really care about candy anymore anyway.

the burger place was north of wells, right west of a park that they used to freeze over for ice skating every winter. not too far from the lake, maybe 4 or 5 blocks. there was a rug store about a block away that i used to rollerblade by all the time. it had gourmet burgers, there was this huge burger i used to get with spinach on it and other stuff that was really good. maybe it's gone now, that was a decade ago.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

it sort of freaks me out that i graduated from school a decade ago. i am OLD.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, very purty, Sarah! Buying from them makes me feel guilty as a home sewer, because they sell very little that couldn't be made for a fraction of the cost. But then I get distracted from sewing projects, so I never actually end up with the garment either way. Frankly it's probably more practical just to buy it!

Oh dear, if I was home for Easter my mom would probably still hide my basket (yes, she's an elementary/middle-school teacher). As it is, I got a big package full of 5 kinds of chocolate from Purdy's in Canada. HEAVEN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, maybe it's this place?

My favorite burgers (+ fish sandwiches, fries and custard) in Milwaukee are at Kopp's. Man, I wish I could go there for lunch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

kopp's was fattylicious. mein gott, that custard.

i think elsa's is the right place. holy expensive burgers (and i don't see the one i liked on the menu). but we always went when someone's parent was visiting and the parent would pay.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I don't suppose you guys have heard of a band in Chi. called Gage?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

This is fun:
http://minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/

It's a CPI calculator. A $12,000 car in 2006 would have cost less then $2500 in 1972. And etc.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do really like that dress... but, Sarah, NO! I need to buy birthday presents for my boyfriend!

Anthropologie doesn't love me anyway. They don't believe in selling shoes to fit a woman with size 11 feet, especially those who are... broke.

You know what's funny? On their ordering page, you specify both the size and the quantity, but the quantity is a drop down menu and goes up really high. Yes, I would like 19 of those dresses, please. I mean, who knows? Maybe I'll lose one or ruin it. I need backups!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I sent the link to my gf, she said it is very pretty.

I just found out, by IM, that a very good friend of mine who has been hemming and hawing about coming to Chicago for MONTHS AND MONTHS, is moving here TODAY. We are going to play music together and I am super duper stoked.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

hey! i'm back. that tape sync was really interesting. all about antibotics in soil. the professor invited me to come to a lecture series because i was all into it.
and now . . . now the rest of my day is figuring out temp work. i need to decide by saturday if i am going to take off & go to china for a month, even if i don't really have the money to do so.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Michele just moved to Msp/StPl too. She has been doing a lot of substitute teaching... sounds like that might be a good route?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

that's not a bad idea! how does one go about it?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I will ask her!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Buying from them makes me feel guilty as a home sewer

This is undoubtedly in the same category as the adjective form of "pus."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I didn't even think of that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

And when you get an infection, you're a pussy sewer.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I KNEW THAT WAS COMING :D

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago is HOT TODAY

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, so where's this surprise rofflefest on ILX that you promised me last night on the phone?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

You're kidding. You were in stitches and were all, "OMG wait until you check ILX!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

kenan was CHATTING when he was on the phone w/you.

but i don't think anything funny was happening?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, as I was trying to leave town last night, Kenan and Jesse and Evan all called me within a 15-minute span. I KNOW YOU LOVE ME BUT ENOUGH ALREADY. ;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

AAWWWWW

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a balanced lunch?

I want an Easter basket.
I want I want I want.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogwan/123770577/

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Too Much!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

There are degrees of cuteness involved that have their own gravity wells. I dare not approach.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

anyone wanna go bowling on sunday? me & the former roommate are probably gonna go to the amc place near marina towers if you're interested.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Have a good weekend, y'all!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

you too!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, my friend is apparently on her way back to the UP right now, but when and if she gets back to me about subbing I will post the info.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

you are too kind!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

This makes me scared because I ride the Blue Line every day now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4VmIGXc2gg

It's funny because cops don't know the law, and as such they don't ever, ever, ever want to be filmed.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Every day brings a new horrible song to my head. Today: "High on You" by Survivor.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

At least it's not

THIS KISS! THIS KISS! UNSTOPPABLE!!!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

OH NO YOU DIDNT

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

God, I hate pop country.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Which is why you should be glad that song only got 7 votes in the C4n4st4 cover-song contest.

I don't hate pop country, though. I like Gretchen Wilson.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I got that song in my head at lunch today and IT WILL NOT GO AWAY. I didn't even know who did it until Amanda educated me.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I had never heard it until it was nominated.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

7 votes is 8 too many for that one. It was a staple at the place I worked in college. That and "| |_ove this Bar" by T0by Ke|th. I hope that man dies in a fiery plane crash.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I just finally came down to Earth and realized that OS MUTANTES are going to BE IN CHICAGO. With or without Rita Lee, that news just sold me a ticket.

Someone should do a mashup of "High on You" and "THIS KISS! THIS KISS!" and use it to torture POWs or something.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I find Kenny Chesney particularly vile.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am still here.
I have He likes a boy in uniform - school uniform!... stuck in my head. I've only heard the actual song a few times now, but Nick sings it constantly.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Who is that by, Sarah?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Pipettes

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just finally came down to Earth and realized that OS MUTANTES are going to BE IN CHICAGO.

LINK PLZ!!!!!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I have one of their songs -- "Dirty Mind" -- is that the same song?

gbx - pitchforkmedia dot com

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, No. Apparently, this song is called I Like a Boy in Uniform.

Os Mutantes are playing at the Pitchfork Fest, gib.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Stuck in my head for some damn reason: "Joanna" by Kool and the Gang.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I fucking love Sonic Youth.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

She's the kind of girl
Makes you feel nice
Take her for a ride
Everything's fine

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I used to pretend that song was called 'Amanda'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Which one are you listening to, John?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

The last half of Sonic Nurse. I'm also just really excited for the new record to come out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

os mutantes at PFork does not compute.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

What do you mean? Hipsters love teh tropicalia.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to Art of Noise.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Nick! How was all the official business?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sad Rita Lee won't be there.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Now they would be weird at Pitchfork. xpost - art of noise, I mean.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

but Os Mutantes are so much
a) older
b) different
c) better

than most of the other bands at PFork.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to "Blood on the Tracks".

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to the sound of the bridge outside lowering and raising. It's been doing this all day. It must be broken.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wonderful news at work today. They're going to cut me loose on the website. Complete redesign, total restructuring. I'm really excited, and my boss is really excited. Finally -- what I was hired to do!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

You see, when you say "cut me loose," it sounds like you're getting "let go." I'm so glad that's not the case.

Ok, so, totally unrelated to anything as per my usual. I have this cute kitcat clock:
http://static.flickr.com/6/9427483_84b48493da_m.jpg
which has died completely. It's tail and eyes haven't moved since pretty soon after I got it and a sister knocked it on the ground by accident, but the time still worked. I've tried replacing the batteries. They just don't live as long as real cats. So now I'm thinking of replacing it. But I'm wondering if I should get another plain black one or a colored one... Not that I can afford to do that now anyway. I'm just daydreaming. In the meantime, I don't want to take the broken clock down because I lurve it.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck it. I like the original black one the best.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I like the original black one, too. Stick w/ the classics.

Have you tried to take it somewhere to be repaired? It might be more cost effective and I know there are a good number of clock and watch repair places in this shit hole city.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

(just kidding about Chicago being a shit hole. I just miss Jesse and that's something he would say)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

No. I figure I've had it for about five years. My sister gave it to me as a housewarming present a few apartments ago. Plus, I have another broken clock that I'd rather get repaired - the big sun clock currently sitting on my living room floor. It isn't worth much at all, but I loved it growing up when it lived in my grandmother's house. They go for about $75 on ebay.

So, the obvious solution is to get no clocks repaired and buy new ones instead. Ha ha.

I also want to buy a NEW sun clock now, representative of the old one, probably this one:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/sprouthome_1893_593692

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I will also paint the wall, so I can pretend I'm living in a Sprout Home photo shoot.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's an excellent clock, Sarah. Beautiful. Get it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking I will... but I'll have to wait until next month.

Have you ever noticed how materialistic I am? That's part of the reason I'm going to Limbo when I die.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wanting to have a few nice things != materialism.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Commander Keen.

I mean, for one thing, it's not like I actually BUY all these things I want.

I have had nothing to do ALL DAY. I still have to wait around 2 more hours barring a miracle.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

only unbaptised babies go to limbo, duh!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'm annoyed with my sister - not the sister who hit my clock off the wall, but the one who gave it to me. Ever since the SunClock Grandmother died (in 03), she's been a major source of panic for me. She'll ring me about once every other month with a distress call. "Oh my god! I can't get in touch with mom! She's not picking up her cell phone! OH MY GOD! SHould I call one of her neighbors??!" And in the end, I'll get scared and keep calling my mom or dad over and over until one of us gets in touch with them.

Today it was my dad. He's visiting her in DC this weekend. He was over 2 hours late, so she IMs me with "I'm SO WORRIED! OH MY GOD! HE's Not answering his cell!" so on so on...

So then I keep sending her reassuring messages. He's probably lost and too proud to call. He probably figures she just planned to wait around all evening at home anyway. Maybe he's stuck in traffic. Maybe she should try calling his house and risking talking to the stepmom...

And then she never IMed me back to say everything was ok. She just logged off. Grr.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like chatting. Can you tell?

only unbaptised babies go to limbo, duh!
Well, it just so happens I was christened in the Presbyterian church, baptized in the Baptist Church, and sprinkled in the Methodist church, so hopefully that will help.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

You are totally going to heaven, then. Tell them all I said hi!

My aunt is like that about my grandparents. Just a constant panic about their health, but if my mom brings up any practical estate planning matters (my grandparents are in their 90s now), my aunt claps her hands over her ears and pulls a real "LALALALLAALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" number. Kind of annoying.

Hey, Chicargo, I'm meeting my friend Tim* at Simon's at 6ish for some drinks if anyone wants to celebrate a beautiful Friday afternoon by drinking beer in a dark, dark tavern.

*Some of you may remember him as "Magnum PI."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds fun, but doesn't jive well with the healthy, energetic, productive band practice we have scheduled down here in the deep south.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

the deep south! do you have sweet tea for nourishment during this warm weather?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm meeting my friend Tim at Simon's at 6ish for some drinks

I won't be there, but Restaurant Club will be -- including Renee and some other folks -- since they're going to Sushi Luxe at 7.

Actually, haha, I think K. and I are going to Jin Ju around then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I do need to make some sun tea...

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

What's a good palliative for acid reflux? Sometimes I'll get it for a couple days and then it will disappear, but today has been esp. bothersome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I will say hello to Renee without intruding into your restaurant club fun.

Sun tea = good
Sweet tea = GROSS GET IT AWAY FROM ME

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

OH LOVELY soon it will be hot hot and time for me to make no-boil sweet tea!! And spearmint-laced simple syrup. Even when I have been basically penniless, a box of teabags and a pound of sugar will get you a long way.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhh acid reflux, my old friend.

For short term relief of minor heart burn, just eat some tums or rolaids. If that doesn't work, try some store brand Zantac or other acid reducer (I say store brand because that shit is expensive). If that doesn't work, try an OTC proton pump inhibitor like Prilosec. You would take that for a week and that should fix it.

If that doesn't work - see a doc. You might have something for real wrong with you.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Acid reflux my old friend...
You've come to cause me pain again...
The sausage pizza that I must avoid!
I can't drink beer and that makes me annoyed!
And the coffee
in the morning
I'm not supposed to drink.
It fucking stinks.
This is the pain....
of reflux.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wow Dave, you weren't kidding. OS MUTANTES.

I KNOW, RIGHT??!!!! I am so fucking excited about it now.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

While I do generally avoid sausage pizza, I still drink beer and coffee.

Also, John? Smoking is known to aggrivate acid reflux. But if you take an OTC acid reducer, you'll probably be in good shape to smoke and drink yourself to pieces tonight with no pain.

Also, if you are poor, you can mix baking soda and water and that will cure mild heartburn. Although if you have chronic heartburn of the sort that makes you vomit sometimes or not eat, that does nothing but add excessive sodium to your diet. Avoid this trick if you're hypertensive.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am eating delicious Haagen-Dazs Pineapple Coconut ice cream.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! Allmusic just redesigned their site. A little disorienting. I'm not sure what I think.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Again? Geez.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I am quitting smoking. (I bummed two last night, though.)

Thanks for the acid reflux help, Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds so good, Dave!

I like sun tea and sweet tea and unsweetened tea. I am curious about your tea syrup, Laurel.

And I agree. Teabags are a wonderful little luxury. And with that, I will see how long I can go without staring at the computer screen.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

It is good. Even better as ice cream rather than sorbet, 'cause you've got all the creaminess. I just polished off the whole pint.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Go-ing home ear-ly

*does a little chair dance*

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey, Dan, I meant to ask you how to upload a torrent to !nd!3 Torrents if there is already a copy of the torrent on the site. Like, if I want to upload it without downloading files I already have, do you know how to do this? I'm finally trying to get going with this thing, so I can check out some of the Pfork Fest bands.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tea made without boiling water, for incredibly hot days when you just can't bear to add that much flame and steam to the household air:

Use 10 teabags for every 4 cups of room-temperature water. Combine and let soak undisturbed for about 40-45 mins, then remove teabags WITHOUT SQUEEZING. Apparently less of the bitter tanin is released this way. If you like yr tea unsweetened, you're done. Ice and drink. Cook's Illustrated ruled that Lipton's made the best iced tea, I think, although I like Red Rose as well, and I have a box of SweeTouchNee from Tennessee that I'm looking forward to trying. I keep a bottle in the fridge and add as needed to glasses of tea.

Simple syrup w/ spearmint: traditionally one part water to two parts sugar (I normally do it by cups), bring to just under a boil while stirring until sugar is completely dissolved into solution (usually only takes a minute or three). If you want to flavor it with anything (thyme-flavored syrup is really really good in home-made lemonade, by the way), pick/wash/bruise the leaves and add to water/sugar from the beginning. After sugar is all combined, turn off burner and let it cool on the stove with the herbs still in. When it gets to room temp, fish out the bits of herb and bottle.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, sorry. This line: "I keep a bottle in the fridge and add as needed to glasses of tea" was supposed to end the SECOND paragraph, not the first. I'm taking about the simple syrup, obv.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Don Cherry's "Mu" sessions are fucking AWESOME! Especially the first part.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I posted an Earth Crisis song to the blog for John and Jenny to see what they were(n't) missing.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

With every fiber of my soul I hate springtime. All I want to do is sit at home with the shades drawn and listen to the Smiths and sleep until I die.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

How can someone so young type words so sad?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Do you wear black on the outside because black is how you feel on the inside?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Peeps are the devil's food.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

There's a shard of the Snow Queen's ice mirror lodged in his heart, Amanda.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

But devil's food is God's food. Angel food is also kind of satan's food.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan? Are you there Kenan? Do you still want to go to the movies? I will go if you do, but if you don't I won't.

Options:

-yoga at 5:30 (which I should do)
then -movie

-drink at Simon's at 5 (which I shouldn't do)
then -movie

-movie

-stay home

(I have The Aristocrats and Simpsons DVDs)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

So it's probably the hottest day we've had so far this year, and all the girls on campus decide that TODAY is the day to wear their black clothes? If there was an emoticon dumping its brain out onto the floor, that's what I would be typing right now.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

MAN I hope that this early warm weather is not a sign that this summer is going to be a miserably sweaty craptastical crap time as last summer. BOOOOO.

No wonder Jesse is sad. I'm a little sad, too.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that's a good point. Last summer was my first one here, and although I have no other point of comparison, I too hope this summer is less extreme.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

It seems so strange that I am so frequently anxioius and stressed out about how much I have to get done, and now, when I have all the time to do it, I can't think of a single thing to do off the top of my head. I mean, if I think about it I can, but I don't have the feeling of like, "Great, now I can get such-and-such done." It's more like, "Well I GUESS I could do that." This is probably not that strange. It does make me think of the Boy Least Likely To lyric "I have nothing to worry about, so I worry about nothing" lyric, though.

I redownloaded "Drum's Not Dead" after deleting it from my hard drive, and it is kind of soothing me. But to think about how weird this music is, like "When did I start listening to droney 'experimental' music?" is kind of strange for me. Strange strange strange.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Generally with torrent sites you can't upload a new torrent of something that is already being seeded.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

They have mods and such that police for doubles.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, so unless I suddenly shift to the forefront of receiving advanced releases, I'm probably not going to be uploading any of my own torrents specifically, right?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Not until whichever are already there stop being seeded.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Kenan sure seems to have changed our plans....

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Dan.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

I declare this to be a weekend of BEER AND HOMOSEXUALITY.

Today: helped brew a pale ale and about to watch Gods & Monsters

Tomorrow: chocolate stout and Brokeback Mountain

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hawkwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/wp-images/easterbunnies430px.jpg

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am watching The Aristocrats. So far I think South Park and Sarah Silverman stand out. And The Onion roundtable, with their idea of taking the shit off the floor and making blackface out of it and doing a minstrel show.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of minstrel shows, I need to remember to ask off work for the nights of R. Kelly's show at the Chicago theater.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse! I'm sorry! I left work at four, right before your pleas for moviedom, and ended up... going to the movies. I didn't think we had a solid plan. (Did we?) Please don't hate me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

OH! And speaking of R. Kelly, Courtney tells me that he was at the same restaurant (in Charlotte) where C's friend is a manager. He had picked up one of the manager's friends (a 19 year old) the night before (at his show?) and actually called her back and asked her out to dinner the next night.

