Chicago HOTs: Pancakes, The Pink Line, and a Cat-friendly Bird

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― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Let's say I wanted to assemble a mix, then turn it into a .zip file so I could link to it on the ChiBlog...how would I go about doing this?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

In iTunes, give the mix an Album Title and then tag each song as Part of a Compilation. Then go into the Finder (you're on a Mac, right?) and locate the directory where your mp3s are stored. There should be a folder for Compilations, and the Album Title of your mix should be in there. Select the folder, and then go to the File menu, where one of the options is "Create an archive of [AlbumTitle]." Select that, and it will turn it into a .zip file for you. Voila.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think the OS I'm running has the archive option, but I'll give it a shot.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah hows the pink line, dudes?

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen it yet.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

What OS are you running?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

What's an HOT?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's as opposed to NOTs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

1st DJ night of summerdance is tonight. DJ Pierre @ 50 W. Washington (Daley Plaza)

Besides being a crucial DJ and the production wizard partly responsible for the development of Chicago acid-house, DJ Pierre later influenced the sound of New York's more disco-fied house with his tenure as an in-house producer for Strictly Rhythm Records. Born in the Chicago suburbs, Nathaniel Pierre Jones was influenced by the Hot Mix Five, the pioneering DJ team which lit up Chicago's radio airwaves during the early '80s with dance megamixes. Jones later began DJing himself, though he preferred the sound of Italian disco to the blend of soul and American disco which Chicago DJs like Ron Hardy were playing out. When his friend Spanky brought him to the Music Box to hear Ron Hardy in person though, Pierre was convinced — he began spinning records more akin to the burgeoning house sound as well. DJ Pierre began recording on the side with Spanky and another friend named Herb J, working on tracks with an old drum machine and synthesizers.
One of the synthesizers in their studio was the Roland TB-303, a bass-line generator introduced only in the past few years but already a relic littering junk stores at inexpensive prices. After a period of experimentation, the three hit upon an intriguing sound made when the box was pitched much higher than its normal operating frequencies; the squelchy psychedelic sounds enlivened their recordings and more than convinced Ron Hardy to begin playing one track on his reel-to-reel setup at the Music Box. Known at the club as "Ron Hardy's Acid Tracks" and quickly re-recorded for a 1986 release by the three billed as Phuture, "Acid Trax" became one of the biggest house records of the time, the starting point for a whole new style later termed acid house as a tribute. Reportedly, thousands of soundalike records flooded the local market in the next few years, and the originators quickly became forgotten amidst the wash of imitators. DJ Pierre kept busy, working on the act Pierre's Phantasy Club with Felix Da Housecat and producing another genuine house classic with "String Free" by Phortune, but then left Phuture in 1990 with a relocation to New York.

His first single once in Gotham was Photon Inc.'s "Generate Power," a dancefloor barnstormer released on the relatively mainstream dance label Strictly Rhythm. "Generate Power" was the formal debut for Pierre's new production method the Wild Pitch, created with a quickly backspun sample which generated a crispy lightning-strike of sound similar to the acid squelch. Besides featuring on a host of DJ Pierre remixes and productions, it became standard fare for scores of producers during the next few years, just as the sound of the TB-303 had earlier. Pierre continued to remix and produce for Strictly Rhythm and Twisted/MCA, finding additional club hits with "Live & Die" by Audio Clash, another Photon Inc.. track named "Love," "Follow Me" by Aly-Us and "Sound Blaster" by Joint Venture. He also hosted a slew of mix compilations throughout the 1990s.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

6-9 PM

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

don't know about the pink line but trains leaving forest park every 4 minutes during the afternoon rush certainly counts as a "hot".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, it's 10.2.8. We don't have an archive option, so I guess I'd have to use StuffIt or something. Oh well, it's not that great a mix.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I just poked around, and it looks like zip archiving is only available on Panther (10.3).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Use your imagination.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I like bands influenced by the Replacements more than I like the Replacements?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

No, let's not talk about that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago NOTs: Short Shorts with High Wedge sandals, Beer Guts, Sewage/Trash Smells in the Summer

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Me and a baby:

http://images1.snapfish.com/347459248%7Ffp33%3A%3Enu%3D3246%3E57%3A%3E63%3A%3EWSNRCG%3D323386%3A9%3C%3A9%3B%3Cnu0mrj

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

More NOTs: NU students on the redline blathering, long waits for trains to show up, ATM fees, dudes with sandals in general.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, you clean up real nice.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

No offense, male chicago thread sandal-wearers.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. I was going to say that, Kenan.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago NOTs: Short Shorts with High Wedge sandals, Beer Guts, Sewage/Trash Smells in the Summer

i encountered all of that on division street saturday. and wtf with the short shorts? i saw 3 pair on saturday/sunday. that's 3 more than i've seen in the past 15 years i think. not that i don't appreciate and impossibly long legged woman in short shorts but my gut reaction is to laugh. rediculous. but welcome. it's quite a conundrum.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Me and a baby

For the record, I'm talking about the one with the pacifier in her mouth, not Renee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Renee does have a baby face though, in a good way.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I need to expound on the NU students thing. Every time I've been on the red line lately i've listened to a group of northwestern students talking about utter bullshit. Pretentious loud-talk that sounds appropriate when yr underground but once we get to fullerton they maintain the same volume and its absolutely obnoxious.
Subject matter:

1) "It just comes right out of my dad's corporate account."
2) "We should totally have smirnoff ice power hour for the pledges next year."
3) "There's the summer house which is right on the beach, but its a little bit smaller..."
4) "Blah blah blah" (spoken in a loud voice as if they're performing for the entire car, sounding very aware that everyone can hear them.)

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to drag everyone down in bitterness. : ) it is a beautiful day.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on the red line for 100 minutes a day -- I feel your ire. I don't think the NU students have a thing on the Cubs fans though. Last week I saw a shirtless drunk guy harrass/joke with two young boys (aged 4 and 6) as their mother sat by and got more and more angry until she just gave the guy serious ojo and he put his shirt back on and shut the fuck up. That sort of behavior would not be acceptable from a homeless dude, so why does this guy think he can do it? Shirtless drunk guys can eat shit.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

...on the train, I mean. I don't care how shirtless drunk dudes are when they are not on public transportation or within sniffing range.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god yeah cubs fans are the worst definitely. My friend used to live by the music box and every time i went to his place i had to swim through a sea of dudebros yelling shit like "YEAH THE CUBS ARE DOING PRETTY WELL THESE DAYS" right before being blown out by some 3rd rate team.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Dear 'manda,

http://www.meredy.com/pn.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

But he's not drunk and on the train and harrassing children! Also, he's smokin' hot.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

He's so wasted.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

I hope he doesn't sit near me, then.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

2) "We should totally have smirnoff ice power hour for the pledges next year."

this sounds like fun though.

btw, i can get an extra free ticket to The Ark at schubas tonite if anyone really wants to go. i dont know much about them except they are swedish glam rock or something, and supposed to be fun.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Who here has seen the Vice Guide to Chicago?

Sample entry:

Bongo Room b (470 N Milwaukee Ave, 773-489-0690) Only about four people have ever eaten here, but thousands have waited in line. No idea what goes on inside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty funny if you can ignore the fact that roughly 80% of the entries are about stuff to do in or near Wicker Park.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, also if you can ignore that the people who wrote it have obviously lived in Chicago for about six weeks.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I just got back from the U.P. and the differences between there and Chicago have never been more evident to me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

For reasons that it is probably unwise to go into on a public message board, I hate frat boy shirtless drunk Cubs fan-types far more now than I ever have in the past.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, welcome back from the UP. Can you tell us about some of the differences?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Jenny, I know of whom you speak.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

When I rode the Red Line north the last time (karaoke night) I couldn't believe how badly it reeked of cheap beer, like a frat basement. Good thing the Tigers swept the Cubs that weekend.

Oh, the differences are things that should be obvious by now - guess I just notice it more. There's a lot of sprawl-y construction that has happened since I left that surprises me. People seem a lot more conservative there than before. No-one knows how to drive anywhere, blah blah blah.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I bought firecrackers in Wisconsin.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

I actually got a sale circular for a fireworks retailer in the mail a couple weeks ago. Coming from a place where there are no fireworks in the quad-state area, that was pretty crazy.

Amanda, I knew you would! It's gotten worse, on both counts, if you can believe it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey you wanna have lunch Wed.? To celebrate my quitteration?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! Probably. I don't see why not, but I will confirm for realz tomorrow.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

from the Vice Guide:
H3jfina: Chicago as b-list New York.
totally OTM

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling overwhelmed. A little in over my head. Like a levee of worksponsbility broke and I'm the Lower 9th Ward.

The interns have electricity fina-fucking-lly. Entergy, the local power co., turned it on today, but lo, it was not working because the electrician got the breaker boxes mixed up.

Before we discovered that though, I had to FIND the breaker box, which brought me to breaking into the flooded and very moldy downstairs apartment in search of the box.

Turns out it is on the outside of the house, which is weird because any schmo could come and fuck with your breakers, but the neighbors said that is normal, so whatever.

Anyway, they're all moved in, but a couple of hours ago I found out that they don't have hot water, and probably won't during their entire stay there. See, the water heater is gas and the gas lines are still full of water.

I told them that the water in NO is tepid anyway and that anytime I've ever been in the city I always took cold showers.

I think what my boss will say though is that she is totally not paying rent for that place.

I have oth

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

er problems too, including the fact that I'm waiting for UPS to get a move on in delivering our computers, and other things that I don't even feel like getting into.

Current Mood :|

This is Thom York ;|

Nice thread, BTW.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

from the Vice Guide:
H3jfina: Chicago as b-list New York.
totally OTM

im not sure what this means, but i really like that store. nice stuff.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Dang, Amanda, I can't on Wednesday. How about Thursday?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Jessebean, that sounds dreadful. And irritating. And just the kind of logistical BS that sucks one's soul right from one's body. BUT it's for a limited time only, and once you get the over this first hump it will be a lot easier and you can go back to soothing non-profit egos and frightened country-mouse religion-warped interns. Also - you're doing this for a very good purpose and God will reward you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Gooooooooooood mornin'. Lemme think...Thursday...should be ok, I think. I have to drive my final project over to school but I don't reckon that would require me to leave early, hence, a normal lunch would be entirely possible.

This morning I took a stupid picture of myself in my kitchen because it's my last day of school. On my first day of school my mom used to take a photo of me in the kitchen with my lunch and my backpack. Today's picture finds me substantially more tired and haggy-looking, but I'm still smiling.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Last! Day! of! School! YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

yesterday's "improved service to the west side" actually left me with a 13 minute wait for a train on my return trip home instead of the 4 minute wait as promised. which wouldn't be bad if it weren't for the fact that it was an 11 minute wait before the "service improvement". on the other hand at least i wasnt on my way TO forest park, there were 3 trains stopped on the tracks between harlem and forest park. way to go cta.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, Jenny? Thursday's not gonna work -- I have to drop off some paperwork at IIT. I guess maybe we wait til next week, but I only have a few days left up in this bitch.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I've been lurking but bizzy. Amanda, go on and QUIT YEAH THAT'S THE WAY, GIRL, I KNOW YOU'RE TELLIN THEM WHAT UP.

Last day in the office for a week (almost typed "orifice", might need more coffee). Dress for sister's wedd not done yet, not packed, etc etc *PANIC* but v happy these days regardless.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's cool, Amander. We'll work something out. Shit, I'll take the Green line down to IIT and meet your ass if that's what it comes to.

Hello Amanda's ass! Nice to meet you!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

i woke up early this morning, had time to make a proper breakfast (eggs, sausage, toast, oj, yogurt, and a big-assed pot of coffee) and still made it to work a half hour early. i feel like a million bucks. i want to build something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's great, Amanda!
That's great, Otto. I'm jealous.

Laurel, Have fun on your week off.

I have a crazy CRAZY ... FRACKIN Crazy week at work because we're preparing for an office move (and I'm lowest on the food chain, ok- second to lowest since we have a summer worker). Anyway, Thursday night us FF play a show. Friday I still have work, but my sister Hev & her bf will be here Thursday through the weekend. Then after they leave Sunday night, I'll still have Monday AND Tuesday off to celebrate my country's independence.

Has anyone met my sister? I can't remember.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have never met your sister. Let's all go out and get FUCKING WASTED!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

i can go out but since it's a turdsday i can't get wasted.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had Monday off, but I'm pretty happy with Tuesday. 4 day week as my last week? Not bad.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

ditto that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

confirm/deny: FFs got drunk w/Sharks and cops came????

how come no one tells me this shit?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like Nick finally got that wild party he was hankering for?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody got FUCKING WASTED!

I don't get Monday off, either. Although there will be approximately zero attorneys here. Eh, what can you do. That means I'll get paid to do crossword puzzles all day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

billable crosswords?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Confirmed.

Also, I played cornhole for the first time.
Also, I went on a hunt for alley kittens.
Also, there was karaoke, meaning Sharks' laptop and PA, but Brij had an unfair advantage because she knew the lyrics to every song. Nick did, however, sing Antony & the Johnsons. There was dancing. Towards the end of the party, all these kids showed up that looked like they were still in high school. One sang a Johnny Cash duet with Nick's sister.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, I didn't mean I was hoping to kill kittens, just stare at them lovingly.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Was there a program to strip out the vocals or did you just sing along? Because I suddenly have an idea...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone just sang over the vocals.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone just sang over the vocals. They were setting up a second laptop for people to search for lyrics online, but no one really used it.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

When was this? Where was I? What about the cops (you left that part out)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I played cornhole for the first time.

I am going to assume this refers to something else besides what I think it refers to!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

All of a sudden I feel like I have been asleep for a week -- it's still June 27, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Good swag available from the American Cornhole Association (safe for work).

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Last Friday. You had wedding stuff I think.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bad link up there - it's http://www.playcornhole.org/support.shtml

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, rehearsal dinner. If by "last" you mean "this past." ("Last" confuses me sometimes.)

Also I have met your sister. Doesn't she have a crush on the newlywed?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

My understanding of "cornhole" was informed by this book:

http://www.edmundwhite.com/assets/images/150/boysown.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah. She's a Nasta fan. She'll be at our show.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oy. Vey. I take two days off of work and the shit hits the fan! Nice to know I can NEVER take vacation again.

Amanda, belated congrats on quitting. I kind of want to do the same myself at the moment.

Is anything happening this week? I want to do fun social things.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

FFs/CANSHASTA AT BETTY'S BLUE STAR LOUNGE, THURSDAY NITE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

On July 11 there's a woman pulling an American flag out of her butt at the No Exit Cafe.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

THAT SOUNDS PERFECT ESPECIALLY SINCE I WILL ALREADY BE NEAR WEST GRAND AVENUE FOR BAND PRACTICE

I'm going to have to get back to you about the flag thing. Is there any info about it on the web besides this thread? I have some friends that would be v. interested!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Alls I know is what I posted. The magic is the mystery!!!

So I was thinking about the Chairman Fred Hampton Way thing, and about how I was sort of stunned that people would expect any reaction other than what they got, and then I thought about going into a commentary on how maybe it's better to put time, money, energy towards things that are accomplish-able (see also: USA nation anthem in Spanish) but as I was walking down Jackson with some coffee this morning I thought that really, people HAVE to throw these kinds of things into the mix every once in a while for a couple of reasons. One, you never know which way the wind is blowing until you unfurl your flag (that metaphor is a stretch, I know). Maybe in another five years the city will be like, "Damn yeah! Chairman Fred Hampton Way! Let's do it right now!" Plus, for some reason, it seems easier to rally people around these little causes, and once people get together over one thing, the might get interested in another thing, and that's good. Plus, it's good to do stuff that irritates and distracts those in power, just on principal.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/simpsons/skinner.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I want a drink.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Whyizzit that every body around Daley can be charged with all manner of corruption, like selling HEROIN out of city departments, but Daley himself just... keeps on being the mayor? I totally don't get it.

Well, maybe I get it a little. Chicago is a big city, and it's pretty stable, and thinks work fairly well, and it's scary to think we could vote somebody into office who would subsequently fuck it all up. So maybe it's like a known corrupt quantity is better than the unknown.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

There's no known reasonable Daley alternative who has a chance of even competing. Daley responds to all this shit with "We're bringing the olympics to chicago" (crowds cheer) and it rolls right off his back.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, do you really think there is a city in america where the government isn't corrupt to one degree or another? i can tell you that the shitty little burg i grew up in has more cronyism per capita than chicago. it goes on everywhere, it's not that bad in chicago. it's not like this is providence or anything.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Of course not, Kevin. But in my two short years in the city there seems to have been an inordinate number of government scandals. At least in Delaware it was mostly lawyers shooting governor's scheduling secretaries and kids dumping babies in dumpsters.

The frat boy I work with might have been on to something when he said that Chicago city politics are corrupt, but not corrupt enough to really impact most people's every day lives. Controlled corruption, I think he called it. So sure, the mayor's brother or whatever is dealing dope out of the water department, but the trains sort of run on time so we're cool. Also! Olympics!

I'm not even sure I want anybody else as mayor. I was just reading the Sun Times and pondering.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

If he's going to build all of those bike lanes and expect people to bike all over the place, I don't understand why he wouldn't institute a "bicycle license" or something like that -- it would protect good bikers, their bikes and also provide revenue for the city. Instead, he wants to register dogs?

I know that this might not float well with the renegade bike folks, but I really don't get why people aren't required to have some sort of safety course or a HELMET or something to protect themselves and others on the road.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I realize that this might peg me as a fuddy duddy or whatever, but it doesn't make sense to me to throw people out there on the street -- people who may have never ridden on the street before -- with cars with no system for protecting them.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

...

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

it's certainly not the best outlook but to me any administration is going to have corruption so i tend not to even think about it unless/until it affects me directly and negatively. it would take something like him being directly linked to fleecing the taxpayers and lining his own pockets for me to get upset about it. exchanging favors in order to consolidate power wasn't invented here and i'd wager that it would happen no matter who holds the office.

the city does work, because of him or in spite of him i can't say, but i'm not one to fix what isn't (completely) broken.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

but I really don't get why people aren't required to have some sort of safety course or a HELMET or something to protect themselves and others on the road

don't need a helmet for a motorcycle either.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto for me for bikers riding AGAINST TRAFFIC IN THE BIKE LANE. Natural selection, people. Feel it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

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

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

re: no helmet wearing: Color me elderly, but that's nuts.

If there were a license or something like it, the people who follow the rules and bike safely would be fine and continue as they have been. The morons would produce revenue.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand why he wouldn't institute a "bicycle license" or something like that -- it would protect good bikers, their bikes and also provide revenue for the city. Instead, he wants to register dogs?

sorry for the repeat posting, forgot to paste this bit:

i think it would come down to who needs a license? would a 6 year old learning to ride a bike need a learner's permit? would a 10 year old need a license? how do you enforce this without it devolving into a public relations nightmare? i know this doesn't mean it's not a good idea but i think it's certainly one reason why it will never happen.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago is definitely more corrupt than many major American cities. I don't think I'd even go as far as to say I don't care about it, because I think there are a lot of problems below the surface that don't get dealt with bcuz of the total lockdown the current administration has on local politics (i.e. witness the whole John Stroger-Les Claypool mess). I don't blame Daley for it - it existed before him and will exist long after, its essentially ingrained into the character of the government system of this city. I don't know that it is possible for a mayor to really change the culture of corruption without some radical changes occurring first.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ forrest "big brown beaver" claypool

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

People who are going to bike on roadways, I guess. I dunno. It just seems totally insane that there could be a helmetless six year old biking on a busy street and that would be perfectly acceptable by legal standards.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

a helmet law for kids under a certain age would be fine by me, but i shouldn't be forced to wear a helmet if i don't want to. i do, most of the time, but when i don't i know exactly what i'm getting into.

and otto's right: are we going to need licenses for skateboarders, too? what about pedestrians? a car is complicated, and can do thousands of dollars in damage and kill loads of people if handled improperly. the vast majority of bike/skateboard/walking accidents injure one person and one person only.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

lol indeed (xxp)

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

well for that matter i don't think a HELMETED six year old should be on a busy street.

xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

rollerbladers too gbx, gotta pass a test before you strap on the ol' fruit-boots.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

off topic: my complete and total inability to read the signals of single women means that a phone call tonight is either going to have awesome or awesomely hilarious results.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I guess the way I see it is a way to protect you, the Good Biker, as someone who could be accused of causing a car accident. If you were 1) wearing a helmet and 2) had a license proving that you knew the rules, you could protect yourself should anyone accuse you of biking unsafely. The people who choose to endanger themselves by biking unsafely or not knowing/following traffic rules would not be protected legally in the event of an accident just like someone who drives without a license.

I don't know all of the little ins and outs of this discussion, I just think it's scary that there doesn't seem to be any concensus on what the rules are.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/rs/2004/other/John_Mayer_-_news_image_live.6367232.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

license proving that you knew the rules, you could protect yourself should anyone accuse you of biking unsafely.

i don't think a license will really protect you from anyone else's accusations. if i'm biking safely and obeying the laws it doesn't matter if i'm licensed or not.

chicago bicycling laws.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is that John Mayer?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Fine, like I said, I don't know much about this stuff. I just think that people could be safer on the bikes, in their cars, on their feet, with their feet nestled in fruit-boots or perched atop a skateboard or whatever. Have I ever mentioned that I have serious paranoia about accidentally hitting someone with a car?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I never expected my feelings to be popular among, you, my renegade biking peers.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

An acquaintance of mine had the opportunity to be a production assistant on the John Mayer tour, but she turned it down because she could get more money from Chris Brown and Panic! ~~You Black Emperor~~At the Disco.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sharks party wasa great time. Cops did come but basically just said to keep it down, which meant we closed the door to Sharks practice space, where we were doing karaoke. It was no big deal. I also sang "Mama Told Me Not to Come" in falsetto even though I forget the words and "Dancing in the Dark" even though I don't know any of the verses.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

WHOA.

On July 10, Empty Bottle will screen every episode of "Yacht Rock" and spin smooth tunes. "Yacht Rock's" co-creator JD Ryznar, along with cast members, will be in attendance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Free Monday show?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Have I ever mentioned that I have serious paranoia about accidentally hitting someone with a car?

a skateboarder skated into a car driven by my ex once and even though he was at fault our insurance went up. that blew. goddamn 13 year olds.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Kill.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who's getting killed?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Can't.

Talk.

Must.

Kill.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

DAMMIT

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HA!!!

Today I drove the interns back home to find that the electrician had been there and he fixed everything, but....the power was off for most of the Gentilly neighborhood. So I had the interns over here to shower since they couldn't this morning b/c the tub is clogged badly. Boo.

Good news is that the plumber had already stopped by and will be back tomorrow AM, a fridge is being delivered tomorrow and finally, my roommate is going to be moving out in 1 week so I get use this entire big house all by myself!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Gentilly and other damaged neighborhoods lose power a lot from what I hear. The neighbors tell me that they and a number of others are not paying for their electricity because they can't get the paperwork to go through. I think that the reason the interns' apartment got legit power at all was b/c the owner finally broke down and used clout.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

So how's the morale there in Iraq?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Or is it the former Soviet Union? I get confused.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

It is very tiring just getting around and dealing with day by day shit even as things are right now, so I imagine that living here for months and months during which things were not even as settled as they are would really drag a person down.

On a personal note, I feel very in my element with all the variables, flux, uncertainty and liminality.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit you guys...i just overheard a freshman orientation session (WHAT IS DRUGS, WHO IS RAPER??) here at Montana State University. My head nearly exploded.

One girl said that she kept a pistol in her glovebox because, you know, when she's in a bad neighborhood (BOZEMAN, POP. 30,000) she wants to have some insurance since men basically rape women at will.

Q: What would you do if you found out a friend of yours was gay?
A: "Dude, if he was gay, he wouldn't be my friend."

Q: (i sorta forgot what the question was)
A: "Well, you know, my town is pretty bad. It's like 50% Hispanic, and there's definitely just some neighborhoods you don't go to."

MEXICANS MUG LIKE THIS AMIRITE?!?!?!

...just when I was beginning to like it here. Then again, these kids were all 17-18, from towns in Northern/Eastern MT with populations of about 500 or so (when asked "are any of you from a small town?" nearly all of them asked "like, small small, or Montana small?"). Still. Wow. Life in the Greater Western States, dudes.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

I grew up with a bunch of people like that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

so did i actually.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

GURRRRL! Testify! I was in a place that didn't even rate Montana small.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wait...Rape insurance?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

well, you know.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

is it true there's no open container law in montana?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

that was the case up until very recently -- now there's a "one less than the driver" rule. which means, if you've got four people driving along, you can have three open containers.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

That seems fine with me. In other parts of the world it is legal for the driver to have an open container as long as they're not drunk. It's a fairly complicated issue, but basically I don't have a problem with someone sipping a beer while driving.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I also grew up with a lot of people like that. Yar Delaware! There are people like that everywhere. Is it true that there is no speed limit in Montana?

Thanks for posting the polaroids, Pete Smith! My husband is cu-oo-ooo-ooote.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Did I see PL Smith in any of those photos?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having design problems. I'm getting two messages at the same time. They say, "Keep it clean and readable." Then they show me something that they like, and it's a hideous clusterfuck of images, cheap Photoshop effects, and mismatched fonts. I don't think anyone understands what "clean" means. And I don't know that I can bring myself to design things that are that awful. I'm going to take a stab at it, though, in the interest of playing the game correctly. Gah. This is the same problem I had at the magazine. Everyone thinks they know what good design looks like, but nobody but a designer actually does.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

My snob alarm is going off.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

i see the fake fictions show at subt is listed on victim of time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

im not in any of those pictures, but im in a lot of the other photobucket pics

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Amanda: Heh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Should I be listening to Coc0coma?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

yes, yes you should. i am about to explode just thinking about them.

― otto midnight (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

why would I know about coc0coma?

― jaymc (otto midnight), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dear God, I hope it's smooth.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just emailed vot because mm can't play - penthousesweets are playing instead. That's cool they listed the show though.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I will make a point to listen to Coc0coma.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

do yourself a favor and just go to the free show at the bottle on the 17th. they vinyl, while good, doesn't capture the full effect.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's a Monday. Damn all you Chicago rockstars for your weeknight shows. DAMN YOU.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Did you Chicagoans know about this???

http://www.jessewhitetumblingteam.com/

You probably did, but I just found out and I think IT IS MARVELOUS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yup. I was confused for a while about the relationship between the Jesse White Tumblers and Jesse White himself, because when I was a kid the Tumblers were all over the place, performing at schools and town festivals and the like, but White was a minor politician that nobody had really heard of. So when he was elected Sec. of State, I was like, wait, THE Jesse White?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

awesome show NOT on a monday: black lips at LSA 9/22. maybe my favorite show of the year was when they opened for the dirtbombs back in march at the bottle. so good.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

the tumblers were around before he was sec of state?

― renen (renen), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

The website says he founded the Tumblers in 1959! (He was 25.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://auddityrecords.com/pictures/0905140.jpg

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

The tumblers have been around a looong time, they're big locally...i think they visited my high school or jr. high once or something, i know i've seen them a couple of times.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I just ate a mango, and yet I am not Amanda.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I JUST ATE A MANGO TOO!

And I am Amanda. How was my cutting technique? Successful? Did you gnaw on the seed like a monkey? I did.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I did not gnaw on the seed because I am forced to eat in view of other humans and people think I'm weird enough around here as it is without engaging in public monkey-style eating. The cutting technique was just ace, however, and led to a spirited discussion about fruit among my coworkers.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt(tt), my housemate, said he took the Pink Line from Ashland to Clark/Lake yesterday and it took half an hour. I don't see how this works.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Your New Cutting Technique is Unstoppable

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

The newest hit from A and J's Mango Math Rock band.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I miss Jeff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

My cutting technique is tropical
My cutting technique is traditional
If you step in front of my cutting technique
Your hands and feet will be provisional

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I miss Jeff.

I'm just not as funny, I know.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt(tt), my housemate, said he took the Pink Line from Ashland to Clark/Lake yesterday and it took half an hour. I don't see how this works

mechanical problems with an orange line train coupled with a bad switch at tower 37 screwed up loop traffic for a half hour yesterday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Holy cow! Aldermen be trippin': http://www.chicagosuntimes.com/output/news/transfats28.html

I hope this doesn't apply to cart vendors, because Polar pops are like all trans fats. I only eat two a year, because yikes, but still. Those two per year are EXTREMELY important to me. Also, will corn cart vendors have to ease up on the Parkay? That might actually be a good thing.

I miss Jeff.
Me, too. But for presumably different reasons.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Or at least the dairy-based Polar pops, which includes the arroz flavored ones, which are my favorite. I think the tarot ones are dairy-based, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) The cute Polaroid made me feel like I haven't seen him in eons.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

He shaved his beard into FORM OF: A GOATEE and while I normally dislike goatees, it looks mega-hott on him.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm being kind of gross and gushy. Sorry about that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Remind me where Jeff is (working the new job and just not posting?).

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

He's super busy and tries not to post while he's at work anyway because he could get in trouble. Mostly he's just super busy. He hasn't changed jobs yet.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

"getting in trouble"

WTF, are we in kindergarten?

I will now reiterate and say that I can probably never work in a corporate-type job again.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, no dis on Jeff or his job or anything, to be sure. I just view the whole company-as-overlord (firewalls, etc) thing very skeptically.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

If you're shocked and amazed by an employer disciplining an employee for non-work related internet use during work hours and on work computers, then yah, no corporate job for you.

Did you know: Some customer service jobs involved timed bathroom breaks?

I realized the other day that a large part of my pro-labor ferver comes from my visceral distaste for "management" and all that corporate management bullshity One Minute Manager bullshit. Support your local union, kids! Because the other side is worse!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

YES I did know that. Not always in past tense, either. (involve/d)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Morale is low right now.

Band personnel changes make me wonder if we should just hang it up -- also not excited about playing some bullshit M1dwest Mus1c Summ1t show in Indianapolis the night before Megan's wedding, when there's supposed to be a bonfire on the beach in Michigan. BUT OH WELL I GUESS WE HAVE TO TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY WE GET.

Plus, the stress I build into every article I have to write for $tylus makes me wonder why I do it. Does the sense of accomplishment and recognition really make up for the panic and constantly missed deadlines? (Esp when I'm being knocked as a self-promoting hack on ILM -- not me, personally, but anyone who writes for the site.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not so much shocked and amazed, but more sickened and repulsed.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Amanda: Whoops, yeah. THIS STILL HAPPENS! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

something i've found out about low-end service jobs is that they pretty much HAVE to join the union, because the dues are taken out of paychecks whether they sign up or not. the unions then fight very hard for pay raises that they never get.

Did you know: Some customer service jobs involved timed bathroom breaks?

couldn't someone take them to task with the law if they had IBS or some such digestive disturbance?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

If IBS or some other digestive disturbance is considered a disability under the ADA, then the employer would have to make a reasonable accomodation for his or her increased bathroom needs.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've found the cliches of corporate culture (office drama, career ambition/paranoia, Machievellian scheming, monitoring of copier/internet/whatever, obsession with punctuality and lunch hours) to be far more present in non-profit offices than in actual corporate offices.

I know I'm always telling 'nasta what to do, but 'nasta needs to headline some chill shows for the love of da game, and the powers that be will reach to them.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, a bunch of us would go see 'nasta if it was at the beach with a bonfire.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

The idea of making and playing music for the love of it seems like such a distant, hazy memory.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Then again, I guess, I work for kind of an out-of-the-ordinary "non profit" organization...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/silverbulllet/promo_turnthepage.jpg

Dan, I'm talking just based on my own experience and what friends who work in both sectors tell me.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've found the first three items in EZ's list to be true, but not the second two.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

In my limited experience, I was so apalled at the flakiness of the nonprofit that I never delved into any of the other crap. I absolutely believe it exists, however.

SO speaking of collective action...

Remember all that bullshit with our laundry being broken? Well, we had an angry tenants meeting and we wrote a letter threatening to withhold rent and we took it around to the apartments and we got a lot of signatures and today I came home and hanging on our door was a letter from the landlord that said, more or less: The washers and driers will be fixed tomorrow. We are installing new security locks on the doors to the laundry room. Until we get those installed, LAUNDRY IS FREE.

HUZZAH!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dryers, too!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out that if I'd wanted to apply for a press pass for Lollapalooza, I needed to have done so by June 9. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. I still can't leave work.

Upside: I've downloaded a bunch a shit on the work connection today, onto my non-network, non-monitored PC. Including a cracked avi converter so I can watch videos on my iPod on the way to work tomorrow. Technology + theft = fun. And this 1GB is real handy for moving files back and forth from work. Which is actually what it's for, but they probably didn't intend for me to be transferring a bunch of music and software back and forth. I got 20 albums on this thing the other day.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

And this 1GB is real handy

Should read, this 1GB jump drive.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Non-profits -- I totally get it. That stuff is apparent where I work, too. Especially the scheming and ambition-related goings-on. I guess everything else is laid back enough that it's really tolerable and even kind of okay.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, the stress I build into every article I have to write for $tylus makes me wonder why I do it.

You should make a pro/con list and see which is longer. Stress is no fun.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKIN' A!!!!

In a semi-related story:

Rebuilding New Orleans as a Union town? (ZIP and DOB required)

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

D'oh. Make that http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?sconfig=nola&xpath.category_letter=&xpath.pubdate=06%2F29%2F2006+06%2F28%2F2006+06%2F27%2F2006+06%2F26%2F2006+06%2F25%2F2006+06%2F24%2F2006+06%2F23%2F2006&xpath.any=afl-cio&count=20&x=0&y=0

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

We are in the SEIU's building, in a set of offices that were basically donated to us for the summer, so we have to be careful about educating ourselves as to which unions are AFL-CIO and which ones split off. SEIU is Change to win, so when we are contacting them we have to be very sensitive to the fact that we are somewhat associated with their wayward union. Apparently an |WJ person in Chicago casually made reference to the split while talking to an AFL-CIO person and it took tons of apologizing and scraping to get back on their good side.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Copied from FRM and expanded, and should go on my blog:

There is no such thing as overnight mail to or from NO. You pay for overnight prices but they only guarantee 2 days. A student needed to overnight something to Atlanta and they said that for the South they could do 2 days. Beyond AL, TX, GA, MS and LA they could not guarantee even 2 days. Another student has been waiting 4 days for an "Overnight" package from DC.

Last month they just started delivering magazines. Someday soon they may move into the frivolous world of catalogs.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

OH! I nearly forgot. This is a good website for lefty liberal types who wish to know wassup here.

http://www.justiceforneworleans.org/

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been really drunk in New Orleans. This seems wrong. I drank more my last week in Chicago than all the past week and a half here.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

jesse's accounts of NO remind me of when i was volunteering, which was in a poor barrio of a third world country.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for free laundry!

John, the heart wants what the heart wants. It's your life. To an extent, you can do what you want. This time is precious. You don't have that many responsibilities. You're a generally healthy person with a lot to be happy about. You should be spending your free time (and work time) in a way that maximizes what you want out of life. Imagine being in your late 60s and remembering this time fondly. What would you be doing now?
Ok, BE MOTIVATED ALREADY!

I'm getting excited about having visitors! The apartment is all clean and waiting to get messed up again. The band is all practiced up for our show tonight. The fridge is all empty and ready to be filled up with party food. LET THIS LONG WEEKEND BEGIN ALREADY!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've lived through some REALLY sucky work conditions. In my experience, the jobs that paid the least were the hardest and most dictator-like. Life isn't fair.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, sarah, did you kill anyone the other day?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

also, good advicey things, there.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Y'know, I thought so too. There's a time for working hard and enduring hardships in order to reach a goal, but there's also a time for realizing that you're putting yourself through the ringer for no particular reason. No sense in fretting your life away.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that is some solid advice, Sarah. Listen to Sarah, John!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

No sense in fretting your life away.
I've been trying to teach myself this since I was about 12, but I'm not there yet.

It just so happens I never got around to killing anyone. I was a stressomatic for a few days straight there, but I'm doing much better now. The weekend cometh! The prophecies of the Promised Land will be fulfilled!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

so say we all.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

for the former "music is my bag" geeks:

> A Bb, a Db and an F go into a bar.
> The bartender says, "Sorry we don't serve minors in here."
> So the Db leaves.
> The Bb and the F share an open fifth between them.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's really pretty funny. At least, I thought so.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I get it!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

HA!

So say we all.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Amen.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, that's such good advice. I copied it and saved it for another day.

Hey, for those who know her, Nueva Jody called from Omaha yesterday around 5 p.m. saying that she was camping there for the night - and then she called half an hour later and said she and her friend decided to just plow ahead and drive to Chicago - so she made it here around 4 a.m. this morning.

Q: What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

A; Ab minor.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I should say "What sound do you get...", but it's the first time I've told the joke since I was 10.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Cute!

JULIA! The Bulls made deals with the Trailblazers last night and now Chicago has it's very own Eastern European, big Ukranian Victor Kjryapa. We also got a slightly smaller [url=http://insider.espn.go.com/nbadraft/draft/tracker/player?draftyear=2006&playerId=18969&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnbadraft%2fdraft%2ftracker%2fplayer%3fdraftyear%3d2006%26playerId%3d18969]Swiss guy[/url].

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

OH CRAP.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff says the Bulls might trade the Swiss guy and their other draftee for Kevin Garnett (good) or Ben Wallace (AWESOME). But they're totally keeping the Ukranian. I am pleased.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Anecdotal baby name data for Jaymc:

My neighbor's daughter just had a baby. The daughter's name is Sh@nte, she's 18 or so. She named her baby Ameli@ Grace.

File. Save.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Amanda. I was just reading the Baby Name Wizard blog yesterday.

And thanks for the advice, everyone. I guess I feel like I'm in a transitional period right now. Last night after band practice we all hashed things out for two hours: M-tt was pretty upset because he feels that a) we don't appreciate all the work that he does for the band, and b) some of us (read: me) aren't committed enough, and we need to decide if we're in this or not. He said he feels like a prick when he busts his ass to get us shows and then we complain about having to play them. Which is perfectly understandable. But I really don't know how much I want to prioritize the band. Certainly not as much as he is, but I don't know what's enough. The upshot is, he's not going to book us any more shows past August until we all decide whether or not we're committed 100%.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

From an audience perspective, whether or not you guys are all gung ho about playing more shows, you always look like you're enjoying yourself onstage and giving 100%. Is everyone less enthusiastic about playing out of town shows?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

What is it about the band that makes you not enthusiastic? Is it the music? The traveling? The other band members?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Are you less enthusiastic about out of town gigs now that you have a GF? This is not a Kr = Yoko Ono type comment, but a prompt for you to examine the source of your current feelings. And it's okay if hanging with Kr is more important than rocking and/or rolling, so I'm not judging. (I have been the GF in this equation, and have been friends with other GFs in similar equations and my take on it is that band dudes rarely quit bands because of GFs, but use GFs as catalysts for doing something they already wanted to do.)

Pardon the heteronormativity of that statement - it's situation-specific and not meant to suggest that all band dudes are straight or that all band dudes are dudes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

They say that the road
Aint no place to start a family
Right down the line
Its been you and me
And lovin a music man
Aint always what its supposed to be
Oh girl you stand by me
Im forever yours...faithfully

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

(xxxp) Well, that's good to hear from the audience perspective.

As far as the out-of-town shows, all of this came up just because he wanted us to play this show in Indianapolis the night before Megan's wedding. Originally, it was a no-go because Megan was obviously going to be preparing for her big day -- but now that we have a back-up pianist (who's going to be playing with us in Madison on Friday), Matt went ahead and told Neptali (who's booking the show) that we'd do it. I was bummed because we'd be missing the bonfire on the beach that Megan's family was having the night before the wedding, and EL was concerned that driving straight from Indianapolis to Michigan (6 hours) after the show wouldn't give her enough time in the morning to prepare for the 2 PM wedding.

M-tt's whole take on things is that if it was such a big deal, then we should've marked it off on our online calendar as a conflict -- otherwise he has no way of knowing that he shouldn't try to book us something. Whereas I feel like none of us had anticipated we'd be playing a show that weekend because of the wedding, so we weren't going to bother putting it on the calendar. Plus, I just don't like the idea of showing up to the wedding on little sleep and not being able to enjoy Megan's special day.

In most cases, I think he should be able to book shows without checking with all of us first, but it seems like in this case, I'd have liked to have been asked, since it required more of a sacrifice. (He doesn't understand this: he thinks that every show that he books is going to require sacrifice from at least one person in the band, and he doesn't want to have to weigh different levels of sacrifice.)

Anyway, this is sort of a special case in a lot of ways, not least of which is that we never really discussed what our approach was going to be for playing shows without Megan. But I think it also indicates some underlying differences.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

What is it about the band that makes you not enthusiastic? Is it the music? The traveling? The other band members?

The music is fun but not always the kind of music I want to be making. I miss writing stuff for myself and having the opportunity to experiment with other people.

The other band members are fun, too, since we're all friends -- but I also know deep down that I'll never be happy working collaboratively with someone like M-tt. Even if the end result is good, we're just way too different for the process to be remotely enjoyable. And he has such a dominant personality that I never feel like the end result is really mine, anyway, even if I contributed the entire chord structure and wrote melodies for multiple instruments.

Travelling is something that actually excites me, and in some ways maybe more so than other band members. The difference, however, is that M-tt wants to tour because he thinks it's a necessary step to take us to the next level -- whereas I want to tour because I see it as an adventure, a way to feel like I'm doing something fun and freeing while I'm still young, a way to check out of the 9-to-5 grind and see interesting things along the way.

Kr mostly isn't a factor in this whole thing, except that we did talk about some of this stuff last night, and maybe she is after all, but that's a whole other story I don't really want to get into.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I saw a score on a TV screen - Trailblazers vs. Grizzlies. Appropriate matchup.

K-G has been the pride of MN for so long! But no wonder the Bulls want him.

re 'nasta - if things keep moving forward, I hope there's a good manager or label ahead - someone outside of the band to mediate and set goals and expectations.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Also, maybe I'm just resistant to authority by nature, but e-mails like this aren't fun, either:

1) TOMORROW'S SHOW - Everyone... I can't get any more info on load-in / soundcheck for tomorrow night. I'm not even sure bands normally get one. So let's just try to be loaded-in by like 8:00 pm, which is when, I'm assuming, they'll open doors. Ben - Please bring the acoustic guitar. I'll brig the capo.

2) REHEARSAL - Everyone... Tonight, we're with Charlie and on Monday, we're gonna play some stuff with Devon. So Ben - While you probably don't need to come on Monday, could you do us a favor and write out some chords for Devon? He's gonna pick some songs he wants to work on between now and then and lemme know. And then I'll let you know which ones. But he's eventually gonna probably wanna learn all of the concert staples. So could you start writing out the chords for all of the obvious ones?

3) RENT - Everyone... We're not paying for this past Monday's practice, cuz of the permit fiasco. But we DO need to bring $3 each tonight. Please don't forget. And for the foreseeable future - until we get into more police trouble - I guess we'll keep rehearsing there. So next Monday, which is the first Monday of July, let's each bring $25 apiece and just pay for the whole month at once. Ben - Are you going to keep paying rent with us for the next few months? If so, could you bring that $25 tonight, since you won't be around on Monday? EL - you too (since you might be in Michigan still)?

4) FRIDAY'S SHOW - Everyone... We need to be up in Madison at the venue by 7:30. So we should probably leave this area at like 4 to be safe, yeah? Who all can drive? And Demetri, who's in Chicago right now, would like to go with us. I'd like him to also, cuz then he can come to the show and bring some people he knows out too. Can we make room for him?

5) CHARLIE / INDY - Everyone... Charlie's free to play that Chicago showcase Friday, Aug. 11th in Indy, if Ben's able to do it. So Ben's supposed to find out this afternoon - which is right now, I guess. Just an update... Ben - Lemme know. I'm also trying to get a show with next-big-thing Be1rut at Empty B0ttle on 8/19, everybody. Just an FYI. I'm also gonna write B0und St3ms' manager in a second, to follow up and see when they'll let us play with them.

6) BOOKING CONFLICTS - Everyone... Just a quick note on the exchange JC and I had yesterday about the above show... I don't think I should have to hear about the individual sacrifices people are making to play shows. As our booking agent, I already feel like the bad guy so much of the time - that I don't think it's fair for people to remind me about the things they're giving up to play a show. Cuz let's face it - between the 6 of us - it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to find a date for a show on which somebody wasn't at least considering doing something else. Seriously. So I think at this point in our career - after all six of us have *obviously* given up so much to keep this rolling - I think it can now go without saying that sacrifices are being made all the time. So let's not say it, ok? Now if it's an event that's REALLY important to you, then put it on the calendar. And unless I ask you about it first, I won't book anything there. But otherwise, if you've left the calendar blank for a date, then I think I should be allowed to book a show there without having to hear about the things people were *gonna* do once I book something. Cuz it makes me feel like an asshole. But we are a band. And we're supposed to play shows. And I'm trying to get us cool ones. That's my job. So I'd rather feel encouragement for the shows I'm booking - not begrduging acceptance, ya know?

7) MORE ONLINE MENTIONS - Everyone...

hxxp://cheesegimp.livejournal.com/126213.html
hxxp://softd.3bulls.net/?p=141
hxxp://wellroundednerds.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-guess-i-should-start-band-now-or.html
hxxp://flowfeel.com/
hxxp://www.gapersblock.com/slowdown/archives/2006/06/29/#014588

As for the rest of these items, since you won't have me e-mailing y'all every day for the next couple weeks, I'd think you should be able to get a lot of long-standing tasks completed for the band. Please use the time to help us get everything in order...

8) ANNOUNCEMENT - JC / Colin... Please do one on Friday, July 11th, OK? I won't be around to make it happen...

9) NEWS BLURB / DIG. DISTRO - JC... Can we get a new news blurb? The old one's about a month old now. Also, if you would, please check in on some of those online distribution sites again in a week or so. The most important ones. If we're not on them, we'll deal with that when I come back. But hopefully, we will be. Please just check up on 'em again soon.

10) POSTERS / FLIERS - EL... We're still waiting to hear back from Phos about posters, but in the meantime, PLEASE make sure that fliers happen for this Dev0tchka show. And make sure that some get over to Sub-T, so Derr0n knows we're making an effort. And also, please make sure everyone in the band fliers a few shows, ok? Thanks.

11) COPYRIGHT / ASCAP - EL... I know you know that we still need to do stuff in these departments. But I just include it here as a reminder - so that you can just refer to this list of things to do whenever you've got some C4n4st4 time.

12) GOOGLE CALENDAR - Colin... Any more headway on this? Do you have a system figured out we can use?

13) MUSIC VIDEO - Colin - While I'm looking at the last news blurb, I'm reminded to ask about the "Mic. Song" video. What's happening with that?

14) WEBSITE / EMAILS - Colin... You never answered me about the Y0ung Republ1c (.net). Can you please add them to our "links" page? Also, can you make the selectable text your MAIN priority to finish up while I'm gone? I think it's important. And then also maybe take another look at the mystery line showing up beneath my "shows" sidebar?

15) MEGAN'S SCHEDULE - Megan... You had talked about staying in Michigan for a bit after your wedding, to hang out with Todd. If that's happening, would you please add it to the calendar. Right now, you've got the Monday after your wedding marked off, then a few blank days, and then another couple days. Could you take a look at that and make sure it's correct?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

That is exactly the kind of person I don't want to make music with. BTDT and such.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

On one hand, that's really impressive. On the other, I didn't join the military for a reason.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

That email annoys me so much I didn't even read it, as a physical reaction set in at #2.

K-G has been the pride of MN for so long! But no wonder the Bulls want him.

I think Ben Wallace would be a better choice, because I think KG might be decent for one season but will burn out and fall prey to superstar prima donna syndrome. I think Ben Wallace will be better, longer. Plus he's mean, and we need mean. According to a Sun Times article, MN has no intention of getting rid of him but they always say shit like that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Him" being KG, obv.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

there's no way detroit would deal wallace in the division. kg is more logical as he isn't even in the same conference. plus he brings a more complete game to the table than wallace brings, is two years younger, and being a home town guy might actually WANT to play here. i think kg is hungrier for a ring than wallace (who already has a couple).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

from the chicago journal:

Pimps! Drugs! Revenge!
Blaxploitation series features fast cars, loose

By LEE GERSTEIN, Contributing Writer

Movies
From June 30 through July 31, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents the series Fly Dudes & Foxy Ladies: Blaxploitation in the 70s, featuring six loosely defined classics from the much- beloved and despised genre.
Blaxploitation got its start with the release of Ossie Davis’s Cotton Comes to Harlem in 1970 and Melvin Van Peeble’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Assss Song and lasted for only about five years before burning itself out.
Yet the genre still carries an aura of controversy. Why? For the initiated, the answer is obvious. Pimps, whores, drugs, violence, guns, fists, fast cars and loose morals. This extreme and limited view of black urban culture scared some and offended others.
But, for fans—well, this is a fantasyland that offers a lot of cheap fast thrills. Who doesn’t want to get revenge on the pusher who sold the drugs that overdosed your favorite brother, forcing you into a life of prostitution? Who can really answer in the negative? You want revenge, and you want it bloody and distasteful. If a castration occurs, well, it’s just part of the genre.
Now, the more cultured might claim that the best thing that came out of blaxploitation was the launching of a healthy, self-sufficient, and thriving black independent cinema movement in the United States. Well, yeah, there’s that, too, but it still doesn’t beat violent vindication.
First up in the series is Black Caesar (1973), now considered one of the better movies in the genre. Taking a page from the old Warner Brothers gangster pictures, Black Caesar follows ex-football-player-turned-actor Fred Williamson as Tommy Gibbs. While a fatherless shoeshine boy in the 1950s, Gibbs gets his leg broken by a bad cop taking bribes. So is it any wonder his dream is a life in the Mafia? He is taken in by the mob when he performs a sort of freelance hit in a barbershop, and then is disgusted to find that life in the criminal world is just as racist as life outside of it.
In the meantime, Gibbs, the "cat with .45-caliber claws" finds his rage increasing—and only an appropriately bloody finale will release it. In between, there’s the classic scene in which Gibbs forces one of the white baddies to blacken his face with shoe polish and sing Mammy. It’s inevitable that Gibbs will rise to the top, but it is also inevitable that he will fall—hard, with his ambition overtaking his humanity.
More thoughtful than it really needs to be, Black Caesar deserves credit for raising uncomfortable issues, but is more fascinating today less for its battles against The Man, and more for its portrait of a truly troubled individual.
Director Larry Cohen (The Stuff, Maniac Cop, It’s Alive!), a key exploitation director who dabbled in blaxploitation, creates a crude, violent world, much of it filmed on location in Harlem. If nothing else, this film offers a great glimpse into a New York City long gone. Plus, there’s that James Brown soundtrack, which, Greek-chorus-like, continually comments on the action.
The sequel, Hell Up In Harlem (yes, Gibbs somewhat miraculously survives the attack by a young gang at the end of Black Caesar), re-teams Williamson and Cohen, but lacks the punch of Browns’ original score.
We’ve all seen it before. The thief who will perform one last job. Or the cop who retires at the end of the week. But, how about the coke dealer who will sell his last, and retire? Superfly, the mega-hit from 1972, is a simple enough story, and that’s the appeal of Warner Brothers’ answer to MGM’s Shaft.
Ron O’Neal, a veteran stage actor, is the Cadillac Eldorado-driving dealer, setting the tone for a significant pocket of the population in the first half of the decade. He knows it’s time to get out of the business, away from a version of capitalism that is shown to be corrupt and evil, but the Mafia think otherwise. Will he be able to pack all his platform shoes and floor-length coats into one suitcase and escape?
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., whose dad directed Shaft, Superfly is obviously low budget, appearing to have been shot on location on the run, often at night, and in the heart of winter. Nevertheless, it touched a nerve in America that reverberated all the way out beyond black urban culture. Soon white kids were sporting maxi-coats and wide-brimmed hats with feathers and listening to Curtis Mayfield. The stills montage that moves across the screen while "Pusherman" plays is particularly sublime.
Expect plenty of violence, mayhem, and an appropriately steamy bathtub scene. Grittier than some of the comic-book blaxploitation flicks, Superfly may not offer answers, but it does offer lessons in how to lean back while you walk, swing your arms, and act like you own the city.
Also in the series, Foxy Brown stars Pam Grier in arguably her best role (some prefer the equally sordid Coffy). But a few classics are missing from the Siskel Center’s lineup. Where is Cleopatra Jones? You really owe it to yourself to see Tamara Dobson beat up leather-clad lesbian Shelly Winters in a junkyard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

yikes, sorry for the lack of formatting. that's rough on the peepers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeaaaahhhhh Kevin quit being so logical. I just like Ben Wallace.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

the c's had ben wallace in camp when rick pitino was still the coach, they cut him because he was so limited offensively. i still remember pitino saying how it was tough to cut him because he was tenacious on the glass and on d but wasn't an nba caliber player offensively. i also remember him saying that he hoped wallace could catch on somewhere and be a role player off the bench.

these memories are making me ill, i think i need to lay down.

but seriously, kg on the bulls would instantly change the dynamic of at least the central division if not the entire eastern conference. a talented big man like him, especially one who can still run the court, playing with hinrich, gordon, and deng would be a tough match up for nearly every team in the east.

god i hope the celtics can pull it together this year. they are WASTING paul pierce's best years. at least they unloaded what i thought was an unloadable contract in raef lafrentz.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

and by "deng" i meant "duhon". goddamn dukies.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

John, that sucks. But didn't you basically say the band IS his life? I mean, he considers it his job, right? He eats, sleeps, and breathes it.

I can't imagine having to deal with so many bandmates, even if we were friends. Nick, Ben, and I have it so easy. Nick and I are generally spending time together anyway. Ben isn't a very busy guy. It's funny though. We're trying to practice with a keyboardist for our release and just getting him to play at the same time we do is a lot of work. He's played with us once in our last 4 practices.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Kevin - If Duhon gets over his lower back pain, that is. We should have an ILX outing to the $10 nosebleed seats at the United Center next season.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm totally down with a game. bulls website says that groups of 25 or more get a discount if we want to try to wrangle a bunch of people into this.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

All this sports talk is flying over my head. ZOOM! There goes another one!

&heart

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

How do you make a heart symbol?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

&heart

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

nope

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

♥

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

holy crap, boston sources tell me the c's dealt lafrentz to free up $$$ to make a run at iverson or KG!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN DANNY AINGE!!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

That didn't seem to work either. I'll take it to the HTML playground.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

AHA! I opened the thread in Safari and it worked. But alas, it doesn't show up in Firefox.

The code is & + hearts + ;

except without the spaces and pluses.

I ♥ HTML 4.0

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I tried the ♥ and it didn't work. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hey wait! It worked! That's weird.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

♥
♥
♥
♥
♥
♥

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

What browser are you using? I'm starting to get sick of Firefox for Mac.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

&hearts

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

&heart;

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I use a very unpopular browser called Crazy Browser. It works like Firefox but I never have trouble with it. And it has a stupid name.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

♠

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Frat Boy quote o' the day:

"Is Catch-22 about a gay relationship?"

He is actually in the process of reading this book.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~bjkoski/roffle.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it does take place in the military, amirite?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

wow. i'm by no means a violent person but some people should just be beaten to death with axe handles.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

er, that's for frat boy not dan or john.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I just saw the long band e-mail. But it supports my prediction that in 5 years JC will be doing record reviews on NPR and MP will be booking the Metr0.

I never knew 'til now that Earwax has a shaded backyard! So nice!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's lovely back there, isn't it? A month or so after we moved here I had to go back to DE for a wedding. Jeff and Jesse met me at the Damen stop on the Blue Line and we sat back there for dinner. They were projecting Joan of Arc (the old silent one) on a giant screen. It was a truly lovely return to Chicago.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

awkward moments abound in penis pump trial

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

♥

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

The grandfather "was getting real teary-eyed, and the judge was up there pumping on that pump," she said. "It was sickening."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

That's the part that skeezes me out the most.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

"skeeves"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

He should have gotten a Fleshlight.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

"skeevy" beats "skeezy" on Google, but it's close: 89,000 to 80,000.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am both skeeved and skeezed.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

&hearts

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think skeezy is more of an adjective and skeeve out is a phrasal verb. But I could be wrong?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

adj or noun, rather.

That judge is such a skeeze!
He's skeezy.

That judge totally skeeved me out.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I mean it really doesn't matter.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

&diamonds;

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

oops. that didn't work.

but guess who's eating yet another mango!?!

― Amango (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

UrbanDictionary.com has entries for "skeeze" as a noun and transitive verb, "skeezy" as an adjective, "skeeve out" as a phrasal verb, "skeeve" as a noun, and "skeevy" as an adjective.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

(diams, Amango)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

•

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Today at lunch, everyone was discussing their maids/ "the staff." It is best to find one who is fairly young, in pretty good shape, and OCD. Then, after everyone was done eating, I went to get the 409 and paper towels, since it is my job to clean the table.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

John, I've volunteered like 10 times to do various side-projecty music things with you. If you want to get together some time and just play music "FOR FUN" let me know. We can do some sloppy recordings, write some songs, whatever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Sarah. That story makes me sad and angry at the same time. And we pay someone to clean our house.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'd join in on that, Nick.

I like that Dr. Dre is using the same font as Dylan's 'Chronicles':
http://pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/18900.death-rows-greatest-hits.gif

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I know, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

CHILX SUPERGROUP

I'm in if you need/want a drummist and I can play totally shitty guitar too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda and I can don mango cosutmes and handle background vocals.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Don Mango, Private Investigator.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Up on the counter, next to the mangos.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

There's a flooring store on Damen in Bucktown that uses the same font as the Doors logo in its sign.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse: why did he think Catch22 was about a gay relationship?
me: i don't know. he's actually reading the book.
i haven't read it in years, but I don't remember there being anything gay in it.
Jesse: i don't really either. i mean it's all dudes in the army. and a guy in a body cast whose pee bag gets reused as his IV
me: yeah it's about the boredom of war and the pointlessness of bureaucracy and shit, right?
Jesse: i think you need to ask him why he's reading a gay theme into it.
me: i'm not ready to explore the frat boy's latent homosexual tendencies.
Jesse: ask him how he likes his blue eyed boy

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am working on a light and breezy summertime mix cd.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Kerry is crashing at my place next weekend as he drives out to California (he's moving there to attend the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley) and has requested a "driving to California" mix.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i have a new gmail address. it's my first and last name @ gmail.com

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Which email do you want me to use as we continue our voluminous correspondence?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Human Sexuality Instructor Wanted
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Reply to: job-174607290@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-06-23, 11:25AM CDT

Human Sexuality Instructor Wanted
*Looking for experiences and/or qualified instructor*

My company, http://www.Moxieinthecity.net, is looking for a Human Sexuality instructor to teach Bedroom Related workshops for our members.
**PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PUT YOUR CITY IN THE SUBJECT LINE***
We're looking to do a Fellatio/Cunnilingus workshop as well as an Orgasm related workshops for our members.
Class would be private, no nudity or live demonstration.
90 minute classes - weekday evenings after 6pm
$150 per 90 minute class.
We have received favroable attention for our events and workshops. Please see some of our press mentions here: http://www.moxieinthecity.net/articles.php
Please include your resume in the bosy of your e-mail.
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LATEST BLOG POSTS
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SEXUAL HEALING
Ever been torn between wanting love and just wanting sex?
READ THE FULL POST AND COMMENT:
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CRAZY IN LOVE
Her guy gets late night phone calls from his female students. Is something more goin on there?
READ THE FULL POST AND COMMENT:
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Compensation: $150 per class
no -- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
no -- Please, no phone calls about this job!
no -- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
no -- Reposting this message elsewhere is NOT OK.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Good times.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ooops. reposting this message elsewhere is not ok. SORRY. Should I contact a mod?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have to demonstrate your knowledge of these activities to get hired? And if not, how could I, as a potential workshop participant, be sure that I'm getting quality advice on the topic?

We're not talking about cake decorating here. We're talking about important stuff.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Principals only!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I took Human Sexuality from someone with a PhD. He didn't show how to do oral though.

xpost: Although it seems like it almost ought to be "Principles only"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Looking for experiences and qualified instructor"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

We're not talking about cake decorating here.

i'm trying to think of a "frosting the cake" joke here but i'm just too tired.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

If there's produce present at the interview, run.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Probably you should run if there is cake, frosting, an electric mixer, a spatula, a mixing bowl, or a cake pan, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

an electric mixer

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

But if it's just dildoes and stuff, no problem.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

If there's produce present at the interview, run.

Yeah, you told me and that evening I vowed never to accompany kev through customs. They are kiwi sized but don't appear out of proportion next to his large cock. Far from being circus-freak like, he is jaw-droppingly awesome. What a guy. I can't wait to get home and climb aboard his grocery groin.
-- Rumpy Pumpkin (the24hrsleepe...), March 3rd, 2004 9:09 AM. (rumpypumpkin) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy - Can we make that your ILEpitaph? Hehehehe

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realize there was the Quayle-esqe "e" in the plural form of "dildo." I've been writing it wrong for all this time! :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

A few versus from John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:

You ladies of merry England
Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand,
Pray, did you not lately observe in the show
A noble Italian called Signior Dildo?

This signior was one of the Duchess's train
And helped to conduct her over the main;
But now she cries out, 'To the Duke I will go,
I have no more need for Signior Dildo.'

At the Sign of the Cross in St James's Street,
When next you go thither to make yourselves sweet
By buying of powder, gloves, essence, or so,
You may chance to get a sight of Signior Dildo.

You would take him at first for no person of note,
Because he appears in a plain leather coat,
But when you his virtuous abilities know,
You'll fall down and worship Signior Dildo.

My Lady Southesk, heaven prosper her for't,
First clothed him in satin, then brought him to court;
But his head in the circle he scarcely durst show,
So modest a youth was Signior Dildo.

The good Lady Suffolk, thinking no harm,
Had got this poor stranger hid under her arm.
Lady Betty by chance came the secret to know
And from her own mother stole Signior Dildo.

...
This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merit of Signior Dildo.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

(versus? verses)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

And from her own mother stole Signior Dildo.

betty, that's just so so wrong...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

That was awesome. Where is Jesse? He would enjoy that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think, from the gist of his messages on this thread of late, that he is New Orleans.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, big black are going to play at the touch and go thing...

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

yep yep

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

DUDERS I AM SOWWY

Something came up during practice and I can't go to the Cnsta/FkFctns show that has probably already started. I now have to go drive back across town. It's a long fucking story.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Fancy, Jordan!

Nasta played well. Betty's Bluestar was nice. I'd never been in there before.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I entertained thoughts of going to this show, but we were really wiped out. Also, Lost disc 4 came in the mail.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

The frat boy? Is still visibly drunk from last night.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I haven't gone to work drunk from the night before, but still. It's annoying coming out of him.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

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On Firefox at home, this comes out as a series of small boxes with a Chinese character smack dab in the middle. On IE at work, it's a string of A's with diareses, then an A with an accent grave, then an O with a diaresis, then an E with an accent acute, then a string of C's with cedillas, then a few cent signs, then ... gosh, I don't know what those are called, they're like things you use when you run out of asterisks and daggers in footnotes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Showoff.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

;) &heart;

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, Miss Phrasal Verb. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda is totally allophonic.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

&hearts

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

hey how come that didn't work?
lemme try again
♥

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

they're like things you use when you run out of asterisks and daggers in footnotes.
I always called them HURRICANES! Ask one (1) law student though.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny? You heard the man.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

＼(>o

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

OH NO IT ATE MY TXT

＼(>o

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

AGAIN :(

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYONE! I'm in such a good mood!

Amanda, are you in a good mood like me??
John??
Jenny??

Hi.

I was stressed yesterday because my sister & bf missed their flight. But they got in here in time, so they got to see Nasta. And, BTW, John, they both really loved the show. And H was all excited to share her "find" with C.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

That symbol reminds me of that game with the monkeys and the bananas where you add monkeys until the bananas fall off the tree. That's not a game for the brainy kids.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

(^｡^)

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in a pretty good mood. Sort of slow and steady over here. I'm not elated, but not grouchy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's somethin'.

I'm having godiva hot chocolate again. MIAM!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in a good mood generally, but stressed and irritated at work due to circumstances that I will gladly describe to someone over delicious malt beverages sometime after 5 pm.

I think Jon's thinking of the section symbol.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bummed I missed the show, but I was a good friend to Er., who locked her keys in her car. Luckily, I had her spare! Unluckily, she was on the Southwest side of town.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kinda tired but otherwise in good spirits. Looking forward to leaving early today (4 PM) and driving up to play a show in Madison tonight!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

∫

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Looking forward to leaving early today (2 PM) and driving up to play a show in Madison tonight!

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Same show?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Different show! Coincidence, eh?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think not!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

It should be fun - I'm playing with someone who has friends and family up there and is back for a visit - and is talented and all too, but that should help bring in a crowd.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy, please cover "The Waiting" by Tom Petty. I think that song would sound good with the Eazy Treatment.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

(I was listening to TP the other day and remembered that that song totally roolz.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

ROOLZ!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's like at Carol's Pub, Amango - just put a dollar on the flypapered pole next to the stage and I'll play it.

And sorry to miss the show last night Ffix, but I'm definitely excited about the sub-t show coming up.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

(Has anyone else seen the weekend band at Carol's? They do a good 'Goodbye Earl'. I think I saw 'em do it twice in one night between the hours of 2 and 3:30 a.m.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

You mean the Dixie Chicks song?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

That song is good.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

OMG.

I'm all alone in this 3 story building and the fire alarm just went off for about 15 seconds.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why didn't you get the hell outside?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

It only went off for 15 seconds. I was too startled to do much more than run around in the hallway going "HELLO? HELLO?"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Then he caught on fire and went back to his computer to post about it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I learned about "Goodbye Earl" from the Dixie Chicks article in the New Yorker

http://www.merch-bot.com/images/products/blue-state-progressive-democrat-sticker-150.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I'm a blue state rap fan and even I heard "Goodbye earl"

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Admittedly I spent 4 yrs in a northern purple state that does a brisk trade in confederate flag belt buckles.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

This is jaymc we're talking about. Although to be fair I think I only heard about it due to the rabid pop-country fans I used to work with. See also: "Strawberry Wine," "I Love this Bar," "Drift Away," and many other treacly classics.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Dixie Chicks! I also like "Strawberry Wine" and other treacly classics. I mean, I'm not a "pop country fan" by anyone's standards because I don't really buy the music or listen to it, but I think the Dixie Chicks are good.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have never heard "Goodbye, Earl," but I have heard of it.

I have, however, heard "Redneck Woman."

Cause I'm a redneck woman
And I ain't no high class broad
I'm just a product of my raisin'
And I say "hey y'all" and "Yee Haw"
And I keep my Christmas lights on, on my front porch all year long
And I know all the words to every Charlie Daniels song
So here's to all my sisters out there keepin' it country
Let me get a big "Hell Yeah" from the redneck girls like me
Hell Yeah
Hell Yeah

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I just really hate Toby Kieth.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

The frat boy went from drunk to hungover and went home. We are incredibly busy here in law clerk land. As he was leaving, I said, "Thanks for all your help!" He said, "Sure! Have a good weekend!"

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

My raisin:

http://www.thenutfactory.com/photos/fruit-dried-raisins-monucca.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of pop country is bad, but the DCs are good! I never said I liked Toby Keith, for chrissakes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think I could make a numbered list of dumb frat boy stories a la that other guy's list of horrible stepfather stories. I don't know if that's a good idea, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda you totally told me that you LOVE Toby Keith and have pictures of him up over your bed and you listen to his music every night as you fall asleep and bought the delux edition DVD box set of his "Boot in Your Ass" army base tour.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Until I started paying attention to country music a couple years ago, I'm not sure I could name more than a few country songs from the past 20 years:

Garth Brooks, "Friends in Low Places" (1990)
Brooks and Dunn, "Boot Scootin' Boogie" (1991)
Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992)
Alan Jackson, "Chattahoochee" (1993)
Shania Twain, "That Don't Impress Me Much" (1998)
(if that even counts as country)

I know about Lonestar's "Amazed" just because it was the last country song to hit #1, and I know about Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" because of all the controversy it attracted -- but I can't sing you either of them.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

this is the first time i'm hearing about "goodbye earl". what is it?

x-post to jenny: the lightweight shouldn't get to leave early. I'M still here for chrissakes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxpost I know! I just wanted to make my distaste for him clear. A lot of that other stuff I can tolerate, but when they played TK I used to just bitch and make fun of it the entire time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I do, however, think Gretchen Wilson's "All Jacked Up" and Brad Paisley's "Alcohol" are two of the best singles in any genre from 2005.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

wow, i totally didn't see amanda's chrissakes up there either.

that's what happens when you step away from your desk before hitting "submit" again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

One guy I can't stand: Kenny Chesney.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, fratboy is what is friends (er, sorry, BROS.) would term a "PUSSY."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

is #2 == his

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

He's not a pussy. Motherfucker comes in here in a queasy cold sweat, poppin' alieve four days out of five. He's going to Michigan for the four-day weekend and wanted to leave early. Which he can do, because he's the senior partner's cousin.

Oh, he hooked up with a flight attendant last night. He really likes her, though, so he didn't try to "have realations" with her. (The "have realtions" was his attempt to tone down his tale of tail conquest so as not to offend the Orthodox Jew who also works here. It did not work.)

Thank god I love labor law.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

i got a phone call while at betty's last night and wound up meeting a ladyfriend at club foot. funzone? NONEZONE.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Thank God I'm all alone in this office.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ "tale of tail"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

OH I did find out that while saying "god dammit" is pretty offensive to the OJ (obv), I can saw "Sweet Jesus Jumpin' Christ on a Stick" and that is totally okay and nonblasphemous.

Yes, yes I actually asked.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i've been using "christ on a biscuit" lately. i don't know if this is the cause of or due to my increased biscuit consumption. mmmmmmmm, biscuits.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like Sarah's "Christ in pigtails"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starting to get homesick. :( Pooh.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Watchin' World Cup at my desk. Anyone else?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

No way man. The Ecuador-England match wound up with a 0-1 score. My soccer consultant says that that is perfectly normal. WTF. I need scoring.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Germany and Argentina are currently tied. And lookin' good.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, make yourself a Chicago dog. Can you get bright green relish down there? Should I send you some? And sport peppers? I could pay pal you an Italian beef.

There's only room for one sport in my heart, and that is going to be the sport with the largest number of tall people.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Argentina :(((

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

i, for one, can not wait for football season to start again. another month or so until college ball starts? a decade(+) ago the first game of the college season meant my yearly trip to times square. kickoff classic. good times.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am depressed because I'm hung over. No one told me that office depression is worse than waiter depression. Especially ALL ALONE IN THE OFFICE depression.

The reason I'm all alone is that I'm waiting for the IT guy from Chicago to help me get the router set up here and until that happens, all the students are at Loyola's law library computer lab doing their work. I miss those little rascals.

Last night was the first time I went out in the French Quarter (besides going out to eat the first day I was here). I met a nice Louisiana man who had the local accent. Confederacy of Dunces was right, NO accent is a LOT like a NJ accent.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

thankgodforthisfourdayweekend.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Argentina :(((

Don't cry for Team Argentina.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

NO accent is a LOT like a NJ accent.

Do they say "youse guys" a lot? And make that guido-immitation-gesture that I made at Edgewater Taver the night before you left that come out looking for like a flipper baby having a seizure and was all like "AAAAehhhhhhehehhhhhhheh"?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Back when I drove to work and sometimes listened to sports radio during the summer, I used to dread the beginning of football season, because it meant that there wasn't as much baseball talk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

God, John, you're such a girl.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i will watch any football game, anywhere, at any level (pro, college, high school, pop warner) and always find something interesting about it. i love it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

People in the U.P. say "youse" all the time, including people like highschool English teachers. I even heard him say "youses" once.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

That hurts a little bit.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I had teachers like that, too. One of my favorite social studies teachers (he taught US History and Psychology) would say, "All right, all'a youse, get yourselves acclimated ... right here."

I think where I grew up it was like a working-class Joliet thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

But did they go, "AAAAehhhhhhehehhhhhhheh"?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

This is the same English teacher that once had the class each draw cartoons of a particularly unpopular Yugoslavian kid in the class. He (the teacher) was also a guidance counselor. And I went to the "best" school in the area.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone at all interested in seeing The D|ll|nger F0ur on Wednesday? I saw they were playing and now have a strange yearning for their brand of drunk punk rock with an angry naked fat man.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

That conflicts the lady pulling the flag out of her butt, I think. Which I'm still on the fence about.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

a flipper baby having a seizure

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I thought that was the 11th?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

ALERT, I'M GOING TO KILL SOMEONE, ALERT

so, i got a voicemail from a "secondary billing agency" yesterday. turns out that an ER visit i made back in apr 05 (when I was living in CO) still hasn't been paid for. "but," I said, "I gave all my insurance info to the hospital, wha happen?"

*shrug* says lady (Roberta) on the phone.

i call the insurance company. "did anyone file a claim?" "nope, dude. btw, you have until next tuesday to get this sorted or else we won't cover ANY of it."

call the hospital. "hey guys, what's up with not filing that claim, did you love my info or something?"

"nope, it's all right here."

"....so, you, like, FORGOT???"

"we'll call you back"

"HUNTER FUCKING JPEG"

I'm so angry my head is going to explode.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

i love your info.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

did you love my info or something?"

haha. DID YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH THAT YOU HAD TO KEEP IT ALL FOR YOURSELF???

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

It is. That's a Tuesday. In a different week. I'm dumb.

Evan, you have my sympathies. Very few things are more frustrating than worming your way through healthcare and insurance crap.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to think of who I know now who doesn't have a cell phone. After I got one in May 2004, Kelsey got one, then Elizabeth, and now Kenan. And when I saw my dad last week, he was asking about plans and providers after saying not six months ago that he'd basically go to this grave without ever having gotten one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I SAW JEFF ON THE STREET.

He stopped and said hi hi hi and rescued me from the inquiries of a hobo!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I thought Jeff was awkward in situations like that. Or so I was telling Nick last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

He made a special effort!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I always see people first. I saw N+S in the TJ's, Jeff twice. Jenny spotted me randomly...when was that -- yesterday?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i was just thinking i may be the last remaining human on this continent without a cell phone. my parents have cell phones, and they still have dialup internet and never got around to getting cable.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

the night you guys went to hidden cove i was in wicker park getting advice on women from a homeless guy outside of flush taco. i can't remember what he said now but i remember it being very cogent at the time. until it degenerated into obscenities anyway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

i never recognize anybody. i saw a girl i used to be very close to at jewel a couple of weeks ago and walked right past her. if she hadn't said anything i totally wouldn't have noticed. the same thing happens when i see work people away from work.

so if i ignore you it's just that i don't recognize people out of context.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

at jewel a couple of weeks ago i saw a girl...

that's how that should read. i wasn't close to her only at jewel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

You were all snuggled up in the self-check out area.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T LIE!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

i wish. before i lived with my ex room mate we got yelled at by a checker for kissing in line at the dominick's in oak park. "NAW NAW NAW, TH'AINT NO KISSIN' IN DOMINICK'S".

awkward.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Someone had been kissin' on the checkout girl at the Dominick's on Belmont last time I was there. Her neck had about 4 big hickeys on it. EWWWWWWWWWW

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, the jewel on milwaukee/paulina has combos. but oddly, they only ever seem to have one flavor in stock at any given time. last friday they had pizzeria pretzel. on tuesday all they had were nacho cheese pretzel. i should've bought more than one bag. those things are like gold.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

hickey's are fucking hilarious.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

that reminds me...

Reply Forward Jen is not available to chat

kevin rys to Jen
More options 4/1/05

AWESOME!!!!

- Show quoted text -

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Were you the origin of said hickey?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

ME? DEAR GOD NO

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

OH WAIT YOU WERE ASKNG K.

Still, I would never, ever, nevernevernevernever kiss on this checkout girl.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

me? yes, that was the day after some pyrotechnic drunken break up sex a week before she moved across country.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Driving to Wisconsin on the Friday before the Fourth of July is going to take some patience.

If we'd stayed longer at the Hidden Cove a few weeks back, I definitely wanted to do "Rodeo" by Garth Brooks. Another time.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Here's an idea. 'nasta and the Ffix and the Sharx and I each write a song called "Pyrotechnic Drunken Break Up Sex" and, without comparing notes beforehand, throw a party where we perform them. Recently separated couples get a bonus prize for attending.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Look! It's Nick's Ukrainian footballer doppelganger:

http://i4.tinypic.com/169lzf8.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

If he were 200 centimeters tall, he could come play for the Bulls and I would start his fanclub.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Shevchenko is almost tall enough:
http://i3.tinypic.com/169mdyg.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortch, gettin' CREAMED by Italy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm down. Nueva Katz should do it, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

max just told me that he's into it.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

plz to schedule party for when i'm back in chicago visiting

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN ARE YOU COMING TO VISIT?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

AUGUST, PROBABLY. ALONG WITH BRIDGET'S TWIN SISTER AND MY BEST PAL, LEGGY.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

i want to meet bridget's leggy sister.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. The outside sucks for sitting in traffic. It's real nice otherwise, though.

A helicopter not-quite-crash-landed but not-regular-landed in the park right next to LSD while I was on the way home! There were many police and fire trucks around, and some broken-looking helicopter pieces. I heard later on the radio that everyone walked away.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 30 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. What a morning. I lost Jesse's keys. I have since found them -- apparently I left them at Jimmy John's sandwich shop yesterday, somehow. But in the meantime, I had something like a panic attack. I got to Julia's place last night and realized I had no keys at all, not hers and not mine, which are on different keychains. I said to my dad, who I was on the phone with at the time, that I was going to have to break into the apartment to get back in. Then this morning, I started thinking, wait a second, how did I lock the door if I left the keys in the apartment? So I went back to Jesse's place, feeling panicked that I had left the door unlocked all night. I hadn't. So I had to break in, which is no small feat, since it involves uninstalling the air conditioner in the back window. It's a time-intensive, labor-intensive, and noisy process that no burglar would ever bother with. Anyway, when I got in, I found Julia's keys sitting on the coffee table, but of course no trace of mine, which of course I would have to have left with in order to lock the door.

Long story short, I must have taken them out of my pocket to get at some change or something, and left them on the counter. They have them. All is well. But I can't help feeling like a fucking idiot.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Saturday, 1 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

In other nooz, I have again let my hair get so long that I have started having anxiety dreams about it. Haircut today, no question.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Saturday, 1 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

And in other other news, Brenda has become a terror. She mercilessly chases my cat around the apartment and attacks her viciously enough that my cat makes those distinctive "you have caused me pain" sounds, those rocking-chair-over-the-tail sounds. This is confirmed by the fact that Brenda often has a mouth full of orange hair when she's done. She's biting and clawing the shit out of my cat. This morning, despite a clean litterbox and plenty of food and all the attention she asks for (she likes me, just not my cat), she took a big dump in the middle of the living room floor right in front of me. This, obviously, is a cat's way of saying, "Fuck you right in the ear."

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Saturday, 1 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I was just going to give you advice on how to break in to my apartment. But you're good. I don't know how you managed to "uninstall" the A/C since I put screws in the baffles, but I turst you did it with minimal structural damage.

Kenan--make copies of the keys! You can expense it. The hardware store is at the corner of Winnemac and Clark.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 1 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hi yall.

Today is errand day.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 1 July 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am at work! Not actually working, though. I dropped in because I left my iPod here yesterday, and then I figured I would finish up an article I'm working on, as long as I'm in work mode. There are like three other people here, actually, including my supervisor, which sort of makes me feel weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 1 July 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Today I have:

Mailed a book, a cd, and a digital camera that I have sold.
Took our change jar to jewel to put it in coinstar so we could get a $55 starbucks gift card.
Put a car ad up on autotrader.
Continued removing our cds from their jewel cases.

Left to do:
Take out trash
Clean kitchen
Change litter in cat boxes

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 1 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what to do with myself. Sarah and her sister and her sister's bf are all downtown, I stayed home to make fliers, which I did. But now what?

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 1 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man: Watching the Cubs - Sox game, Cubs are ahead 6-5 in the 9th, Cubs pitcher gets the first two out, gets two strikes on the last out. Then Sox batter bloops one through pitcher's legs, gets a single. Dye gets walked. And then Pierzinski hits a home run, makes it 8-6 Sox. Sign held by Cubs fan in bleachers: "I'M A CUBS FAN BUT SERIOUSLY THIS SEASON IS RIDICULOUS."

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

That sign is awesome.

I am about to go to Milwaukee for a party thrown by one of my old cook buddies. I'm expecting a good time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

i am going to float in a tube on the Madison river!

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

btw, do a Google Image search for "madison" w/SafeSearch off. Go on. Do it.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to keep on getting rid of things so we can fit in a smaller apartment.

What do I do with an old but still more or less functional (battery dies fast) iPod?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

James Madison is my first result.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

uh, did you turn off SafeSearch? There's like five gaping vaginas in the search results!!

This is where I'll be spending my afternoon.
http://mishilo.image.pbase.com/v3/85/553585/1/45338831.madison5.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I turned it off and only got one gaping vagina, courtesy of big naturals dot come.

Maybe google is feeding you search results tailored towards your regular browsing behavior...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Old iPod Uses:

You could keep it plugged in as a part of a stereo system. This is what a friend of mine does with his old 15GB one.
You could use it as an external HD to back things up from your computer.

It would make a good paperweight!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

nick, want to go grab a beer? i think that's what i'm gonna do.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

alright, so there's TWO GVs.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

One gaping vagina and one pair of boobs, not in the same picture.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 1 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

We're going to the hopleaf at around 7:30 if anybody wants to come with.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta review a play at 8 pm, but I'm free after that - maybe I'll call and see if you're still there.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

she is wrong. she meant to say 9:30, so we will def be there.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

where's hopleaf? i had a couple beers but now i need food or else i'll be messy. i should've got a haircut today, humidity is doing a number on me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I hope this doesn't end up being a three-hour play, since the theater isn't air-conditioned.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's at Clark & Foster, on Clark St., in Andersonville.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

i will be there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 1 July 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sitting on my stoop with my laptop and smoking (i can't smoke in my apt.), drunk middle-aged women keep stopping to chat. there's a party somewhere in the neighborhood.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 1 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just made coleslaw.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 1 July 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

i will be leaving for andersonville in 15 minutes! if you guys bail please call me so i can get the damen bus back home. thank you.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 1 July 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

OK. So I think I'm ready to come to terms with the fact that I will not ever have a blog at any point in my life. BUT, I have saved and renamed and organized a lot of photographs that I will upload to Flickr, which is fine.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 2 July 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/59/179549647_9d325b740e_o.jpg

One thing that never gets old is checking out the water marks. This is at the building right next door to our offices on Canal Street. Our building has nothing on the ground floor except for the elevator and stairwells, so the building is fine except for a really overwhelming odor of mustiness in the elevator.