While they were at the restaurant "R" made a big scene when he got up at his table and loudly sang "Trapped in the Closet" to his lady friend.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse! I'm sorry! I left work at four, right before your pleas for moviedom, and ended up... going to the movies. I didn't think we had a solid plan. (Did we?) Please don't hate me.

Oh, I hate you all right.

This is the SECOND TIME THIS MONTH that I have made plans to go to the movies and had the other person say, "Oh, did we have 'SOLID PLANS'?"

Do I need to draw up a fucking contract with people?????????/

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

To me "Yes, we will go to the movies tomorrow night" sounds like as solid a fucking plan as any.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

To me "Yes, we will go to the movies tomorrow night" sounds like as solid a fucking plan as any.

And even moreso, "Let's go see Brick tomorrow night. It's playing at the Landmark."

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

I really am sorry. If I can make it up to you somehow...

Gah. I'm sorry. I feel like dickhead #1.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

I know the mood is spoiled, but I'd happily see it again.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

Moment of the evening: J3ssa spills wine all over me. I jump up and go "Whoa!" After a quick apology, she immediately gets angry at me for calling attention to her mistake. Like, "Oh, thanks for making such a big deal!" I'm like, what? We're in an outdoor cafe, I'm not screaming and crying, I'm not even angry, and... wait a minute. Are you being a huge bitch? Because I think you're being a huge bitch. I could be wrong, but...

You know what's funny though? And this is true -- I was in the bathroom with my shirt off, running it under the faucet and wringing it out, and I was thinking, "What bad karma is this? What did I do wrong?" And now I know -- I stood Jesse up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really hate you.

I didn't really feel like doing anything at all tonight except taking a bunch of Xanax and trying to forget that I exist. But I did plan on going to the movie.

It made me madder when Sayjal wishy-wahsed on me. I talked to her at 6 pm. We agreed to go to a 7 show if I could make it on time or a 10 if I couldn't. I call at 6:30 saying we can make the 7. She is on her way to have dinner at Robin's house b/c "OH I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD DEFINITE PLANS?????" whatthefuckingfuck?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

The worst part of all this is that I don't have any fucking Xanax. Only Sominex.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so sorry, Jesse. Can you at least pick up the phone so you can be open angry at me and I can be contrite? It's not just for me -- it'd probably make us both feel better.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Do I need to draw up a fucking contract with people?

No. I only have to be told once that this sort of rude behavior is unacceptable to you. It will not happen again.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

I had the most awkward running into JohnC tonight.

Setting: Crossing clark at foster

Me: Hi... John LastName
John: Hi... Jeff
(both pause and start walking backwards as crossing the street)
Me: Where are you going?
John: Jin Ju
Me:....
(light is turning)
Me: maybe I'll see you

that was a dumb thing to say.

i hate me.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

You lack considerable verve.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

(Um... that's as Amanda would say. It was a reference, not an insult. I should stay off the boards tonight.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

I turned my phones off. But I see you've called a couple of times.

I'm cooking an omelette made with the entire contents of a EggBeaters carton. So what is that --- it's 8 eggs. Hmmmm. I may have leftovers.

I've banned myself from Jin-Ju b/c of a one-night boy. I am sort of sad about that. Maybe I can one day get some carry-out under an assumed name. He was a whiney little bitch who is to delicate to go having one nighters with the likes of me.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh, he had some chick with him too.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

But I see you've called a couple of times.

Dude, I was totally imagining you cutting off your messages because you were mad at me. As you will witness.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Gods and Monsters was great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

I blush when I hear that title b/c of an embarrassing incident that happened after I fell asleep watching it on J &J's couch. There was dirty talk and pelvic thrusting. I blame the coke.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I wish I could say the same.

Ever make popcorn in a brown paper bag? It's fucking fantastic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt that I could ever be moved to call popcorn fantastic. Maybe "OK" at best. It's something to stuff in my face.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hot sauce + garlic salt

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but that would be fantastic on so many things that you can't claim popcorn as part of the deliciousness.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a little upset that I just ate an 8 eight salami omelette. At midnight. Alone on a Friday. I should just put a rock in my pocket and walk into Lake Michigan.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Except that a salami omlette sounds great. Why didn't I think of that?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Jews thought of it first and called it hoppel poppel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

It sucked a little b/c it was too big to turn and I fucked it up.

For dessert I had an egg bagel with goat cheese and a mango.

I think I'll go watch the Simpsons and do some earnest bloating.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's some fancy-ass comfort food.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Kind of.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

I may be a bit of a Jew.

I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's really not fancy. It was an old bagel.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

The popcorn was good because it was neither processed microwave popcorn nor oily air-popped popcorn, it was a blank canvas for my additives.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

I want an egg bagel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

I can retch one up for you. Which is really what needs to happen anyway.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hot sauce + garlic salt + butter substitute + still more salt = still sounds good to me, and still has nothing to do with the popcorn.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

But what other discrete, bite-sized foods what you put those on in a pinch?

Jesse, you should take more pride in your binging.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, Jesse, you're home and you're awake and your phones are turned on again, and still I get the machine.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

I just got back from Jimmy's, which is kind of a lame bar to me, but towards the end one of the bartenders put on Double Nickels. Holy shit! I was so stoked. I also got to watch a bunch of kids coming back from a frisbee dudes' party. It was great fun. Lots of drama.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Ficciones, I am excited for your 28th WHPK appearance. We are going out afterward. You don't really have a choice.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

And I am listening to this new Boris album. Never heard of them before. Pretty, pretty, pretty.... pretty tight!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking it would be awesome if we could fit a crowd of friends with us in the WHPK studio when we play, so that it sounds more like a party/show, with people chatting and clapping and stuff, but it's a very small room.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

But what other discrete, bite-sized foods what you put those on in a pinch?

Buffalo wings! Although I don't know how discrete those are. And you do have to take two or three bites. So your point stands.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to Os Mutantes for the first time ever and I love them.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hey wait, I know this Bat Macumba song. Was this in a movie or perhaps featured on a compliation?

I love them more every minute that I listen.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's quality shit.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SQUIRRELS: I finally took our Christmas lights down.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, Mutantes are truly a wonderful thing.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

God, it's so fucking pretty outside, and there's a breeze too!

Jenny, apparently some of the later Mutantes stuff is kind of proggy, so considering your YES love, you might like some of that as well.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

This, it is occurring to me, is no time to be inside.

I just took the hottest bath I have ever taken. My hands and feet are so red they're almost purple. I dunno... sometimes you just want to sit in a tub of scalding water, yannow?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I nnow.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, then I'll see all you guys at my party tonight, thanks.

― hyde park records (colonel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

NOT ME.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'll be in MN.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, due to lack of enthusiasm I'm going to go ahead and cancel it.

― hyde park records (colonel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

there's a party tonight?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey freakazoids. What's going on today? It's gorgeous out -- I want to sit in a beer garden.

Jeff -- I didn't think our encounter was that awkward.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Derek, what do you think of Mr. Bungle? Charles (the roommate) is trying to get me into California. My guess is that you hate it but Boomer might love it.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, dude! I think I might be bringing a lady to your party tonight. Rock, right?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just took a nap.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Who's at the store today, btw?

Back to everyone: I'm listening to that first Ted Leo/RX album, Tyranny of Distance, and it's really good. Catchy and light. I like it a lot.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Freakazoids? That strikes me as a sort of un-jaymc thing to say.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

What, did you get laid or something? :)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you were totally right about the Pfork Best New Music uploading to ITorrents. I put up the Tapes 'n Tapes album, and my ratio is fast on its way to becoming balanced.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE POP TARTS!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

You're going to get sued and go back to jail.

and no more pop tarts.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Both Boomer and I dislike Mr. Bungle. I probably like it less then he, though.

A lady at the party, ALL RIGHT!

― hyde park records (colonel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm... interesting. I saw that Wire thread btw, nice with the trying to get people on your side via Wire v. Smashing Pumpkins. Considering it's ILM, that was a pretty unfairly loaded thing to do on your part (but smart!).

Jeff, no 'cause see.. they're indie bands. They want us to share their music. Also, I write for Pitchfork. Hahahahahahahahaha... I just like imagining that gives me some sort of license to do anything as opposed to nothing at all. And I did have more pop tarts. You're just jealous 'cause you're so old!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://forums.hipinion.com/images/smiles/icon_ryan.gif

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is that ... Ryan Schreiber?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Don't mind me, I've had too much sugar and either need to sleep some more or go outside. Probably the latter, but I'm gonna opt for the former. Oh yeah, and I guess taxes are due today. Interesting. We'll see how that works out.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Taxes are due Monday at 11:59pm.

― hyde park records (colonel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously? That is awesome news. *cue Art Brut's "Good Weekend"*

Are you guys busy today? Should I come by the store to hang?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, I'm about to leave to get kegs. It's been pretty busy though. The same dumb questions, really.

― hyde park records (colonel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, that's cool. I'm excited. I hope you are too. Is there anything I can help with?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Arglrllglrlgl I HATE Mr Bungle -- if there's one thing I'm ever NOT doing again, it's making out w/ Mr Bungle as a soundtrack. Reason #9056456890 to go out with someone who doesn't hate teh P!O!P!

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ mr. bungle makeout sessions

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Going dancing with the L-trifecta tonight but right now I'm bike-sweaty at the library, checking out a book about youth car culture. I bought plants this morning! It's amazing warm here!

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, no help, but thanks. I'll see you in 5.5 hours or so.

― hyde park records (colonel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds good.

That's funny about the Mr. Bungle makeout thing, because my roommate considers California to be one of the five albums he'd love to find in the car of a potential significant other (which is what made me start that thread on ILM a couple of weeks ago).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Damn! This new Scott Walker album is scary and haunting in a totally great way.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is one of the other records by Ween/Helmet/Hum? Is yr roommate my ex?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Haha! I doubt it. He does not hate teh pop. In fact, it's most important to him. He has very interesting takes on what certain groups sound like and what their roots are. The Clash is his favorite, with The Band, Johnny Cash, The Smiths, and David Bowie filling out the rest of his top 5. He likes older music more than newer, and I have recently turned him on to Loveless and Shudder to Think's Pony Express Record. An example of his "interesting takes" would be something like: "The Misfits are basically just taking all those '50s girl groups and having a Jim Morrison-like singer over them" or "Slayer is like this real heavy blues sound" or "Mr. Bungle's California is like The Beach Boys as played by Sun Ra."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Why is today the first day that I've given Aube - Substructural Penetration a proper listen?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I've never heard Mr. Bungle, and that description makes me really want to hear California now. Same with the Misfits descrip -- but I told him that the other week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I just sat in the bath with Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks and the new New Yorker. Bliss.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

That California description is right-on. I don't really like Bungle, but I love the doo-wop songs on that record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, this person added us on myspace and I love the song that's playing on their page. It's like pre-teen bounce. The Jackson 5 quote is awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, it's a private profile, so I can only hear the song, but that's so awesome.

Just got done listening to California and I definitely like it. How much will take some more time to tell. But on first listen of a band I hadn't heard before, I am interested in hearing more.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

California is by far as pop as Mr. Bungle gets.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's kinda similar to this Scott Walker in a way.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

BORED

BEERZ

STILL BORED

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, let's go out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

All right. But where... WHERE?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know! I just texted you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

If I could train/bus it there it would be sweet. I really like the Hungry Brain these days.

xpost - oh, my phone is in the other room

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hungry Brain sounds great, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. I will take off in a little bit.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hungry Brain?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

2319 W Belmont

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Smallish, loungey bar. Good juke box, good beers. Sometimes they have music.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you wanna come, Kenan? I tried calling you, too, but got your machine.

I have to drop off some stuff at Krista's place, and then I'll drive down there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking off now. Gonna call my friends who live around the corner and see if they are interested too.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are prolly gone already, but I'll be there.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

I want to party. PAR=TEE.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

omg,

fake fictions just rocked the shit out of champaign.

it was rad.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

They weren't po-faced, were they?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

there were no po-faces to be found

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

this is a good thing

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's what the Fake Fictions do. They're sort of specialists in that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am wearing cufflinks. And smoking a cigarette. This is precisely the image I'd like to project.

Except for the fact of my posting it on the internet.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

John Cuntinhand and I saw most of Chicago's north side tonight.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

But we missed Clark's.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Zzzzz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

I just IMed the luna and tried to rope her into talking about how totally full of shit she is, but she's smarter than the average bear. Which, honestly, is the only reason I care. I think she's a really smart girl who would have some very interesting, even enlightening things to say about being habitually awful.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: ...

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

expound plz

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Can't I be oblique?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Not at this hour. But you can email me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I see. You were being oblique about something that's kinda stupid to begin with. Take it to the noise board.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I can't. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Well, don't take it out on Chicago in the meantime.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

What, because I made a random allusion to Nick Sylvester, I'm "taking it out on Chicago"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

No, because I'm in a pissy mood, that's why.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS VILLAEG VOICE EDITOR DOUG SIMMONSD PUT YOU IN THIS PISSY MOOD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Shut up, john williams.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

???

http://www.kcet.org/media/uploads/programs/homepage/eap_john_williams_ft.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.space-debris.com/tng_wheaton.jpg

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS VILLAEG VOICE EDITOR DOUG SIMMONSD PUT YOU IN THIS PISSY MOOD.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

(FWIW, I don't think the Noise Board is very pro-Sylvester.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what the noise board is like at all.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

OK, well, you ponder that. I'm going to bed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

ouch.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Can we start a new thread soon? Because the image at the top of this one bothers me in a place that's just as deep and terrible as Jesse's hare lip image. Jesse at least had the nerve to tap into something almost biological in its repulsive qualities. This image is worse, in some important ways. It lacks the fundamental repulsion, but it also lacks any wit at all, lacks purpose, lacks any significant meaning, is really more confusing than anything else, and on top of it all, is really unpleasant to look at, not (again) in that hare lip way, but just in that way that's so inexcusably lame and clueless than you want to kill yourself.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

stop hating fun, kenan.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 16 April 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

I have to drop off some stuff at Krista's place, and then I'll drive down there.

OMG You're keeping tampons there? This is getting serious.

Jesse, I see your last post was at 3:3something. This leads me to believe that you won't be getting up to go to the grocery store with me any time soon. It also leads me to believe that when JAYMC said that he had no interest in staying out late, and keeping you out late, that he was LYING LIKE THE LITTLE BITCH THAT HE IS.

The last time you were supposed to help me be Martha Stewart for a holiday party you stayed out late and dissed me, too, Jesse. I thought we had SOLID PLANS.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I TAKE IT BACK.

Jesse is an amazing person who no longer needs sleep and is awake and instant messaging me right now.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Duh.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I had a couple of slugs of Jim Beam and was temporarily wasted. I recovered quickly however. That's the joy and wonder of drinking on an empty stomach.

We went to the Hungry Brain and then to a party at Sayjal's friend's house which is also the house of a guy I used to work with on the boat.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

The boat?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

JESSE YOU ARE LOSING YOUR CRED WITH ME. WHERE ARE YOU????

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse used to be a deep sea tuna fisherman.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a euphemism?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I want to vote that we never start a new thread. I don't understand why we have to keep starting new threads. GET ONE 'SHOW 50 NEWEST ANSWERS ONLY'.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 16 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Amen.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 16 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

n/a is n/a. And I agree. Not so much with Csty.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 16 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I ate at Cracker Barrel.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 16 April 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

i am ordering ham and pineapple pizza for easter.

i wouldn't mind having a longass thread, just not with a unicorn at the beginning kthx. (because....what kenan said, sans a bit of the drunken overstatement).

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 16 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Nick, too, but I vote we do not start with this thread.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

The boat?

I worked on the 0dyssey a couple summers ago. I was the captain. Dinner cruises.

― WhiskeyBanjoFishbutt (Jeff), Sunday, 16 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Kenan.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/photos/hanonjesse.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Stop crying about the unicorn people and lighten up. Oh, and if one of you could get me a burger from the jerk chicken place, that would be awesome.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 16 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of like the unicorn.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I saw you posted that Knife song on the blog, but it's expired. Would you mind re-YSI'ing when you have time? I haven't heard them yet.

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14FRDNA3CFB862DQYD286JOJGX

Here's a song that I'm working on right now if anyone's interested. I just decided it's going to be called "Spaghetti Midwestern".It's not mixed and I'm going to redo the drums and arrangement, but otherwise I think it's surprisingly alright.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I reposted that song and my new favorite off the album on the blog. They are both up now. Enjoy!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Dave. I like, esp. the NES sounds.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

There's nothing wikipedia doesn't know.

He was born Yul Borisovich Bryner (Russian: Юл Борисович Бриннер) in Vladivostok, Russia. His mother, Marousia Blagоvidova, was the daughter of a Russian doctor of Jewish heritage (who had converted to Christianity) and his father, Boris Bryner, was an engineer and inventor of Swiss and Mongolian ancestry. He was named Yul after his paternal grandfather, Jules Bryner.

So he's Russian, Jewish, Swiss, and Mongolian. No wonder nobody can identify his ethnicity.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! At work, there is a rule: "Thou shalt not worship Wikipedia." But it's hard not to, you know? They may not have correct tour date or album release information, but if I want to look up Russian history in an effort to make jokes about a band called Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, wiki I shall.

Jordan, NES sounds in the "Mother" one or the other one?

P.S. Holy shit! California is blowing me away like few other records have. Pony Express Record, Kill the Moonlight, and Loveless come to mind.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pony Express Record, Kill the Moonlight, and Loveless come to mind.

Oh yeah, same category, same level of quality, all of those. Good call.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

Dude look... I'm sorry about the unicorn, okay? :)

And whatever, they totally are. Who made you king of taste? Not me. I was busy nominating myself.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have made it a personal mission to make fun of you as much as possible. Why? Because it's dick o'clock.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think your watch is stuck.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

Late nights on the internet with you have given me valuable lessons in "learning how to take it in addition to dishing it out."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm sorry, Dave. I'm the senior and you're the freshman, and it's just abuse for its own sake, and it's all pretty juvenile, but you seem to know that, and you handle it very well.

Hi, Dave.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, though, it's weird to think about the albums that have totally directed/been pinnacles of my taste over the years. Quite a few I am embarrassed by. One that others might think I should be embarrassed by but I refuse to apologize for: Jimmy Eat World's Clarity. My favorite album for a long time. So long that I just listened to the beginning of the record again, and I can just sing along without even thinking about it.

It's sad to think that you can love something so much as to be able to ignore it. I think that's why I devour so much music but only half-chew it, i.e. out of the fear that if I totally absorb it I won't be able to get any pleasure from it. It's safer not to make yourself vulnerable to that love even though it's probably a better experience to do the loving, even if you end up so familiar with what you've loved that it fails to surprise you and you end up slowly or quickly falling out of love. But is this your problem, i.e. are you (read: am I) just thinking you know something and that is what actually leads to the estrangement.

Also, there are obvious connections to human romance that are equally sad/scary to think about. But now, let the ridiculing continue. Suggested topic: me comparing listening to music to being in a relationship on the internet at 2:30 in the morning.

xp: Nah man, I'm starting to like it. I'm starting to get it/you. Like I said, life lessons.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nah man, I'm starting to like it. I'm starting to get it/you. Like I said, life lessons.

I am terrifically flattered, but using me as a life lesson would also be a bad idea. I'm an internet lesson. A very small lesson. Among all the people who are here, in real life, I'm the most suspect.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

I know. [/zen face]

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading the liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Mingus is one crazy motherfucker, although occasionally right on.

"...if you're going to like something that's beautiful no one can tell you how if it don't just happen. If it doesn't just happen, you're already brainwashed and instead of hiring someone to tell you what's beautiful for you, and you're past five years old, this means you need an analyst, not a public bathroom attendant with dirty faucets, who only knows what's beautiful to him because of his own inadequacies as to how and why he knows everything Jelly Roll Morton, Flush Gordon, Louis Armstrong, etcetera did and on down to whoever he says is modern. He can even read and score music."

Awesome.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

It makes a little more sense in context, but not much. Except it does make sense.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

it's weird to think about the albums that have totally directed/been pinnacles of my taste over the years.

This is why the idea of the canon is just stupid. I think the personal canon is more important and interesting than some kind of theoretical, all-inclusive canon for everyone. E.g., my personal canon includes "In Full Colour" by Boyracer, "Angel Dust" by Faith No More, and "Ride the Fader" by Chavez, none of which are probably ever going to be in some Rolling Stone list of "MOST IMPORTANT ALBUMS EVER OMG," but they mean more to my musical development than, I don't know, Cream or even (blasphemy alert) the Pixies. I think everyone who listens to a lot of music has these touchstone bands that give them some kind of musical realization, and it isn't necessarily the same band for everyone.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 17 April 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I realize that makes it sound like I don't understand the difference between a global canon and a personal canon, and I do. I just think the latter is a lot more important.

Also, EASTER BOOBS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 17 April 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

morning chicago. i was woken up by the birds chirping. when was the last time that happened?! leaf was out running by 5 & so i got up & made him breakfast, but it's turned out terribly bad. oh well. he'll get back from his run soon & then i'll toast a bagel or something. i think the coffee worked.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 17 April 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

I should be out running by 5.

Oh wait, I can't run.

I should be doing something by 5. I can't stay up late and be productive so I think I need to start getting up at around 4am each day.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 17 April 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

HI KELSEY AND JEFF. I was out pooping the dogs at 5.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

And Nick.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

HI KELSEY AND JEFF. I was out pooping the dogs at 5.
-- The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (showdown@wormtown.com), Today 7:16 AM.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And Nick.
-- The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (showdown@wormtown.com), Today 7:16 AM.

i would've thought nick was housebroken.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, did anyone read the article in the Trib today about WBEZ's all-talk decision? Apparently they're gutting music programming entirely in favor of shows that discuss music and apparently explain what music is to people who don't understand it well enough to appreciate it on their own? I think this is a crap decision.
It remains to be seen whether listeners buy Malatia's intriguing theory that they appreciate music more deeply by hearing less of it.

Anyone else think this is a bad idea?

PS -- Nick is not yet housebroken. Maybe in '07.... Otto -- were you wearing a brown t-shirt at the show on Friday? If so, I was the person standing behind you laughing at the puds who kept standing under the leaky pipe.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

A link to the article in the Trib

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

no, i was wearing a green cococoma t-shirt. we started the joos set at the foot of the stage, stage right, but it got too hot so we repositioned. steve west was doing sound for the show so jen sat in the booth with him, i wandered near the back of the room.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Amanda, that's backwards in so many ways. And really condescending. I mean, it's cool to have more shows interacting with music in a verbal conversation, but it ceases to become a conversation when there is no music being played.

Nick, so Faith No More > Mr. Bungle for you?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think so too. I don't need someone to tell me what I like and don't like. I know it when I hear it. But in order to hear it, it would be nice if someone would play it. I guess maybe they'll realize that people are missing something essential and start with a clean slate in a few (or a dozen) years. Maybe programming will be more innovative then. I'll miss Voz Latina and Afropop in the meantime.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dig this giant photo of Kenny V that I took on Saturday:
http://i3.tinypic.com/vpybg3.jpg

Lotsa good jazz shows coming up this week!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, nice. He's star-timing it there. So how was the show & filming?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

It was great! I guess he doesn't do many solo shows, so it was a rare chance to get that on tape. The shooting went well, mics worked and sounded good. I found the show way more engaging than I expected it to be -- maybe when there's less happening on stage I have an easier time paying attention to it. He played this one song at the very end that was so loud it made the floor shake. There were plenty of people there, and all of them seemed pretty impressed. It's the kind of music I wouldn't be sure that I would like if someone explained it to me, but seeing it live was really something else.

Also, thanks for the restaurant recommendation. We went to Trocadero and it was deeeeelish.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

A link to the article in the Trib= HOOOOOOORAY!!!!!!

It is about fucking time! I have avoided listening to Chicago Public Radio in favor of NC Public Radio because of all the fucking (noodly, boring) music. I was so annoyed by it that I was going to donate to NC Public Radio and send a letter to Chicago's station telling them that NC got my money because of all their music. (But then Chicago PR showed up with some good premiums and I honestly forgot about my plan....)

This is truly great news IMHO.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at least someone's happy about it. I still think they could have at least left the music programming on the Chesterton station. I'm not devastated or anything, but it's something to talk about.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S ICED COFFEE SEASON MOTHERFUCKERS!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

We went to Trocadero and it was deeeeelish.

Awesome, I'm glad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin', pawdners.

I can't remember where everyone works... Would any of you be interested in meeting up for lunch today - perhaps somewhere near Water Tower around 12:30/12:45? I'm taking a half day for a doctor's appointment at 2:30 at Northwestern, so I thought I'd ask.

I think I missed some stuff on this thread. I couldn't keep it open long enough to read all the way through and then lost my place.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S ICED COFFEE SEASON MOTHERFUCKERS!!

goddamn it you're right!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

True, if you can get reception of both stations then maybe it would be good to have one that offers music still.

I think of course there's room for some music on NPR (or CPR) but there was soooo much!

I want to write CPR a letter of support for this. This has more significance than just radio broadcasts--my friends will be better off as can now scratch off one drunken rant from my repertoire.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's always iced coffee season for me. With the exception of a couple gingerbread latte's, I always drink cold drinks. I get sweaty and hot from hot coffee.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I would drink iced coffee all year round if I could, but none of the coffee shops around here make it during the fall/winter. Sometimes I get iced americanos or lattes to get by, but that gets expensive.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ummmmm... I like having at least one all-talk NPR station, too. I think it would be reasonable to devote one CPR station to music rather than turning all three to all talk, but yeah. I'm with Jesse on this one.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have a copy of the Flaming Lips song "Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear?" Jenny? Anyone? I just read about it, and it sounds like the kind of song I could use right now. If you have it, please email/YSI to me or post to the blog. I would very much appreciate it.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

So did everyone have fun watching the movie last night? Did I miss anything notable?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so but maybe. What album is it on? I'm at work so I can't do anything about it now anyway.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, really, wtf are you talking about. Who gets mad the the jazz station? Who thinks it's great news that they're pulling unique programming? I mean, do you often sit around tuned in to 91.5 going, "JESUS! If only they would stop playing SO MUCH JAZZ AND BLUES! GODDAMNIT DEATH TO CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO!" Cause I would, you know, pull up iTunes before I got to that point. And I love the jazz.

This is really sad and awful.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's just that there are so few outlets for that sort of music (jazz, blues, international) that totally eliminating the one that most people could listen to makes me sad.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah -- I'm just a little bit too far away for that, but it's a fine idea. One of these days.

I guess it's just that there are so few outlets for that sort of music (jazz, blues, international) that totally eliminating the one that most people could listen to makes me sad.

Yeah, I understated. It makes me furious.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

That would make me sad too. Esp. if they carried Bob Parlocha's show, which I miss.

So what are the hot jass shows this week, Amanda?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Kenan--

I HATE jazz--unfortunately that's kind of a big part of my problem with the music programming. (I know how this sounds, and I'm not really proud of it. And it's not that I haven't found the jazz I like--Courtney gave me her huge Norton CD set of the History of Jazz (also a hater) and I wound up throwing it away. Like I say--I hate jazz, but I DO like Portishead!)

But certainly not my biggest beef. I listen to NPR for informative, interesting and entertaining talk. The jazz and world-music were a big interruption for me. When I first moved to Chicago I was quite upset with the programming. So I listened to WUNC (Chapel Hill) online, but I couldn't do that in the shower, etc.

Email of appreciation written.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

WELL --
The ones I can remember are the ones D. is going to/shooting, which include Paal N!lssen - Love and KV plus a bunch of other dudes at the Hideout on Wed. and a huge band at the Mill on Fri/Sat that includes some of the aforementioned "bunch of other dudes" and KV -- 8 people on stage, I think? Should be good. I do not hate jazz.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Like I say--I hate jazz, but I DO like Portishead!

haha

"I hate grapefruit, but I do like parachuting!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Me neither. I think it's a rarity, Jenny. Like a b-side or something.

xp: Ha!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. I do not hate jazz either, but we do have something of a complicated relationship.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

"I hate tomatoes, but I DO like pizza!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(no, it's okay Jesse, I understand that POV)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

it is about 6 degrees in this goddamn office today. i have a t-shirt, a long sleeved shirt, and a cardigan on and i'm shivering. i'm about to put on my f'ing hoodie if things don't change.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I understand hating jazz, too, believe it or not. It's a thin line, etc. But I don't want one-of-a-kind radio programming to disappear unless it absolutly has to, regardless of whether I am listening to it or not.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Know who else hates jazz? Johnny.
http://ravoxx.free.fr/Johnny%20hates%20jazz.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else for lunch? Huh huh huh? OR.. hey... what was that place you guys were talking about across from Water Tower Place. Eazy, was it you? A sandwhich place, I think? I could just plan on ir de shopping before my appointment.

I don't hate jazz any more. You know what else? I used to detest reggae music, but thanks to Nick I now think it's perfect warm weather listening.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG reggae music rocks my cock.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

"I hate grapefruit, but I do like parachuting!"

Portishead sounds to me like jazz that doesn't make me see bored to the point of rage.

Talking about music with bits of actual music is a means by which I might actually come to appreciate the music itself. I was listening to some segment on French chansons (or some other French word relating to songs) mixed with electronic music and while the music itself was boring, the talk about it was interesting enough that I started to care about the music and want to try to look into it more deeply.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

sandwhich place, I think?

FLAT SAMMIES!!!!

i would kill, or at least seriously maim, a box full of puppies for a turkey club from flat sammies today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too far away for lunching, Sarah -- I would love to otherwise. I also have to eat at like 11 because I leave at 2:45 on Mondays.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I used to hate reggae music too, but now I only hate Bob Marley.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting my couch today!!!

http://static.flickr.com/44/129665474_f5d578b03d.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

And the coffee table in front of it. Not the vase though.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Fancy! I like.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's too bad, the vase is my favorite part of that photo.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

That's a big-ass couch!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, Jesse!

Otto, Do you remember if Flat Sammies has any veggie sandwhiches?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, why you wanna hurt us?
http://www.dreamstime.com/thumb_6/1106154967O64fe1.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Italian food, but I do like Chef Boyardee. That's more accurate.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

what are these "veggies" you speak of... ?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

really? You think the couch looks big? It's not that big. And it is LIGHT!

The vase is not expensive ($45 I think). Call up Brownstone Antiques and order it! For me!

I have decided to get the matching end tables.

Couch, coffee table, 2 end tables= total expenditure of < $500!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

The couch is wrapped in custom-fitted PLASTIC. Which I will be sad to see go when I start sweating. The plastic is so fucking charming.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it is, as long as you allow Chef Boyardee has some perfectly good merits of its own. Because I like Portishead too, but all they take from jazz are a few signifiers and a "cool vibe".

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Couch, coffee table, 2 end tables= total expenditure of < $500!

OMG, that's great. The couch looks big to me because I have a small-ass apartment and a fouton from college that functions as a couch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

The boomerang MIRRORED coffee table is genius, but I want the vase for meeeeeeeee. Wow, you have useful antique stores in Chicago.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

JESUS! If only they would stop playing SO MUCH JAZZ AND BLUES!

Me. I say that. I love jazz. I love classical. I don't like much blues, though. And I understand that there aren't enough alternative outlets for that type of music, including world music (which I generally also like, although that's kind of like saying "I like appetizers," I think). But NPR is my go-to for soothing, intelligent banter and when there's music on, especially music that I'm kind of luke warm about, I get sad. Because I'm not interested in music on NPR. I just want the talk shows.

When I lived in DE, there was an awesome NPR station out of Philly (WHYY) and UofD's college radio station (WVUD) was fantastic for speciality music shows and I think it was UPenn's school station that was all music and did speciality music shows, but just different genres. That was the golden age of radio for me - I had everything I wanted, and I really miss it. Especially "Hip City," the Saturday afternoon soul and r&b show on WVUD. I used to tape that and just listen to the tapes all week.

That's why I can see why it sucks to change the CPR format to all talk if there aren't other stations playing specialty music formats, because those rock. But I'm still with Jesse - I like my NPR talky.

xpost: Sarah, I would love to eat lunch with you but I can't - I don't get lunch breaks on Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

God, I'll be glad when school is done in two weeks.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

You shutterbugs in Chicago should contribute to the NPR Flickr pool for a chance at fame and fortune.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa Jenny! You're out in 2 weeks?! That's good.

Courtney is coming.....in more than 2 weeks. Are you going to be off on Memorial Day?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'll have a three day weekend then. I will have just finished all my exams and will be starting the whole normal, 9-5 work week thing so I foresee jumping right on the PARTY TRAIN.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

But NPR is my go-to for soothing, intelligent banter and when there's music on, especially music that I'm kind of luke warm about, I get sad.

See, I listen in the morning, and All Things Considered is great when I get home from work, and I love Marketplace, but the rest of the programming falls pretty squarely int the category of "stuffy liberals talking in monotones about shit that I don't care about." And anyway, why get rid of ALL the music programming? Can't we have a jazz channel and a stuffy liberal channel?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Absolutely not.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

"stuffy liberals talking in monotones about shit that I don't care about."
OMG this is SO ACCURATE. It's not that I don't agree with them most of the time, but their quietly self-congratulatory tone grates on my nerves something fierce.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff's too. He hates the NPR voice. Terry Gross gives him hives. The only show that I get really fed up with is the Canadian news channel. And I generally like Canadians. And Canada. I just... don't care too much about their news.

BBC World News, on the other hand, rocks my world.

I would totally be okay with a stuffy liberal channel and a jazz channel. There was even a line in the Trib article about how now listeners will have to change the channel (to a non-CPR station) to get the musical variety that they want. So... if the musical variety is out there, and all you have to do is punch a different button on your radio... what's the problem?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, sammies does have veggie stuff. they have a sandwich or two, i think . . . otherwise they have salad & maybe pizza? i've only eaten there once or twice.

there's also a soup box over by the jimmy johns on chicago . . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think the NPR voice can be kind of humorous b/c they are playing their roles so hyper-accurately. The drone is comforting though even when I'm not listening.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jazz is comforting though even when I'm not listening.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, then PUNCH THAT RADIO BUTTON! And then you can have jazz.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, time to reprogram my receiver.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

If I posted that song I YSI'ed way upthread to teh blog, would anyone listen to it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, that's a really lame question and I rescind it)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just moved my old couch under which I found a boy's email address. It is DrBey0nc3@*****.com(he was the black guy in med school). Dr. B3yonc3! Ha!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

If a YSI-link is posted in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, how is the poster getting an internet signal way out there?