Check on my Flickr in the next couple of days for updates. I have a less hectic holiday weekend (that precedes a week that will involve hitting the streets at 6 AM to interview workers) and I plan to post a ton of photos.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 2 July 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

The building in that pic is a lawyer's office.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 2 July 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. Carbombs at Simon's at 2:30 a.m. followed by fast goodbyes.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 2 July 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

i just walked in my door eazy, hassled on the red line, hassled on the blue line, hassled on division (with police involvent this time). time to make some eggs chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 2 July 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

note: the hen had more to do with the making of the eggs, i was more on the "preparing and eating" end of things. time to go back to bed chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

They let you do car bombs in Simons?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

floating in tubes on rivers is fucking awesome, dudes. although, i went home to change/eat last night, and fell asleep instead of heading out with my pals to party.

i think, in the end, that's OK.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Time for breakfast, Chicago!

Jesse, I had a dream last night that you compiled your memoirs on NO and they were published in a magazine of Harpers/Atlanta/New Yorker quality.

I love tubing. Jesse and Jeff and I went tubing once and by the time we got off the river, we all felt like we'd journed to Kurtz' enclave and back.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

By "Atlanta," I meant "Atlantic Monthly."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 2 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

by the time i got off the river, i was DRUNK.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 2 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

The only river I've tubed is the Apple River in Wisc. and loved that. Wrecked shoes and got sunburned, but who cares.

The gals next to us suggested the car bombs. Kevin left half of his congealing in its glass (car bomb, not gal). Kelsey's a fan of thos drinks, isn't she?

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 2 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

i love irish car bombs. esp since they're an excuse to talk loudly about how all Irish-themed drinks are named for the Troubles, and, like, what's up with THAT?

i have also tubed on the Apple.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 2 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Apropos of a conversation at the Simons bar, I asked the gal next to me how old she thought I was and she guessed early/mid-forties, which was kind of startling.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 2 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was drunk after tubing as well. It was so fucking hard to get out of the river, I kept falling over backwards. Our beer cooler tube had too much beer and liquor in it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 2 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I also like peeing in my swim trunks.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 2 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of feel like Kurtz sometimes.

We are having INcredible lighting, rain and thunder right now. But no wind.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 2 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

When we went tubing, I got sucked under a rock by the current trying to help a drunk DB out of the river and lost my prescription sunglasses and have never come quite that close to drowning before or since it my life. The booze probably helped save me, though - I was underwater, kind of stuck up against the rock, and was strangely unconcerned about it when a very calm voice in my head said, "If you don't get out from under this rock, you'll drown." And I thought, "All right then," and got hold of the rock and pulled myself up. If I had been more alert, I might have panicked and then who knows! I might be tying this from BEYOND THE GRAVE.

That's my only near death story, except for one time that I was on a plane and they turned it around because of "mechanical problems" and I looked out the window and saw fuel flying out from under the wing but my reaction that time was to try to go to sleep.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 2 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

my only near death story is from tubing too, except i wasn't drunk. i got stuck under the raft and couldn't figure out how to get out from under it with strong currents and such being what they were. the underside of the raft was very blue.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 2 July 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am back from Milwaukee. I had never really been there before beyond driving through and maybe stopping for gas, it seems pretty alright.

Apartments are CHEAP there. My friend's new place is the third floor of a big Victorian house with 1. his own balcony, 2. an octagonal room in the turret of the house, 3. a big, lofty-style space with skylights (big as in bigger than my place or pretty much anyone else I know in Chicago,) all for under 700 bucks a month including power and water and laundry! It's also near one of the bar-laden streets and a very nice fancy produce and grocery store.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Is the post office open tomorrow?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 2 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

The "madison" GIS is quite unremarkable. You can Google almost anything and see tits and ass.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Sunday, 2 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think I can say with complete certainty that my home is not receiving mail. I have been waiting for a week for my NetFlix DVDs to arrive and nada. So Jenny, DO NOT USE that address I gave you. I am going to talk with someone in Chicago about renting us a PO box where all the interns and I can receive mail. IT'S BEEN 10 MONTHS and my neighborhood was not really hit all that hard!!!

When I called the PO's special restoration of services line (currently offering updates on the Gulf Coast and flooded areas in the NE) they said only, "We are telling people in NO to install mail boxes and rent PO boxes and we will have service established ASAP." Not real helpful.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

If you need to send me something, you can use that address, but send it via UPS. I'm usually not here to receive it, but the UPS pickup place is fairly convenient.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

DEAR KENAN

I LOVE YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH THE OFFICE PACKAGE.

-JESSE

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 July 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Ebert - in serious conidition tonight.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 July 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah has been insisting that tonight is THE night to go see fireworks. Is that true, or are there fireworks on the, you know, FOURTH OF JULY as well?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

chicago has them on the 3rd nick, most suburbs have them on the fourth.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is anybody else at work today or am I the only SUCKER???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

i here, bored already.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

i have class today.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'm here.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Today in this office there are: 0 secretaries, three attorneys (out of 13), two bookkeepers, one runner, and three v. bored and irritable clerks.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's a skeleton crew here too. bored off my ass.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hey this weekend I went back to the HC for my friend's going-away party and I sang two songs:

I took a stab at "Dancin' in the Dark" and danced through the whole song and didn't get winded and I also sang both the male and female part of "Don't You Want Me" with an English accent.

Speaking of England, what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than to get Ray Davies to play at the Taste of Chicago on the 4th?!?! Whose great idea was that? DO NOT GET ME WRONG -- I am an ardent Kinks fan, but he would not be my big name draw of choice for the 4th.

Speaking of Ray Davies, who wants to go with me? I can't find ANYONE who wants to brave the hideous Taste crowd on the 4th (Dan refuses) but I love RD and want to see him sing some Kinks songs. I'm sure he will. But what a weird gig.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

PS -- my rendition of "Don't You Want Me" was ridiculous and I think I am clearly, officially over my karaoke stage fright.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

what time? i'm going to a bbq in berwyn during the day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

This red hot gig is at 5:15 PM.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

i probably won't be back in time. sounds like fun though, enjoy!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

oh yay, embarrassing karaoke! my worst episode was drunkenly pointing to whatever on the list and ending up singing 'mr. tambourine man', which is a boring song and horrible to sing with a female voice. so i was switching octaves all over the place and it was quite bad. i got mocked a lot for that. karaoke when very drunk can be amusing and/or delightfully humiliating.

i saw LA confidential this weekend, twice.

also, fuck humidity. fuck it in the ass.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

hooray for no work today.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I *heart* Amanda but there's no way I'm going to the Taste of Chicago. I nearly killed people at Trader Joe's this weekend and that was nowhere near as crowded.

I don't know what my worst karaoke song is. They are all pretty bad. The "worst" was Jess, Courtney, and I singing Summer Nights from Grease during which Jesse would grab the microphone and just let loose hoarse, gutteral screams, much to the dismay of the karoake people, while Courtney and I laughed so hard we couldn't stand up straight.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

My worst karaoke experience was when I sang "Happy Together" in a karaoke bar where I knew not a single person right after I moved to NC. No one was paying any attention to me as I was up there croaking out "I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my liiiiiife" and trying not to cry. That was atrocious.

By comparison, my duet with myself this past weekend sounded masterful.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I figured I couldn't get anyone to go with me. :( Oh well. I think I'll probably go anyway, unless it's raining.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

anything going on tonight? since tomorrow is a day off tonight would be a good night to do something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

it would be awesome if ray davies came out wearing a red coat.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

A couple of my friends were talking about going to see Ray Davies, but they were durnk at the time so who knows their level of commitment.

Oh yeah, I'm at work too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Plans for today:

1. Laundry
2. Maybe finish watching The Young Girls of Rochefort that I started last night but then 20 minutes in realized I had the first season of Lost and I'd much rather be watching that instead.
3. Resisting the temptation to watch more episodes of Lost while Kr isn't around.
4. Going to see Wordplay with my pa at 4:40.
5. Band practice, 7:30-10:30.
6. Something fun late?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

We finished the first season of Lost last night. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

i went to the laundromat on both saturday and sunday. that was my holiday weekend.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh, but i did get a chance to drink beer that purportedly tastes like vag.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Tee hee.

Man, I was just minding my own business when suddenly the song "Cold Beverages" by G. Love and Special Sauce comes flying into my head and now I'm going to be all like, "Stick it in the fridge, stick it in the fridge, stick it in the fridge" for the rest of the day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

i hate g. love and doubt his sauce is very special.

and now i've got that song stuck in my head as well, goddamn it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Know whose sauce is quite special? Hecky. We got ribs on Friday night and I can say honestly that they are WAY BETTER than Smoke Daddy. The sauce is spicy and the ribs were MEATY.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

honey 1 on western is better than smoke daddy too but not as close to my apartment. i don't really love smoke daddy but it's a less than 5 minute walk so it wins out pretty regularly.

stick it in the fridge.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Go girl work the cold one. Go girl work the cold one.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I saw him play at the Stone Balloon in Newark, DE and it was one of the most boring concerts I have ever attended. It marked the end of my going to see bands because I like one essentially novelty song off an entire album.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

i saw him at the paradise in boston (with cranky franky & imperials [now cranky franky & cranktones], a father/son rockabilly group opening) where my older sister's boyfriend from college used to work security. got in for free and still felt ripped off.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

What is a good general term for business services such as human resources, IT, payroll, accounts payable and stuff like that? I want to say, "Business, Inc. outsources _________, such as HR, IT, AP to the corporate office."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

i think "business services" works well.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i just stretched while yawning and felt something pop in my elbow. a boredom-induced workplace injury. i think i am now officially the most out of shape i've ever been.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Technology/business solutions

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

or actually, my company calls it "corporate information solutions"

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

corporate solutions is just nebulous enough to work!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes it is! Thanks!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

what would one do with a coconut heart, cooking/eating wise?

we got our bag of fruit/veggies and i have no idea what to do with that. i'm looking things up on google and i keep getting nutritional info and bullshit like that. but omg we have mangoes, oh the delight.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Mangos!

Is it a New Leaf produce box? And what is a coconut heart? I thought the heart of the coconut was made of milk.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

it's from true nature, which is essentially the same kind of thing as new leaf has. we get all sorts of surprise fruits and veggies.

a coconut heart is basically the coconut without the rind. it's very very hard and i know it is sometimes used for cooking but hell if i can find any info on it. maybe we'll just split it and have the milk i guess?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

the only recipe i could find involves lots of different kinds of meat (beef! pork! lard! shrimp juice!), and doesn't seem too adaptable. (my roommate is a vegetarian)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I made a 19-track "driving to California" mix and now am trying to figure out if I can fit Sublime's "Santeria" on it. I already feel weird that there's no Beach Boys on the bitch -- but then again not all of the songs are by Californians or are about California.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Did you put "Malibu" by Hole on there? I think I might sing that one at karaoke next time.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Could you make the meat recipes but substitute tofu? Jeff made coconut rice once that was divine. You could top that with tofu marinated in grated coconut, lime juice, lemongrass, cilantro, and chiles and then fried and have Thai tofu w/ coconut rice and then I would come over for dinner because OMG that sounds good.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in tears. Go ahead, ask me why.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

mmmmm... beef! pork! lard! shrimp juice!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Did you get a bad haircut?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Did you put "Malibu" by Hole on there? I think I might sing that one at karaoke next time.

Ooh, good call. I put "Violet" by Hole on there, even though it has nothing to do with California, but I associate Courtney Love with coked-out glammy Hollywood.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

WHY ARE YOU IN TEARS?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

gut reaction says the tears are bird & cat related.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Funny tears or sad tears?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I lost my phone. Inside of 72 hours, my phone is gone. Like, GONE. Please don't start with the "have you checked here" stuff. Yes, I have checked there. I have checked everywhere. I have called every taxi company in town, because damned if I remember what taxi I took yesterday. That was a long shot, anyway. If you call my phone, it goes straight to voicemail, which means that wherever it is, it's off or dead. I have gone to try to buy a new phone, only to have them explain that the low cost of the first phone was because of the contract, and they don't have any new phones that will cost me less than $200. I don't have $200. I can't believe this. I'm still stuck between not being able to believe that I lost my phone, and not being able to believe that I can't replace it. And then I go back to not being able to believe that I CAN'T FIND THE FUCKING THING. How many ways could I have lost it? I've been exactly one place since I last had it -- here. It MUST be here somewhere, right? But it's not.

I am a loser. I lose things.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's entirely possible that I am a loser in a more colloquial sense, as well.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, Kenan.

It is possible to buy an "unlocked" (meaning not provider-specific) phone for cheaper at a third-party retailer. I am a little unsure as to how that works as far as getting the service transferred to the new phone, but it can be done. People have done it. Jesse has done it, actually. Perhaps, as a regular loser of cell phones, he can offer some advice.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want another phone. I want the one I lost.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I WANT THE ONE I CAN'T HAVE

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I lost my phone not long after getting it. It was found by a nice woman who called one of my friends with it and let them know she had my phone. This led to me driving down to Navy Pier (where she worked) and spending $28 on parking (I was a n00b in town still) but I got my phone back and never lost it again. I also got the insurance package after that, which is only a good deal if you lose/destroy your phone at presicely the right time.

Kenan, good luck finding and/or replacing your phone. I'm a loser too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Things are dark when my sense of humor turns to Smiths references.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

shit. that royally sucks, kenan. i hope it turns up, somehow.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

My first cellphone was stolen by an intruder within 2 weeks of getting it, just after we moved to Chicago. I'm not a loser of cellphones, since it was technically stolen, but we did have to replace it.

It might turn up?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

i've only lost one but i've broken a couple. at the 2005 blackout i think my phone was used to stir gin & tonics.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

AS A MATTER OF FACT, Kenan, I happen to have in my desk drawer TWO old Cingular cell phones that I will just bet you can get activitated with your number until you find your phone. You may have one or both of those cell phones AT NO COST TO YOU. They aren't as fancy as yours was, but they won't cost you $200, that's for damn sure. And if you lose one, BFD.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

is everybody working or something?

CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER 4 HOURS OF THIS!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I just read all this.

I have no particular advice. Have you checked on the coffee table?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

i get to go home in 2 hrs and 7 min.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

anyone want to catch some post-work beers tonight? i need something, anything, to act as a silver lining for the rest of this damn day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm done with class now. back to my weekend already in progress.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night where I smoked a joint and then I was trying to drive my car down the driveway to our parking space and I kept getting confused about which was the brake and which was the gas but everytime I almost ran into another car I would just barely squeak by, over and over.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, under the cushions.

John, Mr. 6. Something fun late?, come by the house and say hi to Jode.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Chronic flex on that ass

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

come by the house and say hi to Jode.

I called her last night, and she said she was busy tonight...?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, guess what song is stuck in my head AGAIN:

"midnight at the oaaaaaaa-sis..."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know where it came from, i was walking upstairs and started singing it about an hour ago and i haven't been able to shake it since. goddammit.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, maybe she is busy tonight, John, I haven't heard...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

i get to leave 59 minutes early.

yay!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to apologize formally to Julia, Jenny, and anyone else I may have chatted with today. I promise that if I buy a gun, it will only be for snakes and such. I'm such a drama queen.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

you were actually going to buy a gun???

just ask, dude, there's plenty at my folks' house!

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

hey drama queen, you up for post-work beers? if you are CALL ME. HA HA HA HA.

no seriously, that was mean but if you're up for beers let me know in anyway you can. first round's on me.

― otto midnight at the oasis (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

high-fives for otto, with the zinger! PAYPAL OF ONE BEER TO YOU

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just giddy because i get to leave an hour early.

― otto midnight @ the oasis (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

don't you be killing any snakes, kenan. i like snakes.

yay for an hour early. nobody should have to deal with work on a day like today.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

i was serious.

HOLY SHIT! SOMEONE SHOULD INVENT BEERPAL!!! ORDER BEERS FOR DISTANT PALS OVER THE INTERNET!

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

(housemate is whistling and talking to his dog over the phone, RIGHT NOW)

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

a friend sent me some links on how to deal with a coconut sans rind and it's like, oh, you need a machete. oh yes, because that's such an important and common kitchen utensil.

though just maybe my roommate has one. she has an entertainingly diverse array of stuff.

BEERPAL IS A GREAT IDEA.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

i know for a fact that you can get a machete at the hardware store on western just north of augusta.

beerpal is indeed a genius idea. some sort of crazy alcohol-fueled western union type of thing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know where it came from

It came from me on Saturday night at the Hopleaf.

There sure are a lot of tourists outside today. Gross.

In other, better news, I got a free iced skim latte from Starbucks because they are out of coffee light frappucine base.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

i remember that but it had been out of my head for 36 hours then walking up the steps i started singing it again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Maria Muldaur is sneaky like that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

food recommendation du jour: moshi. japanese ice cream goodness. i had some mango ones this afternoon. they have a thin layer of rice flour dough stuff on the outside with ice cream in the middle, and oh so good. i love trader joe's.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I CONCUR those things are good! i like the coffee flavor -- i can only find them at golden pacific on broadway. chocolate is also good. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm mochi. i've never had the red bean flavor, but green tea is good.

but make sure you check them before you take them home! i've spent $ on ones that were melted and sad and disappointing.

but still: YUM MOCHI.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, my friend was saying that you have to get them right home from the grocery store or they go all mushy and blech.

but, SO GOOD.

i'd be curious about the red bean flavor. that could be good.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, both barrels plz:

"Can bachelors save damsels from abortion?" from Salon

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

*dives for cover behind couch*

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and i'm heading over to the free show at the bottle tonight, don't know who's playing. the beer will be cheap but probably won't taste like vag. you get what you pay for, $1.25 pbr.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN, HEED THIS.

I HATE moshi. When I Robin (Ru550) offers me moshi, I peel it before enjoying the ice cream inside. The gooey shell is yuck.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what's up, but since the first day of my arrive in NO I have drunk V8 every single day. I can't get enough of it.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

NSFW: http://published.sureflix.com/Pictures/AssDoctor/AssDoctorC.jpg

Hilariousest porn title and cover ever.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

So New Orleans....people have no concept at all of the cardinal directions. Best evidence yet: but "Uptown" New Orleans? Lies to the south of "Downtown."

I have 3 maps of the city; in the Rand McNally Atlas, North is at around 2 O'clock, the Enterprise Rental Co. Map, it's at 11 o'clock, and on the folding map it's at 11 o'clock as well.

Why is this?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

uptown mpls is south of downtown.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I think it might be because the Mississippi curves there (i.e. the whole crescent thing)? I know it fucks me up as far.

I am back and apparently on a 10:00 - 5:00 am sleep schedule, which after an 18.5 hour travel day could be much worse, I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

should be: as far as cardinal directions (which I kinda suck at anyway)

They showed a video on the Zurich/O'Hare flight called "Enjoy Chicago!" with clips of all the tourist spots set to soft music. It was way better than the Pink Panther.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan! Welcome back! How was your trip?

Jesse, I can never be left to my own devices in NO or I will wander into the river and drown. Or end up in Mississippi and nobody wants that.

I dunno, Evan, at first glance that all seems to obvious to wast ammo on, but I'll keep reading and see if I get all pissed off about it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, your 2 compasses would be USELESS here. I can only imagine you driving around without street signs to help. I spend soooo much time on weird non-roads under enormous freeway overpasses trying to find the real world.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

it is too obvious, you're right. but it

was mostly the comments from the original article that blew my mind. and i guess commenting on them here is sorta preaching to the choir, but still. i wanted to punch someone in the face after reading that stuff

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Trip was great. The best night was the gig in Italy, playing for a bunch of townsfolk in a villa courtyard while Italy won their World Cup game (w/post-game second-line), then going to a bar with our hosts and eating horse sausage and carbonara.

Beer brats = also great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

O M F G

I am going to reach through a phone and kick some WaMu ass!!!

In the past I have made check deposits and had the full balance available immediately, but since last month I had an overdraft, they are now holding my funds until the check clears.

Now they are holding my funds till the 7th. I have a balance of $1400 but an available balance of $0. The CSR said that I could still withdraw money from an ATM because I have $300 overdraft protection. If I did that then I would incur a $27 fee.

The solution they are offering is for me to go to an ATM and once again overdraw my account, which will reflect negatively on my account in the future.

IWJ is wiring me $200 tomorrow, but I really need money NOW NOW NOW. Fucking PayChex, Fucking WaMu.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds like the Gaza Strip on my block tonight. Bricks of firecrackers, loud explosions setting off car alarms, etc.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's weird how few fireworks there are here, even in the populated parts of the city. Especially weird when you consider that all fireworks are legal in LA.

The city's official fireworks were pretty damn amazing. They took place on the Mississippi and featured "dueling barges" that were positioned about 1/3 mile apart on the curve of the river by the French Quarter, simultaneously shooting off identical volleys. All along the banks people were shooting off much smaller fireworks that very nicely accented the main show. The fact that it was on the Mississippi made it special.

And of course I spent the morning being a good little Left-wing activist, marching for affordable housing at yet another condemned project.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

3 things about today's rally:

1. I learned the term "mactivist," that is, one who attends marches and rallies to get laid

2. The groups that are organizing these rallies need to really get to doing more organizing. They promised that they would execute "Project Jericho" in which they tore down the fences and reclaimed the project. 3 local news trucks and CNN showed up, but there was no Project Jericho.

3. Before the rally got underway they were showing a video by a revolutionary guy who asked us to imagine a world with justice, in which health care was provided for all, etc etc. He said that socialism was the way to work towards that, and Communism was the way to accomplish it. He cited the USSR and China as beautiful examples of places in which Communism was made to work. WHATWHATWHAT???

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Now the fireworks are starting!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Nevermind. It was probably just gunfire.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

I had this idea that the fireworks would climax here at midnight, like New Years Eve, when in fact they ended around 10 - I forgot about the sunset protocol on July 4th.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I have to go to work today. Blah. BUT! I just put the new yeah yeah yeahs album on my ipod and I have a new tank top on, so it's not all bad.

I just read this entire thread, so even though I'm about to be all me me me, I was listening. I promise.

Yesterday, I bought some clothes, which I'm not supposed to do, namely this top and two more dresses AND a top to wear under one of the dresses. I love summery dresses. I am addicted. Anyway, that inspired me to clean out my closet. I brought up two tubs of clothes from storage and dumped them on my bed. Then I proceeded to dump out two drawers worth of clothes as well and EVERYTHING in my closet. I went through every single piece. God only knows how many clothes I tried on yesterday. Anyway, I now have 3 bags full of good will clothes, but they could be your clothes. If you are female and interested in pawing through them for freebies. please let me know really soon before I get annoyed at the clutter and throw them in a green bin. My two favorite pieces are sundresses, both size 10. I have clothes of all sizes though, thanks to my amazing bodyshape changes. Email me if interested.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

i wish. before i lived with my ex room mate we got yelled at by a checker for kissing in line at the dominick's in oak park. "NAW NAW NAW, TH'AINT NO KISSIN' IN DOMINICK'S".

awkward.

One time Nick and I were at a bookstore in VA (Borders, I think?), and he was feeling sick so he put his head on my shoulder. Two seconds later, a guy who worked there scolded us for PDA. It was awesome.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

for what it's worth, i love summery dresses too but for completely different reasons. and hey jenny! wallace! i didn't know he was a free agent so my reasoning for the pistons not to trade him goes right out the window as they had no contract to trade.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

we had a great view of the evanston fireworks from our 14th floor apartment both last night and the night before, which was kind of cool. very pretty, but far enough away that all the booming noises didn't get annoying, as they do quite easily for me.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

If you are female and interested in pawing through them for freebies.
I am both female and INTERESTED. Tops particularly! Small ones! ...But not so small that students would stare. I am desperate for teaching-appropriate clothes that aren't ugly. I have a lot of summer dresses, but they're all sort of cute-like and not professional-like. Also, some of them have holes, are 40+ years old and have been in my closet since, I dunno, 1993. I could really use some newish clothes, so whatever might fit me would be very much appreciated. Thanks Sarah!

Also, there was such a loud explosion on my street while I took the dogs out for their late-night pee that I screamed. I screamed! Out loud! How embarrassing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

there were hundreds of people out at augusta and leavitt last night watching neighborhood people setting off fireworks. it was kind of weird. i was very surprised there were no structure fires.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

we should have a chilxor chixor clothing exchange. i have a few things that i used to really like, so i haven't gotten rid of them, but they don't fit at all anymore. mostly size 8 ish stuff. only a few things, including this great long black sleeveless dress that deserves a good home.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

AGREED. A SWAP MEET!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

there were hundreds of people out at augusta and leavitt last night watching neighborhood people setting off fireworks. it was kind of weird. i was very surprised there were no structure fires.

I was there for a moment. I like how the entire area sounded like it was under assault.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

At your place, right, Julia? Cuz I'm down.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's nearby to me too, conveniently! Tell me when. Maybe we could sip on iced tea and gossip too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

yes! maybe next tues eve or something? i'll email you guys.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

do we know each other deej?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so. I've only met jaymc, and briefly met n/a, sarah and i think eazy(?)

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE NEW BANDMATES PLZZZ

sigh

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

What has become of Jenny?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT HAS BECOME OF EVERYONE!?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't exist.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vrc.iastate.edu/magritte.gif

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Catching up at work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

The brief that would not die...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just chillin' -- I don't have a whole lot to say.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm playing catch-up as well... for two, since one of my co-workers is on vacation for a week. GRRRRR

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny lives! Jesse and I have missed you.

Thanks for the nachos, BTW.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to drop by yesterday morning and buy you both breakfast as a kind of special Independence Day love-in or something, but you were not home. Alas. I had steak and eggs by myself.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, thanks, Kenan. That was a nice thought!

Kevin re: Ben Wallace - I know! I am so fucking excited!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I got to move it move it.

I'm still busy packing up the office. Same thing tomorrow. Friday, Saturday, and many days after that, I'll be unpacking. FUN!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone keeps asking me where things are. Answer? It's packed. No one takes that for an answer. I have to find stuff. Yuck.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Try, "If it were up your ass, you'd know where it was" and see if they like that any better.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ok.

2 more hours! I can do it!
You can do it, put yer ass into it!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Final tracklisting for the DRIVING TO CALIFORNIA mix:

1. Hole, "Violet"
2. The Dials, "Sick Times"
3. Lindsay Lohan, "First"
4. Jimmy Eat World, "The Middle"
5. Grandaddy, "Now It's On"
6. Stephen Malkmus, "Dynamic Calories"
7. The Whitest Boy Alive, "Burning"
8. America, "Ventura Highway"
9. Joni Mitchell, "Help Me"
10. Steely Dan, "Babylon Sisters"
11. Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams"
12. Beck, "Where It's At"*
13. Soul Coughing, "Screenwriter's Blues"
14. Ice Cube, "It Was a Good Day"
15. Kanye West ft. Paul Wall, "Drive Slow"
16. Shuggie Otis, "Aht Uh Mi Hed"
17. Babe Ruth, "The Mexican"
18. Booker T. and the MGs, "Sunny Monday"
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge"

*I'm holding out to see if I can track down the John King remix, with the vocoderized "California" (a la 2Pac's "California Love")

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Are you driving to California?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

There's a great remix of "Where It's At", originally part of the Japanese 12", with no Rhodes and no drums - just a chucka-chucka guitar. They played it at Sunday Night Dance Party all the time in...must've been '96 or whenever.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot "Goin' Back to Cali"

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

And "Drive Slow" is all Chicago references!

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone else not know (like me) that Jackson/Michigan is the eastern start/finish line of Rte. 66?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite California song is John Stewart's "Gold" featuring Stevie Nicks - "Drivin' over Kanan, singin' to my soul, There's people out there turnin' music into gold." Very late-1970s, coked out on someone's white learth couch kind of song. Very Hurlyburly.

When the lights go down in the California town
People are in for the evening
I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar
My heart's beating time with my breathing
Driving over Kanan, singing to my soul
There's people out there turning music into gold

Oh, my buddy Tim Bass he's working pumping gas
And he makes two fifty for an hour
He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tapping on the cans
Sings rock and roll in the shower
Driving over Kanan, singing to my soul
There's people out there turning music into gold

Oh California girls are the greatest in the world
Each one a song in the making
Singing right to me, I can hear the melody
The story is there for the taking
Driving over Kanan, singing to my soul
There's people out there turning music into gold

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Other notable Cali songs: "Ventura" - Lucinda Williams; "All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow; the-worst-hit-song-of-the-past-25-years-that-Rockabye-one; the halfway decent "A Long December"; "Playaz Club" - Rappin' 4-Tay; Randy Newman's solo-piano version of "I Love L.A."...

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

And fuckin' Zepplin? What about Zep?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Why would John include Zeppelin?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

This site has a "turn by turn" description of the path of rte. 66.

http://www.historic66.com/description/

You can say that it began at Jackson and Michigan, but Jackson is now a one way street going east, so you won't get far unless you head down adams.

http://www.historic66.com/illinois/det-il1.html

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

that zeppelin song is one of those songs that gets in my head from the tiniest mention (not that i'm complaining).

i'm trying to think of what that rockabye song is and i'm blanking, which is probably better anyway.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot "Goin' Back to Cali"

Didn't forget -- I just don't own it. And, ummm, haven't heard it.

And "Drive Slow" is all Chicago references!

Yeah, but it's about driving. And the beginning sounds GREAT segueing out of "It Was a Good Day."

Btw, only six songs actually have references to California:

"Sick Times" ("California, I'll be in California...")
"Ventura Highway"
"Babylon Sisters" ("Drive west on Sunset to the sea...")
"Screenwriter's Blues" ("You live in Los Angeles!")
"It Was a Good Day" ("Nobody I knew died in south central LA...")
"Under the Bridge" ("the city I live in, the city of angels...")

Then there are a few artists from California: Lindsay Lohan, Grandaddy, Stephen Malkmus, and Shuggie Otis (in addition to Ice Cube, RHCP, etc.)

But mostly I just tried to capture a few different vibes that I associate with L.A. -- glammy chick rock vocals, chilled-out 70s studio soft-rock, '90s Silverlake collage-y alt-rock, loose Latin-inflected jams.

Thought about putting on "Route 66" but nixed it for being too obvious.

And how 'bout this: I know that Zeppelin song (Kelsey loves it), but I'm not about to put it on a mix, okay?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Might I recommend "Calistan" by Frank Black? And what's California about Hole, apart from a kind of icky San Fernando porn star vibe about them?

xpost. Oh, I see.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

There's actually a ton of shit I could put on a California mix that I didn't -- esp. considering how much I love the Beach Boys. But also, aforementioned 2Pac/Dr. Dre song, Low's "California," Jane's Addiction, etc.

I just didn't want to make it a novelty mix. It has to also be functional as a mix for my friend Kerry to listen to as he moves out to California this weekend to go to grad school.

apart from a kind of icky San Fernando porn star vibe about them

Exactly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

i'm trying to think of what that rockabye song is and i'm blanking, which is probably better anyway.

Ev-ver-y-thing's gonna be all-right, rockabye.

Sorry to do that.

I'd like a copy of John's mix. Everyone's got their own California style. I could imaging a completely unlistenable mix of existentialist-California songs inspired by "Hotel California". At least three would be Don Henley songs.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

FUUUUCK.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

you really didn't have to remind me of that song. really.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I should've put on "Boys of Summer"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.progweed.net/reviews/m/mr_bungle-california.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000J7JO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

FYI, livejournal discussions of racism = worse than ILX discussions of racism.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

At first I thought Julia's dismay was due to Portugal losing to France in the WC semifinals. But any Don Henley/Eagles song is worthy of such disgust, too.

Also, fuck Shawn Mullins.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

'boys of summer' reminds me of cape cod, massachusetts. but that's just a personal association.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I got really into the WC over the last couple of weeks. Too bad I don't get the semifinals here, but I'm psyched to watch the final game this weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

ME TOO.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Water Closet?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I unabashedly love "Boys of Summer" and would really want to cover it if Atari Teenage Ant Farm hadn't already done so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

That too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me, here's a nice bit of Swiss energy conservation - the hotel key was attached to a keycard that you had to plug into the wall in order to have any electricity in the room. No leaving lights, AC, or TV on when you leave.

(unfortunately we only got one key per 2 person room, so coming back without it was no fun)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Velouria- Pixies
hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time
velouria
her covering
travelling career
she can really move
oh velveteen!
my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore you
my velouria
say to me
where have you been
finally through the roof
and how does lemur skin
reflect the sea?
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the tides of the summer
every summer
every summer
every
my velouria
my velouria
forevergreen
i know she's here
in California
i can see the tears
of shastasheen

my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore your
my velouria

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

excellent

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I WISH Atari Teenage Riot had covered Boys of Summer.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I downloaded three tracks from the new AFX album, "Chosen Lords," and they are really really good, and I want to download the rest but it seems like only one dude has them and he's never online.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I really do vote for "Calistan" -- he explains the title is a play on Afghanistan or other such unfortunate Stan nations, only it's Cali. It's a bit post-apocalyptic. "The valley of tar that once was LA." Also, really really catchy and drivable.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

So I was looking for lyrics to California, Here I Come, and I went to the Sophie b Hawkins page... and check out her crazy drumming gif!
here
She's really in the groove!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Do any dudes want to do dude things during the day on Saturday? Sarah will be working and I will bored.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

i willllllborrrrred

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sophie B. Hawkins as any Forest Ecology and/or Geology major from my college

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, You better come up with an alibi quick because L's husband has volunteered to help us.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

The recipient of the mix will be in town on Saturday, and so I'll be hanging out with him. Don't know what we'll be doing, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Coke and tittie bars, I'm sure.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you could squeeze listening to "Goin' Back to Cali" in there somewhere.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

ha eazy, first thing i thought was "hookers and blow".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

My best L.A. moment ever (other than walking around Santa Monica at 8 a.m. and seeing a guy in a white convertible getting blown at a stoplight) was having dinner and drinks with the younger Cunn1ngham at a hip place on Sunset Blvd., next to some b-list TV celebs. Very nice. And the walking on my own on the public beach in Malibu at sunset (4:30 p.m., Thanksgiving weekend) and having the entire incredibly gorgeous beach to myself other than a dissheveled wino changing his pants, and I had to wonder if it was Nick Nolte.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

You know how J. Blount is always mentioning the Indie Rock Karaoke he goes to in Athens, GA?

I found the master list of songs they've got at their disposal. Christ on a biscuit, if there was one of these things in Chicago, we'd be all over it. I'm already imagining Amanda doing one of the dozen GBV songs they have, Dan doing Jesus Lizard, Sarah doing Helium, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

OMG FUNZONE.

I have imagined that in my head many times over...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

But something about ghettoized karaoke oogs me out a little. I sort of prefer the populist vibe at the HC.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dan doing Jesus Lizard

This is funny to me because I'd probably have to drink as much Jack Daniels as D. Yow did before their shows just to have the balls to get up on stage!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I do, too. I was heartened to see that Indie Rock Karaoke still has a lot of old classic-rock faves in addition to their six (!) Geraldine Fibbers songs, but the crowd would probably not be nearly as fun.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm ready to come home now.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/images/frowny.gif

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe this will help a little:
http://www.sloth.gr.jp/images/indexuse/nama_index.jpg

I want sloths to become the new "hang in there" animal. Who needs kittens when sloths actually DO hang in there?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Would you call me a hippie if I said this looks awesome?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/theusvsjohnlennon/

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

I like the way that the trailer avoids accusations of being some sneaky parallel to the current war by being an *intentional* parallel to the current war.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you're a hippie.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

That being said (you did ask for it) the movie looks interesting.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i know. and the prominent placement of Geraldo, fer fuck's sake, is suspect. but how do you not love John Lennon?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

He seems like he was a pretty cool guy in a lot of ways. I used to get in big fights with my kinder, gentler, earthier little sister about "if he was so fucking concerned with peace, why didn't he give all his money away to anti-war blah blah blah instead of lying around in bed making a publicity stunt?" 'Course, that was in my younger, "punk rock" days. Now I can't really be bothered. Double Fantasy is still kind of painful, though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Although, one of my friends mixed "Kiss Kiss Kiss" into some kind of noise-dance freakout when we were in college. I should see if I can track down an mp3 of that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

My contribution to the CA mix would be "Why You'd Want to Live Here" by Deathcab for Cutie, because it sums up all my feelings about living in California. However, this may not be the best inclusion on a mix for someone actually moving there.

Live band karaoke at the Pontiac offers a good indie rock selection. But you don't get the screen that tells you when to sing the lyrics; you have to read them from a piece of paper.

I'll watch a movie about John Lennon. He was okay with me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Joni Mitchell - "California". But I totally understand J. not wanting to have a whole set of songs literally mentioning proper names. Still, "Help Me" is one of those songs on mix tapes that will forever make the recipient wonder whether the giver is trying to say something.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

(Mentioning "literal" names - is that what I meant? As opposed to the California of the mind?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm very intrigued by the California mix, and have been working on one of my own, if only as a brain exercise. I like the combination of not only going to California, but *driving* to California. It's not as if you got a big corporate job that flew you there, it's as if you were drawn by the allure the same way the Joad family was, and packed all your shit into your four-door and moved there. (I guess kinda like I came to Chicago.) That's a ripe subject for all *kinds* of music, about California, about traveling, about being lost, etc. I'm excited to see if I can find a lot of it that I like. I think I have to start out with "Warm California Sun" by the Rivieras, and not for entirely ironic purposes. What a great song. "Lodi" by CCR has to be on there, because it's such a great down-on-yer-luck road song -- in any state, but Lodi, California looks like a sad place even on a modern map.

The mix has to end with "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," for obvious reasons.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAARRRRRGH.

Ok. So there's this guy who is the head of an alliance of orgs whose work is doing some good for the underpaid, kicked out, disenfranchised etc here in NO. He and his partner work like 16 hour days every day and semi-jokingly call the alliance a cult. Every time we have a meeting he agrees to meet but says he will call me back to get the exact times and places set. Then he waits until the last minute and the meeting happens at times and places that he sets. When I suggested that we have the meeting at our offices and get him to meet the head of the W0rker'5 R3source C3nter (Jeff, who works for the SE|U job-training group) he says, "Um, I will call Jeff and we can schedule a time to meet. In the meantime let's meet at our offices at 11."

I responded that meeting at our offices would be very comfortable since we have nice conference rooms and because Jeff expressed an interest in meeting our group and the alliance folk for 10 min.

"That sounds good, but I really do need to set up a different time to talk with Jeff, and I am going to be at our office at 11(they don't have cars), so can we arrange to meet there?"

I am becoming aware of our group being manpower for him to do his own thing.

I'm in over my head here.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

The good thing that came of today-- I am being paid a week and a half early to make up for last week's problematic direct deposit. So by this weekend I will have 4 weeks worth of pay deposited into my account.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Why You'd Want to Live Here" by Deathcab for Cutie, because it sums up all my feelings about living in California. However, this may not be the best inclusion on a mix for someone actually moving there.

Had the exact same thought process. Except it doesn't actually sum up my feelings about living in California, and to be honest, I think the sentiment of the song is sorta trite. (Outdone by the I-hate-my-absentee-father song on that album, though.)

Also, E: "Help Me" makes me think of nothing but how luscious that arrangement is, Larry Carlton's little jazz frills on guitar and Joni breathing butterflies over everything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I taking this work home with me? I've never had a job where I have had to sit around at home thinking about work.

What is the course here?

I know that this could get to be a pissing contest really easily and I have no interest in that, but I am here to make sure our group's goals are acheived. How that would best be acheived would be if dingbat would cooperate, and then their goals would be acheived as well. I want to complete the job I came down here to do. If I don't it would only be because I was stymied in ways I don't know how to get around.

From what I've seen, organizers are crazy people who work crazy hours for not too much pay. I am not going to be a 80+ hour a week super-organizer. Is this like saying that you have decided to not be a 80 hour a week attorney in a large firm, ie, a recipe for not acheiving?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had a job where I have had to sit around at home thinking about work.

I've never had a job where I was required to, but I've never had a job where I succeeded in not doing it.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, welcome to your first job that requires brain work! How exciting! You will be surprised, as I was, that sitting on your ass thinking about shit all day makes you just as exhausted, even physically, as doing muscle work.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

If I had to solve logical problems a lot *and* lift heavy trays of food all the time, I would melt into a puddle. Fortunately, few jobs require both.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, welcome to your first job that requires brain work!

I feel bad about saying that now, at least the way I did. "Brain work." That was insulting, and I know it, and I even know why. Truth is, the hardest brain work there is is dealing with other people, and you don't just deal with co-workers, you deal with CUSTOMERS, which is the most awfulest. I waited tables for two weeks before I decided I would never do it again. I did something like Jeff's job -- tech support for people over the phone -- and that was almost worse, because people over the phone can dole out emotional abuse in more ways that you can't defend yourself from. At least you get a chair for that. I only have to deal with co-workers. I have nothing to complain about.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

I realize that I might be making too much of stuff. But I really am starting to feel like a lot is riding on what I'm doing. The point where i start making myself crazy is when I start thinking that the future of New Orleans depends on what I'm doing. Or even more realistically the future of workers' center or the future of my career outside of waiting tables. And sisters, let me tell you that from what I hear about Catch, I don't want to go back.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

or the future of my career outside of waiting tables

This is what motivates me: fear. I have no real goals. I have no real prospects. I have nothing except for whether I succeed or fail at what I'm doing at the moment. That's a big downer when I'm down, and a huge motivation when I'm up. Because what the fuck else am I going to do?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think I may need medication.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe, like, a whole lot of it.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/images/300/headache_man3.jpg

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe just a little.

But that looks like an Excedrin heartache.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

buh.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, let's you and me go be depressed together somewhere.

If you were more single you could join me and Courtney in our bitterness about being people self-pity

That reminds me, I have a big crush on a rep from the S3|U. I think he is gay. Cute union activists make me moist.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Can you imagine a hot hell-raising union homo? Our gonads, united, might never be divided!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

What does being single have to do with anything?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

I got news for you -- I got news for all of you who don't know this already. Having a girlfriend or boyfriend does not make things good. It makes things better for a while, but the only cure for being lonely is the hardest of all to swallow -- to accept it.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe you could have babies. A lot of people do that, too. I won't.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hookers and blow, that's a cure.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

but how do you not love John Lennon?

I used to work in this on-campus convenience store at W&M, which was ok because there was a stereo in there and we could bring in music to listen to while we worked. One day I was working and I forgot to bring music with me, and one of the only cds they had sitting around was John Lennon's greatest hits. It was SO BAD. One of the more painful listening experiences I've had. I'm sure there's some decent stuff deeper into his solo albums, but the "hits" on this collection were all pretty shitty. Plus, "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance" are the most facile protest songs ever. I realize that's kind of the point, but I'm not sure that's a good point to have.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

If that's the collection I'm thinking of, it has a whole lot of "Double Fantasy" on it. Which is the sound of his brain turning into oatmeal.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

argh.

i just found out that i totally made out, a lot, with someone that i did NOT want to make out with because I was stupid, stupid, stupid drunk on the 4th.

I had no idea until she emailed me, like, 5 minutes ago!!!!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

we even had a conversation yesterday where i just blithely floated through the whole thing, completely oblivious to the fact that we had gone at it the night before.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

i am a bad, bad person.

HOW DO I RUINED FRIENDSHIP?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, can you call Ted or some of those other assholes at National to get some guidance and advice? You shouldn't feel totally left alone, because I know they will help you if you ask. This is your first experience in that environment, and it's very new, and you can and should ask for help with this guy.

I also think that you're going to have to take a hardline tactic with the dingbat and tell him straight up: We all meet together at this place or you don't get the manpower. He's a weird manipulative egomaniac and needs to know that you are not pusharoundable. Most people like that will lay off you when they realize that it's pointless to bully you.

I also think it's possible to balance hard work and your mental health and I think it's good for you to do that. I also also think that the future of NO does not actually rest on you, although what you are doing does help. As for the worker's center, let them know you need support - it will happen. And as for your career, this is a great career move and will open lots of doors for you AND even if you do wait tables again, you don't have to do it at Catch. You can go work with Fagoot at T10 and give me free buffet because you love me.

I also also also think you totally rock for doing what you're doing.

Can you imagine a hot hell-raising union homo?

Yes! You!

Our gonads, united, might never be divided!

ROFFLEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I think I may need medication. Maybe, like, a whole lot of it.

Gee... if only there were some sort of program offered by your employer where you could enroll and for a small monthly fee deducted right from your paycheck, get cheap or no cost physical and mental health services. If only there were such a program........

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

And since I'm dispensing advice instead of getting ready for work:

Evan, having been in similar situations in the past, I think this person will be most appreciative of complete honesty: I was really drunk on the fourth and I honestly don't remember what we did. While I find you totally make-out-withable, I really value your friendship, though, and I'm worried that what happened is going to make it hard for us to be friends. What can I do to make sure we stay friends?

This way you get her the message that you don't want to make out regularly, own up to what you did, and give her some control over the situation. The compliment is just to make her feel better, because if she has a little crush on you and you made out with her but don't remember it, she probably feels kind of shitty right now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

And you're not a bad person. This kind of shit happens all the time. It is possible to handle the aftermath badly, but you're an honorable and kind man so I know that you'll do okay.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

What Jenny said, Evan!

My boss just asked me if he gave me something to work on, would it get lost in the move? Um, no. I can handle a few sheets of paper. COME ON! I even showed him the folder I have on my desk of things TO BE FILED once we move into the new office.

I didn't know what to do with those papers without my filing system, so I threw them away. What else could I have possibly done???? * cue funny hillbilly dance, followed by an expression of 'Who, me?' *

Nick knows what I'm talkin' about.

Anyway, Jesse, you are doing a very good thing. America is proud.

Gross. There are a bunch of dead bugs on my desk.

Oh! One more thing (so this post can be SUPERlong)... I watched Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill last night and really loved it. It's slow in parts, but touching.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

because if she has a little crush on you and you made out with her but don't remember it, she probably feels kind of shitty right now.

I think she does, which is why I'm so worried about being a dork about it.

she's already thrown out the "I'm ok, you're ok" olive branch, though, so that's good (even if she secretly doesn't mean it and wants us to be LOVERS).

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Evman I did exactly the same thing on a past 4th. It took a couple of days and a couple of emails (from both her and one of her friends (yikes!) before the depth of the mistake I had made became clear. Once I owned up to being drunk, crossing the line, etc all was cool. We went back to being friends and I even helped introduce her to her current bf of several years... it's actually something we can all joke about now.

xpost

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have time for detailed reading or response.

Ted and folks are supporting me, but I am still the one who has to deal with Doodoo directly. I don't feel like I will really do any irrepareable damage unless I a. purposely seek out a way to do so, or b. lose my temper or really pull some weird moves out of my ass.

Evan, I've been there with the making out with someone, not remembering and treating them as though we hadn't done that. But I took it one step further by sort of remembering and then thinking that I had made out with another guy who was the first guy's best friend. So later I was giving my attentions to the 2nd guy and the guy with whom I did tounge battle got PISSED.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

As it turned out, I think I meant to make out with the 2nd guy but was drunk enough to go for the first one. He was not nearly as cute and I was sad for the whole thing.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

stuff like this has happened to me before, totally, but it's usually been with someone I know a little better (I've known this girl a MONTH), and there's been a bit more insulation (ie - not in a small town, not sharing a classroom with the person for most of every day).

barf. anyway, i think it'll all be sorted.

worst part is: i've been desperate for hot make-out action ever since i got here, and even though i hadn't been planning on it with this person in particular, it'd be nice to remember at least SOME of it!

xp oh yikes!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

extra bonus points: I have WOUNDS all over my body. I thought it was because I was so drunk and fell down a lot (which was probably the case), but apparently at least some of it is because we made out THAT HARD.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

i have the parrots movie right now! i keep meaning to watch it and then somehow managing not to because i'm easily distracted by shiny things.

apparently at least some of it is because we made out THAT HARD.

damn. you get lots of extra bonus points for that.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

because we made out THAT HARD

How is that even possible? Or any fun?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

TS: making out with vs. beating the shit out of

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Is making out hard like in the movies when people look like they are eating each others faces?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/henry.jpg

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

How is that even possible? Or any fun?

You know, I'm not really sure, since I DONT REMEMBER ANY OF IT.

oh man, just thinking about it is giving me the willies. ech.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

i can imagine. but you're amusing us considerably...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I'm not really sure, since I DONT REMEMBER ANY OF IT.

Maybe you can ask her to stage a dramatic re-enactment, just to fill in some of the gaps.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Jet lag is kinda great. Sure, I can't stay up past 10:00, but I was up at 5:30 this morning to go to the gym, make egg & goat cheese sandwiches, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Kenan re: Henry Rollins: HAHAHAHAHA

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to think of some joke involving Black Flag lyrics, but time and again I realize that Black Flag lyrics aren't funny.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

TV Party is kind of funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, ok. Given. But "Depression" and "Life of Pain"... not so much.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm designing things and listening to Drive Like Jehu. I miss the early 90's.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hm... I've never looked up "Jehu" before. He was the tenth King of Israel, and he killed a whole assload of people. Other kings, underlings, entire families... dude was constantly snuffing somebody. One gets the impression he rather enjoyed it.

No mention of what he drove. A hatchback, maybe?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hatchback? No way, dude was gangster.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

A chariot drawn by monsters, duh.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Little known fact: despite his intemperance in other ways, Jehu was a very careful and courteous driver.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/aurora/mummyschariot.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/aurora/mummyschariot.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

(OMG)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan you have made me listen to Drive Like Jehu now too. Here come the Rome plows.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone made pasta carbonara?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

OOOOOOMMMMMMGGGGGG this is my mom's one and only outstanding dish.

I can't give you measurements, but there are raw eggs and bacon grease involved and it is the g-d tastiest thing on Earth.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, everyone! I've been busy and off-routine but I'm back and things are all right. Can't read all the catch-up but I'm enjoying the make-out stories here and there. Ev, everything sorted? You never answered my joke IM, you big jerk.

I am a sister-in-law!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Me too! BOO YAH!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Laurel! Congratulations on your new familial status. I will never be a sister-in-law. Huh.

Jehu trivia: My mother went to her senior prom with a man named Jehu, who later went on to serve as our family veternarian for most of my childhood.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

more jehu-related schtuff, my ex room mate and our dog live down the block from john reis. my dog has peed on the hot snakes van.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

i'll never be a sister in law either jenny. it makes me feel hard and cold and lonely inside when i think about that. so i don't.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'll also never be a veternarian either but that's left me on a fairly even keel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

coffee seems to have kicked in.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha! Your tiny dog peeing on van cracks me up. Better to not be a sister in law than NOT BE A SISTER!

HI LAUREL!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I, also, will never be a sister-in-law.

I can't give you measurements, but there are raw eggs and bacon grease involved and it is the g-d tastiest thing on Earth.

So are the raw eggs added after the pasta is boiled and cooked by its heat? That's how my friend described it but most of the recipes I found online involve prepping an egg/cream/possibly flour sauce first.

(I had some pretty tasty carbonara in Italy and I'd love to make it at home)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Me too!

H5! Actually, can we trade my sister for her husband? He's nicer.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to see that tiny dog in 6 weeks, i can not wait. oh, and i'll be watching the second best little dog in the world while his mom and dad go on a short tour. i love little dogs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Yeah, there was no cream, only cheese and egg and bacon grease. And yes, it's added once the pasta is cooked, then stirred vigorously to distribute. The parmesan cheese is added to the egg and that's what's added to the hot pasta. Then bacon grease for extra flavor then the actual crumbled bacon.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome, thanks Amanda. I'm going to give it a shot very soon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'll also never be a veternarian either but that's left me on a fairly even keel.

You'll also never escort my mother to her senior prom. YOU HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH JEHU.

I can make pasta putanesca and pasta amatriciana and Tuesday night I made a mutant combination of the two, but I cannot make pasta carbonerra. Which given the bacon and the eggs and the cream (or, on xpost, perhaps not) is probably for the best.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

You'll also never escort my mother to her senior prom.

true but i did get her drunk on apple wine and get to 3rd base with her in the backseat of my car.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait, that was someone else.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

What's amitriciana?

Last night Maddie made meatballs and sauce, and we used some orecchiette ("little ears") pasta that I brought back from Switzerland. Food coma knocked me out for the night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

penne + arrugula + quartered cherry tomatos + goat cheese + salt + pepper + maybe a little butter or oil = YUM

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

And what defines puttanesca anyway? I have this idea that it's pasta-in-a-pouch because that's the way I first had it, but I don't think that's correct.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

WHORE'S PASTA

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

More or less it's pancetta (I use canadian bacon), onion, red pepper, a tomato component (I like well drained chopped tomatoes), balsamic vinegar, parsley and/or basil, parmesan cheese. It's one of those, "We have no food in the house except for some pasta and onions and canned foods and condiments... A HA!" type dishes.

SOMEONE at work is getting on my nerves really a whole lot today.... someone is extra-neurotic and irritating and is going to get a beat down...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

it's the orthodox jew isn't it you anti-semite.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Puttanesca has olives in it, too, right?

That penne sounds great, Dan. I had a pretty good penne at Lula Cafe last weekend with oyster mushrooms, olives, and ricotta.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

The name originated in Naples after the local women of easy virtue. Puttana means literally "whore", but the reason why the dish gained such a name is debated. One possibility is that the name is a reference to the sauce's hot, spicy flavour and smell. Another is that the dish was offered to prospective customers at a low price to entice them into a house of ill (?) repute. According to chef Jeff Smith of the Frugal Gourmet, its name came from the fact that it was a quick cheap meal that prostitutes could prepare between customers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like goat cheese and spinach in mine. I didn't know this dish had a name.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I like goat cheese and spinach in mine. I didn't know this dish had a name. And red pepper flakes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, it's all coming back now. Olives, tomatoes, hookers, mmmm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

1-2-3 repeater

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

One possibility is that the name is a reference to the sauce's hot, spicy flavour and smell.

I don't like this theory one bit.

"We call it 'Whore Sauce.'"

"Yes, I thought I smelled stale sweat and old semen in here. When do we eat?!"

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

SAUCY ITALIAN WENCHES

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I really only know about puttanesca because you can buy puttanesca sauce at your local grocery store -- I actually wasn't aware that it was a catch-all term.

One time Kelsey was living with some creepy 40-something academic in Hyde Park named Bruce, and he made us some good soup with Swiss chard in it. We asked if there was a recipe he followed. He said, "I call it ... whatcha-got."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, it's a matter of rusticity, I think, and umm general coarse-ness? It's an unfinished sauce, with strong, coarse flavors in it, like a countrywoman of easy virtue. Can't find the etymology at the mo (and I'm on phone) but that's the general direction.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I should probably clarify, "living with" = "renting a room from."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

there's no sadder sauce than an unfinished sauce.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"I call it ... whatcha got."

http://aepl.iweb.bsu.edu/2003Conference/novak.jpg

He also used to listen to opera at full volume in his room for long stretches at a time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry - I was posting what goes in amatriciana sauce above.

Puttanesca, yeah, is olives and anchovies and red pepper flakes and garlic and parsley cheese and olive oil and tomatoes. It's fucking awesome. The inclusion of anchovies gives it a salty, slightly smokey flavor that is not redolent of fish in the least.

I basically made puttanesca with canadian bacon in it on Monday, plus we only had canned olives so that was kind of sub par but it still tasted really good.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

We've got a recipe for a sauce that involves swiss chard and olives and pine nuts that is pretty gd tasty, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

He also apparently contributed a blurb to the book jacket of No Logo. What a weirdo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

countrywoman of easy virtue

:) :) :)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

John, I'm picturing Tim Robbins in High Fidelity.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

aw geez. Whatcha Got Soup was the tastiest morsel to come out of that apartment.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's an actual photo of him, btw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

(Hi Kelsey.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

KELSEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

the puttanesca i've had was with tuna fish and capers and olive oil and such. jenny's sounds better.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

HI JENNY!!!! I thought about you a lot in China . . . everytime I saw a le sportsac bag, in fact. I saw them all the time!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

My blood sugar is bottoming out. The office is buying pizza today, but they ordered it for 1 in the afternoon. I came in at 7. Now I have to decide whether I want to wait for the pizza and risk going into a diabetic rage and getting into a fist fight with a co-worker, or go eat right now and be really rude.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

25 minutes. Tough it out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i want puttanesca pasta AND carbonara RIGHT NOW.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Also, good God, how do you manage to get in at 7 AM? I am feeling pleased with myself for coming in at 9:30 the last two days. (The fact that Kr has to catch a Metra at 8:48 makes this a lot easier when we leave together in the morning.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Capers, yeah, I forgot about the capers.

Ha ha, Kelsey, did you buy a case of Le Sport Sac bags to sell on the US black market or what? You can put a table up somewhere, or walk through the cars on the El to make extra cash.

Kenan, get an apple or something. Snacks are your friend, man, and the best way to keep your blood sugar up throughout the day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

last night around 8:45 i saw something i'd often heard about but never actually witnessed. as i was waiting at clark & division to go north a PACKED southbound pulled up and the conducter started in with "there's another red line train directly behind this one, don't struggle to get on blah blah blah there's another red line train directly behind this one." of course everyone tried to get on board. but here's the thing, there actually WAS a redline train directly behind that one! i'd never seen that before.

then when i transferred to the brown line at fullerton i got on this car that was filled with beautiful girls and women. it made me wish i was going farther than diversey.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also, good God, how do you manage to get in at 7 AM?

Constant anxiety and near-total insomnia. You should try it! It works!

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

So I thought the general CTA policy was that they always had to pull over to let more people on, but last week one morning the driver pulled over just to open the door and say, "THIS BUS IS FULL! DON'T GET ON!" and it wasn't like another bus was right behind is. It was actually pretty cool though because it was f'n crowded.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

when i used to ride the 66 bus i probably would've given that bus driver a dollar as a tip. unless of course i was standing at the bus stop.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

They do that kind of "there's another train right behind" thing downtown on the Blue line all the time, and there generally is a train there pretty quickly. But, no one seems to listen down there either.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I usually transfer to the loop-bound brown line at Belmont, right? And it's almost always packed to the point of it being difficult to move. And I know that it's a holiday week and the trains are less crowded than usual and that's all fine and good and great and stuff but this morning? The brown line that pulled up to Belmont? Was totally and completely empty. Nobody was on it, or at least there was nobody in my car or any of the cars ahead of it. It was so strange that I even remarked to the woman standing next to me, "That's kind of strange." She didn't say anything in response, though.

Of course, since Jeff and I have been obsessively watching Lost for the past two weeks, I assumed I'd get on the train only to be attacked by a polar bear or have it rain jelly beans inside the car, none of which actually happened. I did end up on the same train car as the frat boy, though.

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I went home for lunch and pigged the hell out. Salami/pepperoni/mustard/tomato/spinach sandwich, a bunch of chips & salsa, and some swiss chocolate.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

rain jelly beans

Aw, you coulda at least put a *SPOILER* on that!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I must have missed that episode.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.biblelandstudios.com/nuke/images/upload/Eyeball%20039a.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the really weird thing: they were all pina colada.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

x-posted in the rolling cr roffle thread:

Slipping into a trance... - mw4w - 30
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Reply to: pers-177891467@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-07-03, 12:52AM CDT

Professional couple (consulting/private equity) seeks thin or athletic (thin and athletic fine too- we have standards, but not unreasonable standards) 21-32 SWF for drinks, dancing, general antics and evenings out followed by... well that depends.

We are:
White collar types by day, trance music devotees by night, annoyed with the seeming lack of like-minded, professional and similarly addicted trance fans. It shouldn't be so difficult to find someone to come out with us to drinks before Crystal Method, Tiesto, Carl Cox or Paul Van Dyk and not call it a night afterwards. How boring! We'd far prefer to have a regular / semi-regular partner to descend into a "cuddle puddle" -yum!- with us afterwards (your place or ours but ours has a mini studio of sorts).

Her: 30 / 5'3 115, midwest girl, Cubs fan, skier, marathon runner, world traveler.
Him: 32 / 6'3 170, Swiss, bitter Cubs fan, skier, former headline trance DJ in London (Ministry of Sound, etc.).

We are looking for a good click and aren't pushy about it. A long-term thing isn't required, certainly, but it would be nice and, by the same token, if you are just looking for a quick lay you should probably move on.

Send us your picture, we'll send you ours (we know a lot of people in Chicago or we'd post it here), we can meet out for drinks and see what develops from there. VIP admission (no waiting) for your own 4 hour trance set performed live by your personal trance DJ in our home studio is always a late night option.

While we can't make any promises, we will reply to anyone who writes us.

this is in or around Gold Coast

no -- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost OMG CUZ THEY"RE ON AN ISLAND!!!~!1

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

dear god chicago i'm so tired i can't keep my head from lolling about on my shoulders. i've gone weeble.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I have to say, I was right all along -- even though the first couple of months didn't quite bear it out, having a girlfriend is helping me a) watch more TV, and b) go to bed earlier. Hooray!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, were you trying to watch tv but just couldn't quite get it together?

Having a girlfriend helps me watch less movies. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I still had a girlfriend. :(

\emo

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

to descend into a "cuddle puddle" -yum!

tastes like puttanesca

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like I have said this before, but TV just never seems like a viable thing to do when teh Internet is around. But teh Internet is not a very couple-y thing, most of the time -- this despite me insisting on playing songs from the Indierockappella website for Kr last night -- while TV is something that can be enjoyed by two people and thus seems like a suitable activity. And by TV what I really mean is DVDs (some of which are TV shows).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

(PS Sorry Dan -- is this a new thing?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Deej you broke my brain.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Cuddle puddle vs. 4 hour personal trance set = scylla vs. charybdis = lethal injection vs. gas chamber

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am learning to use this electronic pen and pad thing. Look: it's Jenny.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/jenny.gif

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

(PS Sorry Dan -- is this a new thing?)

Nah. She moved away in January. We hung on for a while, but it's fallen apart as of late.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

BTW Kenan, that picture is pretty awesome. I love those pen thingies. They make it seem as if I can actually draw!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I also just realized I fucked up my fake "emo" HTML tag above, and instead made it into a fake LaTeX command! It's taking over my braaain...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

They make it seem as if I can actually draw!

But I can! That was all freehand.

(Note: not really.)

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I knew she moved away, but I didn't know it was over. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, that's pretty neat Kenan.

Guess what Chicago? The frat boy went out and got drunk at lunch.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

and he's still employed? that's awesome and depressing at the same time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't mind saying, what does the frat boy do, like, as a job there? Because I think it'd be pretty awesome if while drunk he misplaced some IMPORTANT PAPERS and lost a case or something. Of course, you seem to work for the good guys so that might not be so cool.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Dancing tonight, anyone? Of the Neo or Smart Bar variety?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I can't say yes to dancing but I'm heading for SMOKE DADDY right now if anyone wants to come by and say hi.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PmGunWcJqs&search=beavis%20butthead

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I am laughing my ass off right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSKLt1CqmD0&search=beavis%20butthead

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, tears in my eyes. What's wrong with me?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

You know those books like "They Have a Word For It!" that tell you the Japanese word for the flaw that makes something perfect or the word the Germans have for the feeling of spite you have for someone you love eating the last of the wienersnitzel? I wonder if there is a word for this: the feeling you get when you are in the middle of journey or task when you are tired and lack the burst of energy that comes at the outset or the elation of the end being in sight. The feeling a swimmer gets as he is swimming the English Channel and is stroking away but can not gague his progress because neither England nor France are in view and he seems to be swimming in place. That is the feeling I have historically not dealt with very well because I've always had a way out, even if that way out was just to give up what I was doing (in the middle of a semester of school, in a relationship, in writing). But in the situation I'm in that option is not really an option at all.

My day today:

I found a nail in my tire. I am leaving it in until I can fix it. Where can I fix a flat? I have forgotten how to be a car owner. I may just buy a repair kit and do it myself?

meeting with dingdong that took ALL. DAY.

I learned how to set up our stupid office network. Sort of.

I have to start work tomorrow at 6 AM. We are visiting day-laborer corners.

Way way xpost-- EVAN: where were your injuries? KENAN: why do you not think sexually-incurred injuries are likely?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite actual B&B plotline:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJqDM4xIsfk&search=beavis%20butthead

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Damnit, Nick. You've scheduled my next two hours for me.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha I was just about to post the Pizzicato 5 one! "Hey uncle Ernie..."

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

all along my right side:

elbow: scraped
chest: two small scuffs
right hip: two big scrapes, one very big (4 in. diameter)

not, as it has turned out, sexually related. i guess i just kept tipping over on the walk home. and THEN made out with someone.

so, while getting tip-over blackout wasted is very much a Bad Thing, it does, for some reason, give me comfort about the making out cuz it's like, dude, you SAW how drunk I was!!! Of course I wasn't going to remember! And, as it turns out, that's exactly what she expected. "I told you last night that you weren't going to remember."

Apparently I spent 15 minutes arguing with her on my front lawn about whether or not we were actually at my house....after we had been making out for an HOUR on the grass.

i quit alcohol.

and kenan: what jesse said. mind, the injuries i have would have involved having pretty athletic, combative sex on a gravel road somewhere, but still. these things do happen.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

just not to me.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, that gravel gets EVERYWHERE!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

The frat boy is a law clerk, same as me. The difference is that he's an idiot, and the attorneys know he's an idiot, and don't give him any meaningful work. The attorneys also don't like to give work to the other clerk, the neurotic Jew, because rather than complete assignments, he just argues with the attorneys about legal theory. So out of four clerks, two of us are shouldering the majority of the hard stuff.

*sigh*

I haven't told anybody yet that he got drunk AT WORK but I'm going to. Since he doesn't do anything anyway, the good clerk said they should fire him and split his salary between the remaining three of us, which would give us a sweet raise.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 July 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Wire Music Fest lineup:::::::: you know you want to come and stand awkwardly beside me listening to music we couldn't ever possibly talk about and have a real conversation.

Wednesday, September 20:

Cobra Killer
Tim Hecker
Rhys Chatham's Essentialist
Jandek

Thursday, September 21:

Edan with special guest Dagha
Badgerlore
Hive Mind
The Coughs

Friday, September 22:

Tetine
Colleen
Yellow Swans
Cast King

Saturday, September 23:

OM
Subtle
The Paul Flaherty/Frank Rosaly Duo
Zu

Sunday, September 24:

Steinski
The Hamid Drake/William Parker Duo
Trapist
Kayo Dot

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously dudes. Honey 1 pwns Smoke Daddy. It's not even close. That being said, the cheeseburger* special was perfectly awesome.

*Yes, cheeseburger. Obviously not barbecue. I had a chunk of someone else's rib.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

the best burger in chicago is at the park grill.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, how likely is his firing (and your raise) to happen?

I'm being used for my interns. This is going to stop and I am not looking forward to it. Confrontation, saying no: Yucky. They want us to man their phone banks, calling 400 people!

This is a lot of political weirdness that I never in my life up till last month thought I would ever find myself in. We're trying to ally with a group that spit in the face of a group that has taken us under its wing and alliance dude is trying to get free services. And to top it all off, he turned what could have been a nice 2 hour meeting into a 5 hour meeting. By telling stories of the legacy of Robert E. Lee in the goings on in today's New Orleans and how day laborers are today's slaves/indentured servants. Good point, but DUDE! TELL THESE STORIES OVER DINNER OR GET A BLOG.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

"One experience that really affected me since I've been here in New Orleans was all the damage in the place we're living. One day I stepped on a nail and then I had to pray."

-Country Mouse AME Girl

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Honey 1 pwns for sure.

And Jeff, I would happily stand next to you at those shows, but I will be in stupid Montana, standing next to a hippy at a jerkoff bluegrass concert in the park or something.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

I just killed the biggest roach I have EVER EVER seen. It was in my living room. nonononononononononononononononononononono.no.

You know what was the worst thing about that girl saying that stupid shit? The fact that she said it in mixed company, in front of a group organizers who are not familiar with her old tyme religion ways. And then--then to make it even worse--the meeting was being translated, into Spanish, so we got a double dose. "Pise en un clavo y tuve que resar."

And she does shit like this: there was a break in the meeting and I'm in conversation with the alliance guy and while we're out in the open it is clearly a serious conversation between the two of us. She comes up behind me, stands there, and when I don't pay attention, she taps me on the shoulder. When I turn around she is looking away acting like she didn't do it.

"Yes?" I say.

"Oh. Nothing," she says, "Um...I just wanted to see if I can use the bathroom."

"WTF?"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

Curb Your Enthusiasm DVD.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff I'd go to some of those shows, and I think I could make conversation about that music.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

my head feels like i drank a bottle of tequila last night. alas, i did not. advil, take me away.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

my head feels like i was up until 3 a.m.

poor choice on my part.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone else noticed lots of cops out today? They're all over the place on Lakeshore and in the parks between downtown and Hyde Park, and there's a Coast Guard helicopter circling around down here. Must be for the Prez's visit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

JEFF -- Zu!! Dan and I will join you at that show. I will not fall asleep.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Must be for the Prez's visit.
Uh, you mean "must here for The Milkmaid's XXXit interview."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

"She's got office supplies in her purse, take her down!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

do you have some sort of dramatic departure planned? bonus points if it involves nudity and fireworks.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

or a flag.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Jandek in Chicago, huh? Not that I care, but.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Pocket a few Uniballs (black ink) for me.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really understand the vitriol behind the anti-Jessica Hopper screed on ILM, not to mention that it's poorly executed as a satire, but the phrase "abnormally long inkjet clitoris" keeps running through my head.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Like we have Uniballs. More like Bic.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, that should be "abnormally long, ink-injected clitoris." Maybe I like "inkjet" better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

What's this screed?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, LOOK:

http://www.rollmop.org/ferrets/images/lrrh.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

itsatrap.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I've just been informed, it's not a screed at all. It's the original draft of J. Hop's final Punk Planet column, as written by Nick Sylvester. And it's here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Pocket a few Uniballs (black ink) for me.

http://www.nndb.com/people/493/000025418/tom-green-sized.jpg

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://away.com/images/outside/200507/lance-armstrong-5.jpg

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

That vomiting dog .gif is funnier than the article.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Precious! Cruel, but precious!

Who's Jessica Hopper?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am very clearly not the intended audience of that article/letter/screed/joke/whatever. Don't get it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

didn't read the screed but i would like to go on record, again, as saying jessica hopper is a bore.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Is it really not even 11 yet? Holy damn christmas.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

So Lost-viewers: we made it to Episode 8 last night feeling sorta gypped, like we'd hoped there'd be more crazy fucked-up island shit and instead we got too many treacly flashbacks and not enough WTF A POLAR BEAR. Episode 9 restored our faith a little bit, but I'm still not sure. Maybe I have high expectations because the last TV drama I watched straight through on DVD was Twin Peaks, and I want Lost to have the same kind of inexplicable mystery to it. Does it get better?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I only have the vaguest of ideas who she is but I would like to go on record, again, as saying that Dennis Hopper >>>> Jessica Hopper.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

John: having only really watched season 2, expect more flashbacks and less polar bear WTF.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

no john it gets no better.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jessica Hopper: editor of fanzine Hit It or Quit It, former publicist (Hopper PR), columnist for Punk Planet, music critic for the Chicago Reader, all-around gadfly.

Also, Eazy once took a file cabinet off her hands. If you know what I mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think you'll find that it has peaks and valleys, like just about everything else. I mean, some of the flashbacks set up some pretty big WTF moments in season 2. Or I thought so, at least. Am I the only one of us who watched it all on TV and not on DVDs? The anticipation factor may have something to do with it then.

xpost: hott

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.michaelconnelly.com/Photo_Gallery/Nighthawks/Nighthawks.JPG

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

She seems to live in this universe where everyone knows who she is and wants to hear what she has to say. I guess that is the reason I think blogging (in general) doesn't jive with me. I can't imagine anyone giving a crap about what I have to say, nor should they, really.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

i don't give a crap about what she has to say but i still read her music reviews to see if she can ever get any more self-referential. she always can.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

xposts OTM, that's why I've read like two or three of her columns and gave up.

Also, John, I don't get that one. Nighthawks?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I half-wish I had that sort of notoriety.

Eazy and I were at a party about a year ago where everyone in the kitchen seemed to have an opinion about her. It was weird.

Anyway, I still defend her and Liz Armstrong because I think both of them are great writers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dan is right about the flashbacks often setting up WTF moments. Also, the flashbacks themselves contain WTF moments. (Hints: pay attention to what's on TVs in the flashbacks, and who the characters interact with.) But it's not as good as Twin Peaks, I don't think. It's still more fun than anything else on TV besides The Venture Brothers, though.

I think that I will not read the Jessica Hopper stuff, because I don't think I will care very much.

Is "taking a filing cabinet off her hands" euphamistic for pulling a flag out of her butt?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Also, John, I don't get that one. Nighthawks?

Edward Hopper

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

(Hints: pay attention to what's on TVs in the flashbacks, and who the characters interact with.)

This single-handedly rejuvenated my excitement about the show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with self-referentiality in music criticism?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with self-referentiality in music criticism?

Nothing, if you're Lester Bangs. Or if you're otherwise a very good and engaging writer. Self-referantiality Pitchfork-stylee is maddening to read.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

her reviews wind up being more about herself than about her subject. i don't care if the critic was in some nowhere town in minnesota with 3 friends listening to band x and how band x now reminds her of that time. that tells me nothing about the band which does a disservice to the band and the reader.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

OTTO OTM.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

It just annoys me when people treat self-referentiality as this huge no-no in criticism. What is criticism but an account of your experience with a particular subject? How do you extract yourself from that? (Blah blah, variations on things I've said since at least 1999.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've never gotten the impression that Hopper does this, though, at least in the Reader -- I've never read her stuff in City Pages or CBC.ca or Punk Planet (though that's a personality-driven column, so it probably shouldn't count -- same as her blog). Her best reviews for the Reader, like the one she did of Sufjan's Illinois, do delve into what the band is all about, what it sounds like, etc.

Then again, I also don't see anything wrong with the "how band X now reminds her of that time" school of criticism, as long as -- like Kenan says -- it's good, smart, and engaging writing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Cyndi-Lauper-She-Bop-5608.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

What is criticism but an account of your experience with a particular subject?

You hit it right there John. For me, when someone's critical eye/ear for catchy tunes or a great live show turns into some kind of personal account of musical experiences that are completely foreign to the reader and probably beyond the scope of their experience, what should be a simple piece becomes masturbation, and it comes off as confusing at best and extremely condescending at worst. It's as if "if you don't get this laundry list of references and preconceptions, you'll never fully enjoy this." This may or may not be intentional.

I have a lot of problems with cultural criticism in general. It frustrates me so much sometimes I can barely bring myself to talk about it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

What is criticism but an account of your experience with a particular subject?

Well, it's also of some use, hopefully. Expressing an opinion and backing it up convincingly. Describing a cultural artifact and discussing its worthiness against other cultural artifacts.

See, that's the thing. I used Lester Bangs as an example because he does all of those things, exceptionally well sometimes, and he also puts himself into his writing. Of course it's always going to be personal in that it's ultimately an opinion, but a lot of writers don't understand the line between writing for newspapers and magazines and writing for blogs and journals. And there are good opinions and bad opinions. Some opinions are unconvincing and muddled, and that makes them WRONG.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

This is an old, old debate. I'm tired of it already.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

but a lot of writers don't understand the line between writing for newspapers and magazines and writing for blogs and journals

OTfuckingM

Also, I don't think that being unconvincing and muddled makes those opinions wrong, but it does mean (to me) they do not help the piece as a whole and probably shouldn't have been included.

xpost: Me too... hence the frustration described above.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like I so rarely encounter the sort of masturbatory criticism that people get so worked up about it. I know it's out there, and there are some old Pitchfork reviews that fit the bill (although some of those I think are just funny) -- but it's such a small subset, it doesn't seem worth frothing over. It's like, yeah, there's bad writing everywhere, what's new?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

People have different masturbation-o-meters. Mine is set so as soon as someone stops talking about what the music sounds like and starts talking about his/her shoes and/or youth, I tune out.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i don't mind a critic relating why something is personally connected to them but when it comes at the expense of the subject i find it irritating. the article in question was about a band i'd never heard of and i learned absolutely nothing about said band from the review. were they punk? indie? klezmer? she never quite got around to mentioning that part of it.

i suppose she was writing that recommendation for people who were already familiar with the band.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) Well, obviously no one's going to argue that being unconvincing and muddled is a good thing. But there are ways to write about yourself that aren't unconvincing and muddled, ffs! I guess I find that using the first-person makes my writing more lucid, rather than less. I feel more confident in my own voice than the dispassionate, pseudo-objective voice of the expert.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, that's too bad about that Hopper article. I'd say, though, that I don't really feel like criticism ever owes me anything. Especially in this day and age when millions of opinions are readily available at one's fingertips. If Hopper wasn't able to elucidate Band X for you, then it sounds like a job for Google.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jenny I got the Venture Bros on dvd the other day and we've watched the first disc and it is very funny!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost But that's just it: first person makes it more lucid to you. Now that we have an internet and everyone can be a critic, the breadth of one's audience seems to have been forgotten. I mean, not everyone understands the references made in this kind of criticism, and why should they have to seek something else out just to figure out what whatever the review is about is actually like?

I won't lie, I strongly prefer objective criticism. I don't think it's fake at all, I think it is indicative of someone who considers the audience of their writing beyond those who share their immediate frame of reference. Not to say there isn't a place for that, but don't call it a "review."

I'm so sick of this. JOHN YOU ARE A GOOD WRITIST

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Seconded.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

i should mention that the blurb in question was for the weekly picks in the reader. i think if you are putting yourself in the position to recommend a band to someone else you should maybe get around to mentioning the band. so you heard band x with friends, why does that make it a weekly pick? tell me something, ANYTHING, about the goddamn band to help me make a decision here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think JC is a super writinger and I prefer a buyer's guide approach to music crit. These two things can get along in my brain.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Maker of writings
Writor
Escritoreador

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Especially in this day and age when millions of opinions are readily available at one's fingertips. If Hopper wasn't able to elucidate Band X for you, then it sounds like a job for Google.

but this was in the print version of the reader and i didn't have millions of opinions readily available at my fingertips at this particular laundromat. i had dryer sheets readily available and they told me as much about the band in question as the writer did.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like we're conflating being referential and being self-referential. Because I totally agree about the frustrations of too many shorthand allusions that go over the readers' heads. That's why two of my favorite music critics are Kelefa Sanneh and Sasha Frere-Jones, who write for audiences large enough that they're obligated to spell everything out. And it's true, neither of them really writes about themselves too much. But then what about someone like Tom Breihan, who writes about himself all the time in his Village Voice blog but does so in a really engaging and professional-sounding way, without any snark? I mean, that's top-form criticism to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

But a blog is a medium where you're kinda sorta supposed to write about yourself, no?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I guess. I don't really draw any distinctions. It appears on the Village Voice website, so it's not like he's whining about shit on a Xanga diary or anything. But whether it's Blogger or the New York Times: it's all just good writing to me. I do think that if you're writing for a general audience, it helps to explain some of your references to those who aren't in the know, but other than that, I don't see why a first-person voice can't succeed in that arena.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not interested in the debate (we actually did this exact same debate on an earlier Chicago ILX thread, plus my short-lived dip into music criticism was so fraught with the exact kind of self-referential crap that Dan and Amanda and Kevin are talking about that I made myself a little queasy) BUT I just want to give Amanda props for an excellent use of the She Bop cover.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm really not out to make anyone feel bad, so I'll shut up. Another reason discussing this stuff frustrates me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

4 hours 'til i slide down the dinosaur tail chicago. hopefully i can make it. last night's tamales are doing a number on my innards.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Especially in this day and age when millions of opinions are readily available at one's fingertips. If Hopper wasn't able to elucidate Band X for you, then it sounds like a job for Google.

Maybe, but sometimes Google is no help at all. Or worse yet, it turns up ten different reviews of the record, and they are all so poorly written that you want to scream. (Fair or not, this always reflects badly on the record for me.)

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I got offered tamales at like 6 in the evening at Gold Star. I think it was the earliest I've ever seen any of those dudes. He called me "jefe" even though I wasn't the one behind the bar.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Er, at like 6 in the evening yesterday...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I need Venture Bros. but Blockbuster doesn't stock that though. Nor episodes of Lost, except for sale.

I have learned the joys of TV on DVDs. Last night I watched 5 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Tonight, probably Seinfeld. I also have Capote to serious things up a little.

I sent myself a letter last week and have yet to receive it, so I guess I'm SOL on NetFlix, since I do not appear to be getting mail. I wish there were some way of suspending the account. I guess I could let Kenan take it over until I return?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, so... cell phone terrorism. I'm at an outside table at the deli, I'm the only one outside on this small patio, and I'm eating peacefully and reading the paper. A thoroughly skeezy-looking woman walks up and sits down at the next table. Not skeezy as in homeless, more like as in awful dye job, faded and cheap tattoos, lot of miles on her face. She talking rather loudly on her cell phone. She says, "You can't just fuck me and then pretend like we're just friends!" Long pause. "Because that's the way it works!" Pause. "No, no... don't. I want to try again. Please." Whimpering. Some more mumbled conversation, she hangs up the phone, and proceeds to burst into heaving sobs. I am trying to pretend I am reading the paper. Meanwhile I have lost all taste for potato salad. I'm embarrassed and I don't know why. Why is this woman pretending that she's not doing all this in front of someone? Not just in front of people in general, in front of ONE other person -- me. So icky.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Poor people are disgusting.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about that. But when you telecast your awful (and awful to have to imagine) love life and have breakdowns in public about it, a little shame is in order.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Poor people have no shame.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

They need to GET A JOB. If she were busy paying her taxes, she wouldn't have time to get in a fuss on the phone.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

My actual theory about this has to do with that hyper-space created by technology within public spaces. Like in a car -- everyone turns into a sociopath when they get into a car, because you're not sharing space with other people anymore, not *real* people, not like on a sidewalk or something. You're in your own space that no one else is in, and other people are just outside of it. (This is why I get free cycling advice from people in cars, but never from pedestrians that I have nearly killed.) Anyway, I wonder if cell phones don't do the same thing in a way. It's not a physical space that they create, but a phychological space. No matter, it's a space that you are inhabiting that no one else can be a part of. And this false sense of security allows you to be louder, ruder, and generally more guileless than if the person you were talking to was standing next to you.

It's just a theory.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse - Have you called Netflix to see if you can suspend the account? I think you should leverage your current situation (in NO helping rebuild in a low-paid public interest position) to its full potential to Get Things Done, like getting your Netflix suspended and getting funds released from pay checks. And if people won't help you, ask to speak to a manager and then threaten to spread the word that that company, and that manager in particular, doesn't care about black people.

Also - The Venture Brothers rocks.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

xpost A friend of mine wrote her PhD dissertation on a variation on that same theme. Replace "cell phone" with "chat room" and/or "message board" and you're on your way there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Headphones create that space too, but I'm all for that, since that's a space that encourages almost everyone (except for, perhaps, born showmen) to keep all to themselves and be very quiet.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

so what's the rumpus with the frat boy jenny?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do you ever call him "brah," "bro," "chief," or any such standard fratname?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

He's still no call, no show. Our (for I am at this point speaking on behalf of my co-clerks as well) grievance is worming its way slowly up through the ranks, but a lot of people are out or in meetings today, and the FB oh just so happens to be related to the seriorist partner of them all (yes, that's how he got the job, which everyone including himself will admit) so the attorney to whom I presented our case can't just fire him, which is what he would like to do. So we'll see, I guess.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Does his dad own a dealership?

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny: A simple answer to a (I hope) simple question, plz.

How can people be tried for essentially the same crime in both criminal and civil court without violating the Constitution's protection against double jeopardy?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what his dad does. His mom is a lawyer.

And yes, I call him "brah" all the time. I also call him "frat boy," as in, "Put down that autobiography of Jenna Jameson and hand me that stapler, you frat boy."