Dr. B3yonc3???? Oh my.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN: Kelsey

Here is the word on subbing in the Twin Cities:

"as for substitute teaching requirements - it's kind of a pain in minnesota. technically, you're supposed to have a 4 year degree AND have gone through a teaching program. in michigan you just need a 4 year degree. i did, however, recently talk to a student teacher who told me she was able to get a sub license without having completed a teaching program - so who knows. it is a pain though - a lot of forms and hoops to jump through.
i ended up going to a minneapolis public schools orientation for subs - or reserve teachers, as they call them - and that cleared up a lot of questions. they do have a bunch of stuff on the web, but much of it is kind of confusing. at this point in the school year, there are no more orientations - and i think it'd be tough to get into the system, but it may be possible. however, it took me about a month to get the whole application shit done. and the school year is over around june 14th."

So, maybe more of a pain than it's worth...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

that is very helpful! thanks so much, dan!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

their quietly self-congratulatory tone grates on my nerves something fierce

OTFM. Sometimes I listen to NPR and worry that they're just creating more Republicans.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

you have to be joking ...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think K was using the rhetorical device of hyperbole.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's a matter of tone, like Amanda said. Sometimes you can almost smell the latte.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

God, my sister just emailed me about the weekend she just spent with my Dad. Apparently, he thinks ALL SORTS of awful and just completely untrue things about me, namely that I moved far far away because I hate my family and want to cut off from them. That's what he talked about all weekend. I thought we were over this stuff!! GRRR!!! It makes me want to cry.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, Sarah, that's terrible. I know how you feel. Actually, it has worked the other way around for me -- my family doesn't speak to me because I do not believe in Jesus in the same way that they do. It's one of the tenants of their belief; you're either down with this church or you're out, no matter if you're a son, brother, spouse (!), whatever. It's pretty sick, really.

At least that's not my immediate family though. My mom and Dad still like me, heathen that I am.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah has your dad told you these things? Is you're sister exaggerating? Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you should talk to him directly about that -- not that I have siblings or know what that's like, but it's never good to hear "Oh yeah, we were talking about you all weekend."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Sarah, I feel your frustration. While my mom is cool with it, a lot of my family just doesn't get why I would want to live somewhere besides Delaware. To them, you just live where you grew up and doing anything else is... bizarre and unthinkable and obviously symptomatic of mental impairment. It's so out of their understanding that someone would just want something other than what they grew up with, that they can only attribute my living in exotic places like NC and Chicago to either my hating them or my being weird.

Also, there's the implicit judgment that people read into a family member's decision to move away. "Oh, she must think I'm a backwards country fool because I stayed here." That's really hard for people to overcome.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

One of my uncles, last time I saw him, while sitting on a rotting back porch in 100-degree heat while bugs swarmed around him:

"So, when are you moving back to God's country?"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh, she must think I'm a backwards country fool because I stayed here."

Oh, they'd be right on that count.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Then again, my relatives often really are backwards country fools. I have a cousin who's 45 years old, still lives with her parents, and never learned to drive.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

But yeah, I second getting this info straight from your Dad, rather than through the possibly distorted lens of a sibling's account. That will also let your dad know that you want him to address his concerns directly with YOU and not second hand through a sister.

Kenan, my (now dead) grandmother was one of those sweet as pie but pretty crafty and manipulative old women who had to use passive-aggressive deceit to get what she wanted while appear to remain obedient to man and God, and she would pull all sorts of shit with me about dissappointing my parents, and letting the family down, and on and on.

Wow - that's the meanest thing I've ever said about the woman. I generally liked her a lot. That one thing was just pretty irritating.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I know I should just talk to my dad. I've tried to include him in my regular family phonecall routine, but I get discouraged because he NEVER initiates any sort of communication with me. I always have to start. And then when I do call him, he's all surprised like it's this big gift that I rang him up. Why doesn't he just call me himself??

Yeah, my sister exaggerates, but also I can totally see him believing everything he said. He probably just misses me, so he's turning it into resentment and feelings of rejection. I wish he'd go back to being upset with my youngest sis instead (I mean, she lives in FRANCE - COME ON!). That's mean of me, huh?

Well, I'll wait and try to calm down about it and then give him a belated Happy Easter call later, so I don't just say hello and then start crying.

A sample of things my dad seems to believe about me:
a) I'm going to go to grad school in architecture and my firm is going to pay for it all.
b) I'm never getting married because I don't believe in it.
c) I'm never having kids.
d) I hate my mom.
e) And this one is BIZARRRO - He said when I first started my period, I thought I had cancer because my mom never educated me. HELLO! This is the same mom who insisted we put condoms on bananas in front of her before we even hit puberty! This is the OUR BODIES, OURSELVES woman! Who is he thinking of?? And why are my sister and Dad discussing my period together??

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go to grad school in architecture and my firm is going to pay for it all.

It seems like "Sarah's in a band" is too hard for any of your family to swallow, and they're making all kinds of shit up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

God's country---

Do they mean nature and all that or away from the corrupt city? Or both?

When I was a child I would piss off my dad by saying I wanted to live in NYC. He claimed that I was crazy because people were fleeing cities and moving to the country by the millions. I still don't understand where he got his statistics.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

And why are my sister and Dad discussing my period together??

they probably signed up for the newsletter about it that me and kenan started.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Some of my relatives are back country fools, but not because they chose to stay in DE. People have lots of reasons to live where they do and I try not to judge. Although sometimes I get kind of mournful about some of Jeff's cousins, because they are smart and interesting and have so much potential but are just nailed down by circumstances into an area of the country where being smart and interesting will get you exactly nowhere. I'm especially mournful for his girl cousins. There's not much there for them, unless they want to have lots of kids.

xpost: why are my sister and Dad discussing my period together??

I think that would be my opening salvo in the conversation, but that's just me. I have a lot of sympathy for you Sarah - and I think it's brave of you to keep insisting that they see you for who you are and not who they want you to be. I always had (still have) a hard time with that as far as my family goes.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are right. My Dad wouldn't even admit the greatness of Paris. He said some nice things, but in the end said it was ruined by all the smokers. And he said nice things about Chicago at first, but at the end of his one and only trip here, he got all horrified by the drivers and asked why everyone had to be so aggressive.

Also, yeah, his brother and sister-in-law had two boys. One of them lives in the SAME NEIGHBORHOOD with his wife and kids. The other one lives about 15 minutes away by car.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking families.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Otto: HAHAHAHA

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, my sister says she told him we moved to Chicago because we loved it and because of the music scene. Apparently, he said that was no excuse, because we could have moved to Baltimore or Philly instead.

Completely off my own topic here: Kenan, what program should I use to open that .rar file? I was able to download it to my computer at work, but it doesn't know how to open it.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

He claimed that I was crazy because people were fleeing cities and moving to the country by the millions. I still don't understand where he got his statistics

in the reagan years people were fleeing cities. i remember when my ex's mom and step dad came to visit us a few years ago we were walking along the lake and don (the step dad) was marveling at all the yuppies living along lsd because in the mid 80's you couldn't give a condo in the city away.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

i will refrain from ranting about my own parents (wouldn't be able to stop!) but, yeah, parents get all sorts of crazy misconceptions and it's especially frustrating because these are people who have known you your whole life and should, theoretically, know better. but then they prove over and over that they are really fucking clueless.

it still really sucks though.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Baltimore?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, the real prize for your Sarah period zine is the card I got from someone at our church congratulating me on "budding into a beautiful young woman." Yeah, my dad told the whole church.

You know, I think part of this is that my dad seriously HATES city folk. He grew up in New York, but really seems to believe that country people are the only good ones left.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Baltimore has it's nice parts, but let's compare:
Chicago vs. Baltimore. FIGHT!
Yeah, Chicago wins.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, we did consider Baltimore and Philly.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

the card I got from someone at our church congratulating me on "budding into a beautiful young woman." Yeah, my dad told the whole church.

hahahahhahahahaha oh i'm so sorry.

if your dad thinks chicago driving is bad, he should go hang out in boston. my parents were in awe at how polite drivers were around here when we moved from there.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to rant so much today. DRAMA! I'm totally going to Sephora at lunch to calm down.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Right there with you, Sarah & Jenny & all. My fam is good with the geographic thing but the religious/lifestyle thing drove a nasty rejection-shaped wedge between my mother and me for a few years, basically because by declining to follow her religious & aesthetic choices she felt I was rejecting/criticizing her. So she took that out on me for a couple of years, but we got over it. For the best, really -- that break had to be made sometime and probably would have been less upsetting had it happened in teenage years, like it's SUPPOSED to.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

man, my folks were totally supportive when i quit my job and moved to chicago. they were like "yeah, you've probably seen all there is to see here." i think the only thing that surprised them was that it was the first time i'd talked to them in months despite living about 20 minutes away.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, what program should I use to open that .rar file?

Ah, see, I put it in .rar format because I know Macs understand that. For windows, I use this:

http://www.7-zip.org/

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

the card I got from someone at our church congratulating me on "budding into a beautiful young woman." Yeah, my dad told the whole church.

God, Christains are creepy.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I distinctly remember a Xtian text from childhood that explained to parents how to discuss masturbation with their children, and discourage them from doing it. HOLY CRAP THAT GIVES ME THE JIBBLIES, JUST DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT SEX AT ALL PLZ, BECAUSE ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN TELLING ME ABOUT TOUCHING MYSELF AND SATAN IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that pretty universal, though.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

the card I got from someone at our church congratulating me on "budding into a beautiful young woman."

i got one of those cards and on the inside they wrote "get a haircut, hippie." new englanders can be mean.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you know, my parents were MUCH less weird about the masturbation thing than they could have been. I suppose I shd count my blessings.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, there is also a helpful program called WinRAR that you can dl for free.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

WinRAR tries very hard not to be free, though. You can't download it without giving lots of personal info (bullshit!) and it will forever try to get you to buy it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

my mom has this story that she loves to tell about how i was investigating the seam in my stockings at an orchestra concert when i was five or so. the violins were playing, but i seemed to have forgotten that i was there to play violin, which was probably embarrassing enough to them, since i was on the edge of the stage, near the center. the seam was on the inside of the leg, and i was just lifting my skirt and tracing the stocking seam all the way up, oblivious to BEING ON STAGE WHILE UH KINDA FEELING MYSELF UP.

but little kids do stuff like that. years later, my mom just thought it was funny and liked to tell the story a lot.

we never directly talked about masturbation though.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

these are people who have known you your whole life and should, theoretically, know better. but then they prove over and over that they are really fucking clueless.

God, that is so true.

Re: Cities and the Reagan years - Jesse, think Escape from New York. Could anyone imagine a movie being made today with the premise of evacuating and walling of NYC to turn it into a prison? Also, Reagan got us so jacked up about nuclear holocaust that nobody wanted to live at anything that might become ground zero.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh really? I got it a few years ago so I've forgotten.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Julia, that is hilarious. I suspect that adults only organize kid exhibit performances like that in the hope that the kid will do something embarassing and provide fodder for family dinners for generations to come.

(I'll spare you the story of my first (last and only) gymnastics recital, but suffice it to say that I was fat, couldn't do a cartwheel, and largely, I suspect, put on stage for comic relief. Fuckers.)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Off to see a doctor to talk about periods! I will update you all later!
Lovies, Sarah

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

That's great, Julia.

I wish I could see one of my little kid violin recitals. I mean, I'm pretty sure that I couldn't play the violin, so what was I doing?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

nobody could play violin very well when that little. though i learned by ear so all the teachers would get mad at me for looking around when i was playing instead of looking at the music. (i did sometimes actually play violin in orchestra practices rather than idly exploring my anatomy instead.)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I think that a girl's first period is a cause to be celebrated, and I personally am all for doing whatever can be done to decrease the shame and secrecy and assumption of dirty smelliness that surrounds menstuation.

But a card from your church? Maybe it's because of the history of women's treatment at the hands of Christian churches and my personal bias against religion, but that just doesn't feel like a period-positive celebration to me. It feels more like a, "Time to marry a church elder and start making babies like God intended you to do!" thing.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I did the same thing (re: sheet music). In fact, I did the same thing through high school (or rather I would read the music at retarded speed and then mostly memorize it).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

This cracked me up:

http://nealpollack.com/archives/2006/03/#a000394

At that moment, I realized that my son was teaching himself to masturbate before he learned how to crap in the john. Well, I thought, we all have our priorities.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

haha. and in the comments, the bit about the kid grabbing the dog's penis....

nice web design on that site.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

heh.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I commented! My father always said, "Don't _____ in public; it's not socially acceptable." For all of his dire shortcomings in the fathering realm, that one was a pretty good suggestion. It taught me that people would be weirded out if I started grabbing my crotch in public, but that what I was doing wasn't bad - just against the current values of "society," which I was free to question on a logical, intellectual level.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

When I was around 14 my dad went into a Christian bookstore and asked the clerk for a book called "God Invented Sex." The book was out of print. I was left to fend for myself. THANK YOU JESUS.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

God only invented a very specific kind of sex. The kind of sex that happens while whirling and revelling around a false idol in the shape of a golden calf -- God did not invent that.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

God is so damn boring.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think my SDA side of the family is at all against (married) sex for pleasure/bonding/etc. No one ever said anything at all about masturbation.

My dad did repeat what Paul said about sex, that being that if the best is to vanquish such desires and serve the Lord, but if you MUST, then get married so you have someone to fuck and then you have that out of the way and you can serve the Lord.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Whoah. Kenan is basically already on the same page as my mom was, ie 'OMG sex is totally fun and you can do anything you like AS LONG AS YOU'RE MARRIED and if you don't wait until then you'll be like a bruised flower and you wouldn't want to NOT be the innocent your future husband expects, now would you? I mean, if he found out that you already knew about lots of sexual stuff it would just be EMBARRASSING."

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

The sadder but wiser girl for me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine at school told me about how one of the nuns at her Catholic school compared a girl's virginity to a neck tie that you present as a gift to your husband on your wedding night. You wouldn't want to let someone else wear that neck tie and get it all dirty and soiled, would you? Then you are presenting your husband a dirty tie! So it's best to hang on to that tie and not let anybody wear it until after you've already married him.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I flinch, I shy
when the lass with the delicate air goes by
I smile, I grin
when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
I hope, and I pray
for a Hester to win just one more "A"
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I always thought of virginity of more of a noose.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

But is the husband allowed to wear other ties before then?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno. It was an all-girls Catholic school so that didn't come up, apparantly.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

That really isn't fair because I haaaate wearing ties. That doesn't mean I'm gay, does it?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

You could consider a cravat.
http://www.vintageshirt.co.uk/images/CR120.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

What if you wash the tie first?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hel-LO "renewed virginity". http://www.worthwait.org/teens/vir.asp?topic=other

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, Japanese people are ridiculous but awesome.

Jordan, I listened to the song and liked it.

Not being religious while your family remains so is definitely an occasionally uncomfortable experience, especially when the other children grow up to believe. However, I don't think there is anything I could do that would make my parents not talk to me. They would probably talk to me more, but with infinite disappointment in their voices.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hel-LO "renewed virginity".

Don't all the kids know that you're still a virgin if you only do it in the butt?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Dave, I knew I could count on you to download music.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, well, I aim to please. I liked the dancey elements in it, like it occasionally sounded like it was going to go full-on into techno mode.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Wah. No couch till tomorrow morning. The delivery guy got killed in a traffic accident and since I got scheduled to work on my MF day off, I have to wait till tomorrow.

http://static.flickr.com/44/129665474_f5d578b03d.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

The delivery guy got killed in a traffic accident

How dreadfully inconvenient!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh. Sucks.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's so sad!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, you get up, look at your schedule, see you gotta deliver some couches, and WHAM! S.U.V. to the head, game over.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I hope not to die in a traffic accident. That seems like it would suck a whole lot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I know!

I think the couch is undamaged....

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Holy fucking shit! That is ridiculous.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just fucking with y'all. No one died.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Well, now I'm disappointed because it's not a very good story now.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Evil!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.aol.com/electrogod/666trio.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Today is My Day of Being Jerked Around.

My TV:
- Part is unorderable. But Samsung tells the repair place to keep trying anyway rather than replace. Even though the part is unorderable.

- I was scheduled to work on my day off. I get the call just now that I am cut for this shift (normal thing).

- The couch driver got hung up at a sale and is running late.

- I have been jerking MYSELF around too!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eriu.com/journal/apr0900.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

(any excuse to post that picture)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, you bastard. :)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's bad if I can't find my W-2, right? Does anyone know how to get one fast, like a black market connection or something?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I only like hearing about the mundane details of life when the deaths of innocents are involved. If it's just going to be mundane details of life, death-free... GET ONE BLOG. :)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) I can't either -- and I don't honestly remember receiving it. Maybe it was e-mailed to me, though. But I took the day off work and don't have access to my work e-mail from home. Right now I just need to find out how to file an extension.