Simple answer: The constitutional prohibition of "double jeopardy" only attaches to criminal proceedings.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Many thanks!

And that name-calling is totally awesome.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what his dad does. His mom is a lawyer.

It was an ATHF reference.

Frat alien: "My bros call me D.P., for Donkey Punch. You get it?"
Frylock (angrily): "Yes, I do."

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Today is my last day as a 9-5 ILXor.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

You're switching to 24/7?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

All criticism is self-referential.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

24/7/365 BOYEEEEEE

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, it's called Metacritic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

And thank you, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Would that be criticism of criticism?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Today is my last day as a 9-5 ILXor.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GO AMANDA! Give 'em hell at your exit interview!

Kenan - I kind of feel like Frylock sometimes.

Update - the grievance has traveled up to my favorite name-on-the-door partner. He thanked me for reporting the information and doing my duties as senior law clerk. Then he called me a dirty fucking rat fink.

Heh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

She wanders around and mumbles. When she is not wandering and not making detrimental phone calls, she sits in a chair, makes weird mouth noises and rocks slowly back and forth, and side to side. RAGEATEWTAQTW#W@#

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, this is proof that we should never live apart again. As soon as you crossed state lines, I got an idiot frat boy and you got an AME DB.

We were meant to be together.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

narc.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

if no other good comes from the frat boy his reading of catch 22 has inspired me to seek out the mike nichols 1970 film adaptation of it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Are there any gay sex scenes in it?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

maybe in the directors cut....

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Then he called me a dirty fucking rat fink.

Haha, oh how I hope this is a true and direct quote.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

That is a true and direct quote. The whole thing went: "Thank you for reporting in. This is a serious issue, and we'll definitely address it, (faux-mumbled as an aside) you dirty fucking rat fink."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

did your boss used to write for mad magazine?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Naw, just a union guy. See also.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

This picture of Ebert is freaking me out.

http://www.star-ecentral.com/archives/2006/7/3/movies/Ebert180.jpg

His head and neck look so much tinier than usual, but then he appears to be wearing David Byrne's suit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Is he out of the hospital yet?

Dudez. I just got a phone call from my stepfather. It seems my mother is going in for EYE SURGERY* on Monday to correct a condition that I only vaguely understand that has been plaguing her for over three months and which I am only just now hearing about. She said she didn't want to worry me during exams. Which were, you know, three months ago. Sheesh.

*Outpatient and relatively minor.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

my mom's been pretending not to have an eye condition for the last few years now. she's weird about stuff like that.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

My mom had a rare bone marrow disease that she has yet to tell me the name of. I'm always like, "But, uh, what if it happens to me?" and she says, "Oh it's rare and not genetic; don't worry about it."

Uhhhhh...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

had = has

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, after ascertaining that my mother was okay and not likely to go blind (although right now she can only see out of one eye) my first instict was to ask whether this is hereditary but I did not. I also found out that she has been lying to me for years about not having glaucoma any more. She told me when she was diagnosed with it (that IS hereditary) but then when I asked her about it later, told me that she no longer had it and didn't have to use the drops anymore. I asked my stepfather if her current eye thing was related to the glaucoma she "had" and he says, "Oh, no, she still has that and does the drops for it every day, but it's in her other eye."

This explains why eye doctors always thought I was insane when I told them my mother used to have glaucoma but recovered.

Double sheesh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Also, parents be gettin' old and I'm not ready for that, thanks.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think Ebert keeps wearing the clothes he had before he lost all that weight, to show off how slim he looks now:

http://www.star-ecentral.com/archives/2006/7/3/movies/Ebert180.jpg http://qwipster.net/masterofdisguise.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

He does look like a little kid playing dress up in that pic on the left.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://dotdotdotcomma.com/motorsport/f1/lookalikes/images/toht1.jpg

In that photo he looks like the villain in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

But I was saddened this morning to go to his page and not see reviews for the new movies that opened today. I hope he makes it through.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://dotdotdotcomma.com/motorsport/f1/lookalikes/images/toht1.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy OTM on both counts.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Immature roffles: the two people heading up a certain project at work are named Dickmann and P. Rickman.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

AT WORK PAST FIVE ON FRIDAY MAKES DAN SOMETHING SOMETHING

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Go crazy?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T MIND IF I DO!!!!!1``1~

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Although, I just finished up. Getting the fuck out..... now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know how to access the list of files that are on a specific website? Like the Fake Fictions website?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

The only way I know of is to download some SFTP program so I can login and actually see all the files, but I didn't know if there was some secret code or extension I can use to view the list of files in the browser.

Here's the problem: Ben, for some reason, has made the photos section on the website thumbnails-only. I need to access the big versions of the photos, which I'm 95% certain are on the server somewhere. But I don't know what the URLs for the photos are.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan is just like the cops, he's never around when you need him most.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Except then he calls you back after you call his cell phone and don't leave a message. Thanks, Kenan.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan is sans internet, thanks in part to Me.

I'm paying my phone bill RIGHT NOW.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

what a week.

Hi people.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, if you know the user name and password, you can FTP into the website using a browser.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Try ftp://user:password@nameofthewebsite/

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan is sans internet, thanks in part to Me

I don't want to seem ungrateful, but... in part?

You know I would have paid your phone bill if I could have.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

You're right. I don't know why I said in part. In part because of my own failure to pay the bill, and in part because the phone company turns off service when you don't pay your bill.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Last night: got drunk at terrace, agreed to play a wedding in California, almost (?) joined a sailing team, ate steak & fries pizza, watched Chappelle's Block Party

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Last Saturday I was in the French Quarter just sitting around when what should catch my eye but a woman leading a mini dachsund whose paralyzed hind quarters rested on a tiny cart. A DOG ON WHEELS.

What reminded me of that was this not-to-be-missed video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLXHvBFG-CI

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit!

This is wild. My vision is still not the same. This gave me more visual distortions than most of the acid of done.

http://www.videosift.com/bigger.php?link_id=4577

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just drank a free sample of tequilla at Jewel.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

That is totally wild! I feel a little queasy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Samples of tequila.

ISN'T THAT DOG SOMETHIN ELSE?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Woah. Dude.

Free samples of tequila reminds me of two things from Switzerland:

--Free samples of beer in the grocery store

--Little tubes of "Kick 80" up by the counter at the gas station. The sign said "DO NOT DRINK PURE - For mixing drinks only". Basically it's 80 proof vodka, colored red, with some weird flavoring that I can't imagine mixing with much. We drank them straight and OMG it's wasted-in-a-tube. Forget buying drinks, it costs a couple of bucks and flips the switch from "sober" to "duuuude so durnk".

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 July 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen that dog before. I won't watch it again. It kind of upset me the first time.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I are DEAD FUCKING BORED. It's been a boring day too. Who wants to do something not involving going to a bar and/or drinking?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

John's at the hopleaf, according to his drunken text messages. Doubtful that we will be going anywhere.

BOTH people that were supposed to come look at the car today were no shows.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, one of them did call to say he wasn't coming, which I thought was nice.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bored too. I'm also thinking of coming down to Chi the last weekend of this month for various things.

Favor: does anyone have a little bit of webspace to share for a couple of weeks? I need to send someone a permanent link to an mp3.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

You guys suck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

80 proof (40%) is what normal vodka is, right?

I miss Chicago a great deal.

You know the best thing about this apartment? IN-HOME W/D.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, if you wanted to do something, you could have called ANYTIME THE ENTIRE DAY when we weren't doing ANYTHING AT ALL.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Suddenly, I have no couch.

My roommate is moving out and she took her couch with her.

Fortunately all the major household stuff besides living room furniture comes with the apt.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Why won't Kerry come already?????

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

What?

DON'T FUCK WITH ME.

I wish I could go out and meet people at a bar or something. Even without getting laid that would be nice. The problems with that are: 1. I'd have to drive, and I have pushed my luck once by driving after 4 or 5 beers (the police are everywhere these days) 2. There are very few cabs 3. I have to be fresh most mornings; my one day with an office-work hangover was absolute hell--it's not like a waiter hangover at all, but sooooo much worse. Yes, I worked today and sort of work tomorrow (meetings, social stuff, maybe even....church).

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, any of you, because there are so many mediocre/shitty plays out there, if you get the chance to see one of Martin McDonagh's play's - The Beauty Queen of Leenane (the one I saw tonight) or The Lonesome West or The Pillowman - you should. They're just fantastic, as viscerally intense as the better parts of Pinter or Tarantino, most of them set in little hovels in rural Ireland. So good, really.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.douban.net/lpic/s1003.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

DOHERTY GET HERE< MY GIRLFRIEND IS ALSEEPS ON THE SFOA AND I AM DRUNK AND EATING TORTIALLA CHAPS

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

So when are we finally going to get to meet this girlfriend?

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Funny you should say that, b/c earlier tonight I was saying how you were the last of my close friends that she hadn't yet met.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've met her.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

You also talked to her on the phone tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, last weekend I ate her snickerdoodle.

I just watched John Stewart's first Post 9-11 monologue, which I saw when it first aired. Downer.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also, last weekend I ate her snickerdoodle.

See, gay guys can get away with anything with women - would she have let me do that?

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Snickerwha?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cookiesinheaven.com/images/cookies/snickerdoodle.jpg

Speaking of which, there's a really really good new bakery/sandwich place on Bryn Mawr near the L stop, one-word name. Was there tonight and Jody bought a loaf of CHOCLATE W/BLACK CHERRY BREAD, and it is so fucking good. It's like getting a whole dessert loaf for three bucks - it's like a chocolate croissant and a Guiness all in one.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds amazing.

Kr and I had some crazy beers at Hopleaf earlier. One with sour cherries, one with a spicy vanilla nose, one with a date and chocolate finish, I don't even remember anymore what they were calle.d

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Last week with Jenny, Jeff, Kevin, & Co. was the first time I'd been to the Hopleaf in a while, and first time I'd tried a bunch of those exotic beers - the Alpha one, the one that tasted like lemon and metal...

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

calle.d

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's kinda like "d street" in Spanish.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

We just finished with season two of Lost (that's not why we didn't go out, but it was a plus of staying in). My sadness at having exhausted all the existing episodes is tempered by being caught up with the rest of the world and released from the pressure of having to avoid spoilers, and by the fact that I can finally stop watching this damn show.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

I figured out what they're doing with all the mail that is not being delivered in NO--they're re-papier-macheing the levees.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

Why the F can't I rent Lost? Pour quoi pas?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/44/185218979_0eef5eec3a_b.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

You can't rent Lost (season 2 at least) because it hasn't come out on DVD yet.

I was at a cop bar tonight. What an interesting place! It wasn't completely full of cops but there were a few there. EZ, it is (I think) in your neighborhood... the B|ue L1ght?

Also, I failed to go see Teh N0rth @tlantic at Bar Vertigo tonight because they played earlier than I thought.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 9 July 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrumph. I rented you mom, and she hasn't come out on DVD yet.

I can't rent Lost because Blockbuster here only has Season 1 for sale and NetFlix is MIA for 2 weeks.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

The BL is just a few blocks away - but I haven't been in any of those bars around on Western under the bridge - sounds interesting though.

Having brunch today at Orange in the south loop with a cousin - gonna be good. Last time there I got the green eggs and ham - ham, pesto, scrambled eggs, etc...

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Get the frushi. It's to die for.

Someone else emailed me about the car - cross your fingers, people.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just give me your car.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, just buy our car. I'll give you a sweet deal.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

$7999

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly you guys, the car is tempting to me. But it'd be one of those just ridiculously un-needed kinds of purchases.

I posted this in the BSS thread on ILM, but I thought maybe some of you guys would be interested but miss seeing it over there:

Broken Mascis Scene

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 9 July 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Someone came to buy my desk and TOOK THE COUCH WITH HER! YAYYYYYY!!!!! That thing was like the big white elephant. I thought we'd have to take an axe to it and throw it in the dumpster when we moved.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost --

I would totally buy her if I could afford/finance it. I know her history and believe in her, but she is not in my budget. Driving around has become addictive. I love it so much that I would not mind having a stick shift. But what with a $65 a month parking space at my house, it is tempting....

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I want a couch. I put a flimsy but clean twin-sized mattress on the floor in the living room to sit on. It's comfy, but it's not a couch.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

She gave us $15 for the couch, too, which I kept insisting she not do, but she really wanted to. She's going to get that thing home and think, "Holy shit, I got ripped off."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, so she bought the desk too?

Where are you going to get a new desk and couch?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

The thing I love about Jay Mascis is that he will never ever go and cut his hair.

You can apply for financing through lending tree or some shit on autotrader's website. There's a link to the left of the car pic. I don't know that works, though.

Jeff and I are going to have to learn to get snuggly in the papazan chair until we move and get a new couch. Which, knowing us, we won't do for three years...

xpost - the new apartment is small, but has a kitchen that will easily hold a table, so I have decided I can study at the kitchen table for my last year of law school (plus I'm closer to school so I can use the library/computer lab more without worrying about getting attacked by crazy people when I get off the train at 11 pm). We're keeping Jeff's desk so I can also use that. Our plan is to buy a new, good couch, like spend some $$$ on a nice one that will stay solid for many years. Unlike the $500 Rooms to Go monstrosity that I just dumped on some poor, sweet girl in her first solo apartment. *sigh*

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I AM NOT FINANCING A CAR. I'm tentaively employed and looking to 'change careers' so NO.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

NO in NO

no (x42)

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I do want a "car" though. "I" like cars.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

when i saw dinosaur last fall or winter or whenever it was i was struck by the sight of j mascis. it was like watching crystal gayle channel jimi hendrix. total mindfuck.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You don't need a car, doofus head. What are you going to do with a car? Besides help me move twice a year?

Come to think of it...

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

what does anyone do with a car in chicago? nick and sarah have them. so does john. i probably will not get one, but still, it's not unheard of. even our friend in nyc has a car.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

through much phone calling, crying jags and 2 cans of diet coke, i have determined that it is impossible to rent Season 1 of Lost in New Orleans, Louisiana. :(

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

:(/pigbreath>

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

i can buy it though.... but the cheapest i've found is $44.

what should i do with my netflix account? kenan, i guess you can take it over as long as you don't foul it up too much.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'm off to buy bleach, ice and milk.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

xposts I park my car in the street, mostly. I take it to the store. I've been driving it to work while the Taste is going on and the bus routes and downtown transit in general is befucked. I occasionally drive it to Michigan. It's small and cheap and the A/C is broken.

Jesse, you should try the internet maybe? I don't mean Netflix, I mean teh bittorrent.

There is a car alarm on my street that has been going off all. fucking. day. I almost want to break into the car just to make it legit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, you maybe can get your hubby or Kenan or someone to burn Lost onto DVD and UPS it to me?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://flickr.com/photos/41894171796@N01/

I've updated! PHOTOBLOG?

I even paid to upgrade to Pro all on my own.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=Lost+season+1

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'll burn season two.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched the world cup game outside with lots of beer, pizza rolls (for Italy), french fries (for France obv.), bread pudding, and kids bouncing around. I've never been more tired in my life.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

bumbershowers rolling in

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hit the highway!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Life... is a highway.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

Your search - bumbershowers - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.

Jesse, you're a true original.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

This truly lovely PowerBook G4 is now running Tiger, and very well, I might add. It also runs Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver 8, and Flash 8 Pro so well (simultaneously, even) that I wonder if this little 550 processor is made of magic and pixie dust. I have 2GB of memory in my G5 PowerPC at work, and it doesn't run noticably faster.

The G4... gone but not forgotten.

(cue image of eagle crying.)

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Good weekend. I totally want to go back to Hopleaf and drink fancy beers and eat mussels, but I don't think my wallet can afford it anytime soon. We also watched copious amounts of Lost -- we're 2/3 of the way through Season 1, and I sorta can't wait to go home and watch another before bed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

You're running all that on a 550 MHz? No fucking way. How much RAM?

xpost: Welcome to the addiction, jaymc.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

The best is talking to Kr in a Sawyer voice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

"What say we go back to your place and reheat some of that lasagna, freckles?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

You're running all that on a 550 MHz? No fucking way. How much RAM?

512

I know. I thought it was a little amazing as well. This machine is a trooper.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Granted, I'm not working with anything larger than web-sized files, simple html docs and 72dpi images. Which is all I need to do, so, great!

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

And I would call my Flash skillz a joke, except it's not funny.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, so I have a cousin in town from the the just. dept., and I'm gonna see her argue an appeal in fed. court tomorrow morning. Should be fun, eh?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

"What say we go back to your place and reheat some of that lasagna, freckles?"

bwahahahaha

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

The best is talking to Kr in a Sawyer voice.
What does this mean?

My first day of Life 2.0 has found me full of anxiety about the remunerative benefits of Life 2.0.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Maddie and I watched My Boyfriend's Back, a mid-90s high school zombie comedy (zomedy?). It stars Jack from Lost and PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN as asshole jocks. Totally awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda -- Sawyer is a character on Lost.

God, you think everything is about you all the time, don't you! (J/K)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I just wondered what sort of reference I was missing. Sheesh!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I forget, do we like the new Xiu Xiu album?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I heard a Xiu Xiu song on the radio once and it was poopy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

We really, really like the new Xiu Xiu album a whole whole lot.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

That was the royal "we".

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard it, but I can guess based on previous Xiu Xiu records I probably will kind of like 3 or so songs and think the rest is basically them doing "LOOK HOW SEAMY AND CREEPY OF MUSICS WE CAN MAEK."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

You would be wrong.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

You and John have received an email regarding this important matter.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also recommended: new TV on the Radio. It's a grower, but it's quite good. I like the song about being a werewolf.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't that impressed by the new TVOTR but I was interested enough that I want to listen to it a second time.

ALSO:

Good: Thom Yorke, Cansei de Ser Sexy
Bad: Johnny Cash, Cursive

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

There should be legal restrictions on the kind of establishment allowed to call itself a deli. Hoagies? Lettuce on a pastrami sandwich? Without even asking if i wanted it? The sign should say "Jerk Store."

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I awoke this morning in a panic. I realized that for weeks, perhaps even months, I forgot about Dre. I hope I can rectify this situation.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago, I need help solving a problem.

We found someone who is very interested in the car, pending a test drive and price agreement. She really wants to have a mechanic check it out but lives in the 'burbs and works normal hours, etc. We really want to sell her the car ASAP, and I'm reluctant to fend off any other offers because we're on a deadline for selling it (want to sell it before we move).

So... what do I do? Is it okay to give her the car overnight? Is it reasonable to hold the car until, say, Saturday when she could take it to a mechanic to have it checked out? Should I basically make her promise to have a certified check in hand if I hold it until Saturday?

I've never done this before!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i would say you're willing to drive it to where she wants to take it but if she wants to drive it away she's gonna need a check.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Either that or the weekend option, but in that case make it known that there are other people interested (even if there arent!)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I am groggy and I don't feel like doing any work today. Entertain me, Chicago.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Today is frustrating. So frustrating that I am naming my fake hospital patients COHEN, FRUSTRATED.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Entertain me, Chicago.

http://www.planesonasnake.com

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

A'ight. I told her that I'd give her until Friday to work out the financing. Then she can come on Saturday, certified check for the full price in hand, and take the car to a mechanic. If the mechanic says no, she can have the check back. If he says yes, then she has to buy the stinkin' car. She said that was "more than fair."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

if she comes back claim not to know who the hell she is. CASH THAT MOTHER AS SOON AS IT'S IN HAND!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but then we'd still have the car! It's a dual benefit: no more car, big old check. One without the other would temper the job of the moment.

If we can't sell it, I'm going to file the VIN number off and push it into the river.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

what would you get if it were stolen? hypothetically.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think you should give it to Jesse before you push it in the river. If there's one thing I know about Jesse, it's that he loves to drive.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that's not true. If there's one thing I know about Jesse, it's that he likes to get f'ed in the b.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, blue book value I guess. BBV is $8300, assuming it's in good condition.

I am not really going to push the car into the river.

He particularly likes to be f'ed in the b while driving.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Loves to drive .... ME CRAZY!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Push it into the lake, it's deeper.

I'm a big fan of the idea of throwing things that are no longer needed or aggrevating into the lake. As in "This fucking cell phone is such a rip off and makes me so angry that I want to throw it in the lake." Which I said earlier today.

Note: Please don't throw things in the lake that don't belong there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Have you seen the movie Slacker? Where the dudes are standing on the bridge and throwing things into the river? "This is her tent. I fucked her in this tent. She's probably gonna fuck a lot of guys, but she's not gonna do it in THIS tent." *SPLASH*

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Like invasive species. WE DON"T NEED NO STINKIN" LAMPREYS OR ASIAN CARP

This reminds me of another funny story. Back home, a fisherman pulled a piranha out of a local lake. Or, at least, a "suspected piranha" -- this was front-page news there. Then there was the story of the conservation officer being attacked in his car by drunk yoopers shooting bottle rockets. 6 people were arrested. And then the story about the people who hit a horse with their car. The horse died, one of the people was injured. Then a second car hit the same horse and another person was injured. The horse remained dead. THEN the ambulance taking the people to the hospital hit a moose. The moose died. I don't know if the people ever made it to the hospital.

I'm bored too.

xpost: That movie is fucking awesome.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Everything in the world is a rip-off. I am getting used to this idea.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't seen slacker in a loooooooong time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i saw a moose in a lake once, it scared the holy hell out of me. the uncle of a kid i went to high school with was killed when his car hit a moose. took the legs right out from under the beast and it's one-ton body came right through the windshield.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I got sent to a collection agency for late fees accrued when I failed to return Slacker to the video store for upwards of three months.

OH THE DELICIOUS IRONY!

There was all this weird shit on CNN on Friday about moose-related car accidents, complete with video footage of a moose stuck fully in the car, alive, with his head poking through the windshield. It was funny until you stop to think about where the driver of that car is...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

That moose got f'ed in the b.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

While driving.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

One time I was walking around out on Isle Royale National Park (awesome BFE wilderness in the middle of Lake Superior - gbx you would love it) with a friend while my dad was doing some work out there. We came around a corner to be FACE TO FACE with a mama moose and her lil' baby moose. I mean like close enough to reach out an touch it, less than 5 feet away. This, of course, is one of those situations that is commonly called DANGEROUS and/or LIFE THREATENING. Thankfully, they must've heard us coming because almost immediately they bolted for the water and swam off (they are very good swimmers if you didn't know.) Amazing to see, but not a place I'd like to be again

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

A ROOM WITH A MOOSE

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

not a place I'd like to be again

Face to face with mama/baby moose, not on Isle Royale. I can't wait to go back there.

xpost

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Thankfully, they must've heard us coming because almost immediately they bolted for the water and swam off

You mean to say, they vamoosed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think this is your punniest day ever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

The vast majority of moose-inflicted death and injury occurs when you hit one with your car. Has anyone apart from Dan ever seen a moose? Fuckers are, like, 10 feet tall, no kidding.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

of course, it's best not to die, but death by moose sounds like a much more interesting way to go than most.

i have no concept of how big a moose is other than...very.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, was the moose family about to eat you? Do they do that? Or were you in danger of moose stampede?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Stampede/goring/trampling/etc, because of the mama/baby combination. They are mad protective, like most big animals. Also, they are vegetarians.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

This website says that the biggest moose, the Alaskan ones, get to be 7 1/2 feet tall at the shoulder and weight as much as 1800 pounds. So no, you do not want to hit that with your car any more than you want to hit the Great Wall of China.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Have youse guys heard the newish Herbert album (Scale)? I can imagine john and kenan really liking it. I think it's ... interesting. Like, I think the songs are good, and some of the sounds are interesting, but something doesn't seem right about the way the sounds are put together. I keep wanting there to be more emphasis on the rhythms, but instead it's all on vocals and orchestration, and that's probably on purpose. But it may be a grower.

I haven't listened to new TVOTR that much, but I kind of agree with John. I think sonically, it's really cool, but the songs don't do much for me yet, aside from "I Was a Lover," which is great.

I haven't heard the new Xiu Xiu, but I will probably like it. Kenan was supposed to email it to me but hasn't yet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fabulousfoods.com/shop/prods/bookimages/moosewood.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen a live moose in person, but I have seen moose antlers, stuffed moose heads, and once, I think unless I'm recalling a dream or injecting myself into a Norther Exposure episode or something, ate in a restaurant with a full-sized stuffed moose in it.

I like the new Xiu Xiu a lot. I haven't listened to all of TVOTR yet, but I really like the song from it that Jeff keeps playing.

I just talked to my mom who is still under the affects of the "twilight sleep" that they put her under for her eyeball surgery. She was fuuuuuuuny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kinda interested in Scale, but I can't imagine it being better than Ruby Blue. Mostly because a) I think Roisin Murphy is way more charismatic than Dani whatchacaller, and b)he's at his best when he's trying to be pop. He doesn't need to try to be experimental and conceptual and jazzy, he needs to try to make it bump.

Maybe it's great though. I'll try to dl a couple tracks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've never really heard Herbert before, but I was just listening to a mix that a song from Scale was on and I quite liked it -- so not long before you guys started talking about it, I had already jotted it down as a "need to hear" album. Jess Harvell's 8.6 (or whatever it was) helped with that, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i can't decide what i think of that album. i liked it on first listen but wasn't really paying attention too closely.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Herbert: have it, love it.

Xiu Xiu: will send to Nick immediately. My bad.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like Scale more than the Roisin Murphy album, though I haven't given the latter much of a shot, really. Scale isn't particularly experimental, conceptual, or jazzy, though it doesn't bump most of the time, either.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I'll have to hear it.

(seems like a good pair with the Thom Yorke record for tomorrow's LUNCHTIME RECORD STORE MISSION)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I want some good rock music.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Not feeling: Body Language Vol. 2.

Rather Ripped is probably the best ROCK album of the year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Rather Ripped is pretty good, but totally doesn't rock at all, hardly. Plus the first song is the best song and then it's all downhill from there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I want to hear the AWESOME COLOR album on Thurston's label but I think it's too obscure for me to find on the downloading thing I use.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, have you heard Wilderness? Their new one is still my favorite record of the year so far.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: I've got it!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

i zipped the herbert album and was going to put it up on the blog but yousendit is taking a while. it might end up there anyway.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I have the Wilderness albums b/c Jesse yousent them to everyone a long time ago. I like them more than I thought I would. Like, it seems like music that would be boring, but whenever it comes on my iPod, I listen to it and enjoy it. I don't really know why I like it.

But I mean, I want some ROCK MUSIC.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't even have to be new. I don't know.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

but totally doesn't rock at all, hardly.

But I mean, I want some ROCK MUSIC.

I have no idea what you want then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

GET THE LED OUT.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I will make you a mix and try to make it interesting.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nick: did I burn you that Boris album already? That's some pretty serious rock.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

The SY doesn't ROCK. The guitars are all jangly, not all RRRRRRRGGGHGHGHGHGH!!! The drums are all bum bum pa bum bum pa bum bum pa, not CHACKALAKCCHACKLAABBUDBDUBDUBDUBDU!! The vocals are all whispy whispy loo, not DANG A LANG A LANG, DANG A LANG LANG LANG! I guess the bass is kind of rockin', though.

Yeah, you gave me the Boris, I forgot about that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I like rock. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

more descriptions of music with all-caps sound effects, plz.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

So there was only one thing left to do: ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Is that Blowfly?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ministry, dude. But you wouldn't know that because you don't like rock.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh oh oh, make him guess more!

xpost DAMMIT

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I would've guessed Chuck Berry next.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

toot toot

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jon Brion had an interesting point on Sound Opinions this past week about the difference between songs and performance pieces. Most songs of the rock era are performance pieces, in that what we're attracted to is the sound of specific people playing specific parts in a recording or live setting. A song, on the other hand, transcends any given performance, and it's about the chord changes and the structure and all that. For Brion, Led Zeppelin (whom he loves) is the example par excellence of a band that was all about performance pieces. A lot of punk rock is performance pieces, he adds, but a lot of Nirvana -- and esp. "Lithium" -- is songs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Something can be both at the same time though, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

He doesn't say as much, but I'd like to think so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

from what it sounds like, something that can be both would be primarily a song, because that's the broader definition?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

That makes it sounds like "performance pieces are great! But if it's a dinstinctive performance AND a great song, then the song trumps the performance (for songs are immortal and timeless etc.)".

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

(I am a fan of "performance pieces")

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it's a very useful distinction.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

This song is a rock and roll song
It is also a performance piece
This song makes the crowd roar like a lion
This song whips a dog's bouncing ball sack

Rock and Roll Performance Piece
Rock and Roll Performance Piece
Rock and Roll Performance Piece
Rock and Roll Performance Piece

A rock and roller takes the stage
To play the song the crowd wants to hear
The crowd roars like a lion
The performance piece jam session was amazing

Rock and Roll Performance Piece
Rock and Roll Performance Piece
Rock and Roll Performance Piece
Rock and Roll Performance Piece

Rock over London
Performance Pieces over Chicago
University of Chicago Press
Since 1891, Publisher of Books & Journals

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Damn it. I edited that while poxy fuled to improve it a little with the hopes it wouldn't get posted. Oh well.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think you are both right about the song trumping or superseding the performance, if it has to be one or the other.

My immediate inclination is that I am a fan of "songs" -- partially maybe because growing up, I always loved figuring stuff out on the piano, and the songs that were most fun to play were the ones that still sounded interesting even when I played them.

I don't think it's a very useful distinction.

It definitely falls apart in places. Brion mentioned Thom Yorke as being a great "song"-writer, and while I think that's certainly true of, I dunno, "High and Dry" -- I'm not sure "Everything in Its Right Place" is a great "song."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

there are, according to that definition (and individual taste), all sorts of things that qualify as neither. pieces of shit.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's useful, it just gets really messy when applied to "song-y" music. This Seba & Paradox track I'm listening to, for ex., is both awesome and totally inseparable from this recorded version. The beat and the sample are both "hooks" that could be approximated, but this particular recording is the thing itself. I think the same thing goes for, like, all of hip-hop.

It's a lot more confusing with rock, which seems to aspire to good, traditional songwriting as often as not. Although maybe it's an intent thing, i.e. Zep trying to write pop songs vs. Zep just jamming out because they're great players. Whatever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I chuckled, Dan. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

So is "Louie Louie" a great song, then? It's been covered like 8,000 times in like 800 styles.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I actually used to think of Everything in its Right Place as a performance piece, until I played and heard a few covers of it. It is a great "song" now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Louie Louie" is a great song in that the charmisma and dynamics of the particular performer aren't as important as the song itself (done by a marching band, etc.).

Ooh, tomorrow is Flag Day!

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's like the difference between plays and screenplays. Part of what's great about Shakespeare or Mamet or Chekhov is that there are hundreds of different ways to play a scene or say a line while still being true to the script -- whereas a screenplay is performed only once, so the single line reading is what matters the most, not the flexibility.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

(that herbert album is up on the blog now, for those that might be interested.)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Iulia! I will dl before the R1AA takes us down.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I hesitated before mentioning "Everything in Its Right Place" because I didn't want to say something as obviously non-song-ish as "Kid A" or "Idioteque" -- but there's definitely something classic about that opening Wurlitzer riff that does transcend whoever's actually playing it on the record. And which is why Radiohead gets covered so often by dudes like Brad Mehldau. So fuck, I dunno.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think the distinction is kinda goofy. I think it's basically just Brion's way of putting down music he doesn't respect as much.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

But he's a producer! He's all about the "performance piece" in a way. Those Fiona Apple songs wouldn't have been half of what they are without his recording sense.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nick OTM

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Roisen Murphy-Ruby Blue = Great
Herbert-Scale = Boring

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I have a NICKROCK mix made. It's pretty rough-and-ready, but it'll do. Also, I have AW3SOME CO|_0R. The latter can be ysi'd, but I don't know what exactly to do with the former. Did you ever figure out a good mix-exporting technique from iTunes?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have an odd request: If anybody sends you sappy "hang in there" religious-themed cheesy email forwards, send them to me. I've alienated everybody I know who dared send that crap to me, and now I have established email contact with my last worker at Worker Justice, Inc. and I think we would actually really appreciate them.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, fratboy update?

jesus this new sonic chicken 4 song is kicking my ass. dancing around my apartment despite a pair of SEVERELY sunburned stems.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think the distinction is kinda goofy. I think it's basically just Brion's way of putting down music he doesn't respect as much.

He does say that he unabashedly loves Zeppelin and he takes care to say that it's not a snob thing -- but I also do think he's drawn to the "song" more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Frat boy claims he was "sick" and "passed out in the shower" because of the "steam." None of the attorneys want to bear the burden of firing him - only one attorney has ever fired a clerk. They usually handle it by not giving sucky clerks and work, or just assigning them to the file room. So nepotism prevails, and the best we can hope for is that the partners agree to end his tenure on Aug. 1.

HEY GUESS WHAT? WE SOLD THE CAR!!! Whooooo! Well, pending mechanic approval, which won't be a problem.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

So the shittiest employees work the least and the best employees work the most? Where's the worker justice in that equation?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

PS - congrats on the car-selling!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have time for a lot of reading y'all's bullshit posts, but I just wanted to come in for a minute at tell you a couple bits of great news:

I HAVE 3 NEW ROOMMATES! 1 is named Julie and the other two are Talulah and Ringo! Only Julie is human; the other two are feline. Talulah is awesomest. She is a beatiful skinny calico who is quite friendly. Ringo has yet to emerge from his carrier....

I started the download of Lost Season 1 at around 4 yesterday afternoon, and as of now it is 76% done. That's kind of amazing, isn't it? I heard it would take 48 hours. Unless I remember wrong.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, interorganizational work madness gets turned up a notch.

Today in a meeting with the 2-headed truncated trinity of the Alliance (pseudonym), they said "We have a hard time trusting your organization. We really like you, [meaning me personally], but when we talk with various people in charge of orgs and tell them we have partnered with you guys they say 'Oh, those guys? We got a weird vibe off of those guys....' But, we work hard to defend your reputation and we say, 'No no no! You should meet their guy on the ground! He's a solid guy and their org is solid too.' But you guys aren't trusted yet."

What is really happening is that he badmouthed us to potential sources of funding and now some of those people probably do say things like that.

Also, he said that our style does not go over well in NO--calling meetings, having very clear and direct asks, etc.

But the just looove me! Can you get colon cancer from having a lot of smoke blown up yor ass?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

I went over today's posts:

I do love getting f'ed in the b. I also have developed a recent fondness for f'ing another fellow in his b. Also, I like f'ing and getting f'ed in the m.

I have seen a moose. I have heard the sounds of a moose that was in the woods by my house in Montana. The moose was making very loud bellowing sounds for a few days because the moose had been hit by a car and was upset at its massive injuries. We didn't know what the ruckus was, and we called the Dept of Natural Resources after a day or two and they told us that it had been hit and wandered into our front woods to do some bellowing.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

So the shittiest employees work the least and the best employees work the most? Where's the worker justice in that equation?

As the senior partner and cousin of the frat boy says, unions (and union law firms) make the shittiest employers.

Jesse, tell that guy "If you're going to blow smoke up my ass, you might as well just f me in the b."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am so paranoid that the wrong person is going to be on ILX and everythign will come tumbling down.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

As the senior partner and cousin of the frat boy says, unions (and union law firms) make the shittiest employers.

I was just talking w/ someone today about this very fact. Except it was not about only unions, but about other public interest and workers rights orgs.

The "Alliance" found a day laborer who they groomed to be an organizer and I've been working with him some. They haven't paid him for 3 weeks (and he has not been working otherwise), he gets moved from house to house to house, including one with no power, he was promised regular meals but he usually only scores 1 meal a day and when I dropped him off at his current residence today, he was locked out.

When I translate his asking for his wages, they tell him, "We applied for funding to pay your wages and we really hope that it will come through in the next few days." They hired him without having funding to cover his fucking wages!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Mushroom Method of Social Organizing:

Keep 'em in the dark, feed 'em full of shit.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

81%

At 130 kbps, it's no wonder, right?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, neighbors with fast internet connection!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/1/186953827_eebbdce157.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Before this pic loaded I saw the title. Ha ha.

Kenan, I want to see similar pics of your current kitties.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have some sort of OCD problem, because I just read about a week's worth of posts all at once. Why couldn't I just skim the thread?! Why couldn't I just hop on at the end?? I AM CRAZY.

Anyway, I should shower so now I can't just hang out.
What to say?
I had a crazy dream last night, which actually made me really happy, but I might blog it.
Way upthread you were talking about car ownership. Nick and I need our car to transport rock and roll utensils, meaning amps and guitars and drums and bandmates. We also use it to go grocery shopping and take day trips. We still use public transportation alot - I take the bus every morning to work and we take the train and bus on weekends when we go downtown or anywhere we don't want to have to deal with finding a cheapie parking spot- but I really love having a car.

It looks like it will be a sleepy, rainy day today. I'm looking forward to it.

Oh, and Zepplin fucking rules.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah -- I would like a sleepy, rainy day, since I am most certainly going to be sleepy by the end of it. Got up at 6:15, at work by 7. I get a lot done in the morning this way.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

ILX dream alert:

We all lived in this mountain town with really windy roads. One night Otto drove up to wherever it was that I lived in a car with Jeff and Jenny and we were all going to go out to a party somewhere on the mountain. Then I saw my old hairdresser and she told me my hair looked bad. "Too severe", she said. Then we all went to this party and somehow I found myself dressed inappropriately even though I was dressed fine when I left the house. I was wearing a tube top, shorts and pointe shoes. The end.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

PS I have never met Otto, but in my dream he looked a little like Eric Bogosian.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

i look very little like eric bogosian. i suppose we both have arms and legs and things but outside of that not so much. good to know you're dressed inappropriately in the dreams you have about me though.

in other news my legs are killing me. they look like ballpark franks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

What happened to your legs?

My legs look like chicken bones most days.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

severely sunburned. wearing pants was killing me at work and around 9 pm i finally put on some shorts and when i did i noticed that my legs had grown in size by roughly double. but it's only from the knee to mid-thigh where i have the sunburn. so my legs have this weird tapered thing going. my arms, while also sunburned, remain spaghetti sized.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Otto looks more like Eric Bogosian than Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, or Karen Finley.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

actually, if i cut my hair, i'd probably look more like laurie anderson. but not loni anderson.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

You're confusing Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

1) How did you get sunburned wearing pants?

2) Are you allergic to the sun???

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I have the Wilderness albums b/c Jesse yousent them to everyone a long time ago. -n/a

Me? I did this? Or is there another Jesse?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

The "Alliance" drama continues! This morning at 7 AM we had an early episode when the guy who has not been getting his pay (or food or housing) told me that he would not be a part of their group but would be joining another org who has shown themselves to be good at keeping their promises.

Turns out that yesterday all he had to eat all day was a 12" roast beef from Subway that we bought him after he complained of not having eaten the day before, so today I bought him breakfast.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

1) How did you get sunburned wearing pants?
2) Are you allergic to the sun???

1) sunburn is from sitting in the back yard sunday reading a book while wearing shorts. i was only out there for 50 pages or so but i got burned pretty bad.

2) i hope not. i think it's just that this was the first time my legs had seen sunlight in 11 months and they saw a lot of it. seriously, my legs look like johnsonville brats.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Your legs are making me hungry.

Damn, Jesse. That's weak. You should badmouth those assholes to funders. "They don't even pay their employees!" What a bunch of jerkholes.

I had to run an errand to the library this morning and I paused to check my email and read ILX because dammit, if that frat boy can not even call in or show up to work, I can take ten minutes to dork around on the internet. Jesus.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am not a breakfast-skipping person. I'm "starving" here.

(I wouldn't do well as an unpaid labor organizer, obv.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Otto and Eric Bogosian both have crazy curly hair.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can't skip breakfast. Basically, I have to eat every 3 hours or I feel like I might die. Then I put my wrist to my forehead and start swooning.

Do you ever feel like it doesn't pay to try to be helpful at work? My boss asked if I called the post office about picking up mail at our new location. I proudly answered that yes, that's all been done. He asked, did they come yesterday already? I said, yes, but... they pick up the mail right after lunch, so if we ever have something that needs to be mailed THAT DAY, we should get it together by noon. His response? Well, that's not good enough. You need to find somewhere to drop off our mail every day. Grr.

It's metered mail. Do you think I could just drop it in a regular mailbox or would I have to take it to the post office?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

E. Gould, E. Bogosian

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/gould_elliott.jpg http://www.jacneed.com/PhotoFile/Eric_Bogosian.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oops.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

E. Gould, E. Bogosian

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/gould_elliott.jpg http://www.jacneed.com/PhotoFile/Eric_Bogosian.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Otto and Eric Bogosian both have crazy curly hair.

this is true. for the second straight weekend i went out to get a haircut and wound up in a record store instead and forgot about my hair cutting needs. at this point i'm not sure if i should consult a barber or a landscaper.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

P. Reiser, P. Glass

http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/images/newsletters/paulreiser3.jpg http://www.artitude.hu/hun/blog/images/philip_glass.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, they look nothing like each other -- but imagine a spectrum of Glass --> Gould --> Bogosian --> Reiser.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artitude.hu/hun/blog/images/philip_glass.jpg http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/gould_elliott.jpg http://www.jacneed.com/PhotoFile/Eric_Bogosian.gif http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/images/newsletters/paulreiser3.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that's beautiful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

paul reiser looks exactly like my friend greg from massachusetts. greg wasn't half as annoying though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I remember seeing Talk Radio while on vacation with my parents in FL. Other movies I remember seeing on vacation with my parents:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Satisfaction
Howard the Duck

That is a nice spectrum of curly haired menfolk. Jaymc should make a coffee table book. I feel really boring today -- could it be the weather?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Even that was a boring thing to say. I'm not bored, just feeling like a dullard.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've bored you all into submission.
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/2004/excellent.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still here, just doing work is all. that insipid treasure hunters show has somehow sunk it's hooks into me. that goddamn fogal family pisses me off. "ok, you stay up here and pray, ok?" good luck with that fogals.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have "Death or Glory" by the Clash stuck in my head, yet I haven't heard it for weeks if not months. This has to mean something.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I would be chattier, but I am busy getting the Led out. Physical Graffiti, bitchez.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm actually cleaning off my desk! for the first time in months!! i see faux woodgrain everywhere!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I actually responded directly to you, Amander, but I got poxy fuled and then I had to go read about freedom of association and then I forgot what I said. But if you want to know how to exclude gays and lesbians from your St. Patrick's day parade, I can tell you all about it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just that my semi-German ancestry makes me a super-efficient time management machine, or is it sort of strange, perhaps even infuriating, to not know, more or less and subject to change due to unforseseen circumstances obviously, your work schedule for the next three or four weeks when your scheduled work hours are always 9 am to 5 pm?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

You lost me.

HERE IS THE SANDWICH I JUST MADE AT HOME:

French Bread
spicy mustard
lettuce
pepperoni
salami
French Bread

(toasted)

I can't lie to you guys...it's off the hook.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

JORDAN: ONIONS, STAT

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Like, you have set hours that your work, right? So if I were to say, "Jordan, can you tell me what your schedule will be over the next three weeks or so?" you'd be able to do that, right? Because you know when you have dentist appointments or doctor's visits and when you are taking vacation days or whatever. Because since you are an adult and know how jobs work, you recognize that barring any unforeseen circumstances, if you haven't already requested a day off, you'll be going to work on any given day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you ask?

Surprise days of work are a pain. Surprise days off don't bug me so much.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Totally. And did I miss something and you don't have that now?

Dan, the onion and I still have some...issues to work out.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, it's just more of me bitching about the co-clerks who seem stunned at the concept.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i'm hungry and it's raining and i don't want to walk across campus to get something to eat. i wish i had an emergency sandwich with me for times like this.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, the onion and I still have some...issues to work out.

Do you feel like onions don't fulfill your needs? What is your earliest memory of onions? What kinds of feelings do you associate with that first encounter with the onions? How did your mother and father relate to onions?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think what he's trying to say is that he likes onions, but onions just aren't that into him.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

the co-clerks who seem stunned at the concept.

Ohhh I see.

That reminds me of when I was talking with Kid, my roomie on tour, and it dawned on him how much normal people have to work. His parents worked for the school district, he's only been out of college a little while, and he works for the schools now too.

He said (with horror), "Wait, you get 10 days of vacation? And you have to work on ALL THE OTHER DAYS? Is that what do?!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think what he's trying to say is that he likes onions, but onions just aren't that into him.

Finally someone who understands! It's not me, it's them.

Onions are like my last bastion of food pickiness. I'm cool when they're cooked, usually, but white, raw, long onions (esp. on pizza) = sorry, dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

me and onions have a torrid love/hate relationship. i know i should stay away but when i'm out, drunk, late at night, her siren song proves irresistable. then i wake up the next to and have to endure the vast array of shame at crumbling yet again to that saucy minx the onion. the physical pain is just as bad.

i love you onion baby, i'll see you again friday night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Onions cause you physical pain? That's beyond just a preference, innit?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

(to repeat my own emulation of that commercial)

Ze onion, zuch a beautiful theeng.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yo, Jenny -- so when you mentioned downloading the second season of Lost, did you just watch it on yr computer? Or is there some way of transferring it to DVD?

I am asking because we'll be done with Season 1 by the end of the week, I'm guessing, and we don't want to wait until after the new season has premiered in order to start renting Season 2, which doesn't come out until early October.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Attempting to burn the second season of Lost to DVD may result in horrific syncing problems that make watching it on the computer, even if the seating is not as comfortable and doesn't allow for much cuddling, the more appealing option of the two. You might have better luck with it, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know how to download TV, much less burn it to a DVD. Does my computer even burn DVDs? I don't think it does.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I know, I know, BITTORRENT, blah blah blah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

John, if we were able to talk Jesse through the process, we can totally talk you through it.

1. Download this: http://www.utorrent.com/.

2. Somewhere in this thread, I think, is a link to a torrent of the second season. (If not, I'm sure someone nice will post it for you.) Click that link.

3. Utorrent will open up and the downloading will commence.

4. Wait.

5. Watch.

6. Enjoy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

here's the link that was posted before:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/320924

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

John do you have a Mac or PC?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

'Cause that's a PC BitTorrent client. Just sayin'.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

A Mac client is available on this page: http://www.bittorrent.com/download.html

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

WHOOPS sorry.

I'm a bad Mac user.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a Mac. Thanks guys. Now are you sure I will be able to see video, unlike when I downloaded that Azrael thingamajig?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

once in a while you have to do a search to make sure you have the right drivers for the file format. but then you download the driver and install it and it magically works.

(but usually, you have the right drivers on your machine already)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Signs Point to Yes

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

John, that torrent is for an XviD file. In order to view that after you've downloaded the torrent and used it to get the XviD file, you'll need to get the XviD codec before you can watch it (probably... Macs can be funny with regards to things just "working" for them on their own.) The XviD codec is available here: http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just learnted a new word: eleemosynary. Thanks, US Supreme Court! Your vocabulary is unstoppable.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

You should all come with me to fed. appeals court next time my cuz is in town (or on your own). Like the Cook Co. building, the Fed building is dull Mies on the outside and breathtaking Mies on the inside, especially these giant perfect-square courtrooms with the entire ceilling made of cross-hatching with fluorescent lights above - so intimidating! This is a Hall of Justice, make no mistake! And one of the 3 judges today was R. P0sner, who has written many entertaining and brainy articles and books, and could easily be played by Larry David on film. Go to fed appeals court sometime! Cheap entertainment, and American justice at work!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1995/102695/reed.gif

If Kevin would just take more smack and let himself go, he could be Lou Reed in Blue In The Face.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

What is a codec? (Or, for that matter, a driver?)

I was horribly disappointed to learn recently that "eleemosynary" is pronounced el-eh-MAH-suh-nah-ree, not el-ee-EM-oh-sin-AIR-ee. I believe there's a play with that title ... Eric?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, by Lee Blessing. Three generations of women in one family, all spelling-bee champs, I think.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

R. Posner, L. David

http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/posner-r%5B1%5D.jpg http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9804/14/larry.david/larry.david.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

And they've got a similar personality too. RP is articulate and clearly brilliant, but he also listened to the case with chin resting in one hand and did not suffer fools patiently.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

It may surprise few to learn that of my favorite books of 1988 was a collection of Spy magazine's "Separated at Birth?" features.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

there is no smack in my future eazy, sorry. weird you mention it, just found out about a dead acquaintence in milwaukee. some people never get on top of their bad habits.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I've been informed the blue line is shut down from washington to damen. Anyone know whats going on?

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

What is a codec?

From Wikipedia:

A Codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. The word "codec" is a portmanteau of any of the following: 'Compressor-Decompressor', 'Coder-Decoder', or 'Compression/Decompression algorithm'.

"portmanteau" is another great word!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, who was the acquaintance, if you don't mind my asking?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

xpost So, you get the codec so you can change XviD to MPEG or WMA or whatever. Probably MPEG since you have a Mac.

You're going to be able to make this work, John. And when you're done, you're going to feel like a 1337 h@xx0r.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, deej... my housemate just got home. He said they were making announcements that the Blue Line had a fire.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, evan tyson, aka evan lonesome. like i said, he was more of an acquaintance than a friend but he was a memorable guy. i don't think i've seen him since we were both in memphis last year. i find that hard to believe but that's the last time i saw him for sure.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago subway line shut by smoke

Was breaking news over here in the UK.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

"A Chicago subway train derailed, forcing the evacuations of dozens of passengers, CTA President Frank Kruesi says."

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

holy fuck, that might have been my train. i got off at western & 290 because i was nic-fitting otherwise i get off at division. if it derailed at just after five there's a good chance that was my train as i checked my phone when i lit up and it was 5:04.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

BBC says everyone has been evacuated safely

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Posner's a wanker.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

But you're right - Federal court is pretty awesome inside.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

JOHN, just download VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) for all your lost viewing or other pirated tv show needs.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

This is the thread where I complain that I still have not received my much anticipated copy of the False Falsifications CD! Despite paying for it and everything!

I realize this is somewhat hypocritical for me, since my label operates on an "allow six to sixty weeks for delivery" policy, but still...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi dears!

I have 100% of Lost Season 1!

This is especially for Jenny, b/c I know she craves these stories (about the most dumber than hell intern ever):

I went with her and another intern (a smart guy, but inexperienced and soft-spoken) to meet a priest who was a real point of access to a lot of the orgs, congregations, services, etc that we need, and just a cool guy. His parish is Our Lady of Gu@d@lup3, an off-French Quarter parish (and the official parish of the Fire and Police Depts, which is also important).

Anyway, she came along and I gave her clear clear instructions: when I cue you, you hand him our info packet. As we are wrapping up, you say, "Fath3r T0ny, are there any congregations or types of services offered at OLoG that we might have overlooked?"

Welll..... We were in conversation and I asked the lines of, "So how me how did the 'Nun from Hell' handle that drunk mouthing off to her," and he was opening his mouth to answer when she got up from the couch, said "Excuse me," and handed him a flyer entitled "Why Unions Matter." She sat down and said, "I think that that flyer really explains why Unions are so good at helping illegal workers get help getting paid for their work."

I now believe in Jesus, because I know that without Him, I could not have put that conversation right again, but we moved on.

We talk for 20 more minutes and we got on the subject of the history of the Guadalupe parish and other area churches. I see F@ther T0ny looking concerned and then he says, "M@delyne, do you need a tissue?"

She has tears rolling down her cheeks, and she says, "No--I-I-I just--it's just been so hard working here in New Orleans cuz I call and I call to get people to help us and either numbers are disconnected or people act like I'm a telemarketer and they say 'Not interested' and I just cain't get nobody tuh help us! I-I-I... *sniffle* I'm just so frustrated."

Fortunately we had talked earlier about how the stress of the work in NO, so my cohort and I were able to play it off as, "It's been hard on all of us, and we can only imagine the strength and spiritual fortitude blah blah."

She dried it up and we moved on. The meeting went extremely crazy well and he opened his doors wide open for our asks, some before we even made them, and some we hadn't thought of.

M@delyne, not content with having failed to fuck things up completely, waited until the priest was in the middle of a sentence about razing of Cabrini Green in Chicago to butt in and say, "So, uh, excuse me, but uh, are there any other churches or services you all offer that you forgot to tell us about?"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

(also, unions are not good at getting "illegal" workers their wages, goddamit!)

my boss is here and tonight over dinner we finally threw in the towel and said that we wished we could fire her, but since her father is super-influental, it would be easier just to create utterly useless busy work for her. she has proven herself to be incapable of even the most basic data entry (we found 6 copies of our clergy list, all different, all labelled, "Master Copy-Final")

her job? reading the news every day, sending around links and writing up abstracts of stories involving labor, NO, migrant workers etc . someone is already doing this work, but we're letting her do it to. other duties, riding in a car while our street scouting crew (1 driver, 1 note-taker) drives around; not talking; not humming; not chewing with her mouth open; not burping; not crying.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff gave a much better solution to the torrent video problem. I admit, I've done it a total of once with my computer. Generally for the viewables I stick to broadcast TV/cable.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, evan tyson, aka evan lonesome

Otto, that was my guess. I didn't know the guy, but a friend mentioned a memorial today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, also, that reminds me: Jesse = awesome.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

Chris: try emailing A@ron at aar0n@fprecords.com (but, you know, o instead of 0). Last time I talked to him about this stuff, he said one person had ordered a cd but the card couldn't be processed for some reason. So maybe that was you?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

VLC is great. It will play almost anything and isn't bloatware.

Because of the blue line troubles, I had to stay at work late because the afterhours person was on the train...

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

we wished we could fire her, but since her father is super-influental, it would be easier just to create utterly useless busy work for her.

She's your very own frat boy!

Do you think she's really that straight up dumb, or do you think she's just clueless and lazy?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

because of blue line troubles i got to the blue line a half hour earlier than normal. i waited a half hour at the station and wound up getting on the train at my normal time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it when that happens.

I am sleepy. QUEL SURPRISE!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

What's a good 2-day illness?

The band has all-day festival gigs in Milwaukee tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday. I was planning getting a sub for Thurs. and then calling in sick on Friday, just because I've been gone from work a lot lately. But now the other drummer has a funeral on Thursday (not his own), and so I may need to call in sick that day as well.

There's no reason I can't call in sick two days in a row, I guess, but I feel a little guilty about it. Mostly I just hate calling in and doing my best Tom Waits impression while I lie to my boss.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Stomach flu. A hard core case takes at least two days to recover from, and nobody wants you around when you've got that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

She's that dumb. She is reading the screen as I type this and she can't decipher these language symbols to interpret what I'm saying about her.

She just asked me what "right click" means. JUST NOW, AS WE SPOKE.

Now she is double-right-clicking.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a calling in sick for work story:

My friend Denise and I went to visit our friend Charlie in SC. Our second day there, we took some el ess dee in the morning but lo! Charlie was supposed to work that evening! So she called her boss and told her that she thought she had food poisoning because something she ate was making her see purple spots. Cue Denise and I quite literally ROFLING in the background.

Also, in this state, Charlie made us go with her to take her freaking recycling to the recycling center which was located... in the back of the police station. I've never figured out if she was just fucking with us on a magnificent level or if she thought driving to the police station with a carload of recyclables was seriously a good idea.

xpost: OMG. OH EM GEE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Perfect. Jenny, you are a friend to labor (me).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

"I have a thing downstairs I want you to grab."

quote above is from a dude in the office to one of the secretaries in the office. me and the newest hire in the office (who is actually within 10 years of age to me) both had to stiffle the giggles. i hope to have a partner in mirth at work.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

or stifle.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

FREE LUNCH TODAY

POSSIBLY AT ORLY'S CAFE

WISH I HAD MY CAMERA

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bizzy W3rks: Assigned.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Like what?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

i need a personal assistant. someone to update my resume, go buy me some clothes, find me a girlfriend, and cook me dinner. that would free up a lot of time for me to persue important, meaningful things. like sleeping.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/tv/reviews/q/images/queer-eye-2005.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.emediawire.com/prfiles/2003/12/19/95347/FlipFlopSocks.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

bizzy= reading the daily news from 6 - 10 websites and distilling them

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Make her give you a daily summary of the Chicago thread too.

I've committed to gigging instead of working tomorrow, no turning back now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

someone to update my resume, go buy me some clothes, find me a girlfriend

If you sleep with your personal assistant, you kill two birds, as it were.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Caption this photo:

http://www.cinematical.com/images/2005/10/Tabroddy.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, fine. Don't.

But answer me this: why do I have such a gut-level negative reaction to everything about Amy Sedaris? I can't explain it, don't understand it, but I can't fucking stand her. I don't know anyone else that feels this way.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

Sedaris' performance of her "outrageous" gags (she jabs her stepbrother with a fork at the dinner table) and line readings of the third-grade wordplay (the principal of Jerri's school, a black man, is called Mr. Blackman; students have names like Dale Dim) is not exactly mugging. Robin Williams mugs. Sedaris looks like she's undergoing facial electrocution. When desperate for a laugh - which is always - she jams the corners of her mouth as far apart as they will go, thrusts her incisors over her lower lip and crosses her eyes.

While Jerri thinks, she tosses a candy in the air. She tries to catch it in her mouth. She misses. She tosses another candy in the air and tries to catch it. She misses. She tosses another candy in the air and tries to catch it. She misses. If you're laughing right now, you have to see this movie.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

someone to update my resume, go buy me some clothes, find me a girlfriend

If you sleep with your personal assistant, you kill two birds, as it were.

http://www.tv.com/seinfeld/the-maid/episode/2415/recap.html

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

i only saw one disc of strangers with candy, but i didn't like it, so i'm not much interested in seeing the movie. in interviews (i've only seen the colbert one) she seems okay. the tumbling thing was bizarre.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS EXACTLY RIGHT:

The movie, for those unfamiliar with the show, represents a particular varietal of arrhythmic, conscientiously anti-witty comedy. Andy Kaufman is the style's St. Joan, occupying the borderland between blackout yuks and discomfiting performance art. Often enough, overripe unfunniness is the joke...

Set in Lowdown Sketch World, Strangers is abjectly ludicrous, but even here Jerri is an alien creation, prone to gargoylish mugging and dim-witted non sequiturs. No one in the film notices Jerri's age, or her psychotic behavior; most of the cast have no idea how to react to Sedaris...

She's a committed spectacle, but hardly an incisive comedienne. When the all-sober Jerri takes a joint hit, everyone just stands back and watches her smash lamps and furniture in what's supposed to be a flashback seizure. Comic turned first-time director Paul Dinello has the timing of a tar-pit victim; too often the dead air surrounding a gag is merely filled with Sedaris in close-up, screwing up her eyes and letting her fake buck teeth hang out of her mouth...

Strangers With Candy regularly lampoons junkie-reparation melodramas and after-school specials, but with so little focus it's never clear what the film, or even Sedaris's vaudeville buffoon incarnation, is supposed to be parodying. That may be its fascination for some—it's a satire without a baseline, free-floating in its own self-indulgent ether.

It's true. It's all true. That show is so fucking bad.

the tumbling thing was bizarre.

That's her whole schtick. Do something not really funny. Ho ho!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know anyone else that feels this way.

You know me. I'm going to qualify it and say that I don't hate Amy Sedaris because I've only really seen her Strangers With Candy character. Which I hate.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to qualify it and say that I don't hate Amy Sedaris because I've only really seen her Strangers With Candy character.

That's kind of the only thing she's ever done. That and appear on talk shows for no discernable reason. She's just not a funny person. People love her, celebrities are lining up around the block to be in her terrible movie, and I'm totally lost. Is it because she has big boobs?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I heard an NPR interview with Amy Sedaris where she pretty much came out and said she only has one character (Jerri) and whenever she's acting she's really imagining Jerri acting. Or something like that. It sounded to me like she was making an excuse for not being able to act, but I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen the show, and I probably won't see the movie either.

Orly's cafe was... meh. My boss got a pic of the awning for me with his camera phone, I put it on the "O RLY?" thread.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

(To the tune of "I see dead people") I like Amy Sedaris. It doesn't matter to me that she can only do one character. I think there are a bunch of actors out there just like that who are really successful. They can play one part or character well. You can take it or leave it.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I totally agree. I've got nothing against her, the interview was the only real exposure I've had to her besides seeing commercials for her show.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have much experience with Amy Sedaris besides seeing her on Letterman once and hearing her brother tell stories about her and eating a cupcake that Renee made according to an Amy Sedaris recipe.

I think she's amusingly wacky, though. The tossing-the-candy-in-the-air bit sounds like it could be really funny. Stuff like that's all in the timing, though.

Basically, I'm just waiting for Nick to pen a rousing defense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

FFX -- you seen Flavorpill yet?

Join local trio Fake Fictions as they celebrate the release of their third album, Raw Yang. The group, who just filmed a pretty darn cute music video, melds fuzzed-up guitars with adorable clap-alongs and dueling male and female vocals. Their incredibly catchy sound, teeming with plaintive lyrics and buoyant harmonies, recalls a synthless amalgamation of '90s indie-pop outfits Wolfie, the Rentals, and That Dog. Opening this evening's pop program is the lithe and lovely iPod-assisted electro-pop of the newly (if briefly) reunited Nueva Cats. Local quartet Penthouse Sweets headline with solid alt-country balladry. (SN)

(They link to the video, too.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, nice review of the Fixxions in New City too!

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

With one of those bold black arrows pointing to the band name.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Some man just asked me where the bathroom is and I told him, and told him the code to get in, and he said, "Good girl!"

I wanted to fucking stab him.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) You're right, that is nice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a preview for 'Little Miss Sunshine' the other day and noticed that Dev0tchka did the soundtrack - sounded good. Not sure about the movie - the ad campaign is intensely quirky/ironic in that 'Thumbsucker'/'I Heart Huckabees' way.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oy, where are my manners? FFs BLOWIN' UP! And to think that I "knew them when..."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

the ad campaign is intensely quirky/ironic in that 'Thumbsucker'/'I Heart Huckabees' way

Had the exact same thought when I saw the trailer as well, right down to being reminded of Thumbsucker.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's cool. I didn't know about the New City review. I have a feeling Nick might not appreciate all the talk of cutesiness in it though. Our next cd will probably have to be produced by KevinDrum or something.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the links, guys. I had seen the Flavorpill one but not the New City one. Yay. I think it's weird that everyone seems to think we are so twee, since I don't really hear us that way, but whatevs.
ha ha xpost!

I like Strangers With Candy a lot. I'm not going to write a detailed defense, but I think a lot of its best humor comes less from Sedaris' physical appearance than from the wordplay/script and some great sight gags. What I like about Sedaris is that she isn't an "actor," really - she's basically done SWC and some TV appearances, like Kenan said, but other than that she has a bakery out of her home kitchen and does a bunch of other random things. She seems like just a regular person who acts sometimes, as opposed to a "COMEDIAN" or "ACTRESS." That said, I haven't seen the movie and I can't really imagine how it could be that great. I'll see it on DVD and imagine I'll be entertained but think it's not as good as the TV show.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

But answer me this: why do I have such a gut-level negative reaction to everything about Amy Sedaris?

Because you're a misogynist. See your "big boobs" comment.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

-H.L. Mencken

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

K.'s just a bigboobsogynist. As opposed to a bigboobsophile.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's strange that the descriptions of the FFs are strikingly similar to the descriptions of my other friends/couple-band, the R0sebuds (we "knew them when" in NC). You would make a nice double-bill.

I have spent the entire afternoon traipsing around IIT getting ready for this class I'm teaching there. It's either going to be a giant mess or it's going to be great.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

What I like about Sedaris is that she isn't an "actor," really - she's basically done SWC and some TV appearances, like Kenan said, but other than that she has a bakery out of her home kitchen and does a bunch of other random things. She seems like just a regular person who acts sometimes, as opposed to a "COMEDIAN" or "ACTRESS."

I second this.

I came to know David Sedaris through SWC, (still remains one of my favorite shows ever). I saw that DS was reading at my college in NC, so Courtney and I went. In a Q & A after the show someone said, "What are your sisters up to?" Courtney and I thought he must get tired of being the less famous Sedaris.

I love Jerri Blank, but I am not all that fond of a lot of her other roles, especially in Sex and the City (one of my least favorite shows EVER). Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello are great in it too.

Haven't seen the movie. We don't have movies down here.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 13 July 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

No posts since 8 yesterday? What's up overnight crew?

I'm selling toys.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

It was a phase, I'm over it.

Hi Jesse.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Jesse. Hi Jeff. Hi toys.
There is a subcontractor working at my desk who looks exactly like my frenchie brother-in-law except big and tall.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

thanks humanity, i've had enough. check please! time for me to go!

Group of teens attack boy, use artificial leg to hit friend

The Associated Press
Published July 13, 2006, 8:09 AM CDT

Police in suburban Chicago say a group of teens attacked another boy and used his artificial leg to hit a friend who tried to defend him.

Burbank Police Captain Joe Ford describes the attack as "just mean."

Police say the 15-year-old victim was playing basketball when the other teens got out of a car, shoved him to the ground and removed his prosthetic leg. Authorities say one of the attackers used the leg to strike a 20-year-old Oak Lawn man in the head when he came to the victim's rescue.

The attackers then smashed the artificial leg on the ground and drove off.

Ford says it's unclear if the teens knew the victim had a prosthetic leg before the attack.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

My mom keeps sending me emails describing her childhood abuse. Can anyone say BUZZKILL?! But seriously folks, it's not funny. I've been hearing about it from her my whole life, which makes it that much harder to think of anything comforting to say any more.

In happier news, I'm excited about tonight, this weekend, iced coffee, and getting married next year.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I heard about that on NPR this morning. Only helps confirm my conviction that the craziest people are in the suburbs.

xpost: I'm sure she's glad just to be able to get that stuff out more than looking for comfort(?)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm excited about the stuff that Sarah's excited about, getting married next year aside (though you never know).

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

what time do you guys go on tonight sarah? after an earlier in the week purchase of a plane ticket to san diego i am BROKE ASSED BROKE until payday (tomorrow). i'm not sure how long i could stand being at sub-t without social lubricant.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, getting married next year? I am out of the loop! Mazel tov!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

10:30 Please come! I can use one of my drink tickets for you.

I know my mom just wants to get that stuff off her chest, but also it feels wrong to not say anything, you know?

Chris! I thought for sure you knew.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

10:30 isn't too late. keep your drink tickets, i'll be fine. mighty nice of you to offer though, thank you.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

No! Was there a thread? Was there a goofy romantic proposal? Anything?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

It was at the botanic gardens. I have pix of the day up here.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

It was a surprise. Otherwise, I would have dressed up.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to entice PFM news editor Amy Phi11ips to come tonight. She said she listened to the songs on the website and liked them.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i just checked my bank accounts and i won't be there. I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS BROKE IN YEARS!!!! literally, aside from the $400 for the plane ticket i don't know where my money's gone.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Your use of "entice" makes it sound as if you're offering yourself up to her or something! :D

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

P1TCHF0RK IS C0M1NG

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

john takes one for the team.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, John!

I just said something in spanish to a mexican worker. Is that racist? It was just one word, it slipped out. I was leading him through the office and we came upon a big paint blanket, so I was like, "CUIDADO!"

In similar news, I just learned today that LECHE can be a bad word. I was wondering why these guys were talking about milk all the time.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I think I should try to speak spanish to them more often, but then I get all shy and worry I'll start speaking french instead.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

what's the bad word meaning of "leche"?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

As far as I can tell, it's just a generic expletive, like shit or fuck. It can also mean semen.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I just said something in spanish to a mexican worker. Is that racist?

I don't think so. I think people appreciate things like this... that you're making the effort to learn a little about them and their culture. I always try to order in spanish when I go to places like Taqueria Moran, usually to the delight of the waitresses. My spanish is about at a 4 yr old level so it must be pretty entertaining. They always get a good laugh out of me, but they've helped me learn how to say a bunch of things more clearly, too!

I need to take a class or 10 an actually learn to speak that language.

xpost: Semen was my first guess.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Mine too.

I took it in middle school and all through high school. I used to compete in declamation contests. Then I went to college and took a couple years of french, thus screwing up my ability to speak spanish.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I will NEVER EVER google image CAT HEAD again. * shutter * All I wanted was a cute little cat face. CRY!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

What is a declamation contest?

Kr sez I speak pretty good Spanish for someone that hasn't taken a class in 10 years. It's fun to have whole conversations with her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

QUE PASA?
NADA.

NO PUEDO RECORDAR TODO. DIOS MIO. QUE BARBARIDAD. QUE LASTIMA.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

David Sedaris signed my copy of Naked, "Dame tu leche papito" (Give me your cum, daddy).

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

All of a sudden, this album title/cover is really funny to me:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000009SV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.djiboutiweb.net/image/DJIBOUTI.gif

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

esta un pescado en la bibloteca.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Esto no es possible, mijo.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

The dude who plays Kenny Loggins on Yacht Rock looks a lot like John.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just got my hair cut by ILX fave Leanne.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Huh.

http://www.channel101.com/media/articles/article_000069/image_001424.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

"A theft occurred on the 1100 block of North Wolcott at 4:25 p.m. July 6, police records say. The offender, a young man nondescriptly attired in beige pants and a white T-shirt, did not conceive an ingenious scheme. He merely noticed a Pabst Blue Ribbon truck parked with its door open, grabbed two cases, and sprinted north on foot. Police have not found their man, but are on the look out for someone who likes to wear T-shirts, sometimes."

can't be many guys in t-shirts with pabsts in the ukie village, right?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

No one went to the Empty Bottle "Yacht Rock" screening, did they?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

FELIZ PELO, Nick.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

He looks more like you when he's Kenny Loggins-ed up. Or maybe it's just the beard/curly hair combo.

I don't speak Spanish (I'm pulling for this to become my "How would I know about..."-esque ILX catchphrase).

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I love Yacht Rock.

David Sedaris signed my copy of Naked "To Chr1s P1uma, on the ocassion of his 37th birthday", although he didn't googleproof my name, but he did spell occasion wrong, which I always do too. Oh, also it was a birthday present, but clearly not my 37th, since that's not for a few years, and this was a few years ago.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

But you guys ... I DON'T SPEAK SPANISH!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

CALLETE!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

What I need from you dumb, dumb cunts:

I REALLY NEEd (from you D, DCs): links to NO related blogs that might deal with Katrina, HUD, labor, left-wing liberals' work like what we're doing, housing, etc etc etc. Can you direct me there?

What I ask is one link from each cunt. Thanks.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

THAT was the day you took those great circular window pix? Hunh.

I also feel awkward about speaking Spanish to people. It always feels like I'm patronizing them, or something. Like when I was in Canada and I felt self-conscious about the bit of Canadian accent I picked up, which surely wasn't a proper Canadian accent and must have sounded like I was making fun of them.

J, you want NO-blogs, not just leftie-blogs, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Here's one about HUD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://neworleans.metblogs.com/

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

This one looks more relevant:
http://interdictor.livejournal.com/

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, cunts

that ought to keep amedb busy for a while.

i wonder what she is up to?

Yesterday she summarized ONE news article. An article about a church that is opening a day care. She says, "There wasn't no news (about NO, labor, Housing, reconstruction, government, legislation, unions, community orgs, etc) yesterday.

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― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, ye cunty bastard,

http://www.agonist.org

Maybe not NO-centric, but they've definitely had a lot to say about what's gone on down there.

Dan

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I thought about texting Jorin to tell him that Amy would be in the house, but knowing him, he'd get super-nervous. Then I'd want to make out with him.

I mean. Oops.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 July 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, in the future it's probably best to keep such info from us (or at least Sarah and Ben) until after the show.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dang. I meant to go see that Yacht Rock screening. I have more time now, but I'm doing less things. I think this is because I'm in SUPER GTD MODE when I'm in school and now it's summer and I'm like... eh....

FFs: We will not make it to your CD release party, alas, but I hope lots of people go and it's totally awesome and you get the opportunity to put a song in a commercial and make a bazillion USD.

Tu madre trabaja en la officina de los correos y necessita una pluma para escribir la fecha.

I don't know of any NO blogs except Ryann's myspace blog.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 13 July 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

I just sent out a text message to some of you. That text was from the AMEDB. I don't know why she sent it.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Guess what I'm going to do this Sunday? JUST GUESS.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Snake-handling?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Catholic churchin', that's where.

Chapel of St. Jud3 @ 0ur L@dy of Gu@dal0upe.

It's on Rampart, 1 block from the French Quarter, and 4 or 5 blocks from the "lavendar line" of gay bars, so who's to say there won't be some snake wrangling later.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so maybe Jenny or someone can help me out with this: during the gross meeting that my boss and I had with the duo in charge of the "Alliance" the conversation turned to the need for a strong labor movement in the South (more on that later). The guy with the "Alliance" said that he believes strongly in Labor, but unions have a bad rep in the South as racist, corrupt etc institutions. Because he is an organizer and not an activist, associating with unions was not do-able for him and his group.

I think I understand? But no, not really. My boss talked a little about what that meants (and how stating it so proudly indicated a self-righteous purity of their group's ideology) but we were on the way to the airport and I didn't have time to get into it very deeply.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

More about unions and the "Assliance's" attitudes; this may be boring for most people:

We have our offices in a union-owned building. This union is setting up a training facility that will allow black people to access the building trades that they have been locked out of in the past. Besides this training facility, they hope to make the building a multi-service one-stop hub for all things (low-wage) worker including facilities for rights education, workshops, casework, etc.

The "Alliance" refused their offer of free office space despite the fact that they are being kicked out of their current offices and are having trouble finding new space. Their refusal was put in the form of a complete silence and disregard for phone messages and emails and 3rd party invitations to a meeting or even a conversation over a drink.

They say that they will not speak to any union until that union makes a loud and unequivocal acknowledgement of and humble apology for its mistakes in the South. This? Won't happen.

Besides this, they said that they want assurances that the union won't offer preferential hiring for black people because that would look bad to the Latinos and whites. Also not going to happen, since one of their clear intentions is to target the AA community in its training program.

Because we are closely allied with a union, they hold us in suspicion and do not want to make us full members of the "Alliance" until we get promises that the union will behave according to their stipulations.

So what they are building is a movement that reinforces the marginalization of unions in the South.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

FAKE FIXINS ROOL

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

2x, Eazy.

I bought a Fk Fctns CD that came right out of a woman's bosom. What a sales technique!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, we all missed Flag Day this past Tuesday, didn't we?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

so tired

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like it went well, congrats kids. my sunburned legs have started to blister, it hurts to stand up.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Flag Day is June 14.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh oh oh, that Flag Day. Yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

They say that they will not speak to any union until that union makes a loud and unequivocal acknowledgement of and humble apology for its mistakes in the South.

Just a guess: what they really want is an acknowledgement of inferiority, to make sure the union can be subdued and controlled. Like dogs in a fight.

The guy with the "Alliance" said that he believes strongly in Labor, but unions have a bad rep in the South as racist, corrupt etc institutions.

Bullshit. Yeah, 'cause Southerners are the world's most sensitive people to institutional racism. Unions have a bad rep in the south for being unions, full stop.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Again, I am no expert on this subject, but this is what I'm hearing.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Unions do have a reputation for being racist, in some ways deservedly so.

Kenan, my debit card had in fact come, you silly goose.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

John, What did your PF friend say?? huh huh huh?

I had alot of fun. I didn't know until after the show (when Ben's gf told me) that there were feedback problems on my vocals for the first two songs. But she says the sound guy got it right after that. Either way, I really liked him. He talked to us alot.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

She was dancin'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm tired too, not to mention hung over, but I'm in a great mood today.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I was all set to come to the show yesterday morning, and then each passing hour brought me closer and closer to feeling like utter shit. Now I am sick with a bad cold and weird rash on my cheek. I am sorry Sarah + Nick. I wanted to come to your show but I decided to get sick instead.

I'm glad the show went well. Sounds like you guys are fixin' to blow right up.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Call in the FBI. PLEASE KEEP AWAY FROM THE SEARS TOWER. I don't want to see you guys on CNN.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh ha ha

I'm sorry you're sick, Amanda. You have to get better for LE GRANDE CLOTHES SWAPPIE.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

My PF friend def. liked you guys. In fact, she said she especially liked when you sing, Sarah.

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

The first thing my boss said to me this morning was "you were out last night, weren't you." And I even went home early!

I am listening to my boob CD now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome, John. Thanks for bringing her out.

What's the boob cd? Is that a special mix?

Does anyone want to make me a work appropriate mix? I sit far away from everyone else now and it gets really lonely, BBBUT it also means I can listen to music at my desk without bothering anyone.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Define "work-appropriate."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Flag Day has passed us by with nary a whimper. Oh well. I will try to find out what that woman actually did with the flag.

Meanwhile...

Unions do have a reputation for being racist, in some ways deservedly so.

In MANY ways deservedly so, and not just in the south. Especially the building trades. But unions, especially service sector unions, understand that brown people are their very future and have gotten over themselves. The building trades still need some help, but the unions and labor activist organizations have taken steps toward a solution. Is it fast enough? Probably not, but at least they're trying a little.

The fact that this group is taking a beef with S3IU is just absurd, though. They have some of the most diverse leadership around and are probably trying the hardest out of any of them.

Meanwhile...

Was the attendance at your show good, FFs?

The assumption of "twee" is kind of weird. It's like they look at you but don't really listen to you. I would put the FFs in the middle of the twee scale:

Entombed < Black Sabbath < Bad Religion < The Pixies < Fake Fictions < Sufjan Stevens < Belle and Sebastian < Japanese pop music

Clearly, anyone who classifies the FFs as twee is a fan of Swedish death metal.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hah! The boob CD is what I was trying to explain to you guys last night, but evidently failed due to the rock band playing in front of us. The short-ish woman who sold me my copy of the CD was walking around with them tucked into her low-cut shirt. It was a great marketing strategy. The guy whose name I can't recall now but who was also at karaoke (starts with a "J" maybe? EZ's friend? I'm not sure. He had a red shirt on last night) bought one in the same manner. Later on she came and tried to tell me something but the loud rock band kept that message from being passed on, too. I hope it wasn't important!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh. Titty residue.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also what I don't get about the aliance is that a lot of unions do acknowledge and have apologized for their past wrongs. I saw the president of laborer's int'l and he straight up said they had a shameful past that they were working hard to remedy. So what the hell do they want? A blow job from Andr3w St3rn?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Like I was saying (or failing to say), nobody is denying the racist past of the unions, but this Alliance seems to be using it as an excuse to avoid... something. Possibly having to deal with unions.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpostulate: Oh, yeah! I heard you say that, Dan. I'm just dumb this morning.

Work appropriate music means basically anything which, when turned down low enough, could pass for an easy listening radio station. So, nothing noisy or with bad words basically. Examples from mixes I already have include: Caetano Veloso, Annie, The Knife, Rolling Stones, Papas Fritas, Prince, Tom Tom Club, light reggae (ie: not the INJECTION song).

Jenny, I thought the turnout was really decent! I was worried it would be really empty. Also, I really enjoyed the other bands, which doesn't always happen.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

OMG you just reminded me! I had a dream about The Knife last night! I can't remember if I was hanging out with them or just listening to their music or what. But my bike was also involved in some way... Maybe the Knife stole my bike.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I rode my bike to work this morning. It was cool and damp out. All-in-all, a good time. I hope it showers on me on the way home. I love that.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly, anyone who classifies the FFs as twee is a fan of Swedish death metal.

My housemate A., the masseuse, brought home some Swedish death metal - something with a choir and the Prague Synmphony Orchestra. Those warlocks can stop on a dime. Impressive.

S. - I'll make a mellow work mix sooner or later.

Geoff was the red-shirted one who also bought a Fixins CD from the bosom - I didn't see who it was (it wasn't Ben's GF, was it?).

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

It was not Ben's gf.

Speaking of dreams, I had a dream last night where I was in some kind of Lost episode, except we were all in a house and we had to pair off and basically confess to one another our greatest fears. I was paired off with Rose:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Rose_Lost.jpg/250px-Rose_Lost.jpg

Which was good, because I think Bill Clinton was also there? And I wanted to really bare my soul but in a way that I knew I wouldn't get in trouble. And I thought he'd want to turn me in or something.

Later, someone said "Who knows anything about this screen duo from the 1930s?" And it was some actors named like Harold Henderson and Carol Cooper. And I suggested that this one dude in the house might know, since he called himself a film buff -- but then I said, "Although I'm not sure if he's like a Matrix fanboy or if he's into, like, Orson Welles."

Then I dreamt about a session of the Illinois state legislature. The camera directing my dream zoomed in on the seat of some representative from, like, Arlington Heights, and she was absent from the session. BORINGEST DREAM EVER.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

To the angry and bitter, having fun can be considered twee. But fuck that pigeon-holing.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with being twee? /devilsavocado

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ach, maybe nothing's wrong, maybe it's just my aversion to reductive labeling.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

The D.C. thread has some beautiful images of 'nice guy' periphanelia:
http://g-thisisme.blogspirit.com/images/medium_546.2.jpg
http://www.nikentertainment.com/images/NNG300.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

they claim that they can't associate with groups that might sully their reputation because they are fledglings and all they have is their rep while big orgs (s3|U, |WJ) can "bounce" really easily and absorb the loss easily.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

"we don't want to put it in terms of 'david and goliath' but there is a serious imbalance of power and resources between the "alliance" and [said orgs]"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing is wrong with being twee unless that's not the message/sound you want to convey and people keep insisting that's what you are. Same thing as when people assume I like jam bands and have trouble accepting that I do not, in fact, like jam bands.

xpost - I guess I just don't get how those groups would sully their reputation, at least among the labor activist community. Yeah, southern BUSINESSES are really hostile to unions (see GSO Massacre), but labor activists... not so much.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

their reputation amongst the actual people who they are working with. if they yoke with a union and the union doesn't come through on things or isn't contrite, then they feel that they would be sunk.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

As if I'm not nelly enough, I just subscribed to Tim Gunn's podcast.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Silver Fox:

http://www.austinist.com/attachments/austinist_alison/tim_gunn.jpg

Silver Fox:

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/03/cooper.brown/story.anderson.jpg

Sometimes I wish that I, too, would go prematurely gray.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I have a for real number of gray hairs on my head now, but my hair is light enough that it's only obvious if you stand there next to me under the bright bathroom light and look closely at my hair. It's neat, actually.

I love Tim Gunn. Make it work!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have a for real number of gray hairs on my head now,

you and me both sister. but instead of my hair being light enough it's wrapped up in that bird's nest of a mess i've got up there. you can see them if you look, it doesn't need to be under bright light.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have enough on my left temple now that when I look in the mirror it sometimes looks like there's a touch of powder there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I wish that I would go prematurely gray.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Should I know Tim Gunn?

OMG I just googled "Tom Gunning," who is a professor of cinema studies at Univ. of Chicago, specializing in early/silent film. I had no idea he looked like this:

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cmtes/cms/faculty/images/gunning_portrait.JPG

I mean, of course he does.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

My boss keeps wanting me to do impossible things. Like create an entire website with no content whatsoever. He actually said to me, "You don't need content." I was aghast. Then I nodded and agreed. Next, I will set about mapping my dream website, with all the content we don't have but that will be on my Christmas list this year. Surely that's what he's asking for, right? I mean, what *does* he want?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

xpost He looks like a middle-aged version of like half the dudes I went to college with.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, what *does* he want?