Btw: C4n4st4 show tonight w/Velvetron and Cameron McGill.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, get one extension.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

This has been my day so far:

Woke up a little late. Jumped in a cab because I was in a hurry. Got on the freeway. SAW A HUMAN LEG LYING BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. Got to work, had a lot of coffee.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think it might have been sent to my parents' house, although god knows I'm not organized enough to be able to find it if it is here.

xp: Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

(Everything's better with dismemberment.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Illinois Department of Taxation does not require you to file a request for additional time. Illinois grants an automatic extension until August 15, 2006 to file your 2005 tax return. However, Illinois does require that 90 percent of your tax liability be paid on or before April 17, 2006 to avoid penalties and interest.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Now if only I could file an online extension....

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

thank god because i just realized i never got a w2 for a job i worked for part of last year. gotta make some phone calls...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Now if only I could file an online extension....

go to the irs web site and get a form 4868. you can file on line if you have 2004 tax data available.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

You really saw an human leg???? An whole human leg?

I've never seen an dismembered part of a body.

Non-mundane detail of my everyday life: today I am shaving my cat with mixed results.

- she loves it. She sticks her ass in the air and howls when i get around her catgina.

-she hates it. When I stopped she turned around, scratched me, hissed and then bit me HARD.

-it's not working. You would not believe the volume of hair on 1 cat!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

That is exactly the problem, state of Illinois. How can I figure out what 90% of my tax liability is IF I DON'T HAVE A W-2 TO TELL ME HOW MUCH I MADE? I sure as shit ain't going to guess.

Looks like we're all exxxxtending ourselves this year. I filed that shit last week when I realized one of my temp agency W-2s was missing (probably lost it in the move) and it was going to take them at least a week to get me a new copy.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

What are you using to shave cat?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

what's funny is that IT WAS HIS OWN LEG.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

i used to shave my dog for the summer so he'd be a neater little terrier, and cooler, and shed a little bit less. never heard of it for a cat. i learned that those guards that guide the hair length are essential.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - my leg: Ha ha.

I'm using clippers. She LURVS the vibrations. She's now following me around and rubbing on me too much. Bleh.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am so incredibly irrevocably covered in cat hair.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

(FWIW, I don't think the Noise Board is very pro-Sylvester.)

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), April 16th, 2006 4:54 AM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

I'm CC'd/TO'd/BCC'd frequently on emails to him

OH NO A MYSTERY WHO AM I RLY?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

What? Jon, shut up.

Otto, I looked to see how to efile from the IRS website, but it just points outward to h&r block type companies' websites, where sometimes you even have to pay for it, and none of it is clear. I'm just gonna mail it, I think. Not too hard.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, that's so oblique, I don't know what you're talking about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't even check to see where the link took me, i was just happy in the knowledge i could do it. i'm mailing mine too i guess.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know who you are! xpost

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, Dave, mailing does seem easier ... guess I'm off to the library to pick up the form.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I filed, got my return money, and spent it all *two months ago*. April is too late to be doing this stuff.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, what the hell are you talking about? Also, I don't think I can come out tonight. :(((

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know who you are! xpost

Ahahahahahahahaha! Exactly.

Peace out for now. I need to eat before class and poor wittle me has missed the closing time of the dining hall. Boo hoo!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Let's try to keep this thread manageable while I'm gone. It's hard catching up.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shut up about your damn dining hall! BOO HOO!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

My lady story is one of breast amputation.

FYI.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

i finally got in touch with the person i needed to talk to and found out i can print a copy of my w2 from the internets. is there anything those internets can't do?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

For those of you who don't know and who might care, I found an accountant who is going to shave away 1/3 of my income because the restaurant's records leave room for questions as to how much I tip out other employees. Helllo, benefit of the doubt. I have finally gotten the courage to do some estimating and it looks like I'll owe around $2,000. Which so much better than the bill I was expecting.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

My lady story is one of annihilation.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i just printed out the w2. no wonder i never got it, the address listed was where i lived FOUR APARTMENTS AGO.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Both of our lady stories are interesting. Now if only one of our lady stories involved a human leg being ripped from its owner.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, if you don't mind, could you email me some info about this accountant of which you speak? Like name, address, price, etc?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Before I forget.

--------------CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS----------------------

I am going to be installing a window A/C unit and need a little help with this. It will not be terribly difficult and will only take a few minutes. Can YOU help me?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes Dan. I don't have it on me, but I will tomorrow after work.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

When does this A/C need to be installed?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, Wilderness/Lichens/Parts&Labor last night at the Bottle was a great time. Wilderness was even better than I imagined they would be, really a lot more bass heavy than I expected (though everything sounds bass-heavy when I listen to it on something other than my shitty headphones.) At times it was almost like some of the old stoner hardcore stuff I used to listen to back in the day. Parts & Labor were noise-tastic and made my ears hurt.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Before it gets hot. Next week or so.

BTW Dan-- this lady tax accountant works for H&R Block, not somewhere I'd usually go. The reason I'm going with her is that she does taxes for a couple folks at the restaurant so I know I can count her on for my own particular needs.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

OK, just curious. I'm sort of on the fence about sorting my mess out myself vs. seeking help with it. What I really need is advice on which way to proceed more than with the actual deductions and number-crunching.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't read through this thread but did anyone go to that party in bucktown saturday night?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

NPR music is boring. NPR talk has some problems but relative to everything else on the radio it's an ice cream sundae with cocaine frosting. I am glad there will be no more music. Now I wish they would program something interesting for my afternoon commute instead of "The World" which is pretty dry and unlistenable most of the time.

Dave: For some reason, I never got into Mr. Bungle that much. I remember Disco Volante and California both being pretty awesome, but I never owned them. I like pretty much anything Patton does, though, so I'd probably like Mr. Bungle too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

That the majority of you guys seem dislike the music on NPR here blows my fucking mind. Guess it's a breath of "Fresh Air" (hahahaha sigh) to me after dealing with Minnesota* Public Radio's barrage of repetitive, obscure, and terrible classical music with only Morning Editon, ATC, Marketplace, and the weekly Prairie Home Companion to break the monotony. I'll take all night jazz over that any day. Especially the deep-voiced jazz dude on Sundays or whatever.

*Yes, we got MNPR instead of MIPR in the Yoop.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

DICK BUCKLEY ROOOLZ!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

man, no one kills a thread like ol' dick buckley.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

dick buckley drooolz.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Come on, the guy is classic. When he dies, the world's ammassed jazz knowledge will decrease by like a third.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i didn't mean that at all.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I love Dick Buckley and I've never even heard him.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I thought jazz was the thing I'd least like to hear on the radio and then Dan mentioned Prarie Home Companion, thereby complicating what I thought was once a very clear point in my life.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. What about when G.K. has traditional jazz bands on?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I just moved my old couch halfway down the stairs alone when my new (American) neighbor stopped me, saying he wanted it. So we lugged it back up. Then I went for a long walk to get groceries then carried my entire granny cart (with 2 things of cat litter, 2 gallons bleach and random groceries it weighed in at about 110 lb) upstairs. Am I your macho, or what?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Does GK really have jazz on his show? Really? That's just about as awful a thing as I can imagine.

Where's my couch?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he has some dixieland and trad-gospel on sometimes.

(btw, dixieland = corny old jazz I don't like, and traditional jazz = cool New Orleansy stuff I do like)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

My couch is on its way.

I made a cool scratching post out leather and cardboard from the old couch.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I wish you wouldn't shave your cat. If you didn't want to deal with cat hair, you shouldn't have taken her in off the street.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Groomers do it all the time. It's called a lion cut.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

My Lady Story Has a Beautiful Anus.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

And vets declaw cats all the time - that doesn't mean it isn't a shitty thing to do. Plus, you're not a groomer. Plus it's going to be in the 60s and rainy all week - chilly weather for a cat with no coat on.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, When I look into that one brown eye, it's like gazing into a deep, untouched lake. Sometimes, it's as if I'm gazing through a taut, puckered window into her very soul, placing myself in danger of being hypnotized by the swirls of her rectum. Her anus is like a vessel I can't seem to fill with enough love, no matter how hard I try.

Otto, I went to the party by myself. But I met some friends there and returned to Hyde Park with one, which was good considering I was go-one.

Nick, do you want burned Bungle (like that?)? 'Cause I can make that a peace offering when you guys play at HPK (holy shit, I just realized that stands for Hyde Park. How did I not know this before?). Also, I just realized that will be the weekend before my thesis is due, so I will party hard on Friday and hit the solitary space to revise some pomes on Saturday and Sunday.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure I think declawing is such a bad thing either. There is certainly some difference of opinion amongst vets.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

The vet I talked to about it said that the "behavioral problems" argument is purely a myth.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to argue with you about it, but if you make an apt. to get the cat declawed, I'm going to steal her out of your apartment and never talk to you again.

The fact that you would even CONSIDER declawing her when you can't even get it together enough to have her spayed is apalling.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

APALLING I say!

Sorry, that came out a little shrill, but you're dancing around a topic that I feel very strongly about, which is: if you can't handle fur and claws, DON'T GET A FUCKING CAT. Maming (or "grooming") your pets because you can't handle the responsibility is a shitty thing to do.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

But I actually am serious about taking the cat and never speaking to you again if you have her declawed.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

You are extremely shrill about this every time anyone mentions it, but you present no evidence that this is in fact maming.

Anyway the vet when I talked to a vet it was in NC about another cat.

It is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS if I do choose to declaw Brenda.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hell I might do it myself.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

In any case I have no plans for having her declawed. But I just might wake up one day and decide that TODAY'S THE DAY!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

(also, I have left messages with 3 clinics--Tree House, Paws and the Anti-Cruelty Society (3 messages)--and have am still waiting for someone to respond.)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I want to get one of my cats a lion cut (we just give him the punk rock cut with the scissors every few months 'cause he's too dumb to clean himself).

I don't know if I could get a cat declawed, but I'm glad mine came that way.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

When I was looking for a cat to adopt I would only consider declawed cats. But within a few days of visiting the Anti-Cruelty Society Brenda wandered into my life.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

I hate all NPR talking. Even the bits that are good (car talk) can make up for all the bad. I wish all NPR channels were music. Actually I don't care since I never listen to any of it.

Jesse, you're stupid.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

In cooler pet news, I saw a cute little hound dog outside of the post office today. He (hmm.. why he?... it, I guess) looked like a bit of a weiner dog too, 'cause his wittle wegs were short. It was hard to scratch/rub his ears like my dog likes so much because they were so floppy but hard at the bottom where they connected to its head.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I don't care what some vets may disagree one, I agree with what the Humane Society says:

http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/cat_care/declawing_cats_more_than_just_a_manicure/index.html

Suprising that a vet would advocate a procedure that would increase your bill.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

The couch arrived. But where will it live? I hate blocking off the windows like this but I see no other viable options. (The ugly coffee table will be gone soon, to be replaced by a nice low gold and glass model.)

http://static.flickr.com/50/130476523_3502314875.jpg

PS- Is anyone going to see C@n@sta tonight? Ever since John dedicated Slow Down to me I am a groupie.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

you present no evidence that this is in fact maming

You're right, I'm sorry. It seems really obvious to me and it always takes me by surprise when otherwise rational people would even consider the procedure. Maiming is in the eye of the cat owner - I think that removing the top section of bones in a cat's toes is maiming but maybe other people disagree. Here are some position statements of organizations that disfavor declawing. I tried to limit it to veterinary or well-known animal welfare organizations, but I threw Tree House in there because it's right around the corner.

http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/cat_care/declawing_cats_more_than_just_a_manicure/index.html">Humane Society's Position on Declawing
AVMA position statement on the declawing of domestic cats (The AVMA doesn't use the word "maim," but acknowledges that declawing is an unnecessary medical procedure, and recommends that cat owners seek out alternatives first.)
Similar statement from the American Association of Feline Practitioners.
The American Animal Hospital Association's position is that declawing should be a last resort procedure.
Cat Fancier's Association "disapproves" of declawing.
So does Treehouse Animal Shelter.

In addition, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand all have laws forbidding declawing cats or limiting the procedure to specific circumstances (that do not include human convenience). Cite.

Anecdotally, when we adopted Ed, we had to sign an agreement stating that we wouldn't have him declawed. Also, when asking a vet whether it's humane to declaw your cat, I think it's reasonable to consider that he or she stands to make a couple hundred dollars off you.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

That last bit xposted w/ Jeff while I was busy digging up websites to back of my opinion about declawing cats. If you google "declaw cat" you'll get a whole lot support for the position that declawing is maiming, but from less scientific or objective sources.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

John gets a call.

http://static.flickr.com/54/130487462_2f29d65a95.jpg

He's a little skeptical of wireless technology.

http://static.flickr.com/1/130487527_f928fd10c2.jpg

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a pustu, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

I agree that declawing is something that many or even most people do for convenience rather than anything even resembling necessity. I would not do it to my cat for a few reasons, mostly because I don't want to go spending money on surgery when there are alternatives and also because I would never hear the end of it.

The cat's safety being at stake is the best argument against clawing. If the cat gets out it's very vulnerable.

The second most convincing is the fact that the cat has to recover from a surgery (though laser surgery sounds like it cuts discomfort a lot).

The AAFP and AVMA pages both say that in studies declawed cats' behavior was not affected compared to a control group, and the Humane Society saying that that some studies indicate "few or only short-term adverse reactions to surgery and others finding medical complications and significant differences in behavior."

Again, it's not something I have at all seriously considered doing to my current cat, so I'm not sure why we're even arguing this point.

Though I was being inflamatory and I'd like to publicly apologize for egging you on earlier.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway.....

Even before all the fracas I had built this

http://static.flickr.com/46/130505613_b567112fe2.jpg

I made it out of her old "scrathing post" (which she completely ignored in favor of the couch) and also her de facto scratching post (the couch). I am hoping that she will recognize her old scent on the leather and continue using it, sparing my new more prized furniture. If she doesn't I'll just cut her whole body off.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Better picture.

I took the old carpet I had tacked to the wall and wrapped it around the cardboard from the bottom of the couch and covered that in leather.

http://static.flickr.com/56/130507853_ab0b064c8b.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

I've decided I'm going to make a mix entitled "Unlikely Makeout Mix." The idea will be to redefine the canon of makeout songs, so none of the obvious choices (although I'm not entirely sure what those are). Suggestions for songs you've either loved or would love to makeout to are totally welcome. I just realized that last sentence could sound creepy in a too-much-information sort of way, but basically... GIVE ME IDEAS. So far I have:

Songs: Ohia - Captain Badass/Farewell Transmission (maybe both?)
My Bloody Valentine - Blown a Wish
probably some Shudder to Think
maybe Daft Punk's Digital Love

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

btw, I am officially extended in the eyes of the gubment.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Continuing in the vein of "Dave needs suggestions," does anyone know of any places besides Starbucks that offer health insurance to part-time employees?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Caribou Coffee. Also I think Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. Though I wouldn't bet your diabetes on it.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, exactly. Props, Jesse, that is actually really funny to me.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dave: Sea and Cake, "Sporting Life"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dave: any afro-cuban folkloric music. Soul Jazz has some good comps.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

I went with Maddie to see the up and coming pop music group She Wants Revenge tonight. It was pretty alright. I was expecting a skinny dude with poofy goth hair to be singing, but the black dude with the leather jacket and awesome mustache was way cooler.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't they just Interpol redux?

Scratch "Sporting Life." I can't decide. I think The Fawn as a whole is a great makeout album, but I'm not sure which song is best.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they are pretty bad. Thanks for the recs, by the way. And keep 'em coming. I'm gonna download The Fawn right now. How was the show, man?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

Show was good! Really nice crowd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just made the most massive post ever (=1 hour of music) over at my little mp3 blog with/for Cincy friends, and I feel great!

Good to hear about the show. I am going to try to come next Monday (last one right?). It will depend on money and the thesis.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also I think Whole Foods

whole foods has a nasty habit of cutting hours for part time employees for two consecutive pay periods making them ineligible for benefits then jacking their hours back up. they totally wouldn't be able to do that if it was a union shop but their union busting activities would rather have them shutter their store than allow a union in.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, guys. Check this out. My new gyno is also my new regular doctor. So yesterday, right before my exam, she says I really need to get up to date on my tetanus shot and - hey! - we should go ahead and do some blood work too for our records! Well, I have a rather huge phobia of shots/needles, but I did it! I had my exam, a shot, and had blood taken. I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!!!

Jesse, I REALLY really hope Brenda came already spayed.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, Brenda is definitely definitely not spayed.....I learned that a couple months ago....

Anyway, as though they heard all the talk about my cat, the Anti-Cruelty Society JUST NOW called me to set up an appointment. Weird. May 31 at 8 AM is her time.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't they just Interpol redux?

Probably, but I've never heard Interpol.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think if I got my cat neutered again, he would stop peeing in my closet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

What are you going to chop off this time?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think the head would do it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Then he REALLY wouldn't be able to clean himself, though, and that would be extra gross.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, conquering yr fear of needles gives a good high! I know, because I've cowered in the corner of dr's offices, promising never to step on a rusty nail -- and then a few years ago took part in a medical study (for money) that needed, like, 15 blood samples in two months. And every time after the sampling, I kind of wanted to up the ante and try again, test myself. It's a little crazy. But congrats!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

He doesn't clean himself now, he just licks one spot over and over until he has a singular dreadlock.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

John OTM about "The Fawn." Love love love that record.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, poor kitty. Poor, crazy kitty.

I only want to recommend one song to the makeout mix, namely because I am not in favor of "the makeout mix" because the concept in its application has provided truly revolting results in my experience, in the distant past. That said, the first song I ever made out to was "Ceremony" (NO) and I think it suits most making-out purposes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure my favorite makeout music in college was Dead Can Dance.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Age of Consent" is better.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, Francie used to pee on any clothes that we left on the floor. Then we moved, and she just stopped. My theory is that although we cleaned the pee spots vigorously, there was still some undetectable to the human nose cat pee smell that Francie could recognize.

So, my advice is: move. Or, barring that, throw out everything in the closet that you can and clean the hell out of everything else and steam clean the floor and soak it in that no-cat-pee-smell spray and maybe that will help.

Jesse - did Brenda not like the carpet nailed to the wall? Usually, cats only like scratching posts if they are really stable and are long enough for them to stretch out on. You've seen Ed hoist the full weight of his bulk up on the carpet we nailed to the wall, haven't you? It's kind of astounding.

One more cat thing - did anybody ever see a show on Animal Planet about two Siamese cats who were real assholes so this cat behaviorist came in and remodeled a room in the humans' house to make it ALL ABOUT CATS. There were shelves and carpet all over the walls and ropes and all sorts of shit and these cats were hilarious in there. They would run up the wall to the top and jump onto a shelf and leap around. Pretty hilarious.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Maybe for you. But I like "Ceremony." This is why talking about makeout songs is pointless.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

How about Dead Souls? (Joy Division)

I never had any make-out music.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Brenda completely ignored the carpet on the wall. It was in between the kitchen and the living room with the high end at....hang on....waist height and the low end at calf height. (it was at the same level as the part of the couch she scratched.) I even took her too it and rubbed her paws on it in hopes that it would jump start her.

She chose to scratch the couch and the window screen in the kitchen which is out for replacement right now (with metal screen this time instead of nylon).

Last night she just started to scratch my weight bench before I threw a newspaper at her. I'm going to start spraying everything with citrus oil to ward her away.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're absolutely right, Jenny. I had this problem before with the closet and I threw away a bunch of clothes, cleaned everything, and it was cool for a couple months but now the pissing has begun anew.

We're moving this summer anyway, so, yeah. I can't wait to have a fresh place for the cats to destroy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could maybe cut her nails with a pair of cat clippers so she doesn't have to peel the old layers off by scratching? The clippers look like little scissors with a notch in 'em, do you have some already?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also, 1965 by the Afghan Whigs is totally hot to make out to.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe for you. But I like "Ceremony." This is why talking about makeout songs is pointless.

Yeah. Also pointless: arguing about two New Order songs that most people couldn't even tell apart.

xpost: Afghan Whigs are always hot. Yes ma'am.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I do clip her nails but she still is able to do damage. I'm thinking about some of these because they're CUTE!

http://www.petsmart.com/media/ps/images/products/detail/large/July05/lrg_53846_49209.jpg

[I just noticed my screen name is cut off. It's supposed to read "Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a pustulent, lesion-ravaged hole." but I think it's nice the way it turned out.]

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Mmmmmmmmmmmm. I like Black Love best.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

"hers is a brownstone at gmail..."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

for me, make out music begins and ends with wagner's ride of the valkyries.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think the first time you used it (maybe when you just typed it in) it worked, Jesse. That was a good article.

Tristeza - Spine and Sensory for making out.

I feel really sad for cats that can't go outside, even if it is in their own best interest to be kept inside.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

testing...

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a pustu, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Now it works again.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

And now it's not. Whatever.

That article is classic. I also like this one "Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?"

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go swimming. Who wants to go to the beach this summer? Where else can a lady go bathing in this shit hole town?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Tristeza - Spine and Sensory for making out.

Interesting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/custpics/3626bpx207.1084084372.jpg

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

People swim all the time at the beach near our apt. (Jarvis Beach) I don't know if it's part of the contaminated waters or not, but I see adults and children in there all the time on hot days.

I think YMCAs have free open swim on certain days and times, but I don't know when that is.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha most quzzical Lego bum ever. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to go to the beach this summer?

why wait 'til summer? i was at the beach on sunday. rough water was crashing up over the walls, it was pretty cool. then when we got home that night we saw that some dude had drowned in montrose harbor when he went into the water after his dog. that was sad but at least the dog made it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I want to wait until summer because the fun of the beach for me is going in the water. I hate just lying around like a barrier reef and soaking up the stupid sun and if it's windy there's all this sand blowing around. I mean, that isn't any way to spend a summer! I've got sand caked on my feet. I gave my ice cream to a shark, and now I have nothing to eat.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I love the beach in the winter; it's so cold and empty. The more people are on a beach, the less likely I am to want to hang out there. I also haven't donned a swimsuit in, I dunno, two years?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I donned mine last year, but I'm afraid it won't fit this year what with all the fattitude I'm packing.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still getting by with my favorite suit EVER, which I got from mybabyjo.com a few years ago. Highly recommend to anyone! And I will be beaching lots this summ and have been CRAVING it lately.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I used my beach bag for a weekend trip recently and the smell of sand and salty ocean water really dragged me back. GOD.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG I should not have come to class today. I am so bored. BORED.

BOOOOOOORRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEED

I want to go swimming. I have senioritis. I am not even a senior! I do not care about fiduciary duties and the prudence of diversifying trust assets. I DO NOT CAAAAAAAAAARRRREEEEEEEE.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh boy, I think I might get one of those suits. I like the polka dot one piece or the red two-piece. CUTE. I'm not sure if I have enough on top though. :(

JENNY I FEEL IT TOO. I turned in my exam yesterday and was like "yeah, whatever, here are my 'answers' but they are NOT CORRECT."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

MySpace bulletin from Thax:

good news for some of you! I'm taking a vacation from doing poems for awhile-tonight I saw my friends More Dogs at a gallery. Unfortunately I can't have every show I go to ruined my people taking flash photos with those digital cameras. They give me headache and nausea and at this point I spend every show cringing in fear that someone's gonna whip out one of these cameras.So tomorrow's Silver Jews show is going to be my last introduction for now. I know clubs have institued no camera rules in the past when photographers have gotten out of hand-maybe this will happen again.

Anyway, I am going to think about what I have accomplished-I've written about 1300 band poems and plan on putting all of them on my myspace page as blogs in prose form -I find they work as prose poems and you will only be missing the visual pleasure of seeing the poem as a field on the page.

I gave it my best shot. Thanks to eveyone, especially bands and clubs-especially Double Door-Metro, Schuba's, Hideout and Subterranean's-Beat Kitchen and mpshows for letting me into clubs and tolerating me.
naturally the cameras weren't the only reason-I've been hanging by a thread for awhile now-it's just the invasion of flash cameras(it started suddenly in mid-February and has been going strong since) snapped the thread.

Another reason is career/money issues. I've given Chicago an extra 5 years it did not deserve. I actually thought that a devotion to poetry and to the Chicago scene would merit some support at some point. But I realize now this is never going to happen. I actually stayed a couple years longer than I should have cause of this documentary that was being made about me-but why I bothered I don't know-I've seen the doc and it sucks. So I'm leaving aesthetic concerns and plan to A)get a job & save some money-B)get the fuck out of this shitropolis.

THANKS to all the folks asking to be my friend!!! It's nice to know someone cares.I'll probably post more whiny bulletins-it may seem lame but I believe in complaining about what really bothers you rather complaining about republicans, Jews, capitalism, Mexicans or homosexuals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Shitropolis.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

So long, Stink Town!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha!

So that's the guy that comes out and reads dumb poems before bands and people think it's great because he's quirky and a very special part of the Chicago music scene? I've seen him once or twice, I think. He sucks.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think he's alright, but no kudos for thinking you can make a living being a poet. That's crazy talk.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, i don't think you need to worry about the suit fitting...I am not especially generously sized in bust area and it fits just fine.

If this day doesn't get any more interesting I may join Jenny in the high-volume whine fest. I want to ride my biiiiike and eat food that someone else has made FOOOOR me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Come whine with me, come whine let's whine awayyyyyyyy....

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I kiiiiiiind of want to go to the beach. In theory. It's not that theoretically I want to go to the beach, it's just that I want to go to the beach in theory only. I want to have gone to the beach.

One window unit is installed today. You know it's springtime when you are installing an A/C unit and you notice the radiator hissing as you're doing it.

I still need help with the other one.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

god i have a thax story that NONE OF YOU WILL EVER HEAR!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thax Douglas, like Dick Buckley, is a Chicago institution.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I genuinely like some of his poems, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I like him alright -- I even went to a benefit for him once at the Hideout. I just don't like it when people say "You didn't support me, therefore you are shitheads."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really go to the beach. I did in Switzerland though, and that was great. Clean, clear water and topless Italian moms.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Yeah, I agree with that. I don't really know what he expects. He had another MySpace bulletin where he was incensed that he wasn't able to parlay his poetry into readings at local colleges that would pay him $$$.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I saw him a few times, and didn't really mind it. He was certainly better than whoever the cheeseball was that was the MC at Int0nation/Pfork/whatever last year. Still, I gotta question the logic of "I want to get famous, and have some support, but please NO PHOTOS!" Of course, it's probably deeper than that.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

He was certainly better than whoever the cheeseball was that was the MC at Int0nation/Pfork/whatever last year.

Tim Tuten, like Thax Douglas and Dick Buckley, is a Chicago institution.

Seriously, though, I love Tim. He's definitely a cheeseball but in an awesomely enthusiastic way. Maybe it didn't work at Pitchfork fest, but when he's in his element at the Hideout, it's hard not to grin. Also a huge supporter of the local scene.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

He sounds like an asshole.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately I can't have every show I go to ruined my people taking flash photos with those digital cameras. They give me headache and nausea and at this point I spend every show cringing in fear that someone's gonna whip out one of these cameras....Another reason is career/money issues. I've given Chicago an extra 5 years it did not deserve.

BOO. HOO. HOO.

See ya. Don't let the Double Door hit your ass on the way out.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dan -- the photo thing seems like a health concern more than anything else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh! I like a lot of those swimsuits! My favorite is the one piece in pink with cherries all over it.

I enjoy Thaxxy because he's so... Chicago. So many people know who he is! Can't he just appreciate his fame and not get all upset about the lack of fortune? Has he actually tried to sell a collection of poems? And how come he can't have a job and go to shows too?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

He had another MySpace bulletin where he was incensed that he wasn't able to parlay his poetry into readings at local colleges that would pay him $$$.

thax has been complaining about this for over 5 years (at least) now. dude has some serious issues.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Man, it was the whole "we're a Broken Social Scene" thing that did ol' Tim in for me that day. Last thing I needed to hear at that moment.

xpost: That's what I was guessing. Epilispy or something, who knows?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

best local institution/mc = rian murphy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Epilepsy, sheez.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Has he actually tried to sell a collection of poems?

Yes.

And how come he can't have a job and go to shows too?

He doesn't pay and doesn't drink. Clubs let him in for free.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

isn't epilispy when you have a seizure while trying to say "she sells seashells down by the sea shore"?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Clubs let him in for free.

except the bottle which is why you don't see him there unless the band lists him.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of local eccentrics, does anyone know about that artist dude in Minneapolis who's always hanging out? The guy who wears all-black suits every day between Labor Day and Memorial Day and all-white suits (and hair, maybe?!) the rest of the year?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Availability: Available from these sellers.
2 used & new available from $148.98

Haha.

Oops, I'm out to a meeting for a couple of hours, later.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

An artist or writer should know right off the bat that he will be received with apathy if they're lucky, but more likely hostility. In college arts courses the professors explicitly said as much. My drawing professor said something like "No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."

What kind of self-important artiste believes so fervently that he is going to be the One who sparks the audiences' interests that he gets that upset?

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I find Thax's incredulity annoying in a "small town character who thinks he's 50 feet tall" kind of way, but hardly offensive on a larger scale. He's not up there singing Creed songs.

I love Rian Murphy, even if he didn't give me that job at DC. He was nice, dammit. I saw him the other night.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

PS - We're not like chums or anything, he probably doesn't even remember me, but I always see him at shows.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Where did you see Rian?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Joos show. He was in the back by the merch table.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Two new and used available from $148.00...

"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift." ha ha!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Nick says you are all Dumbnuts. (I'm on the phone with him).

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I hate the people on the beach. The air smells like rotting fish and Solarcaine. I don't wanna be on the beach. No. I don't wanna be on the beach. No fun, no.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, well, Nick's nuts are dumb! HA!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think I misquoted my drawing professor. Or at least out of context. He meant that an artist will struggle for years and years to get the attention of even a small handful of people because the public is staunchly apathetic to art and the outlets for it are saturated.

Anyway my point is that it's natural to be bitter and whiney about not having conquered the world with your singular vision, but it's really bad form to tell your public that they sucked for being so small. Save that angst for when you're slapping your girlfriend after drinking till you black out. Duh.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Taurus April 20 - May 20

Financial hardship will soon be yours when a visiting Spaniard causes $600 worth of damage to your bar's mechanical bull.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why I oughtta! (to Dan)

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kidding! I'd rather have dumb nuts than numb nuts.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://chicago.craigslist.org/apa/152192049.html

Hmmmmm.....

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Someone (Kenan?) posted a map of Chicago's bike paths and lanes. Could that person kindly repost that info?

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Do a google search for "chicago bike map," and it's the first result.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.stdimension.org/GagTrek/wesley.jpg
"Do a google search for 'chicago bike map,' and it's the first result."

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jon's right. That surely was the most foolish thing I have said in a while.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the juxtaposition was fun.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh, what contrast!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

i can't keep up.

(a) Kenan's probably right: NPR does as much to alienate ppl with conservative tendencies as it does to reassure liberals that they're right.
(b) my parents are pretty cool
(c) don't declaw yr cat, jesse
(d) "Age of Consent" is a great song, but maybe not to make out to.
(e) Chicagoland Bike Federation: http://www.biketraffic.org/

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't much like making out to songs, to tell it true. It's usually distracting.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's more that songs often put me in mind of making out. So the reverse, basically.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer making out with songs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's more that songs often put me in mind of making out. So the reverse, basically.

That one. Starting to make out and then interrupting to put on music doesn't make sense to me.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. "Hold up a sec, baby... are you thinking what I'm thinking? ZEPPELIN!"

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hey lady--you got the love I need
Maybe more than enough.
Oh darling... walk a while with me
Ooh, you’ve got so much...

*air drums!*

Many times I loved!
Many times been bitten!
Many times I’ve gazed!
Along the open road!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think I may have interrupted a makeout session or two in the past for some air drumming.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, achilles last stand sounds about long enough and throbbing enough to be a pretty good make out song.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking it'd be hilarious if you stopped making out to put on some Zep, in a Fast Times at Ridgemont High kind of move.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's always bothered me that the guy gives the advice that you have to put on Led Zeppelin IV, and then they cut to the inside of the car, and he's playing "Kashmir," which is on Physical Graffiti. Idiot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

The scene from Freaks & Geeks where Nick is playing something like the Moody Blues when he brings Lindsey down to his basement and there are all those pillows on the couch and candles all around is great!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

And I think the director of that Thax documentary is a kid from my school. I've never seen the doc, but that dude is a pretentious fucker.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

was that the one where he says something like "this song sums up everything i want to say to you" and then starts reciting the lyrics to "lady" by styx?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200303/tng-119-the-benzite-mordock-an/320x240.jpg
"I don't much like making out to songs, to tell it true. It's usually distracting."

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Maddie and I are going to see Lt. Sulu speak about gay issues tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wheaton? WTF is this, Fark?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://wwwai.wu-wien.ac.at/~franz/Startrek/gifs/Personen/crusher-wesley.jpg

"Maddie and I are going to see Lt. Sulu speak about gay issues tonight!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Haha

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Just because somebody is a Chicago institution doesn't mean he or she doesn't suck. See: Redline Blind Panhandler, Old Navy Preacher, Richard Daley.

Jesse and I are awefully in sync today what with the beaching and the Dead Milkmen and our annoyance with the Whinging Poet. I think it's a sign from the Desert God of Abraham that we kiss and make up. I'll put on some Led Zeppelin.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hey renters, I have a question for you. My current lease is up at the end of May and I'm having a sort of ongoing discussion with my landlord about utilities. He keeps requesting that I not turn them off, that the new tenant will change them over to their name on June 1 when he moves in. The previous places I've lived I've always done pretty much the opposite. Seems like I'm opening myself up for liablity in case the new tenant "forgets" to transfer things to his/her name. Is this type of thing common?

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, a certain NewCity film critic just e-mailed me because he found an ILX thread (presumably while ego-surfing) where I said I'd met him at a party and thought he was a dick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

If anything, you should put the utilities back in the landlord's name. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Seems like I'm opening myself up for liablity in case the new tenant "forgets" to transfer things to his/her name. Is this type of thing common?

a couple days or a week before you move place a call/logon to the utilities in question and transfer them to your new place. if you're not paying at the new place cancel them. no way would i leave them open without having a document showing when they were xferd.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jon - fuck that noise. Put them in the landlord's name or turn them off, but definitely don't just let them continue in your name. Not even with something in writing from the landlord. The fact that he's trying so hard to get you to do something that is so sketchy is like prima facie proof that he's up to no good.

Yeah, I said prima facie.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, you guys have all pretty much backed up what I've thought all along - the persistence of this guy was starting to make me question myself. But yeah, not the first shady thing this guy has done so I'm not surprised.