A template?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

A template of what? He also told me that he "doesn't want" me to do any "design." So, no design, and also no layout since there's nothing to lay out. This leaves me in a peculiarly fantasy-driven place.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/ap/0603exam1999/images3/magrittechateau.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like you should just do nothing.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Or, instead of asking us these questions, ask him. He probably doesn't understand how closely those elements are linked when putting this sort of thing together.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a template. Or the equivalent of when ad people make a product design but put jibberish where the text will go.

Thom Gunn's an excellent formal poet, a gay Brit who wrote a few good books of lyric poems set around San Francisco. But he's deceased and unable to podcast.

The Man with Night Sweats

I wake up cold, I who
Prospered through dreams of heat
Wake to their residue,
Sweat, and a clinging sheet.

My flesh was its own shield:
Where it was gashed, it healed.

I grew as I explored
The body I could trust
Even while I adored
The risk that made robust,

A world of wonders in
Each challenge to the skin.

I cannot but be sorry
The given shield was cracked,
My mind reduced to hurry,
My flesh reduced and wrecked.

I have to change the bed,
But catch myself instead

Stopped upright where I am
Hugging my body to me
As if to shield it from
The pains that will go through me,

As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Kenan. Lorem ipsum him up something. No graphics, basic colors. Links labelled "link1" "link2" etc. Like give him a generic two-column layout using that light blue that every default template in the world uses for an accent color.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm basically finding other sites with the same purpose that I think are good examples of what should be done, and attaching a Word doc with a list of comments and ideas.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Good job!

Countdown to weekend: 3 hours.

I ordered lunch with the office today to celebrate payday and because I have no fun lunch groceries at home at the mo'. At 1, a coworker comes to my desk to tell me they're REALLY SORRY but they forgot to tell me when lunch got here. So I was annoyed because everyone was done eating already. I sit alone at my desk and then I sat alone at the lunchtable. But as they were clearing out their things, I found out the boss paid for lunch. So I guess that made up for eating lunch late and alone.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Great idea, Kenan. When I was building websites for professors it was like pulling teeth to get them to say What They Wanted before getting to work. Of course, it had to be done, because it eas worse to put in the effort of making a mockup of the site and have them say "Nonono, I don't like this, or this, and I hate the color yellow" etc.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

The fucking fire alarms keep going off here!!!!

IT'S GOING OFF RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

The piercing alarm is accompanied by flashing lights. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe... there's a FIRE???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Even if there wasn't a fire, I would get the hell out of the building and milk it as much as I could as an excuse to stop working. It's fucking Friday for chrissake.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

But Jesse's in charge. He could leave the building any time he wanted anyway.

I guess when you have a lot of work to do on your own schedule, milking a fire alarm loses its appeal.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Precisely

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Then, as Guy In Charge, I would raise holy hell until they fixed the alarm. Again, if there was actually no fire.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Don't mean to tell you how to do your job, man... I've run out of things to do this afternoon and am in time-killing mode.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not THAT in charge.

Anyway, I think people are working on the alarm and that's why it's going off.

Hey people, a question: I downloaded the entire first season of Lost, but when I go to play it on Winamp it only plays sound, no video. Por que?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Are codecs involved? Or other portmanteaux?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

portmanteaus? portmanteaux? portmanti?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

You should try Jeff's suggestion above, VLC.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

The codec used to encode it (and needed to decode it) will often be in the filename. There are dozens.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Jesse, download that VLC. That will take care of it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey people, a question: I downloaded the entire first season of Lost, but when I go to play it on Winamp it only plays sound, no video. Por que?

This was my problem when I downloaded Azureus or whatever it was called.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't see anything above, but thanks. It's funny, but when I get off of a desktop and onto my laptop I am less productive suddenly. Weird?!

I am thinking about staying at work late today. Weird?! But:

1. I'm feeling productive
2. I'll get to be alone and work for a while
3. It's not like I'm doing anything tomorrow
4. Should I go out to a bar tonight and get some trim?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

DC BOARD RULZ

― IAN Mc KAYE (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I keep forgetting that 7 wives is actually kind of awful, and that cheap chinese food makes me naseaous.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Deej, 7 wives for 7 brothers?
I LIKE GIRLS WHO WEAR A&FITCH. CHINESE FOOD MAKES ME SICK.

What is trim, jesse?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tmlforum.net/Smileys/classic/Animated_Roll_Eyes2.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

It's come to this
FAP: A Chicagoan Alone in New Orleans All Summer

Trim is puss. Tail. Poon.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

The real Ian MacKaye would know how to spell his own name.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Etymologists, please tell me the origin of TRIM.

Countdown to my weekend: 2 hours.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Seven Wives is a restaurant in Chinatown, no? I think Jeff and I have eaten there and it was nothing great, although the decor was neat in an overly elaborate Chinese restaurant way.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

My first exposure to "trim" (HAHAHAHA) was in the Eddie Murphy/Nick Nolte classic 48 Hours.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Etymologists, please tell me the origin of TRIM.

http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/images/refimages/pork/frychop/trimfat.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had a desk at my house. Then I could work from home. Even if I had a couch I could. But instead I have 2 cats.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/trim-51425.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well, ya learn somethin' every day.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gotwinlakes.com/images/Bartman.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

― FAN DEATH (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

ZR WITH THE BUG GUNZ!!!!!!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

That picture of Tom Gunning is terrific. This is what I remember him looking like 12 years ago, too - like Wilford Brimley and Arlo Guthrie's love child. Between Gunning and Yuri Tsivian, the U of C totally runs this muthafucka on early cinema studies.

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Big guns.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hey why ya'll living in Chicago when you could be living in OUR NATION'S CAPITAL?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

because they hate freedom

― FAN DEATH (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

No, we just hate museums and graveyards.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Re Univ of Chicago: I actually meant to mention to Horseshoe earlier that my department at work has suddenly been overrun with just-graduated MAPH students.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

hataz want to hate
lovers want to love
I don't even want
none of the above
I want to piss on you
quincie and fandeath I mean youuuuu (and Mr. Q)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Who the hell wants to live in the same city as Oprah, anyway?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Your lake is stupid, too.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wait Chicago has a university? Can you major in, like, bad pizza?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8JDkNDCes&search=Dave%20Chappelle%20piss

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Flipping the script: who the hell wants to live in the same city as GW, Rummy, Cunnilingus Rice, et al?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

DC is so awesome that its residents post on the Chicago thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! Your phallic monument is absurd. And your city made me throw up blood and be put in the hospital!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

GREAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE URINATED ON BY A WASHCLOTH

http://www.thestranger.com/blog/files/old/DanielStripedTigerAndMisterRogers.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

DC is so awesome that MY PARENTS LIVE THERE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well maybe Chicago looks good compared to RICHMOND but please, not saying much, is it?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Uh hon, Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

xposts All over your face, dude, feel it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the vodka I bought and drank in your city did that.

Do you enjoy living in the same city as W?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know
What it means to miss
Chicago?

I am living in Banged-Up-Ethnic-Cleansington right now.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

HONEY I WAS REFERRING TO DANIEL STRIPED TIGER. THATS WHAT MR ROGERS HAS ON HIS HAND. HE WANTS TO PISS ON US.

Our mayor smokes crack!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I get to drive by Cheney's house every week and yell "GO FUCK YOURSELF"--what are YOU doing about it?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

your city made me throw up blood and be put in the hospital!

couldn't party with the big boys, huh?

― FAN DEATH (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's true. No one in Chicago drinks.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

xposts All over your face, dude, feel it.

-- daniel striped tiger (thedanmarti...), July 14th, 2006.

who is this guy? i have no polaroids of him

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I was out of town when you were here.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

daniel striped tiger is mr roger's handpuppet

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

ONLY SUCKERS GO OUT OF TOWN

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of drinking and having unsafe anal sex, someone just gave me a bottle of wine called "Bareback." Of course it's Australian.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

CHICAGO IS FULL OF CHEATERS

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

AND CRAP PIZZA

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://reds.enquirer.com/img/photos/1999/09/091599sosa_500x380.jpg

We got rid of that guy.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS POST-ROCK SUCKS

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

AND WILCO AINT ALLLLL THAT EITHER

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

your city is full of fatteys

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm finding myself agreeing more and more with these guys.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Pizza snaps are totally played, guys. That'd be like us making a crack about OH WAIT NOTHING THAT TASTES GOOD HAS EVER COME FROM DC

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

xposts All over your face, dude, feel it.
-- daniel striped tiger (thedanmarti...), July 14th, 2006.
who is this guy? i have no polaroids of him
-- SQUARECOATS (plsmit...), July 14th, 2006 2:58 PM. (plsmith) (later) (link)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I was out of town when you were here.
-- daniel striped tiger (thedanmarti...), July 14th, 2006 2:59 PM. (OutDatWay) (later) (link)

This exchange is making me majorly roffle.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

TORTOISE BLOWS

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT TASTES GOOD, FUCKER

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like this beef. It's like when we did karaoke that one time, and there was that table next to us, and they probably had their own little social clique and inside jokes, and we eyed them sorta suspiciously but mostly fondly, because you know what, THEY WERE JUST LIKE US.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

do you have any good celebrities in chicago?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Note: Vince Vaughn does not count.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

That'd be like us making a crack about OH WAIT NOTHING THAT TASTES GOOD HAS EVER COME FROM DC

Making a "crack"?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Joek, Kenan

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wisecrack.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

YOU GUYS ARE JUST LIKE US EXCEPT A) YOURE IN CHICAGO AND THEREFORE B) YOU SUCK

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

do you have any good celebrities in chicago?

Only chefs.

xpost See, cause the crack in DC tastes good. The nation's finest, I hear.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT CRACK IS

CRACK KILLLLLLS

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ya'll know you look stupid all bundled up in your winter atrocities, right?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Our mayor smokes crack!

OUR mayor is a second-generation perpetrator of the great democratic machine and leader of an incredible patronage system and he is so slick, that everybody around him gets arrested and convicted and his brother can sell HEROIN out of the offices of the water department and he never gets in trouble and always gets reelected.

Dan, you weren't out of town. You got lost or something.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Cusak dynasty started in Chicago.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

WE MADE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE HAPPEN.

DC MADE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SUCK.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

huh?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

You heard me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

If hepatitis C was attacking DC, you'd do something about it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

???

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

CHICAGO ASSHOLES ALWAYS BE MAKIN-THEIRS-FIRST ON JUKEBOXES

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

HEY MY WIFE WILL SCHOOL YOU ON HEP C.

ANd what do you mean about SNL? Ian and Hank drove up to see FEAR on HALLOWEEN is that what you mean?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Cusak dynasty started in Chicago.

This isn't a ringing endorsement, I'm afraid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Chicagoans be crazy.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

CHICAGO'S ON THE MOVE!

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I actually don't mean anything about SNL.

Chicago will KRAVITZ DC all day LONG.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

PTCF DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT SNL OR GOOD MUSIC.

Have you guys heard of Minor Threat? Is like, Screeching Weasel your Minor Threat?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHA

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago is our Minor Threat. Peter Cetera = Ian MacKaye

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have to admit, I only know Jughead from Screeching Weasel because after the band broke up, he became active in the Chicago theatre scene.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh john why did you say that?

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know what it's supposed to mean, but i never, ever, ever want to be kravitzed

― FAN DEATH (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Damn right you don't.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, you should see what the Wisconsin thread is saying about you guys!!!

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002L9Z.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar/2373/pcconcert1.jpg

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/misc/styx-live-illusion-front.jpg

http://www.kb-k.com/Images/Bands/Kansas%20Styx/Styx.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

CHICAGO = YOGA LAME FOR ALL TIME

― FAN DEATH (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/f2/0e/82588-music-resized200.JPG

MINOR THREAT COULD NOT HAVE MADE THIS RECORD BECAUSE THEY DID NOT FUCK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

AT LEAST THEY COULD FUCKING THINK

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

OH SNAP PETE

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I KNEW THAT WAS COMING

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

BIG BLACK PROBABLY SOUNDS DATED RIGHT ABOUT NOW BUT I WOULDN"T KNOW BECAUSE I DON"T LISTEN TO THEM.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

DC DOESN'T THINK. IT SHUDDERS TO THINK.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOOD ONE DOUCHEBAG

How's Liz Phair's career these days? How many Archer Prewitt solo records do we need

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Can we all agree to agree that DC has always had a better music scene? Friends, neighbors... I implore you.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

unrest pwns all over you also

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Can we all agree to agree that DC has always had a better music scene? Friends, neighbors... I implore you.

Traitor. I looked up "Washington, DC" on Allmusic and was not impressed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS A SADLY INCOMPLETE LIST

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=13:BPWASHINGTON,|DC

xpost I did the same thing and was very, very impressed.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO IF KAYNE WEST EVER DOES ANYTHING AS AWESOME AS LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT, ILL EAT MY HAT

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Sure, if you like teenagers screaming and pretending to be disaffected.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

CURTIS MAYFIELD MOTHERFUCKERS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, if you like teenagers screaming and pretending to be disaffected.

I think many of them were genuinely disaffected. I mean, look at where they were living.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Whereas Chicago, in terms of rock anyway, breeds noodly faux-jazz. We're way too content.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah you guys are kinda like the shitty pizza of music.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, stop with the pizza.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Noodly faux-jazz AND noise-rock and house music and industrial and power-pop and soul.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMGWTF CHICARGO YOUR PIZZA IS TEH SUCK!!!!!!``1``1one ROFLMAO

BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GET PISSED WHEN SOMEONE TALKS SHIT ABOUT YOUR PIZZZAS!

― MR THAT (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Well you guys wouldn't shut up about crack and cherry blossoms.

Nice music guys.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Do you guys have ethiopian restaurants? No? That is such a shame.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

CLICK HERE

http://www.rasdashenchicago.com/

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I DONT TRSUT YOU PEE PEE TIGER

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK fair enough. So where are we all gonna drink when dcilx invades chicagoilx?

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you assume that a city four times the size of DC would lack any kind of ethnic food?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ummmmm, well we can't manage decent Mexican so none of this is really a given.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND UP IN YOUR HAIRPIECE MR THAT

xpost: I dunno, but I'll get a round.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. I LOVE YA. I LOVE YA ALL.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. Does Mr. Rogers drink or is he the designated driver

xpost I HATE YOU ALL

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Be nice, husband!

Mr. Que and I are dishing it out but we'd be the first to offer you a place to stay if you visited our fair city.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

GO TO HELL HEATHENS YOUR NOT STAYIN WITH US YOULL PISS ON OUR BED AND FUCK OUR KAT

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still feeling too hungover from last night. Otherwise, I could totally go for some frozen margaritas.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b19/sandyclaw/glowcat.gif
http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/awang/humor/anim/yeamau.gif
Almost the WEEEEEKEND. Almost the WEEEEKEND.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, someone from DC is making fun of Chicago pizza? What's next, someone from Des Moines making fun of Chicago's public transit system?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ras Dashen is the BEST Ethiopian restaurant, but we have like four others to choose from.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

SEE EVEN TEH OREGONIANS THINK YER JOEKS ARE LAME

I'm going home. Nice flaming with y'all.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

We have OK pizza here! Really!

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

i've been busy as fuck today and don't have the heart to read all this. but this:

BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GET PISSED WHEN SOMEONE TALKS SHIT ABOUT YOUR PIZZZAS!

made me giggle because except for john i don't think anyone who posts here is a native chicagoan and i think we all hate that casserole of a pizza they call chicago deep dish.

now i need to go out for post-work drinks, anyone want to join me? i'm out of here in 37 minutes, will be back in the neighborhood around 5:30-6:00 (depending if the blue line catches fire again or not).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not ready to drink again yet.

I love thin crust pizza without too many toppings.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

There is good pizza in Delaware and DC is close to Delaware so it would not be totally outrageous for DC to have good pizza.

xpost - I really like Chicago pizza. Cheese and sausage pie in a buttery crust? What the fuck is there NOT to like about that?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I like Chicago pizza, too. But then, as Otto points out, I am a native.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind going out for a drink tonight or tomorrow. If it's tonight, I would prefer to remain on the Red Line, possibly within a ten block radius of our apartment. If it's tomorrow, I would happily go west.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I like Chicago pizza, I just find it a bit much most of the time, is all. It's not all-purpose drunk food the way a good New York thin-crust pizza is. It's more of an investment.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'll take a slice of new york anytime. speaking of which i think i'll get off at damen instead of division and hit santullo's. hopefully i can get there in time for the cheap slices.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Now Chicago hot dogs... are the best in the world.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I had an ill-advised slice of pizza from the Underdog vendor last night at about midnight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL GIVE YOU HOT DOGS

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Can we all agree to agree that DC has always had a better music scene? Friends, neighbors... I implore you.

-- Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (fluxion2...), July 14th, 2006 3:35 PM. (kenan) (later)

This might be the wrongest thing ever posted on ILX. And there's a lot of competition.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

that is the worst pizza in the world, bar none. and unless i'm loaded up on tamales i always buy a slice. that guy probably makes more money per year than i do. quite a strategic location.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

that was an xpost to jaymc.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

This might be the wrongest thing ever posted on ILX. And there's a lot of competition.

A lot of it also from me.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

This might be the wrongest thing ever posted on ILX. And there's a lot of competition.

-- n/a (nu...), July 14th, 2006.

START YOUR LIST DUDE. LETS HAVE IT

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan's right -- Chicago pizza isn't good "pizza" (cf. Amanda) in the way New York pizza is. I'd love if Chicago had more late-night pizzerias that served big slices with crazy toppings -- only ones I can think of are Santullo's and Bacci (the latter gets my vote), and even those don't have the crazy toppings that late-night NYC places do. But for ordering in and pigging out with beer in front of the TV, then deep-dish works great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

D.C. wins the preppy war.

your city is full of fatteys
-- quincie (quinci...), July 14th, 2006.

I'll let JMC add the Cheney, etc. photos

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

that is the worst pizza in the world, bar none

I didn't think it was that bad. Although the sauce tasted faintly of ... cumin?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

cummin?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

The pizza I had in Chicago was thin-crust, and was pretty good.

I don't even remember seeing any pizza places the last time I was in DC, but it was a while ago and I wasn't specifically looking for pizza.

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

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Fancy slideshow of pics from last night's show, for those who care.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to John/Eric: Either way... no good.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

There are some pretty funny/hottt pics of me making rockin' out faces about halfway through.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like I had some good wood-oven pizza in DC or suburban Virginia, but can't remember where.

I like Santullos and Chicago's Pizza on Sheffield/Wellington. And The Art of Pizza.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

The bit in that Wiki article about the suburban thin-crust variety is interesting to me. There was totally an Aurelio's in Bolingbrook. I also suspect that this is the kind of pizza served at, for instance, Home Run Inn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Those are good pictures!

I like that place near the Landmark where we all got calzones. Jeff and I went back later and had pizza and 'twas good.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago's Pizza on Sheffield/Wellington.

I had a truly nasty slice from there a couple months ago -- but maybe they just don't do good by-the-slice. I was walking down Lincoln by myself, and it was raining, and I was hungry -- and I ended up chucking half of it in a trash can on Ashland.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

the thin crust is basically a new haven-style pizza with tomato sauce. edwardo's has perfected it. mmmmmmmmmm, edwardo's.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

But Chicago thin-crust is a circular pizza cut into square pieces, whereas New Haven is a square/rectangular pizza cut into square pieces, right? I don't know -- I'm only basing that on Piece.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

circular pizza cut into square pieces

And that is v. weird! At Gigio's (the place that Jonah once said looked like it was "run by rats" which still makes me LOL) they ask, "Squares or slices, honey?"

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Stefano's on Lawrence was recently very good to me, what with the sausage and the peppers and all.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Something I like about the Stefano's stuffed pizza: they don't cut it. This makes sense, because a freaking pound of cheese is only going to melt back together anyway, and besides, this way you get more control over your portion size.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

And that is v. weird!

Is this that much of an anomaly outside of Chicago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'd never seen it before I came to Chicago. And as I have rented about before, it's not just that it's a regional difference that bothers me, it's that it's a bad idea. It greatly decreases the usability of the pizza.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

ranted. ranted about.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

The first time I encountered it was on the way to Chicago. We stopped in Indianapolis on the way here and ordered a pizza, which came cut in squares. Strange! Jesse said this is also the norm where his brother lives in... Michigan? I think?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a Midwestern thing then? I am trying to remember if I had pizza like that in Kalamazoo -- but we usually just ordered from Papa John's.

Kenan, I am not avoiding you, but my phone batteries are really low, so I didn't pick up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, has anyone else read the article in the new Reader about property taxes in Andersonville? Sounds like they're going up 70% for some businesses (Anne Sather is going up to $44K from something like $17K) and make it challenging for some of the new small businesses that opened there a few years ago.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen square-cut round pizzas elsewhere, but that doesn't make it NOT a midwestern thing.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost John, I was trying to invite you to Andersonville for beer. As Eazy pointed out, no bars there will be able to pay their taxes soon, so get while the gettin's good.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Property taxes ruin lives!

The reason for Kenan's call today is to see if any northsiders, or those willing to travel to the northside, might want to have a drink.

XPOST!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Are any of you familiar with that feeling that you get when you're walking out of a room, usually a dark one, and you are overcome suddenly by an irresistible urge to RUN? I kind of feel that way about the loop.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think of it more like leaving the bracing cold of the loop and slipping into the warm bath of a welcoming neighborhood.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

But the cold is indeed bracing! I like having this little mini-Manhattan a couple miles away at all times.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I'm gone, suckers.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Man, how come our schedules never align? I'm going down to Pilsen after work to do a gallery crawl -- but if I make it back up to Andersonville before too late, I'll give you guys a call.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I miss all of you, for reals.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Crispy thin crust pizza works better as squares, I think.

Also, John, I wondered as I walked away last night what you could possibly be purchasing from Underdog.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I would get drinks somewhere, wherever, tonight too. But first I need to sit in front of my HIGH VELOCITY AIR CIRCULATOR for a while. Hace calor!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah is sleeping and might be for a while. I am really tired but had too much caffeine today so when I tried to go to sleep, my brain kept going off on these long tangents and keeping me awake. Later, we might go to this party my coworker is throwing. But if we feel like going to A-ville instead, we'll call somebody.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's over now, but I'm sad I missed the DC v. Chicago throwdown, because they're the two cities I've spent my adult life in and I...know things about them.

And I'm really fond of DC, but the DC music scene is the most annoying thing ever.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

No. What I said was that my brother used to work at Domino's and the official name for pizza cut into squares is "Chicago style." Used in a sentence, I don't like triangles, so please cut that pizza Chicago style.

I worked at Pie Works in NC and they said the same thing.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. I knew you said something about it, but could not recall what. Now I know.

I was being imprecise above. I meant to say that I felt that way about the loop today. Normally I love it and walking around the loop makes me feel like Mary Tyler Moore. I think it's the heat and the crowded. Yikes.

And speaking of heat... I'm hot. Taking my pants off did not help as much as I'd hoped. And I'm hungry. Like crazy hungry. But I'm too hot to eat anything so I'm eating ice, which is pleasant but makes me feel kind of pitiful, like I'm just waiting for Jeff to come home and take care of everything.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also I only have ten points so snacks are out of the question if I want to drink beer later. Maybe I should drink a beer now...

I'm reminding myself of an old roommate who would sit around and complain about being hungry but would only eat if you made him food or took him with you to get something - never of his own volition.

Anyway, people call me if you'ns want to meet up.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote down your number in case my phone dies and I have to use the lady's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have anybody's phone number, if you're going for drinks let me know cause i got paid today and feel like blowing off some steam. and perhaps drinking some vag-beer.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Once again I'm reviewing a show but may be free afterwards (9-ish).

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH, BUT DOES DC OR CHICAGO HAVE FUCKING BISON ALL OVER THE GODDAM PLACE?????

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~stanj/Photos/Pics/Bison.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I SAW SOME THE OTHER DAY, JUST CHILLIN', WITH WIDDLE BIRDS SITTING ON THEIR BACKS TWITTERING AWAY LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL TO HANG OUT ON A BUFFALO'S BACK

AND YOU KNOW WHAT? IT ISN'T A BIG DEAL!!!!! NOT HERE!!!! YOU CAN SIT ON A BUFFALO'S BACK ANY FUCKING TIME YOU WANT IF YOU'RE A LITTLE BIRD. NO BIGGY.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps not bison but i was walking down north ave. after work tonight and came across a pest control business that had all the common pests in the window. a huge wooden carving of "la cucaracha", a stuffed rat, a drawing of mice, a humane trap, a fake bat, a poster with silverfish, water bugs, etc. then there was also a stuffed otter in the window. heretofore i was unaware of the vast otter infestation that is apparently reaching such epidemic proportions in wicker park that a pest control firm is advertising in it's front window it's proficiency at dealing with otters.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Gbx where you at? Somewhere in Montana, right? Can I visit?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Huro. We're going to Simon's Tavern on Clark and Foster-ish, probably around, oh, I'll say 8 although maybe a little sooner.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

WAAAAAH. I'm in New Orleans and I'm facing a weekend of sobriety or alone drunkenness. Waaaah.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

My car--my freedom and my mobility--is hemming me in.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

I know that feeling, for real.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 July 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have come to believe that most DC residents believe that Ethiopia is an under-populated neighborhood, ripe for gentrification, in the SE corner of the district. As in: condos start at $300,000? Deal me in! DC has *more* Ethiopian restaurants, but Ras Daschen is as awesome as any of 'em.

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Saturday, 15 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

I could make an entire list of reasons why DC isn't fit to sniff Chitown's jockstrap, but it'd take me the better part of the weekend and it wouldn't make me feel better about my current living arrangements.

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Saturday, 15 July 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Car = sold. He's taking it to a mechanic and we have to undo the sale if there's anything wrong with it, but there's nothing wrong with it that I haven't told him about, so SOLD.

I am having so much anxiety about this whole thing that I'm considering drinking a beer at 10:30 AM.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning!

To update one of our recurring "themes:" Anthony Bourdain is trapped in Lebanon

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Holy god of crap.

I am HUNG.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

OVER.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

The minutes from last night's outing:

drinkin'
talkin'
drinkin'
TALKIN' LOUDER
phone callin'
eating a meat pie washed down with bourbon

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

me too. my friend threw a party, and her MOM chewed us out at 2am because we were being loud.

YOU BOUGHT A KEG LADY.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

btw, we are adults.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

See the Chicagoan in New Orleans thread for rundown of my tour of NO bars. I didn't realize I was so busy.

I did something last night that I'm not real proud of. ASK ME WHAT IT WAS.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

casuistry: i am in montana, yes. stop on by.

xp KISSING A REDNECK CONSTRUCTION WORKER???

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

No. I'm OK with that.

I ditched a nice guy at a bar. He was clinging too much and I wanted to get some trim but not from him. He wouldn't take a hint. I made myself good and clear even, and he still clung. So I left him at the bar and went somewhere else.

I think I said I was going to the bathroom.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

but, jesse, trim is PUSSY.

also: totally jerkstore, dude.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

MANPUSSY.

I know that. BUT he would NOT stop! And I was drunkish.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://mordac.org/orleans/images/040904_010831_IMG_1480.jpg

http://www.avenueinnbb.com/images/jeanlafittes.jpg

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

The locus of the ditching.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

that's a neat looking bar.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's super great fun. It's really dark. It's been there since 1772.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's old. They should probably tear it down and put up some condos.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

syriasly

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to go rent A Streetcar Named Desire. That seems like the right thing to do.

There was an article in the Times-Picayune recently about the shutdown of the Desire bus line. It was the last vestige of the streetcar line that used to run there.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://mordac.org/orleans/images/040904_005952_IMG_1475.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://mordac.org/orleans/images/040904_033436_IMG_1710.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://mordac.org/orleans/images/040904_155607_IMG_2326.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is that guy up there the one you ditched, you jerk?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

No. I'm not a jerk.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Have you sold your car yet?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

He was the redneck construction worker whose mouth hole I kissed deeply and longly.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I will now proceed tot settle in for a lOOOOONG afternoon of DVDs.

Lost (I hope, if that codecs (kotex?) works)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Coupling
Aileen Wournos
and some gay-ass french movie based on Billy Budd (Melville, dummy)

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

And eating CRAWFISH potato chips.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: i found your huge purple dildo.
me: ha ha
Kenan: HUGE
me: i'm going to throw that on that building by the redline where the pink one is
it's too big for me
i used to use it
but i shrank
Kenan: it's pretty damn bug
big
me: i don't like it
i'm sorry you had to find that
Kenan: haha
me: there's a butt plug there too
Kenan: it's ok.
maybe i'll use it myself.
me: ew
keep my plugs out of your butt
Kenan: i'll wash it first.
ok. no butt plugs.st our conversation on ilx
Kenan: ok!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 15 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

We ate pizza.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

CAR SOLD FOR REAL.

No more car! It's gone! No more street cleaning concerns! No more tickets! No more billion dollar gas prices! No more city stickers or sheered off side-view mirrors or finding parking!

Also, we took a bus to our soon-to-be-new hood and now I'm all excited to move because it's pretty neat around there.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff: repost googlized pedometer pls. Searching through the thread it was originally posted on is impossible because of JWs CSS bull shit. Also, please don't punch me!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

The gp is extremely handy. I walk a lot. Great for biking.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I can't figure out how to use it.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Me neither, but I didn't try very hard.

Bonnie and Clyde is on TV and Nick A. looks a lot like young Warren Beaty.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

zoom in to where you want to be. click start recording. Then double click to place your points.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

The woman who runs BKS (Best Kept Secret) Snowball trailer on St. Charles looks just like Wanda Sykes.

One of our group said, "Do you ever hear that you look like--" before she said, "...Wanda Sykes. Yes, I get that every day."

It was JUST like her.

http://www.black-collegian.com/extracurricular/book-reviews/images/im_wanda-sykes904.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, It's after 3. I went to Papajin, Danny's, and the Underbar tonight celebrating my friend Ed's birthday. They were all fun and now I am shitfaced. Getting a cab west of Western after like 2 is a cast-iron pain in the ass. It's even worse when there's a big night bike ride that's going up Elston and blocking the way. I didn't mind too much because I knew people taking part and we ended up going through pretty quickly. Now I'm just glad to be home.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 16 July 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

1. I'm finally NOT SICK! This three day odyssey into influenzaville has been rotten rotten rotten rotten rotten.

2. We broke down and bought a window unit for our living room. 100 degrees? I don't want to kill our dogs. D is installing it right now.

3. I cannot tell you how glad I am to have my mojo back.

Hooray. Maybe some of you will see me again someday.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I can tell you glad I am.

I am THIS GLAD:

(((

))

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't look like much, but it's measured in light years, so it's actually quite a bit. Concentrated, like simple syrup.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I am also glad! Welcome back. I'm sorry you were so sick! Booo. The flu is the pits, generally, but in the middle of summer? The worst.

So how did your first day of teaching go?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

WELL, I haven't started the IIT class(es) yet, so there is terror yet to come, but the Truman classes are going well. I saw one of my students at the gym, and then when I saw him in class the next day he chastised me for walking and not running on the treadmill! The nerve! I was reading, I said. He said, LAZY.

Remind me to wear a disguise next time I go the g-d gym.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I helped Carl learn to swim this morning! Usually when he goes in the lake he just wades (I know I KNOW POLLUTION ETC) but this time we went out past his comfort zone and because I was out there with him, he doggy-paddled a little, then a lot.

Dogs be swimmin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha Chicago. It's a pleasant 90 degrees here.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

In the news:

My iPod died. Again. For no damn good reason. I have never paid so much for something so small and so relentlessly unreliable. Oh well... another trip to the Apple store, I guess.

Jenny is a strong person indeed. Apparently a drunk homeless man yelled at her, "Hey lady, can I eat your pussy? I'm a pussy eater!" I know it couldn't have been easy to turn that down.

Chicago-style pizza nourished me all weekend.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

My quote of the morning, regarding Houston, Texas:

"It's like Los Angeles without the culture. If that's possible."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hola, Chicago.

I highly recommend Edy's orange dream bars.

Also, I recommend staying in bed all day in the one room with AC reading.

I'm listening to Big Star at my desk (#1 Record).

Kenan, that is horrible. I weep for your i-pod.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am still uncomfortable saying one of my coworker's name. I thought that my last boss's name was embarrassing -- "Dikmen" -- but that's nothing compared to "Michael Gr0wc0ck". Yes, you heard right. How can I differentiate him from other Michaels without cracking up laughing?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

There's a priapism joke there somewhere.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ahh, sweet air-conditioning. I felt like shit this morning, sweating in my bed with a headache. I'm slowly coming back to life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I went to high school with a Br4d Glassc0ck. Yes, we mocked him. But he was an a-hole so I don't feel bad about it.

The drunk dude wasn't yelling at me. I was was booking down Winnemac, trying to strike a balance between getting to work on time and not turning into a complete puddle by the time I got to the train, and I saw him ahead of me - scrawny, shirtless, old, carrying a grocery bag. I also heard him yelling things, but couldn't figure out what he was yelling. I was about three feet away from him, ready to pass him, and THAT'S when he yelled:

HEY LADY CAN I EAT YOUR PUSSY?

*pause*

I'M A PUSSY EATER!

*pause*

NO? OKAY.

And that's when I crossed the street. The end.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's kind of sweet, especially "NO? OKAY."

I went to high school with a W00dy R@sh.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hey... new iPod. They give these things out like candy. In the store, they got it working just long enough to have it crash on them again. Yes, they again confirmed, these things are cheap pieces of shit. Here's a new one!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Upside: it's a short trip to the Apple store, and they are very efficient about replacing iPods. One gets the impression that they are quite accustomed to doing so.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

No AC at all, John?
I was fine hiding in the bedroom. But then I had to walk outside this morning. I walked further than usual because I planned on getting myself flowers to celebrate my new office space. Sadly, cattails doesn't open until 10 and I JUST missed the bus. So then I had to wait 20 minutes in full sun for the next one. Then I got to my stop and had to walk further. By the time I got to work, I was looking a lot less pleasant.

Happily, though, a coworker's 4yrold daughter came up to me, smiled, and said, "What a pretty dress you have on today, Sarah."

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

for the last time, i'm NOT HOMELESS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

But how's your pussy eating skillz?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

No AC at all, John?

Why would I...? (etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

During one of my extended visits (er, waits) at the "Genius" bar, I noted they had a 2-to-1 ratio of iPod-techs to Employees Who Worked With Actual Computers. I also saw probably close to 2 Gs worth of iPods given away including several 60G video ones. My computer may have cost me 300 buckskis that day, but I felt a little smug with my 15G 3rd gen that has performed faultlessly for more than 2 years. I must have dropped it just right that one time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kr and I decided that the only way to beat the heat last night, after we dl'd and watched the first two episodes of Lost Season 2, was to go to Hopleaf and drink a pitcher of beer and some sort of apple lambic after that. That might also account for my early-morning headache.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Synching my Ipod with my work computer, just so they'll be something on it other than the Flock of Seagulls song it came with, and I'm amazed at how much crap I have put on my work machine. Over 20gigs worth, including the entire discographies of The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, Steely Dan, Pavement, ten Sonic Youth albums, seven Stevie Wonder albums... could I be fired for this, I wonder?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you at least have freezer pops at home, jaymc.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hm. The Guardian wonders why the passing of Syd Barrett warrants much reaction, since his legacy only includes one listenable record.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Chicago. I'm back at work after four days of sunburn, festival gigs (great!), pizza, and fried food.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

A fun news story from February about iPod Nanos, and how Apple was sued over their being crap. For the record, the screen on the iPod video has the same problem -- it's scratched extremely easily. Apple's response to this is a shrug and "I guess you should have spent another $30 on a case, shouldn't you?"

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Jordan. Welcome back! Where did you go this time? I can't keep track of your gadabouting.

I need a Spanish speaker - does "You put the peanut on the plate" mean anything colloquially?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

ho-ho boy does it!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I'm aware of, but I am not familiar with every Spanish dialect of Central and South America. "Peanut" even has a couple of different words -- cacahuate, mani...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

¿Que significa? - that was in response to Kevin but I'm proud of my Spanish skills and my upside down question mark so I'm leaving it.

I only have the English translation so I don't know what word she used for "peanut," but the statement apparently made a lot of other Spanish-speaking people laugh when directed at someone in a quasi-supervisory capacity so who knows. It doesn't really matter to what I'm doing, but I am curious.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea, i was just captivated by the idea of the phrase "you put the peanut on the plate" having a naughty connotation.

i love when words surprise me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Where did you go this time? I can't keep track of your gadabouting.

I called in sick (and my boss did too, so it worked out beautifully) and went to scenic Milwaukee to play Bastille Days for three days. I ate some good food (chocolate mousse crepes, Eduardo's deep dish) and some inadvisable food (gator on a stick, beignets that tasted like deep-fried bagels).

We also befriended the tango dance group (who are from Chicago, I think) who played before us all weekend and played a weird tango house party. Lots of candles, Russian dvds and shockingly small amounts of booze.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Gator on a stick!!! That's kind of exciting.

While I know that different people have different transportation needs and that many ILXors are well-served by their autos and are happy and grateful to own them, and I do not stand in judgment on anyone who elects to own a car, I have to admit that as I look at people driving around the city I can't help but think, "Heh. Suckers."

I am so relieved to be car-less. Most of my adult life has been car-less so it was kind of a personal aberration for me to have the car for as long as I did anyway. We did sign up for iGo, though, which I'm pretty grateful for.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

i keep meaning to sign up for i-go but never get around to doing so. it would make grocery-getting so much easier. it would be nice to be able to buy frozen goods between april and november.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, why do I keep deluding myself that I can go to a Mexican place and not completely stuff myself (mostly on free chips & salsa)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

What's iGo?

I really like the gator-on-a-stick in NOLA's French market. This gator was not that gator.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm totally doing this. anyone else want to go?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

this is i-go.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! That looks fun! $27 is kind of steep though. But you get food. Hmmm...

There's a talk at the HW Library tonight about gays and lesbians in pro sports called "Brokeback Locker Room." That's a terrible title, but an interesting topic, and it's free, so I might go.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I-Go is some crazy shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

i am an admitted transit nerd, architecture geek and soul fan so it sounds like it's right up my alley. $27 is kind of steep though. but a private el train! sounds so decadent!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of free, free show at the bottle tonight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'd go to Brokeback Locker Room if I didn't have band practice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm all for learning more about Chicago and stuff, but no way I'm paying anyone $30 so I can ride the el all day. I spend enough time on the train, thanks.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

it's sounding BETTER AND BETTER WITH EACH PASSING MOMENT!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also put off by the thought of any event "made possible by Chicagoist." Will they be referring to themselves in the third person all day?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Three and a half hours? There better be a smoking car, is all I'm sayin'.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

There better be a smoking car

*Insert Blue Line Derailment/Smoking Joke In Bad Taste Here*

Hi Laurel!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I-Go is pretty awesome. IIRC, Jeff said that you can earn credits on your account by doing things like putting gas in the car or taking it to the car wash. My friend Amy lives in a high-rise and there's an I-Go car in the parking garage in her building. That's pretty awesome.

I would worry about where and when I could pee on the el train tour. Do participants just go pee in the junky hole or what?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cinescape.com/multimedia/Master_Site/Movies/Master_SiteArticle273023.jpg

Smmmmokin'!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also put off by the thought of any event "made possible by Chicagoist."

uhm, chicagoist is sponsoring it, they're putting up the money for the food and bevys. tony whatshisname is the guy who's organizing it. he's not affiliated with chicagoist.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry. My mind is made up. Most likely you'll go your way and I'll go mine.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dang, John. I wish you didn't have band practice. I am about 90% sure I will go and it would be nice to have a companion.

Kenan, it was a pleasure to ride the red line with you this morning, by the way.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

What time is the gay thing with the bad title, Jenny?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

it is so hot in here today that my old spice seems to have stopped working. that may be due to the fact that it was so hot in my apartment that my old spice had melted into a gelatinous goo overnight. i need to go by some deodorant.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind. I looked it up. 6:30.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I think I'm going to skip it tonight, if only because the lecture tomorrow sounds like more fun (um... to me):

Tue., July 18 at 6 p.m.
Commercial Closet: Advertising and the GLBT Community
Michael Wilke, Executive Director of the Commercial Closet Association presents an informative and lively presentation on the ways in which the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community has been represented in advertising over the past 30 years. The program examines the representation of the GLBT community that major corporations regularly use in commercials, explains why these themes are used and provides best practices guidelines for improvement. The presentation is an informative and entertaining way to learn about a growing aspect of diversity few corporations consider. (Cindy Pritzker Auditorium)

Hooray marketing!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

No matter how many times I hear it, "GLBT" still sounds like a delicious sandwich.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Lettuce, Bacon, Tomato, and... Guacamole, maybe?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized that practically every weekend through the end of September is booked up with gigs or trips of some kind, and it's making me really tense. Does anyone else react like this?

xpost, haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Gay Lettuce, Bacon, and Tomato. Taste the sodomy in every bite!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone else react like this?
I am obvs not in a band, but I react like this to having too many scheduled events, even if the events are fun. That's why I don't like to make plans to meet people anywhere. The act of making the plan sometimes (paradoxically) makes me not want to go.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm trying to schedule a time to come down to Chicago and record some drums, and I was hoping to make a weekend of it and hang out. However there is only ONE free Saturday that I can do it in the next few months, and I would have to come back that night to play a parade the next morning. :(

Gorgonzola, lettuce, bacon, and tomato.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, it was a pleasure to ride the red line with you this morning, by the way.

Likewise! You are always a treat.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I get stressed if all my free time is totally booked, even though I occasionally do it on purpose.

That other lecture sounds good, too, but gays in pro sports has been a subject of mild obsession with me for a few years. Basically, there HAS to be gay men in pro sports (I specify men because people seem to just assume that female pro-athletes are gay) but nobody ever comes out until after he retires. It seems like the general cultural climate in the US has evolved in a way that would accept a gay athlete, but the sports industry itself is so intertwined with concepts of hetero-specific hyper-masculinity (and it's accompanying misogyny) that it's hard to imagine how a gay athlete would be received. Jeff and I were actually just talking about this last night. I posited that as more gay pro athletes come out, advertising during sports will shift some from the women-objectifying beer commercial style to... something else although I'm not sure exactly where it will go. Perhaps that will be answered in tomorrow's lecture.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

The answer could be found at the Gay Games?

One of my students on Sat. said that he was going to the Gay Games but he said it like it was one word, like Gaygames, with the stress on "games" instead of "gay." He was like "It's like the rainbow, like Boys Town, yes? That is the symbol for gays?" He's Iranian.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, there HAS to be gay men in pro sports

do you think so?

― mike piazza (otto midnight), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Just because two men have sex in a shower doesn't make them gay.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cinematical.com/images/2005/10/Tabroddy.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

(In private, he prefers to be the pitcher.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting SI article from a while ago.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/magazine/04/12/griffith_poll0418/

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they address the Brendan Lemon/Out magazine controversy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

The answer could be found at the Gay Games?

I don't think so because the audience of Gay Games is predominately gay. Sure, there are straight people in attendance and competing, but I think the majority of targeted consumers are gay, which is reflected in the advertising. For every day pro sports, you're looking at a predominately straight male (probably, I'm guessing, but it could be different) audience and advertisers would have to figure out a way to cater to and court a GLBT audience while not alienating the core fanbase of straight drunk dudes.

As an aside, I kind of wonder why there isn't any TV coverage of the gay games, not even on local Chicago channels. I'd like to see some of the events, but without the heat and the crowds.

As a more aside aside, I keep accidentally pasting things I copied from ILX into the brief I'm writing, which could result in some hilarity if I don't proof read carefully.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, fwiw my student isn't gay. He was yammering about the importance of family and tradition and mating and having children and blablabla during our discussion of arranged marriage. He's just an open-minded Iranian dude who's into sporting events.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've read that SI article and that letter from OUT, actually. As mentioned - obsessed for a few years with the issue.

xpost - I *heart* open-minded Iranian dudes who are into sporting events.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

He's also a bicycling enthusiast! If you know any single ladies who like Iranian dudes, this is your man. He's nice. He's a little yammery, but he's nice. He took a shine to the Brazilian girl who told me this hilarious story about her brother and how he peed his pants while trying to kill a mouse.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dacre.org/flash/www/gbq03574.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

How old is the Iranian dude? Is he smart?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Someone needs to make a movie with as much sweat and nudity as "Personal Best," only with two male athletes. But... would anyone but gay men see it?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

If my visits to Clarks on Clark have taught me anything, it's that someone has already made that movie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

He's probably 40? 35? He's not only smart, he's a doctor. You may be wondering what he's doing in my class. I wondered too, but he said he wants to meet people and practice his conversational English, rather than professional English. I have another guy like that too. He works in marketing. I was being sort of facetious about the interested ladies thing, though -- from what I gathered, he wants to marry a woman who his family would approve of, ie an Iranian woman. Sorry, ladiez.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

What already established movie star would do it, though? I mean, Mariel Hemingway walks around naked for a sizable part of that movie. Who else would do that? Besides Vincent Gallo, maybe. *shudder*

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

JAKE JAKE JAKE

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

We can hope.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

You can send the interestd ladies my way.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait until Doug Glanville -- who as best as I can tell is Brendan Lemon's ex-boyfriend -- comes out. I didn't realized he had retired last year, so it can't be long.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

How many out retired pro athletes are there?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Um, you can guess on that one.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're all at the thing tonight, sadly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hey check it out: an interactive map of botched paramilitary-style police raids. I feel like the Chicago raids are underreported...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Cato Institute? That smacks of LIBEWRAL BUY-US!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, they're a bunch of Free-Market-As-Our-Only-Dogma nutters.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh so they put the "Liber" in "Libertarian."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I love the "how to label us" section of their page. It's like "labels are meaningless, but... here's how you do it anyway."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

the only sport i know of that has openly gay athletes is pro wrestling. that's about all i know about pro wrestling is that there was some guy who came out recently and it was a big deal.

but, it's not really a typical sort of sport, it's staged, etc.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Cato institute is pretty right-wing conservative, in the original "small government, militias are great, don't take my guns, black helicopters are coming" kind of way. I tend to agree with them on the police raid overkill. I blame: the war on drugs, the post-9/11 civil liberties coma that US citizens seemed to have slipped into, and Scalia.

xpost - interesting about the pro wrestler! I can see where that would REALLY not go over well with fans or with the WWF or whatever they are called. Do you know if he still performs or did they drum him out of the biz?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

no, he still performs. i guess with this particular guy his wrestling character was gay but he wouldn't let on whether he was or not for a while...and then he came out finally.

but i guess he still wrestles and all of that. i IMed my friend who's into wrestling, but he seems to be working. so i did a google search and it seems like there are a few gay pro wrestlers (and some gay wrestling fan websites, which is a bit less of a surprise), though from what i've heard, the culture of wrestling is very testosteroney in general.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Well, so are gay men.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Was it this guy?

http://www.outsports.com/news/20060331chriskanyon.htm

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

i saw that article, and i think that might be the guy--the name sounds familiar. i had the impression that he was the first pro wrestler to come out, but from a google search there seemed to be a few different wrestlers who were openly gay...maybe different leagues or federations or whatever, or maybe i was mistaken.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

That article contains a dreadful misuse of irony.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

The act of making the plan sometimes (paradoxically) makes me not want to go.

100% correct.

I think there's a pro-wrestling duo who's "theme" is that they're gay. don't think they're faces, tho.

also, Jenny, it's WWE now, not WWF, get your facts straight, sheesh.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I lived with a houseful of major wrestling fans my sophomore year of college. The one named "Golddust" comes to mind as my guess of the guy described above.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, he was the guy i was thinking of (the guy in the article)

Chris Klucsarits is a professional wrestler, and has been since roughly 1992. He typically wrestles using the ring name Chris Kanyon, although he had a short stint in WCW as "Mortis." After WCW closed, Chris ended up employed by WWE for awhile, was injured/recovering for a fairly long period of time, and shortly afterwards [summer 2004] was let go. He retired for awhile, and resumed wrestling in 2005.

Early in 2006, Chris announced at a independent wrestling show that he was gay. Well, no, Chris Klucsarits wasn't gay -- but his character, Chris Kanyon, was! He stated several times "Chris Kanyon is the first ever openly gay active pro athlete in the five major male us sports of pro baseball, basketball, wrestling, football, or hockey." -- and he's since added NASCAR to that list.

He will, however, not say whether or not that Chris Klucsarits is gay -- just his wrestling character, who, to the best of my recollection, has never had any sort of in-character romantic relationship with anyone, male or female. There's a big difference between being gay and playing a gay character, and unless Klucsarits himself is gay, he's not in any way an "openly gay active pro athlete" no matter how he wants to twist words.

So now, he's announced that this coming Sunday, he's going to announce whether or not he's really gay. Who the fuck cares? If he is gay, then he should have just been honest about it to begin with -- even if he hasn't "lied" so far, he's been deceptive. And if he isn't gay, and this is all a publicity stunt -- which, up to this point, is what it has been -- then it's a really stupid publicity stunt. "Hey. I'm gay! Really gay! So gay! ... wait, just kidding. I'm straight!"

obv, he came out as gay.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

That last sentence reminds me of Scott Thompson in "Brain Candy".

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Elephant in the room right now:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2002-04-04/music_feature2-1.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

What sport does he play? The 200 meter acoustic strum?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wait... if that isn't Bob Mould, I just make a totally nonsensical statement. Looks a bit like him, doesn't it?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

It is Bob Mould, yes.

Mould took a brief break from the music world to get involved with another passion of his, professional wrestling, when he joined WCW as a scriptwriter for a brief period. Creative differences with some of the other writers of the league led to Mould leaving the company and returning to music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

That's weird, but not as weird as deciding to actually wrestle, I don't guess. That, I would pay to see.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

What are these gay wrestling characters like, I have to wonder? Is it more of a beefy redneck kind of gay? Or do they do camp? Do they come out with a moustache and a handbag?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Vito vs. Johnny Cakes.

Jenny, a propos of nothing discussed here but something that came to mind today, do people compare you to Frances McDormand, or is it just me?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/images/ep73_01.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have never hung out with FM, but I'm sure Jenny is funnier.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

No one has ever compared me to Frances McDormand. I have, however, always been very fond of the name Frances. Well, Francie, really.

So the panel was interesting. We ended up leaving at 8 because it took an hour and a half for all six panelists to introduce themselves and say what they were up to (damn long-winded athletes). We didn't get any of the Q&A, which is where I figured all my questions would be answered. Still, I enjoyed their stories very much, especially Esera Tuaolo, who is maybe the nicest person currently walking the earth, and Helen Carroll who is like, my new hero. Other panelsts included Dave Kopay, Billy Bean, a South African olympic volleyball player whose name I forget, and Tyler Duckworth, who was wicked charming.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Leigh-Ann Naidoo is the name of the volleyball player.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.13.00/gifs/bloodsimple-0028.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Wah. Pity me. I just now got home from work, which started at 9 AM and included dipping into my pocket to bail out the guy who got fucked by the "Alliance". The interns and I pitched in and got him nigh $100 to get on his feet. It pisses me off that he has to rely on charity when he was working for a this "Alliance" that has as part of its name, "W0rker Jus|c3".

This is shaping up to be a looooong week.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I think I might be on the evening news here, but not for anything I really did, but for standing in solidarity (literally, just standing) with the residents of a non-flooded but still condemned public housing project.

Quote of the day, (a message to Mayor Nagin), "You say this is the Chocolate City, but you better remember what happens when you leave chocolate out in the heat too long: it melts and makes ONE HELL OF A MESS!"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

(alternate quotes:

"I ain't seen much of New Orleans, but I can tell you one part I never want to see again, and that's the French Quarter; that place is spooky with all that voodoo."

-Retired Luthern carpenter from NC

"I thought Jesus was a carpenter"

"He was"

"But he couldn't have been a carpenter; carpet wasn't invented yet!"

-Exchange between me and the AMEDB

"I told my Daddy that I stepped on a nail and he told me I shoulda got a tetanus shot. I said, 'Daddy, you're a preacher, you oughta know that Jesus told us to rely on the power of faith, and through faith we would be healed.' He told me that God provided us with doctors, but doctors are of man and I rely on the power of Jesus whose power is greater."

-amedb

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

I will never sleep again.

I have been watching Lost, which is creepy enough, but then after finishing one particularly spooky episode I hear screaming and slamming outside of my bedroom door. The voice sounds like a man's voice. I yell out "HELLO?" and hear a scuffling on the floor and then a door slam.

These sounds are the sounds of my roommmate whose hobbies are somnabulism and yelling to herself, in a husky voice, "WHAT'RE YOU DOING?" and whose turn-ons include slamming her hand on the fucking door and frightening her already on-edge roommate.

I am very acutely not sleepy and could really use a drink.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hi.

So the last two weekends my band has been recording its upcoming album. And one of the things we did, is, see, we had a bunch of our friends over to join in. Like a barn-raising party. And one of the people who helped out is our friend Finn. Finn just turned 6. He played drums on Sask when he was 2, just over three years ago. And now he has laid down a bit more thunderous drums.

And we have a video of it, and I think it's pretty adorable and rocking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz4cexvkfqk

That has nothing to do with anything I guess but I felt like telling you guys, so I did.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, why do i do this to myself? i mean seriously, what the fuck?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why, Finn IS both adorable and rocking! That was extra cute.

"But he couldn't have been a carpenter; carpet wasn't invented yet!"

I don't believe this one! Unless you said that to her just to fuck with her. Or unless she is just fucking with YOU!

chicago, why do i do this to myself? i mean seriously, what the fuck?

r u ok, wild man?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

re the carpenter quote:

We met that Luthern volunteer who was a carpenter. During that meeting he said something about how some of the people who became carpenters were the last people you'd expect, like accountants and ministers. She came out with a non-sequitir about how Jesus was a carpenter.

When we got back to the car she said, "I cain't believe I said that! I thought Jesus was a carpenter, but that don't make sense!"

"Jesus was a carpenter."

"But carpet wasn't invented yet."

I went on to explain that a carpenter, the people whose fucking union we met with, the people whose training we are involved in setting up? ARE NOT CARPET LAYERS.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Just, wow.

--I stopped by an Einstein's this morning and I think it's going to be my new morning coffee place. See, they let you get your own iced coffee from a jug, meaning I can actually fill it up to the top with coffee instead of ice!

--I suspect this shirt smells vaguely of cat piss :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

John, I got an e-mail about this event and I thought of you:

Some of you know this already and some of you don't. Just wanted to let you know about "What's Your Damage? An open-mic teen angst reunion" at Genna's Cocktail Lounge on July 31 starting at 9 p.m. Essentially the deal is we are inviting people to bring their journal entries, poetry, locker notes, and whatever they want from their teen years to read in front of like minded folks. Should be insanely entertaining. A few people have already expressed that they will definitely be participating, so if you want to sign up early, let me know!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I love the little drummer boy, Chris!

Jordan, That sounds pretty fun, but on the other hand, no one should get me started! Asking me to read from an old diary is a sort of death wish.

Everyone, I call upon you to give me fun words I can put in a song.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Chris, that kid rules.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone, I call upon you to give me fun words I can put in a song.

I'm hearing a lot of the word "sweltering" lately. I haven't heard that in too many songs.

I'm scared by the fact that this heat wave is affecting not only most of North America, but apparently all of Europe at the same time. It's a global heat wave! That's no good at all.

Maybe I will cool off tonight by going to see the Al Gore movie again.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I want a Dunkin Donuts bagel sandwich so bad I can hardly describe it. I am... tumescent with desire for a bagel sandwich.

I think I'll go get one.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wow... I just looked at the weather again, and the high today is 82! Brilliant! I feel bad for the rest of the country... they wish they were here today.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I like how Thom Yorke sings the word "indefatigable" on his solo album.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

The weather is here, wish you were beautiful.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

87 in the loop today, low 80s near the lake. And 90s in the loop on Wednesday and Thursday. So don't gloat too much.

Besides, we're all going to die from global warming-related horrors anyway.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I know... tomorrow, the heat will be right back. The weekend will get back to normal, though.

Funny, in the South, August is usually pretty brutal, but up here, it's significantly cooler than July. I can't wait for August.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, where's John? Has he died of heat exhaustion yet?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff and I discussed this last night and July is my least favorite month of the year, and Jeff's second least favorite (his least favorite is December, but I love cold more than I hate Christmas so it's up higher on my list).

Here is a missive from Chicago Worker Justice, Inc.:

After two years of hard work, the Big Box Living Wage Ordinance is coming to a vote before the City Council on Wednesday, July 26. Predictably, the Alderman are getting lots of pressure from the opposition. Please show your continued support for low-wage workers:
1) Call your Alderman and express your support for the ordinance as proposed.
2) Take a moment to vote for the Living Wage Big Box ordinance this morning: http://www.foxchicago.com. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the poll.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I can't figure out how to use that stupid link to find my new alderperson. I've got it narrowed down to two, but the aldermanic maps aren't detailed enough for me to figure out who I get to start bugging come mid-August.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, where's John? Has he died of heat exhaustion yet?

Sorry, I don't get to work at 7 AM!

The teen-related open mic sounds awesome. I was just going through this big cannister I have filled with notes passed to me during high-school classes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I love those, especially ones you pass back and forth. Sometimes it takes some work to figure out the sequence because they go all over the place, complete with doodles.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, one was me and my friend Becky trying to decide what we should do over the weekend, since we had Monday off -- Labor Day, I think? This would've been my junior year of high school. I said we should get a big group together and hang out at the park and go on the swings, and I became nostalgic for the night (only 6 months prior) when a bunch of us went to see Philadelphia at the dollar theater. This was what passed for entertainment for 15-year-old me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA FATTIES

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/us/18chicago.html?_r=1&oref=login

― Butterscotch (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, we have a reading night like that here! NEB was just telling me about it -- it's called Cringe and takes place in the back room of one of my favorite bars. I don't have any journals, but I could go listen...? I was purely an escapist as a teen, wouldn't have written down anything contemplative about my life if you PAID ME.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't write down much that was too contemplative, either. I was a pretty happy-go-lucky kid. Some of my journal entries from 9th grade are clearly inspired by Dave Barry and David Letterman.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

That NYTimes story disturbs me for some reason. They're thinking of banning trans fats from Taste of Chicago? That's wrong, not to mention asinine.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I was purely an escapist as a teen, wouldn't have written down anything contemplative about my life if you PAID ME.">I was purely an escapist as a teen, wouldn't have written down anything contemplative about my life if you PAID ME.

I wrote down every contemplative, but I wouldn't read it out loud to people if you had me at gunpoint.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Not just Taste of Chicago, Chicago the city as a whole.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago is *not* that fat. We have some heftier folks, sure, but who doesn't? We also have entire neighborhoods populated entirely with sculpted bodies. (You peeked in the windows of Cheeta Gym lately?)

You know all that stock footage of headless fat people walking down the street? That was not shot in Chicago, I guarantee. That is somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

(He said, as he bit into his second donut.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

It made me really happy whenever I saw fat people in Switzerland and Italy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote down every contemplative, but I wouldn't read it out loud to people if you had me at gunpoint.

i found my teenage journals a few years ago and was totally embarrassed just reading them, so i threw them out. part of me was afraid that somehow they'd be found and mocked (deservedly) by someone if i didn't burn them.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's wrong, not to mention asinine.

indeed.

i nearly always read the word "wrong" in cartman's voice anymore.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's a ridiculous idea, banning one kind of fat, but I guess it's better to go after margarine and Crisco than, say, goose fat.

Juulia -- I'm always embarrassed by everything I've ever written, seen, or done. I can't imagine having kept notes I wrote in high school. I would die of embarrassment.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I thought everybody in Italy looked like Marcello Mastroianni or Sophia Lauren.

xpost - I still have my journals. I also found a folder full of nearly twenty year's worth of collected poetry. Yikes!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, there are a couple of those that I like.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i kind of feel like i should have burned my old journals--it bothers me that they still exist out in the world, even if they are just languishing in a garbage dump somewhere.

oh, the teenage poetry! i think i threw that stuff out too. i certainly hope so..

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't document my teenage years either. It was embarassing enough at the time. I mean, I'm embarassed enough by blog and ILX posts from two years ago.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

2x Jordan

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I made a mistake by bringing a dozen donuts into the office. Some people ate them (the men), but the general response was a sigh and a look of "Why are you doing this to me?" I understand now that when the women in the office decide to go get donuts, it's a decision they make collectively and not at all lightly. You can't just put donuts in front of them; it's too tempting and kind of invades their space.

At least, that's the vibe I'm getting.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine throwing any of that old stuff out. It's like my collected works.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also: I want a donut.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason I just imagined Kenan twisting his coworkers' arms behind their back while screaming EAT THE FUCKING DONUTS! EAT THEM AND LIKE THEM!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I know there is a box in my parents' attic somewhere with high school notebooks and letters and such that, if it fell into the wrong hands, could devastate my social life for years to come. I should find that box and burn it next time I'm up there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Gawd, women who behave that way about foodstuffs annoy the shit out of me. Either eat the donuts or don't eat them, but save the drama for yer gramma. (XXP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

The trick, Kenan, is to bring in DONUT HOLES. The women will still be annoying like oh, I shouldn't, oh no oh no... But then they'll be like ok.. it's just ONE LITTLE DONUT HOLE. And then they'll keep sneaking back in the kitchen to eat more when no one is looking. Oh, just one more, just one more.

It's also annoying when office womenfolk are like, will anyone split this donut with me? I can't eat a whole one by myself.
Poor baby!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'm just overly nostalgic about the high-school stuff? How do you just excise that from your life entirely? I love finding things I've nearly forgotten.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think for me, it's not so much as wanting to excise it as wanting to remember it through the gentle haze of nostalgia selective memory instead of via documentary evidence, which just lays bare the cold hard reality of what a dork I really was.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote in a journal from the time I was 15 (1990?) until 1996, or from the time I became depressed until I got medicated, or from the time I hit puberty till the time I got laid regularly.

When I was around 20 I re-read some of my HS journals and was devastatingly embarrassed. I actually blacked out sections. But I still can't bear to throw them away.

The discovery of marijuana really made my journalling take off in terms of volume as well as quality, (suprisingly).

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I need some marijuana in a serious way. Perhaps we should take this off-board, though.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

MJ is grrrrross. But I miss it so.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Gross? I never found it to be so. There's a lot grosser.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, I can't very well claim to be a "creative professional" if I don't have a little stash somewhere.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Am I supposed to feel ashamed that I like this Pharrell album?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ask the ILM jerks.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

It seems that folks on $tylu$ aren't too fond of it, although it also seems that people are all too eager to eviscerate Pharrell for some reason.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, got poxy fuled on my follow-up.

I was going to say: Seriously though, man, it seems like you enjoy a wide variety of stuff, so why should you feel ashamed?

(it was a toss-up in my mind as to whether to italicize "should" or "you" in keeping with the "why would I..." joke, but I think I made the right choice)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I'm not actually ashamed -- I actually like knowing that my tastes are not totally in lockstep with the consensus sometimes!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am, however, curious why hating solo Pharrell is so de rigeur. Because he's a producer who tries to sing/rap?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's why I don't particularly care for Kanye... well, not because he tries to rap, but because he just sucks at it!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am, however, curious why hating solo Pharrell is so de rigeur. Because he's a producer who tries to sing/rap?

Because his rapping is corny! At least on the one solo track I heard.

He may not be a "good" singer, but he gets the job on all those hooks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Does he really, though?

I find myself unable to determine what makes one a good rapper. Everyone talks about how great Jay-Z and Biggie are as rappers, but Jay-Z often sounds mealy-mouthed and Biggie just has this weak shout. I like some songs by both, sure, but don't really understand the "best rapper ever" nonsense thrown their way.

Of course, a lot of the time, what I'm responding to is the beat and instrumentation (in other words, the overall production) -- so maybe Pharrell (and Kanye) don't have mad flow, but that doesn't matter. Kanye's production is inventive; Pharrell has a keen ear for classic R&B song structures (there's a Stevie Wonder-eque track on the album).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I find the corniness endearing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Kanye has pretty bland delivery and some really, really cheesy rhymes on the stuff I've heard (College Dropout and Late Registration.) I know I've referenced the "cough is harsh/something something like you've got SARS" line before, but there was a lot more.

And I think your point about the production is where the truth really lies. These guys should have stuck to that -- they are not Dre.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm going to listen to Nas.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

John, please don't be offended, but I think a lot of the reason you have trouble understanding people's opinions on this kind of stuff is that you are such a pop guy ("what I'm responding to is the beat and instrumentation") that delivery, rhyming prowess, speed, vocal and lyrical play kind of take a backseat. You like a good tune, a hook, what have you; and while a lot of Jay-Z or Biggie or whoever else from other musics have those elements, there are plenty of times where (for lack of a better description) a track is "more art than pop" -- what I'm saying is, it's meant to convey some kind of meaning more than it is there to sound catchy and memorable. Am I wrong? Does this make any sense?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I AM NOT ARGUING ABOUT FLOW ON THE INTERNET

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Now I kind of feel like a jerk for saying that. I don't mean to be jerky.

xpost: ha!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Not offended at all! My myopia (or whatever the aural equivalent of that is) when it comes to hip-hop is exactly why I talk about this stuff on the Chicago thread and not elsewhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Except I will say that there are some rappers I like principally for flow and cadence and vocal tone -- I'm thinking of, for instance, Ludacris or Twista.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Although both of them are pretty pop, too -- which raises the question, then, whether I'd like them if their songs weren't so catchy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK good. I don't claim to be any kind of expert, that's just how it all strikes me.

xposts: Yeah, that makes sense.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

For example, I don't get Nas at all, either. I think I've listened to Illmatic maybe twice since I bought it a year or two ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

What don't you get?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

b-but, illmatic is plenty catchy.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone talks about how great Jay-Z and Biggie are as rappers, but Jay-Z often sounds mealy-mouthed and Biggie just has this weak shout. I like some songs by both, sure, but don't really understand the "best rapper ever" nonsense thrown their way.

Like Dan, not to be offensive, but this is some hilarious almost-self-parody shit, John. Because, again, you're just hearing the SOUND of their voice. No attention paid to cadence, intelligence, etc.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

You have made me listen to this:

http://www.thefunkstore.com/Cut-OutCDs/VMC-JayZ-BluePrint-Cover.jpg

I am using a font called "Excelsior" for no reason other than that it's called Excelsior.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

haha, i just started listening to Life After Death.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am Geir Hongro.

Here's something I wrote about Jay-Z's cadence.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Weird: All of my Haloscan comments, which went missing on all pre-2006 entries some time ago, have mysteriously returned.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/movies/18crit.html?8dpc

Interesting re: criticism.

The modern blockbuster -- the movie that millions of people line up to see more or less simultaneously, on the first convenient showing on the opening weekend -- can be seen as the fulfillment of the democratic ideal the movies were born to fulfill. To stand outside that happy communal experience and, worse, to regard it with skepticism or with scorn, is to be a crank, a malcontent, a snob.

(BTW -- I loved Pirates.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I wish that guy was actual Cthulhu and not some lame-ass approximation thereof.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, but it's not lame. It's amazing CGI. I didn't realize this until I read about it in USA Today yesterday, but there are no masks used in creating those characters. It's *all* CG. It's so good that even pros in the field were fooled into thinking they had used makeup and prosthetics.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Confession: I've never heard any Jay-Z album besides The Black Album. For some reason, I feel like I would like Reasonable Doubt.

I'm listening to Illmatic right now. More later.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually not a big Reasonable Doubt fan, which I feel guilty about, I guess.

I've listened to Blueprint about 700x, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I also listen to about half of God's Son way more than Illmatic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the makeup/cgi/trickery that is lame. What's lame is how they ripped off Lovecraft's creature and made it into some weak version of the devil. Fuck that.

xxxpost

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

These Nas songs don't really have hooks, do they?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

John I bet you'd like some Ca$h Money.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

What's lame is how they ripped off Lovecraft's creature and made it into some weak version of the devil. Fuck that.

Yeah, but... I don't know. The whole movie, and in fact the first movie, is made up entirely of spare parts. *Everything* is stolen from somewhere else, myths are mashed together until they're totally incoherent, and the whole enterprise is supremely goofy. I can't be offended.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just downloaded a bunch of Lupe Fiasco stuff and am not particularly impressed.

I am almost never nostalgic for high school. I'm usually nostalgic for college instead. I had a lot more fun in college than in high school.

I thought PoC2 was decent, but seemed like a stopgap until the trilogy's conclusion. Fuck a trilogy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) I have heard...

Mannie Fresh, The Mind of Mannie Fresh
Juvenile, "Back That Azz Up," "Slow Motion," "Rodeo"
B.G., "Move Around"
Lil Wayne, "Fireman"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Lupe Fiasco's "Kick Push" is pretty great. I wonder if I would like the rest. I also like Rhymefest's "Devil's Pie" (the one that samples the Strokes).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Those are all good, although I was thinking of the early stuff (like Back that Azz Up). I'm a huge fan of the Platinum Hits comp, it's hot all the way through.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the only reason I'm aware of anything they did before 2004 is just because "Back That Azz Up" was fairly ubiquitous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised that "These Days" didn't make it onto Rhymefest's record, because it's better than some of the songs that did ("Brand New", "Dy-No-Mite").

I end up judging rap quality in exactly the same ways that I (and other old-school English majors) judge lyric poetry - the appropriate combination of form and function, of meter/cadence/assonance/etc. and the meaning of the song. Biggie, Rakim and Eminem especially make rhymes that are both surprising and inevitable at once, and structure verses around vowel patterns as much as they do rhymes ("Then a shock when I get shocked at the hospital/By the doctor when I'm not cooperating/
When I'm rocking the table while he's operating").

My favorite rap song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhBkh7o9ak

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

("Then a shock when I get shocked at the hospital/By the doctor when I'm not cooperating/When I'm rocking the table while he's operating").

See, I love this kinda stuff. That's why I like Eminem at his best, he's full of internal rhyme and assonance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Re: "Kick Push": See, I would think a song about skateboarding would sound, you know, fun. Not leaden and sappy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

and you don't get Illmatic??

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

These days I'd rather an mc have the funk than twist tongues, but I listened to an old remix of Simon Says (with Shabam Sadeeq, Method Man, Busta, Rah Digga, etc.) last night and it's pretty sick. Crazy rhyme schemes. Maybe I'll post it to the blog.

Speaking of the blog, I'm making that shrimp n' grits recipe tonight and I'm excited.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I dunno, Mark. I listen to Illmatic and the flow just seems too dense, with no let-up, and there are no hooks, and the music is all just loops. The best song is the one with the Michael Jackson sample.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

For me a song can work if the flow is interesting the subject can be trite (a lot of Biggie and Jay-Z; mob movies; etc.) and if the subject is interesting the flow can be good-enough ("Kick Push").

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

(I rewrote the first half of that sentence without reading the rest, yuck.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Kick Push" is about skateboarding??? He should get Skateboard P to guest on it.

I am just a sucker for those luxuriant strings (also see Three 6 Mafia's "Stay Fly," T.I.'s "What You Know").

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Check out the video for it, John - lots of skateboarding scenes in familiar Chicago locations.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

This is why I ultimately decided that that On First Listen column on Wu-Tang would maybe not be such a hot idea -- I'm convinced that I listen to hip-hop wrong.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hi critters.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Jesse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

i like that lupe fiasco song....but mostly because i recognized half the spots in the video (generally, not for skating).

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hi John.

I got my first mail today. 3 Netflix movies.

Turns out that post-K, you have to go to the PO to register your address or they won't deliver your mail. Makes sense, but I didn't know this.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

So can you get regular post now?

Here is a joke that my friend Christy posted on her myspace page:

Three couples went in to see the minister to see how to become members of his church. The minister said that they would have to go without sex for two weeks and then come back and tell him how it went.

The first couple was retired, the second couple was middle
aged and the final couple was newlywed.

Two weeks went by, and the couples returned to the minister. The retired couple said it was no problem at all. The middle-aged couple said it was tough for the first week, but after that, it was no problem. The newlyweds said it was fine until she dropped the can of paint.

"Can of PAINT!" exclaimed the minister. "Yeah," said the newlywed man. "She dropped the can and when she bent over to pick it up I had to have her right there and then. Lust took over." The minister just shook his head and said that they were not welcome in the church.

"That's okay," said the man. "We're not welcome in Home Depot either."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kick Push sucks.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ain't no party like a Rebirth party.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight's quotes of the day (shit-themed):

"EARLIER TONIGHT? I SHARTED SO BAD I HAD TO TAKE A SHOWER."
-Happy cute clean-cut dancing dude to his female friend at Rebirth's show tonight.

"So I went boo-boo in the toilet. I knew it was plugged earlier but I thought it mighta gotten unplugged. Then, you talk about spiritual warfare, E---- yelled at me cuz I didn't flush cuz I couldn't cuz it was plugged up, and I went back to the old M------, and I snapped. The Devil took over and I let him. The Destroyer came to distract me with a fight with E------ so that I'd forget my folder today and then I couldn't enter our meetings in the database. He knew that I had to do God's work and he came to tempt me with anger."

- Guess who.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

At least she went boo-boo in the toilet and not, say, the living room floor.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

You know what I really hate? When the devil makes me have to go boo boo halfway through my breakfast. It's like, come on! At least let me finish eating!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ain't no party like a Rebirth party.

Haha, Maple Leaf?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. I'm tired today. I'm glad I only had 2 beers and left at 12:something. It was a good show though. LOUD.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jellystonesiouxfalls.com/images/booboo15c.gif

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I'm so proud.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I made that shrimp & grits recipe (turned out surprisingly awesome), got surprisingly wasted on white wine, and watched Chronicles of Riddick (awful yet hilarious) and half of Closer (good yet disturbing).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good life you got there, Jordan.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm at Bruegger's in Uptown Mpls., enjoying the wi-fi and the torrential summer storm outside.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I lived a block away from this store 10 years ago, and here I am sitting now and all of a sudden that not-good Del Amitri "look around your world pretty baby" song plays here and it's like a time warp.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I lived on their peanut butter bagel sandwiches for a summer during high school (it was connected to the book store I worked at).

Tomorrow won't be as much fun, I'm doing a day trip to Mpls for work (fly out at 6:50 am, fly back at 7:30 pm).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

all of a sudden that not-good Del Amitri "look around your world pretty baby" song plays here and it's like a time warp.

Totally. That song reminds me of driving to my first summer job (an insurance office) in 1995 and listening to WXRT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

(Although not as much as U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" does.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I heart Uptown. I need to go back and visit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Vegan food critic:

Back to that marinara veggie burger with no cheese... it didn't exist, because they put cheese on it. Now when this happens, being vegan, if they just have to then throw away the burger with the cheese on it, it's as if I consumed it anyhow. Essentially, by not paying attention and messing up my order, I've been forced to be wasteful and indirectly "consume" an animal product. Whether this product goes in my mouth or the trash, it still has been used, creating a small percentage of higher demand for it. Yuck.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's almost as if this person would be happier just not eating at all. Do you think that'll ever be possible? A bunch of vegans wandering around being fed glucose solution through IVs?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Essentially, by not paying attention and messing up my order, I've been forced to be wasteful and indirectly "consume" an animal product.

Well, if the point is not to waste food, then just fucking eat the thing.

I hate it when the devil tempts me with cheese.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

TEMPT ME, TEMPT ME.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Brenda's mishavior is taking on a cold, calculated quality. Sometimes she's fine and seems to want nothing more than a nice tummy scratch. But sometimes she reminds me of that old email meme about the cat's diary.

I have that somewhere. Let me look it up.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Here we are:

My captors continued to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from clawing the furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another house plant.

Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded. Maybe I should try this at the top of the stairs.

In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair. I must try this on their bed.

Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little kitty cat I was. This is not working according to plan.

There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary confinement throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the food. More important, I overheard that my confinement was due to my powers of inducing something called "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.

I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The bird, on the other hand, has got to be an informant. He speaks with them regularly, and I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room, his safety is assured. But I can wait. It's only a matter of time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, where's that from??

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

An email my mom sent me a long time ago.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, be easy on the vegan. Or at least easy on the vegan's dietary ideology. His/her grammar could use a little work:

Essentially, by not paying attention and messing up my order, I've been forced to be wasteful and indirectly "consume" an animal product.

YOU were the one who didn't pay attention and messed up your order?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just had this sick fantasy where I restrained a vegan and made him eat honey until a single tear rolled down his cheek.

You know, because of the bees.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I bet more dedicated people than me (and probably vegan people) could find fault with the vegan above for eating out in the first place. Hell, why didn't they just grow the veggie burger themself?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

What is Brendoid into these days? What about Kendroid? And your cat, whatever its name is?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

< 1 month to go here! This means the nervous diarrhea has returned because now I have a lot of work to do in a short time, and I have to either go back to the restaurant (not fun) or find a new job (not fun either).

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I know. And I have to find an apartment. Not fun.

Brenda craps and pees on things, and tries to escape. She is not happy, unless of course she is.

Kenny is an awesome bird. Very noisy in the morning, though, when I don't have time to let him out and play with him, which I feel bad about. He lets me scratch his head now, which is sweet.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, look at it this way: no matter what you do, it's not going to be fun, so you can now look to other criteria to make your decision.

I got my five pound bookmark at WW today*, which is good because I started reading a new book and forgot to bring something with which to mark my place.

*Meaning that I got a bookmark to commemorate the loss of five pounds, not that I got a bookmark weighing five pounds.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if we can split the bedroom in half, room together and save some $$. Or we can just form an LTR and kill two birds with one stone.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Lord of The Rings?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Long Term Relationship, dumb dumb.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I had the Indian buffet for lunch and I'm still unable to move.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm... Indian buffet...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

HA: One of the head union guys who is working here smokes in his office. A couple people are throwing fits about it.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I now have a little GAnY WAR.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what you mean, but I really want to pronounce "gay war" to rhyme with "gay bar."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Half of what's fun about the new Sean Paul single is him pronouncing "tomorrow" and "arrow" as though they rhyme.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, GnAY WAR.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

then i think you're talking about guns n' roses and wonder what the AY WA in between means.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

G&F'nR, DUDEZ.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I wrote on a napkin:

gee and fucking are

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

It's a secret coded message.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's not, either. It's a Gn'R Lie.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Then I had to use the napkin for cleaning up, since there was a spaghetti incident.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

All it takes is a little patience.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

My union crush now has to tell his boss not to smoke in the office, which is not a desirable task since he is kind of gruff. I had a pang of sentimentality when I saw him in his office smoking while on the phone.

I'm out early today for 1 episode of Lost, a nap, and then a rally at 7, which I'd rather not be attending.

― We've been dancing with Mister (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, where are you in the series so far?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

the last one I watched was Episode 14 - Special where Walt's "specialness" is revealed.

I currently have 6 Netflix DVDs, only 2 are doubled up. The mail be working extra good now.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I'm sorry that your immenent departure date is stressing you out, but I'm really glad that you're coming home soon. I miss you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I miss you, too, Jesse.

However, you don't want to know what I just went through with your internet connection. It's back now, and I *guess* it was worth it...

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

These people kept me on the phone for over an hour, no exagguration. Most of that was with an Indian dude who did nothing whatsoever. He should have just transferred me immediately. The second guy fixed me up inside of ten minutes.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

(God... do I sound like a redneck when I say that?)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

So... Jeff and Jenny... do you want this sweet laptop back now, or after you move?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kenny is so happy. He's sitting on top of the warm monitor cleaning his feathers and occasionally crapping onto the thin rag I draped over everything. That's ok, though... bird crap >>>>>>>>>>>> cat crap.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff might want it when his classes start again, but as far as I'm concerned, if you still have use for it you can hang on to it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

'Tis a very useful thing, especially since I mainly use an Apple at work and this is a bit more of a compliant (if not faster) computer than my own. I'd love to love it for a while longer. It'll be even more upgraded than it already is when I give it back.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've been waiting for a home connection to do this, but I have to respond to Eazy's YouTube rap contribution:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=90_43QAZcr4&search=big%20daddy%20kane

Imagine a Kenan in middle school, preening in front of the mirror before school while this song played.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

But in a calm manner. 'Cause I'm the smooth operator.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to a lot of Public Enemy, NWA and De La Soul in middle school. I was so indie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Houston middle schools knew what was up in the late 80's, yo. BDK still holds up. Best battle rhymes ever.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, the only difference between Rakim and Kane is that Rakim rhymes about more than how awesome he is. Um... sometimes. Kane is pretty one-note, subject matter-wise.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I had never seen this video before, but it's pretty awesome. Some really awkward dancing from De La:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5OV2_T3yfk&search=de%20la%20soul

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Followed by superartsy De La:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SfRa5CrqgA&search=de%20la%20soul

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

(With a really different mix from the album version)

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and De La on Carson Daly Show with MF DOom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaQkfYJoC3M&search=de%20la%20soul

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

MF Doom is such a dork.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Gas face to both of those first ones. They're not the original mixes of the songs, and I know from (very nostalgic) memory that both of those videos were made with the original mixes. And were better the first time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

That dela/doom song is better than I was anticipating.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Jeff, hi Nick. All our girls are together tonight.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

True.

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

This is sureal. Bless youtube.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

That was like a really long Volkswagen commercial.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

With Sarah out of the house, I just attempted a very manly, stupid thing: fixing my snapped-in-half glasses by melting the plastic over a flame and then smooshing them back together. The ultimate result: I succeeded in reattaching the two parts of the frame, but I smooshed them together too much so they don't really fit on my nose right anymore. Plus there's a big bump of burnt black plastic on the front of my glasses now. They might be serviceable to read in bed after I've taken out my contacts, but I can't wear them out of the house.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Considering how this all happened, that's still a pretty big success.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I should have devised some kind of mold so that the plastic would have formed back into the right shape.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Devising a mold sounds like a day in the garage. And none of us have a garage.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

You know buyer's remorse? I have had the very opposite of that several times this year. Once when I got my dishwasher, the other when I got my broom vac, and the biggest and longest lasting has been MY LAPTOP. This is my most prized and valued possessions.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, Jesse. I've spent the last 20 minutes telling you every bad thing your cat has done (and some of it was shockingly bad), but I don't mean that she's a bad cat. She's just a very traumatized cat, and for the time being, there's no good solution to that. Which leaves me cleaning a lot of shit and pee, but ok.

Brenda is very sweet and obviously very sensitive, and I think sensitivity is a virtue.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

i fucking love that de la/doom track.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 July 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

MF Doom is such a dork.

i fucking love that de la/doom track.

TS: great taste vs. less filling

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have the Xanax munchies. Ice cream would be ideal.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say I didn't like the track, I said he's a dork. That's part of his appeal.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am kind of obsessed with this album:

http://www.tomvek.tv/covers/TOMVEK-WEHAVESOUND1-m.gif

I'm not sure why. It's really lazy sounding and repetitive, but it has a charm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

your wak, jak.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love "You Set the Fire in Me" soooo much. It reminds me of ? and the Mysterians.

The b&w intro to that Big Daddy Kane video looks like it was directed by Jim Jarmusch.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, the video for Me, Myself, and I is a flash back and a half.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'll have to listen to You Set the fire in Me because I love ? and the Mysterians.

Ok, so this is like a half a year away, BUT... Who will be in Chicago around Christmas and isn't allergic to cats? huh huh huh?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

tornado siren going off in the near west suburbs, we're getting moved to the basement. later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Is he serious?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

We shall not be, alas. But next Christmas, hit us up. We owe a karmic debt to the cat caretakers of the world.

xpost - Holy shit!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Is that what this is? Most of the ladies are hanging out in the kitchen together drinking coffee as though the storm prevents them from working.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I would hang out in the kitchen and drink coffee but somehow, WE ARE ALL OUT OF COFFEE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the storm that prevents me from working, it's my JOB.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, you're getting the storm I got in Mpls yesterday!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I, for one, welcome our new low pressure overlords.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Gross! A used storm!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

My shoes and socks are SOAKED. No fun.

I keep forgetting I have that Tom Vek album. I listened to it a couple times, like, 6 months ago and said "Hey, this is cool" but haven't put it on since.

New Basement Jaxx is ... interesting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

feels like 69 out. i much prefer this weather.

dude! 69!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

oh, it was "69 dude!" and it was bill and ted.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, Sarah, my mother just said that to me on the phone: "Nyah nyah, you're getting our used weather!" She's adorable.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Better than used... oh, make your own joke. I'm not funny enough.

Well, so much for getting to work early. Unless you think 10 is early. Not many people do.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

My own joke: "What - it's wet and hard to breathe outside?"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yuk yuk.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

that was fucked up. really low, black cloud came in from the the southeast, you could see it kind of twisting but i don't think it ever got to the point where it was dangerous. but it was right out of the first act of wizard of oz. pretty cool.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, if you don't mind me asking (and forgive me if this has been asked before) but where do you work? I'm partially curious just because of this tornado thingy.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

thinking of the sports/homosexuality talk from the other day...

this was in the nyt about this, which was a gay joke from the ESPY awards.

the nyt article makes you think lance armstrong made explicit jokes about buttsex that were shocking SHOCKING when really, the joke was just tired and unfunny. teasing JG about playing a gay character in brokeback mountain--hilarious and oh-so-original! whatever.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

My own joke: "What - it's wet and hard to breathe outside?"

I don't get it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

(i didn't either)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

(neither do I...)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

HA! That was an x-post and funny just because we styled our responses similarly. JULIA WE ARE ONE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

hahaOMG

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I guessed the "wet and hard to breathe" line was in reference to "69."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

feels like 69 out.
"What - it's wet and hard to breathe?"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

YES

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

where i work: 60141.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to think of a gay joke involving Lance Armstrong. Something about being down on the saddle or... something, I don't know. I'll get back to you.

Jake climbed L'alpe D'Huez with Lance a few days ago (the day before the Tour got there). That's pretty bad-ass. I wish I could say I had the world's most notorious bicycle route under my belt.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

l'alpe d'huez sounds fucking HARDCORE:

slate article

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent. Thanks. I actually watched that stage in prime time. You don't really get a sense of how mean the mountain is until you see a helicopter shot of just miles + miles of steep switchbacks.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

lance armstrong did make a joke about his balls at the ESPYs. i don't hate him the way i did after reading his books. his books still suck though.

i've been kinda following the tour de france since reading about landis, because hot damn, would that be cool if he won.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

i love the police log from the chicago journal (emphasis mine):

"A robbery occurred on the 1400 block of North Campbell at 9:15 p.m. on July 7, police reports say. The victim, a 21-year-old mother, was walking back from a shopping trip to Walgreen’s when she got into a heated argument with a neighbor. Eventually the 19-year-old neighbor snapped: "Give me your groceries or I’ll spray your ugly baby," she said, wielding a can of pepper spray. The neighbor then proceeded to spray the mother, making off with $33 of groceries while she was still incapacitated by the cloud of spicy, noxious pepper fumes. Police know the identity of the pepper-spray-happy neighbor but had not yet made any arrests at the time the report was filed.
"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hey
Baltimore

The percolator is a chicago song.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Julia: Floyd Landis fell behind 8 minutes yesterday (or, early this morning, whatever). It's over for him already.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go home, get out of these wet clothes, and curl up on the sofa with a blanket and a cup of cocoa and watch The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Will anyone notice if I just leave at lunchtime?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

They will when I call them and tell on you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, when I clicked on the Baltimore thread link the embedded music there synced up perfectly with the FFs song I was listening to!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go home, get out of these wet clothes, and curl up on the sofa with a blanket and a cup of cocoa and watch The Young Girls of Rochefort.

i want to go home with a young girl from rockford named coco and get out of our clothes but that's probably beyond reasonable expectation right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you rake.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

is that the male equivilant of a hoe?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

just for larfs, does anyone actually know any girls from rockford named coco? 'cause that would be pretty f'ing cool.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Don't ask me, go ask the Middle English.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

i knew that landis had a really really horrible day yesterday (and it looked like he had no chance), but i thought he had a comeback today? maybe i'm way too spaced out and misunderstanding things on the tour de france thread. i need some fucking sleep.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

"a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Deej, maybe you can help me with this: I am confused about the song "Doo Doo Brown," which is referred to as a Baltimore club song from the early 90s. I remember hearing a song played on B96 and WGCI in the spring of 1992, with lyrics that went, "Face down, butt up, that's the way we like to [bleep]! Doo doo brown!" There was also a part that went "I wanna rock right now!" I was under the impression that this song was by Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, credited as "Luke." But looking into it right now, I see that the Baltimore club track samples 2 Live Crew?

Which is the version I remember?

2 Live Crew, "C'Mon Babe (Doo Doo Brown Version)"
2 Hype Brothers and a Dog, "Doo Doo Brown"
Luke, "Doo Doo Brown" [not even sure this exists except in my memory]

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Another lyric: "Hey, we wanna party!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Head, head, and more head!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits"

no, no, yes, if left to my own devices, yes.

i just became aware of yet another in the seemingly unending list of annoying personal quirks i have: i can't walk in a stairwell without whistling.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Are you afraid of vampires?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Because. . . ?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Confusing ... on Luke's solo album there are songs called "Head Head and More Head" AND "I Wanna Rock." I feel like maybe there were lyrical motifs from 2 Live Crew that Campbell recycled when he went solo?

There may have been a lyric about "pop[ping] that coochie" as well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Julia: holy crap you're right!

http://www.tdfblog.com/

He's back in the lead. After being in 11th place and 8 minutes behind. Un-freaking-heard of. They have *got* to play this stage tonight in prime time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

i don't stereotype all vampires based on the actions of a few jenny.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand where vampires come into it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN n/a and other interested parties: After much fighting with YSi, Awes0me C0l0r is on the blog.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, hey, if anyone wants a copy of this album which I play keybs on, let me know and I'll try to send one out to you. E-mail me an address, or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not nearly as familiar with 2 Live Crew as I should be.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was in reference to whistling in the stairwell. the vampire thing that is.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

This is all you need to know about 2 Live Crew (N exactly SFW, but not the worst, either):
http://www.hhv.de/images/cover3/31516.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

shit!

1. No cash, and the cafe only takes cash
2. No umbrella, because my housemate broke it, and it's raining really hard outside
3. No stashed food at desk
4. HUNGRY

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have an umbrella AND cash and would give you both but you are too far away!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, whistling to keep from being scared, like whistling past a graveyard but then I said vampires probably because Dan mentioned them upthread and because vampires hang out in stairwells a lot.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i've never been scared in a graveyard. in the sleepy little suburb where i grew up it was a favorite place to go parking when in high school. it later proved to be a great place to go enjoy natures flora. plus there used to be a graveyard between the bar i used to frequent back in massachusetts and my place and sometimes i would wake up in said graveyard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I ate some chocolate out of the little jar on my boss' desk.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

The only time I was worried at a graveyard was when the cops made us put our hands on the hood of the car and the paddy wagon pulled up.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am not afraid of graveyards either. I quite like them! They are very peaceful, plus I'm fascinated by grave markers.

One of the most fun times in my life was playing hide and seek in a graveyard in Keen, NH. It was so eerie and fun and perfect. We tried to do it again the next night but it wasn't the same.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

you forgot the last e in keene.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I did not forget. That was pure unadulterated ignorance.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

i figured as much but i was trying to be polite.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago has some of the best park-like graveyards anywhere. It's kind of a shame you can't ride your bike in Graceland... they have such nice, wide paths.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

it feels like a friday but you know what? IT AIN'T FRIDAY!!! i am gonna be so disappointed tomorrow.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I am extremely busy and fighting off doldrums at the same time. Rainy day, ya know. Listening to nothing but Boredoms all morning helps a little.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I totally just went to Payless and got two pairs of socks, and then I went to Bake for Me and got a huge bowl of veggie chili and a sourdough roll (total lunch-hour expenditure: $9.66), and now I am a little happier with chili in my tummy and two pairs of dry socks over my cold, damp feet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

So Starbucks has this new weird thing in their "bakery" case which is a whole wheat braid with flax seeds all over it and I am intrigued by it and have built it up in my head as the most delicious whole grain delicacy in the known universe but there's no nutritional info about it on their website anywhere and I'm afraid it will be a billion calories and taste like cardboard.

I totally want one now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

i figured as much but i was trying to be polite.

Stop that right now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

YOU KNOW I'M KIDDING! if i wasn't kidding i wouldn't bother posting it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I meant stop trying to be polite. (HAHA I typed "police.") Dag, you got what I meant by vampires... I thought we had a connection, Kevin.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny -- the best muffin known to man is a flax-seed-and-fruit muffin that you can purchase at The Perfect Cup cafe across from the Damen Brown Line stop. I don't know anything about this Starbucks thing, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I have a Starbucks card so I think I'm going to settle this once and for all.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I missed something. How did John get all wet?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Rain: Stopped
Cash: Withdrawn
Hair: Shorn
Sandwich: Acquired (and currently being consumed)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

i thought it was empirically clear by now that i don't know anything about anything.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Were you ever an Op Ivy fan Otto?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

no, never really thought much about them one way or the other.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Just curious 'cause of "i don't know anything about anything." It made me think of
I know that things are getting tougher
When you cant get top off from the bottom of the barrel
Wide open road of my future now...
Its looking fucking narrow
All I know is that I dont know
All I know is that I dont know nothing
We get told to decide
Just like as if im not gonna change my mind
All I know is that I dont know nothing
Whatcha gonna do with yourself
Boy better make up your mind
Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy
You're running out of time
This time I got it all figured out
All I know is that I dont know nothing...
And thats fine

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

OKAY I got the whole wheat thing. It's basically bread with seeds on it. I also got an iced tea which is very good.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Not that I think those dudes were some kind of poets or whatever, just remember hearing that song an awful lot back in the day.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Can you guys help me find a thread, if it exists?
I thought I started one in the spring of last year looking for road trip suggestions... I ended up going with House on the Rock, the Mustard Museum, and Little Norway. ANYWHO, I seem to remember there being a bunch more fun places I wanted to visit, like some town with cool architecture in INDIANA??

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

no, i just think it's best to remind myself sometimes that i don't really know anything. when i think i know stuff i start making assumptions instead of finding out about things.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

i think i remember that town, sarah, i've been there. i'll see if i can figure out something useful like the name or something.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I would love to help you find the thread, but I cannot find anything on this website to save my own dear life.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh, yay, first google hit:

http://www.columbus.in.us/page.asp?page=Architecture

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, How long ago did you go there? Do you think it was road trip worthy?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Derek lives in Columbus, IN.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

New Harmony, Ind.'s a beautiful town.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

This place looks sufficiently weird/charming:
http://www.countrychaletcolumbus.com/index.htm

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Is that in the vecinity, eric?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

What, you don't want to go to Springfield? And we had such a corking time there!

(Actually, it wasn't too bad - I just wouldn't spend more than a night there and I would make sure everything you wanted to see was open. The Museum of Funeral Customs alone was almost worth the trip. The Lincoln museum was just gravy.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

i think maybe i was in college or so...it was a family road trip, so that colors my view of it. we did a tour of the town with a guidebook rather than some official tour, and then stayed in brown's state park in a cabin, and did lots of hiking around there.

even though it was a dreaded Family Vacation, i remember thinking some of the architecture was pretty cool.

i did an ilx search and found this eazy post (xp to eazy):

I once spent a few weeks in New Harmony, Indiana, workshopping a potential Broadway musical about a truck contest in Texas. What a beautiful town. I'd never been to southern Indiana, and this town had been a Utopian community in the 1800s -- a successful one, with patented products coming out of the "science buildings" and meditational paths designed by philosophers. Sounds crazy, but it's there, and lovely. Plus, I spent a lot of time playing Scrabble with an original cast member of Hair and others.

-- Eazy (chicagoflaneu...), September 19th, 2005.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS, WHAT IS LINK TO BLOG, BECAUSE I WANT AWESOME COLOR REAL BAD.

also, this:

A robbery occurred on the 1400 block of North Campbell at 9:15 p.m. on July 7, police reports say. The victim, a 21-year-old mother, was walking back from a shopping trip to Walgreen’s when she got into a heated argument with a neighbor. Eventually the 19-year-old neighbor snapped: "Give me your groceries or I’ll spray your ugly baby," she said, wielding a can of pepper spray. The neighbor then proceeded to spray the mother, making off with $33 of groceries while she was still incapacitated by the cloud of spicy, noxious pepper fumes. Police know the identity of the pepper-spray-happy neighbor but had not yet made any arrests at the time the report was filed.

was very likely written by the littlest Shark.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://chilx.blogspot.com/

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Do you like gravy, Jenny?

The Museum of Funeral Customs does sound cool. So does New Harmony. I'll probably end up making a little travel itinerary like last time since most of these places could easily be explored in a day or less.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

OH SHIT I read that "spray your ugly baby" snippet and LOLed a little, but mostly got mad because who the fuck maces a woman and steals her groceries with her BABY RIGHT THERE??? Which Shark is the litt'lest?

I generally like gravy, yes, but my honest feelings about it depend on the style and what it's poured over.

Oh, also about Springfield is that having a car there will help immensely as all the places to eat are not within walking distance of the town center. Well, there are restaurants that are walking distance but they are all lunch places that close around 4 pm.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i used to be the littlest Shark, but now I think it's Max. And he writes the blotter for the CJ. FYI.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

that walgreens (i'm assuming it's the one at rockwell & north) is sketchy as hell. i used to frequent it all the time as it was the closest bank one atm before chase bought them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. I had to get a salesperson unlock a cabinet so I could buy HAND LOTION there.

So anyway, back to my roadtrip... It looks like LOUISVILLE is in between New Harmony and Columbus, IN. Is that Louisville, KY? Is it fun?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, so I just made a CRAZY ambitious itinerary taking us...:
a) Chicago to Indianapolis
b) Indianapolis to Columbus, IN
SPEND NIGHT
c) Columbus to Lousville
d) Louisville to New Harmony
e) New Harmony to St Louis
SPEND NIGHT
f) All day in St Louis
SPEND NIGHT
g) St Louis to Springfield
h) Springfield back to Chicago

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

HOW YA LIKE ME NOW, SUCKAS!?!

Anyway, the c-d-e leg might be pushing it...
And should I spend less or more than a day in St Louis?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I could just skip the f?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I might as well go ahead and aim for FIVE posts in a row...

How is everyone FEELIn??

On tap Tonight at the Jammerman Household: Light Housework followed by Battlestar Gallactica followed by MORE Battlestar Gallactica followed by even more BG.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i have a vague recollection of some fun bars in louisville, but my cousin always paid, so i always drank lots and thus don't remember anything of use. i can't think of anything to DO in louisville otherwise though. it's a small city with a baseball bat museum.

again, the disclaimer that the only time i've spent there was with family. i think of it as a city crawling with overenergetic small redheaded children, but there's got to be more to it than that...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

We can get drunk in louisville on our way to hang out in the New Harmony utopia.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

You should eat at Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Louisville.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think, but I'm not sure, that I want to have some drinkz tonight. Does anyone else feel similarly?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

if it's not raining i could conceivably be talked into drinks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

That's cute, John!

I'm not really up for drinks, but if anyone is in our neighborhood and wants to pick up a couple of free mags/listen to djs/bands for free, you can stop in the Double Door. I might be there long enough just to grab free stuff. (Punkplanet & venuszine)

I called for a brochure on the cabin I found near Columbus, but then I found some rate ranges online, so... I'd probably spend that night in Louisville instead. Then I'd wake up and eat Lynn's Paradise Cafe.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's right. I'd eat the ENTIRE building.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I believe I'm going to Le Double Door in order to "flyer" that "show." Having drinks with cow-orkers right after work, so it's possible I might want more drinxxx -- but no guarantee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I had some fantastic vegetarian biscuits 'n' gravy at Lynn's a little over a year ago. Yumtastic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm heading out, but I'll check back a little later and see what's developed on the drinx front... laterz yall.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

"yo yo i know it sez jaymc but it's k baby d checkin' in with y'all

how is everyone?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

really, it's kelsey. AND john.

but this is 'kelsey as john'

or, "k as j"

my log in isn't working!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, you can at least change the "your full name" box so it's less confusing!

― The Real Jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

and now i'm all alone . . .

well, ILX, I'm sad that our relationship isn't working out. i've been thinking about you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/6482%20new.jpg

― The Real Jaymc (All You Other Jaymcs Are Just Imitatin') (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

hi johnny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Test!

― K as J (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Are you talking to yourself? Is Kelsey really in Chicag?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Chicag! hahahaha

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not in chicago!

― k as j (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

my log in doesn't work for whatever reason & john let me break into his.....

― NOT JOHN (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

But you can't find your log in so you're posting under John's?

xpost - I AM SMRT.

Hi, Kelsey! How's it going?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Good....i'm the only one at my job right now so i am b o r e d.

and now it's 5:00!! i should have logged on as john earlier!!

― Not JOHN (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

What is your job? Is it the one you had before you went to China?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Your job is apparently 9 - 5...

And so is mine. Bye!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Coming in at 10am + being genuinely busy = I'm gonna be here a while.

Time for my 5:00 smoke break, though.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I feel really jittery. Could it be nicotine-related? I haven't had a cigarette since Sunday night, because I am trying to quit -- but if I made it this long, I don't know why it would suddenly affect me.

(My goal for quitting, btw: progessively space out the days I smoke, so that it's first every other day, then every third day, then every fourth day, and so on, until the habit is forgotten.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Priceline those hotels, Sarah - get yourself a nice hotel for the price of a nice motel.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

(New Harmony has some nice B&Bs - I'm guessing that some are expensive, but if you can get one the town gets 1,000,000 fireflies after dark.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cannot have drinks until later, if at all. Oh well.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

We got our I-Go stuff! Whee! There's a gas card in each car, which I didn't know. I thought you had to fill it up sometimes out of your own pocket. Instead, you are obligated to fill it up if it gets down to a quarter tank, but then you also get a $2 driving credit.

This whole set up is just brilliant.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

i signed up today, as you know. how long did it take to get your stuff? 'cause after i signed up i started making a list of all the things i wanted to buy but couldn't because i couldn't get them home without a car.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 July 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome Color is playing at Empty Bottle tomorrow, with Marked Men ... looks like a good loud rock show. I want to go.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

MOTO is playing, i'll be there early then heading over to the beat kitchen for the angry angles. marked men are good, saw them at the blackout and they didn't leave much of an impression. that probably wasn't their fault however. the new album is very pop punk to my ears, not sure if i dig it. "wait here, wait for you" is a great pop song. the single on shit sandwich has one of the most insanely catchy songs ever ("she don't know"), if you go try to pick it up.

what does awesome color sound like? never heard or heard of them before.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Aw hell, I wish I had known. I've already made plans to go to a going-away party for some friends in MI this weekend and I'm leaving tomorrow.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna see Awesome Color :(((((

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

KELSEY

Why you not is in Chicago?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

SHE GOT A FELLA WHO LOVES DAT MINNESOTA LAW. We just sat outside an ice cream parlor (Sebastian Joe's) for an hour.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 July 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

what the fuck is awesome color and why is the only place i have ever heard of them on this chicago thread/??

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

i am busy burning justin timberlake cd's for coworkers. i am deliriously happy that i have coworkers that are awesome, finally. i think some of them are coming to pitchfork next weeekend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Why some people should NEVER shave their heads:

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/pete_mcentegart/07/20/ten.spot/tx_nash.jpg

I am so disappointed in him.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

listened to awesome color last night, sounded good, liked it. too bad when they take the stage i'll probably be in a cab on my way to the beat kitchen. there haven't been any shows i've wanted to see the past two weekends and now this weekend and next weekend have a total of 6 shows i want to see. that blows.

and in reading my post from last night i f'ed up the name of the insanely catchy marked men song, it's "she won't know" not don't. jenny, if you guys don't have anything planned i think jeff might like marked men.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

swimming
ballet
soccer
oboe....

KARATE!!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I think "awesome color" IS A PRETTY LAME NAME FOR A BAND Y'ALL. It sounds like what the mall hairstylist would offer a patron in between her smoke breaks and trips to Sbarro for diet Coke refills. I'm sure they're good and all, but c'mon.

In other news, I am starting to get so nervous about my class that starts on Monday that I have taken to conveniently "forgetting" about it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

what the fuck is awesome color and why is the only place i have ever heard of them on this chicago thread/??

A rock band. Check the blog if you want to hear them. And you heard of them here first because, you know, we're pretty cool people amirite?

xxpost: Yeah, the name is pretty lame. It'd be better if it was "Awesome Power"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Other breaking news: I am wearing a very comf second-hand tank top from our dear Sarah and it's the #1 softest piece of clothing in my closet, as of this week. Do you use fabric softener? What's your SECRET?!?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Nash looks like some just-hatched sentient being.

It sounds like what the mall hairstylist would offer a patron in between her smoke breaks and trips to Sbarro for diet Coke refills.

See, this makes the name great to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, your next band can be called Rad Nachos.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

i got a t-shirt this week that is so soft if feels like velvet across my belly. i think i'll wear it tonight in fact.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Rad Nachos sounds like an awesome name!!

I miss you, Amanda!!!!!!!

― Again, NOT john. (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I love that description of the mall hair stylist. She probably has some NAILS on her too, right? That's how I'm picturing her.

― Not JOHN (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Not John" is Kelsey again, BTW.

― NOT John (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kels -- maybe you should try re-registering with a new name? (Not that I mind terribly or anything.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nails with airbrushing, even. Confession: I have always wanted airbrushed nails, but I am actively and violently opposed to acrylic nails. Conundrum.

I, too, am wearing an article of clothing from Sarah's generous closet. A lovely skirt. I wore a lovely skirt from Sarah's closet yesterday, too, and have been in an excellent mood for two days because of it.

I've never seen such--such beautiful skirts before...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

we're all wearing sarah's clothes! i have a soft green tshirt. yay clothing swap.

i like the name rad nachos. my sister and i always used to talk about nachos in beavis and butthead voices for whatever reason, and it seems to have the same silliness.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the name is pretty lame. It'd be better if it was "Awesome Power"

Yes! If you could somehow work a "Super" in there, even better. Though in this day and age, that would probably necessitate their being from Japan.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Let's list band names that are worse than "Awesome Color."

1. Crap Engine
2. The Bevis Frond
3. Holy Fuck

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

"Super" bands are so 90s: Superdrag, Supersuckers, Superchunk, Supergrass, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

of those three, crap engine seems worst for some reason.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

supertramp . . . aren't they 70's though?

p.s. john, i'm too lazy right now to do a new one. is that okay?

― not jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

How about Color Power?

YOU LEAVE CRAP ENGINE OUT OF THIS. That's in my top ten favorite band names ever.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

there was a local band called liquid chicken when i was in college.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

YOU LEAVE CRAP ENGINE OUT OF THIS.

I guess it's a love-it-or-hate-it proposition.

5. Bloodfart

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

How about Color Power?

Depends on the color, really.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

One time, as I'm sure Nick has told you, we got a cd in the mail and opened it without realizing it was addressed to a former resident. Anyway, I can't remember the band name, but the cd was called SMELLS LIKE LESBIANS. The music lived up to the name too (as far as the bad album name goes, not the actual smell of lesbians which couldn't possibly be that bad).

I love it that everyone is wearing my clothes.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you love it because I made off with enough skirts to continue the trend well into next week. :D

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite college-era band name was "Space Travel Made Children of Us All."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.baronhats.com/images/Apoc-ani.gif

"I love the smell of lesbians in the morning. Smells like... lesbians."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I freaking love skirts and dresses. I've already bought way too many dresses this summer.

When I was in kindergarten, my mom would hold up two superfrilly dresses every morning and I'd pick which one I wanted to wear that day. I had my first case of depression the year I started having to take gym class and was forced to at least wear shorts under my dresses. Can you tell I wasn't a tomboy?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

you & i are made of the same mold, sarah. there are old family stories about the multiple times kelsey refused to wear pants. i wore dresses all the time when i was young. dresses with knit socks up to my knees....

― not jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, have you considered starting a new user account? Think of the possibilities. You could invent a whole new identity!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I kind of wish I was though, because tomboys are cooler.

I wore thick tights in the winter, Kelsey. They were crazy thick with corduroy-like stripes in them.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

there are old family stories about the multiple times kelsey refused to wear pants.

There are stories like that about me, too. Only without the dress.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

My youngest sister, Leslie, had a problem with always wanting to be completely naked. We'd have guests over and my mom would get her all dressed up. And then, just like Tom Kitten, she'd lose her fancy outerwear. Then she'd streak through the party giggling.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember my feelings on skirts and dresses when I was a kidlet. I know that my favorite outfit in the universe was an off-white turtleneck sweater, jeans, and tall brown boots (I, um, have a similar outfit to this very day). I also went through a HUGE tomboy phase from about fifth to seventh grade during which I not only wouldn't wear skirts or dresses, but tended to favor men's clothing. My mother was TERRIFIED that I was, um, smelling like a lesbian.

I think what moved me into my current phase of loving skirts and dresses was colored tights. I picked up an array of jewel toned tights when I was in 8th grade and never looked back.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back from Minneapolis. I didn't come into work until 10:00 today, I wonder if anyone noticed.

Sorry I didn't give you a ring Eazy, it was strictly business all day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

My hair is loaded with product this morning. I smell like a queer.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

(This is not helped by the fact that I refer to it as "product".)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Or that you're a flaming homosexual.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

In seventh grade I was going for a Debbie Gibson look. I had a very frilly long sleeved white shirt that had pearl buttons going up the back and on the cuffs. I would switch out the broach on the collar. Over that I would wear a suit jacket from the 70s I got secondhand from my aunt (she gave me like 20 of them). I paired those with ripped jeans. TA DA. I was the only person in school who thought this was a good idea, but I figured that it was just my personal style.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

i reset my password & now everything works!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

WOO HOO! Hi Kelsey.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:

WHAT ABOUT ME, JORDAN?! WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEeeeee.......

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry to have missed out on your skirtage, sarah!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Proof positive that she is not jaymc. I was in doubt there for a while.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, What's the cheapest way to go from Chicago to Minneapolis? How long of a drive would it be?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

MEGABUS!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

cheapest is probably the MEGABUS. if you get tickets early enough, it's super super cheap.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

megacheap.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

if you drive, it's probably between 6 & 7 hours. if you go through milwaukee, you pay less tolls, but the drive is *slightly* longer. otherwise, pay the tolls & be on your way. actually, scratch that. if you don't have an ipass & you're leaving on the weekend, go via milwaukee.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god, you guys... I just saw some packets of mayonnaise sitting in the door of the fridge and had the most powerful mayo craving ever. I want oily, fatty, eggy mayonnaise on everything I ever eat from now on. I want a Big Mac and a mega-size fries with a huge pile of mayo to dip them in. I want to gain five pounds at lunch today.

I hunger.

xpost I have never been to Minneapolis. I hear it's kinda fun. Road trip!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry to have missed out on your skirtage, sarah!

Just let me know your size, Kelsey. Then I'll do my part to get my body to that size, buy a bunch of clothes, and then change sizes again. Then we can do another clothes swap and you'll score some skirts.

My naked sister, Leslie, the one in Le France, wanted me to send her some of those clothes, but I didn't because:
a) I'm a biotch
b) I would spend more in postage than the clothes are worth
c) things I send to her magically disappear in the mail

xpost That's what I was thinking. Why travel all over the midwest when we could just go to one city worth hanging out in a for a few days?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Which do you think is more fun, St Louis or Minneapolis?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I just had like a 10-minute conversation with my new co-worker Laura in her cubicle! I haven't done that since my old job. I'm lovin' it. She's coming to the C4n4st4 show tonight. (As should all of you, too.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ABOUT ME, JORDAN?! WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEeeeee.......

Oh yeah! I really will have to come up to Minneapolis for some weekend. There are at least three distinct groups of friends that I'd love to go hang with.

Same for Chicago, and I think that might happen on the weekend of August 19th.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Girls in polo shirts is a good look.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Minneapolis looks beautiful.

Where's the show, John?
(When you said I'm Lovin' It, it reminded me of that McDonalds commercial - I'm Lovin' It.. Crowin' Like a Rooster..)

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Which do you think is more fun, St Louis or Minneapolis?

I think Minneapolis is more fun. The only cool stuff in St. Louis (record stores, hip clothing stores, cafes) is basically on a stretch of a couple blocks (Delmar Blvd.) -- whereas Minneapolis has several neighborhoods worth exploring. The art museum is better, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i was born in st. louis, but haven't spent much time there since. having ez here has made me love minneapolis more.

on a different note, but still of minneapolis interest:
i think leaf & i may have found our next apartment last night. it's a little smaller than we were hoping for, but there's a compost in the back yard. a compost! a BACK YARD!! the rooms are small-ish, but there seems to be adequate storage. all i can think about today is this apartment stuffs.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Show is at Subterrrrrranean.

The "I'm lovin' it" was intentional, because part of the reason I stopped by Laura's cube was to give her the J. Timberlake CD I burned for her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Kels and/or Eazy -- tell me more about the crazy polka/live-piano karaoke bar.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, if you come to minneapolis, you have to go here:

http://craftyplanet.com/

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

In case someone besides Julia and I are interested -- well, I guess you can read the Tour de France thread. Even though I knew the outcome, watching stage 17 last night was almost enough to make me stand up and yell "U S A! U S A!" It's all about overcoming adversity, you see. Lance had cancer, and Landis has the dual curse of a crumbling hip and a first name of "Floyd."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

A dude named Floyd won the Tour de France?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

john:
they have a website.... http://www.nyespolonaise.com/

but i will tell you this:
the seating in the piano bar area is so so so glittery. the chairs are vintage vinyl & as eric's friend, mike, put it, "look like carnival ride chairs." they do! there are booths, mainly, a few tables sprinkled in.
the pianist sits behind a curved bar top & the singers sit around the piano & croon. i think you'd love it! we went on a monday night & it was really empty so there was no fighting for the mic or anything. in the next room was a band (not polka) playing & that part had a more dive-y feel to it, but i didn't spend much time over there . . . just walked over to use the bathroom.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

one more thing I think mpls has over st. louis is nature. you could really do a fair amount of light hiking around here . . . or just walk around the lakes which is so lovely, really.

eric has taken several strolls since he's been here!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost It's not over. But the dude named Floyd made up 7 1/2 minutes of time in one stage. No one has ever seen anything like it. I can't imagine even wanting to come down a mountain that fast.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

he made up that much time?! that's amazing!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Famous TV Floyds:

http://www.tvparty.com/bgifs9/floyd.jpg http://www.rugbyfootball.com/count_floyd.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

There was really no point to that post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

What time are you going on, John? What's the cover? Jeff and I watched Rize last night so maybe I will come and krump for you all.

I want to go to Minneapolis. And krump. On the megabus.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

There was really no point to that post.

This has never stopped any of us before.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

We're going on at 10. Cover is $10 in advance or $12 at the door -- I realize that's a little steep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

$5 is good. $8 is pushing it. $10 is a little steep. $12 is "Who do you think you are?"

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Not that the band really makes those decisions.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

You are too famous now, dammit. Go back to playing dive bars for free.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

How do you get the cheapest megabus tickets? For example, when I go from Chicago to MN at the latest date they offer, it's still $30 for two seats. I mean, I'm being dumb, because that's crazy cheap. I'm just wondering how people get those $1 fares.

I remember now. Nasta is opening for this band I saw several years ago called Nowit'soverhead. The main guy/singer was really cute in a little boy way (not in a sexy way). Also, there were lots of BOP BOP BOP singalong parts to their songs.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

One cool thing about megabus is that we could travel overnight and sleep on the bus. I sure like fantasizing about vacations.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

$5 is good. $8 is pushing it. $10 is a little steep. $12 is "Who do you think you are?"

Oh, come on, this is Chicago. Rarely are our shows more than $10, but anything under that is reasonable to me. And as for non-local touring bands, I only think tickets are steep when they're $15 or more.

Here's what clubs have charged for us in the past year:

Subterranean, June 8: $7
Schubas, April 10, 17, 24: $6
Schubas, April 3: $8 adv, $10 door
Empty Bottle, March 1: $8
Beat Kitchen, December 31: $15
Schubas, December 15: $8
Empty Bottle, December 10: $10
Subterranean, November 18: $10
Beat Kitchen, September 20: $6
Beat Kitchen, August 20: $8
Schubas, July 15: $8

If you'd like to come to the show but $$$ is holding you back, I can probably put you on the guest list.

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

It's still cheaper than the Green Mill, right? :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the band that C-sta is opening for once too! It was in NC and I distinctly remember the boy being cute in a babyish way too.

THIS WAS ME IN 9th GRADE. Only my jacket was velvet and occasionally I would wear a vest. I always admired Jessica McClintock dresses -- from the prairie style to the ren faire shit to the colonial America garb, I loved it all. I would have preferred to dress in costume as a child. Shit, I still have button-up-the-back lacy blouses in heavy ro during the fall/winter months.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot Simons: $0

But John, money sullies the purity of your ART.

xpost - OH GAWD Jessica McClintock. How I longed for her dresses...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I pretty much dressed like Dave Davies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've scoured ebay for J. McClintock shit but it's all really expensive or not my size. :(((((

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I read in some underground culture-type magazine about a year ago that JM dresses were making a style comeback in certain circles. Luckily, I could never afford them in the first place. Although, it is possible that my prom dress was a Jessica McClintock.

And I still feel guilty about insisting that my parents buy me a dress that cost more than both dresses I wore on my wedding day put together and then some and wearing it exactly once. I think my tendency towards thrift store shopping is in part motivated by a need to absolve my 17-year-old greed.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't a very well-constructed post. Sorry.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE
http://video.download.com/i/dl/vdl/media/image/80/21/2180_320x240.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot Simons: $0

I only listed club shows in Chicago. We're talking about the price of tickets in clubs, I thought.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I get Jessica McClintock mixed up with Jessica McClure -- but I'm guessing Jessica McClintock was never a baby in Texas who was trapped in a well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Jaymc about the cost of shows. This is Chicago in 2006!! Come on nah. You would pay $10 to see a movie but not for a show? That seems backwards.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Which do you think is more fun, St Louis or Minneapolis?

MINNEAPOLIS. And I live in St. Louis.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

wow. amanda's young fashion years inspired joanna newsom!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) I mean, I'm not Mr. Moneybags, either, but our shows are like the cost of two beers, usually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, if anyone wants to hear live Vandermark and Co. tune into WNUR at noon -- they're playing live in the studio. wnur dot org.

(I just dropped D off there so he could shoot)

xp - Amanda and every other girl who wished she could wear ren faire dresses and live in a tree!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, STL is a great place to, say, play a show (hint!), but if it's a vacation you're after, Minneapolis is far more fun. I spent a few days there and never ran out of things to do.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

John: you're right. I guess I pay $10 more often than I realize.

The one show you listed that was more than $10 was New Year's Eve.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

We're talking about the price of tickets in clubs, I thought.

So we were. I am not familiar enough with Chicago music venues to diferentiate between bars and clubs. I also tend to think of the Empty Bottle as a bar, although after some consideration I see that the live music, and not the booze/conversation/sporting event/photo booth/pool table, is the intended focus of the establishment.

I'm certainly not saying I wouldn't pay $10 for a show. I have, would, and will again. It's more that before moving to Chicago, I never had friends in bands popular enough to charge any money, much less double-digit money, for a show. It's actually really neat to be able to tell friends that I honestly love their bands. And to buy AND LISTEN TO their CDs.

Don't be defensive, John. I love you and your band and your $12 cover charge. And our decision to go or not does not rest on the price of admission.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like being friends with rock stars. Keep it up, all of youse!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Okay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Good job.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

My grandmother bought me a JMc dress when I was in 6th grade. My sisters and I were performing a song called "LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER" a cappella for her induction as the GRAND MATRON of her local AMARANTH chapter. It was SO silky and lacey. I also wore it for my sixth grade graduation.

I might consider JMc for a wedding dress.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

There's just something psychological about the $10 barrier. If you give someone a twenty and get half of it back, you still have some money. If you give someone a twenty and get back a bunch of ones, that twenty is gone. You just spent twenty bucks.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying it's rational.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh... this one!

http://www.jessicamcclintock.com/wcsstore/jmcstore1/IMAGES/52334F.JPG

(Also appropriate for the funerals of despised enemies.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

you'll almost match the wedding cake topper in that dress!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nexusdesignsbyjulia.com/Images/Wedding/REDBRIDAL.JPG

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

You guys know that the FFixxiones never get shit from the CHILX illuminati, though, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind: forget I said that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Stop that right now.

xpost - good job.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't go to the ffixiones show at sub-t because i couldn't afford it john. that was the day after my ticket to san diego hit my bank account and the day before i got paid.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to post the black version of that frilly red dress. Heh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I want the Diva Las Vegas woman on the refrigerator. I have to print her out.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

The JMcC site has stopped responding. :(((

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

GUNNE SAX
http://www.justsaywhen.com/images-1970-4/70-Gunne-Sax-Crochet-Dr.jpg

Wow, that dress is pretty.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://laracorsets.com/images/things.I.built/18th%20cen%20style%20Wedding%20gown%20front%208-97%20jpg.JPG

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Now that's old school.

(Also, it makes me think of Beetlejuice.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I considered something from this person for our wedding, but I was afraid to get it without trying it on. This one is cute, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

And yes, this is called The Titanic Dress but I love the blue one.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Youngbl00d Brass Band is playing at the Wicker Park music festival tomorrow, 6 pm.

C0ugar is playing in Madison tonight, but I've got a BBQ after work tonight and if I know me then I'll be in a beer + meat coma by 9 pm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Youngbl00d Brass Band is playing at the Wicker Park music festival tomorrow

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ticket Information

There are no passes needed for the day events. That's right, the day events are FREE. A $5 donation is suggested, benefiting the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, who was nice enough to let us put the talent for the South Stage together. We will be selling late night tickets for the two concerts individually. Online ticket sales begin Saturday, June 10th at 12 noon CST.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

And yes, this is called The Titanic Dress but I love the blue one.

Those are lovely, but I have to wonder... are they cut to make the women look like they don't have boobs, or do those women not have boobs?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

both.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S NOT POSSIBLE THAT WOULD MEAN THEY HAVE NEGATIVE BOOBS WHICH NATURE DISALLOWS

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

gris gris is headlining wicker park fest sunday, should be AMAZING to see them outdoors.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i missed my chance to see gris gris ;_;

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

this will be my fourth time seeing them. check out the mirrors if you ever have the opportunity, it's greg ashley's other band. also stellar.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

hihihihihihi

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Jesse.

I love those clothes on the vintage site you posted, jenny, but it sucks that they don't do ANY returns. When my mom's in town, I might try on some dresses here.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to see Barr@k 0b@m@ speak tonight.

One of the interns is going to be in a meeting with him, J0hn Kerry and 10 other people next week.

(un7

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, as for boobage, we all know that boob size popularity fluxuates. The 80s were a bigboobs time. The 70s were more littleboob friendly (the woman as young boy look). Early 90s were littleboob (alternachests). The 40s and 50s were pro-bigboobs (pinup styles). The 20s and 30s were flatchest eras (flapper time). I love Trashy Diva's dresses (scroll to bottom), but I think they'd flatter a 40s/50s shape better than a 20s/30s shape, which I have. THE END

John, EVERYTHING WILL BE OK.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently, that TD link goes to a mainpage. If you care to see their wedding line, you go to clothes > dresses > trashy diva. If not, don't.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Were the 60s an egalitarian time for boobs?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps, Jordan. Perhaps.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

If only we had some sort of boob-powered time machine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

what about cunts, was there a time when flapping nether maws were the thing to have? i think the late 80's and early 90's are known for being the time when the "fem-bris" became the rage in parts of the 3rd world.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

ugh. this is how i get when i am in a church for too long.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

They were called flappers for a reason.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

(ugh)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I am not talking about inner labia on the internet.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

our muslim intern is going to drive alone to lafayette, LA. i hope he's not in danger in the wilds of the Deep South.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

i had a big response about boobage and how empire waisted dresses tend to make booby girlz look like they're wearing maternity dresses (or need to), but it got lost to the poxy fule. it depends on the kind of style anyway.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, tell him to wear clothes from Kmart to be on the safe side; something with big American flags on it.

Ok, totally unrelated - Guess how much my office - ie: the reception area - cost the company?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

A hundred million dollars.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Tell us, we're dying over here.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

more than your salary? or less than your lunch? though i don't imagine you work at a desk fashioned of cardboard boxes or the like...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Man oh man. I want to see who's playing the wickerpark summerfest this weekend, but the wickerpark/bucktown server is overloaded! OH NO!
Never mind. Found it:
Wicker Park Summer Fest Day One
ROBERT WALTER'S SUPER HEAVY ORGAN featuring KARL DENSON and JOHNNY VIDACOVICH,
YOUNGBLOOD BRASS BAND, BROTHERS PAST, FUTURE ROCK, ANDREAS KAPSALIS TRIO & more TBA
Saturday 07.22.05 - South Stage, Chicago, IL
Evolution Revolution
THE HEADHUNTERS
featuring MIKE CLARK, BILL SUMMERS, GEORGE PORTER JR, FRED WESLEY, KARL DENSON & ROBERT WALTER
Saturday 07.22.06 LATE NIGHT - Double Door, Chicago, IL
Wicker Park Summer Fest Day Two
MOFRO, KIRK JOSEPH'S BACKYARD GROOVE, OH MY GOD, APOLLO SUNSHINE, DEARBORN, CHRIS BERRY & PANJEA, & more TBA
Sunday 07.23.05 - South Stage, Chicago, IL

Funk N Jazz Nite
TBA
Sunday 07.23.05 LATE NIGHT - TBA
Are any of those bands worth checking out?

Tell us, we're dying over here.
HUMPH! I won't tell you then.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Who am I kidding? Of course I'll tell you. I have nothing else to do.
The answer is over $100,000.00.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Funk N Jazz Nite

Aren't they all Funk n Jazz night? I'd love to see the Headhunters, even without Herbie Hancock. Fred Wesley can bring it.

Tell us, we're dying over here.
HUMPH! I won't tell you then.

I wasn't kidding! I guessed and you left me hanging.

xpost Ahhh. Relief.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's a very New Orleans jam band lineup.

Kirk Joseph used to be the tuba player in the Dirty Dozen, and now he uses a lot of effects and has a funk band.

Johnny Vidacovich is a good N.O. drummer.

THE HEADHUNTERS
featuring MIKE CLARK, BILL SUMMERS, GEORGE PORTER JR, FRED WESLEY, KARL DENSON & ROBERT WALTER

I once saw a KILLER band that had a similar lineup. It was Mike Clark, Paul Jackson on bass, Bill Summers, Fred Wesley, Skerik on sax, and Larry Goldings (whom I love) on organ. This lineup, I don't know, I would go just to hear Fred Wesley honestly.

Go see Youngbl00d though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, you're missing the bands that are playing the North Stage at the Wicker Park Fest -- which seem to be a bit more indie/rock-friendly:

SATURDAY

Moxie Motive
The Record Low
Walter Meego
Slumber Party
Hidden Cameras
The Coup
DeVotchKa

SUNDAY

The Living Blue
River City Tanlines
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Starlight Mints
Make Believe
Dead Meadow
The Gris Gris

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

what does your reception area look like for that much money?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I moved from my office to a cube today. Luckily it's one of the old ratty cubes with high walls and a moveable desk.

Most people went upstairs to the brand-new cubes, which feature a fixed desk and low walls on two sides. Meaning: you have to have your back + computer screen to the door, and the walls are too low to hang a curtain. It's bullshit and I hope enough people complain before they redo the cubes on this floor.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

f'ing A!!! river city tanlines ARE playing! gonna be a good goddamn day!!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

what does your reception area look like for that much money?

I really hope the answer is "Like the set of Caligula."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

i am the boss. i have no boss to watch me.

therefore, i will write this weekly report when the report comes to me and shows itself ready for writing.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, best reason to go see the Headhunters: to watch Bill Summers do the intro to Watermelon Man on whatever free beer he happens to be drinking at the time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I MAKE THE GODDAM RULES AROUND HERE. AND FROM NOW ON, I DECREE THAT FLAPPY CUNTS ARE IN FASHION IN THIS OFFICE.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'll definitely go to the Double Door Sat night.

Besides, there's not any other options. According to those dates, everything else happened last year. Too bad.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, John! I thought it was weird that I barely recognized anyone on the list I posted, seeing as how there were so many better known (to me anyway) bands last year. That makes the whole weekend so much more exciting! If anyone swings by the fest this weekend, feel free to call me on my cell or nick on his. Maybe we can get a drink somewhere together or just hang out at our apartment (and maybe drink there). I have this fancy drink tray from work I'd love to debut to my high society friends, meaning you guys.

Julia, It looks fancy pants, and they haven't even installed the main light fixture yet. I'll take photos once they do.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! The dumbest! SO SORRY! Yeah, those were 2005 acts.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'm definitely gonna be there sunday. perhaps i'll even debut my haircut for 2006. if i don't fall victim to the record store's siren song yet again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

EVEN DUMBER! I thought I posted the wrong thing but someone just put 2005 in by accident!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was weird that I barely recognized anyone on the list I posted, seeing as how there were so many better known (to me anyway) bands last year.

Buncha jazz guys, but here's the skinny on Fred Wesley: trombonist and bandleader for James Brown's band, The JB's. So when I say he can bring it, I mean exactly that.

EVEN DUMBER! I thought I posted the wrong thing but someone just put 2005 in by accident!

That's what I was assuming anyway. Somebody using last year's template and got sloppy.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh no. i can't make it 1 more hour. i am...i think i'm leaving now....

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm enjoying the RCTL mp3 (from here)
They remind me of the Bangs.

15 minutes until my weekend begins.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh... Telefon Tel Aviv is playing Saturday afternoon. I could do that. It's supposed to be a really nice weekend, too... not at all hot.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Free shows + no money = all weekend at the Wicker Park musicfest thing.

To answer John's question from a while ago, Awesome Color sound almost EXACTLY like "Fun House"-era Stooges. So I have a feeling you wouldn't care for them.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

There is even atonal fake free jazz sax on one song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

:) :) :)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the stuff that dan sent, if it's raining tonight when i go to leave i may just stick around. but it'll have to be pouring rain. love them angry angles.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't gotten shit done today. I'm counting down the 45 minutes until I can leave, buy beer, and hit the BBQ (or indoor chips n' salsa party, judging by the sky).

I've always wondered how Telefon Tel Aviv is live. I'm still in love with their first album, still don't like the second.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

i'm out.

barrack and beer,here we come.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

i skipping out 10 minutes early, gonna try to beat the rain as much as i can. if anyone is going to the bottle or beat kitchen tonight look for me, i'll be there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think Telefon Tel Aviv is just a DJ set.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm enjoying the RCTL mp3 (from here)

Ooh. Rock and roll.

I think Telefon Tel Aviv is just a DJ set.

Oh. I don't think I like DJ sets in front of people who came to see bands and drink beer. They're unresponsive.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

eye knead bier

People are making me crazy. YOU KNOW WHICH PEOPLE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Gah. I'm technically supposed to stay late, but I'm out of here at 5:00. I've stayed late every day this week, and they can all eat me.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking of killing an hour in the Eye-talian Village while I wait for Jeff to get off work.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been there. Is it good? Or just famous because it has such a big sign?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I love the upstairs bar. It's got a mural on the wall of an Italian village with little lights sprinkled throughout to mimic stars. It's also where all the drunk attorneys go. The food is not spectacular, but it's tasty and solidly quality. I mostly like the atmosphere, to be honest.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just had a 20 min phone conversation with a co-worker slash girl who used to hang out at my place (with my roommates) in college. That sort of thing happens way to often here.

And now I'm off to party with those very same ex-roommates. Have a good weekend y'all!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I AM OFF TO PARTY WITH NO ONE SINCE I HAVE NO FRIENDS ANYMORE.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hey - Sarah and I decided not to go to the show 2nite, as we are planning to go to to the Wicker Park shows the next couple of days and so don't really want to go to another rock show tonight. But maybe we'll see you all around later this weekend.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Evan, where is she of the sketchy tourist adventure in Mexico???

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

SO I went to the Italian Village and made conversation with a random person at the bar because he was reading a book and I had planned to read a book but there's something a little too contrived-feeling about two people who aren't together sitting side by side and reading at a bar like the IV. So if I couldn't read, neither could he and I bugged him.

Anyway, Jeff arrived and we all chatted and dude left and Jeff and I decided to go see CSTA so we ate dinner at Earwax and went to Subt. and I was telling John that I made friends with a random guy at the IV who is getting his PhD in Creative Writing at UIC and it turns out that this very same random person is friends with John's bandmate.

CRAZY.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 July 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse did you get my phone message???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 July 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Evan, where is she of the sketchy tourist adventure in Mexico???

She lives in New Mexico!

But: when I come back and visit Chi in August, she will also be visiting her twin sis. Tearful reunion.

Also, gonna try and make it out to NYC sometime this fall, but we'll see if I can afford it.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 July 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

so i wound up staying at the bottle. great time. awesome color was not so awesome. marked men were phenomenal. who's up? let's go get some food or some drinks or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I'm in the U.P. The weather is BEAUTIFUL. Tonight I will be drinking on this beach, lighting fireworks, and cranking the sauna to 200 dry degrees to get rid of some old dead skin, then running bareassed across the beach and jumping in the lake. Then I will do it all over and over again until I fall asleep. I'm going to try and take pictures so you all can semi-experience the insanity that this party will entail. We have some furniture for the bonfire, too. It's going to be great.

One of the two giant fireworks I bought in Green Bay on the way up is called "Punk Rockers." I can't fucking wait for that one.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

OMG that sounds like so much fun! You're making me long for a city escape, and how.

Hey do you guys remember our friend Courtney? I just talked to her and she is officially moving to Chicago on November 1, and will be here mid-October for apartment hunting and job interviewing. So if anyone hears of any job openings for which someone might interview mid-October and start at the beginning of November please keep Ms. Courtney in mind.

Thank you!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I got a phone message that was just bar

WTF: Now you can point Catholics to Christ with answers to these questions....

Jesus wants this page to load faster, but some follower of Allah is probably slowing down the server with terrorist spam.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I will be at the Wicker Park Fest starting at around 4:30, call us or find us if you want.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 22 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I called Sarah already. I may be around there later tonight. Say, 7-ish.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starting to miss Chicago again.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Jesse. Chicago misses you, too, I assure you.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, good for you, Dan.

Maddie and I went to Devil's Lake today for the company picnic and then went swimming in our underwear. It was great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also I've finally figured out the primary difference between men and women: women float.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

haha You just reminded me of one of the Naked Gun movies where Leslie Neilsen is breaking up with Priscilla Presley and she says, "Who'll keep me warm at night?" and he says, "You'll be ok, baby. Women have that extra layer of fat."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

ha, my company picnic was today too. I did not go.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I am sitting in the bedroom on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, with Kenny sitting on a towel next to me (because of the poop), checking my work email. And responding to it! Sincerely and with interest! What the hell is wrong with me.

Kenny loves -- LOVES -- cheap plastic pens. Those are his favorite new chew toys. Which is fine because I have a box of them, the bits of plastic he leaves behind are easy to clean up (as long as there's a towel), and the pens are still usable after he's done with them, if a little dented.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's so weird to watch a bird hold a pen in his claws. He's so skillful at holding things I would be only mildly surprised if he took the cap off and started writing a letter with it.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Dear Africa,

You won't believe the things I am chewing on.

-Kenny"

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Now he's destroying an empty container of rolling papers in a way that no human would ever think of.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Julia, I have to publicly thank you for the mango pits. Kenny went to town on them... stripped them down to nothing. Again, in a way no human would ever bother to do.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Youngblood Brass Band seemed pretty awesome but it was raining pretty insistently so we only saw about 2.5 songs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 22 July 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Now Sarah is playing We Love Katamari while I wait for our pizza dough to rise. Then I will make white pizza. Then we will watch "I Walked With a Zombie." I seem to be having a very Jordan-esque day.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 22 July 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

I never thanked Dan for the Awesome Color. Thanks Dan. I should put something on the blog in thanks, I haven't put jack on there recently.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

I posted two Orange Juice songs I like a lot.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

I am totally envious of Sarah and Nick's night.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to be having a very Jordan-esque day.

Haha. That's exactly what I was thinking before I got to this line.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

you're welcome for the mango pits, kenan. i'm glad kenny liked them.

i like these orange juice songs!

i found raspberry vodka in my freezer and am resisting drinking it mixed with the lemonade i have left, since alcohol kicks my ass in a bad way. sigh. i need to have people over for summer beverages sometime so i can live vicariously thru others' booziness. raspberry vodka and lemonade sounds soooo good to me.

this post seems to have a fruit theme of sorts.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm super excited because I bought two new pots and two jute macramé plant hangers to replace the old pots that didn't have drip trays in which my plants were slowing dying because I never watered them enough because watering them meant I had to take them down, put them in the bathtub, and keep the cats away from them until they fully drained. NO LONGER! Assuming the stress of living with me and being repotted doesn't totally kill them, these will be happy, attractive, and well-hydrated plants from here on out. If this works, I'm going to get a couple herb plants and hang them up, too.

Just to keep it fruity - we bought a water melon quarter today and I am going to EAT THE FUCK OUT OF IT.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Written lovingly to the Roman Catholics, this book uses Scriptures to explain major differences between Catholic and Protestant beliefs. So Catholics won't think this is Protestant theology from an "unapproved" Bible, Heinze uses their own New American Bible. The reader will come face to face with the fact that the Catholic church cannot save, only faith in Jesus can.
It contains such a loving, soul-winning message and invitation to trust in Christ alone, that it's a great book to give to Catholics. And it's inexpensive too!

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a former coworker in which I wasted a ton of energy trying to convince here that Catholics were Christians. She insisted that since Catholics worshipped Mary with more fervor than they did Jesus, they were not Christian. And they were all going to hell.

Ohhhhh... I just saw that's on Jack Chick's website. He's a special man.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

My catholic roommate and I sat around earlier and read some online Chick publications. She had never heard of him! She's 36.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

She said, "THE INQUISITION WAS A LONG TIME AGO!"

---------------------------------
Did you know that a colloquialism here in N'awlins is "Where y'at?"? (meaning, "how are you?"). There is an eponymous alt press monthly of the same name.

I learned that coarser folks from Jefferson Parish and the West Bank (NO equivalents of the South Siders or Jersey-ites) are called "y'ats."

I also learned that my roommate works with a y'at woman who is going to be moving in here with her teenage daughter who she has also raised as a y'at. I hope to be long gone by that time.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

My rommate's name is Julie. This woman called her "Judie" for nearly a year, until one day she wrote her a phone message addressed to "Judie," confirming that she really was calling her Judie.

Julie mentioned it to this woman in as kind a way as possible, and the woman waved her hand in an annoyed manner and said, "OK OK" in a way that made Julie feel that she, Julie was at fault.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'll go to the French Quarter and drink now.

I was going to go to church in the morning (CAN'TBELIEVEI'MSAYINGTHESEWORDS) but I'm thinking that a hangover is a good form of worship.

OHOHOH!

I saw Barack Obama speak on Friday! He was speaking at the church I was thinking of attending tomorrow. There were a number of really fucking awesome speakers preceding him and an A-mazing gospel choir.

This was his first visit to NO since Katrina, which is surprising. He spent the whole day galavanting around helping paint, making speeches, meeting with the black Chamber of Commerce and then addressing the huge crowd at St. Peter Cl@ver C@tholic Church, where the A/C FAILED right before we got there. GROSS.

Anyway, the whole service was incredibly moving and the speakers who preceded him really gave strong messages telling him that his offer of help was taken seriously and that NO is still fucked without more help.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

You know what's gross about NO (esides the "outdoor roaches" that are the size of cats)? The fact that "cold" tap water is very warm. I don't know the temp, but it is on the warm side of tepid. Like a lake at the end of a hot summer.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

I just called Jeff and Jenny both, and they should call me back. My message to Jeff may have bled over into the dramatic. Maybe just a touch.

I stole things from Borders tonight! Not because I couldn't afford them, just because it's fun and exciting to steal things. Please judge me. And in person, please, because it's Saturday night and I'm shit-ass bored, and in no mood to read the things I stole. My cell phone works.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

We're going grocery shopping soon. With iGo. It is exciting. I'll listen to your message soon.

Steal me something next time.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

What were the things you stole?

The last time I shoplifted was in NC when I stole a pack of Hostess cupcakes in Carboro after seeing Built to Spill.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

i sent this to kenan a little while ago. it amuses me.

http://www.steelydan.com/heyluke.html

a hangover is a good form of worship.

i went to a jesuit college and we always used to say there was nothing like mass after a long weekend of drinking and debauchery.

that vodka really is taunting me from my freezer. maybe i'll have some lemonade.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

OFF THE THE FRENCH QUARTER! (Actually more likely I'll wind up in the Faubourg Marigny, but you get the idea.)

It's kind of cool to have that as an option, know what I mean? In Chicago I used to think fondly upon some of the bars in the Quarter and long to visit them, but now it's just a couple of miles away. It's strange in a way.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

I Stole:

"Fast Food Nation" on CD, read by some guy who enunciates very clearly.
A book on Macromedia Flash 8.
A book about Coltrane and Impulse! records.

I paid for:

On Bullshit, possibly just to prove I have a sense of humor in case I got caught.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

One of the churches an intern (Catholic girl) visited was having "Natural Family Planning Awareness Week."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bye cunts.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wrong link.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: I just got your earlier message, and we're leaving to go to the grocery store in a couple minutes. With I-Go! I'm not feeling very judgmental right now; I just hope you don't get caught. What a stupid thing that would be to have to deal with!

The last thing I stole was a pair of socks hanging up on a little hook that got stuck on my purse. They were Christmas socks. When I discovered them danging from my purse, I took them back inside.

Jesse, my phone message to you was a LIVE recording of Chicago Slow Down.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just called John again and put him on notice. Let's all hope it never gets to the point where he's dead to me.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched Touch the Sound.

I am eating a granola bar.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 23 July 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I thought about stealing something a few years ago. I was shopping at Target, milling through a big pile of baskets. I get kind of obsessed with containers I can use to organize things. Anyway, underneath some baskets, I found a purse. At first I thought it was just misplaced from the purse department, but then I realized someone left it there by accident. I hid it in my basket and went to the dressing room for privacy, where I opened it. The wallet had a decent amount of cash in it (I don't know... $30?), lots of credit cards... and I thought about taking the cash and hiding the purse somewhere. But instead I took out the drivers license. And I saw this girl who looked to be about my age. So then I felt really guilty.

First I went up to a store person and asked them to page her name. I didn't mention the purse. She didn't show up. I guess I wanted her to be like OH MY GOD. THANK YoU SO MUCH.

Then I went to a security guard and gave him the purse and told him where I found it. I seriously expected him to say OH MY GOD. THAT IS SO WONDERFUL OF YOU. Instead he was like, ok, and took it. THE END. Then I wondered if I shouldn't tell someone else about it, in case he just stole it himself, but I was tired of the whole thing so I went home. THE END.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Sunday, 23 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

THE END

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Sunday, 23 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

http://www.maniatvblog.com/cjchristy/uploaded_images/CHARLIE-705966.jpg

I knew this would happen. I knew I was playing with fire. But did I back up my external hard drive? No way. Couldn't be bothered. I woke up this morning to find I was about 100 gigs of music lighter than I was last night.

This is instant karma for stealing things, isn't it?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'll try this first:

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7899_1-6477981-1.html

I've already established that whatever happened to the hard drive is unrecoverable. Or somehow recoverable, but so difficult as to not be worth it, which in this case means it's pretty goddamn difficult. So getting the songs off my iPod is the first step. That was all the "heavy rotation" stuff, anyway.

Still... lord almighty.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think of any specific utilities, I've never seen that type of failure, where it jus selectivly deletes a range of files. There are data recovery services but they are $$$.

If it's any consolation, i have a lot of music and a dvd burner, as you know.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 23 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I bet it was kenny.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 23 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

The instant I plugged my iPod in, iTunes started updating it... WITH AN EMPTY LIBRARY. I'm totally wiped out. Even my iPod is empty.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff! If I buy DVDs, can I come over soon and stock up?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh goodness. I am able to recover any music that was not stored in that particular folder. Which means all my Oink downloads that I hadn't already deleted and moved, and anything that was in a weird, wrong place. It ain't much, but it's the entier Captain Beefheart discograpy, so it's not nothing.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, a lot of the music that was in a weird, wrong place is weird and wrong. My iTunes library is so fucking noise now.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

This is a fucking disaster.

But... sigh. There's nothing to be done. I'm going to the store to buy cigarette papers, and on the way, I'm going to listen to Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) for the first time in a couple of years, because my options are really limited all of a sudden. But Jesus, what a great fucking record.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

My catholic roommate and I sat around earlier and read some online Chick publications. She had never heard of him! She's 36.

I actually don't think that Jack Chick is that well known.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I started a thread about the Steely Dan letter to Luke Wilson. I actually didn't see that you'd mentioned it, Julia -- my brother just e-mailed me about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chicagoans with Ikea experience:

If I were to go to Ikea with a list of all the product numbers for products I intended to buy, could I just go straight to the warehouse part, load up what I want, and get the fuck out of there in under an hour? Or do they like change the numbers from what's in the catalog/website and what's in the store to force you to browse through the horror that is the main showroom area? Also, is there a map of the Schaumberg store somewhere so I could make a precision attack if I wanted something only available in the showroom?

Thank you,
Ikea-phobic Jenny

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Puller puller. Puller puller.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my answer fishbulb: You have to go into the store to find the shelf location of the item in the warehouse. FUCKERS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I PACKED THREE BOXES.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Lifter Puller.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning Chicago. I'm in a fantastic mood this morning. I got my web design mojo working. I'm finally accepting that if I want to impress the marketing department, I'm going to have to learn some serious Flash. This book is really great -- all well-designed and with colored tabs for reference and sidebar "navigation" and stuff. Beautiful software manual.

Thank goodness for all the music I put on my work computer. I was able to get it all back. There's still a lot of stuff I don't know how I'm going to replace, like that 14-disc Thelonious Monk box set, but at least I have everything I was regularly listening to.

Not to self: if you want to keep it, back it up.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I just engaged in the world's most uncomfortable conversation about hallucinogenic mushrooms with my boss. Eep.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

This weekend I discovered the terrible joys of 24 hour drinking establishments.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Look at my friend go, I am so proud of her!

http://www.thenaica.org/edition_three/index.html - 3rica L0rd, under "Artist in Residence"

On a side note, I hate Flash web sites.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Man, she's got quite the resume.

Hey, Chicago. I'm heading to Duluth. (I'll leave it to JMC to post the cover of the Gore Vidal novel.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

One of our subcontractors just teased me three times in an hour about how (sarcastically) busy I am. I got kind of defensive. I did have a lot of work to do this morning, but I did it all really quickly so I could just relax and give my attention to the phones/door/visitors. He just responds with a MUST BE NICE comment. So I told him he should just become a receptionist if he wants my job so much. He says he would, but he isn't cute enough, so at least he worked some kind of nice thing in there. But he keeps asking, SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW? DOWNLOADING MUSIC? WHAT ARE YOU DOING ONLINE? Get away from my desk please, sir. I'm hard at work on something top secret.

Rip it up and Start Again is a great song.

Is anyone interested in coming to Grant Park to see Bringing up Baby Tuesday night? I'm still not 100% sure we'll go because it doesn't start until almost 9pm and you know about how Nick has to get up superearly... but maybe just maybe if enough people were going, we could make ourselves do something fun anyway.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

(I'll leave it to JMC to post the cover of the Gore Vidal novel.)

I don't think I know it? The only Vidal novel that comes to mind right now is Myra Breckenridge.

You could visit Low in Duluth.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I've never used the Chi-blog -- what Orange Juice songs are being bandied about??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Dullyouth is a great town.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

On a side note, I hate Flash web sites.

Yeah, all I saw was a white screen. My work computer is OLD.

Rip it up and Start Again is a great song.

Who is that by? I only know it as the title of that Simon Reynolds post-punk book. I'm assuming it's by a post-punk band?

I'm maybe interested in Bringing Up Baby, but the two times I've been to Grant Park for movie night, I can never get comfortable just sitting on a blanket in the grass -- I'm always super-fidgety.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

On a side note, I hate Flash web sites.

So do I! This is why I have avoided messing too much with Flash up to now. But I do think there's a way to do it and not be completely obnoxious -- It's going to take some selling, but someday I hope to convince higher-ups to lose the music, for one example. I fucking hate the music. But the fact remains that I am in the minority when I say I hate Flash. Most people love it. They like to see things sparkle and move. And my job, I have to remind myself, is not to impress advanced internet users. It's to sell some freakin' real estate.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

A co-worker I don't really know just came by and said "hey Jordan, I'm growing a beard! In a couple weeks people won't be able to tell us apart!"

I think it's time to shave. I AM NOT MY BEARD.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Technically impossible to be your own beard. As Mike Piazza.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

That joke just never gets old.

Grammar types: Do you think it's ever acceptable to use the passive voice? I kind of don't think so, unless it's in a business context and you don't want to get somebody in trouble (A mistake was made in the database resulting in the loss of all client information, but I take full responsibility for correcting this mistake, etc.) but right now, the passive voice would allow me to write a tighter sentence with better flow.

TORN.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

That should say "AsK Mike Piazza," in case that's not clear.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

If you're supposed to be focusing on What Was Done instead of Who Did It, I think the passive voice is totally acceptable. It's used in scientific writing all the damn time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

So we saw some really good bands at the fest yesterday, including the Starlight Mints, but I think the most entertaining was Make/Believe. I know there are probably some Kinsell@s haterz among you, but this is a pretty interesting band, and had some wacky confronational shit going on too. But as soon as they started playing, there was this crazy scary shirtless old guy dancing in front of the stage. The singer (T1m) kept wrapping his mic cable around dude's neck and dragging him around, which dude seemed to be in to. Then dude was spinning around like a dervish. In between songs, the singer gave dude the mic and dude harangued the crowd for not dancing and said he would give anyone dancing lessons for a dollar. Then I snuck up the front and took pics of dude dancing. Dude saw me take his picture and demanded a dollar from me, which I refused to give him.

Here's the pic I took immediately before he requested a dollar:

http://static.flickr.com/71/196672960_166ff9584b.jpg

I'm still kind of scared he's going to find this and email me "GIVE ME A DOLLAR."

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's basically the best photograph I have ever taken.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Legal writing is usually about Who Done It, although sometimes you want your focus to be on What Was Done. (The Defendant shot the Victim in cold blood v. This Victim was shot in cold blood, but not my the Defendant.) In this case, it's just some compositional laziness on my part. I figured out a way to stay active and still flow, bro.

xpost

That dude is tan.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hate Kinsell@s, but I don't see how you could really dance to their music, at least any of it I've heard.

But yeah, that photo rules.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I only use it to puss out of things at work.

I made shrimp & grits again yesterday. It's sooo good, but I think we might have to downshift to a healthier version of the recipe (i.e. w/out bacon and a cup of cheese).

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I like the blurred background that leaves the dude in focus. Nice job.

I also like the creepy Iggy-like muscle definition.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also the suspicious lack of body hair.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

After the Ken doll was pulled from the market, his career and physique took such a dramatic nosedive that he was reduced to begging for money from strangers.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Mendicant Ken

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

he has the taught, dehydrated frame of a speed addict.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

That guy in another ten years:

http://blogup.canalblog.com/images/iggy_pop_41.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a guy with serious meth teeth at the demolition derby in Joliet on Saturday.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

AHHH

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

but right now, the passive voice would allow me to write a tighter sentence with better flow.

DO IT DO IT DO IT

I hate these kinds of prohibitions. Like "never end your sentence with a preposition!!" They are useful as GUIDELINES -- sentences are USUALLY stronger if you follow them, but if disobeying them allows you to write "a tighter sentence with better flow," then by all means you should disobey (IMHO). The end goal is good writing, after all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Damn skippy.

Another gem: "Never split an infinitive." Baloney. That's *never* been a rule.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also, best Kinsell@-related project = American Football

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also, best Kinsell@-related project = American Football

i had that s/t release they did back in 98 or 99, liked the first song on the disc but the rest of it was a snooze.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

You should have seen the back of that Iggy-like guy's head Nick posted. He's starting to bald a little, so he has these bright bleached strands of hair sticking out of a red/overtanned head. It was ammusing.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, did you teach a class today?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, I think they only did that one album. It appealed to my post-rock sensibilities. When Mike started recording as Owen, he said he wanted to get rid of all the mathy aspects from American Football -- songs in different time signatures, etc. -- and I was like "But that was what made it interesting!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I thought 0wls had their moments.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, I'm listening to Sunny Day Real Estate right now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

i should pull that disc out, i know i liked that first tune but i don't remember anything about the rest of it. tastes change, etc. i remember a girl i was dating gave it to me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray nineties!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

One of my favorite stupid things to do during my college radio years was to pull out CDs by similarly-named bands and do the Letterman-style "Uma/Oprah" gag with them. Some favorites were Tuesday/Thursday and Owls/Oxes -- bonus hilarity if the bands were complete crap, like Tuesday/Thursday.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

you know what else that reminds me of? sportsguitar. anyone remember them? i really liked parts of the married, 3 kids lp. i got that around the same time as the american football disc. dinner was my favorite cut on that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I vaaaaguely remember Sportsguitar. Weren't they, like, Swiss or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have never even heard of any of these bands you people are discussing. I suddenly am able to empathize with John in a way that I could not before.

What is the time frame for all these? I must have been on Dead tour or something.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

They were Scottish.

I liked Cap'n Jazz a lot, and the Joan of Arc album "The Gap" had a few really nice tracks on it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I once got bored enough on the radio to play the same song five times in a row. It worked like a "Just seeing if you were paying attention." I got my first-ever phone calls. "Will you stop playing that song?" "No."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

john, were they swiss or swedish? it's been a while but i'm thinking swedish because they had that weird, malformed scandanavian way of speaking english as opposed to some harsh germanic sounds. i'm guessing that the swiss would sound like austrians for some reason.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have never even heard of any of these bands you people are discussing.

With the exception of Sunny Day Real Estate, me neither.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

From the Matador website:

Sportsguitar is a Swiss band, the lineup rotating around songwriter Oliver Obert and guitarist Roland Saum. Their second album, Married 3 Kids, marked their US and Matador debut, following the reissue of their 1994 debut on Derivative, a Canadian label. Of that debut, Oliver says, "We wrote and sang all the songs in English 'cause Swiss German is no good for rock-y lyris and German is as hard for us to speak as English. When we finished recording we thought it sounded as good as any of our favorite bands so we decided to do some more songs and then release it ourselves."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I still say they were Scottish.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Cap'n Jazz was good too. It was probably because of them that I even gave Owls a second thought.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am probably thinking of Yatsura.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

SWISS IT IS!!!

i'm totally gonna find that cd when i get home tonight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

weird, girl who gave me the american football disc really liked yatsura as well. vehicle flips would be the 3rd band that remind me of her.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have never knowingly heard Sportsguitar, but they released albums on Matador at a time (1996-98) when I was most avidly following that label (as a fan of Pavement, JSBX, YLT, etc.) -- so the name/nationality stuck with me.

My friend Jason H3ndr1x (whom Dan knows) introduced me to American Football. Album came out in fall 1999. I was at first skeptical because of its origins (I didn't really like Cap'n Jazz or Joan of Arc that much -- too abrasive), but A.F. was pretty enough for me, but still with a raw emotional tug.

I bought a Yatsura 7" while in said Matador phase.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

PROBABLY BECAUSE SHE WAS A CORNY INDIE FUKKKK

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

and I still say they were Scottish

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of H3ndr1x... I heard the North Atlantic record while I was in the U.P., weirdly enough. It was pretty damn good, lots better than the older stuff of theirs I had heard in the past.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

fall of '99? wow, i was just about to break up with that girl.

xpost- nothing corny about that girl.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

It was pretty damn good, lots better than the older stuff of theirs I had heard in the past.

They only have two albums, one of which was released in like 2001. Wires in the Walls originally came out in 2003 and was rereleased this year, now that they have label/distribution hook-up.

So I guess I wasn't aware that you'd heard older stuff of theirs...? I thought you'd met Jason fairly recently.

I actually really liked the first album, Buried Under Tundra for a lot of the same reasons I liked the American Football album: they had two guitars that always played pretty clean and interlaced with each other with these sparkling arpeggios. When I first heard Wires in the Walls, I was a bit taken aback by the muscular assault. I recognize now that it's a stronger album, but I still sometimes miss the melodic riffs of songs like "Last Horse" and "Birds Fly South."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I only met Jason about a year ago, but I'd heard the older stuff through 3rica and K@tie, who introduced me to him. K@tie knew the drummer (Cullen?) from back in San Diego... it's all very complicated.

Anyway, I didn't realize the "new" record was from 2003 - learn something new every day, I guess. E. had picked it up when she saw them in NYC recently. I was pissed I missed 'em here a few weeks ago.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, me too. I left a comment on their MySpace page, and Cullen wrote back and said they'd be back around in September (I think).

Have you seen the video for "Bottom of This Town"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jason H3ndr1x

He doesn't live in Madison, does he?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. San Diego.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

17 days 'til i'm in san diego. can not wait.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Oh neat! No, I hadn't. That song is so emo!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

K. A dude here by that same name did our album cover.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Union dude quote of the day:

"You could fuck up a two-car funeral."

I don't even know what that means, but it's pretty funny, especially as the opening greeting in a phone conversation.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

There must be some meaning to that. I mean, it can't just be gibberish.

"You've got a face that could make a construction worker wear a tutu."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Being around you is like eating fried chicken with the Pope."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

"You make me wanna pretend I'm Reece Witherspoon."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Two car funeral" explained.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Two Car Funeral has excellent potential as a band name.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

INDEED

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to suggest he use "You could fuck up a piss-up in a brewery" next time.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't Radiohead have a song called "Drunken Piss-Up in a Brewery"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

my i-go stuff came in the mail today! i wanna go grocery shopping right now!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Since all the igo cars are automatic, I had a terrible time adjusting. I wanted to slam the brake down the whole time.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jason H3ndr1x

Is this the dude with the complicated hair?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, did you teach a class today?
Indeed, I did. Two, actually.

Now I'm home and preparing for other classes. It just dawned on me that I am happier because I enjoy being around my students sooooooooo much more than my former coworkers. Aside from about three people who I could have a conversation with, I worked with a big bunch of assholes. A fragrant bouquet of them.

For today, things are going well. I can't say that I will always enjoy running around the city (winter, anyone?) but for now it's really nice to work in weird 4 hour bursts and have a break between classes, etc. It would be nice to have a home base, but for now this is ok.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, am I gonna see youse guys this weekend or what?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Alright Amanda! I'm so excited for you. This is all very cool.

If you mean will you see us at Pitchfork, then yes, yes you will. We should meet up again.

You know... we met in person for the first time at Intonation last year. It's like our one year anniversary!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

Are you guys going to smooch?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

NO, you (k) are going to smooch Jesse in commemoration of your first smooch one year ago. If only he were here...

I did remember that it was our anniversary. I even remember what I was wearing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

I remember what I was wearing, but I don't remember what you were wearing.

And I forgot about the Kenan/Jesse kiss! After a day of drinking warm Jim Beam in 100 degree weather... OH MEMORIES. Also: Uno and homemade trail mix, which I remember trying to be polite about but eating as if I had just been rescued from a plan crash in the Andes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

First day: shitty skirt with flowers and bugs, blue tank top
Second day: knee capris, weird flowered top thingie with buttons

I remember being nervous about meeting everyone and being pleasantly surprised that you were all so decent and affable. I also distinctly remember talking with you (Jenny) while on the Ashland bus.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I expected you to be cretins, of course, but people are so often disappointing and I wasn't disappointed at all.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

I sound terrible, but I think you know what I mean. :)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I also remember that, despite partaking in some of that horrific Jim Bean myself.

Is it going to be as stinking hot this year as last?

No, you don't sound terrible. I totally know what you mean. People ARE often disappointing. As I've said, ILX people have, in my experience, been of consistently high quality.

Quality. Value. Service. ILX.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

I remember meeting all of you too, but for some reason I didn't realize that it was the first time we met.

Had Kenan and I met before? Or did we really make out the very first time we ever met???
------------------------------------------

AMEDB quote:

"I'm funna take lunch now."

She always says "funna" instead of "gonna" or "going to." I even pretended not to catch what she said, and she repeated it very clearly, "I'm funna take lunch now."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a regional thing? That's innerestin'.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

You met kenan on election night, 2004.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, did.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am teaching my Chinese class about regional dialects within the US and it is SO FUN.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

We are not covering whatever freakazoid dialect is causing this girl to say "funna" though, because that would be so nonstandard that they don't even need to know about it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - That was a stressful night for all of us. Especially when Acker tried to eat my leg down to the bone.

Oh yeah and our dumb ass country elected King Dumbass for another term and the only thing that kept me going was John Stewart. And beer. So in that way it was kind of like every night.

So, Amanda, you've never heard of "funna"? Maybe she's just really stupid.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

It is a black thing. My ex-boyfriend used to say it in jest. I've heard countrified black people say it before. That and "boof" instead of "booth." At Ruby Tuesdays the servers used to refer to the people themselves as "boofs."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

/f/ for /th/ is one thing, but I have never heard /f/ subbed for /g/. Maybe I am living a sheltered life or just never noticed. Who knows.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

I met a gay marine the other night-- or rather morning, since I was drinkng Ketel and tonics and 9 AM-- and he was cute as a button, but a big fan of 1) Robert E. Lee 2) our presence in Iraq 3) future invasions of Iran and the entire Middle East 4) Israel's bombing the fuck out of Lebanon 5) Sodomy. We had a long talk and we snogged a little.

His job was in "Planning." Read, "war planning." Quote: "We make plans to invade and destroy every country except for Canada, Great Britain, Mexico and Australia."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

I forget now what my point was....

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeh, he was happy with the results of the 04 election.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. I think that was your point.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

out of thread context:

Hey, you know what? Boris fucking brings the fucking rock. I am YSIing Nick one of their records because of that post he made where he spelled out the sounds of the rock. I knew exactly the sounds he was talking about, and Boris has them all in spades.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's wrong to say "funna" but then it's not really right to say "gonna."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Not right"?

Sometimes I think that grammar snobs would rather not talk at all.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

(Um, to explain, that was a refernce to Jesse's "vegans would rather not eat at all" post.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Gah. The 2nd season of Lost is taking 4-EVER to download. I'm going into withdrawal.

Watching "Lost" in heavy daily doses (25 episodes in less than a week) fucked with my head. Even before I started watching it I was constantly feeing spooked and creepy due to living in this banged-up city, but Lost made it much worse. For a couple of days, every time I saw something kind of weird (a sidewalk in the Quarter where a city broken city water line sprang up through the concrete and a really beautiful green moss grew around it; a door with no knob that my roommate and I found a key for that led to a stairwell to the neighbors' apartment) I would attribute it to "the island."

Also, when I drive past the 1 house on the block that fell down right into the street despite no other houses being damaged I get that feeling all over. Bleh.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Watching "Lost" in heavy daily doses (25 episodes in less than a week) fucked with my head.

YES IT DOES. I can't imagine how much weirder it makes things to live in spooky city central. Watching that much lost made Andersonville seem eerie, for shit's sake.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry -- the second season is like methadone to the first season's heroin. Satisfying in places, but not near as potent.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

And depending on your level of addiction, may wean you off it totally.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think I prefered 2 to 1. I'm not sure though. I like more off the wall wacky shit, rather than survival and something creeping around in the woods.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Lost reminds me so much of the first Myst game.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

Season two has too many boring character expostion episodes -- and ones that add nothing to anything -- then island weirdness. That's the problem with it. You can feel them hanging on to the "island-backstory" formula, but losing its meaning.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, what did you think of Season 2?

xpost
I'm just saying that "funna" is only a bastardization of the informal contraction of "going to." It's not wrong I guess, just informal. My point is that it's either no big deal to say "funna" because it's only another permutation of the slangy "gonna" or it is really a sign of real ignorance for that same reason.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be happy for the backstory to go away forever in the 3rd season. Unfortunatly, there are going to be episodes to deal with those background characters. Boring. Show me shit exploding and underground bunkers.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

I DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT WHAT SUN AND JIN ONCE DID BECAUSE IT OBVIOUSLY AT THIS POINT WILL NEVER FURTHER THE PLOT AND IS SHOEHORNED IN JUST TO KEEP WITH THE FORMULA BUT MEANWHILE IT'S A TIRED RETREAD OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN THE BACKSTORY OF SEASON ONE AND ADDS NOTHING TO ANYTHING AND IS JUST FILLER BECAUSE YOU WANT TO KEEP US IN SUSPENSE ABOUT THE PLOT THAT YOU COULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN IN FIVE MINUTES IF YOU WANTED TO BUT NO WE MUST MILK THIS CASH COW NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE DISAPPOINT THE VIEWERS WE WON IN THE FIRST SEASON

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

xpost exactly. x-fucking-xactly.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

A question:

Why won't my "Links" toolbar appear in Firefox? "Bookmarks Toolbar" is checked so that it should be appearing, but when I try to drag things to it or bookmark them there, it stays blank. Is it the island? Help.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

It is not very likely the island, there, locke.

Use the bookmaks menu, select "bookmark this page," and that will give you a dropdown to select "bookmarks toolbar folder."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

Assuming you're using firefox.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

I even pretended not to catch what she said, and she repeated it very clearly, "I'm funna take lunch now."

I assume that's like "I'm fin to etc.", yeah?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

I know how to bookmark things to the toolbar folder, the problem is the folder toolbar refuses to appear.

xpost Jordan, I don't understand.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Means "going", I think it's a contraction of "fixing to".

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I don't think so though. I think it's simply a replacement of the "g" with an "f." "He told me he's funna pick me up," "my mom's funna kill me" etc.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

the problem is the folder toolbar refuses to appear.

I'm sorry if I'm not getting the scope of the problem, but the "view" menu should do everything you want done.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

I know it should, that's why I'm frustrated.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should uninstall and reinstall?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Which program? Maybe I should call you.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lost reminds me so much of the first Myst game.

Yes!

And with that, I go to bed.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

unistall and reinstall Firefox.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

I got teased for being a Chicagoan the other night at a leather bar. I had a beer and then said I was switching to liquor and the bartender said, "We might not have the appropriate stemware for you." I asked for a Ketel straight up with an olive. They said, "Uh-uh. No salad bar here. They might serve that at the Eagle in Chicago, but here we keep it simple."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES I HAVEN'T EVEN READ THE REST OF THE THREAD, BUT IT'S NOT "FUNNA" -- IT'S "FINNA," AS IN "FIXING TO." JESUS CHRIST< AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO GREW UP IN A MIXED RACE COMMUNITY???