In happier news, got all moved into the new place over the weekend and am loving the new 'hood.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

besides, the utilities usually won't actually disconnect for 90 days anyway. so even if you cancel there'll still be electricity and gas at the place.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just was near the beach! I rode my bike down the Lakeshore path to Diversey where I bought the Home Declawing Kit at Petsmart. You have to supply your own knife and anaestheitc.

It was rather a lovely day for a bike ride. But I rode the bus back because I was afraid I'd be late for work.

"Whinging Poet" ha ha. That's like Painter of Light.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

roffle @ winding up Jenny

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm APPALLED that you rode the bus back. I'M NEVER TALKING TO YOU AGAIN.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan either.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot how to put my bike on the bus and the driver got obviously impatient.

I'm mildly sick apparently. I gagged up great globules of gross green garbage on the trail.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

In NY, at least, they don't actually DISCONNECT the power/gas unless the landlord tells them to, I think. Otherwise they continue sevice but the bill reverts to the building owner. As in: I just called to close my elec account for my old place and they retroactively adjusted my bill and started a second bill that my landlord will assume when he calls in and formally opens a private account (as opposed to his "common spaces" account for the hallways & etc). Does that compute?

You can put BIKES on BUSES??? Whoah.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

You can put BIKES on BUSES??? Whoah.

there are bike racks on the front of all city buses. fits two bikes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

There are bike holders on the fronts of buses here too, but I've never used them.

The deli by my work has GOAT YOGURT now.

GOGURT.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I've only done it once, on the day when we founded that bike gang ... what was it called? I get nervous because it doesn't seem like the rack should be able to hold the bike without it falling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.packcoun.com.au/CovtAch/pics/Gogurt.jpg

I've been tempted, many times. But I always revert back to the real thing.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Bikes on CTA buses. With images.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I like Thax, and although he is whining, he's just saying what we're all thinking: Why can't I just do what I enjoy and not have to have a shitty job too? I'm not a huge poetry fan but he keeps things concise and uncliched.

I also like dude from Hideout, he was pretty vastly entertaining at the Devin Davis/Roommate show.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Why can't I just do what I enjoy and not have to have a shitty job too?" != YOU ALL SUCK BECAUSE YOU DON'T APPRECIATE ME ENOUGH. SO LONG, STINK TOWN.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

But, you know, whatever. Good speed, poetry dude.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't I just do what I enjoy and not have to have a shitty job too?

He is saying it as though it is something he is entitled to. He gave Chicago 5 years? FIVE WHOLE YEARS?? Give me a break. Give it a lifetime and then I'll hear your moaning with some sympathy, but still no surprise.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, you and I are clearly in tune today! Let us divert our passionate adversarial feelings into bitching about his whining.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

He's been reading poems in front of bands for nine years, actually. He's just saying he did it for five years longer than he should have. And he was doing slam poetry, hosting variety shows, etc., since the late 80s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

he's been here a lot longer than 5 years. i've been here 6 and he was already an institution by then. i saw him at shows before i moved here. he gave chicago 5 extra years. i can kind of relate to that, being pissed at giving time to something that ultimately was not worth it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't I just do what I enjoy and not have to have a shitty job too?

I have this argument with a friend of mine who thinks she should be able to do creative stuff all the time. I usually come off like Mr. Crusty Bluecollar, all "wouldn't it be nice if we ALL could just play the piano and draw all day!", but of course it would and I'm just bitter.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realize that poetry was considered at all lucrative. I mean, it's not, is it?

Take a cue from Borges: get a job at a library:

Although Borges was finally coming into his own as a writer, the thirties were not a kind decade; the world was in an economic crisis, and Borges’ ailing father was now completely dependent on his mother. It was clearly time for Borges to rely on a source of steady income, and in 1937 he landed a $70/month job as First Assistant in the Miguel Cané branch of the Municipal Library. His work involved classifying and cataloging the library’s holdings, and it was a disappointingly simple job in which he was actually advised by his colleagues to slow down so that they could spread the task out as long as they could. He remained in the library for nine years, nine years of “solid unhappiness” leading a “menial and dismal existence.” He worked among colleagues who were less concerned with literature than with horse racing and girl watching, and to add insult to injury, his superiors and colleagues didn’t realize that he was the same Jorge Luis Borges who wrote some of the very same stories which they were cataloging! Usually, Borges would finish his work in the first hour of his day and spend the rest of the time in the basement, reading the classics or translating modern fiction into Spanish. (Borges was the first to translate Woolf and Faulkner into Spanish.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."
"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."
"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."

It's catchy.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's shitty to get contemptuous toward a city that provided an audience.

If he can't have it his way then he'll just take his poetry and go home.

Persperiation and inspiration, Darwinism, etc....

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Take a cue from Borges: get a job at a library

HI DERE

http://kuci.org/~nraggett/nedwedding.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I expect residuals if you profit from that catchy chorus.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Haircuttin' lady invited me to her bf's show tonight (rusteeee p1pes) Should I go? It's late & at Martyrrr's.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

...& at Martyrrr's.

this is a clue.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

haha, that is my pal from high school's band.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, seriously, it's nearly impossible to make a living at poetry. Even talented, well known poets end up teaching at universities because selling thirty copies of your chapbook a year (which would put you on the poetry best seller list) does not pay the bills.

Mourning a society that doesn't allow artists to live off their craft does not bother me - I mourn it, too! What bothers me is the idea of being entitled to it.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Colin's jazz band (D0ppler Sh1ft) is playing on that same bill.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

ie - her bf.

i might go if i make it back to Chicago in time.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

BASH!
BLAMMO!

DOUCHE!

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."
"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."
"No one is going to give a FUCK about you or your special gift."

Yeah, I should really repeat this to myself once a day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

That was said in one of his many diatribes about how lucky art students are to have serious accomplished professional artists (such as himself) whose job it was to offer attention and feedback on the budding artist's work. He liked to point out that in the big bad real world you have to fight tooth and nail to get a minute of attention because the world doesn't care how wonderful you are.

Writing professors said much the same thing, but less harshly. I thought he was a great guy for not coddling us and I think this is really very good and helpful insight.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dan -- this is your friend, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's B-rad (he lurks and occasionally posts as brad k, or possibly brad k!). He and I did a radio show together in college for like two years, and drank a lot of beer and went to a lot of shows. He came and saw C@n@st@ when you played Detroit a few months ago, remember?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I do -- I was just trolling Last.fm to see all of the C@n@st@ fans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

He wuvs teh indie pop.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

...& at Martyrrr's.

this is a clue.
I've never been there (!).

I'm just wussy about going to shows on a school (whoops! I mean work) night.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's a big room, looks like a nice place to play. almost never anyone i would ever want to see there. last time i was there my last girlfriend was lending her viola talents to some utterly forgettable artiste.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

by big i don't mean metro big but bigger than cal's or hideout and maybe even beat kitchen? it's wide but not very deep. but still big. ish.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Reb1rth Brass Band for the very first time there, I like it.

I also drove down for some thrash metal show at Martyrs' during high school, only to be turned away at the door.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say it's sort of comparable to Fitzgerald's, only darker and without the tables/bar & grill atmosphere.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

and without the tables

whoa, when i was there it was FILLED with tables. which was good for me because the "performance" was so tedious the only way i could stand being there was to drink until i was no longer capable of standing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there are tables there. I've been there a grand total of two times -- once to play a show (we opened up for some jam band, wtf) and then a few days later to see the Ditty Bops. Otto's right that they don't usually book anyone that interesting, although Kings of Convenience and Sondre Lerche have both played there in the last couple of years. (So maybe they just have a monopoly on twee Norwegians.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Weird, I'm pretty sure that when I was there it was empty except for dancing kids.

They do seem to have a lot of jam bands.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hunt|ng Stor|es was booked there before things fell apart.

But, I guess you're right, we weren't really very interesting!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

yep, jam band was the opening act last time i was there too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

ACK ACK I hate my entire lower body. I just got three pairs of "sporty yet not reminiscent of basketball team warm-ups" pants/bottoms and NONE OF THEM FIT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Weird, I'm pretty sure that when I was there it was empty except for dancing kids.

it's probably like at the bottle, they take the tables out if they expect a crowd.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

NONE OF THEM FIT.
This describes much of my decaying summer wardrobe. I think it's time for some new clothes. I've had these for coming up on a decade. And some of them were way old when I bought them. My new uniform for summer: the tent dress.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

All my "summer clothes" are from Old Navy. I am going to be pretty miserable is I don't buy some light, comfy shirts for work, because I can't dress like a slob and I can't wear sweaters all the time. Dress shirts are my only hope. Do they still have that huge table of dress shirts at TJ Maxx?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think I'm with you, Amanda. May just switch to all trapeze dresses with spanky pants/bloomers underneath.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed they do! Also see: Marshall's. Dressing for work in the summer is difficult, but maybe worse for men because at least we can wear dresses.

OMG I want some spanky pants.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just wear t-shirts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

(But I would like some dressier shirts, actually.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Which, come to think of it, is pretty much what I wore to school until age 10 or so -- my mom went a little overboard in sewing up the "Little Orphan Annie" dress pattern + pinafore. Little did I know I'd be returning to form at nearly 30 years of age.... (XXP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Pinafores are so cute. I have that red and white checked square dance dress that would look mighty nice with a pinafore. We should start buying our clothes from those goth lolita sites. I used to have one bookmarked but now I can't find it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Shall we revisit the hilarity of Halloween 2005?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.moviepropking.com/WESO2.jpg
"All my "summer clothes" are from Old Navy. I am going to be pretty miserable is I don't buy some light, comfy shirts for work, because I can't dress like a slob and I can't wear sweaters all the time. Dress shirts are my only hope. Do they still have that huge table of dress shirts at TJ Maxx?"

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. I just don't photograph well at all ever.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

i have way too many ill fitting clothes, then end up wearing exactly the same stuff over and over because it's the only stuff that remotely fits, or that i like anymore.

i want summer skirts and little tank tops.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ magnum o'shea

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Hey Jenny, remember that TV show Magnum, P.I.?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.amberlane.ca/images/gallery12.jpg

PERFECT!!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Those look like the Vivian Girls.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, were you at that Halloween party??

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.obieg.pl/wyd2005/img/darger03.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I didn't really understand Dan's comment, either, since he wasn't at the party.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

No, but there's a pic of me and Amanda's hubby from Kelsey's going away party where I look like I'm inflated to about double the psi I should be. Blegh.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ew. Just putting fake blood on my face made me look extremely gross. I didn't mean to be that scary. I didn't mean to be scary at all. I didn't even dress up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I looked at the main page before the haloween page, I suppose it made no sense.

xpost: Cue Yawn Williams in 5, 4, 3...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ha very funny turd! (no pics of bloody wesley afaik!)

Laurel I have the Henry Darger book if you want to borrow it? (ref. Vivan Girls)

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

John and Jon: I don't even know what Vivan Girls is a reference to. Is this book something I shd borrow? Thanks!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=henry+darger&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, please stop using the same Gmail status message as my girlfriend, okthxbye.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well, yes. Those 1930s/40s children are exactly what my mother would have liked us to look like. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Woo hoo! Our servers crashed here about 2 hours ago, and now I'm going home!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm jealous. The only shit that's broken here is the software.

Oh well, I'm leaving in an hour no matter what for gay Star Trek dude followed by band practice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, my whole mouth is sore ... throat is sore, there's a little canker sore under my tongue, and then part of my upper gum is unusually sensitive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Not good shape for kissing, John! You better work on that.

Jenny, is that your real gmail addy? I just tried sending something. I need to be able to see what your status message is ALL THE TIME!

LAter dudes. (speaking of dude, I watched some of Big Lebowski again last night)

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

For Jesse: Xiu Xiu fans: Evaluate this (profoundly NWS) picture of Jamie Stewart.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, the house show/party with me and Casey D. is on for next Sunday eve.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, my housemate is an asshole and right now I want to choke the life out of his smirking face!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

John-- that pic of J.S. shows clearly that he is sucking that horse cock ironically. People are so dense.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did you guys notice there's another Dresden Dolls hating thread?

― Did you guys notice there's another Dresden Dolls hating thread? (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, I didn't notice there's another Dresdon Dolls hating thread. I drank way too much at band practice (and at Wings afterwards), but it was really good, and so was Gay Star Trek Dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

:) :) :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't quite made up for all the months of bitterness!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

KNOCK IT OFF

I met yr drummer tonight.

ps- KNOCK IT OFF.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

I got my first hatemail Tuesday (technically yesterday). It was for the White Stripes story (first embedded YouTube video on the site, so making history as well). Wanna hear it here it go:

subject line: fuck off

First of all that suit was filed like a year ago, and so hardly qualifies as “news”. Second you obviously don’t know shit about Jim Diamond. Why don’t you take your whiny little indie rock snide attitude and stick it up your ass?

K. Hewitt

I was pumped with adrenaline for about half an hour afterwards. Like I had just almost gotten in a fight. It was awesome.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

I am up at 6 am. Apparently part of my aging process involves developing the sleep habits of my 91 year old father.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I got sexually harrassed at work and it was pretty cool. The 20 year old Mexican dishwasher--like most other people in a restaurant--always says pretty explicit things to me every day. But yesterday he upped the ante by showing me his hard-on (through his pants).

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago, I'm sending you an email.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Aww Evan. I don't mind John's happy/smug code, but then I suppose I don't have to watch them simpering over each other in person. ;)

Jesse, did you stick a meat thermometer in it to see if it was done?

Dan, did I miss something w/r/t yr roommate? Is s/he still with us on this earth, or have you already hidden the remains?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

How much misery is one tetanus shot supposed to bring? The actual shot wasn't bad at all, but the aftermath... OH! THE AFTERMATH! It looks like there's a red baseball forcing its way out of my arm. Also, it's causing problems in my relationship, because Nick keeps trying to hug me/hold my arm/cuddle but then I pull back and shriek in pain and give him very very mean looks.

I think I went to sleep at 9pm last night. Crazy.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, guys. What's that site with hillarious summaries of current tv show episodes??

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

(And by that I meant to say hilarious)

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

www.televisionwithoutpity.com?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, thanks, Laurel.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night that contained (1) The Pogues (2) GBX (3) GBX's mom (4) my mom.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds...like the Pogues played a PTA meeting.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

were you the (milk)maid of honor at a massachusetts wedding between your mom and gbx's mom with rum, sodomy, and the lash being played at the reception? 'cause i've had that dream and it's a weird one.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, it was more like there was a Pogues show that we were all anticipating eagerly and we were all angling for seats, even though I knew secretly that I would be in the aisle dancing up a storm if the crowd would permit it. I wanted my mom and GBX's mom to sit together because I thought they would get along, but I couldn't find either of them. There was going to be a big party at Casa GBX after the show and I wanted the deets about that too. Then I woke up before the show started and I was really disappointed. So I listened to really loud Pogues on the train this morning to make up for it. (various selections from Rum..., If I Should Fall... and Red Roses for Me)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I took a nap.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

What I just learned about tetanus:
Occasionally an individual will have a localized reaction to a tetanus shot. Symptoms include warmth, swelling, and redness at the injection site. A fever of up to 100 °F(37.8 °C) may occur. Home treatment can help reduce the discomfort.
* Take a nonprescription medication for pain and fever...
* Apply an ice pack to the injection site for 20 minutes, 3 or 4 times a day for the first 24 to 48 hours. After 48 hours, heat may feel better.
Good to know. I've been taking advil, but I think I might try putting ice on my arm.

MANDA, did you see Top Model last night? No one got together to watch it, right?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I had to have a tetnus shot before I went back to school, and the doc told me to keep moving my arm around a lot so that the medicine would work its way through my body fast. I sat at work all that afternoon punching my arm up into the air and doing big arm circles like a complete asshole. But it worked.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh so the cat's an asshole. I made that cool scratching post out of the couch she scratched to shreds and I bought her a new scratching carpet that hangs from the doorknob. What does she do? Guess. She is sharpening her claws on the new awesome couch.

She's about to be sharpening her claws at the animal shelter.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah- Not that I know of...but I haven't heard from them in a while, so I wasn't sure what was going on. I'm not sorry to see Leslie go though, she was boring. Pretty, but she always looked so bored!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

top model was a rerun last night wasn't it? new one tonight?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Try clicker training! I've always wanted to try that with my cats, but I'm lazy.

I read somewhere that cats leave scent behind when they scratch so she's probably trying to make it hers all hers. Can you cover the parts of the couch that she scratches with something to protect it until you figure out a more permanent solution? Does spraying the couch with citrus oil keep her away?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

The whole couch is covered with plastic. I was using citrus solvent spray but I don't want to put that on the couch.

Oh!! I put caps on her nails!

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

xposts: Yeah, Julia. I missed it last week though, so I watched it last night. And I'll have to do the same thing this time because I have practice tonight.

I'm feeling inspired to own my height more thanks to Sara's awkwardness. I'm workin' it at my desk.

Jesse, I think there's some sort of go away, kitty spray you can buy. I obviously don't really know though because our couch looks like it was ripped apart by zombies.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

My roommate went to the pet store and asked for their most effective spray and it's not keeping her two cats from shredding my sofa. So I've been thinking my good winter coat cd use a new fur collar, that old rabbit one is SO threadbare... don't you agree?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

My mom has a very long scratch post that lies on the floor and her cat seems to stick to it. Don't know the brand but I've seen in the store.