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

OH WAIT JORDAN GETS IT, THANK GOD SOMEONE HERE HAS INTERACTED WITH ACTUAL BLACK PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

nick, you may enjoy this mp3 blog: hxxp://brnuggets.blogspot.com/

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

if you visit, get O Bando's self titled, if you scroll down a bit--it's pretty good so far.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. I really really need an external hard drive.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Aha! I have heard of "fin to" for fixin' to, and from a WHITE GUY NO LESS JOHN. That must be it.

I feel relieved.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I think that "finna" is regional, John, so your post should more accurately read "AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO GREW UP IN A MIXED RACE COMMUNITY IN THE GREATER CHICAGOLAND/GREAT LAKES STATES AREA???" the answer to which may be: yes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shoot. My boss was to come down here and be a spokesperson for our org at a press conference today, but she got sick and can't leave Memphis. So I get to talk to the press. But thing is, I too feel sick and can't leave Memphis. Or at least the first part. :(

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Remind me to tell you about the Marine's interesting story of being brought up on charges.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. More memories from Intonation/Pitchfork 2005:
* I wore a brown tank top and a jean skirt on day 1
* I got heat stroke that day
* The lady at the first aid tent was an angel
* Day 2 I didn't arrive until late afternoon
* My friend Sarah came with me both days
* I ate some trail mix

This year, I need to be better prepared. I won't get heat stroke again GD it! I'll be bringing a blanket to contribute to the mass of blankets on which to sit.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

what day are hot machines playing? could someone post the schedule for both days as everyplace i go to find it is blocked?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think the second day is sold out.

DAY ONE:
9:10-Silver Jews(A)
8:10-The Futureheads(C)
7:10-The Walkmen(A)
6:10-Ted Leo & Rx(C)
5:10-Art Brut(A)
4:20-Destroyer(C)
3:30-Mountain Goats(A)
2:35-Band of Horses(C)
2:00 - Man Man(A)
1:30-Chin Up Chin Up(C)
1:00-Hot Machines(A)

plus Biz 3 stage:
8:40-A-Trak
7:40-Matthew Dear
6:45-Matmos
5:25-Spank Rock
4:30-Ghislain Poirier
3:45-Tyondai Braxton
2:50-Chicago Underground Duo
1:50-Flosstradamus
1:00-8 Bold Souls

DAY TWO
9:10-Os Mutantes(A)
8:10-Spoon(C)
7:10-Yo La Tengo(A)
6:10-Devendra Banhart(C)
5:10-Mission of Burma(A)
4:20-Aesop Rock/Mr. Lif(C)
3:30-Liars(A)
2:35-The National(C)
2:00-Jens Lekman(A)
1:30-Danielson(C)
1:00-Tapes 'n Tapes(A)

plus Biz 3 stage:
8:10-Diplo
7:10-Dominik Eulberg
6:10-Glenn Kotche
5:20-Ada
4:30-Tarantula A.D.
3:40-Cage
2:50-CSS
1:55-Bonde Do Role
1:00-Jeff Parker / Nels Cline Quartet

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh well. second day looks killer though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

My new favorite Xiu Xiu lyric:

Your black hair is like black hair.
I promise that mine is a jerk's hair.

Sang, of course, like he's delivering a bittersweet eulogy at his abusive mother's funeral.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to the new Xiu Xiu on the train this morning, which seemed to draw weirdness to my life, as I ended up sitting next to a wee gentleman with Down's syndrome who whiled away his time on the train by enthusiastically rubbing his crotch.

Oh and I was reading a book about circus freaks, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have downs syndrome. jeez jenny, why don't you ever recognize me on the train?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Did you finally get your hair cut?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Girls are so weird. I have no idea what I was wearing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Brown corduroys and a t-shirt.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Did you finally get your hair cut?

i spent too much time in the funzone friday night so i was in the penalty box saturday. i pretty much missed out on all of saturday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

so that would be a no. still no haircut. maybe this week. probably not though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, actually, I do remember that I was wearing a white t-shirt -- probably my Minty Fresh t-shirt -- because someone I don't know took a photo of me and put it on Flickr. Otherwise I'd have no idea.

Sorry for my outburst last night.

I have some more information on finna:

Wikipedia article on AAVE:

finna [or "fittin' (fi-t&n) nuh"] go to work. [Immediate future.]
He's about to go to work. Finna is a contraction of "fixing to"; though is also believed to show residual influence of late 16th century archaism "would fain (to)", that persisted until later in some rural dialects spoken in the Carolinas (near the Gullah region). Note: "fittin' to" is commonly thought to be another form of the original "fixin' (fixing) to".

From one of Amanda's favorite language blogs:

The future certainly isn't what it used to be. That's true in general, but I'm talking about English verbal morphology here. In response to my post on future on, Darryl McAdams emailed to point out that there's been a development of fixing to into finna, parallel to the development of going to into gonna (and want to into wanna). He observes that {"I'm finna"} has some 5530 hits, and turns up examples like this Kanye West lyric:
I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine
This little light of mine and I'm finna let it shine
I'm finna take yall back to them better times
I'm finna talk about my mama if yall don't mind
For an example with with a subject that's not a pronoun, and with the copula deleted, there's this from Missy Elliott:
Missy finna spit this simply raw
Misdemeanor always make MC's feel small
Stick you on the table with a plastic cup
Say grace, then eat ya ass up
Darryl adds that "[a]A friend learned it in middle school (Apollo, in Hollywood, FL)".
This one was completely new to me, since fixing to isn't part of my dialect. However, I do use a contracted form of trying to that might be put into IPA as [ˈtɹɐj.nə], and seems to be represented in conventional English orthography as "tryna". This one comes up in recent song lyrics too:
You tryna wear my shoes
You tryna wear my clothes
You tryna be like me,
I'm tryna be like you bro,
What I'm really tryna say
You got to keep it all real
but I can testify that it's been a normal part of American English pronunciation for a long time, even though I don't recall ever having seen it written before I (just now) looked for it on line. I wonder why "gonna" and "wanna" have been standard non-standard orthography for so long, while "tryna" has lagged? Is it because the contraction is newer -- you couldn't prove that by me, I've used all of them from the cradle -- or because "tryna" is just orthographically weirder?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

(FWIW, Ethan uses "tryna" on ILX.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

This is the first message in a series on a linguistics listserv -- the most interesting thing that comes of it is a discussion on whether "finna" implies intentionality (as "fixing to" seems to) or not (i.e., more like "gonna").

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently, Mahalia Jackson says "finna" on a 1958 recording with Duke Ellington:

Firstly, I want to address an errror in the songlisting: Mahalia Jackson does not "swear" on this CD. Where did that come from? On the title track # 15 (the track in question) Mahalia says; "Aww Duke, you finna [fixing to] cut this too!?... Jesus." Who heard a cuss word in that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

haha I love that "jerk's hair" lyric.

I bet he got it at the jerk store.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 696 from ohhla.com for finna

[ohhla.com = Original Hip-Hop Lyric Archive]

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I am going to miss my boss this week. He's in San Francisco, and has left me at the mercy of the head of the marketing department, who is a nice, smart man with a thick accent that I can't understand at all and is terrible at explaining himself while also being very demanding. Frustrating.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think I only remember what I was wearing to Intonation because there were PHOTOS taken.

Check this out. I somehow FORGOT to get my haircut. I just made an appointment recently with Leanne for the weekend after this one, but it will have been FIVE MONTHS since my last one. I'm starting to look like I did during college when I was convinced I could cut my own hair.

I want to be in San Francisco.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Sunday was the only day I was really interested in going to pfork... oh well. Last year I wore a white shirt and green shorts one day and probably something similar the other day.

I have heard "finna."

I got my hair cut last Thursday and I kind of look like a jock now. But it is very short and comfortable in the heat.

They are tearing up the sidewalk under the viaduct by my work and it makes for a very annoying roadcrossing experience to get around it all. The Midway Plaisance is like a Formula 1 track to some people.

whew

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

five months? amateur.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's been about five months for me since my last hair cut, too. But I chop my own bangs so I can really give dearest Valerie a challenge when I do come in.

I do think it's linguistically interesting that "finna" has morphed into "funna," however. You can see where finna comes from all by itself, but make it "funna" and without seeing the progression it just doesn't make any sense.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

My mom always says "FIXIN TO.." I think it's one of those things where she started off saying it half-jokingly as though she were immitating her parents and now just says it with all seriousness. I'll have to let her know about FINNA, so she feels a little more hip.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Here is one of the only good pics I got from the U.P. beach party (the other one is in the WDYLL thread.) My camera malfunctioned, of course. Malfunction or user error...

http://static.flickr.com/71/198126675_677afbb34d.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

That's incredible.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I spoke in front of a group of 90 people plus various media. Blarf.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

So the Marine. I was talking about how my ex-boyfriend got put in the brig for attacking a Naval officer and one of the other charges they brought him up on was "destruction of gov't property" for getting tattoos.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

He told me that that is completely routine. He said that he has been charged with destruction of government property for getting a sunburn. Sunscreen is not optional in the Marines.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention when he gets an ass-wreckin'.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Cool photo, Dan!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

That is nuts, Jesse.

Diff'rent Strokes via David Mamet, courtesy of Dave "best drummer alive" K1ng

Cast: KIMBERLY, WILLIS, ARNOLD, MR. DRUMMOND

(MR. DRUMMOND comes home from work. He sets his briefcase down on the sofa and notices several macaroon crumbs on the table.)

MR. DRUMMOND: Pearl…Pearl…Is anybody home? Fellow says, “If only your housekeeper could keep house, then you’d keep her.” (Pause) Kids!

(At this moment, Kimberly comes out of the kitchen into the living room.)

KIMBERLY: Daddy! Are you early? Is it…What time is it? You’re early…are you early?

MR. DRUMMOND: No, it’s six o’clock. Tell you something…I’m gonna tell you that your eyes look like radishes. Did you dip your face into the saltwater aquarium?

KIMBERLY: Did I dip my face into the saltwater aquarium? Did I? No. I’m just…

MR. DRUMMOND: Where are Willis and Arnold?

KIMBERLY: Willis and Arnold…Yes, they’re in their room, playing “Pitfall” in the dark.

MR. DRUMMOND: Kimberly, why do you have a blacklight poster in your hand? That’s a blacklight poster....

KIMBERLY: That’s something, innit? I…I…Daddy, you should just go talk to Willis and Arnold…go…go talk to Willis and Arnold…will you go talk to Willis and Arnold?

(Mr. Drummond goes up the stairs to the boy’s bedroom.)

MR. DRUMMOND: Boys! Boys, your sister’s eyes look funny, like she’s been crying in the dark. Why are you sitting in the dark? The dark. Except for the TV screen…and are those Bugles?

ARNOLD: What…I mean to say, what are you talking about? You are talking about something, aren’t you? Then talk about something. If you want to, then talk. Willis?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

RANT: So - funna =/= finna! FFS! I am not an idiot. I grew up in a mixed race community in the great lakes region. I am aware of AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH. Gah. /rant

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Pardon my outburst. I am starving for lunch.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - A well deserved rant, I think.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously you are aware of AAVE -- but it didn't seem like you were aware of "finna," since you thought that "funna" was a derivation of "gonna" rather than of "finna."

I'm still not sure whether "funna" is just an accented (or misheard) version of "finna" or whether it's a distinct entity. It could be suggested, perhaps, that as the meaning of "finna" inches closer to the meaning of "gonna" (i.e., the intentionality of "fixing to" disappears), that the words themselves combine. But the "f-" sound does from a particular root word, is all I was saying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

"does COME from"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Let's line up in order of lunch size.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I had a spicy crab pasta salad and half of a big, meaty, peppery Garibaldi sandwich and I'm really full right now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I ate a larger than normal lunch today. I wasn't even that hungry; I just wanted to eat some more.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am just saying: TAKE IT TO YOUR DISSERTATION AND GET OFF MY JOCK.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

;)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Eating is fun. What did you eat?

I was going to go to the gym last night. Instead, I stayed in and Maddie made oven-fried chicken and chocolate milkshakes and we watched Harold & Kumar.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I only had a spoonful of granola this morning before the box ran out, so I started to develop a hunger headache at about 12:30. So I went out to get a huge sandwich (cheddar, swiss, tomatoes, lettuce, sprouts, pepperoncini, onions, and mayo on light rye) and am only now feeling a bit better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, your weeknights always sound great. Better than "I met with the rest of the band at Village Tap and impatiently defended myself for three hours before walking out of the bar mid-conversation and having to catch a cab home."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

i had a huge slice of doughy pizza. now i'm battling to stay awake.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch.

Yeah, they're totally great, but I think I need a little more constructiveness and a little less decadence.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like White Hen sandwiches. Have I mentioned that before? Today I had the club with turkey, ham, and bacon. And bbq chips. And a 32-oz coke. And they gave me a free lemonade which is not very good. But it was free.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is constructiveness a word? Constructivity?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh also, I think I didn't pay for my grilled cheese last night. The guy from the kitchen walked up to me and said, "You have a tab open?" I said "What?" He said, "For the grilled cheese?" And I waved him aside and said, "Oh no, I paid for that when I ordered it."

BUT I CAN'T ACTUALLY REMEMBER HAVING DONE SO. Why did I think I did? The poor fool was probably counting and recounting the money in the drawer, or whatever it is restaurant-people have to do. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004UQRI.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a little disappointed that none of you are commenting on the fact that I sat next to a genital-fondling midget with Down's syndrome on the Brown Line this morning.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh, so now i'm a midget? SCREW YOU LADY!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

We just had our quarterly group meeting and were treated to a variety of iced creams. I had vanilla with some nuts and a cherry on top.

xpost: I wish I had sat next to a genital-fondling midget with Down's syndrome on the Blue Line this morning. It would have been quite entertaining. Instead I stood next to one of those people with a stuffed full backpack that repeatedly bump into you with said backpack and never notice the discomfort they're causing you. I would really like to have been able to retaliate in some way.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a little disappointed that none of you are commenting on the fact that I sat next to a genital-fondling midget with Down's syndrome on the Brown Line this morning.

I just assumed that was daily routine. I didn't want to seem all country.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Go to law school, and you will be able to retaliate with a stuffed full backpack weighing approximately 40 pounds.

I try to be mindful of who I'm whacking, but I'm pretty sympathetic to book-laden students. If that's how you would classify your batterer.

I just assumed that was daily routine. I didn't want to seem all country.

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO GREW UP IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH MASTURBATING MIDGETS WITH DOWN SYNDROME???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he had the crotch rot and wasn't masturbating at all.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://international.tromamovies.com/Images/jefftowne.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

for some reason, my brain only registered the xiu xiu part of that post.

i used to be one of those massive-backpack people, only i knew i was always bumping people and felt bad.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - He was doing the old the grab and tug, so he was either wanking or he had to pee really badly. I did not stick around for the finale, so what his goals were will remain a mystery.

If I am standing with my giant backpack, I take it off and put it between my feet.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, what year of law school did you just complete?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

i am kind of glad you missed the finale, though it would have made for quite a story, maybe. but, ew.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished my second year of law school. I have one more to go.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

i can only hope he yelled "YAHTZEE!!" during the finale.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

The backpack bumping wouldn't have been so bad if this particular person (and I don't think she was a student) hadn't been so unyielding in letting people through to the aisle. Every time the train stopped, instead of moving inside (where there was plenty of room) she would turn to allow a tiny path for people getting on to squeeze through and plant her feet so as to not give up one square inch of her precious precious pole spot. Every time she turned I got smacked. And I'm not a wimp or anything, it didn't hurt, but it was just kind of fucking annoying when I was doing my best to allow space for others and I have to deal with this stupid scratchy backpack banging into me and then griding against my arm skin. Of course, when I got off the train, the backpack was partially blocking my way. I barrelled through it like it wasn't there, so I guess I got my revenge.

xpost

If I am standing with my giant backpack, I take it off and put it between my feet.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT DID WITH MY BACKPACK THIS MORNING. Maybe I should have demonstrated. But that probably would have caused the pole-dweller to have to move in consideration of other humans, which wasn't going to happen.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

i was talking to a friend of mine friday night who just finished her first year at depaul law school. i had no idea she was in law school. but she's loving it apparently.

er, xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

What's her name, Kevin?

stupid scratchy backpack banging into me and then griding against my arm skin.

This is the WORST part of Chicago summer for me - skin to skin contact with strangers on crowded trains. Gah.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

she would turn to allow a tiny path for people getting on to squeeze through and plant her feet so as to not give up one square inch of her precious precious pole spot

i hate these people. they're up there with the people who sit next to you then pivot their legs instead of getting up to let you out of the inside seat. whenever someone gives me the pivot i make sure to shuffle my feet sideways so they get my ass in their face rather than walk out straight. i had sausage pizza for lunch today, all you pivot people be warned.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Amanda, I didn't know about Jefftowne. Your husband is an interesting dude. Funny that it's distributed by Troma.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Have you seen it? It was his final project in college and for some reason it took off. I didn't know him until after that hubbub was over, but it was some hubbub for someone who was like, 22. I think I mentioned it once here, but that was a long while ago. I think he's interesting too. What's not interesting is the shitty little skit they made him participate in when they were in Cannes. It's on the DVD and it's embarrassing.

OMG I am so stressed out I want to throw up out of my eyeballs just to relieve the pressure. I'm not that sort of girl, but it sounds like it might help.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda's husband made a movie about Jenny's husband?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen it, no -- but I just read about it, and I'd like to now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's available through netflix, I think. Where, praytell, did you read about it? One time a college kid came up to us and said "Are you the guy who made Jefftowne?" and we felt famous for a second.

Jeff Towne is a man with Down's Syndrome and a predilection for booze and sex who Dan used to work with at a movie theater in college. Jenny is not married to him, thank GOD.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well, he felt momentarily famous and I felt like a hanger-on to a momentarily famous person.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

JEFFTOWNE 2:

http://static.flickr.com/67/159366134_be64c9cbf9_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Where, praytell, did you read about it?

Amazon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I JUST read about it, like after you posted that image.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

lolz

I knew a hippie drug dealing frat girl in college named J3n T0wne. I wonder if they're related.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I thought maybe it was in the ZEITGEIST.

Hehe. I shoulda known.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

We still get periodic phone calls from JT.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, one of my favorite days of the year is fast approaching. this year it's august 22nd. Madden 2007 will be released. as a sign of my marked maturity i won't be taking the next day off from work as i have every other year since 1996.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Uh oh... Madden/Guitar Hero FAP in the fall? Watch the ladies run away screaming! :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Madden/Guitar Hero FAP in the fall?

Gross.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

i'm only playing as the pats.

also, i'm 50 hours into quitting smoking again. my goal is to make it until at least friday. i know i'm going to a show and i'm relatively certain i won't be able to make it through the show without a cigarette. but i'm hoping to make it through without buying a pack. baby steps.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

YOU CAN DO IT!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

i don't want to but i have to. having trouble breathing in the humidity. :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone ever been to Stanley Sausage Shop & Liquor on Belmont?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Do I want to?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of doubt it, due to your vegness. I mean, it's sausage. Can't get much farther removed from vegetarianism than that.

I've heard great things about it from a Finlander I met over the weekend, but I haven't been.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Stanley Sausage Shop & Liquor" sounds so classic Chicago, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Aha! I have heard of "fin to" for fixin' to, and from a WHITE GUY NO LESS JOHN. That must be it.

DUDES I HAVEN'T EVEN READ THE REST OF THE THREAD, BUT IT'S NOT "FUNNA" -- IT'S "FINNA," AS IN "FIXING TO." JESUS CHRIST< AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO GREW UP IN A MIXED RACE COMMUNITY???

NO NO NO.

She is saying "fun-na." She enunciated it. I heard it at least a dozen times today. My ex used to say it. I've heard "finna" but that's different.

Funna reminds me of the following other mispronunciations (often resulting from mishearings):

"cup of chino" for cappucino
"crunches" for crutches
"hurr" for hair
"maui-maui" for mahi-mahi

I have been around black people and other minorities!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Funna" entry from the Urban Dictionary--not a great resource, but at least it confirms the existence of this word.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=funna

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I nearly got Jesse in trouble.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

How? How did you do that, Jenny?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

UPS and the USPS have been flakey about delivery and we have been waiting for some reimbursement checks, so when a package arrived while I was out, the interns called me to see if it was checks. I didn't know so I told them to open it. Inside was my debit card which Jenny had sent. On the envelope was a tender message:

"Here's your stupid debit card. Sorry I didn't put anything else in this package besides love. And semen. Pee on me. Love, Jenny B."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

robble.

so, my new study spot is the cafe at the co-op. and it's fantastic. doubly-so because pretty girls shop here all time. BUT, three out of five times, this happens:

look over, pretty lady is on the other side of the produce, browsing. finds a good looking melon, puts it in the cart, and pushes around the corner, her entire body coming into view. and lo, PREGNANT AS THE DAY SHE WAS BORN.

HOT MOMMIES EVERYWHERE. WHAT GIVES.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to write:

Dear Sodomite,

How's your cunt? Are you getting any man pussy from those tight little intern asses? If not, you can always fuck that dumb girl in the mouth. Well, keep on cramming things in your ass.

My pussy's on fire,
Jenny B

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

PS Satan is my master.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

PPS Sorry that you are stuck with all those cunt shit Jesus fucking interns that you hate and want to set on fire shit fuck fuck twat fuck.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

WUV

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny attended the Kathy McGinty school of comedy.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

5 episodes of Lost in 4.5 hours. Tired.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Good.

I just killed the granddad of the King of Roaches. IT WOULD. NOT. DIE.

IT MADE SO MUCH NOISE. Please get me out of this place.

THAT FUCKING SHOW IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. I can never move that shoe again. nonononononono

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

/wussness

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Stanley's Sausage and Liquor was graet: multiple pictures of Popes, a bunch of Polish beers I hadn't seen before, and probably 10 kinds of sausage plus some other meat/fish/pickled products that looked interesting but not quite desirable.

xpost: JESSE! Don't forget to enter the numbers... the numbers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT LOST, SOME OF US HAVE STILL ONLY SEEN SEASON ONE AND IF YOU GIVE AWAY ANY PLOT POINTS I WILL MURDER YOU IN YOUR SLEEP.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, combine all your posts into one so that I can more easily ignore them.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Never fear, Nick. The cockroach Jesse killed in his apartment is not a plot point of Lost.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny attended the Kathy McGinty school of comedy.

I wrote all that using QuickText.

I meant to say this last night but I totally forgot so: I WANT TO GO TO STANLEY'S SAUSAGE SHOP AND LIQUOR. I mean, with the possible exception of Stanley, and I'm open-minded, I love everything in the name.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

What's not to love about Stanley? He's a sausage and liquor proprietor!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, combine all your posts into one so that I can more easily ignore them.

hilarious.

hey it looks like i'm going to that music thing in union park afterall. see you guys there?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

HOT MOMMIES EVERYWHERE. WHAT GIVES.

Any day now, lots of hot cervixes.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Um, good morning.

I finished reading Gatsby's Girl this morning on my walk in from the bus. It's hard work carrying a purse, a bag lunch, an open book, and an open umbrella.

I was feeling blahsville earlier because of a bad review. I mean, it was all over bad. It made me feel like I was 9 again, when all the kids would run over when it was my time to do the 50 yard dash solo in gym class because I run like a duck. This particularly bothered me: Nick and Sarah are actually recently engaged so you can expect some kind of elated vibe on the album. Unfortunately it sounds like they are more in a coma than they are in a state of euphoria.

I guess I might be doing myself in by bringing this up, but I've felt that music reviews need not be so scathing. I figure if you like an album/show, you should write it up and tell the world about it. If not, say nothing. If you can't say something nice... But also, I'm pretty certain my feelings on that are mostly self-protective.

In better news... Pitchfork Fest...

Oh! And Nick and I went to see Bringing up Baby last night in Grant Park. It was so much fun, but next time I need to bring my own popcorn. Theirs was not quite as "Fresh, Delicious, and Crisp" as the box promised.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Huzzah! Your first bad review! You're on your way, baby.

See, when you're not getting any attention and nobody knows who you are, you'll get those reviews in the punk zines where people say, "Check out this new band." And if they didn't like you, they will ignore you. Now you're at the point where someone feels the need to warn people *off* of you, because people are going to be checking you out *anyway*.

So, see? Progress.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also, what does someone in a coma sound like? Pretty sloppy metaphor, yo.

Don't listen to this guy. He's obviously a boob.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's pretty gratuitous and badly written, Sarah.

That reminds me, I read Gilbert Hernandez' Sloth last night. It's pretty good and comas play a big role in the story.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, what does someone in a coma sound like?

hunnnfff *gurglve* mmmmmmmmppppoooughhh, nuh b-b-b-thbbbllttt.

― teri schiavo (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds pretty punk rock.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, I think that's actually the sound of someone drowning in their own vomit. Now *that's* punk rock.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Plus why does he have to make the adorable and personal all fodder for critical review? What fucking business is it of his if you're engaged, and why should he expect it to make you play/sing differently? That's totally sloppy logic and bad writing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, I think that's actually the sound of someone drowning in their own vomit. Now *that's* punk rock.

i'd say it's more classic rock but whatever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

I like that your entire musical catalog must celebrate your engagement, even if it was recorded before you, you know, got engaged. "That EP you guys put out last year is totally not euphoric given your engagement a few months ago!"

Pffbt.

Anyway, sloppy metaphor or no, I understand what he's trying to convey with the coma remark, but I think he's just wrong. Like, really wrong. Like, was he listening to the same CD I was wrong.

xpost - what Laurel said.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

BAD WRITIN; HE IS A LAZY, BAD WRITER AND PROBABLY A HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING. DON'T CRY, LITTLE SARAH!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

What do you mean? The writer's logic is impeccable! If you recently got engaged, then you are in a nonstop state of euphoria about everyone and everything until the wedding. Naturally this spills over into the music you make, since, as we all know, music can only reflect the mental and emotional state of the performer, and nothing else. It is impossible to sing a sad song whilst happy, or a happy song whilst sad. This is why professional musicians are constantly breaking up with and making up with romantic partners during the course of a set -- so they can sing all that emotionally varied matieral. Some musicians have to get back together with their loved ones during the "bridge" of a song in order to sing the ending properly. It's all very taxing. But cell phones and Blackberries have made it easter!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Leave Jesus out of this.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

This is why professional musicians are constantly breaking up with and making up with romantic partners during the course of a set -- so they can sing all that emotionally varied matieral. Some musicians have to get back together with their loved ones during the "bridge" of a song in order to sing the ending properly. It's

Your Terrible Band Concept Stockpile

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, guys.

I think if this guy actually met me and wrote a review just of me personally, he would most likely say I was annoyingly gleeful about... about everything.

Anyway, Let's talk about these Pitchfork rules. Do I need to smuggle trail mix and crackers into the park? Maybe I should buy a magic tricks briefcase with a secret compartment.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sort of like how, according to several journalists, Edith F's album was about the breakup that she and Eazy had MERE WEEKS BEFORE THE ALBUM WAS RELEASED.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Where did this review appear, btw?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kenan & Jaymc, I'm going to a book group discussion of Black Hole tonight. With co-workers. And beer. Should be interesting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Prohibited items: All attendees will be searched upon entering the festival grounds. The following items will not be allowed: Tents, flags, refunds or exchanges, lounge chairs, instruments, knives or other weapons, video cameras, audio recording devices, professional cameras, pets, food, beverages (other than sealed bottled water), drugs or drug paraphernalia.

Non-prohibited items: Digital cameras (non-professional), disposable cameras, film cameras (non-professional), fanny packs, sealed bottled water, backpacks/satchels (medium-sized), hats, sun block, lighters, sunglasses, cigarettes, folding chairs.

Just put your trail mix in a sealed water bottle.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I sure could go for some trail mix right now.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to freeze a gallon jug of water and take it on Saturday. It's going to be like 98 fucking degrees! Nobody is getting dehydrated on my watch.

I am also going to take out heat-related frustration by punching everyone I see wearing:

Tight jeans (Thank goodness the Go Team! isn't playing this year. I like their lead singer and would hate to have to pop her one.)
Sweaters
Long-sleeved, 100% polyester shirts
Tights
Knit caps
Fur-lined hats

LIGHT AND LOOSE, PEOPLE. LIGHT AND LOOSE. Nobody looks cool with heat exhaustion. Except Sarah.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

look for me, i'll be wearing a parka.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

5 episodes of Lost in 4.5 hours. Tired.

My Internet at home is down, so I was only able to watch one episode of Lost (that I had already downloaded) last night. Grrr. It was kind of a dumb episode, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

They were so lax in their bag-searching last year. We totally snuck in a bunch of firearms and refunds or exchanges. And by that I mean pot brownies.

xpost: Man, I'm bummed I'm missing out on day 2 even more now. FUCK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

day one i don't care about, day two looks pretty good though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Just tuck the trail mix in your shorts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Exactly... I just waited too long to look into getting a ticket for day 2.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't have tickets for either until 14 hours ago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

John, that's a much better idea than my plan of swallowing bags of trail mix whole beforehand.

Last year there was this guy there in a suit, complete with jacket, boots, and a hat. Also, I saw a couple of girls wearing LEG WARMERS.

You know, I might just buy a pair of shorts for this occasion.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

There really was a total jackass wearing a FUR LINED HAT last year! I hope they turned him away at the first aid tent. They would just be helping evolution along by letting him die before he had a chance to breed.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

xpost!

I will also punch people wearing leg warmers.

I had intended to purchase the billowiest most mumuesque sundress I could find, but I never got around to getting one. It's all about air circulation.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't have tickets for either until 14 hours ago.

Whaaaaaa? I read yesterday that day 2 was sold out and so were the 2-day passes.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

my friends are charitable people.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin puts out for indie rock festival tickets.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sort of like how, according to several journalists, Edith F's album was about the breakup that she and Eazy had MERE WEEKS BEFORE THE ALBUM WAS RELEASED.

Or how Shoot Out the Lights is about Richard and Linda Thompson's divorce, when all the songs were written two years before that, and all their songs had always been about breaking up, anyway.

Hey Kenan & Jaymc, I'm going to a book group discussion of Black Hole tonight. With co-workers. And beer. Should be interesting.

Be sure to bring your adolescent angst, too.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Damn... my glimmer of hope has been snuffed out.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icomics.com/images/081700_blackhole02.gif

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Let's all just wear these:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=22905&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=10&iSubCat=21&iProductID=22905

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin puts out for ~~indie rock festival tickets~~ no reason in particular.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, Sarah, you evil.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Women need a reason to have sex; men just need a place."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Or this! http://www.americanapparelstore.com/rsa8334.html

Or this... http://www.americanapparelstore.com/rsa8333.html

(there's a vague hint of nipple in that second one, just fyi.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I should dress like high school tonight (chain wallet, metal band tee, maybe a long-haired wig).

Day 2 of the fest looks pretty interesting, I would definitely go see Glenn Kotche and Parker/Cline.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wild mushroom and almond risotto with cranberry reduction and a hint of nipple. $15

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

What the Hooters menu would be like in a perfect world.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

A very smooth, well-balanced Chardonnay that offered melon and floral scents with toasty oak flavors in harmony with luscious tropical fruits and a vague hint of nipple. The finish was full and creamy. An absolutely delightful wine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/news/060807/lance_bass2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

"The finish was full and creamy."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

(cf. Jesse's video collection.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

No "Yep" from Lance Bass?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

You ain't the only one.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/10-05/1018gltime.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

10 points for obscurity

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Lance Bass is gay????

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

He just came out. That People cover is next week's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Lance Bass is so gay it broke ILX.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

This is the second place today I have heard people I would have thought wouldn't give a shit talking about that dude being gay.

Lance Bass is so gay it broke ILX.

Man, that's pretty gay, considering some of the stuff that gets discussed here.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Did you guys know they're re-running Pee Wee's Playhouse on the Cartoon Network? It's on opposite the Daily show, which is why I didn't notice. But still... probably not to be missed.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dear girl at unnamed community center located in the terribly blighted heart of Wicker Park,

You didn't have to dismiss me so thoroughly when I suggested that I bring my students in for a tour. That wasn't really necessary.

Yours truly,
Reprimanda

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you obviously don't know me that well if you think I wouldn't give a shit about a celebrity potentially or actually being gay. Alfred Soto's not the only one who posts to that Jake Gyllenhaal thread, you know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know the Jake Gyllenhaal thread.

Celebrity worship, tabloids, People magazine, E!, etc makes me ill. Sorry.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

That sounded a little cold. Discuss whatever you want, by all means. I just get cynical really fast about that kind of thing is all.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Amanda, you just reminded me of a conversation I overheard on the street today wherein an older gentleman complained that the Cubby Bear did not serve wine.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Gyllenhaal thread is basically rumor fodder for Jake's homosexuality, filled with lascivious photos and eyebrow-raising quotes. Dude is totally shtupping his sister's boyfriend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, Obviously, they were scared you might try to steal the community.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

My class and I are poised to hijack the entire community next Wednesday, so watch out. They have never had falafel or Middle Eastern food before so I am taking them to the Sultan.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I just mean to say that she could have rejected my request with less 'tude.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone ever been to the Polish museum?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds awesome!! The falafel field trip, I mean.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

We're doing various things in WP and they were complaining about the horrible cafeteria food, so I thought I would treat them to a nice place that won't break the bank. Plus, they have never eaten Middle Eastern food! Pobrecitos!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wish English was my second language & I was in your class!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I am SO getting shawerma after going to the gym tonight.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently the gal I know who's a production assistant for bands on tour has taken the Beastie Boys and Fall Out Boy to Sultan's Market, and now both bands have autographed photos in the place. And I thought the falafel joint in Paris that had Lenny Kravitz's autographed photo was cool.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

xp - I wish you were too! Except then you might have been assaulted by a street person when you accidentally walked the wrong way down State when you were trying to get back to your dorm and had to be rescued by a police officer who told the street person to leave you alone. I have a traumatized student on my hands.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

where's the polish museum? 'cause i'd like to go to that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

dig: http://pma.prcua.org/homeen.html

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

like everything good in chicago, it's in 60622.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ooo. I want to go to the Polish Museum. Man, Chicago has everything.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

WHOOP! Alderpeople passed the Big Box Ordinance! And with 35 votes so it overrides a mayoral veto.

Take that, stores over 90k square feet with over $1 billion in profits!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm half-Polish, but I'm am optimistic so I always tell people I'm half-Hungarian.

I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK FOLX.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the adjective form of "alderman" is ALDERMANIC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

wow. i just got lost in st. paul. i think st. paul's downtown is the size of andersonville, but with bigger buildings & the ever confusing skyway. thank you, john, for taking my emergency call!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

No prob!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Someone just drove past my window totally blasting "Against All Odds."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

That so rules.

Someone revived a thread on ILM to talk about an $tylu$ article I wrote, but it's just because I mentioned Ned in it. Heh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

For his π?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

No, you raving egomaniac. Because he slagged off John McEntire.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Which thread?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

da DeRogatis thread

On another note, why did I never get into Superchunk? I'm listening to Come Pick Me Up, which I've had for a couple of years, and I like it a lot -- why have I never sought out anything else?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

So no one has ever been to the Polish museum, huh. Hmm. I'm wondering if it's a boring collection of paper and framed photographs with plaques underneath them or if there is interesting multimedia stuff.

Has anyone been to:

Mexican Fine Arts?
DuSable African American History?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Someone just drove past my window totally blasting "Against All Odds."

The radio power ballad is really a lost art.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mexican Fine Arts is way cool! I have also heard the Oriental Institute Museum at the U of C is great too, but I have never been.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a wedding at the MFA but don't remember much aside from the food, which I ate a ton of, and dancing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

xpost While looking up the Oriental Institute web address, I came across the International Museum of Surgical Science... Looks very very interesting, with a bonus high probable creepout factor!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Another important question:

Does anyone know how far the Metra goes into somewhere that may resemble countryside? My students (who are only here in Chicago for three weeks) are asking me if I can take them on a trip to the "countryside" and I have been told that I am not allowed to use the school bus, so we have to take trains. I AM DYING HERE because I am not a good cruise director. I have like 3 other jobs.

Help. Please.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

go west to elburn, it's way the fuck country. i was out there a few years ago, nothing but farmland.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

dan, i've been there. it's pretty cool but only slighly creepy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Elburn, you say? Is there anything to do there once we get there? I mean, they will be happy just to see something that looks countryish, so it's not that important, but once we get off the train, is there anywhere to go?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

omg the metra departure schedule is giving me a headache.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Surgical Science Museum is supposed to be terrific.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

The Gambit Weekly, the local alt-weekly, has a special section called M.I.R.E.: Men in Real Estate, and it seems to be focused on local men who work in real estate. Why would men, who presumably dominate this field, merit a special section of an alt-weekly?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Look what made the front page of the Times-Pic online: http://www.nola.com/

That caption really doesn't make sense. The Center opened yesterday and it says, "Despite the opening of a Worker Resource Center, New Orleans' jobless rate is climbing."

So, Times-Picayune, what I'm hearing you say is that despite this Center's having opened about 24 hours ago, unemployment has increased over the past few months. Is that right?

http://www.nola.com/katrina/pdf/072606_unemploy.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

This is the photo that went with that caption

http://www.nola.com/hp/photos/072606_nojobs.jpg

(This is where I work. The colors are pretty awful, I know, but the are the colors of Change to win, the group that split from the AFL-CIO.)

The story that might have gone better with that photo- Worker training center conducts first N.O. class

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

And despite the pessimistic tone of the last 3 paragraphs, about 1/3 of the unemployed people who took a 10 hour training course yesterday were placed in jobs this morning, earning around $12.50/hr.

Furthermore, they are eligible for very basic health coverage, drug discounts and a couple other things for $25/month or a better plan for $80/month.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Um, that's still less than I'm paying for stone-cold shit coverage in the event that I get hit by a car, so congrats to them! I say KUDOS on the worker justice front!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not being facetious. Seriously, good job. That's a pretty good deal.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

I used to work at IMSS. Look for the exhibit on spinal surgery and tell me what you think. I basically did it all..

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 27 July 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray worker resource center! Good work there, bud. And good morning to all you fine folks.

I'm going to try an experiment soon, I have decided: I'm going to listen to the Merzbox that I got from Jeff while reading Winnie the Pooh and see if my head explodes.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's dead in here today. Eerily so. Where is everybody? I'm lonely!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Can't think at all!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

This morning, my bus driver said Good Morning to every single person who got on the bus, no matter how many were getting on at a time. Then when we got to the Division/Ashland intersection, she got off, grabbed about 5 of each free paper, then walked down the aisles of the bus asking if anyone would like one. I wonder if she's new at this.

It feels like it should be Friday.

I'm too much of a wuss to go to IMSS.

Also, huzzah, worker justice!

Also, Kenan, I still have my Winne the Pooh I had when I was teeny tiny. I had to go to the hospital when I was 3. When they came to sedate me, I freaked out about the needle. Being the good future mom that I was, I compromised and said I would let them put the needle in my arm if they put it in Pooh first. He didn't cry, so I gave in. So, my Winne may or may not be filled with drugs.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://ollin.net/images/pooh_drugs.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I very much want to go to the International Museum of Surgical Science. I loved the Mutter Museum, a lot, so I'm hoping it's similar.

"Despite the opening of a Worker Resource Center, New Orleans' jobless rate is climbing."

Close down and come home. Clearly it's not working. I'm noticing a trend of journalists wanting recent developments to affect past events. Did someone invent a time machine while I wasn't looking?

For those of you interested in the Big Box Living Wage hoo ha, here is a really good article: http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/politics/the_walmart_papers.php

I like it when logic and metrics debunks propaganda.

Amanda, there is also the whole Silk Road Chicago exhibit going on, although I'm not sure if people from China want to come to the US to see exhibits about, um, China.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of time travel of sorts, Nick and I started rewatching Eternal Sunshine last night. Even though I've already seen it, I really didn't want to turn it off to go to bed. It's so good!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

It really, really is. I've watched it on cable a half dozen times myself. It's good, and it's also so visually interesting. It's good just to *look* at, if nothing else.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

And listen to! I love the soundtrack.

BAAAAD things I've done this morning:
* downloaded real player to stream radio at my desk, specifically WLUW
* played Spider solitaire

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

You make baby Jesus cry.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Let's all go to the IMSS someday. I'm a horrible sibling and have never seen the exhibit that Mark put together.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

My coworker brought me a CD of New Edition's greatest hits and I am going to go home and ROCK OUT to Candy Girl tonight. A lot. I will also do dishes, clean the toilet, make dinner, and pack at least two boxes.

So it is written. So it shall be done.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I am WAY into a group excursion to IMSS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's probably not that big a deal because it's your work computer, but RealPlayer is a mal- and spyware-loaded piece of shit. If you've "gotta have it," I suggest getting the version available from the BBC. More here.

(Had to deal with a lot of Real nonsense when working at the college radio station)

xpost: I'll go to IMSS for sure.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I know I told john already, but leaf & I got our new apartment! we move in by the end of august (date yet to be determined). I'm really excited! anyone can stay with us when they visit! we have two bedrooms! a balcony! stained glass! it's really a pretty place. the only downside is that it is fully carpeted, but this has inspired me to make slippers for all who come here. i'm starting with a recipe for pink bunny slippers & will alter it to make orange rhinos.

p.s. the IMSS is one of the few things I regret not seeing before i left!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

FEMA trailer refugees not allowed to talk to the media

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's great, Kelsey. I know I'm going to be in Mpls for a gig on Sept. 22, and then possibly again for work (it's either Mpls, Chicago, or Hawaii, so hey).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Question: what the fuck is wrong with me? This is the third time this week I have listened to this stupid Andrew WK record.

It is true that I love New York City. That's undeniable.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

It has been pointed out to me that VLC (of previous Chicago thread discussion fame) will also play Real Streams, but that would involve d/l-ing more stuff to a work computer...

Hey Kelsey, what one thing should I get my parents to bring back from China for me?

xpost: Kenan, it's because you want to PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Possibly until I puke.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have still never to my knowledge heard Andrew WK.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh... OH! This is a must. John, really, you must.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I know, I think I'd like it, too. I vaguely remember when I Get Wet came out, but I think at the time I didn't realize he was actually so cool.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I have connections for you in each place. My brother lives in Hilo! Although, perhaps you're going to a bit more of a 'Hawaiian' city . . .?

Your parents are going to China, huh? That's awesome! Gifts, huh? What kinds of stuff do you like? Cultural relics? Quirks? Oddities? Here's a sampling of stuff I brought back:

Paper cuts (I just think they're darling)
Bracelets (jade, jasper, and laquer)
T-shirts (some in Chinese & some in fucked up english b/c they're funny)
Gourd flute (leaf bought that one)
DVDs (seasons 1-5 of Six Feet Under for less than $30)
Chinese hacky sacks (crazy feather things with cut up metal weights on the bottom)
Mao lighters (they sing when you open them & i have NO IDEA how i got those through security)
Playing Cards (the hilarious ones are 'red memory' with english translations of cultural revolution slogans & the 'medicinal meals for him & her' with photos of 'medicinal meals' that look disgusting)
purses (i assume you don't want these, but damn are they cute!)

you could also get any number of brand name knock offs . . . D-squared belt buckles, coach purses, and of course, le sportsac bags! (that's for jenny)

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they're here tonight and flying out tomorrow. I think the tshirt option will probably be best, although I had the idea that getting some disgusting and/or bizarre food product would be funny too. But who knows if you can get that stuff past customs... Some other communisty propaganda like the cards might be cool too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

“If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview,” FEMA spokesperson Rachel Rodi is quoted in the article. “That’s just a policy.”

Well, that's fucked up. It reminds me of restrictions on visitors to migrant farm worker housing in the US south. I do wonder, though, why the residents can't sneak off and give an interview with someone outside of the camp. Surely there's not a FEMA agent assigned to tail every resident. There's not enough money for it. And what about phone interviews? They can't stop those. "No, I'm talking to my grandmother in Georgia... yeah, Grandma, it's rough here. Insufficient water and sewer services... curfews... whatever..."

Jesse, do you know any people living in FEMA parks? Get them off site. I'll interview them by phone. We'll be the Woodward and Bernstein of the FEMA trailer parks.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and Sarah were in my dream last night. It was this crazy spy/prison escape thing, and when I escaped I was on State St. in Madison. N & S were sitting at an outdoor cafe and some annoying girl was talking to them. I can't recall the conversation but the punchline was S saying "Yeah, but I'm getting married...TO NICK!" and then I woke up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I vaguely remember when I Get Wet came out, but I think at the time I didn't realize he was actually so cool.

It's the damndest thing, though. He's not cool. It's very hard to explain.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you could also get illegal copies of shows that aren't on DVD here yet . . . stuff like Lost or Rome or season 6 of The Shield . . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's fucked up.

no, that's SOP for any government agency. any press interview on government property (a FEMA trailer in this case) usually has at least one pao monitoring it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Kenan: OTM

xpost to Kelsey: But we have the internet for (some of) those! :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

nevermind, rome is out. but, it's over $60 & i bought it for $5.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's the damndest thing, though. He's not cool. It's very hard to explain.

No, no, I know this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Mr. Kevin - It may be SOP but it's still fucked up in principle. Still, come off the property and give an interview. Like I said, they can't follow everybody.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell is Rome?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

no, in principle it makes perfect sense. that's exactly why they SHOULD go off property to give an interview.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's an HBO show . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

The series is a historical drama depicting the period of history surrounding the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire; a change driven by the class struggle between Patrician and Plebeian (in Latin the patricii and the plebeii), the decay of political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men.

Wow, sounds right up Jenny's alley.

As for me, I can't imagine anything more snoozerific.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'd heard that it was disappointing, though watchable.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

It does sound right up my alley, but I also heard it was disappointing so I haven't explored the particular alley that it may be up.

Or something.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

From what I've seen of it, Julia is right on. I am struggling to connect with the characters, although the cultural representation of Rome at the time is fascinating.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Rome sounds up my alley too. I studied latin and shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY: Michael's is having a sale on cotton yarn (sugar n' cream brand) for $1/skein!!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I love cotton yarn. I can't justify even a $1/skein purchase right now, though. I'm already at war with myself over keeping the huge box of yarn I already have.

Although you could stock up to crochet a lot of leprosy bandages at $1/skein.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

GOT ITEM

(One [1] Pfork fest ticket... thanks again for the hook-up otto)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 27 July 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, we just had a short but surrrious storm here. I saw a photo of people canoing down the street a block from my college apartment.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Question for cook-types:

Do you think it would taste good to make guacamole of sorts but with pieces of mango and cucumber mixed in rather than say, tomato and onion?

Also, Jordan, will you be able to get home? Is Madison flooded?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thank goodness. I was being poxy fuled out of very existance!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think it would taste good to make guacamole of sorts but with pieces of mango and cucumber mixed in rather than say, tomato and onion?

I think it could be good, but why not use all 4? (The more the merrier.) Also, mango can get squishy like avocado, I don't know for sure but am curious how they'd react to one another.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think mostly downtown is flooded. The west side seems to be okay.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/loveorlando/Other/100NorthParkBlk7_27_07003.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://pics.livejournal.com/kraorh/pic/00003e3k/s640x480

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

why not make some kind of mango/cucumber/lime salsa? with tomatoes? maybe red onions? jicima? i spelled that wrong....

HOLY SHIT?! Think we'll get some of your rain, jordan? that's crazy!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Jordan! That's crazy! Be careful, friend.

I don't have any jicama, but I have tomatoes, mango, cucumbers, and limes. I'm basically trying to accomplish two things: make dinner without the application of heat and use up as many perishible foods as possible. And I have three avocados that are rapidly becoming unusable.

I'm already making a black bean/quinoa/bell pepper salad type thing as the main course. (I'll have to cook the quinoa, but it's only about 20 minutes in the rice cooker so that won't heat up the apartment very much.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Why do people drive in flood waters? Have they never seen TV? Every day there are reports with video of someone driving into engine-deep water, stalling, being swept away in a current, clinging to a tree, dying etc. Then they play in on the Weather Channel eternally.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

i'd just make the crazy guac! call it Crazy Guac! tm

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Aight, I'm going for it. And I will report back with findings. And I might put some 'maters and onion in it, since I have plenty of those to use up as well.

Man, I love summer food, even if the heat makes me very irritable.

Jesse, that is an excellent question. Maybe they are hoping to beat the bad floods.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Why do people drive in flood waters?

often when people are driving in areas that do not usually flood they don't know the true depth of the water. from a distance you may thing it's only up to your hubs but when you're in it it's over your bumper.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Holy moses, that rain.

I purchased a mango/kiwi salsa from Whole Foods last night. Delicious. It'd be pretty easy to make myself, I bet, at a fraction of the price.

I procured a Sunday Pitchfork ticket for Krista, from Craigslist. Hooray.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

awwww!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

5698

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

oops

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

wrong monitor

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

for a second, i thought that someone had revived my "list all the street numbers you've ever lived at" thread and you got that thread mixed up with this one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

i can't remember my kalamazoo address at all. it's the only one lost to me.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

the one on woodward?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

yeah.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

i also don't know what my address was in china. but does living in an apartment for a month count?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like i have a piece of mail addressed to me in care of you, at that woodward place. i do remember i was at 715 davis during the summer of 2000.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

actually, maybe the mail was from you, like you didn't remember my address and just told paula and emily to give it to me. like when you were in new zealand? this is all so hazy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

i also can't remember my hyde park address or my rogers park address!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

work is finally starting to move a little faster these days. it's already nearly five!

should i convince leaf that i do need $1 skeins of cotton yarn?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hyde Park address = 5237 S. Kenwood Ave, #1

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DO YOU KNOW THESE THINGS?! creepy!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

(Ha, I don't actually remember that -- it was on some website about Bruce N.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

i'm outta here! by john!

p.s. nice searchin'!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

And in Rogers Park you lived on Winchester. But I don't remember the exact address. 73- or 74-something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bye!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Make a check, money order or cashier’s check payable to J0hn Cunn1ngham and send it to the following address:

J0hn Cunn1ngham
4883 ½ N. Paulina, Apt. 2c
Chicago, IL 60640

½???

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I know, it's weird! I live in a complex, and you have to go down a little walk in order to enter my part of the building. There are three doors you can go in: 4883, 4883½, and 4885. I'm in the middle one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Consequently, I hate having to give my address to anyone over the phone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

do things get mailed if they say .5 instead of 1/2?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I don't know!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Our new apartment is a 1/2 apt., too! How do you handle typing your address into web forms? Our landlord said you can write it as 3500.5 (not our actual address, which I forget) if you want to.

And now you know.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

That 1/2 is very Laverne and Shirley, therefore I love it.

Today I had my students analyze a variety of American magazines to determine who the target demographic is supposed to be. They were also supposed to look for noteworthy slang and peculiarities in usage. Here's what I learned:

The Source is intended for a general population, but mainly for highly educated, upper class males. It contains no slang, only very formal language.

Latina magazine is intended for a wide audience of women, but mainly women who are overweight.

XXL magazine is vulgar and rife with language not suitable for students.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

(those were my students' assessments)

Also, Sister 2 Sister is not ethnically specific.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm worried about the 1/2. It's my biggest fear in the entire world right now.

How short of shorts can I get away with at PFfest?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 28 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

the shorts i will be wearing will go past my ankles. YOU'RE WELCOME CHICAGO!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I decided that the only logical thing to do with dinner was to put the cucumber in the black bean and quinoa salad and eat the mango for lunch tomorrow and make regular guacamole. And that is what I did. And the salad was DELISH. And lovely. I will post pictures.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is that true about The Source? I've never read it, but that's not the vibe I get from it...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I know I haven't had much to say lately but I adore your teaching stories and I'm convinced you must be the best classroom leader EVAH. Imma keepin' tabs on you, grill!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

I heart Amanda's students.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the salad. It's not a good picture because I'm not a good picture taker. Also, I made this in my underwear.

http://static.flickr.com/74/200017053_e2f03b3f3b.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

wow, my underwear is totally unsuitable for use as a serving dish.

kudos to you and your drawers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Today on the way home from work I saw a dead body on a stoop. Maybe murder? There were tons and tons of police and screaming people.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote that message several hours ago. My usual open wireless network has disappeared and I'm sitting in my back parking area atop a rusted a/c unit where I can get another network.

I have a closer pic than this that I can't find, but here is a NO cop standing over the body.

http://static.flickr.com/58/200067243_19de7303dd_o.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

the outdoor roaches are eating my toes so i must go inside.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

I want to call in sick to work.

It's going to be http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/common/images/icons/standard/wx/45x45/30.gif this weekend. I'm kind of scared.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Those statements are unrelated, btw.

Also, remember the dead dude Jeff saw in the alley next to the Argyle station? Seeing dead people in their natural state is a bummer.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

i walked in on an autopsy once, that is the height of bummers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I bought shorts for this weekend! I hate the shorts styles these days. They were all either tight & down to my knees (not a good look for me!), tight on the bottom & really baggy the rest of the way down to my knees (not a good look on anyone!) or teeny tiny. I went with the only somewhat teeny tiny pair I could find. They are a corduroy-like material, so I'll be able to wear them through winter. ha ha

I haven't seen a dead body in a really long time, but they've always been in caskets.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jenny, that salad looks delicious. I love summer foods, especially mango & avocado. I eat avocado about every other day.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Talk to me! This is going to be a very long day...

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

What is going on? I am 10 minutes late for work but the whole building was locked up tight and I'm the only person here. The 6 interns are not here, the union people (6-10 of them) are not here, and the receptionist is not here.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

agreed. what time are you going over tomorrow sarah?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

local holiday jesse? the nola equivalent of pulaski day perhaps?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I heard a sick-ass trumpet-led version of Softly (as in a Morning Sunrise) on the way to work. Then I sat in the car for 15 minutes to find out who it is, and of course they never said, 'cause college radio djs are too shy to talk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

But I think I have a pretty good guess, because (stay with me here) the at the end of the tune someone says "that's Louis Hayes on drums...I ain't played with a drummer like that for a long time...and that was Buddy Rich, heh". So, it was an unbelievable trumpet player who takes 10 min solos, and I saw Freddie Hubb4rd heckling (in an old friends way) Louis Hayes in a club once, therefore it must have been Freddie Hubbard in his prime. But I didn't think FH ever played with Buddy Rich.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

OK, some people just got here and the interns are on their way. That was really weird. It does nothinig to abate my Lost-creepiness.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you're on New Orleans time, chillax.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, otto. Nick wants to try to see EVERYTHING, so we should be there towards the very beginning. I think it starts at 1 with Hot Machines? So I guess we'll go over after breakfast. Anyway, we'll have our cells so we can find people.

It's kind of eerily quiet here too, which is great except for these people who call in and keep asking to be transferred to other people and finally say, Ok, who IS there??!! I'm here!

Jordan, you should have called in and asked. College radio djs get lonely.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of Buddy Rich, we watched the Muppet Movie last night, and then I watched Buddy Rich vs. Animal on youtube, which is claaaaaasic. Although all the clips of it have Kermit inexplicably speaking en espanol.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was up until 2 in the morning working on a project that it is becoming clear will never see the light of day, and I am tired, and I want to go home.

I am experiencing developer burnout. This is not being tired of being a developer. No no... this is end-of-your-rope frustration with developers who refuse to acknowledge that front-end web design, information architecture, and code are necessary components of a web site. They literally believe that as long as their asp.NET is pulling a bunch of crap from their precious database, every internet user in the world will be tickled pink. Meanwhile, sales agents are complaining they they are embarrassed to send clients to the web site because it looks so amateurish, and the development team won't even give me access to the development server. I can't touch a thing without going through them first.

I need sleep. I am cranky. More than usual, even.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to call in, but no one is picking up. Does anyone have aim right now? It's wsumlive.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

The last stuff on their playlists are audiobook versions of HP Lovecraft and Angela Carter at 3:00 am.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

The thing is that the receptionist guy is usually here long before I get here. Turns out that he got in a car wreck last night.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Is he ok, jesse?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yo. I think I'm gonna go buy shorts on my lunch break. Where is a good place to buy shorts? I don't think I have ever bought shorts in my life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I bought one (1) pair of shorts at Target at the beginning of summer, and they've served all my short-related needs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I used to call WVUD djs to find out what was playing all the time. In the days before cell phones, I even pulled over once to call from a phone booth (had the number memorized). It was Will Oldham, something from Joya. I know this because I wrote "Will Oldhan, Joya" on a piece of paper and stuck it in my day planner and forgot about it until YEARS later when Jeff and I were talking about Will Oldham and I'm like, "That sounds familiar..." and then I found the paper and was all like OMG. The end.

So, okay, listen. I'm anxious about the heat and being outside all day long. I'd like to know everyone's water strategies. If I plan ahead, I think I'll alleviate some of my anxiety.

John, where do you work? I will tell you where to buy shorts close to you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

i can't remember the last time i bought shorts. my ex-room mate bought me several pairs two (three?) summers ago that i rarely wear. before that i think i bought a pair in the summer of '96.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE CHICAGO.

I will be arriving tonight for the pforkfest this weekend.

jaymc -- check yr email.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I have at least 8 shorts. Why do you people have so few?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, yeah, Jesse. I just paid attention to your receptionist-related post. Is he okay?

Hi Elmo Argonaut. It's going to be hot.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have one pair of shorts, and those were pants when I got them. I look funny in shorts.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes, if you ever get a chance to see the band Allá, you should. It's the brainchild of Jorge L3d3zma, and his brother Angel (from Midstates) plays drums. Sort of Stereolab-ish -- female lead singer, jazzy chords -- but way more trippy and psychedelic, with guitar delay and vocal loops. Apparently they have been recording an album for the last five years and are only now releasing it this year.

Kr and I saw them at South Union Arts last night. The opening band was called Bilun and were from Puerto Rico, although they sounded exactly like Múm, right down to the melodica, breathy female vocals, and crunching beats.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

John, where do you work? I will tell you where to buy shorts close to you.

I knew you would come through in the clutch. I work at LaSalle and the river, basically. I'm up for a walk, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

i have weird bird legs that are wholely unattractive in shorts, that's why i don't wear them.

elmo, good show at the bottle tonight. it will probably sell out so get there early if you're thinking about going.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see a Nick A. + Yancey S. reunion this weekend. Big ol' bear hugs 'n shit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Shopping for Shorts in the Loop: A Retail Guide by Jenny B.

Well, if you're up for a walk, I would suggest that you hit the State St. shopping extravaganza. Since you're getting shorts and shouldn't need any help with sizes, etc., Nordstrom Rack is a good bet for cheap deals. H&M is right next to it but I understand they don't have a very good men's selection. But if the Rack can't help, I'd check there next since it doesn't involve crossing the street. If that fails, cross the street and go to TJ Max, where you can dig through piles of clothes to find treasures. (I'm omitting Filene's because I'm afraid if you go in there, we'll never see you again.)

Finally, if all that failed to produce an acceptable pair of shorts, I would try Carson's, since it's cheaper, and as a last resort, Marshall Field's. It's getting towards the end of the season, so you should find clearance racks with cheap shorts at both of those places.

AND if that is totally non-productive and you want to walk even farther south on State St., go to Sears. And then the Gap.

And if you can't find shorts then, just cut off a pair of your pants.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have great looking legs, except some weird vein that pops out on my shins.

The receptionist is fine.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm omitting Filene's because I'm afraid if you go in there, we'll never see you again.)

ha!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I'm afraid to go into Filene's. It would be negligent for me to send John in there without an escort.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dud: my squeeze has been gone for almost two weeks and gets back so late on Sun that I won't even see him.

Dudder: I am SO MAD at him for being gone, even though trip was planned before we met, that I have contemplated throwing my desk supplies down the hallway, item by item, even though I realize this is all a little bit Crazy Girlfriend. I don't care. I have not, however, told him how crazy I am. Do I keep that a secret? I won't be able to stay mad once he's back but right now I could throttle him. Slowly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I won't be able to stay mad once he's back but right now I could throttle him. Slowly.

sounds risque.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

And you're welcome, John. My coworker helped.

Do I keep that a secret?

It's going to come out eventually anyway, so you might as well tell him on your own terms.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I sat next to a dude on the train this morning who was reading Der Spiegel.

After a three-day outage, I have Internet at home again. Yay!

I am feeling chatty and social and excited right now. This morning I woke up and felt like singing songs from the 19th century. This entailed a lot of Stephen Foster -- "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair," "Old Folks at Home," "Camptown Races," etc. -- plus "And the Band Played On," "The Entertainer" (yeah, I know it doesn't have words, I just went "ba-da-bup-BAH-buh-BAH-buh-BAHH!")and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (even though I have a feeling Cohan wrote that in like 1905).

I don't think Kr was amused.

Btw, I bought a couple dress shirts and shoes at Filene's a couple months ago, but they didn't fit -- and I forgot to return them within 30 days. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's going to come out eventually anyway, so you might as well tell him on your own terms.

great minds thinking alike right here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I just got a Friendster message from a high-school friend who was apparently researching the slang term "dago tee" and found something I posted on ILX. She was like, "Is that you, John?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

HA!

Could you not try the clothes on before you bought them, John?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I know it's pretty much insane to be MAD at him for going off to do something rewarding and awesome, but I do feel a bit like he tricked me into caring about him and getting used to Life With NEB (I resisted in the beginning just in case it all fell through but he was so HONEST and GOOD that I got sucked in) AND THEN HE LEAVES ME.

Amanda, I applaud you for not doing this kind of crazy when yr Numba One Stunna was gone on that shoot.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of work to do today. Is that supposed to happen on a Friday?

I got some good shorts at TJMax. DKNY! I'm so fashionable.

I am listening to Fear.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, sounds pretty normal to me. But then again, I've dated some crazy women ;)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Could you not try the clothes on before you bought them, John?

Hahahahahha. I have friends who've never seen the inside of the dressing rooms at H&M, the lines are so long. They just put it all on a credit card and return whatever doesn't work.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

AND THEN HE LEAVES ME.

if he doesn't come back by monday then you can go bitchcakes but until then be cool fool!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

what does NEB stand for?

it does sound fairly normal. illogical, but normal. emotions are like that.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Could you not try the clothes on before you bought them, John?

Well, it's like this. I went there after work, and the store closed at 8, so I only had an hour to try stuff on. I tried on a couple shirts, not knowing my neck size at all, and they didn't fit at all. But it takes so long to pull out all those pins and button everything up that when I came out of the dressing room, I only had a few minutes. So I just grabbed a couple shirts that I thought were my size (based on the shirts that didn't fit) and just rang them up.

This was for a wedding two days later. Loyal readers of the Chicago thread will remember that I ended up going to Marshall Fields the following day, where I got fitted and came away with a snazzy blue shirt that I totally wore with my suit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

NEB = New Editorial Boyfriend?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling Cohan wrote that in like 1905

1904, bitches!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm all having this "good little woman on the home-front" kind of impulse which is not to let on that I'm unhappy lest I DISTRACT HIM from his VERY IMPORTANT WORK. And then I think, "dude, he's not saving the world from the Nazis, you're allowed to have feelings" but then again, I am temporarily crazy right now due to new prescription so I can't trust anything.

Sorry, guys. Just need a shoulder today, I guess. (JMZ iz korrect.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I hate trying on clothes in H&M and similar stores. HATE. So I am the one who just takes a guess and returns it when it doesn't fit.

Laurel: What is he doing and how long has he been gone and when will he come back?

Ahhh on preview: I know the good little woman on the home-front dilemma and it's unpleasant.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Be ungracious or be silently miserable? I'm not good at being silently ANYTHING, for the record, but the selfishness of the first option is making me feel like a terrible person.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

you ladies are crazy for subscribing to those insane gender roles. JUST BE YOURSELVES FOR CHRISSAKES!!!! i know you know this but sometimes people forget basic stuff. it took me a minute to remember how to do long division the other day when i couldn't find my calculator. it was embarrassing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Why not say "Look, I had these feelings and I know they're unfair but if I don't let 'em out it's going to be an uncomfortable thing" -- ?

xpost also what otto said

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I don't think it's entirely about gender roles in this situation. It's also about not wanting to be selfish when you know the high road is to be supportive and happy for your significant other's opportunities. Like, Jeff once mentioned that he was considering applying for a job that would involve something like 50% travel. My first instict was to grab his leg and bawl, but instead I decided that it would be more mature and reasonable to be supportive (not because I'm female, but because I love Jeff and want him to be happy): Well, I think it would be a tough adjustment, but if this is something that you want to do, then I'll totally support you.

Approximately two hours later, I did actually grab onto his leg and start bawling. He opting not to appyl for the job.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Appyls are my favorite fruit.

But anyway, while I think that the "good woman on the homefront" icon is definitely a gender role, I don't think that being sad, lonely, and a little resentful when your partner is far away doing something is in any way limited to women.

Also, I agree with Dan re: admitting that your feelings might be unfair but that you're having them anyway. I think it's always better to let these things out than it is to try and ignore them.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i would say "the good little woman on the home-front dilemma" is definitely about gender role or else it would be "good little person". all the same, i think it's definitely better to communicate what your thinking rather than assume that the stiff upper lip is the best approach. i can't imagine a situation where it's best to subjugate your feelings instead of vocalizing them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Several XPs: Hee! Thank you, Jenny. I am practicing being calm, caaaaaaaaaaaaalm. Maybe we'll have this conversation when he's back. By that time I won't be mad anymore, but...oh well.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, if he knows he's being missed that's a good thing, right?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Travel is a huge, huge problem in my relationship.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently the song Look Good in Leather has lots of 'fucks' in it. Whoops.

I hate trying things on at H&M too, but more likely than not, the clothes there fit weird & look terrible on me. B-But they look so exciting on the rack!

Laurel, YOU WILL MAKE IT THROUGH THIS!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

XP to Dan: I...guess? I'm new to this being a girlfriend business, I can manage my life just fine when it only involves ME, but now formerly easy things are weirdly hard.

Sorry, Jordan. :((((

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

i would say "the good little woman on the home-front dilemma" is definitely about gender role or else it would be "good little person".

Well, yeah. I said as much. What's not gendered is the emotional response to your SO being away while you're left at home. I have a feeling that Laurel's tagging the experience as she did was a little tongue in cheek.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, totally. Because it would be my mother's response, and she's a natural doormat in some ways.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

In a way, all this POXY FULEing is good, because I have things to do. But I need something to read and LOL at while I eat my lunch!

This post will probably be lost to POXY FULE anyway...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, whaddaya know

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

The poxy fules make me sad.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago, get back here.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here. Leaving soon, though, and maybe buying fabric for a sewing project.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

What is your project?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still here. Fighting with my xterminals, the fucking server keeps freezing up on me. THIS KIND OF SHIT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN ON FRIDAY

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, will there be any pix of you in your Scottish outfit?

Jordan, your post made me sad too. :-(
Do you have a date?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Operation purchase shorts = successful.

Although I went to Nordstrom Rack and the only shorts I saw there were like fancy pleated Ralph Lauren shorts. I tried on a pair of silk shorts there, and though they felt amazing, they looked rather silly. So I figured I couldn't go wrong at Old Navy across the street, so I bought their standard cargo shorts -- despite my years of clucking about cargo anything. They're silly, too, but a bit more acceptable. THE END.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

post-lunch siesta settling in over me, hope i can stay awa-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'll start a dress:
http://img.sewingtoday.com/cat/10000/itm_img/B4790.jpg

Sarah, I don't think there are any photos online of me in Scottish drag!

Cargo shorts = awesome. Pleated shorts = my dad. DON'T DO IT, JOHN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I texted Kr to say I bought shorts and she texted back, "I knew you could do it ... hope they aren't pleated :)"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Good job, John. Are you sure those silk shorts weren't boxers??

Our new conference room has a glass wall that looks out on my desk, so it's really obvious to people in there when I'm playing online. These folks FINALLY finished their meeting! It was really hard to look at all busy for all that time. Mostly I stared out the window.

But OHMYGOD I had jimmyjohn's for lunch with salt & vinegar chips. mmm...

xp Cute, Laurel! Do you have fabric picked out?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

The thing I might not have explained earlier is that I do have several pairs of shorts at home -- but the button popped off two of them, and the third pair is pleated and totally dad-like. In fact, my dad may have given them to me. This is what I mean when I say I've never bought shorts in my life: everything I have is hand-me-downs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

You know what are good, if a tad short, are those old-skool cycling shorts with the back pockets that are all one piece across the bum, and are reinforced in all the right places. Maybe LL Bean or someplace super-conservative still makes them?

Sarah, no but it takes FIVE YARDS. So it better be cheap!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Pleats = the bane of men's pants everywhere

Why would you want to make your crotchal area balloon out like that?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

huh, ponys signed with matador.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

That dress is superduperadorable! You're making me want to get out my sewing machine, now, although I think I've forgotten how to do anything besides straight seams. Well, sort of straight.

John, I am horrified that I forgot to put Old Navy in that list. That was the most obvious choice! Durrrrr... Anyway, congratulations! For all of their drawbacks, cargo pants/shorts are pretty handy for carrying things. Cargo, even.

I am in complete agreeance with everyone re: pleats. For ladies, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

agreeance

Didn't Fred Durst coin this word?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

That would be pretty gross.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

LAUREL U CRAZY

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I will probably wear my corduroy cut-off shorts I made for Intonation last year.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst has shot back at the critics slamming him for his use of the word "agreeance" during his anti-war speech at the Grammy Awards. In a posting at www.limpbizkit.com, Durst writes, "Oh, by the way, AGREEANCE is a word according to the OXFORD-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. So the dumb asses at the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER and everyone else who didn't bother to check are welcome to intern at FLAWLESS RECORDS until they learn enough about journalism to write for a major daily newspaper. I love you and kiss my ass!"

What he doesn't point out is that it's in the OED as an archaic word, which has not been in popular use for a couple of centuries.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yah, Ev, I know. I'm unhappy about the crazy part but I can't help it. Will just try to stay busy instead.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I love you, John. Kiss my ass.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I figured you wouldn't mind the pedantry. ;)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

So, who's going tomorrow? I need to go pick up my ticket from ilXor msp, who has been gracious enough to sell me an extra. I'm not super-duper interested in seeing many of the acts that are on tomorrow, but I'd like to hang with peeps if anyone's around. It will be so much nicer this year in that I won't have to shepherd a half-dozen out of towners around and have them passing out on me and shit.

xpost: Words. Sometimes you see right through me!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

So, this time if I call you and leave you a message you'll actually call one of us back?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

(In case you don't remember, I called and left you a message last year at Intonation. Although, I think you did eventually call back. Sorry. It is I who don't remember.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

You definitely didn't hang out with us, though, or you could have had some ~~warm~~ hot Jim Beam and kissed Kenan.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I remember meeting Evan and Amanda for the first time at last year's festival.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

dan, don't know what time i'll be there, hopefully early enough to catch hot machines. i still have to coordinate with the person who has my pass so i have no idea when i'll get there. i can tell you if it gets hotter than balls i'm ditching union park and finding a tavern. msp should have it but i'll send you my # and we'll coordinate something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was super lame last year in that respect. Like I said, this year I will be sans-housemate, girlfriend, and visitors... so it will be a lot simpler!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff said he wanted to get to Union Park in time for Man Man tomorrow, so we'll probably be there around 1:30 - 2. Do you cats remember where we were hanging out the first day? Near the beer booths, under some trees, kind of over where the DJ tent was? We could meet up around there.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

i can tell you if it gets hotter than balls i'm ditching union park and finding a tavern.

It's going to be hotter than balls. MY KINGDOM FOR REENTRY!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

No fucking kidding. I don't see, in modern times like these, how they can't work out a reentry plan. IS THIS PROGRESS PEOPLE?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

it's not going to help that i'll be walking into the park with a guaranteed hangover either.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

So. My water strategy is to get two big bottles, not gallons but the next size down, and stick one in the freezer. Then by the time the first one is gone (like, what, ten minutes?) the second will be deliciously cold. The frozen bottle will also serve to cool whichever human ends up carrying it in a back pack.

Then I will stand in line for an hour for free water with the rest of the dirty birds.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a friend who works for Love, Chicago, so I'll probably be over at their booth at some point.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

wow. i've been poxy'd all day & look what I've been missing! laurel: i didn't know about these recent developments! yay! and that dress! gorgeous! i think i'm going to take sewing classes shortly after we move b/c we will actually have enough room for me to set up the machine!!

congrats on the shorts, john. you're really something!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, your water strategy is sound. i think you'll be baffled at how quickly the frozen water melts!*

*because i am & you & are are one with the frozen water.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Man, the headphone jack on my computer speakers has finally cut out for good. I wonder what I should do. I'm not sure I want to ask for new speakers, because it's not like they're necessary to do my job -- they just came with the computer. I might have an old pair at home I could bring in? Sorry, just thinking to myself here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i would report it, at the very least. it's work related if it makes your job more comfortable, i think.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, Sarah, plans of that nature are on hold at the moment.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

yes, congrats on new shorts, as shorts are frequently ridiculous looking and thus hard to find. so finding some that are acceptable is a great victory. i used to prefer cutoffs because you can decide on length, but now i just wear skirts.

but the button popped off two of them

do you know how to sew on a button? because it's a very useful skill...

xp oh shit, the headphone jack on a computer is vital...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know how to sew on a headphone jack?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

that would be very useful too...because when a headphone jack goes it is TRAGIC.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

The headphone jack has been busted on my work computer forever, which means I have to keep it constantly on mute or else sounds come out of the super-tinny built-in speaker.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

do you know how to sew on a button? because it's a very useful skill...

Nope, I've always left that up to girlfriends/my mom.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

what's wrong, jordan? i missed something . . . is everything okay?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, I've always left that up to girlfriends/my mom.

Learned helplessness is not sexy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

John, sewing on a button is just about the easiest thing in the world.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I sewed on a button with a machine once!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'll have you know I am plenty sexy, thank you very much.

http://static.flickr.com/48/159365457_285ab56f71_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying it's not easy, MacGyver. It's just never seemed that important.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I took band instead of home ec.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - "Huh."

MacGyver! HAHAHA!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

and you'd be even SEXIER if you learned this! woohoo!

http://sewing.about.com/c/ht/00/07/How_Sew_Flat_Button0962932896.htm

(xp--rofflez @ macgyver)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a very sexy man too.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/wheezy.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

A sexy man like Louise Jefferson?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

that's a very special kind of sexy man.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think i've been sewing buttons on wrong . . . i've never used a straight pin!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

sexy man:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/kt_and_jj.jpg

not a sexy man:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/beebs.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's a really good picture of you, Kevin.

The second one, I mean.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

a straight pin? i didn't look at the instructions fully, but that seems silly.

those are overdetailed instructions! and "professional results"--hah. successful results means having a button back on, it's not like anyone's going to be looking closely enough to notice if it's obviously hand done.

there are plenty of instructions on the web about how to sew a button on. it's very very simple.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've never learned to sew buttons on either. I figure if a button comes off I should either throw away the item of clothing or adopt it as part of my style.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's creepy because the second pic kind of looks like me. Without all the MS Paint on my face, though.

xpost: Nick speaks the truth

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Umm, you guys know who that second pic is, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

i do!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

A FAMOUS BLOGGER!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

without the L!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

WHOA, I met him at PFork last year, too!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

A famous bogger? Who is it? Who is it?

WAIT! Did we play cards with this person?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i've thought he was a dick long since the mid/late 90s.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think I know!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

who is he?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know who it is. But I do think it kind of looks like me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

DARN IT ALL TO HECK SOMEONE TELL ME WHO THAT IS!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Is it John Wayne Gacy?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

People who have met me: Don't you think it kind of looks like me with bigger jowls?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about me. me me me

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it *was* you for a second. But then realized that Kevin wouldn't go around talking about how not sexy you are.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also -- you're not that, um, big.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

A FAMOUS FLUXBLOGGER!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

that guy is way bigger than dan.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

What is it with cats and things that have corners?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i had a cat that used to sit around for hours working on a rubik's cube.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, did you just out yourself as a poster on the Fake Matador Bulletin Board?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

i was one of the first posters there. i still post there occasionally.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it *was* you for a second. But then realized that Kevin wouldn't go around talking about how not sexy you are. . . . Also -- you're not that, um, big.

Yup.

Cats like things with corners so they can rub their little cat faces all over them.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

And cats rub their faces on things because they have little scent glands in the corners of their mouths. It's basically a marking thing. You can interpret that behavior roughly as: MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, first Lance bass, now this.

xpost

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I went and picked up a brush for our cat the other day at P3tSm@rt and they had this little plastic thing, two sides at a 90 degree angle, each about as big as a playing card with little raised bumps on them. You stick it to a corner on a wall or something, and then the cat can come by and rub their face all over it to its heart's content. I assume this is the kind of thing you're talking about, Kenan.

xpost exactly

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I did not know that, Jenny. Huh.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm at home now, but I love my job sooooo much that I can't stop doing it!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, sometimes I yell at them for getting their dirty pheremones all over me.q

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

LET'S PLAY A GAME. I am going to post a sentence, and you people guess who wrote it:

The most important knowledge I have taken away from my education and employment experience is it is not always the answer that counts but the solution to how you achieved the answer.

Clue: It's not George Bush.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

wow. is that someone famous or someone local?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nikki Sixx

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Frat Boy?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

my stock answer whenever it's a "who said it": teddy roosevelt.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Judy Baar Topinka

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

DAN WINS!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Disclaimer: I am an evil person and I am going to hell, but you know how there's a "recent documents" list under the file menu in most word processing programs? Well, when one of those documents has "modeling agency" in the title, and you work at a law firm, and you know who was using the computer before you... what else are you supposed to do?

Here's another tidbit:

I see my future as very promising with the education, knowledge, and experience I have acquired and the interactions I have encountered.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

"Whoa, an interaction."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

i hope not to encounter any interactions on my way home today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

so, party time, what exactly is frat boy doing with a document marked "modeling agency" anyway? applying for a job? as staff or talent?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

"the solution to how you achieved the answer" totally gave it away. I used to work in the writing center in college and I read so. many. fratdude papers with bullshit like that in them.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Also in college: A guy I knew used the "recent document" feature in W0rd to get an entire exam that a prof. (who for some reason was using the lab) had just been working on. Yeah, he got caught.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can't figure out what position he's applying for. He cites management experience and expresses a desire to "suceed in positions" within the industry. It's very non-specific.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

What's your favourite position?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Er, he spelled succeed correctly, though.

To deflect attention from me, here's one more:

Through my years of education and employment experience, I learned many important mannerisms of the economy and the job market in general.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Someone Excelsiored it, but my very favorite response in the thread Jordan links is, "one where i have an advantage in a bargain."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nevermind that the prof was a dumbass and had saved the file locally to that machine instead of to his little partitioned area of the network.

I saw people get all kinds of stuff in similar fashion by going through the Recycle Bin after grad students or profs had been using the machine. I love nerddom.

xpost: This guy is big on "educaton and employment experience" huh? And "years" of it? What is he, 40?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's the "mannerisms of the economy" that gets me. Damn the economy and its vulgar affectations!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

IN MY DEFENSE: I tell EVERYONE who clerks here that the server is NOT PRIVATE and that other clerks are going to root through your files if they suspect there is something in there that might be helpful (not likely in his case, but still) and not to save anything personal on the server.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

That guy is a world-class ding dong.

HI EVERYONE. Today I took the Chinese students to eat their first Mexican food. They liked it! They had never heard of tortillas. What is "tortilla?" they said. They were glad to have some spicy food though, since they have been eating in the IIT caf for a week.

Amanda, I applaud you for not doing this kind of crazy when yr Numba One Stunna was gone on that shoot.
Um, the first time he went away for a month, maybe 6 years ago, and I did freak out a little that time. This time I have had 6 years to realize that he will definitely come home, so it was no biggie.

So, um, I don't know what my plans are tomorrow, but I will def call one of you guys -- or call and call and call -- until I reach someone and find out where you are. Neither D nor my friends from out of town have tickets for tomorrow and I have to teach until 1, so I don't think I'll be there very early.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S RIGHT HONKY, NO BIGGIE.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

(Is that an unacceptable word these days? I don't even know, but I meant it in jest.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am so offended.

I just got a MIDI-USB cable delivered to my office via UPS, so I can start recording keyboard tracks in GarageBand. Woo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Record some keyboard shit and then send it to me as a wav file and I'll put beats to it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh yeah, c'est possible.

Although my USB ports have been acting up lately, too. Like, suddenly my mouse or my keyboard won't work, and then I'll just switch the USBs they're plugged into, and it's fine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

if i see anyone tomorrow ask me if i remembered to buy ice cube trays ok? because if i've forgotten i'd like to be reminded. and while i'm on the subject, where on division (between ashland & damen) can i get ice cube trays?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

OMG JELLO SHOTS

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

no, ice cubes. went to make a gin and tonic last night and had no ice. it was the least satisfying g&t ever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe. Don't lie, you're totally making jello shots.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Come On Eileen" -- which is what I was singing this morning after I ran out of 19th-century tunes to sing -- always reminds me of jello shots for some reason. It's all very freshman year of college.

I asked Kr if "Come on Eileen" was still a big hit among the college set, and she said, "Yeah, we all put on overalls and danced around."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

that song must have been the bane of every college girl named eileen circa 1983.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

John, buy one preamp/interface!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

(Is that an unacceptable word these days? I don't even know, but I meant it in jest.)

It's acceptable, but you have to do a little George Jefferson jive dance after you say it.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

All you would need is one of those cheap M-Audio ones with two inputs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

John, buy one preamp/interface!

More, please.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Come On Eileen" always reminds me of Eileen, and the importance of having a fresh towel handy.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, I have a very rudimentary mixer that someone gave me ages ago. Would that work? I don't really know anything about making music on the computer at all and so I have put off doing it for this long. But I wanted to make a first step.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

All you would need is one of those cheap M-Audio ones with two inputs.

The thing I bought is from M-Audio, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, by the way, I'm reading I Am Charlotte Simmons right now and BOY, if he says 1) solar plexus 2) rutrutrut (or anything using the word "rut" to connote sexual activity) or 3) trapezius muscles one more time, I am gonna hunt that man down and punch him in the seersucker. Why in the name of baby Jesus do his editors not STOP HIM from using those words over and over and over and over again? I don't get it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

He's Tom Wolfe. He gets a pass on a lot of stuff. Like writing that book.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

i imagine that punching someone in the seersucker would be wholly unsatisfying.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Kenan... that reminds me of the dude I used to cook with who made up alternate versions of songs all the time. "Come on Eileen, come all over Eileen" etc.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that would work. You need something more like this. Or this.

xpost, oh, you're probably cool then. I actually don't know jack about midi, I run my keyboard through 1/4" cables into a preamp

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Solar plexus" and "rutrutrut" notwithstanding, I really enjoyed that book.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

This preamp

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Someone at the office today: "I don't mind the humidity. It's like getting an all-day facial!"

Me: titter

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan -- I have the Uno that's pictured in your first link there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm enjoying the book too! It's really fun to read, which is why I choose to overlook the rutrutrut bullcrap. I just don't know why someone didn't notice this shit and ask him to maybe get a new catchphrase or whatever.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Kr, and then later, Kenan: LOLZ

Kevin: Maybe a hardware store?

Amanda: That's his style, man.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

there's a lumber store on division but no hardware store.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I got our ice cube trays at Cub. Dunno if there is a similar grocery store in that stretch, though. I could see a Walgreens or something having them, maybe.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

there's a jewel but it's in the other direction. f it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, John. Anyway, let's throw something down, for realz.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

later gators, i'm checking out.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Just get a bag of ice from White Hen or whatever! Wait! OTTO! WAAAIIIIT!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am not leaving this room for the rest of the day. I have the air conditioner blasting right on me and the bedroom and bathroom door open just enough for a small cat, so I'm cool. Cooler that I deserve to be. I have a laptop with wireless access. What else could I want?

I just walked into the kitchen for a second, and it was like going to the middle east. No more of that. I'll get water out of the bathroom tap.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh... my butt is cold. That's fun.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm editing a page that has this photo on it, and at first I thought it was a still from Lost:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/jaymc1/0000092789-maori0001-002.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's that hot, huh?

I'm going to a BBQ thrown by some of Maddie's co-workers in about 1/2 an hour. I've got fruit salad and bocce ready to roll.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

John, what is that image from?

My guess: Jungle Fever II: Rough In Da Jungle

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

My guess is Survivor, even though I've never seen that show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Me: titter

Tit
Titter
Tittest

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's from the encyclopedia I'm editing. It's a Maori man and a "tourist." Originally it's from a stock-photo archive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maoris are some pretty amazing people.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's from Zebraface: The True Story of the Biracial, Bicultural Siamese Twins.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/538/217/20060411/dyn003_original_450_300_pjpeg_2538217_66bfd7a81c542830d400a33d53e52dda.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Funny thing about Kenny that I have learned: I have previously told you of the breezy ease with which bird poo can be cleaned up. But sometimes -- not too often, but sometimes -- he takes the biggest, greenest crap you have ever seen. I mean, HUGE. Like a pile of horseshit. And then a little piece of toilet paper just won't do.

It's a Maori man and a "tourist."

Oh, they do ~~fuck~~ love the tourists.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

When I was in NZ we went to a Maori cultural center and saw a guy getting traditional face tats. BRUTAL

xpost: lolz, you guys are krazy.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Is it bad to leave a bag of baby carrots out for approx. 8 hours, even if the bag has heretofore not been opened? They taste a little funny, but sometimes baby carrots just taste funny in general.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Duder, it's carrots. If it was pork, I'd say worry.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right. I'm gonna put 'em in the fridge, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Put 'em in the fridge, put 'em in the fridge, put 'em in the fridge, put 'em in the fridge.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is that another reference to a song where someone says "put 'em on the glass"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's a reference to a song where someone says "stick it in the fridge." Ask Kevin. He loves that song.

I'm out, kiddies. Call one of us tomorrow and LET'S INDIE ROCK OUT!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, normally i wouldn't say such a thing to you but i think i'm justified here: FUCK YOU.

that. god. damn. SONG!!!

GAH!!!

what possessed me to stop at the liquor store for a six pack of anchor steam and walk out with a six pack of sparks? am i 18 or something? fucking 'tard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

New Basement Jaxx rules so hard. I dl'ed it from Oink just to get my ratio up, even though I already have it from Jeff. Still, thanks, Jeff.

what possessed me to stop at the liquor store for

Price?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

*quote eaten by ILX*

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

even though I already have it from Jeff. Still, thanks, Jeff.

I still don't understand your private music-sharing club.

I have had the new Basement Jaxx for the last week and a half.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

no, sparks was 8.99

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

You must be turning Noize on us.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't had a sparks in a year and now i remember why. tates like a 16 oz. can of someone else's chilled saliva.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am conducting a taste-test of various brands and varieties of split pea and ham soups. All are canned for right now.

I'm only beginning, but here's a surprise upset already: plain old Campbell's in the red and white can won hands down over the expensive "traditional" chunky Progresso one.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Blech Sparks.

the gigantic Kenny poos are likely the result of his being caged up for a couple of hours or overnight. He resists shitting in his cage. When I take him out first thing in the morning I put him on the edge of the tub so he can shit inside of it, then I was it down with the shower.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'M SO BROKE.

I thought today was pay day, but it's not until Monday (the 15th and the last day of the month). Also I have $250+ worth of expense reimbursements coming to me, but the US mail is BRRRRROKEN here, so I may be waiting even longer.

A favor? If they have to stop payment and re-issue checks can one of you nice people meet with one of my bosses (1020 W Bryn Mawr) and deposit the check for me on Tuesday? I'd really appreciate that, cuz brother, I am in hurting.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

the gigantic Kenny poos are likely the result of his being caged up for a couple of hours or overnight.

yep. It's always like he's been keeping it for a long time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was at Tower Records today, and guess what book I found.

Clue: it's by Adolf Hitler.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

The interns and I left work a couple of hours early and rode the streetcar down to the Quarter to do some (window)shopping. In our walking we passed by a voodoo doll lying on the sidewalk, and then an AMEDB Quote came into being: "I just stepped on a voodoo curse!"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Does that break your mother's back, or only the intended subject of the doll's?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'M SO BROKE.

Jesse shut up. WaMu opens at nine tomorrow, and I am putting way more money than you asked for into your account, because you're awesome and kind and loving, and also because I'm trying in advance to diffuse the dynamite shit fit that you're going to throw when you see what two cats can do to a brand new sofa.

So shut up. You whiny bitch.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you said the couch was fine.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

The couch is fine as far as smelling like pee is concerned. I have to pick my battles with these animals.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

See, trimming their claws only does so much good when their preferred place to sharpen their claws is on the sofa. It baffled me, too, at first... look at the cats' claws, dull as butter knives. Look at the sofa, not in pristine condition. Fact is, even a dull cat claw is a deadly theat to a sofa, especially a sofa covered in delicate stitching, because it will be used to try to make said claws less dull, and that will, in itself, fuck up your couch, regardless of the sharpness of the claws to begin with.

Your couch is doomed, Jesse. You can stave it off, but you can't stop it. I know you will never trust me on this until you see it for yourself. I can only ask, on behalf on animal rights activists, that you not beat the cats to death.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

(um... or me)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, is there a scratching item in the same room as the sofa? Like one of those boards wrapped in rope, for instance?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

There's a cardboard floor thingy. They both love that. They both love the couch more, though.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Bummer.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, if you were to go crazy and get Brenda declawed Jenny would be angry with you, but I am much less judgmental about such matters. I could never do such a thing myself, but you follow your heart.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost

IT'S COVERED IN EXPOSED INTTRICATE THREADWORK. Which, if you have a cat, should of course be your first choice in furniture.

Sorry for the snark. I feel really guilty for not having stopped the cats from shredding his furniture. I do. But apart from declawing them both, I don't know what else to do. And once you declaw a cat, you have effectively admitted that you are too small a human being to own a cat. And that's pretty sad.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney announced today that she is going to get a doggy as soon as she moves to Chicago. A schnoodle!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Schnoodle!

http://www.pantagraph.com/features/art/0927-schnoodle-photo.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan and I have a private music sharing club because he comes and visits.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Someone please put some paper in my printer.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.valleyviewdogs.com/images/schnoodles/Miniature-Schnoodle-Sarah-07.jpg

schnoodleschnoodldeleleydoodleydoo!

She even text messaged me today: "schnoodle."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

I bet that's a smart mufuckin hybrid. That 2nd pic looks just like my landlord's doggywoggy.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I'll go get your check on Tuesday - I can't go until around six, though. Email me and we'll work it out.

HOLY SHIT I WANT A SCHNOODLE. LIKE NOW.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

My boss emailed me telling me that AMEDB sent him and the internship coordinator an email expressing concern about the upcoming debrief in Chicago where she will be participating in interfaith services. Because they are INTERfaith, they focus on things that most religions have in common, those being the idea of God* and general spirituality. She wrote that this eliminate's Jesus H., and for her to leave Him out is to turn her back on Him.

She has already made the Muslim intern uncomfortable when it is her turn to lead group prayers by doing them "in Jesus' name," when she could just pray to the Father, who is the same as Allah.

*It is convenient that most of this interfaith stuff involves Jews, Christians and Muslims since they all believe in the same God. Even Buddhists would be fine in that situation, and likely Taoists. But what if we were to include Hindus?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, she must die. Pick a likely sinkhole and do the deed; the world will thank you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Make a voodoo doll in her image. Leave it somewhere she can find it. Deny any knowledge of it and suggest that it's the demons of NO testing her by trying to kill her.

I don't know that it will fix anything, but it will be funny as hell.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

On further investigation, I would like a toy schnoodle.

http://www.wendygraham.com.au/wendy_img/Mitzi.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can totally make a voodoo doll because she wears that fake ponytail and sometimes takes that ratty thing off at the office. OHOHOHOH! And she bought it at a Walgreens in the Quarter before she became suspiscious of the voodoo she saw everywhere, so I could convince her she is wearing voodoo-infected hair!

Today we were going to an antique shop and she said, "This ain't some voodoo store is it?"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Whoooah -- a fuck-off big piece of plaster just fell off the ceiling in my building's stairwell...and my landlord is trying to sell the building so he's not gonna be happy about that. I'm just thankful no one was underneath, it made a HUGE racket and that shit be heavy, yo.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

To her credit, she can sometimes be herded into doing something right if you watch her but closely. I had a surprisingly good lunch meeting with some head bigwig in the Methodist church.

Also, she is really moved by music. She is not afraid to get up and dance in church if she likes the choir, even if she is the only one doing it.

xpost: Laurel, it's the island!

here's an Antony and The Johnsons video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=US7fUzRAEYA&search=antony%20and%20the%20johnsons

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! That video (Cripple and the Starfish) contains a curb stomping!

That is my favorite A&the J's song. It reminds me of how Jenny says I'm attracted to guys who look like they would beat their wives.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

I just put some Detroit noise rock that a friend sent me on the blog.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I met a supersecret CHILX semi-lurker today. Hi!

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Details, plz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Then it wouldn't be supersecret, duh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

But it is someone that you have interacted with on a chicago thread before.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Grady?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

Piuma's ex?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

(Yeah yeah, Bryan -- it just didn't come to me right away.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Powell?

(Did I tell you he's in town this weekend?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Dave?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

jonviachicago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

Josh in Chicago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

john in chicago (econjohn)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

My brother?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Todd Swiss?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Amateurist?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wake up, goddammit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure B. doesn't lurk here -- he got a bit overwhelmed by the quantity. Anyway, haven't you met B. before? He's gone to a FFxns show or two, I thought.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 29 July 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

aw, it was me. supersecret in the sense of being near-invisible. hi jaymc!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Saturday, 29 July 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

(and hi Nick and Sarah! I hope I didn't scare you.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Saturday, 29 July 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

wow, tomorrow may kill me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

killer heat waves almost killed me

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

cheer up plushies, sunshine's good for the teeth.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

yeah damn right he'll rise again

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

If there's a vendor at PFMF today who sells watermelon and/or mangos, that vendor will get all of my money.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

And popsicles.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

You're going to pay for melons with popsicles?

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

horseshoe! i feel totally bad for not thinking of you.

how did this meeting go down?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I just looked at Chicago's wether and I think NO is better off weather-wise than you guys. Or we're equal.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

False Fictions, check yr e-mail.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Today the interns visited a museum and I tagged along. They featured an exhibit on Mardi Gras.

It's so much cooler here than in Chicago. I am not sure I'm ready to return to inadequate A/C.

AMEDB, after visiting Mardi Gras exhibit: "What that made me think of was in the Old Testament when they was worshipping the golden calf."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

i just got rather ripped. like it!

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

I honestly don't know if you're talking about the record or booze/drugs.

I'm BORED.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'll tell you what's a Chicago HOT: Union Park!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I'm unsure of what he's talking about too. Also, I'm kinda bored.

I have to remain sober tonight b/c I must arise and make an announcement at a Baptist church tomorrow. I was really hoping to spend my Sunday nursing a scorching hangover, but I guess this will have to do.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

I just got a visit from folks who will be renting this house in a week. There was 1 man and 2 older women. One of the women was scared of the cats, and when one came toward her she bolted across the room, and then back to the other side as the cat ambled back toward her, the whole time going "Ugggh, bleccch!"

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

People are weird.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

You would have thought I had a cat-sized pet tiger slug.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

She also said, "I have an aversion to cats," as though that needed to be stated.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

We finally got a cab!

Fucking Logans Square...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

what were you doing in Logan Sq?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

my saturday

by jesse kehr

today i went to the mardi gras museum, took the ferry across the mississippi river and then back across. then i went to an african (gambian, cameroon) restaurant where I drank a ginger drink and ate delicious shipa-shipa which is like shrimp creole.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

killing

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

why? why were you in the logan square? what could you be doing there?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

i just got rather ripped. like it!

the sonic youth record? i love it.

hi i just gt home frm officil pfork af terparyy

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 30 July 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god what did they do to your keyboard!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 30 July 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

quiet you

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 30 July 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Did you arm-wrestle David Berman, J.?

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

no! haha funny though. i was telling my story about the arm-wrestling to nitsuh (nabisco) and rob mitchum, and rob said i totally need to arm-wrestle lily allen next.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 30 July 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

We went to Dan M's hood for dinner after we left PFork, and then stood on an island in the middle of an intersection trying to get a cab for about 10 minutes AND then some ASSHOLE came out and SNAKED A CAB from us to put his girlie in and that led to he and I engaging in an obscene gesture war from opposite sides of the street, but then, finally, another ten minutes later a cab came and I jumped in and said, "Boy, am I glad to see you!" and the cabbie said, "And I am very glad to see YOU!" So take that Robin!

Joys: there was watermelon at PF, and Polar pop guys selling popsicles through the fence. No mangos, but that's okay. It was just a fantasy. Can you live a fantasy life?

ERIC Z are you still in MN? Come back soon.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back! As of late Friday night. I thought of calling you last night at midnight to see if there was post-p-fork bargoing.

I'm playing in a beer garden at Navy Pier late tomorrow afternoon - songwriters on stools telling stories about how they came to write our personal 'Witchita Lineman'.

Let's do something soon!

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

'how they came to our'? My freestyle grammar is back, too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

What is your personal Witchita Lineman? And have I ever told you that I love that song?

Oof the only thing post PFork I can handle is showering and sleeping. But yes. Soon.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

hey, i just got home. my brain is swollen. and craigslist missed connections is indeed puffed with pitchforkers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha ha

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Man, getting home last night was a challenge. I had to call a random taxi company and tell them to send more cabs.

http://www.variagate.com/livd130.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I never recommend the C.H.U.D. cab company.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Jenny. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Murder on the Orient Express last night for the first time. It's great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Although I'm surprised Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for it, since her part is so small and understated.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I had fun at Pitchfork, but I still don't understand why everyone was saying Day 2 was going to be SO much better than Day 1. The only thing I liked better about Day 2 was discovering the portapotties that were further away. Less people had been using them, the lines were really short, and they were in the shade all day long. But also I loved them more because Manda gave me some tissues.

How was Os Mutantes?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

They were okay. Jeff and I only stayed for about three songs. Diplo was so loud that his performance was actually interfering with Os Mutantes' sound, at least where we were standing at first. We noticed as we walked out that the sound was better further back by the entrace, and there was no bass leak from the DJ tent.

I feel sort of festival hungover today. I'm tired and I'm really grossed out by the thought of food and I just want to lay in bed in the dark AC and drink water and read the lurid true crime books I got out of the library last week.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin is prescient.

You apparently made your rounds at Pitchfork today, but unlike the other post, you actually stopped and talked to us after my friend's boyfriend rudely pulled you aside to show our group your shirt. You patiently stood in front of us and allowed him to use your chest as a guide while he made an ass of himself trying to show us what it was all about. You grinned uneasily the entire time as if many people had done the same to you before, but I thought you smiled at me in a pleasant way. I was the girl with short pigtails and a wicked sunburn apologizing for him profusely. I thought you were cute, and if you thought the same of me, email me :)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone see Glenn Kotche's set? I was kind curious what he would do.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

So many t-shirts...

Broken calculator on your shirt at pitchfork - w4m - 24

snakes on a plane guys leaving pitchfork tonight - w4m - 20

Pitchfork guy in .. Trail of dead shirt - w4m

and OMG. I don't think this one is parody, but it totally could be.

I saw you at Pitchfork standing in line for beer tickets. We caught each other's eyes and then acted very interested in the trees and the ground. Wish we would have said something to one another:"Did you like Art Brut?" perhaps. Me: oversized sunglasses, striped Urban Outfitters shirt, lots of long necklaces, skirt, dirty chuck tailors, short messy wavy hair in pigtails, lots of bangs. You: dark shaggy hair, dark frame glasses, rolled up jeans, dark socks, plaid button down, smoking American Spirits. Let's get coffee at Filter or some PBRs at Gold Star sometime?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

i just scanned some of those . . . there are a handful that are quite amusing!

I assume everyone had a lovely time? Did the heat do anyone in?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think this one is parody, but it totally could be.

Oh, I hope it's a parody.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

i'm completely dehydrated now, my legs feel heavy. i need to start pounding water. mission of burma was good but i'd forgotten how crappy the sound is at an outdoor show.

xpost- i saw that last night and i don't think it's a parody.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Question: could any of you here identify an Urban Outfitters shirt on sight without looking at the tag or seeing it hanging in its natural environment?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

The story of my hard drive, chapter 2:

Something is very screwy with the "albums" folder. I thought it was just a one-off and started putting music in there again. Then I thought better of that, took the drive to work with me and copied everything on it to my Mac here. Lo and behold, the one and only troubled folder would not copy. Of course.

I'm letting go of it. I've already backed everything up that I was going to back up, anyway. Time to drop back and punt. Erase the whole drive and reformat it as a FAT32, so I can use it on a Mac or a PC. Put all the files back on it. See what happens.

Sigh.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

My co-worker Laura kept track of amusing t-shirts she saw over the weekend:

spokes man for jesus [with picture of bike]
achiever [??]
reading is sexy
you have died of dysentery [with picture of oregon trail covered wagon]
i support homo marriage
7.9 recommended
strictly for my ninjas
anthrax no ends [??]
gang of four..$45, the pixies...$60, robert pollard...priceless
who the fuck is mick jagger?
cuckoo for cocoa puffs
it's my f*cking birthday
famous movie quote
ithaca is gorges
third eye blind [we hope this one was ironic]
indier than thou
gin and jews
love me, love my alcoholic rages
librarians have tighter buns
f'n ho
hamster man
hernia movers inc.
justin says let's rock
just another sexy bald guy
we be illin' (sacred heart children's hospital)
i ¢¾ to fart
a wizard has turned you into a whale. is this awesome? y/n
vote for jesus
flying nun 333
sex, drugs, & christian rock
wittgen / stein
windows '95 is like mac '87
this is me (smiling in a black t-shirt)
j dilla changed my life
i ¢¾ lesbians
ike turner
junior private dectective
arm wrestling championship - yeti vs. jesus - time to knuckle the fuck up
oh-so-HI-o
defend brooklyn
new kids ON TOUR the block [also hopefully ironic]
please sell us some pot
computers (??) are fun and useful
meat, the press
die naked
give me your tots
i'm on crack. how are you?
put down the drugs and come get a hug
40 is sporty
expose yourself to mathematics
hooked on oriental drugs
soy be it
chemists react faster
modern art makes me want to rock out (art brut)
popular culture no longer applies to me
sex, drugs, and dungeons & dragons
fighting cancer, now that's a job
connect with music
hartford can get it up again
corporate radio sucks
crazy glue it!
wrigley field: home of the world's largest gay bar
have a golden day!
"gasp!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago HOTs: Pancakes, The Pink Line, and a Cat-friendly Bird (808 new answers)

BOOM, Clap-BOOM, BOOM-Clap

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

except for the fat guy wearing the "i beat anorexia" t-shirt i didn't see any that made me giggle. stop trying to be ironic and start being more clever t-shirt wearing youth of america!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Did Laura notate that "I *heart* to Fart" was actually emblazoned on the back of a pair of men's briefs worn by a woman? HOW'S THAT FOR CLEVER???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I saw someone last week wearing "Now interviewing for girlfriend position". Which is probably from Old Navy or Urban Outfitters or something, but I laughed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I actually recognize a handful of those . . . like the onion shirt, for example. but wow. what an assortment!

i saw no t-shirts this weekend b/c I hardly saw many people. . . .leaf & i were in the northern wilds of minnesota.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ gin and jews and sacred heart children's hospital

and the Oriental Drugs shirt is a Milwaukee classic

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

And I think I already mentioned the assortment of ironic tees now available at Target, like "I Hate My Girlfriend"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, speaking of the Onion, I saw a "Your favorite band sucks" t-shirt.

Jeff has an awesome GBV t-shirt that says "What shitty band are you in?" on the back.

I Hate My Girlfriend... Just when I think I can't be stunned and annoyed at the stupidity of it all, I am all over again.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "Hamster Man" wouldn't have really impressed me because it's a comic that's been around for a while, and it even had its own booth at the festival.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

for mission of burma i was standing about 3 feet away from the people we had referred to as "clowns". being that close to them made me notice that there was a great deal of detail involved in their outfits. for intance, the dude's hair, tunic, glasses frames, and sneakers were all the same color of purple. the lady was likewise festooned with matching footwear, glasses and two of the baubly things in her hair matched her green outfit and two matched his purple stuff. a lot of thought and care went into their attire, certainly more than the 3 minutes it took me to smell out a clean t-shirt, and i applaud them. kudos clowns.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot that target sells shirts like that!
i feel so out of touch with today's youth . . . i feel like only yesterday i was seeing altered brand name shirts (like the taco bell/toka bowl or whatever it was) & now .. .. ..
now it's nothing but "Idaho? No, You Da Ho"

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, those state t-shirts (with the outline of the state and a pithy, clever motto) are pretty popular.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://campkitsch.com/images/designs/states/wisconsin4.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I have a letter writing question . . . when you're writing a letter on behalf of someone else, what's that little format of initials thing at the bottom? for example, if i were typing a letter for john . . .

JMC;kld

what's the puncuation?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

or that pp thing? help!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

IDENTIFYING INITIALS: When someone other than the author types and finalizes a letter, it is customary to include a line indicating who performed this work. Show the initials of the writer of the letter in capital letters, followed by either a colon or forward-slash and the assistant’s initials in lower case letters. For example, RFH:sjs or RFH/sjs.

Never knew that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you!!! I wondered if the slash was involved somehow . . .
Where'd you find that, by the way? I had a lot of trouble!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I saw tshirts that said:

I PWND YOU
lazy r people 2 (Mr. Show reference, I rabbited on and on about this for a while)
My Boyfriend Makes Me Cum (or something close to that, I couldn't quite see it all)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

new, my new boyfriend.

once again, the chicago journal's police blotter is a hoot:

"Mr. Charm rung up

Gerald Darrough, 42, of the 6100 block of South Whipple, was arrested for assault after an incident that occurred at La Pasadita, 1141 N. Ashland, at 1:02 p.m. July 16, police reports say. According to witnesses, Darrough entered the restaurant and proceeded to go up to each female customer and tell her to "suck his dick." The manager, unimpressed, told Darrough to leave. Darrough obliged, only to return moments later armed with a glass bottle. In an apparent attempt to impress his would-be fellators, Darrough told the manager, "If you come here to try and make me leave, I'll hit you in the head with this bottle." Darrough then fled the restaurant anyway, but arriving police found him nearby and took him into custody. The manager of the restaurant identified Darrough as the man who had threatened him, and he was taken to the 14th District for processing."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

in china, i bought my brother a t-shirt that says:

SURFER
DREAMS
IS
WET

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

random letter-writing etiquette page

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

The manager, unimpressed...

hahaha

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like "would-be fellators"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

my best purchase of the weekend was definitely the legend of leadbelly lp i got saturday. oh my god it's good. makes me wish i was in the texas state pen in 1927 too. next best purchase is a toss up between several of the hot dogs i consumed. all horrible and by horrible i mean the best thing i've ever eaten.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like "would-be fellators"

i think we all do dan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

The clowns:

http://static.flickr.com/68/202485102_6c65496b0f.jpg?v=0

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

there's all kind of detail in there, trust me! good for them. i know they probably caught a lot shit from the steakhead/frat boy set that was in surprisingly large numbers sunday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I played a street parade yesterday (hot) and then had a smoked brat that didn't live up to my expectations. It was kind of tough and very pink inside (although I guess that's natural for smoked meat).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

If ILX had avatars, this should be Jenny's. So classic.

http://static.flickr.com/64/202121625_ad2ad94ebb_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

coincidentally that would make an awesome one for jeff too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I often wonder... how did Jenny get so awesome?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/61/201855862_79a06969bd.jpg?v=0

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

that's the dude!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

wow. that's an awesome photo of jenny & jeff!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mac Dashboard weather widget says it's supposed to be 101 today!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/71/202851380_87a63fb160_m.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/48/133023055_457814d1a7_m.jpg

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

my widget says 105!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

lol at art brut/nick.

So remember when everyone was yelling at me for putting sunscreen near my eye? I thought I'd gotten burned around there, but turns out (I looked in the mirror when I got home) I have several tiny styes in the area. Or at least I think that's what they are: I've never had a stye before. They're on my top and bottom lid, not by my lashes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Just reading that post makes my eyes tingle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

J.'s ailment is a reminder why we all must wear sunglasses during sex.

Love that Jenny/Jeff photo.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hollywoodteenmovies.com/Risky80

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, can any of you recommend a local pet sitter? We need a cat feeder/petter/poop-scooper for when we go to Delaware.

Speaking of Delaware, did you guys here my getting into a good-natured argument with our cab driver last night about whether Delaware is in Canada? Heh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I missed that. How did that come about?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

There was a car w/ a DE plate in front of us and I pointed and exclaimed, "Look! Delaware license plate!" and the cab driver said, "Canada!" and I said, "Are you saying Delaware is in Canada?" and he said, "Yes! Canada!" and I told him where I believed Delaware to be located and then we exhausted our communication ability due to language barriers.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

His name was Mohammed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

And he is responsible for all the wars in the world.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, ask Brooke. She might be up for popping over & checking on yer cats.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ask the cabbie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've stopped sweating all day. Gross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I will also need a catsitter around christmastime.

A summer intern asked me at lunch why I am a vegetarian. I always feel like it's a kind of rude thing to ask in front of lots of people, but particularly during a meal in which everyone is eating meat. So I said some usual sort of funny thing to try to change the conversation. But she kept asking questions. When I said that No, I don't eat fish either, she wanted to know why. And I just said, some people don't consider fish meat. In fact, a lot of people consider themselves vegetarian but still eat seafood. I, however, do not. So then one of my coworkers says, as though I'm not there, that fish are not animals. They don't walk on land. Everyone knows they aren't animals. Scientists say they aren't animals. She doesn't even look at me while she says this, so I ignore her. Then she goes on to say that vegetarians never get enough protein/ that it's impossible. Leave me alone!
The End.

But seriously, can't we all get along? And why don't people realize that it's inappropriate to talk about what other people are eating while they are eating it?

Fortunately, after discussing my wedding plans for a bit, the conversation turned towards mocking someone else's wedding plans (a relative of a coworker).

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I actually know the Clowns! They were involved with the L0y0la Campus Greens; the guy worked in the library.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

So then one of my coworkers says, as though I'm not there, that fish are not animals. They don't walk on land. Everyone knows they aren't animals. Scientists say they aren't animals.

That person is an idiot. Fish are animals.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, christ, what is this, 8th grade biology? They are multicellular and have a backbone.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

(Among many other distinguishing characteristics)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I actually know the Clowns! They were involved with the L0y0la Campus Greens; the guy worked in the library.

Oh shit, is he the dude (Dennis?) who was friends with Wesley Willis?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I guess she meant...mammals???

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, the dude is Dennis...didn't know about his WW connection.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I hear you, Sarah. Why do people always ask that question while we are all eating together?! I always try to brush it off & just say that over the years my reasoning has changed & now it's just more habit than anything and/or I just see no reason to eat with so many other alternatives.

As for asshat, it's too bad it is considered rude to call people out on their own stupidity. What a moron. Rest assured that you're not the only one at the table that thought the comment was stupid.

oh! hey mark!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'm making that up -- but I went to see the Wesley Willis exhibit at Intuit the week after WW died, and I ended up talking to someone who had become friends with WW and was with him at the hospital, and I'm pretty sure it was Dennis -- because I knew that we had briefly met once before (at Quimby's with C. Carley for some anarchist lit reading?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Probably, Jordan. She's weird. She suddenly gets really stiff and angry looking when anyone starts talking about vegetarianism. It's just particularly aggravating, because I know what she thinks about it, but I have to hear it again whenever anyone asks me about why I eat what I eat. I am not confrontational about it. I mean, I even said "You know, a LOT of people consider themselves vegetarian and still eat seafood."

Thanks, Kelsey. I sometimes wonder if people aren't just asking me about vegetarianism while they are eating meat with other people in the hopes that I'll say something really disgusting so I'll seem more like a crazy person.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the tip, Kels - I emailed our former cleaning person and occasional cat sitter and she was more than happy to come check in on the kit-os. She even said that she missed them. I kind of hate saddling a friend with cat sitting duties, to be honest - asking someone to travel just to clean up three cat's worth of poop is a pretty tall order.

I think a good response to the vegetarian question might be, "Because I think people who eat meat are self-centered glutons with no social conscious who lack the maturity to set aside their swinish impulses and make mindful decisions that don't harm the environment or add to the imbalance of resouces that plague the word today, and I don't want to be like that." That ought to shut her up but good.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... maybe that response will make you more of a crazy person-looking person, but it's also pretty insulting so that's good. I think some meat eaters get very defensive about vegetarianism because of a fear of judgment due to some internal guilt. So I say, if it's judgment she fears, judge her harshly.

Then spit on what she's eating and tell her that she's spitting in the eye of starving children everywhere by eating so high up on the food chain.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

If you wanted to sound even more crazy (but still right) you could go up to her and say "KINGDOM ANIMALIA PHYLUM CHORDATA CLASS VERTEBRATA INFRAPHYLUM GNATHOSTOMATA" and that'd get you down to jawed vertebrates, of which most fish are members. Now, if you want to start talking about lampreys or exticnt prehistoric jawless fish, you've got to back up to Hyperoartia or something like that.

I miss science.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

there are a lot of standard meat eater responses i get after i'm asked why i'm vegetarian.

"i don't eat a lot of meat" and "i don't eat red meat" are probably two of the most common.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I'm certainly guilty of talking about food & preferences at the table. There have been times when I've been unsure about talking about animal (heh) dishes I've eaten or cooked in front of a vegetarian, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to gross them out or lord it over them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I should totally memorize that, dan, so I can sound nerdier. Also, I should be sure to shout it.

I used to be a lot more provocable. See, for example, my first year out of college. Everyone brought in food one day for lunch. I was offered a serving of green beans. Oh, Sarah, you'll love this! I brought in green beans special just for you because you are a vegetarian! They had huge chunks of ham in them AND bacon. So I said, oh, thank you for thinking of me, but I don't care for any, thank you. She gives me this look. WHY? Why won't you eat my green beans? So I pointed out it had ham in it. So eat around the ham. I ended up getting so flustered that I said, "Listen, if someone handed you a plate of green beans with cat meat in it, would you just eat around the cat meat??" No one in that office bothered me again (about vegetarianism, they still bothered me in lots of other way). BWAH HA HA!

But seriously, I feel like I was a bit of a bitch to my coworker above just by complaining about her so much. I mean, right after I posted that she came to my desk. She said, "Sarah, don't listen to those other girls all bitching about ***'s sister's wedding. That isn't right. You should have your wedding the way you want it without worrying about what other people think. If that bride doesn't want dancing at her wedding, no one should force her. It's not their wedding. Celebrate the way you want. I had a very small wedding with a punch reception and I loved it..."

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I want green beans and bacon now. Thanks a lot.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

That does sound good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

It really does.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Why should we have to explain to anyone who isn't mom or grandma why we don't care for any of their food?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I will be back in Chicago on Aug 16 around noon, but then we have debrief meetings for the rest of the day and the entire next day.

I just got told that (or asked) I may have the opportunity to return to NO for a few more weeks to help with the transition and training of a permanent hire. If anyone has any input on this (Kenan) let me know either here or via email.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, personally, I don't mind when other people talk about preparing/eating meaty foods, as long as it isn't graphic or directed towards me in some sort of weird way. I figure that since over 95% of Americans are not vegetarian, it is just a part of daily life. I talk about food a hell of a lot too, it's just vegetarian food.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Unselfishly, it's probably good (you are getting paid for that time, right?) but selfishly NO DON'T GO BACK STAY HERE WTF I CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

john, i feel like you could start a line of indie tshirts with all of our old email subject headings. remember the randomness?

for what it's worth, i love hearing about meat prep. i don't know why. sometimes i just like the food talk & sometimes i like being reminded why i don't eat it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Jesse, we miss you.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I still don't understand how you've had such bad luck w/r/t people confronting you about your vegetarianism. Most of the provocation I get is from relatives, and hardly ever from friends or co-workers.

Kelsey -- that's one reason why I'm sad that I accidentally deleted all my old Hotmail e-mails a couple years ago. I think I might've written down some of the better ones, though. I'll see if I can find the list.

Ick, I think I'm developing a sore throat. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, why no searchable (or

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

WTF.

(or alphabetized) archive of reviews on B00kslut?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Totally unrelated to anything

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

that is AWESOME!!! i had a little doxie staying at my place last week, i miss him.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

roffle at otto's golden girls quote on his gmail chat window.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

john, i just emailed you a partial list.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

i love the golden girls, always have, always will.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I was asking if Kenan could cover for me at 1242 Argyle for a couple more weeks. You may respond via email if you wish.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Though I am for certain going to be back in Chicago 8/16. Make way.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

When you come back to Chicago, you're going to eat so much pizza...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have a force-feeding fetish that I would like to act out with Jesse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, please apprise me of your cumulative po' boy and crawfish intake thus far.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan -- the site needs a redesign. Don't think I'm not aware of this.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure I've gained weight. I have been doing some serious stress/comofrt eating with serious acid reflux (vomit in the bronchial tubes) effects.

Yesterday I went to Whole Foods and got some cajun crawfish dip. Lotsa shrimps, ersters and mudbugs in my mudbug hole.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Could a po'boy be made with sausage instead of shrimp? W|shbone was selling them like that at pfork.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

TThey sell them here too. I always thought the def. of po' boy was that it contained fried seafood. I don't fucking care. Just eat.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I don't really care, I just always thought... etc.

I had beef brisket. It was good, especially at soaking up whiskey in my belly.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

as if you needed another reason to hate fox news...

Fox settles sexual harassment lawsuit

The Associated Press
Published July 31, 2006, 1:52 PM CDT

NEW YORK -- Fox News Network has settled a lawsuit claiming that female employees were subjected to vulgarities and obscenities, including derogatory comments about pregnant women (emphasis mine- ktr), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday.

The settlement, submitted for approval in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, includes $225,000 for four women who said a Fox vice president subjected them to a sexually hostile workplace, the EEOC said in a statement.

The settlement also includes steps, such as training and revised policies, to prevent any future discrimination and retaliation.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think a po' boy just has to have the french bread/mayo/lettuce/pickles/(hot sauce) structure.

Kinds of po' boys I have seen and/or eaten: shrimp, hot sausage, cheeseburger, erster, soft shell crab, roast beef, french fries n' gravy, catfish, chicken, ham n' cheese, cheese

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://forums.egullet.org/uploads/1116965917/gallery_2_0_37751.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I would prob eat a shrimp po'boy if I was drunk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm tired, hafta do our first workshop tonight. And I'm lonely.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

or one made of mussels.

xpost to jaymc

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

If I swing through Chicago for a bit in September, I would like Jesse to be there. That's my vote. (I may or may not swing through Chicago for a bit in September, I'm still trying to figure out my plans.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Shrimp is the greatest. But those hot sausage po' boys go in easier than they come out, let me tell you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I might have to go get a fake po' boy for lunch tomorrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

The night I ate mussels I also drunk-dialed Jesse and asked him where in this godforsaken city could I get me some popcorn shrimp.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

wow ... you are in a downward spiral, johnny!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

My Top Two List of Favorite Silly T-Shirts Spotted at Pfork Fest:

2. FERTILE

1. Steve Holt!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. My favorite vegetarian is a sometime trombone player in the band who does not eat meat or seafood, unless you offer it to him.

1. Steve Holt!

Awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Holt the vegetarian bodybuilder?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am glad that Kr is not self-conscious about eating meat in front of me. Yesterday at Pitchfork she gnawed into a big ol' pulled pork sandwich (y'all saw it).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

That dude is freaky.

Steve Holt
Key Statistics:
Age: 52. Height: 5' 8 1/2".
Weight: 165 lbs competition, 190 lbs off-season.
History: Lifetime natural; 25 year lacto-ovo vegetarian.
Forearms 13"
Upper Arms 17"
Neck 16.5"
Chest 45"
Waist 32"
Thighs 25"
Calves 16"
Gym Affiliations: Extreme Fitness
League Affiliations: CBBF, OPA

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH BUT HOW MUCH CAN HE BENCH

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Holt (!) was a character on Arrested Development.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

By that I don't mean to say that the bodybuilder was on AD, but a totally unrelated character with the same name.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I could see AD Steve Holt growing up to be that guy, maybe.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG that'd be awesome

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

i know i floated the idea of drinks in uptown tomorrow but i just found out the exact date of something i obligated myself to do a while ago and it's tomorrow night so i guess i can't make it. actually, all i know is it's "Tuesday", maybe i can get out of this on a technicality.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

i can't make it. next week?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Next week is cool with me. I think I am going to hit up the R3ntals show (90s nostalgia WHAT) tomorrow night anyway as part of a going-away for my ex-guitarist.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 31 July 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Next week is cool with me, too, I think unless we don't complete a lion's share of packing this weekend. Which we totally will because it's going to be a BRISK 80!!!

I just did the best thing ever: peeled and cut up a mango and then put the pieces in the FREEZER. So in like an hour, I will have frozen mango pieces for dinner. YESSSSS.

Gawd, I went to Worker Justice, Inc. and was there about five minutes when the power went out which means no AC which means I have yet to recover. GROSS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 31 July 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

The new Basement Jaxx is so disco it borders on the Jamiroquai.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Except it's way more... um... good.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

i fridged a mango so i could eat it when i got home, which is RIGHT NOW.

i have so many problems with this chinese-people class that it's hard to know where to begin, but let me say that i am tired of planning and replanning and replanning again for this class, so tomorrow we are going to the motherscratching SURGICAL MUSEUM and they will LIKE IT.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

one girl did say "babies in jars! yay!"

gotta love that girl. it just so happens that we were born only a week apart.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

I got totally sucked into Hell's Kitchen tonight. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished doing our group's first worker's rights workshop. This one was at the homeless shelter where the folks are required to find work.

It went smashingly. Being one to focus on the negative though, I am um, focusing on the negative and wondering if we did any good at all.

Our one more "special" interns (not the one you think) was shushing these grown homeless people and entreating them, "Please, guys...can I have your attention?" The crowd was nice and they took very well to us, but they sometimes would talk amongst themselves, so he would go, "Shhhhhhhhhh" and plead with them. I will have to talk to him about not treating grown homeless people like gradeschoolers.

One of the other interns and I took another approach to interruptions and let them "share." I would go so far as to apologize for interrupting them and let them talk (not in a patronizing way). In most cases they had something to tell that was totally valid and that helped drive home the point we were making.

Very encouraging night!!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

COMING SOON

My new email address is myfirstnamemylastname@gmail.com Brownstone is overrun with spam. I will stop checking brownstone soon.

Please put that in your pipe and smoke it.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

i just got back from goldstar. i was at a friend's place earlier and as soon as i walked in the power went out at her place. goldstar was the first place we came to that still had electricity.

i should totally give the tamale guy my home address.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Why the fuck is the power going out there?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

The interns like to go outdoors for lunch. Most don't like the a/c so they go out in the 90 degree muginess and talk about how nice it is out. Today I tried it and found it somewhat unpleasant, but not unbearable.

In any case, you guys should not be losing power being that you don't live in Thirdworldsville.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

We're not -- that's Queens.

The only first-world Chicagoan who is regularly losing power is the dude who's living in the apartment of a friend of his who happens to have the worst wiring that God or man has ever seen.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny lost power at workerjusticeville and kevin lost it at his friend's house.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Queens is losing power?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! They took the house out of the street. Guess what was under the house!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

NOT EVERY DAY!

Oh, I'm calm.

Yes, Much of NYC was blacked out for days last week. Probably still. I haven't checked.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Guess what was under the house!

A mob informant.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Guess what was under the house, and guess why the house fell down.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hint: the house survived Katrina and Rita just fine.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Termites with hatchets.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/54/171253763_a181af7711_o.jpg

The house made it through the hurricanes, but with damage to the roof. After the owners stripped off the blue tarps and replaced the shingles, the walls collapsed and it wound up as you see it.

The car in the foreground was towed, but under the house itself was a VW Golf. They cleaned up all around the car, but the shell of the vehicle remains.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/54/171253763_a181af7711_o.jpg

stupid ilx

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

This has diverted attention from that block to my block where another house collapsed, but it was very neatly contained within the chain link fence. On the other end is the rubble from a gutted house including a mattress on which someone has spray painted "SLUM" which is a helpful landmark.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Are we still guessing what made the house collapse? (Hint: we're not.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

I would guess it was the weight of the new shingles.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Waaaaah!!!! New Orleans is never gonna be the same! Waaaah!!!!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

(we haven't done that in a while)

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

So you don't know yourself? Why did ask us as if it were a quiz?

I hate you, Jesse.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Good evening, boys.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

It was the weakening of the load-bearing parts combined with the new roofing. It was not just the shingles, but other materials.

It collapsed in the winter, well after K.

Good evening Jordan.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

That's some New Orleans shit, yessir.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Get your ass down here, you.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Not for a couple of months, probably.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

I want to quote you exactly, Jesse, lest you think I'm falsely accusing you of leading me on.

Hey! They took the house out of the street. Guess what was under the house!

Guess what was under the house, and guess why the house fell down.

Hint: the house survived Katrina and Rita just fine.

And then:

I would guess it was the weight of the new shingles.

You would guess? You cock tease. I wanted a story.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

ooh ooh:

Treme 6th Ward Music Fest featuring Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers, Soul Rebels Brass Band , New Birth Brass Band, Lil Rascals Brass Band, & Young Fellas

Friday, Aug 04, 2006 10:00 PM CDT (9:00 PM Doors)
at The Howlin' Wolf

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Howlin' Wolf kinda sux though. Actually it reminds me a lot of the Metro.

(I can't sleep)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S NOT A GOLF, IT'S A FORD FOCUS.

I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE ONE.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - broke-down Ford Focus - did not match any documents.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

NO no no.

The Ford Focus was beside the house and was towed a few weeks ago. Last week the house was removed and underneath was a Golf which is still there. I will take a pic tomorrow.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

And Kenan, I was kidding about the shingles. It was actually the weight of the other other new roofing materials and the Mexicans who were fixing the roof.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

The power went out in Workerjusticeville because it's in an old ass building that couldn't handle the electrical weight of the billion window units strapped on there.

Jesse, you'll appreciate this. When the lights went out, LA left, A... the Polish lady... just kept on working like nothing had happened, and MPA started freaking out about how it had to be the whole block because this had happened before and what should we do and do I know where the fuse box is? and we could call the electric company but the phones don't work and then she gave out and just stood there looking at me (who, um, hasn't worked there more than a couple nights a month in eight months) to fix it. So I went and told the building manager and then I went home.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Our power went out sometime after midnight. I woke up in a panic, feeling like I couldn't breathe. Then I realized it was eerily quiet and dark, so I woke Nick up. I went in the kitchen to get some ice water, as though I could breathe through the water. Then I opened the back door but there was NO BREEZE. It was equally as bad outside. So then I decided to look for a flashlight and batteries. I sat on the kitchen floor, opened the left door under the sink, and was soon completely covered in plastic bags. I kept throwing them behind me but never found a flashlight or batteries. I am obviously not much of a survivalist. So then we went in the living room and sprawled across the floor like the cats. Our entire neighborhood, which mostly seemed to consist of babies and 8 year olds, congregated in front of the church next door and were all screaming joyfully like it was a BBQ. I don't know how long the power was out but it seemed to me to be a very very long time. So then I started fretting about our groceries all going bad, which we just bought, and then worrying about power at the hospital. Fun! So basically I didn't get much sleep.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

The new Basement Jaxx is so disco it borders on the Jamiroquai.

No.

And I LIKE Jamiroquai, so it's not that I'm offended at the comparison or anything. I just don't hear it. Not amidst all the Balkan beats.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds kinda fun Sarah, although not if you were losing sleep.

Maddie and I were just talking the other day about how it had been too long since we'd had a proper power outage, and how it would be fun to read books with flashlights, eat melting ice cream, defend the homestead against looters, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kr and I totally slept in her roommate's air-conditioned bedroom last night while said roommate was away. After band practice, which was three hours in a room with no windows, where I had to take my shirt off even, the A/C made me positively giddy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

ROCK N' ROLL

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

You know, the whole situation felt a bit like a zombie movie. I heard a lot of people starting up their cars and speeding away, to where I don't know. Then I imagined people walking in the night towards any lights they could find, all tired and looking like zombies.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Nick lit a helluva lot of candles, so I was imagining that all these fires would get started in other buildings from other people doing the same.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

i lost power at my place shortly after posting about losing power at my friend's place last night. sarah/nick we're probably on the same segment of the power grid, it was around midnight. apparently we also lost power sunday while we were at union park as well. my upstairs neighbors said it was down for about a half hour/45 minutes around 7 o'clock.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

So then I started fretting about our groceries all going bad, which we just bought, and then worrying about power at the hospital. Fun! So basically I didn't get much sleep.

oh yes, this reminds me, i broke my i-go cherry last night and loaded up on frozen foods. i had ice cream in my apartment for the first time since february. well, for about 2 hours anyway. i wasted a lot of money last night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Was it really wasted? Our groceries turned out to be fine.

In other news, it's apparent that my youngest sis is forgetting how to communicate in English. Her most recent emails to me sound like they've been translated into a couple of other languages and then back into English.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

that's cute, sarah! my english started going crazy when i was in china...i was using completley ridiculous words & forgetting the obvious ones (although, to be fair, this happens here, too).

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I bet they have some f'ed up keyboards over there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I don't understand LA and MPA.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone understand LA?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Something about that guy who was going "Shhh" -- Jenny he was the one who came to Simon's who you said looked like he was tripping, the one who pretended the Malort didn't taste bad-- He would not direct the "Shhhh" right at the noisy people, but would instead pretend to be reading some papers or looking in the other direction while loudly going "Shhhhhh!" It seemed like maybe he wanted it to seem like it wasn't him. And then when He was saying "Guys, guys, come on, you guys, c-could, could you I get you to listen" it was totally subdued and ineffectual. Annoyance.

Oh wait, MPA= M2r|k@?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Garrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhh there's a possibility the frat boy is sticking around because his father is ill. But he's going to quit law school. And his parents don't live around here. So he really shouldn't be working here. Plus he wants to break into the modelling industry? But I'm in bizarro land so who fucking knows what will happen. He'll probably get made partner.

Jesse - Those are the initials of the only two remaining full time Worker Justice Inc. employees. They are both female. One is tall and skinny and... dim. One is shorter and Mexican and burns scented candles on her desk.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

leaf found out that some compulsive pot smoking schmuck got into journal . . . he & his friend were pretty annoyed by that. granted, it doesn't compare to partner . . .

jenny, did you get on a journal or did you do moot court?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

journal?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Suck it, Chicago--I keep my home's central air at 74 degrees at all times. YUM.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we're sucking it. It sucks.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - yes, you got the one, so you should be able to figure out the other. I just found it funny that they all reacted in such a stereotypical fashion. 1. Run away; 2. Keep working. It's no worse than Warsaw; 3. PANIC!!!!

xpost to Kelsey - I just missed grading on to Law Review (prob. a blessing in disguise, that) and didn't bother trying to write on to anything or trying out for moot court. There's not a labor law journal, and I felt like my volunteer work and regular paid work, which takes up pretty much all my time, would be more valuable to me when looking for jobs in my chosen field. Also, seriously, I would shoot myself if I had one more think to deal with. I'm taking my senior seminar next semester that results in the generation of a 30 page paper so I might submit that one to the Women's Law Caucus Journal or something if it comes out decently.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

i think i would actively try to poison anyone burning scented candles at work. seriously.

xpost to jenny: i kinda wondered if you did your own special thing. i agree that work experience means more.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

At ten in the morning: 89 degrees, feels like 98 degrees. Meanwhile, the air is turned up so high in the building that people have started wearing jackets. It's about 68 degrees in here. We're all going to be sick.

But we get a cool front Wednesday night, and Thursday the high will be, like, 80.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

everyone should move to minneapolis...we have a high of 86 today & it feels like the beginning of fall after yesterdays hot hot hell.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Has it started flooding yet?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think that journal experience is very important for some people, depending on what they want to do. Like if you want to clerk for a federal judge, you absolutely need all the traditional badges of law school success: moot court, law review, top 10%, etc. etc. If you want to work for a big, bad firm and do the 80 hrs/week soul suck and start out making $200k/year you need all that stuff then, too. But if you want to do public interest work or labor and employment, you need connections and experience in your field a lot more.

I know a lot of bright law students who would have been shoe-ins for moot court or journal write-ons (like Nora, for example) but who are instead excelling in their own fields, which will serve them much better.

Oh, and one of the dumbest people I have ever met in law school (she gives the Frat Boy a run for his money - for example, as of 2004, she had never heard of Guantanamo Bay and had no inkling of its role in our current war, nor did she know much about the war, for that matter. She also failed to figure out what one-third of twelve was in class one day) wrote onto the Women's Law Caucus Journal, which is one of the biggest reasons I didn't bother. How fucking prestigious could it be if someone whose ability to turn on a light switch I doubt can write on?

We're getting that lovely beginning of fall weather as of Thursday.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/map_spectrop07_ltst_6nh_enus_600x405.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

that line at the top sounds like a line from a dekalb dinner theatre production of "scarface" starring tom skilling as tony montana.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

"Slow moving cold front"

Were more beautiful words ever emblazoned across a weather map?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Were more beautiful words ever emblazoned across a weather map?

I would like nothing more than to wake up Thursday morning and need a jacket to go out. That's not going to happen, but I can dream.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Minneapolis is still my top contender for LONG WEEKEND TRIP 2006.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

MEGABUS MEGABUS MEGABUS

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

that line at the top sounds like a line from a dekalb dinner theatre production of "scarface" starring tom skilling as tony montana.

ROFFLE

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I worry about Megabus. I never minded riding Greyhound, even though a lot of people think that's the skeeziest way to travel ever. I'm afraid that Megabus is so cheap that it will live up to the bus trip stereotype; you know, odd smells coming from the back, the guy in front of you has an unsettling nervous twitch, the guy next to you is reading porn... etc.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

odd smells coming from the back, the guy in front of you has an unsettling nervous twitch, the guy next to you is reading porn... etc.

that sounds like a CHILX bus trip if ever there was one.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm putting off driving to school because I can't bear the thought of getting in my non-air-conditioned car.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

MEGABUS MEGABUS...

Oh. You probably don't go to school on the Megabus route.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

heh. I should just take the Megabus wherever instead of going to school. it's air-conditioned, right?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. It's only fifty cents or something so maybe they are saving money buy using buses with no AC. Also, they are crank-started.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

who here is from north carolina? i seem to recall discussing (or at least listening to) north carolina over the weekend. i found out last night that a friend of mine is from n.c.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have friends from N.C.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff is from eastern NC, born and raised, and I lived in Greensboro with him for the four years prior to our moving to Chicago.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

i found myself discussing the relative merrits of a place called tobaccoville, n.c. last night. probably grew a lot of tomatoes out there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Chad Vader

I used to play the jass music with one of the dudes who dude this short.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

No wait, it was dude's brother. I always get them mixed up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

A friend sent me the link to that yesterday! Hilarious!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

1) I lived in NC for four arduous years (Wilmington)which has been forgiven since it gave me my husband.

2) "write on to journal"? what sort of weird lingo is that? i've never heard that before. is that how people talk about being published in a law journal? just wonderin'.

3) the chinese people made fun of my dress today. it's a cotton gingham wraparound dress that i rather like and they said it looked like i was preparing for surgery, like i was wearing scrubs or something. HAHAHA.

4) we enjoyed the surgical museum (free on tuesdays!) but i didn't enjoy seeing the ancient roman speculum. i did, however, enjoy seeing the reaction of the men when they saw the sketch of the man with elephantitis of the balls.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

5) I wore Juuuulia's long white skirt with black flowers yesterday and enjoyed feeling like Turn of Century Woman who picks up her skirts as she ascends/descends a staircase.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

ANCIENT ROMAN SPECULUM, people.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

i just had a weird flashback to the calgon commercial, ANCIENT ROMAN SPECULUM, HUH?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

That makes me even more excited to go to that museum!

You can get "on" a law journal in one of two ways: grading on, meaning you are automatically offered a spot because of your grades, or writing on, meaning you write something and are selected on the basis of what you wrote. Neither automatically qualifies you for publication in said journal, but it is lots of work and you can put it on your resume and if you do get published, that's good stuff.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

one of the dudes who dude this short.

That's a pretty awesome typo, I must say.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

It looked like this, but green -- like a calcified corkscrew for your cho-cha.

http://www.crystalinks.com/romevagina.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mercy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

So if you get "on" a journal, that means that they haven't published you yet, but you are approved by them?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

looks like it would also be useful for opening a bottle of wine or for attaching a large porcine to a spit.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

It was actually slightly more elaborate than that, like it had extra moving parts, just to be showy.

The coolest thing I saw there was a stone from Peru dated to 20,000 BC that bore a carving of an anatomically correct human heart.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

ugh ugh . damn.

i love wearing long full skirts like that and feeling glamorous.

i'm

i'm using a comuter that's not mine and it kees moving the cursor around and deleting things. i'm likely doing something wrong but can't figure out what.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Right. The believe that you have the potential to be publishable and the skills to do a lot of cite checking.

Julia, is it a laptop? Are you touching the trackpad in a weird way?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

i'm trying not to touch the trackad when i tye, but having trouble anyway. oh well.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Is this Laura's iBook?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

No... I just don't hear it. Not amidst all the Balkan beats.

Ok, see, it's much different through headphones. Last night and the night before I was listening to it on the ol' home stereo with the big ol' speakers, but there's a catch: if you turn the stereo up much past a whisper while the air conditioner is running, it sucks too much power and trips the breaker.

Here is a list of things I cannot do while the air conditioner is running: 1) listen to music through the computer. 2) microwave anything. 3) toast anything in the toaster oven. 4) leave the computer monitor on while turning on the television. 5) plug in the laptop without shutting down the other computer first. All of these things result in a trip to the basement.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

That's not cool.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. but i'm in my working a/c, so i shouldn't comlain.

i'm looking for another a/c unit for the main room, since that one is faltering--on craigslist there's nothing excet for one in hyde fucking ark. bad timing, there would've been a ton of them a week ago.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

i have emails to write but there's one letter on this keyboard that doesn't work so i have an excuse to rocrastinate.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

scoobydoo.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

as far as ancient speculums go, this one doesn't look too bad . . .

http://ingenious.org.uk/media/4.0_SAC/webimages/1028/4/10284979_2.jpg

p.s. amanda, i am loving the term 'cho-cha'!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

p.s. amanda, i am loving the term 'cho-cha'!

i grew up in an area with a large hispanic population, i've known this phrase since 4th grade.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

hey man, i am not laying claim to the chocha.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I know hispanic people too, etc.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

LET'S NOT DO THIS AGAIN PLEASE.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

i don't even know how to respond to this. clearly i don't speak the spanish and i grew up in a town of under 2,000.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Julia! We have a window unit we need to sell before we move.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

we were such smart 4th graders that we got our bus driver to teach us to swear in spanish and then we could swear at each other out loud in front of the teacher in class.

we were such dumb 4th graders that we didn't realize ms. andujar might conceivably know what we were saying.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I heard "cooter" a lot growing up in reference to that particular area. Also, "pooter" which really doesn't make a lot of sense.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

hey man, i am not laying claim to the chocha.

so wait, there's unclaimed chocha around?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://theimaginaryworld.com/pax49.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

'marshmallow bits'?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm labia.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think my introduction to the term "cho-cha" was probably in Missy Elliott's "Work It."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

The toaster oven is on a seperate cirucuit from the A/C. I never had any problems with having the computer and a/c on at the same time. Or the a/c and TV. KEEP TRYING, it's only 4 flights down to the breaker box.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a handy guide to the wirining in my house:

The whole apt is on ONE circuit, except:
-the plug over the table in the kitchen, the plug above the counter (behind the dishwasher) and I think the plug in the bedroom under Kenny's cage.

CAUTION!!!!!
Beware the plug under Kenny's cage! I removed a plug this spring and the whole wiring came out with it, so the top socket is not safe for groping blindly!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, maybe the toaster oven wasn't the problem, come to think of it. I may have accidentally had two other appliances on at the same time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

The point still stands, that the wiring is for shit.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Run one of those long orange extension cords into the neighbor's house.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Mendards is out of air conditioners! Target is out of air conditioners! Home Depot is out of air conditioners!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Madness! MADNESS!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

This happened last year, too. Try Sears - that's where we got ours the day before the temp. cracked 100.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Francesca's Forno is okay, but Buona Terra is better.

Who knew the R3ntals would be so popular?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing that Maya Rudolph was not playing with them?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Um, I don't know! My comment was a sly, indirect reference to the fact that the show sold out right in front of me (there were a lot of people with advance tickets.) That sort of surprised me, it being a Tuesday night and all.

Word from those who got in was that it was too hot to enjoy at all.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

know who is playing at the minnesota state fair this year? flaming lips & sonic youth, that's who!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

if it were the 1992 minnesota state fair i would be really psyched.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! The only date that SY is playing in Chicago is Lollapalooza, so I had half a thought to drive up to Milwaukee to see them tomorrow night, but that probably isn't going to happen.

I'd never have guessed that the Rentals would sell out, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Student loans confuse me so much...

Hey, do any of you get this weird feeling like you have something invisible stuck to your fingers when you copy something to the clipboard and then do something else instead for a few minutes until you paste it?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

The MN state fair is awesome. My friend Adam has been raving about that concert all summer.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

i was reminded this past weekend how much outdoor shows blow. too many people, can't see worth crap, and if it's windy you get a wildly variable sound quality.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

And if it's windy in the wrong way, you get a wildly unpleasant stench of hot, full port-o-potty.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I awoke from troubling dreams at about 2am, thinking, "Wow. What a dream. I think there may be a movie script in that." Then I lit a cigarette and realilzed that that movie script had already been written, and it was called Carrie. I was very disappointed in my brain.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

i have to say, that after going only once, i LOVE the state fair.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

let's not bring up the port-o-pottys again, my olfactory senses are just now recovering from that assault. nothing worse than catching whiff (and sight) of someone else's Big Meat Dump.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

jenny talking about port-o-potties makes me thing that of all the states i've spent time in AND had to use public bathrooms, minnesota is among the nicest. it's like women barely pee on the seat here! maybe they actually sit on it! and in that vein, i will publicly state that in many ways, i find the 'squat' toilet superior to the 'western' style. although, in my own home i would prefer the western style for the times when a prolonged sitting is necessary.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

i want a pepperoni and pineapple pizza. a large one from barcello's.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i really want a goddamn cigarette but i'm out and it's about 3/4 of a mile each way to the nearest place to get them. can i make it? will i pass out on one of the far corners of campus? STAY TUNED AND FIND OUT...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

This is the pizza place I was talking about at the fest that my bandmate reccommended and that I really really want to visit sometime:

http://centerstage.net/restaurants/spaccanapoli.html

Have any of you been?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't, but Krista has and she loved it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

The MN state fair is great. You can sit on a giant burlap sack and ride it down a giant slide. You can see a rodeo. You can watch a peep show in a penny arcade, and play old-old-school skee-ball.

Jody and I were talking about Springsteen's 'Dancing In The Dark' and how it is the perfect Newwava Cats song.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

The skee ball is going to be gone this year, EZ. Leaf & I are really sad about that. I don't remember the details off the top of my head, but basically the booth that had it can't participate or won't or something.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

here's the article . . .

http://www.startribune.com/611/story/549167.html

You can always visit my family in DE & play skee ball there, though!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Damn. That penny arcade had novelties like The World's Largest Pinball Machine (with a white cue ball for a pinball) and a Joust tabletop pinball machine, and old striptease penny-arcade peep shows.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Skee ball is my favorite arcade game. Who was I talking to about this recently? Kenan, I think, while we rode the train together one morning.

Which reminds me, I ran into Kenan on the platform today and the next red line was JAM PACKED and I was late so I had to get on it, but Kenan decided to wait for the next one and get a seat and for the rest of the ride, I kept singing to myself, "You left your Kenan on the platform with this really ragged notion that you'd return but you know the Red Line's cold, yes it's really coooold. And do you think you made the right decision this time???"

And I totally did, because the red line was frosty even though it was packed, and MIRACLE OF MIRACLES, I got a seat on the brown line and was only four mintues late to work.

Thanks, Morrissey!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

When one thanks Morrissey, the proper gesture is not to cross oneself, but to trace the outline of an invisible pompadour over one's head.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am certain I have talked about skee ball with many people. You know, there's a Dave and Busters right downstairs...

The next train came about three minutes later, and I got a seat immediately, and it was also cold. I was exactly on time to work, which means you would have been late. You did the right thing.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Just when I think I have exhausted all the questions on this Jeopardy game on your phone, it throws me new ones. Though it is also fun when you've had all the questions before, so the strategy is to get as many points per round as possible before you hit the daily double and bet it all. My best score: 40,800.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

When one thanks Morrissey, the proper gesture is not to cross oneself, but to trace the outline of an invisible pompadour over one's head.

hahaha

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

I treated myself to a big Wisconsin shrimp po' boy for lunch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I know someone who was on Jeopardy recently. She used to work here and was universally hated. Someone put the video on at a party last week so everybody could rejoice in her loss (after winning $70 grand on the two previous shows).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

This dude, who I know, was a three-time champion in 2002:

http://www.todayschicagowoman.com/images/benbass.jpg

Photo comes from Today's Chicago Woman's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors issue. (ROFFLE.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Notice, "eligible," not "desirable."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to our new apartment after work today to make sure the former tenants left it in reasonable shape and to measure things and what excites me the most about the trip is that I am taking an EXPRESS BUS! WHEEEE!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

i take the 49 express all the time, it's amazing how much faster it seems when you only stop every 4 blocks instead of every block.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I couldn't imagine riding anything but the 2, 6, or x28 down to work. I don't know that there even is a non-express bus that would get me anywhere close.

But this week I've been borrowing a co-worker's M3tra pass, which is suh-weet! 15 minutes from downtown instead of 35-40-whatever.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't you ride Metra all the time? Dang, I would.

I will be taking the 135 today.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

So dudes, I'm planning on coming down to Chicago not this Saturday, not next Saturday, but the Saturday after that. I'll hopefully be recording for most of the day but I would love to do something at night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. The 19th, then?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I haven't looked into it very much, but it seems expensive. Then again, there is a system set up here that lets you pay for such expenses with pre-tax dollars, so maybe I could pull it off. I suppose I should investigate further.

Wait, so is that the weekend of the 18th? I may not be here. :(

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

19th, yeah.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone live near the Uke village?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, where are you two moving to?

xpost: nick & sarah do, jordan.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

These ILXors be moving into their new apartment. That could go either way. We could be so tired from moving that all we want in the world is to meet pals out for dinner and a drink OR we could be so tired from moving that we are already asleep when you youngsters are just going out. But you've got my number so call me anyway.

Kelsey, we're moving to BOYSTOWN. From one "gayborhood" to another, right on the corner of Broadway and Cornelia.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: So does Otto.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

You reminded me. I have to call the HR woman about my pre-tax CTA card that I have not seen hide nor hair of.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I live across the street from Ukrainian Village.

Jody and I were talking about Springsteen's 'Dancing In The Dark' and how it is the perfect Newwava Cats song.

There's this song on the new Xiu Xiu album (thanks Kenan) that has female vocals and the chorus is kind of Nueva Cats-y, I think just because it's very lyrically direct and has kind of a sing-songy melody.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone live near the Uke village?

if by near it you mean in it then yes, yes i do.
i have a "southern bbq" to go to, courtesy of my friend from north carolina. she lives in the east village but she's not on chilx so i guess she doesn't count.

xpost- jaymc's right, he beat me to it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yer welcome. You need anything else? New Basement Jaxx, maybe?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, are you recording at soma by any chance?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wish! Nothing so glamorous. I'm recording drums at my friend's home studio (in the Uke village).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm assuming this is "Hello from Eau Claire"?

I still think the the Nueva Katz song "Beets" sounds like Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of new albums, I've been rocking the Built to Spill record for three days now. The first track is so damn good.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Which Built to Spill? Something new?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

You In Reverse

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Not brand-new, it came out in April. But I just got it recently.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah's sister got me the BtS for my birthday, I think it's really really really boring. Sorry, Dan.

I think we need the new Basement Jaxx and the new Junior Boys.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Built to Spill when dude wrote songs, not just solos.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I kind of forgot about BTS although I listened to Perfect From Now On and Keep It Like a Secret pretty much constantly from 1997 to 2002. How would you rate this new one as compared to those two?

Er, I guess I'm asking Dan, then.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, that's cool, I just really like the first song. I'll probably get tired of it soon. It does have some soloing, that's for sure.

xpost: I dunno, I think it's probably not as good. I'l reiterate once more though: first song. Good. Says me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, I can hook you up w/new Jr. Boyz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I just emailed Jeff, "Have I heard the new Built to Spill? Did I like it?"

Ah, marriage.

(He didn't even download it since we have seen them live twice and they sucked pretty hard both times, thus embittering Jeff for the rest of his life.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not that excited for the new BJ, but I'm looking forward to hearing it all the same.

I'm not that excited for the new JB, but I have no plans to hear it at all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Funny thing my favorite partner said today:

I just got two of the wheels replaced on my suitcase. It's going to go so fast now!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that the Junior Boys myspace is "jbees" is kind of weird to me. I mean, they may like to think they're funky, but they ain't no JBs.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Junior Boys
Jimmy Buffett
Jackson Browne
Just Blaze

Who else?

(I agree that really, there's only one JB)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think BtS has always been pretty uninteresting live, even when they were good. I like "There's Nothing Wrong With Love" the best, personally. Because I am so so indie. Up Records. Yes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

God help me for thinking of this: James Blunt

xpost: 2x to T.N.W.W.L. being the best. That's their only record I own an actual copy of

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

The odds n sodds collection was pretty good too, can't remember what it was called. One of my high school bands covered "Joyride" from that one.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I agree that really, there's only one JB

HELLO!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Well that's what I mean, of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.public.asu.edu/~atjlb/FOOT%20IN%20MOUTH.JPG

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

Jon Brion.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagomusicguide.com/jbtv01.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Beam.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jello Biafra

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

TNWWL was excellent as well, I agree, although I probably got more mileage overall out of PFNO and KILAS.

Here's a funny union joke:

Three guys were fishing on a lake - a butcher, a baker, and a union construction worker. Suddenly, Jesus came walking across the water and joined them in the boat.
When the three astonished men settled down enough to speak, the butcher asked humbly, "Jesus, I've suffered from back pain ever since I took shrapnel in the Vietnam war...could you help me?"
"Of course, my son", Jesus said, and touched the butcher's back, bringing him relief for the first time since the early 70s.
The baker had terrible eyesight and wore thick glasses that made it difficult for him to perform the activities of daily living. He asked if Jesus could do anything about his eyesight.
Jesus smiled, removed the man's glasses and tossed them in the lake. When they hit the water, the man's eyes cleared and he could see clearly for the first time in his adult life.
Jesus turned to the union construction worker and asked, "My son, what can I do to ease your burden?"
The union construction worker threw out his hands and cried, "Don't touch me! I'm on long term disability."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/Jerky_Boys-Ultimate_Jerky_Boys.jpg/200px-Jerky_Boys-Ultimate_Jerky_Boys.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Aw jeez

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

The odds n sodds collection was pretty good too,

the normal years, i believe it was called. tnwwl is close to a perfect album for me. i liked ultimate alternative wavers as well. the caustic resin ep was a favorite too. back when i used to enjoy other things anything with doug martsch was instantly snapped up and consumed. it was always a little wanky but so was dinosaur jr, dino still sounds good to me, bts... notso hotso.

last time i saw bts was about 3 or 4 years ago at the metro, they did a note for note cover of "freebird" (complete with triple guitar attack), it was actually pretty cool in a totally non-ironic way. played that loud, that well, live, it's a pretty kick ass song.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I am a huuuuge Dino Jr. mark. All my friends hated them because of the soloing.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I like Keep It Like a Secret but have never felt the need to listen to any other BtS albums.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

you're living all over me is probably my favorite record of all time. i love the dinosaur.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

OMG OTTO WE ARE LIKE SISTERZ

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Don't hate me, but my favorite Dinosaur Jr. record is Green Mind. That's not to say I don't *heart* their other releases, including having strong positive feelings for You're Living All Over Me. It's just that Green Mind for some reason has secured a Very Special place in my heart.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

i like green mind, that was pretty much when j started playing all the instruments himself wasn't it?

god that first cigarette i buy at the not-so-convenient convenience store at the forest park el stop is going to taste so f'ing good. i am raging for a cigarette right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I never listened to Dinosaur Jr, apart from whatever their MTV hit was. They probably weren't hard enough for me. I heard a song a few months ago that was pretty cool, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought Green Mind was the album real Dino Jr. fans were supposed to hate. Maybe I'm getting that confused with the one Teenage Fanclub album that I love love love but is supposed to be the worst thing they ever released.

Dinosaur Jr. had an MTV hit?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Google suggests it was probably "Feel the Pain". I don't remember the song and only vaguely remember the video (something with...buildings?), but I remember liking it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

There was a video for "Feel the Pain" that got some rotation.

xpost: Yep. They were golfing in a city.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

"Feel the Pain" is the only Dinosaur Jr. song that I know. It was played on Q101 in 1994.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Spike Jonze video, apparently

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

NICK check yer email

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

thanks k-dog

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Polish museum: recommended!

I learned tons about Polish history, Poles in America, Polish imagery in art and the demographics of the general WP area. The stoods learned a lot too. Good times. I heard them saying they wanted to try American beers, so I was going to take them out for a drink after our excursion to Myopic, but then they were all tuckered out and wanted to go back to their rooms. Whatevs, suckas.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Not recommended: Walking there from the blue line with a bunch of Chinese people in 100 degree weather.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am FINALLY officially out at work! I hate that time before it's official.

It's not like I've been hiding it, but people usually can't tell, so they just I assume I'm str8. In the environment in which I've been I've had to be a bit mild in my self-expression, and there haven't been any other gaymo's to talk boys with, so I've been in unfamiliar territory.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 3 August 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Skee ball is my favorite arcade game.

YES. SRSLY.

Anyway now I am even older. We had rehearsal today (seriously, is there a better way to spend one's birthday?) along with the 6 year old drumming sensation, who is joining us for a song for our show Saturday. He's completely awesome, pure rock star and really happy happy to be part of the band. Hopefully the stage freight won't hit him Saturday (although it's a house show, so hopefully not).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

(seriously, is there a better way to spend one's birthday?)

Uh, I can think of a couple.

I saw Down By Law last night (the Jim Jarmusch movie). I didn't know it was so New Orleans, I really enjoyed it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I can't!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going crazy this morning because I feel so healthy. I'm booze-free, been eating lots of salads and shit, getting to bed at the same time every night -- a whole battery of adult, responsible things. THE FUCKING LEAST I COULD DO IS HAVE A CIGARETTE, RIGHT?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Rehearsal is alright, 'cause I don't hate music or anything, but it's not my idea of a birthday-level good time. Getting beers and chicken wings after rehearsal is great, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

The last thing I would want to do on my birthday is go to band rehearsal. Yikes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

THE FUCKING LEAST I COULD DO IS HAVE A CIGARETTE, RIGHT?

i know this feeling. the inconvenient convenience store at the forest park blue line had only newports or marlboro reds yesterday. i seethed the whole way home. i WANTED someone to start shit on the train yesterday. i practically ran to that bar/liquor store next to the wicker park post office on division after getting off the train. i didn't even wait until i got outside, i lit up in the store. i thought about ordering a beer while i smoked but it looked like it was about to rain so i didn't.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

So, I'm going to Denver tomorrow and I'm going see my little cousins whom I haven't seen in a few years. I guess I should get them something? 'Cause that's what cool relatives do? I guess they're, um, between 4-7 yrs old by now? Ideas?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

A chess set, accompanies by "101 Classic Opening Chess Moves". Or a couple of Primo Levi books.

Or, really, do they still make Matchbox cars, something fun like that?

Finally saw The Proposition last night - good stuff.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

mini boxes of frango mints? easy, chicagoish, and kids love candy...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

black tar heroin.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Children's books. DUH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah...at that age, it is still cool to get books. when they get a bit older, non-nerd kids hate getting books as gifts.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

when they get a bit older, non-nerd kids hate getting books as gifts.

me and my non-nerd sisters always loved getting books as gifts. it's what we always got each other for gifts until we became of legal drinking age. my older sister owns a used book store in vermont and still gives me books all the time. in fact there's one in the post on it's way to chicago now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

i think it depends on your definition of "nerd"--i generally liked books (depending on what they were), but i knew lots of kids that didn't.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

We should have a one-month switch where Kevin's sister and her friends come to Chicago and do our work, while we go to Vermont and hang out at the used bookstore.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

she's not going anywhere, she just gave birth to my first nephew 3 weeks ago. the kid totally looks like me too, hope he can handle it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, how did you come out at work? Did you f one of the interns in the b?

Eric, I'm interested in your thoughts about the proposition.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jeezum crow, I woke up with swollen tonsils for the third straight day. GET OVER IT, BODY.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Books are great, except 1) I don't really know what reading level they're at, and 2) my stepmom owns a bookstore so she probably has that covered.

BUT, I could get them comic books! Comic books and candy. What kid doesn't like comic books and candy!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've had a sore throat for a couple of days, too.

Jordan: LEGOS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

That is the perfect gift, Jordan.

Jesse, I am amazed that you could stay in the closet as long as you did.

I think it's funny to refer to band practice as REHEARSAL. I guess we have band REHEARSAL tonight then. Sadly, no 6-year-old drummers will be present. However, I'm very excited because it won't be so f'ing hot this time.

How to make my new favorite 10:30 work snack, by Sarah Johnson:
* 1/3 ziplock baggie of chex mix
* roughtly 10 peanuts
* little bit of raisins
* little bit of craisins

GO CRAZY!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was mike watt who said you rehearse an act but you practice a craft. that's always sounded good to me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Craisins make Sarah something something

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, legos are a great idea.

If it's for a specific show or recording, then we call "rehearsals". Probably comes from college jazz band.

If it's just to get together and hang and work on some tunes, then it's "brass band club". It's like fight club except with less fighting and more drinking.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I love local band drama. I checked out this band's myspace page on a whim, 'cause they're looking for a drummer:

Mike Dr0h0 (from the Pr0fits [yes, this is actually what he calls himself]) tried to add us as a friend. Like all friend requests coming from "musicians" or "bands", we gave him a fair chance and listened to two painstakingly boring tracks. Not only does his music suck gigantic balls, but check out a few of his "influences":

THE MARS VOLTA
BUILT TO SPILL
TOOL
Phish
311
Led Zepplin
The Smashing Pumpkins
What a load of shit! He should have just left Jack Johnson. I have to compliment his taste in music however, the mars volta, built to spill, and the smashing pumpkins are personal favorites. But in the NAME OF ALL THAT IS SACRED IN MUSIC WHAT INFLUENCED HIM TO WRITE SUCH HORRIBLE SONGS?

oh well, the profits still suck, with or without its other members.

Peace, love, and solidarity,
Gr@ndst@nd (will beat y'all down)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I use "practice" and "rehearsal" interchangeably.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Goddammit, the one time I have a decent caption for the New Yorker caption contest, I forget to send it in before deadline:

http://www.newyorker.com/images/online/060731onca_contest_p198.jpg

"Marketing said the Jolly Roger 'wasn't jolly enough.'"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've never understood people in local bands slagging off other local bands as "sucking." I mean, you're all in local bands! Like yours is so much more inspirational, creative, and meaningful than theirs is! You probably suck just as bad, but in a different way.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Not that funny, but TOTAL NEW YORKER MATERIAL, esp. the anachronistic use of corporate culture.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I probabably am staying in New Orleans for ONE MORE MONTH!

Is that OK with you, Kenenenan?

But, I will be in Chicago Aug 16-18 for sure, maybe more.

I'm a little unsure of how to feel about this.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I said "GODDAMIT!" in front of AMEDB!!!!!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was taking a cell phone call in the stairwell and I found a few of these little dudes:

http://static.flickr.com/81/205907858_bc9eba56c4_m.jpg

Any guess on what it is? Black, six legs. It looks like of like a big tick, or a ninja ladybug, or a matte-finish beetle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's ok with me, Jesse.

You know what's weird? You went to the fucking swamp for the summer, and I feel like you did it to avoid the heat.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Cockaroach, mang

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

(I don't know if that's really what it is, but I just wanted to say that)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

A co-worker thinks it might be a weevil!

(he grabbed one for a desk-pet)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't in the closet, I was out, but the thing is no-one noticed. There wasn't a closet to begin with. I can't follow this metaphor through very well.

Because of my mild, even, unassuming manner, no one noticed my homosexuality.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's been so way much cooler than it has been there. But it doesn't cool off at night here like it does there.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

How did you come out, exactly?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

john, what was your 'great' idea for a ny'er cartoon, again?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

The New Yorker cartoon that have had in mind for years is a guy in a gorilla suit walking down the sidewalk. As he passes one of those old-time, gum-smacking Times Square hookers, winking with one hand on her hip, the caption reads, "Sorry, ma'am, that is a banana in my pocket."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

*crickets*

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, it's perfect, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - ziggy banana hooker - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

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― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think that Seinfeld may have forever tainted New Yorker cartoons for me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Jolly Roger one better, personally. But the reader caption contest is annoying. Normal people aren't funny.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

But you're funny! Or were you using another definition of normal?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I usually think that of the three choices we're given, there's one that's always far and away the best, but the people voting only pick that one like half the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Who reads the New Yorker???

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I used to all the time, but then I moved to Chicago and couldn't steal it from my parents any more. Now I stick to Harper's for my snooty lib'rul magazine needs.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I have a subscription to the New Yorker and thus read it weekly. I mean, not like the whole thing, but most of it. One thing that I've noticed is usually it seems like an issue is either all gold or all boring. They seem to load all the doom-filled political articles in one issue (e.g., this week's) and then have an issue with more esoteric random stories (the better ones, obv). I don't care about the snooty liberal articles, I like the ones where you learn about something you never thought about before. The Wikipedia article last week was pretty good (though condescending). I almost never read the fiction, for some reason.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I sent Amanda an email about this, but her friend from Akron who some of us met at Pfork fest is in the Pfork picture gallery of the fest - Day 2 pictures, page 3, the WLUW record fair section.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I never read the fiction, either, unless it's an author that I already like, such as Updike or Murakami.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Anyways, the "Travel" issue still rates as the best issue so far this year, with the Herzog profile and a bunch of other wild stuff.

The new Junior Boys is hot hot hot. So good.

I don't know if I was in the wrong mood for Basement Jaxx today or what, but I thought the new one was pretty irritating. Then I thought about it and decided maybe I don't like them as much as I thought I did. "Oh My Gosh" is still their best track. Maybe they need more hooks and less noises? But I'll give it more listens later.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I read the shit out of the fiction in the New Yorker. And in Harper's. I found it to be a very good way of discovering new writers, especially since I don't have easy access to the NY Times Book Review anymore (again, because of moving.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who reads the New Yorker???

Answer: Y'ALL read the New Yorker.

Is the Basement Jaxx out or did you just dl it? I looooved Kish Kash, but I'm not expecting that to be topped.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't read the New Yorker. I do peruse the Economist lately, though -- only since my ex-roommate ordered it and never switched his subscription. I'm sure once it runs out I'll be screwed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kr subscribes to The Economist and Harper's.

I'm not so much a fan of Harper's, actually. It's amusing but I only get about 15 minutes out of each issue, which doesn't seem all that worthwhile for a monthly.

For some reason, I was subscribing to The Atlantic Monthly (I think there was some special offer), even though I read even less of that. Only thing The Atlantic is good for is Barbara Wallraff's "Word Court." I don't think I like Sandra Tsing Loh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I used to read Modern Drummer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh My Gosh" is still their best track.

It's def. way up there, but I think I'm gonna go with "Romeo" as their very best.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Love The Atlantic. Love The Economist. Haven't read enough Harper's to make a judgement. I prefer the hysterical liberal stuff in the New Yorker to anything else, even if it's just to hate it.

Love the new Junior Boys.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

So, if I only liked the Johnny Dark syncopated beat tracks on the first Junior Boys album, I won't like the new one, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

i used to have a subscription to the atlantic monthly, but now haven't read it for an age. i get old new yorkers from my parents from time to time, but it's just not the same as getting new ones in the mail.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna go with "Romeo" as their very best.

Oh tee em.

I will read Harper's, the NYer, or the Atlantic Monthly nondiscriminately based on the content of any particular issue. I also read Real Simple despite the fact that it angers me every time.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

How is it you only get 15 minutes out of Harper's, John? That blows my freaking miiiiiind, man. They have some of the best analysis I've ever read of news issues, the opinion pieces are incredibly well-written (even when I don't agree with them,) and there's all the little fun bits like the Index, the Readings, Lapham's rants... oh man. I need to go read a copy now!

I guess I don't read it to be amused as much as I do to be informed. But to me, getting informed is amusing. I guess I'm boring.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's a nice day. I may trot up to the magazine rack at Border's on Mich Ave.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Like, there was a 15-page article in a recent issue about dangerous-as-hell Mexican roadracing that linked Pan-Americanism, Simon Bolivar, politcal upheaval, as well as rich Euros in their fancy vintage race cars. It was great!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also very good: Foreign Policy.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

After being inspired by one of Nick's posts, now I sometimes go to B&N just to read boutique-y music mags in the store (XLR8R, Wire, all those studio tech mags, etc.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

What a horrible sentence (after - being - now - sometimes)!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

So, if I only liked the Johnny Dark syncopated beat tracks on the first Junior Boys album, I won't like the new one, right?

I think Johnny Dark's influence on the first one is overstated. I mean, yes, the first record is a bit more syncopated -- you don't have something as tricky-sounding as "High Come Down" -- but they're using essentially the same palette on the new one, and I wouldn't have been able to guess that someone in the band left if I didn't already know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the sound is pretty similar to my ears. The singing is slightly more varied and the music gets a little more ... aggressive? on a couple of tracks, but overall it's just more of the same - and that's a good thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

The arts coverage in The New Republic is still good, as are Leon Wieseltier's columns. The political writing, not so much.

Jenny, I didn't have a strong reaction after The Proposition - was caught up in the plot; thought the editing worked well(all the sudden violence; plus the one sequence where they intercut two scenes, each with a very different song playing); had only seen Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast, so it was neat to see him in a different role; actually loved how he seemed like the brutal bad guy in the opening scene but turns out to be what he says he was, the only defender of justice around; had never seen a historical Australian film before, so it was a neat window into that whole culture; I noticed how there were no religious figures or buildings anywhere. Was a little worried about my choice of movie when my date laughed and laughed through the preview for Talladega Nights, only to have it followed by the long brutal opening scene of The Proposition.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Index and the Readings in Harper's. Most of the time the main essays -- of which there's only really a couple per issue -- don't interest me. Last time I felt the need to track down an issue was when Ben Marcus took on Jonathan Franzen and defended experimental fiction. I think that was in like October 2005.