I'm glad I don't have to deal with couch-shredding on top of massive shedding, cat litter, puking, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I looked at some of the sprays yesterday but decided to opt for a 2nd scratching toy first.

On the old couch I would spray her with water as soon as she showed the first signs of scratching but to no avail. It's like she was possessed. She would scratch while looking at me with terror in her eyes even as I soaked her with water. Eventually I threw things at her but with the same result.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

She would scratch while looking at me with terror in her eyes even as I soaked her with water.

HAHAHAHA, oh shit, that's funny. Cats are so weird. She might ease up a little when she's spayed, too. It takes some of the wild out of them.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

BLARG! I am going for me DEEEEEP CLEEEEEAAAAANING in 45 minutes. I'm nervous enough about going, but then I have to go to class and go to work and NOW a good friend of mine from Worker Justice, Inc. just asked me if I would come talk on a panel about labor organizing in Chicago tonight at NU because JO cancelled at the last minute and and and and the one thing the dentist said when I asked if I'd be able to go to work after the procedure was, "Sure! I mean, I wouldn't give any speeches or anything, but you can go to work."

WTF

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to go, because she's my pal and because I like doing stuff like being on panels plus it's for WORKER JUSTICE and plus I'm always asking people to help me out with shit like that at the last minute.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

But what if I can't talk and the right half of my face is all slack and I'm drooling everywhere? What kind of FACE OF WORKER JUSTICE would I be then?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

The zombie face! Zombies need justice too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

just preface your remarks with "i just took two quaaludes so if i look a little out of it..."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hard workin zombies need advocates too
They're hard workin people just like me and you
Only difference is that they have no brains
So they don't know any better and never complain

ZOMBIE JUSTICE IN '06!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Holy...Amanda, did you just make that up? I love you.

I AM SO INCREDIBLY BOOOOOOOOOOOORED. Sorry. Also, broke and hungry.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I put some ice in a baggie and stuck in down my shirt. It's a SUPERSIZED ziploc, so it's sticking out of my top. It looks AWESOME!

Amanda, did you write that?

Nick's nervous because I'm getting 4 drillings/fillings two days before one of our shows.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Also, broke and hungry.

same. i get paid friday and have enough money to go to the rat traps/busy signals/fatals show at sub t tomorrow but probably not enough to buy beer. looks like i'll have to bust out the half pint of beam and play that part of bathroom bartender for the first time in a long time.

goddamn irs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I just wrote that and then posted it. Am I a poetic genius? I hear there's a slot available in Chicago for a POETIC GENIUS?!?!?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://mkeadle.org/uploads/turtleface.png

I laid an egg for you!

I'm also broke and hungry. I think I'll eat an orange now.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, you should be fine after getting your fillings. It's usually only shitty for a few hours afterwards while your lip droops and your tongue feels like it's wrapped in a scarf.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I hear there's a slot available in Chicago for a POETIC GENIUS?!?!?!

i think you fail the beard density & personal hygiene portions of the application.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Rats. I am rather shower-averse, that doesn't count? I only wash my hair twice a week.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, that sucks. Hopefully the cleaning won't be as bad as all that.

Nick's nervous because I'm getting 4 drillings/fillings two days before one of our shows.

You'll just slur your words more, it'll be PUNK ROCK.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD, Amanda, YOU CAN MAKE SO MUCH MONEY AS A POET!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I've heard! DOLLA DOLLA BILLS.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking about changing the cartridge on my turntable last night as it's been on there for a while now but i wanted to find a replacement for the one i have on the shelf now before i made the change. i knew the cartridges were out of production but now the aftermarket cartridges are oop too. but luckily i found one on-line.

i hate being poor.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn that's expensive.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i'd buy a new turntable (or a few new ones) before paying that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, otto, your friend never emailed us back, so I guess she really didn't like me after all. Sucks.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, did I miss something w/r/t yr roommate? Is s/he still with us on this earth, or have you already hidden the remains?

Yeah, he's still alive. I suppose I kind of overreacted, but (without getting too much into it) I won't be doing him any favors for a long while.

The 6 bus took f o r e v e r today, and I didn't get to work until 10:30. The silver lining is I still beat my boss in.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, otto, your friend never emailed us back, so I guess she really didn't like me after all. Sucks.

did you e-mail lisa or the band? i didn't go to a certain keyboard player's birthday party this past weekend or else i'd ask her what's up. sorry it didn't work out.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I was emailing the band. It's ok. I just feel gutted is all. (ha ha, it's really ok)

We have a couple of bands lined up now for our release, but I'm leaving it to other people to figure out a date/venue.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ficciones Imitaciones: I have e-mailed you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago, I'm sending you an email.

Send it to my gmail addy or it will bounce.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, if anyone has a future need for an opening band from out of town that has no draw, the 0ptimistic is ready to roll.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

How far is Waukegan, IL away from Chicago?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Waukegan is closer to the Wisconsin border than it is to Chicago. Maybe an hour north of here?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I've heard! DOLLA DOLLA BILLS.

So you have been listening to Wu-Tang, eh?!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, looks much closer here.

(Maddie's looking at a job there)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed I have. I decided that Method Man is my favorite Wu-Tang warrior.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe not. I don't really know, but I know that I like his songs a lot.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow, for some reason, I am listening to Ministry, and my entire adolescence is flashing before my eyes. Those were good times. The times that involved Ministry, I mean.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, who am I trying to kid. My adolescence isn't over.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, it's probably not as far if you're right off the highway. It takes me about 45 minutes to get to my parents' houses in the suburbs, but easily half of that time is spent getting to Lake Shore Drive and then driving downtown before I even get on the Stevenson.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I have moved on to Nine Inch Nails. Why, you ask? Because I'm the one without a soul. I'm the one with this big fucking hole.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

GOD MONEY

God, these lyrics are terrible. I'd rather listen to Bono.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Put it away
Put it away
Put it away now

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Do a little dance and then you drink a little wah-tah.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Today's eavesdropping:
"Yeah, so you're not going to like me for this...I went home with that guy I made out with. Yeah, we're a customer of his."

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Help me add to this playlist:

Gnarls Barkley, "The Boogie Monster"
OutKast ft. Kelis, "Dracula's Wedding"
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, "Nightmare on My Street"
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Mind Playing Tricks on Me"?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe thet Geto Boys song where he kills the prostitute. Although that's... no, forget it. I think that might ruin the free and groovy mood.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

no playlist is complete without psychological problems by kajun ss.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not really interested in straight-up horrorcore -- all of the songs I mentioned are songs that kids could like. So: Halloweenish but situated within hip-hop/R&B rather than like "Monster Mash."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Serious answer: "It's Your Voodoo Workin'" by Charles Sheffield.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

neither hip-hop/r&b nor halloween are particular strong suits of mine. "the witch" by the sonics is mid 60s garage-y goodness though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Could add that Swollen Mambers' 'Deep End' I sent you a while ago - "Thoughts start creepin'/People are sleepin'/Pull words out of their dreams/It's the deep end".

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

"House of the Rising Sun?" Maybe too obvious.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe "Rapture" by Blondie? Not exactly hiphop/R&B but it does have kind of a creepy, fun vibe. And then there's the video...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Or Witchy Woman?

The Adams Family Hammer theme song?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

*they do what they wanna do, say what they wanna say
Live how they wanna live, play how they wanna play
Dance how they wanna dance, kick and the slap a friend
The addams family

Now I was cold coolin', you know (maxin' and relaxin')
Just kickin' it around the house (oaktown kicking' it)
When a knock, a knock, a knock and a voice yo!
Can hammer come out? (what's up?)
Now I don't mind (mind) being a friend
And showin' a little bit of flava (flava)
But wednesday, pugsley, gomez, fester (oh man)
Man, them some strange neighbours

I remember the day I needed to borrow
A little of pepper (for my chicken)
The next thing you know, comin' at me
Was a hand with the fingers high steppin' (I'm witcha)
Now I tried to play it along (you know)
And act like I was havin' a ball (ha ha)
But what do I see (yo) a perm with feet (cousin it)
Standin' about three feet tall (I'm outta here)

Speakin' and thinkin' about the addams
You know the hammer is with it (I'm with it)
Act a fool, no bones, swooop, goofy and randy
You know we kick it (the posse)
Now is the time to get in your mind
It's ok to be yourself (be yourself)
Take foolish pride and put it aside
Like the addams, yo! they def (that's a family!)

(addams) too legit
(addams) too legit
(addams) too legit (who's too legit?)
(the addams family)
(you know what I'm saying, the addams)
(addams) too legit (oh yeah)
(addams) too legit (talkin' 'bout the addams now)
(addams) too legit (I'm saying it's the addams now)
(the addams family)
(yo! take to the bridge)
(thank you fester)

Oh yeah, yeah
Oh, this is the addams groove right here, ha ha

(addams) yeah yeah
(addams) just like that
(addams) oh yeah
(the addams family) you know you gotta fully understand

They dok what they wanna do, say what they wanna say
Live how they wanna live, play how they wanna play
Dance how they wanna dance, kick and they slap a friend
(the addams family)

(addams) too legit
(addams) too legit
(addams) too legit
I'm tellin' you I saw the hand
(the addams family) thing, man, I saw

They do what they wanna do, say what they wanna say
Live how they wanna live, play how they wanna play
Dance how they wanna dance, kick and they slap a friend
(the addams family) it's the addams

Yeah, thank you fester, I needed to go back to the bridge again
Thank you, thank you, now check this out

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

All he wanted was a little pepper for his chicken all along!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, "Addams Family Groove." Awesome.

I'm not sure what this is for, incidentally. I was listening to the Gnarls Barkley song and got to thinkin'.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I went to the bookstore over lunch and they didn't have anything I was looking for, so I just read music mags for free. Fuck a B&N.

I caught that review of C0ugar in the Wire, and it's actually dead-on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

"kick and they slap a friend"

WTF

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well. Wellwelllwelwlelwelwlelellll

A "deep cleaning" is what my dentist calls a good old fashioned procedure known as a "scaling," terminology she probably stopped using because it sounds much more unpleasant, WHICH IT TOTALLY FUCKING IS. It didn't hurt, but like most dental work that involves needles and blood, it was not something I would do for fun.

My whole entire upper lip is numb. I feel like an asshole.

Also, she said that she finds that she has to perform a "deep cleaning" on her patients that don't floss at least once a year. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME TWICE, LADY.

The worst part is that I have to go back for the bottom half next Wednesday, but at least that day I can just go right home afterwards.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

You gotta floss, hoss.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

At least it didn't hurt. Maybe you should try it without anaesthetic next week.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nick has always questioned those lyrics, Dan. That's the way I sing them, but he says, "That can't be the right words. It doesn't make any sense!" SO THERE, MON PETIT AMI!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, how come when the EB finally offers us another show, it's directly in the middle of the two shows we already have lined up in May, which are already only a little more than a week apart?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I thought for a second that my company had invited you to play a show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Those are totally the Hammer lyrics! They surprised me as a kid, too.

Kenan, is there an html tag to change font size besides the basic {font size=1} way? I'm helping out with a table that has multiple columns and changing the font for everything is apparently a bitch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

How about creating a CSS class with the font size you want and then classing the table with it?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's pretty awesome that I get to work for two separate journals, because each managing editor has a different style. For my main work, I have to be nice and accommodating when dealing with crazy author questions. The editor's mantra is "a kinder, gentler journal."

With the other, they're all physicists and don't care as much. So I can (kind of) take out my frustrations with stupid questions by answering them in a very dry, mechanical way... sometimes bordering on dickishness... and it's okay! It's actually kind of encouraged! Sometimes I really like this job.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny is OThtmlM. In the header:

< style type="text/css" >
.tablefont { font:normal 11px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; }
< /style >

and then in the body:

< table class="tablefont" >

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if this table builder supports CSS, but I will mention it to the dude doing the heavy lifting. Thanks!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

table builder?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's just an internal thing in our software, I don't think it gets too crazy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Software doesn't matter. Open the page in notepad, add those lines, save and close.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

What is this software? I want to know so I can make fun of it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Except the display is actually appearing in the software, it's not a web thing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

If it's not a web thing, then why the HTML? Are you building software? Are you building a literal, physical table? You don't need html for that. I recommend a saw and a belt sander.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Dude, this is the software they use when you go to the hospital. I'd like to talk more about how some of the displays are built & stuff, but I could get into serious trouble, so I'll stop.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

No really, I'm dying to know... What's he building in there???

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

What's he building in there?
What the hell is he building
In there?
He has subscriptions to those
Magazines... He never
Waves when he goes by
He's hiding something from
The rest of us... He's all
To himself... I think I know
Why... He took down the
Tire swing from the Peppertree
He has no children of his
Own you see... He has no dog
And he has no friends and
His lawn is dying... and
What about all those packages
He sends. What's he building in there?
With that hook light
On the stairs. What's he building
In there... I'll tell you one thing
He's not building a playhouse for
The children what's he building
In there?

Now what's that sound from under the door?
He's pounding nails into a
Hardwood floor... and I
Swear to god I heard someone
Moaning low... and I keep
Seeing the blue light of a
T.V. show...
He has a router
And a table saw... and you
Won't believe what Mr. Sticha saw
There's poison underneath the sink
Of course... But there's also
Enough formaldehyde to choke
A horse... What's he building
In there. What the hell is he
Building in there? I heard he
Has an ex-wife in some place
Called Mayors Income, Tennessee
And he used to have a
consulting business in Indonesia...
but what is he building in there?
What the hell is building in there?

He has no friends
But he gets a lot of mail
I'll bet he spent a little
Time in jail...
I heard he was up on the
Roof last night
Signaling with a flashlight
And what's that tune he's
Always whistling...
What's he building in there?
What's he building in there?

We have a right to know...

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, Mule.

Safety First - as a non-compliant string flosser, I feel for you. I had to have the deep cleaning last year, right side then left side 2 weeks later. Needles, hours of jaw-aching, lots of nitrous. I recommend this thing to all string floss haters. Powerful enough to put your eye out.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, Method Man is my second favorite after Ghostface. He's hilarious.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Btw Jenny, I didn't floss either. I'm trying to start now, so maybe we can be floss buddies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I keep floss in the car so I can remember to keep up the habit; I floss at stoplights. Probably not the safest idea in the world, but my dental hygiene is worth it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Floss nerd.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

(I keep drum sticks in the car, also an unsafe habit)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to add a smiley. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Is your steering wheel covered in dislodged food particles?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://home.columbus.rr.com/patents/patents/Drumstick-web.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, that would be ridiculous. I meant

http://www.meicheng.cn/eBusiness/product_images/s/en_s_2_37.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Aw man, ice cream is so good.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://store.drumbum.com/media/glo-drumsticks-glow-drumsti.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have never met anyone who thinks ice cream is good. This is quite a day.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200303/tng-206-wesley-crusher-back-on/240x320.jpg
"I have never met anyone who thinks ice cream is good. This is quite a day."

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

He was a handsome young man.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! He's back!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

John, I just heard another song that might fit on your proto-mix: "Gangsters" by the Specials.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand why the songs have to be suitable for children. Do you even know any children? Fuck everything, put some Vanity 6 on there.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand why the songs have to be suitable for children. Do you even know any children? Fuck everything, put some Vanity 6 on there.

It's called a theme.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know why I went to the trouble of quoting a post that was directly above mine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

context, dude

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Songs that children can make out ot."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

to.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, it's not that they HAVE to be suitable for children -- that's just the general feel I was getting from the four songs I started out with, since they featured cartoonish figures of fright (boogie monster, Dracula) rather than real-life horror stories. So sure, maybe it would be better to expand the range...

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

"The Baby-Raping Anthems of 2004."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like there must be something by Kool Keith that fits.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I keep thinking of that Mr. Show sketch with the serious investigation of events depicted in so-called novelty Halloween songs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe "children" is a red herring, and maybe what I'm really after is just the fantastical.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

haha "Probings."

"Dracula...The Wolfman...The Mummy...Would these monsters ever assemble as a group in a party setting, to dance or eat and drink together? While skeptics declare it impossible, novelty songs seem to suggest quite the opposite."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like there must be something by Kool Keith that fits.

Christ, seems to me you could put at least half of Dr. Octagonycologist on there if that's the case.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nah. "Sex Style" 4ever.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I started a new thread all by m'self!
Chicago: Sex over the Phone

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

"The Neverending Story" by Limahl is very fantastical and clearly just what you're looking for.

FALCOR, YOU'RE EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN I THOUGHT!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

AND.. it just so happens Nick has that special single of the Neverending Story, complete with a dancey remix remix.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm a little disapointed my "say chicago" thread was not among the revived chosen ones!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

What's stopping you?

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Lazyness.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

how on earth did Teeny manage to delete all those posts so quickly? i'm impressed/bewildered.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/140120292_7a5a309d0c.jpg?v=0

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

phear my ninja mod skillz, and my kid's napping prowess.

also that open in new tabs business is handy in firefox.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha! I think that dude lives near me! (well for the next week at least)

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

yesyesyesyes!

Stop.

Push up time:
http://static.flickr.com/40/98544360_e5eb716ab5.jpg?v=0

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like he's kinda chilly without a shirt on!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Zanta just got removed from the court yard beneath me by security guards. First time I've seen him since last fall.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

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