I dunno, I tend to skip a lot of the big Seymour Hersh-type political articles in The New Yorker, too -- but I get excited about Bill Buford or Calvin Trillin on food, or Malcolm Gladwell's pop sociology lessons, or Tad Friend's entertainment profiles. And then of course critics like Sasha Frere-Jones, Alex Ross, Anthony Lane, David Denby, Hilton Als, and Nancy Franklin in the back are all uniformly interesting. Harper's doesn't really have any of this stuff.

Even if you take the shorter pieces at the beginning of each magazine: "Talk of the Town" is full of really great mini-editorials and reportage, whereas "Readings" is basically like a highbrow "News of the Weird," presented Utne Reader-style.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

had never seen a historical Australian film before, so it was a neat window into that whole culture

Does Picnic at Hanging Rock count?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

but I get excited about Bill Buford or Calvin Trillin on food,

Oh yeah, I kinda want to read that new Buford book.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I felt the need to track down an issue was when Ben Marcus took on Jonathan Franzen and defended experimental fiction. I think that was in like October 2005.

That was a good one! It made me grab The Corrections out of my mom and dad's bookcase last time I was home.

Oh, and Australian historical film? http://imdb.com/title/tt0080310/ -- Breaker Morant; How much history can you take?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Did you say date, Eric? Dish!

I am amazed and amused by my mental block when it comes to financial matters. I just filled out the "master promissory note" for my last year of student loans (they just started a new program where you can borrow a shit ton of money at a lower interest rate from the gubment instead of a private lender so I had to fill out new paper work) that involved filling in my name and address and checking some boxes and selecting some things from dropdown boxes and pretending to have read and understood some crap which is easy breezy and yet doing just that little bit of financial dabbling has given me a massive, throbbing headache. wtf, Jenny?

re Australian history in movies: Rabbit Proof Fence

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you must dish. Dates are very exciting to those of us who don't go on them.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, Nick, you're not alone in being disappointed by the new Basement Jaxx. I like it a lot, and will ne'er retract that. It's quite good.

That's become a late-blooming favorite off the album.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

my New Yorker has mysteriously stopped coming...I think maybe the post office is fucking up somehow, because the subscription's paid up for a couple years. obviously, I should fix this, but in the meantime, if anyone wants to describe recent good pieces, I would be forever grateful.

one thing the New Yorker's really good for is huge long news stories that seem different in kind to me than what gets printed in Harper's/Atlantic Monthly; more heavily anecdotal. Not the Seymour Hersh-bullet point stuff...I'm thinking more of George Packer's piece on reconstructing Baghdad a couple of years ago...I think it was called "The War after the War" or something. I miss that shit. But also, I think reading it is like comfort food for me, because even when I'm reading something really bad, I'll have the same Pavlovian reactions to it that I always do. Did anyone read the profile of Pete Seeger from a couple months ago? I think it was by Alex Ross, and it was awful, just no narrative arc at all, free-association to the point of formlessness. But it ended with an anecdote presented in a really emotionally manipulative way, and I totally found myself tearing up on the CTA. anyway. I miss it.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't come out at work! It's just that people finally took notice of the fact that I have been out. Or we finally had a conversation about it. I find that the it is sometimes necessary to do away with ambiguity around the subject. Like when you know people are asking each other behind your back or you know people are interpreting what you're saying at a particular moment through the lens of the misapprehension that you are straight (like if I said, "Oh, that girl is cute," people might think I was attracted to her and either tease about it or try to set me up or something).

The best way to remove ambiguity is through direct statements like, "My partner and I used to go to the Bourbon Pub when we could come to New Orleans." or "My partner and I saw two unfathomably large cocks at Bourbon Pub while we were in New Orleans" (true, I have pics if you want to see--and this was before the days of digital cameras).

In this case I think I said something about some guy we saw being adorable or something.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

So how did every one react when you came out at work? Did one of the interns f you in the b after you came out at work? After you come out at work did you come on work?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Eew. Sticky paper.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone can tell you: the handicapped stall is the only way to go.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Did you come out at work by wearing this hat?

[img]http://www.rainbowdepot.com/ProductImages/elope/A7524.jpg[/img]

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Did you come out at work by wearing this hat?

http://www.rainbowdepot.com/ProductImages/elope/A7524.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

That would be coming out as an irredemable dork, not as gay.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Only the interns I (am able to) have conversations with know. Others spend their days in a clueless daze, making gross mouth noises (amedb's new annoying habit--she presses her lips together, squishing around her lip balm.)

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 4 August 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Not to obsess on this, but: If your band consists of basically your best friends, and the songs are all songs you've written, and you recently added someone so all the songs are sounding fresh and new, AND ESPECIALLY if there's a six year old who is excited and proud to be "part of the band", then yes, practice is awesome. We generally are just playing through the setlist and working on new songs, so it's pretty much the same as a performance, more or less. But if we want to sing in silly voices, or throw on some slap bass, we can.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 August 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

being around a 6 y.o. on a regular basis sounds more like a nightmare to me

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Friday, 4 August 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

Can't dish on the web. Maybe by e-mail. Smart, arty, cute, blonde, almost 6 feet tall.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 4 August 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

It would be, except that this one is about as great as kids get. When him mother went to have her second kid, I told her she was showing hubris and the gods would get her. So far, the kid (who is just weeks old) is, you know, a boring baby type, but we'll see.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, i just got home. if i fall asleep now i'm done for. only hope now is to power through. pot of coffee coming up.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Today would be a good day to call in sick, Kevin.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. Today might be a good day for me to call in sick, too. Not because I'm a wild man, just because I feel sick. Goddamnit, I knew that going from very hot to very cold five times every day would end in a sore throat eventually.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nah. This is a morning fog. It'll burn off by 10.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

today would have been a good day to call in dead.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE the new Junior Boys. I started to get bored during Track 10, but right as I was about to click back to TOO YOUNG, it picked up. Then I loved the last 1 and a half minutes. It's a very pretty album. At first, it made me nostalgic for Downward Spiral slow songs and a tiny bit for Adore, but then I just enjoyed it for its Junior Boyness.

I'm kind of scared of the new BJAxx so far. I'm only on track three, but already I've been thrown lyrics like 'Well, the food was good. I had a chicken fajita..' and another track with banjo pickin'. I don't like the interludes, but I never have.

In other news, I think my favorite BJaxx song of ALL TIME might be Plug it in. Ooh! Controversial!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm e-mailing in "sick" just before noon today, so I can drive to the MKE airport.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Plug It In is good. So is Lucky Star. So is Good Luck. So is Right Here's the Spot (their Prince tribute!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome things my dad has said in recent emails:
* Ronald Reagan, 1984 - "Trees pollute."
George W. Bush, today - "There may be something to this global warming
stuff after all!"
* Henceforth the “baby Bush” will be recognized, with considerable acclaim, as “shrub”.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, OTM on all accounts.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I love that track with the banjo pickin'. "Take Me Back To Your House." The trick, as I mentioned upthread, is to have headphones.

(Real headphones, plz, not iPod earbuds. God, I can't even imagine how bad records that depend on low-end sounds must sound on those things.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I only use my iPod earbuds at the gym, but I've apparently lost them. I got a pair of $5 Walgreens look-alikes, and oh my god do these things sound and feel horrible.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Plug It In is good. So is Lucky Star. So is Good Luck. So is Right Here's the Spot.

Okay, I agree with this, too. I just like that whole record.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamnit, I knew that going from very hot to very cold five times every day would end in a sore throat eventually.

Yep. Still rockin' the sore throat.

* Henceforth the “baby Bush” will be recognized, with considerable acclaim, as “shrub”.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375410171.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamnit, I knew that going from very hot to very cold five times every day would end in a sore throat eventually.

Yep. Still rockin' the sore throat.

Ditto.

It's so NICE out. Why did I come here today?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm totally not going to make it through the day. i've got to plan an exit strategy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

STOMACH FLU.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well? Did you exit?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I just read that Johnny Marr has officially joined Modest Mouse. Huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I exited on Wednesday for ACTUAL stomach flu. Do it. Thank fuck I have a half day today cos I've still got it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

no, still kicking around, trying to do stuff. not really doing anything well.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny Marr? THE Johnny Marr?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. THAT Johnny Marr.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Is there more than one? I think not.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAAAHLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH

...so I have been trying desperately to remember this song I heard the other day while grading tests in a bar. I thought was a classic classic rock song -- it sounded JUST like, I dunno, 38 Special or Boston or Foreigner or something and after a bit of looking, I found it:

"Ah Leah" by Donnie Iris. And, of course, the video is on youtube and, of course, the guy looks like Eugene Levy. I am happy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is there more than one? I think not.

Well, there's a DJ on WXRT named Johnny Mars, which is close but no cigar.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and the guy is from Beaver Falls, PA, which is in Western PA and therefore very close to Akron/Cleveland. This reminds me of the moment when I realized that Michael Stanley wasn't a huge rock star, he was just a local/regional Cleveland dude. Oh, regional rock: I salute you!

/boring to everyone but me nostalgia

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have time to read all of this. Someone fill me in -- I've been studying for the last few days. AND NOW I AM DONE. BEERCITY.

The MN state fair is awesome

Fucking A right. I really hope I can get SY tickets, but chances are slim, and I probably won't even be there u_u

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out that SY are doing an invite-only show at teh Double Door tomorrow night! Plz to give me invite!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think you have to suck a record industry dick for that, John. Would that really be worth it?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm.

http://www.askmen.com/men/business_politics/pictures/folder_1/david_geffen/david_geffen_150c.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

...

jmc, you of all people should be able to invites, what with your INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS and all, right???

Is the press invited? I wonder if M4x could get a press pass for the CJ.....

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Songs about David Geffen:

Joni Mitchell, "Free Man in Paris"
Mojo Nixon, "Bring Me the Head of David Geffen"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

also, i will be back in yr area in about a week. i've prevailed upon the Sharks to have another karaoke party, but we'll see. Plz to recommend me music concert shows to see, since I'm fucking desperate here. Anything, really. BFong is going to Beirut, and I told him I'd go with him, but I don't know nothing about them other than that they are as indie as all get out.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Beirut's okay. Part of the whole E. European carnival/cabaret scene that's been dominating indie rock lately.

I am STOKED to do KARAOKE. I haven't done it since January.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

(But I'm actually gonna be gone on the 11th and 12th.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

DR OCTAGON AT THE ABBEY PUB ON 8/10!?!?!?!?!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'll be in town until the 19th, probably

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

BFong is going to Beirut, and I told him I'd go with him

At first I thought: YOU DUDARS ARE NUTZ! Then I realized what you were talking about.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. And then I was surprised at how blithely you said you would go to Beirut.

Then I thought about how people say "I'm going to Sonic Youth" instead of "I'm going to see Sonic Youth" or "I'm going to the Sonic Youth show." Like the name of the band is a destination or a verb or something. "I'm going to Sonic Youth, then I'm going to brush my teeth and go to bed." or "I'm going to Sonic Youth, but not Beaver Falls." Weird, but very common iirc.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's all of the things I would be teaching my Chinese people if they actually wanted to learn something about English instead of using me as their personal mommy/tour guide.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Now I have to go to a bbq and then usher them around the AI. :/

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm going to Sonic Youth" = Funniest possible things to say during moment of climax.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

But see, presenting it as "I'm going to Sonic Youth" is just shorthand, because you're going to See Sonic Youth, at the Venue, which may as well be called Sonic Youth for the evening, and while you're there you're going to Sonic Youth, perhaps right in your pants.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hiya, ladies!
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre900/e953/e95372bwjbf.jpg

― Donnie Iris (The Milkmaid), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

You know what I forgot to mention here (since I couldn't make it to the show myself)? Prince Paul did a DJ set last night - at feckin' Morseland! Wish I coulda gone.

I know a guy who's running sound on the SY tour, and I tried to get him to get me into their CBGB show when I was in NY in June, but no luck, no luck.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night in which I was arguing about linguistics with The Milkmaid. It started when I said that I would rather be descriptive than proscriptive.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 4th, 2006 3:23 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

What does that even mean? That you'd rather describe things than ban them?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm home and I CAN'T SLEEP! how can i be too tired to sleep?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I obv. meant "prescriptive."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hm. I hadn't really heard of the descriptive/prescriptive divide, but I just looked it up. The definition of "prescriptive" includes a linguistics-specific definition.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I started off the day bitching about iPod earphones, at lunch I broke my own earphones, and by the end of the day I am ready to try out these awesome (and not cheap) active noise reduction headphones, the kind that emit opposite sound waves. You can put 'em on with no music, even, and make the low, constant rumble of the air conditioning disappear completely. It's eerie. Train noise is another matter entirely, I realize.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.shure.com/stellent/groups/public/@gms_gmi_web_us_pa/documents/web_resource/site_img_us_pa_e2_l.jpg

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I hear good things about those.

I got these bad boys:

http://www.pdashop.nl/images/product/image.php?id=21675

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Let's try that again:

http://www.scan.co.uk/images/products/358852-A.jpg

The Sennheiser PXC150, which is essentially the same as the PX250 except it doesn't fold up or have leather cushions on the headband (which is like, you know, whatever). The noise cancelling works really well. Well enough that it's not just music enhancement, it's hearing protection.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 4 August 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

O. M. F. G.

Hours of telephonic intern drama.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

We have 1 intern who is raising all grades of hell over having to drive back to Chicago instead of flying. We had a ticket booked for him, but then I asked him if he would mind driving. He said "I think that should be OK." So we cancelled his ticket.

Now he denouncing the whole organization (minus the me, my boss and the other individuals who were involved in the change of plans) and saying he is upset because the 14 hour road trip is going to tire him so much that it will ruin his time in Chicago and his return to school the next week.

Jesus H!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

He's obviously being a bitch.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan! If you liked the Triosk + Jan Jellinek record, I think you'll like the new Triosk even better. Really lovely stuff.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yowza! Das ist cheap!!!

Itinerary:
Tuesday, August 22 - CHICAGO-MIDWAY(MDW) to NEW ORLEANS LA(MSY)
Flight 1365 M
Depart CHICAGO-MIDWAY(MDW) at 4:30PM and
Arrive in NEW ORLEANS LA(MSY) at 6:50PM

***************************** COST *****************************
Total for 1 Passenger(s)
AIR: ........................$ 92.09
TAX: ........................$ 10.21
PFC FEE: ....................$ 3.00
SECURITY FEE: ...............$ 2.50
___________________
Total Fare: $107.80

*********************** PAYMENT SUMMARY ************************
Current payment(s)
$107.80

Total Payments: $107.80

My flight out of Chicago.

I will be in Chi Aug 16-22.

SO MAKE YOUR PLANS TO SEE ME!!!!!!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

With fares this low, some of you should come see ME HERE.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dude. No kidding. It just crossed my mind.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's less than I spent on headphones today.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'm calling u

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chicago: I like the new Basement Jaxx, especially that girlfriend song. Love, Jenny.

PS I will check out the new Jr. Boys shortly.

PPS Amanda, I had that song in my head for THE REST OF THE DAY. And nobody knew what the hell I was singing! Awesome.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny... I'm calling u.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

AWESOME THINGS ABOUT AH LEAH BY Donnie Iris:

1. Pink gaucho pants
2. Yellow suit
3. Nerds playing power chords
4. Nerds getting laid
5. The time warp I just entered
6. The fact that I rememberd most of the words to that song once it started playing

Thank you Amanda. Just... thank you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my jaymc moment of the day: I have never heard that song bofore, never seen the video, never heard of this nerd. I imagine this is all way more charming if you are already familiar with it.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 5 August 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

I made a mix of indie pop, mostly from the 1990s. It's on the blog. Download it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 5 August 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

OK.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

HI YOU GUYS I MADE A MIX OF STUFF THAT ISN'T INDIE POP FROM THE NINETIES BUT I DID FINISH MY FINALS TODAY AND NOW I'M GOING TO GO TO SHITTY MONTANA BARS AND TRY TO MAKE OUT WITH GIRLS AND SMOKE CIGS EVEN THOUGH I QUIT BIGTIME.

NO I WILL NOT MAKE OUT WITH YOU.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 5 August 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes you will.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

your mouth hole tastes like marlboros

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

I WENT TO A PARTY WITH A KEG OF BELL'S IN THE BACKYARD AND I SEEM TO HAVE CAUGHT THE DRUNK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 5 August 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/ccimages/w3508.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

ALRIGHT KENAN. If "Ah Leah" means nothing to you, how about...

THIS!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/rprestia/1301/images/IN415aBern.jpg

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. That was BIGGER than I expected.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Religion Gets Kinky, Part Two:

74. "Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you"

BATTER my heart, three person'd God; for, you
As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend
Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurpt towne, to'another due,
Labour to'admit you, but Oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue.
Yet dearely'I love you,'and would be loved faine,
But am betroth'd unto your enemie:
Divorce mee,'untie, or breake that knot againe;
Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I
Except you'enthrall mee, never shall be free,
Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Saturday, 5 August 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Consider also:

http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/images/dying-slave.jpg

Religious and erotic ecstasy are not so different.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING TONIGHT? I WANT TO PARTY

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Come to my birthday party! I know, it's a few thousand miles away, but it'll be great!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

ALRIGHT KENAN. If "Ah Leah" means nothing to you, how about...

THIS!!!

Nope. No emotional response here. Though I guess the shot of him sucking a cig followed by lots of shots of shop windows carrying tres-80's fashions is kinda funny.

I'm sure you know this, but this all exhibits some pretty awful taste.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

My whole experience with the 80's (the good parts anyway) can be found here.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ohoh my. Listening to "1984" again. Van Halen, thank you so much for existing. I love you. And a special shout-out to Mr. Roth, without whom none of the silliness would have been possible. *bows deeply*

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

We are PACKING for a little while anyway, and then WHO KNOWS...

I had two beers and got my hair cut today. I recommend having your hair cute while half in the bag.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, we packed and now we're exhausted even though I swear it looks like all we did was make a huge mess. I hate moving.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 6 August 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my gawd, these dudes are fucking awesome

http://www.myspace.com/danielstripedtiger (music plays on opening)

I wish I was in a band like this...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

wait, daniel striped tiger is an allusion to something? I am a big fat idiot?

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

hey, do you guys need help moving? cause i'm up for it though i'm fairly useless.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 6 August 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

wait, daniel striped tiger is an allusion to something? I am a big fat idiot?

Um... an allusion to Mr. Rogers and that my name is Daniel? I found the band pretty much by accident.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 6 August 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

all moving help is welcome. We're hiring those starving artists movers, so it should go real quick, so if anybody wants to carry a couple of boxes then go get drunk.

8/19

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 6 August 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't even get the Mr Rogers ref. Bummer.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 6 August 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

FF at red line tap tonight if you want to come hang out. We are playing a cover song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 6 August 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

hey i need a restaurant recommendation for my mom's birthday. a not-steakhouse and not-korean restaurant that my 2 korean parents in their 60s would like, thats nice upscale'ish but not stuffy? somewhere in the $50 per person range w/wine and tip. I made reservations at Japonais, but it maybe a little too scene'y/trendy for my parents? I dunno, I've never been. Any suggestions?

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 6 August 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

well, maybe 50-75. but my parents don't really drink that much. has anyone tried blackbird, spring?

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 6 August 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Two of my faves in the city: Frontera Grill, for some fine-ass mexican food, and West Town Tavern, prolly my #1 favorite. Both the food and the wine are fantastic, much better than the prices suggest. All the menu items are named very simply -- Beef, Chicken, Lamb -- but they are all melt-in-your-mouth good. Try the pot roast. No, seriously.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, oh... and don't miss the Tavern Potato Chips. That's the magic of the place, really -- they can take potato chips and turn them into fine dining.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I want one of thosee frontera grill margarettas. The one with cucumber juice.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

When taking iGo to Ikea, allow 6 hours. FYI.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost (Both places also get the coveted snail in the Slow Food Guide.)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to Spring, skip it. Or don't, but I didn't really enjoy my meal there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

From what I hear, Blackbird is pretty damn fantastic.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Downside, though: being crammed elbow-to-elbow with other dinres in a very small space. Ambience lacks. That's the word on the street. But, very good French food. Anthony Bourdain mentioned it by name when I saw him at Borders.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

MY CENTRAIL A/C STOPPED WORKING. HELP ME PLEASE.

I think I'm moving here until this stops happening.

http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=dspv&itid=&itdx=&itty=&from=f&shtl=1

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

OR HERE.

That is where one of the interns and her BF have been staying during his visit. AND, I wound up staying there last night after I meet a nice Cajun man who was nice enough to let me share his room since I was to stink-o to drive.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Really I wasn't that drunk, but I wanted to spend the night. He is a cutie pie chemistry professor.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

With central air.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know about the broken air till this morning.

Should I stay at the Holiday with a great view and a Pool in the Quarter, or the kinda cool local hotel that is cheaper? It's $30 cheaper.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Do cheap. All you need is air, not a hotel.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

But I like the hotel. I thought I might just treat myself to a nice room.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

You endorsed it yourself, though: "the kinda cool local hotel that is cheaper." Sounds golden to me.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to Spring, skip it. Or don't, but I didn't really enjoy my meal there.

what didn't you like about spring? i was leaning towards it since its cheaper than like blackbird, japonais, but seemed to be getting good reviews

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 6 August 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

We had a reservation but had to wait for a table even though the place was maybe half full. The service was pretty lousy in general. The server made a much bigger deal of dropping foodie words like "infused" and the like and didn't ever really get around to tell us what we were ordering, or so it seemed. She was more like an actress reciting memorized lines than someone who knew what they were talking about. The food wasn't bad, but it was served in miniscule portions compared to the prices they were asking -- I mean small, on a really really big plate. My date's ravioli dish was cold. The wine was expensive. They tried really really hard to push a course on us from every section of the menu, and didn't stop even when I said I wasn't interested.

I don't know, perhaps it's gotten better. The whole thing kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, pardon the pun.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

Additionally, I'm pissed because I was just helping my friend 3rica move some of her stuff out of the SAIC studios, and on my way home I needed to get gas. So I stopped at a really shitty station, filled up, and almost immediately my car was sputtering, running rough, feeling like it has no compression or power... ugh. I really hope it's bad gas and not like a timing or ignition or head gasket issue 'cause I so do not need that right now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

(Oh, I just thought to say: My Spring experience was about a year and a half ago, if that makes any difference.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bienvillehouse.com/images/guestroom5_tn.jpg

I changed my mind completely and now I'm at the Bienville House in the beautiful French Quarter where the only thing that is more prolific and vigorous than the flora is the fauna. I walked down a little side street called Clinton that is next door to the hotel and I saw 4 grey rats that were the size of small cats. Said rats literally crossed paths with the a number of "outdoor" (2") roaches.

The hotel is quite nice though and it has a beautiful courtyard with a pool. A pool of rats.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 7 August 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Remember a while back there was some back and forth regarding the shade of the text on a certain music website? I think we can lay aside our differences and all agree that Bienville House's website is where our combined disgust is most deserved. I feel like I've developed cataracts.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 7 August 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

"Commemabration"

Has this portmanteau made it to the world outside of New Orleans?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 7 August 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Insomnia cure: Get approx. 5 hours of sleep two nights in a row. Get up at 7 am on third day and go to Ikea. Purchase a lot of heavy things. Get stuck in traffic on the way back to your new apartment, where you have to carry heavy things half a block and up two flights of stairs. Fight with you S.O. about small things. Go home and pack and clean for four more hours. Die.

re: "Commemabration": I dislike that because it sounds kind of awkward, but I like the meaning of it. It also seems pretty rooted in the character of the region; could you imagine NY having a 9/11 Commemabration?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm calling in "sick" today.

No, wait... make that, sick.

Oof.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, Chicago.

I'm back from Denver. I hung out with my cuz M.I.A. and walked up a mountain gbx-style.

I thought I was going to have to call in sick based on how I felt yesterday, but that just turned out to be altitude sickness (which I thought folks were making up, but no).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EAZY!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

YEs, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIC! I wish I would have known when I left you a message last night. Doh! What are you doing to celebrate?

Jenny, that sounds awfully tiring. Ikea wears me out. TOO MANY COLORS! TOO MANY THINGS TO LOOK AT! I can't imagine having to actually CARRY things and CLEAN after visiting there. I think couples going through premarital counseling should be sent there as some sort of relationship test, because surely it makes EVERYONE whiney and tired and grumpy..?

I had a decent weekend, though I'm actually thinking maybe next year I should try to get Lolla tickets.

Our show last night was ok. Most people were there to see the second band who were so over the top cutesy I started to hate all living things, except maybe kittens. I still loved kittens. Anyway, I don't think their audience was into us. As one very drunk lady said, "What's the word for what you guys are? Oh, yeah. ABRUPT. Or at least that's the word I'd use to describe the audience attention..." Ok, she was really drunk, but I'm guessing she meant we sounded abrasive? Anyway, we played as well as we can. Also, I really enjoyed the headliner, Bunnygrunt. The crowd for band 2 dissipated before they played, but I was glad I stuck around.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Most people were there to see the second band who were so over the top cutesy I started to hate all living things, except maybe kittens

That's kinda how I felt about the band that played after you guys at the Sl1pper Club that one time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. We were talking about them last night. Ben's friends with them. I was like, Please tell me they aren't doing that band any more. It turns out they aren't. I was relieved that even one little band out in the universe had dropped the cutesy schtick.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

He used to be in the...Sup3r-8's, right? I think I read recently that they broke up.

(is that the band we're talking about?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday EZ!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

HB EZ.

I think I'm dying. Or maybe I'm just a pussy. No, no... I'm definitely dying.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

HBEZ!

Kenan, maybe it's altitude sickness?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday, Eric! You're pretty great.

If couples used Ikea trips as part of their premarital counselling, there would be a sharp decline in marriages, I think.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I was talking about http://www.socraft.com.au/Products/jpgs/cords%20etc/ric-rac_cotton.jpg Attack.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

With THAT for a name? No shit, Sherlock. ;)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah! Me too, I just couldn't remember their name (even though they had that corny chant for it...it's all coming back now).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/35/ac/387d7220eca0d0d2a01d8010.L.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 August 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

You kow what sounds like fun(to some) but is really not too cool? Swimming in the rain. It's kind of nice doing the backstroke and watching the drizzle come down since you can see each drop descending for about 3 seconds, but when it's raining hard it's really unpleasant.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 7 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hey John, over the weekend I drove by this house, from Woody Allen's 'Sleeper' (which I have not seen):

http://members.cox.net/sciatica/images/sleeper.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

i would be interested in "great moments in real man history". i'm sure it would be quite informative, however brief it may be.

and happy birthday ez.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 7 August 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Sleeper" is one of the few Woody Allen movies I have seen, and I liked it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

How many of you men have come to grips with restaurants that spin?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Never been to one, but I think I'm okay with it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure I could handle it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i've been in a few bars that have started to spin.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, happy bidet, EZed!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, thank you, friends!

There'll likely be a little potluck at the house this coming Sunday - I'll send out an e-mail.

Any and all of you are welcome to join in on a trip to Ravinia tonight. Starts at 8 p.m., solo piano - some music I really love (Shotokovich's Op. 87, preludes and fugues - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Preludes_and_Fugues_(Shostakovich) ) - and the same guy is playing solo-piano Radiohead songs later, though I don't know enough Radiohead to appreciate that.

(Re last week - jinxed the date by being too impressed.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Here's that link again - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Preludes_and_Fugues_(Shostakovich)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, i guess ilx doesn't like those parens, but they're part of the link.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I've heard of that guy from his Radiohead cds. He's no Brad Mehldau but it should be fun.

I want to hear that reggae tribute to OK Computer. Please don't tell anyone.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hi y'all.

I'm a descriptivist at heart but am called upon to be a prescriptivist in the classroom. Naturally. I don't really see us arguing about this, Juanchito. We on the same team.

Today I took the Chinese folks for their first Indian food. (They liked it.) I also took them to Jewel, which was EXTREMELY exciting for them. They were WAY into the idea of buy one get one free cosmetics and found avocados to be one of the weirder things they had seen since arriving in Chicago.

I'm very sorry I missed the FFs show on Saturday -- I forgot that I had L-ooza ticket. I could only go for a few hours each day, but I had an ok time. I saw Kanye (good!), Common, Gnarls Barkley, Wilco and Shins. Shins were ok but boring, Wilco was GREAT (no rockism apologies from me, you're welcome). I wanted to see Manu Chao but I couldn't find the stage because I had no map and I didn't want to wander around by myself for too long. Again, too many people for my liking.

As for Donnie Iris, I decided that more than Boston or .39 Special that song sounds like The Cars. And I love the Cars.

So that's the update from Me-ville. I am looking forward to J+J's housewarming party.

Did I hear someone say something about karaoke? It's hard keeping up with this thread with no "unread answers" feature.

Love,
Donnie

― I think I might change my name to Donnie Iris (The Milkmaid), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't blame anyone for not reading my post. It's too long. I realize that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

PS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

The unread answers feature works again, just so's y'know.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha .39 Special.

That's like Product 18.

xp - Oh good, I'll switch back.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Product 18.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, off to mark attendance in the gradebook! Catch you all on the flippity flop.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know of any guitarists who might be interested in joining an indie-pop band? The first two people we auditioned from Craigslist were, well, not all that exciting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

HBD, EZ.

HB seems weird to me. I have always written HBD, which I started when working at the flower shop where we would abbreviate happy bday as hbd.

We also wrote HVD for Valentine's day, WDS for With Deepest Sympathy, and OT&PAWY for Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

One time we sent a plant to a funeral with a card attached that was to read something like "We will miss George, our thoughts and prayers are with you. -John and Rachel."

We got a call back about it asking why it read "We will miss George. -O.T and Pawy, and John and Rachel."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 7 August 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I know a couple good guitarists in Chicago, I'll mention it to them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 August 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney lost her cell phone!

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Monday, 7 August 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Shosto's Preludes and Fugues are awesome. The Radiohead piano dude seemed a bit meh, when I heard him on -- three guesses -- NPR a few years ago, but he's probably be fine doing actual classical material.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 August 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

I went out in the Quarter last night and drank gin. After my 2nd martini I had a perfect idea for an ILX screen name but I forgot.

The name occurred to me at a really annoying bar that is known for Boys Dancin' on the Bar. Strippers are obnoxious because they're often queeny rednecks, they dance around your drink, they want to make conversation and strippers are nothing but a source of frustration. You can look and you can even touch anywhere you want, but really what are you getting? Not even a 1 night stand.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Holy heck, I just met the unhappiest gay Orthodox Christian Arab in the world. And probably the cutest. He's 29, from Bethlehem, looks Italian, lonely, working his first job in his life (waiter), and closeted like crazy.

He lived in Bethlehem where he couldn't work because no one will hire an Arab. Since he didn't work he never left his house because it wasn't safe for Arabs on the streets. He left Bethlehem because he knew he was gay and if he told his father he would murder him.

I was eating shish at his cousin's restaurant and he struck up a conversation with me, and we had to leave so that we could talk freely. He could not be more depressed. I swear, the man is quoting Morriesy! He says that he smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day because it is the only thing he has in his life that he can hold onto.

He has never had real sex with a man, only gotten head and kissed. He said that he is not attracted to guys under 45, but "I saw you tonight and when you talked I said, 'this is the man I have been needing to meet.'"

Other quotes: "I think that you are so, so handsome. I liked you because I can see that you don't care about your body" (!!!!!!!!!!!??) Upon further conversation, he said that he meant that I'm not a gym rat.

When I told him I thought he was terribly attractive, he said, "I hate that. I want to be ugly so that I can find someone who really loves me. Men in bars tell me my lips and my eyes and my nose are beautiful, but they just want to have fun and I want something that is for the rest of my life."

"You have the most beautiful feet."

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

test

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

that's kind of the sweetest and saddest thing i've heard in basically forever.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

So did you f him in the b?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, not Evan, I mean.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, the nearby high school's drumline has some hot-ass cadences (and they practice EARLY!). I kind of want to ditch work and go watch them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey John, one of my friends in Chi. was already planning to audition for Canasty, apparently. Funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I love drumline cadences for real. Good ones give me goosebumps. Battles of the bands rock my world.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man that makes me so fucking nostalgic for HS band. I wish I owned a set of quads.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Seven hundred dollars?!? Damnit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Aha! It was not a high school band, but one of the pro DCI groups in town for the semi-finals. I feel MUCH BETTER about how smoking they sounded now. I'm definitely going to go watch them practice today or tomorrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

dci = drum corps international?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Bingo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

the reign of the poxy fule is over.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

So did you f him in the b?

No, damn you.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

My body is sore as hell from walking up a mountain, gym stuff, stress, etc. I'm kinda thinking about getting a massage somewhere, but that seems so...self-indulgent. Please rationalize this for me?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Back!

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Woo!

I am swimming in science. Natural selection and Malthusian population mathematics and evolutionary "turnover" points and all of modern biology, and the peculiar American inability to absorb much of it culturally or to reconcile a belief in God with any of it, and what the Civil War has to do with it all.

Yes, I've been reading again. Prepare to be bored at your next party.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN, LET'S TALK ABOUT OXIDATION-REDUCTION REACTIONS, IN PARTICULAR HOW THEY RELATE TO GALVANIC CELLS AND GIBBS FREE ENERGY

IT'S BEEN SCIENCE FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH AND DINNER FOR THIS GUY, AND NOT THE INTERESTING FUN-READ KIND :(

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

You're boring me.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

I want this on a t-shirt:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/598px-Darwins_first_tree.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

I will play guitar for C@n@st@ if you pay me a shit-ton of money.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ravinia turned out so well on Monday night - listening to piano music on a lawn and drinking and eating stuff for 90 minutes while the moon rose as steadily as a good sunrise. And then the late show - the Radiohead/Elliot-Smith songs - were indoors in a spiffy/rustic old concert hall. Didn't get as much out of those, but seeing a full house of age 15-25 kids listening to solo classical piano was pretty neat.

We should make a comic book that tells the story of 'nasta getting a virtuoso guitarist from Satan and the complications that follow.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

oxidation-reduction reactions! oh yes! but making them interesting, i can't quite imagine.

gbx, motor through the biochem and the pchem and the cellular wtf and all of it, and take a class in EMBRYOLOGY. that's the shit. the lab was the coolest class i've ever taken. i can go on and on about growing chicken embryos.

and ochem is fun if you geek out completely over it, though it's not going to interest anybody else. but then if later in life you're prescribed a drug that's an enantiomer of something else, you can understand the molecular structure, oh yes. or you can just revel in what a fantastic dork you've become.

/scistuff

i seem to have missed the window of ilx working yesterday...i thought it was completely down all day and gave up on it. grrr.

ooo, hey, happy belated, eazy!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Testify!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

that guy sounds so sad.

also, smooooth.

I liked you because I can see that you don't care about your body

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Testify!

See, this is where he loses me. I can think that his circumstances are sad and all, but the line about the cigarettes and the above quoted masterpiece of self-pity make me want to gag. It really is a bit like Morrissey, only without the wit, which basically just makes him a really annoying guy.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

So that's the storyline of my life
No cutie pie, no future wife
Just relationships that bounce back like rubber
Yo, word to the mutha!
I guess I'll call it a day and throw my towel in
'cause it seems that I can't win
So I'll just carry on being an Overweight Lover

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kinda thinking about getting a massage somewhere, but that seems so...self-indulgent. Please rationalize this for me?

There's nothing wrong with being self-indulgent, especially when it comes to your physical well-being.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMN IT WHY DID I GET INVOLVED WITH PLAYING WITH THESE DUDES AGAIN THEY ARE SUCH HUGE FLAKES FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!

/rant

Sorry.

xpost Massages are great, and they make great gifts too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dan -- you mean yr (ex-)bandmates?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan (and anybody else): Massages aren't just about self-indulgence, but are an important part of overall health and well-being. Regular massage can reduce blood pressure and take care of a lot of the nagging little aches and pains that we USAians suffer from being all tensed up and sitting at a computer all day. Regular massage can also help prevent musculo-skeletal issues from cropping up in the future AND are good to help avoid or decrease the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome.

They also feel incredibly lovely.

So, in sum: Theraputic massage is not merely a spa treatment, but an excellent addition to your overall healthcare scheme. Go get one.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, slowly-becoming-ex. It's been a long, drawn-out breakup. No hard feelings, at least, but JEBUS getting these dudes to do anything is like pulling multiple teeth at once.

I should have known. There was a little voice in my head warning me when they approached back in May. I should learn to listen to that voice more often.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

When taking iGo to Ikea, allow 6 hours. FYI.

i just saw this now. did you guys get back in time? i returned my car about 4 minutes late last week but there wasn't anybody in the alley waiting for the car so i didn't feel too badly about it. my shortcut turned out to be a not so shortcut, i forgot about how a lot of streets get cut off between damen and ashland where the blue line descends to the subway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Before we left, we extended our reservation for an extra hour. Then, I called again to extend our time for 30 minutes as we were stuck in stupid traffic on the way home, and we returned the car with ten minutes to spare. Phew!

I think the ultimate moral is to allow for more time than you think you'll need. It's an extra $6 vs the possibility of having to pay for cab fare and god knows what else for someone who needed that particular vehicle and couldn't get it because you couldn't get it back in time. If you are using one of the Elements it could get really prohibitive because you could have to pay to rent a truck for the next user.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really psyched that madden 2007 comes out in less than 14 days. i wish it were already out because i would totally play for the entire 4+ hour flight to san diego tomorrow. instead i need to stop by the bookstore for something to read. any suggestions?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

You're the one! I was watching the commercial for that the other day, wondering who it was that was really excited about it. It's you!

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

We all have things that we hotly anticipate.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

It would be awesomely hilarious if the Madden programmers somehow put an easter egg in the game that would bring up Madden eating a huge turkey leg and mumbling about some obscure football shit with his mouth full and turkey falling out of it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://carlsonwebs.com/liz_taylor.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you're going to San Diego tomorrow? We're going to Delaware tomorrow! ILXors be simultaneousishly zooming to opposite ends of the country!

I can't think of anything I'm hotly anticipating, except maybe being finished with this brief. Which reminds me. I've got to finish writing this brief.

Dan Martin: hahaha! John Madden is disgusting.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Michigan on Friday!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

dan: it wouldn't be turkey, it would be turducken.

kenan: i am now anticipating that as well, anything with a moist scarlett johansen will pique my curiosity.

jenny: yes, flying out tomorrow night from o'scare. where are you flying out of and what time are you leaving? perhaps we can meet up for airport drinks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

The easter egg would be revealed if you could win the Super Bowl with the Lions.

xpost: Lucky you! Where to?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Otto, Shit, I forgot. Maybe he could have one in each hand.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Turducken is the wrongest, most amazing thing man hath ever wrought upon our poor feathered brethren.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Whitehall (Laurel's hometown -- on the western shore) for a wedding.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

ooooh, that liz taylor photo reminds me. when i got home saturday night it was around 3:45 and apparently nbc shows old snl episodes late saturday. johnny cash was the host and elton john was the musical guest. i'm guessing it was from '81 or so judging by the cast, brian doyle murray was doing the news. anyway, apparently i felt the need to right down critiques of what i was watching. by the next day i'd forgotten i'd done it until i came across these crazed scribblings which turned out to be completely insane. god do i need to get out of chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you're going to San Diego tomorrow? We're going to Delaware tomorrow! ILXors be simultaneousishly zooming to opposite ends of the country!

ok, with john going to michigan we need someone to visit jesse down in nola to cover the country.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

There are few things I want more in this world than turducken, even though it can't possibly be as good in real life as I imagine that it is.

We're leaving from O'Hare at 9 am, so we won't be in the airport at the same time and I will probably (for once) not want to drink before I fly, either. I'm afraid if I'm drunk as hell in the early afternoon when my mother picks us up in Philadelphia, she'll drive me straight to rehab, a la the opening scene of Million Little Pieces. (Yeah. I read it. SO FUCKING WHAT?)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, that reminds me of the day I had the worst hangover of my life, and I decided to keep a "diary of convalescence" which ended up just being notes on the TV shows I was watching that afternoon, like Family Ties and Moesha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

John, I asked you a question in the thread about how people should argue about whether ILX should LIVE OR DIE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, dang, i'm not flying out until sometime around 6 pm? i guess i should check that or something?

john, it was totally rambling insane scribbling. it was embarrassing and a great reminder of what an absolute asshole i must be after some late night poor decisions.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, i think i'm losing my mind for reals.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Join the club, I lost mine sometime around the end of May.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymcdawg, I should probably clarify that I didn't ask you that question to argue or to set you up for argument with others although it looks like that could happen. Sorry, Charlie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah and now my answer strikes me as a little assholish too. Shit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.staedtische-galerie-erlangen.de/seiten/6_sammlung/bestand/bilder/600px/twombly_cy.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.painterskeys.com/clickbacks/images/woa/112604_cy_twombly.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/richart/archive/twombly.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

That first one reminds me of a kid in my 3rd-grade class who would do his "penmanship" work with similar results.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Charles Crumb:

http://rcrumb.net/familygallery/charles/CharlesBookTres.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's fun when other people go insane.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

You guys, I'm worried RONG CHENG is going to take my job.

I'm tired. Should I be scared about this ILX gone FOREVER thing?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

post eaten by cranky keyboard. in short, no.

i hope.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Who is rong cheng? And if ILX goes away, two more will take it's place. Fear not, li'l missy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was worried for a while when punkforum.com went away, but I was soon up and wasting time like a pro here.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060807/i/r2080185027.jpg?x=230&y=345&sig=IKxlWN7CYQY73mMndynt1A--

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to Chicago tomorrow!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

HOORAY!

We must drink beerz this weekend.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING HELL why are you in Chicago when we are in Delaware? 'Tis unfair!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have time to talk much, but I'm on the fence about the Sad Arab. I don't want to be simply a sounding board for his angst, but with his apparent depression, that's kind of what I am.

Anyway, off to Kenner.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Akron this weekend/early next week. I have Ohio covered for y'all. Haven't seen my parents in FOREVER so I plan to convalesce (nice word Jaymc) and recover from my Chinese people.

I feel terrible for the Sad Arab -- he sounds like he needs a friend desperately. Not that anyone has the energy to be that person, but still.

What's this crap about ILX living or dying?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/jpegs/brice_cov.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

The crap is thus: whoever hosts ILX or pays for its hosting or something is likely going to cease whatever benevolence keeps the place afloat in the beginning of September. ILX will: 1) stay in the same place and remain the same; 2) move and stay the same; 3) move and be different; 4) go away forever.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I see. Well, I guess we'll see.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

4 is unlikely. there are discussions of such things (and ensuing drama) at least twice a year, if not more. this time it does seem like there could well be a big change, but there are enough people who want this board around that something will work out.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

At worst, we'll have tea at the Drake every Thursday instead of posting here.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

We can start a broadcast fax tree.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

i wouldn't be opposed to having a standing appointment for drinks one weeknight per week. perhaps we could each take turns with the establishment so that, i don't know, some people don't have to spend an extra 90 minutes on the cta trying to haul-ass up to andersonville. or whatever, i think we should have a once a week post-work beverage thing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and my first trip to chicago ended with vodka gimlets at the drake until sun up. good times.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

!!! that is a briliant idea! Kevin, you're brilliant. Thursdays, maybe? Eh?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

sure, i don't care about the day but thirsty thursdays are always good. we should revisit this idea after the weekend when we're all back in chicago (except gbx, natch).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

haha Thirsty Thursday. A tradition is born.

We can start a broadcast fax tree.

No, no. Pirate radio station.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. We just moved band practice from Wednesday to Thursday. :(

Weekly drinks are a good idea, though. I think Noize Board used to have Monday noise drinks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Monday is hardcore.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I know! It feels ... transgressive somehow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

monday is by far my favorite day of the (work)week to go for drinks. there's just nothing to look forward to about a monday, the whole f'ing week is stretched out before you. everything else has something going for it except mondays. even tuesdays you can say "at least it's not monday".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have night class on Mondays and Wednesdays starting August 29th. Which isn't to say that you can't drink on those days; it's just to say that if you do I'll kill myself.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, we still have NB Manhattan Headquarters drinks on Mondays. It's altered a bit over the months I've been going, and it's not strictly an NB occasion, it's lots of other people, too -- but Mondays are kind of great for all the reasons Kevin mentions, PLUS no one else is out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, you have too much class.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, Tuesday?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, you have too much class.

In every sense of the word. I like drinking on Tuesdays.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

We now have to think of an allierative phrase for Tuesday. Thirsty Thursday is going to be hard to top.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

To' Up Tuesday?

"It's Tuesday. I' mon go get to' up."

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

i have class on tuesdays

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I can and will drink whenever.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, fuck it. Every time we try to plan something I end up feeling like I'm waiting for my Grandmother to decide on a parking spot.

No offense, Jeff.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

We're drinking on the 19th, I know that much.

The seminar was really lame.

I did go get a (1/2 hr) massage last night, it was awesome and I feel better today.

My mom's bird flew away and she's very sad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Great, now I have TWO sad Arabs on my hands.

First I had the gayrab, and now I have my intern from Oman who is deeply depressed. He looks like hell, dresses in sweats and a ball cap, sleeps through his lunch break, and asks to be excused from any participation in work that involves talking with anyone (which is do-able) and talks about how if his family were to be affected by Israel's bombs that he's certain that he would not hesitate to be a suicide bomber.

It doesn't help that the AMEDB copied down and tacked on the wall of their house a page of scriptures that supported her idea that peace cannot come by means of violence such as suicide bombing.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to call my next musical project SAD ARAB.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

A BRAS AD

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000AFHM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, Jesse. I don't think I could work with such people day in and day out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Please don't say the J. word! I can't take it anymore.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

i'm also not opposed to drinking everynight of the week just so i don't miss out on seeing a single one of your smiling faces.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

ALERT:

My sister just got offered a job post law school. Starting salary: 135k. I think I'm going to throw up in my mouth.

Also, ask for bitchin' presents.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord. 135. Good lord. That's roughly 100 more than I make, and I'm happy to be making what I do. I hope she has a health plan that promises immortality.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of law is she practicing? Some kind of evil devil Satan law? I bet that's what it is.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's her STARTING SALARY!!!!!

xp Patent law, bitches. Boring = $$$$, apparently.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

She already has a BS in Biology, and some kind of Master's in Biotech from Northwestern business/medical school. So, super-specialized.

...which means that she'll probably do pharmaceutical patents, so, yeah, satanic law :(

sis working for pharma does not bode well for bro doing medicine.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

like, come Thanksgiving dinner and shit.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, where the fuck is the goddamn case for my camera? i mean what the fuck? i'm almost out of room in my bags, what am i forgetting? think, kevin, think...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Attorneys at the labor law firm where I work start at $50k.

Draw your own pro-socialism conclusions.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Attorneys at the labor law firm where I work start at $50k.

SHOCKER.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

like, come Thanksgiving dinner and shit.

HOO boy am I ever not looking forward to T-giving this year.

There's my favorite uncle, who's a redneck then a liberal then a redneck... at least he's mutable. Actually, if he's that easy, I think I may make some inroads on him.

There's Mom, who's a dedicated drunk. There's not much to say about that.

There's my little brother, who came out to Mom as gay this year, so that should yield hours of unspoken tension. Worse yet, spoken.

There's Grandma, who as a Jehovah's Witness shouldn't even be there for fear of angering Jehovah, but from what I hear she's so lonely after Grandpa died that she may show up and try to convert all of us. If she's there, it will at least draw all our fire to her and distract from all the other shit that's going on. No one can stand this woman, not her children and certainly not her grandchildren. Have you seen that clip from Trading Spouses where the woman goes nuts and starts declaring everything as "dark-sided"? I sent that video to my mother with the dry tagline, "You may recognize this kind of behavior." She called me just to laugh uncomfortably. My grandma is crazier than yours, I'll put money on it.

God, I hate holidays.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

omg i fucking love that dark-sided video.

(bummer that it's your granny, tho, obviously)

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah.

I know.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

all my grandparents are dead so if they show up for thanksgiving i've got bigger problems than the fact that i won't have enough grilled cheeses for everyone.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously! What do the dead eat?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

the living!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of Thanksgiving feast are you advocating, exactly?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Gbx, maybe in a few years you will be using software that I tested. I apologize in advance.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh MAN.

I futzed around a LITTLE with the stuff they use in the Shriner's hospitals....seemed only OK. Drives my dad bonkers (he's bad at computers).

What I saw did seem to indicate that there's a fortune to be made in the medical software biz, particularly by a company that focused primarily on UI. Paging 37signals lol.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, our stuff is only in really large hospitals.

UI is tough, esp. for systems that have been in use for a number of years already, but it's pretty good IMO.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMN IT WHY DID I GET INVOLVED WITH PLAYING WITH THESE DUDES AGAIN THEY ARE SUCH HUGE FLAKES FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!

I totally thought you were mocking me b/c of my (tentative) befriending of the Sad Arab.

Folks, tonight I spend the night back at my house, sans A/C. It's starting off poorly. I will be leaving the front door wide open all night, all the fans on, and the windows open. If I haven't posted by 11 AM, please call the NOPD.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

I will be leaving the front door wide open all night

Most of the houses here have wrought iron dead-bolted screen doors. I once asked someone why this was and she said because in the days before A/C you had to leave the doors open for ventilation and the tradition of iron doors stuck.

10:52 PM
80 degrees
87% humidity

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. The weather here is Groundhog Day weather:

Thu Scattered Thunderstorms 92/77
Fri Scattered Thunderstorms 90/76
Sat Scattered Thunderstorms 90/77
Sun Scattered Thunderstorms 91/77
Mon Scattered Thunderstorms 90/77
Tue Scattered Thunderstorms 91/77
Wed Scattered Thunderstorms 91/77

By comparison Chicago is looking at Sunshine, T-storms, P-Cloudy, 79, 76, 80, 23 and lows in the 60's most days!!!! I CANNOT WAIT.

― virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

I had more drum corps fun today. The solo competition was being held downtown, so on every break during my lame-o seminar I walked a couple blocks down and watched the dudes practice outside. Pretty sick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

OH FOR THE LOVE OF SHIT.

Jenny, I am now utilizing your third phone. Not because of any of the foolishness of before. Oh no, this is much more depressing. You see, Jesse's cat peed on my phone.

A little backstory. I thought, weeks ago, that a fastidiously clean apartment was the key to keeping happy cats. I learned soon after that this was not quite enough; they also required separate litterboxes. Fine. Brenda kept peeing on things. This was a startling discovery, since I had spent so much time ruling out unclean litterboxes, lack of attention, and any other thing that usually makes a cat uneasy. She's very happy, it seems, and also, strangely, very loving.

I confirmed today that no matter what thing of mine I put on the couch, if it is vertical, Brenda will pee on it. She has never peed directly on the couch, and she has never peed on anything of mine that was *not* on the couch, but the combination of the two is somehow irresistable to her. She pees on things that belong to me that are on the couch. This is her whole MO. It's a little too specific for me to have guessed on my own, but through trial and error, I think I've nailed it.

This afternoon, instead of hanging my backpack on the door handle like I usually do, I tossed it on the couch. I don't know exactly when or why, but inside of ten minutes, that backpack was covered in piss. Sadly, my phone was in a position to absorb a maximum amount of said piss -- in the front pocket.

My backpack has been scrubbed in the bathtub, and is hanging to dry. My phone has been disassembled, and, judging from early results, is well and truly fucked. Dead forever. My third phone is not yet working because it is not charged enough. Even if it ever works, it's a bit of a dinosaur, and will be just a stop-gap until I buy a decent phone.

Jesse, I love your cat. But right now, that's only by default, because I love all cats. Truthfully, I hate your cat and want to kick it until it's dead.

But I'm not going to do that, because when all is said and done, it's still very furry, and furry things are very messy to clean up when they're bloody.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

put it in a plastic bag first, before you kick it.

problem solved :D

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hey!

Oooh... Plastic bag while it's alive, then straight into the freezer... is that humane?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I would not mock you for befriending anyone. I will, however, now mock my former bandmates for being flaky dudes:

What's that? You have credit card company collectors coming after your asses because you didn't pay your loans? We have to pay a late fee for the practice space we don't even use because you couldn't get your ass across fucking Wicker Park to pay the rent, even though they give you 5 extra days after the first of the month to pay it? And now we won't get our whole security deposit back? Oh, oh now you say you're going to grad school. Well how are you going to pay for it, let alone moving yourself and your girlfriend there, when you don't barely work because you call in fake sick half the time?

There's a lot more.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

This Thanksgiving, let's drink at the Drake.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

This Thanksgiving, let's drink at the Drake.

this should TOTALLY be the tag line to their autumn ad campaign.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i'm co-opting "let's drink at the drake" as a generic catch-all phrase. look for me to be adding it to the end of sentences all year.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://drake.marin.k12.ca.us/indeximages/index2.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

jenny called me this morning to give me a heads up on the new liquids/powders restrictions for carry-on baggage and to alert me to the general clusterfuckness of o'hare. if the tickets were refundable i'd say screw it, let's drink at the drake.

http://dining.thedrakehotel.com/jpg_image/home_left.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I had a surprisingly easy time when I last flew out of O'Hare, but that was international.

Maddie saw Tom Waits in Chi. last night, said it was good if a little tame.

I woke up with a headache this morning for no reason at all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

i've had nothing but smooth sailing at O'Hare.

BIGTIME TIP: always always always walk to the furthest security checkpoint. Once, when flying to Mpls, the main, middle-most checkpoint had a line that looked like 35 minutes long. The other checkpoints close to it were about 25 min. The one at the very end, as far away as possible from the check-in counters, had a 0 min wait. I wouldn't have found it but some chatty businessman collared me and showed me the way. He said he flew all the time and that there was NEVER anyone there.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, gib, if only you were Phil-Two. Then I could say, "wow, blowing that guy in the phone booth really paid off!!" But alas.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

My phone... IT LIVES! It was all dried out this morning and working just fine. Smells only very faintly pissy. My bag was already dry, too. All is back to normal.

Julia says she looked some things up, and it appears that when a cat isn't happy, they try to get attention by pissing on the possessions of the people that they like, rather than what you would assume, the people that they are angry at.

Anyway. There's this Glade plug-in thing that releases cat pheromones that's supposed to work wonders. I'll try that.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, pissing on people is just rude, now isn't it? Cats are classy that way.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I know. That tears it. Next time, I'm getting a poodle.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I (and three other people) was nearly killed by a psycho driver this morning. Nothing like a near-death experience to wake you up.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Attorneys at the labor law firm where I work start at $50k.

This is still a lot of money. But I guess there's the whole massive law-school debt to be factored into that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, school debt is scary...when i'd looked into vet school several years ago, it was looking like it might add up to 100k or so.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I love that photo of the Drake that Otto posted. It looks like the opening frame from some 1930s noir film set in Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, I dropped my car off at the mechanic yesterday, and he called me and said that to fix the things I'd inquired about (A/C broken, engine is sometimes slow to accelerate) would run me about $500. Plus there's a crack in one of the brakes, and that would cost me another couple hundred. I'm supposed to call him back soon-ish. I'm inclined to just say yes to all of it, because I mean, I want my car to be fixed -- but holy moly, that's a lotta clams.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like that you can't smoke at the bar at the Drake anymore. I mean, martinis, jazz... and no smoking? Bah.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

can't smoke at the drake? cross that place off my list then.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Something about their serving food in every room. Assholes.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Smoke schmoke.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

The new Junior Boys gets better every time I listen to it. So so solid.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

damn, i just realized i'll be missing cal's fest this year.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

OK, you guys have piqued my curiousity. Hook a brotha up, K?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

(K=Kenan, not Kevin... but what is Cal's fest?)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

If I haven't posted by 11 AM, please call the NOPD.

Anyone have the phone number?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

You can smoke so very many places in New Orleans! There was the guy in my office and recently I was at the airport where I saw guys smoking in the glassed-in transportation dispatch office. Also the Rue de la Course coffee shops allow smoking as do other indie shops. It reminds me of the Sedaris essay in which he asks Hugh to keep telling him how you can smoke in hospital rooms in France.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

And Camels are $25 a carton here.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

cal's fest is a party cal's liquors puts on in an alley in the loop one weekend every year. always a good time. more info here.

xpost, jesse buy a carton for me when you come back and i'll give you $35. total, not in addition to the $25, though that would still be a deal.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

are you serious? anyone else?

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

(Never mind!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I had the most miserable night last night. I put my mattress on the floor under the ceiling fan, but still barely slept.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i'm serious.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so give me the details: brand, filter, light?, length (as though you would smoke 100's), box or soft pack.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

They're $25.49 + tax, tag and title.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, check thine email.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

camel lights, filtered, please. thank you.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

uh, no 100's please they throw off the delicate equilibrium of my precious digits.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

ok, you're smellcum

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Gracias, Kenan.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

So the drinks at the Drake plan was to have taken place at their bar? Was that a T-giving plan? I'm OK with planning TG now.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Do you only want 1 carton? I'm going back on the 22nd and can do it again when I return if you like.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

my plan for turkey day involves either re-creating last year's feast of grilled cheese and salsa sandwiches or perhaps going to my sister's place in vermont and meeting my brand new nephew.

x-post: one should do me for now as eventually i do want to quit. but i can't say no to a bargain.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

So what was the Drake plan that you were crossing off?

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I want to have SOCIAL FUN TIME while I'm back in Chicago

I will be there Wed Aug 16-Tues Aug 22. I will be working the 16th, 17 and 18, though the 18 for only 1/2 day. My flight leaves at 4:30 on the 22nd.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have not had a cigarette in 12 days!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

yesterday we'd tossed around the idea of a weekly gathering for drinks. each of us would get a chance to pick the venue so that we weren't always going to the same bar/neighborhood everyweek (not that i'm necessarily opposed to that either). since the drake was a place i'd visited for drinks before i'd moved to chicago i'd kicked around the idea of going back. i know it would've been pricey but still, it's a nice venue. but if i can't smoke i won't drink there.

xpost- go john go!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that I've really quit for good. I'd still like to be able to smoke on special occasions, but I think I've gotten over the in-the-car-on-the-way-to-band-practice cigarette.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Well, smoking or no, I want company when I return. I guess I will have plenty of company in the form of Kenan, with whom I will be sharing a 1 bedroom apartment, my bed and my scrotum.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan doesn't have his own ball-bag?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hypoallergenic Cats
An American biotechnology will soon sell a specially engineered breed of cats that will not trigger a reaction in allergy sufferers. What do you think?

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/wdyt_photo3.article.jpg

Aileen Burton,
Cartographer
"Can I still shave this type of cat in the summertime? Because that’s the only time when being a cat-owner gets interesting."

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan has his own, I'm sure, but mine is so supple and fine that I feel obligated to share it with him.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

It would be cheaper if we all just took turns visiting each other's apartments for drinks. It could either be BYOB or whoever is hosting that week could pick a special drink and/or selection of drinks for people to choose from... for kicks. For example, Nick might want to serve mojitos. How do you like them apples?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but can Kevin smoke in your apartment(s)? URGENT AND KEY.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

It's going to be great when I get drunk in someone's place and refuse to leave. Not saying I'm going to do that, but it's a comical thought nonetheless.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Only if Nick crushes his own mint.

(I love BYOB)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a fiend for a mojito.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

On our very last gig in Switzerland, the bar owner bought us a round and we all got mojitos (and we'd been talking about the mojitos from this place all year). We wrote a new song on the spot, it went something like "we drink mojiiiiiiitos/can you buy the band a drink/we drink mojiiiiiiiitos" etc.. It, uh, needs a B section.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE HATE HATE PEOPLE'S ENERGY

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I AM IN A BURGER KING IN SHERIDAN, WYOMING, GUYS!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Nice!

I hope this weekend isn't lame. Everyone seems to be going out of town. I'll be getting more drillings and fillings. I'm broke.

I just found out that I'm the receptionist for the other company in our building too. I thought any day now they'd start using their own door and have their own receptionist, but no, that's my job. They have about four times as many visitors as we do, they receive just as many packages, they all have keys but buzz me instead so I have to drop whatever I'm doing and come up front, and I'm in charge of their mail too. It would have been a nice gesture to tell me this at some point. The next time I come up for review (ie: Christmas) I'm going to bring along Spinal Tap to sing Gimme Some Money.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

come back, everyone! I want to gripe at you!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

So one company is paying you, but your time is taken up by the other company? That doesn't seem right.

We were supposed to have a team work night tonight w/free Thai food, but now not enough people are staying to justify the dinner. This means that I am not staying either.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

There won't be enough dinner to justify the people.

The other company in our building rents their office space from us. Apparently, I come along with the deal! Who knew? Not me!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah is human chattel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah: You deserve two paychecks. At the very least, you should figure out a way to pit the two companies against each other over your services.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. This one friend was trying to setup a dude's night out for tonight, and ALL OF A SUDDEN it's turned into "oh wait, my band has a gig tonight, so everyone should just go there!".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever your real boss asks you to do something, just say you're busy working on something for the other office.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

And vice versa!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have decided that Battlestar Galactica is better than Lost.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

They are kind of similar in that they are both "science fiction" shows that avoid a lot of the cliches of sci fi, have a largish group of main characters, tend to focus on two or three of the characters in particular per episode, make extensive use of flashbacks, and deal with characters that are isolated in an uncertain situation. The difference is, things actually happen on BG. Not like on Lost where all you get for 6 episodes is more backstory and no forward momentum. Let's fight.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Let's have a really really dorky fight.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Come on.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm leaving the house now, bye.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

You too with BG? People be talkin' about that show, and I still haven't seen a minute of it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Lost went from slow burn to just slow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Television is dead to me now.

Arrested Development season 3 comes out on dvd this month, though!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

It's so gray in Chicago right now. The streetlights were still on at like 11am.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I, for one, welcome backstory in Lost. I think it is a different way of telling the story, one that will be more fully appreciated as the main part of the story develops. It's kind of like the first episode of Band of Brothers, at least in my mind. Defintitely less linear, though.

Plus BSG has its moments, but it's still a rehash of an old show.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

LOST isn't set in the future, with characters wearing Star Trek uniforms who live on spaceships that have really horrible sci-fi names like "psilons" or whatever, and mutant races of people with bad makeup, and played-out arguments about good and evil.

LOST, like all the sci-fi I really care about, involves a world that is basically our own, with characters we can identify with, but plays a what-if game. This is why, at age 13, the idea of alternate histories appealed to me: what would 1992 be like if JFK hadn't been shot? Well, in many respects, it'd be exactly like the real 1992. But there'd be that sliver of difference that would be fascinating. And to think it could've actually happened.

NB: I've never seen Battlestar Galactica.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like the backstory in Lost. I should be watching Arrested Development.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I also don't really consider Lost to be sci-fi.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

test

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

awesome

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray for the bold tag. Welcome to HTML 1.0!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

There was an article in TV Guide recently about the Sci-Fi influences and connections in Lost.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say, Jack's flashbacks never seem very interesting, and I do groan when there's another Jack episode. But there are others that are actually crucial to the forward-moving plot, and some that are still shrouded in mystery -- I'd give examples, but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen Season 2.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Lost kinda does have played-out arguments about ~~good and evil~~ science and religion.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Science vs. faith is way more interesting than good vs. evil -- in part because it's a real dichotomy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is it?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, there are people who believe in science, and there are people who believe in faith. There's no such thing as good and evil.

Lost and Philosophy

Call for Abstracts

Sharon M. Kaye, Editor (skaye@jcu.edu)
William Irwin, General Editor (wtirwin@kings.edu)
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact William Irwin, .

Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader.
Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.

Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

Is “John Locke” John Locke?; Socrates and Sawyer on egoism; Hurley, Descartes, and Skepticism; Kate, Kant, and the value of good will; Would Aristotle see Jack as a man of virtue?; Prisoners’ dilemma strategies among the islanders; Nietzsche, survival, and salvation; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the noble savage; Jean-Paul Sartre’s Other and The Others; Dharma, free will, and fate; Hobbes and the state of nature; The metaphysics of tropical polar bears; The ethics of deception, torture, incest, drug use, and experimentation on human subjects; The Lost women and feminism; Flashback selves: continuity or reinvention?; Foucault, power, and insanity; Aquinas and Rose on faith and reason; Lost numerology; Bootstrapping society: communitarianism vs. liberalism.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't prove much.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://salon.com/books/int/2006/08/07/collins/

the head of the human genome project is an evangelical xtian.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway "arguments about good and evil" usually = arguments about morality that are at least somewhat shaded. Unless you're talking about Star Wars or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

i'm at o'hare, security lines are ungodly. i want to stick a shrimp fork in my eye. i'd be down for going to someone's house, as long as you don't mind me going outside to smoke every 5 minutes. plus, y'know, my place my records so you better get ready for a night of kajun ss, formaldehyde junkies, frantic, etc.

going out also gives at least the glimmer of hope of meeting someone so there's always that too. i realize i'm probably the only one who sees that as a plus for going out but whatever. screw you cohabitators.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I had no idea that series was so big. I've only read the first two -- the Seinfeld and Simpsons ones.

I've also read this:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0814325068.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway "arguments about good and evil" usually = arguments about morality that are at least somewhat shaded. Unless you're talking about Star Wars or something.

Okay, fair enough. Is Battlestar Galactica of a different caliber than Star Wars then?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, Nick said the show is basically all about military strategy or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, I've never seen it!

I was thinking more of shows like Star Trek TNG, Farscape, & Babylon 5, which for all their amusing faults are not good dudes vs. bad dudes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Zzzzzzzz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, another thing I like about the flashbacks in Lost is the way they suggest an infinite number of stories. This is something that episodic TV is uniquely equipped to do -- it has the time to explore tangents, the mere existence of which is kind of exciting. No character need be a minor character. Maybe Battlestar Galactica does this, too. But I also love all of the connections between characters that come up in these flashbacks. It makes me want to create a big old chart just to make sense of it all. The last time I did that was with Don DeLillo's Underworld.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, whatever.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about Bob Dylan now. ;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Babylon 5 was pretty good stuff.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

hey, there's an excellent show at ronny's (yes, THAT ronny's) on sunday.

Sunday 08/13- last day of Mauled by Tigers Fest
2PM
Ronny's (2101 N. California)
the Bananas
The Death Sweats
The Krunchies
Plasma Drive
tha 446

bananas! krunchies!! BANANAS!!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

CLASSIC ROCK & PHILOSOPHY

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

B5 is the most embarassing of all the sci-fi shows I've been into, just in terms of acting, production quality, really corny humor, etc.. But damn, the 4 season pre-determined story arc had me hooked at the time (Lost could totally learn from this, as it's really giving off a "making it up as we go along" vibe). Sci-Fi Channel starting re-running it right when me and Maddie started dating and we would watch it every single day after class.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I had no idea that series was so big.

Well, the communication theory/rhetoric PhDs out there have to write their BS about something!

/jaded former student

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bullshit and Philosophy totally made me LOL, too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

So the drinks at the Drake plan was to have taken place at their bar? Was that a T-giving plan? I'm OK with planning TG now.

I suggested weekly tea at the Drake after ILX ceases to exist, and then Kenan described his Thanksgiving and I, rescuer, offered the alternative of drinks there for Thanksgiving.

But in reality, for thanksgiving my folks are going to be in an exotic place visiting my aunt and uncle - I'm a little tempted to join them there, but I'm more tempted to try to stay at their home in Northern Ca. while they're away, if that's not too...too opposite to the spirit of Thanksgiving.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

(Lost could totally learn from this, as it's really giving off a "making it up as we go along" vibe).

There's debate about how much on Lost is pre-determined. Some of the creators say that they've got it all mapped out several seasons into the future, but then others say, "Oh whatever, we're totally just making it up as we go along."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Science vs. faith is way more interesting than good vs. evil

Battlestar has a LOT about faith/religion. And I didn't say it was about military strategy, I said it was about morality and ethics, with a particular focus on the morality and ethics of battle.

OK, admittedly there is a little bit of this in Battlestar, what with the spaceships and costumes, BUT most of the cylons look exactly like humans. There are some that are robot-y looking, but they don't pop up that often. There are no mutant races of people with bad makeup.

Anyways, for people who are interested, I recommend you download or check out the pilot episode, which is movie-length, and give it a shot. You will probably be hooked.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am in a good mood because I have been tired all day, it's gray and sleepy outside, and I went to the gym, so all I felt like doing was coming home and watching a movie. We went to the video store and they had one copy of Brick left, which is exactly the movie that I feel like watching tonight. I am cooking dinner and then it's veg out time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of Brick (and Lost), I just discovered that Claire from Lost is the girlfriend in Brick. Weird. I totally don't remember her. Obv. she was playing at least five years younger and with an American accent, but still.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bad news. Now I'm a sad Arab too. I feel like a complete failure at my job. The interns were asked to write reflections on their summer in NO, and while they had some positive things to say, there was a lot of stuff that will reflect very poorly on me. My 2 faves were the harshest, and when I asked them about it, they said that it was not directed toward me whatsoever, but they felt that the summer sucked and that IWJ dropped the ball by not providing the internship with someone who could lead them in their work. When I pointed out that I was to be their leader, they assured me that they had no complaint with me.

Besides this, they said that someone should have been in charge of working with the household to make it more cohesive and one of them wrote, "...the work, the housing, the city--this summer has left me drained in every way."

I feel like I'm faced with returning to a job that I couldn't direct, help or inspire myself and 6 other people to do, and now I will be facing it all by myself.

No one showed up for last week's workshop, and no one showed up for tonight's. I just want to quit and not show my face at the debrief in Chicago.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

"...the work, the housing, the city--this summer has left me drained in every way."

That's New Orleans, yo. You can't blame yourself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Plus I never have believed that I could make a difference. And I have never really believed in "the power of a small group of thoughtful, committed people" could change the world. I believe that the oppressors will always dominate.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Really I don't believe that anything is going to ever be OK, which is sort of an encouraging sign, since that might mean I'm just depressed and that eventually I might be better.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

What I have to blame myself for is for being bad at being a leader. There are people who are good at maintaining morale and giving encouraging words, but I am not that person at all. I am too cynical to have had a chance at being a leader for social change.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still at fucking o'hare but if you don't go to that show sunday you will be missing out on a great moment in chicago punk rock history. listen to me now and tell your grandkids later.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. The interns' flight leaves at 6 AM!!! I wonder if they should even bother going to bed?

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am too cynical to have had a chance at being a leader for social change.

Oh, I'm not entirely sure about that. As for the leaders for social change that I knew back when I worked in that field, most of them were also very cynical about their chances of success, but (a) that was something that they only shared with other people who they felt were in leadership positions (i.e., not the interns, not the people who are supposed to be doing the grunt work and who are supposed to burn out after their summer internship) and (b) they felt that the work still needed to be done, because as unlikely as it was to succeed, it didn't have a chance in hell of succeeding if no one did it and (c) for whatever reason, they weren't going to succeed in any other field.

I think it takes that infamous small committed group of people as well as a bunch of dumb luck to make that kind of change. But dumb luck alone isn't enough.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone recommend an audiobook to cover Mitchell, SD to Chicago, IL?

I knocked down David Sedaris (decent) and Hitchhiker's Guide (funny) today. Anyone?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 11 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't matter, just make sure it's read by Morgan Freeman.

He's Easy Reader, after all.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://jbwarehouse.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/ecreed2-726388.jpg

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

New Junior Boys album is better than the first. Astonishing, but true.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

Uh oh. I'm inadvertently echoing Pitchfork.

Just their second full-length overall, So This Is Goodbye isn't just an improbable notch above 2004's Last Exit-- it's also among the best records you'll hear all year.

It is, I have to say, really fucking good.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

john just sent this to me--will listen to it later. excited...

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Teaching Company lectures!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 11 August 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Brick was really good. Dude who directed it has a bright future, there were was some really nifty framing and well-choreographed scenes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone recommend an audiobook to cover Mitchell, SD to Chicago, IL?

Get Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, it's read by Steve Buscemi.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Carrie read by Sissie Spacek got me to and from central Michigan.

Tom Robbins was OK too. I was younger then so I'm not sure if I would still like it.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also Fight Club was good. And Slaughterhouse Five.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

more audiobooks should be read by steve buscemi.

did you guys know that the CPL lets you dl audiobooks now? i need a fucking library card.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have a secret: i don't get why kurt vonnegut is so widely considered so to be such a master.

xpost-- julie, that is the best news ever. this is a godsend for my drive back to chicago (in sept/oct).

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Chicago, I wonder if you will help me?

If I were to be coming to Chicago for a couple of days in late-ish September, where (i.e. what area of town) would you recommend me looking for a hotel? Better still would be any specific hotel recommendations, but I realise that is not an easy question to ask residents (like: a hotel in London, how would I know?)

I don't have any plans or fixed points, I just have the chance for a stopover as part of a trip and I've never been to Chicago and I'd like to have a look around.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

not a wide selection, but some stuff of interest:

http://overdrive.chipublib.org/944B6A20-0587-4793-9769-A55E1D5D13C5/10/212/en/Default.htm

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ Jazz 101. Although that could be the perfect format if they do it right, talking and then playing samples.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

There should be more audio music crit, or at least more audio samples in online reviews.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I just ordered that Tortoise box set.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

That does look awesome. And I say that as someone who has been bored with Tortoise for years.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't think that tortoise box set would be cheap, but on amazon it's like the price of any other cd-- 15 bucks!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm looking forward to going through it, esp. since I've never heard 95% of it (esp. the Autechre remixes).

So cheap too!

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto, I wasn't going to get it if it was like $30, but that's a steal.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I've listened to the Junior Boys record only twice but I gotta say, I don't get the hype. There are two good tracks, but a lot of the rest of it sounds exactly like old new wave to me, and the beats are really nothing challenging or especially funky. Maybe I'm rockisting out here, maybe I need to listen more. But I certainly wouldn't place it among the best I've heard all year, at least yet.

Hi Tim. I don't know any hotels, really, but your choices basically break down to lakefront/downtown or airport. The last time anyone I knew came to town and stayed in a hotel they stayed here:

http://www.hotels-rates.com/hotels_reservations/property/26380/

This one is a bit far from anything really "happening" but it sounds like they had decent transportation options (a shuttle bus to downtown and to train stations, and easy access to city buses too.) Plus, it's not nearly as expensive as the downtown/lakefront Hyatts/Hiltons/etc.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that record also reminded me of Pretty Hate Machine a lot, sans abrasive parts.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Tim, I can give you a couple of swank downtown hotels and a couple of cheap hotels that I've stayed at, but I don't really have any idea about the middle ground or good locations.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, can't say I didn't try, Dan. :)

It's ok. I looked up the newest Wilderness record on your recommend, and much shrugging ensued.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.heartochicago.com/ - Heart O' Chicago Motel, cheap as hell, kinda nasty, near Uptown (right?).

http://www.hotel71.com - Hotel 71, swank, $$, on the river downtown

http://www.hotelallegro.com - Hotel Allegro, swank, $$, in the loop (right?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost That guy's (Wilderness guy) singing style really put me off at first, too. I gave it a few more listens, and got to really enjoy it. Perhaps that will happen with Junior Boys as well.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

"really" --- sheesh. Get one vocabulary, me!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks chaps! I'm getting the impression that in terms of location you'd pick downtown first, yes?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I really like the first Wilderness record, just not so much the second.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Where I would look to stay in the city is almost entirely dependant on how much I could spend. Downtown will be convienent to everywhere else, but also the most expensive.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

but then the bottom falls out and she begins softly chanting the first names of Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. (Sadly, most are all too familiar to me, since I was, ahem, 12 years old at the time; if you’re curious, it’s the 1991 issue.)

heh

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I remember getting that record and thinking "Holy Shit" at that part.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

What are you quoting, Jordan?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

One of John's Stylus articles that no one reads.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah.

Good one, John. I liked that.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh. Kids in the Hall season 5 is out on dvd.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just stopped Brenda from fouling my again again, in the nick of time. I have *got* to remember not to leave things lying around. I have made up a little rhyme and posted it in the kitchen:

"If you don't want it to smell like pee
Make sure you hang it vertically!"

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

fouling my bag again

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

she peed on my bookbag too.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

She's very nice and furry and she sleeps with me at night. That covers a multitute of sins.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN

DID I GET ANY CHEX IN THE MAIL FROM MY WORK?

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so lonely i'm going to die.

(i just typed that and realized that i really truly AM turning into the sad arab!)

i am in the midst of a wonderous depression.

the interns are all stressed out and ready to fucking kill each other and it seems that people in other are on edge as well. my union crush is usually cocky and boisterous but yesterday he just sat at his desk looking like he had been crying or was about to. today he was just angry.

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING???

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

New screen name.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, this is ridiculous. John and Kr are in Michigan. Jenny and Jeff are in SC. Otto is in San Diego. My friend Marcy has her sister in town. My friend Cindy is in Atlanta. Jessa is in NY. Nick and Sarah are very mellow, and not to be bothered, and God knows I can't blame them for that. gbx will be in town late, but prolly not wanting to go party with a guy he barely knows.

It's just me, the Sox, and the Tigers. The only good news: the Sox are whoopin 'em.

I'm so goddamn lonely right now.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

I'm in Chicago, now. But I'm waiting for my friends to get in from the airport. Maybe the bars tomorrow!

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 12 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, new plan. Lonely sucks.

1) Turn off the phone, because, you know, I don't need 'em. Fuck 'em.
2) Stop watching baseball. Too pastoral, and the Sox have sewn this game up anyway.
3) Turn on some loud-ass music.
4) Ingest beer.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, nevermind, saved. Marcy's coming over for a movie. God bless my favorite old lady.

(She turned 41 last week, and was really sensitive about it, so of course I teased her mercilessly.)

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, this is ridiculous [etc]

'Scuse me, how about "Jesse's in New Orleans"?

I'm going to the bayou tomorrow with the interns. I kind of can't wait for this shitstorm to be over, but I'm also really sad. I'm going to be completely alone when I come back. I wish I could bring back my favorite Catholic girls to hang out with. :(

On the bright side, I have downloaded episodes 21-24 of Lost.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to skip steps 1-4 and ingest beer, but I have an early morning tomorrow. Instead I turned to Xanax and Grey's Anatomy.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I just woke up.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

My Friday after-work nap got a little out of hand. Damn.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I have had naps like those.

― Virgin, spotless, undefiled, unstained, all-chaste and Pure Lady (unclejessjess), Saturday, 12 August 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

test?

― The pig on the stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 12 August 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

html not permitted in screen names

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 12 August 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

Conduct a google search for "pig on the stairs" and whatdya know but ilx holds the 4th or 5th result.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 12 August 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

You know, i've skimmed the majority of this thread, and I've concluded that it really doesn't have much to do with Chicago at all. I was honestly expecting things like "oh, your parents are coming into town this weekend, you should take them to **** restaurant, for it is both interesting yet friendly to the small-town yokels."

I do live in chicago but am not anyone's BFF, I feel like a sneaky imposter.

sneak, sneak, sneak

― W. F. Stallyn (wfstallyn), Saturday, 12 August 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

durnk

and i've got three gigs tomorrow

one of which is a beer festival

i.e. a place where they have FREE BEER

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah went to bed for a "nap" at 7:30 last night and slept through until 7:30 this morning. She's a sleeper.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 12 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mikereger.net/ITP/images/woodyorb.jpg

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I do that on the weekends sometimes, too. Just crash and burn.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh... Tortoise box set. The Autechre stuff is pretty wild. The whole thing is way more of a brain twister than I expected. This is some very odd music.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Which is to say, really good music.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm only through the first disc now, but I am forced to ask myself: Is Tortoise noise?

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, btw, this is the best day of the year. Sunny, clear, 75 degrees, high of 78. It doesn't get any better than this.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

OTM on the weather.

I saw N&S at the Damen Blue Line stop today. Hi again yallz.

Is anything happening tonight? I think I have a party to go to but I'm curious as to other options.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

This IS the best day of the year. Hello, Chicago!

Tonight there is a Sharks show (and tomorrow, apparently, wtf dudes). I woke up drunk this morning, and have only recently started to feel normal. Bike racing might be a bad idea.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Recipe for total happiness: Sunshine + cool breeze + nice walk to Borders + picking up an out of print book you ordered weeks ago + Booka Shade. Oh, so happy.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

went to the beach in la jolla yesterday, going to del mar this afternoon, weather is unbelievable here. i could never live in this 365 days a year though, what would i look forward to?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 12 August 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

the sweet release of death.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny and Jeff are in SC

Delaware, WTF. Kenan, I had some pretty intense dreams about you last night. While I don't claim to be psychic, if I were you, I'd lay low for a few days, just in case.

I skimmed the thread but:

1. I don't like BG very much after watching the pilot and one disk. I'll finish the first season, though, just to be fair. I'm not interested in debating the merits of Lost v. BG, though - personal taste, people.

2. I really like going to bars for happy hour-style drinks, but hanging at pals' houses sometimes is good, too. No reason why we can't do both, is there?

3. Maybe we'll host Thanksgiving dinner at our house again.

4. I had scrapple for breakfast and we're having subs for dinner and we're going to eat them on a boat and that's kind of exciting.

5. For all the crap happening at O'Hare, our flight was only delayed by about 40 minutes, which is pretty normal. Impressive.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 12 August 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and this is mostly of interest to Amanda, BUT I went out to lunch with my aunt, mom, and g-mom yesterday and I told my aunt how you called me at work to sing this song to me that goes "Ah Leah! Here we go again!" and my aunt says, "Oh, yeah, Donnie Iris. I have that 45."

Any more one hit wonder classic rock-esque questions shall be henforce directed to Auntie Valerie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 12 August 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, what's going to happen to me? I have to know. It's only fair.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Damnit, no is ever allowed to say "I had some pretty intense dreams about you last night" without a very serious explanation.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hi yall.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 12 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hi you. Put your wife back on. I have questions for her.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

GBX - what time do Sharks play?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

The show got cancelled :(

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

But you're gonna play anyway, right? Punk rock!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Naw, there's another show tomorrow.

(we cancelled the show -- drummer's stranded down in Carbondale, Ill.)

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

They make machines for that, though!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

machine is broekN ;_;

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

They make six-year-olds for that, too!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

So all you recent flyers, I heard rumors that I have to check my laptop, etc.

What should I expect?

Today we all went waaaay down south and visited the bayous. We saw an alligator. Everyone got a turn at driving the boat. I got a sunburn.

We met a bunch of Cajuns from generations back and they were amazingly friendly warm genuine people. I had concerns b/c we are such a diverse group, but it was cool. Except for when the really stupid Texan who spent 21 years in the Marine Corps met Abdullah. That turned out POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLY.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm off to drink in the Quarter with some of the Catholics. Can't tell you how not-right I feel. I need to get out of my head. Why can't I be you?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.acadiansingray.com/east_bayous_map3.jpg

Started out at Raceland where we road in the boat and saw the gators right behind our host's house. Later we went to Chauvin, and then to near the very end of Bayou Petit Calliou where the LA Marine Biology research center lives.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.acadiansingray.com/east_bayous_map3.jpg

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

2. I really like going to bars for happy hour-style drinks, but hanging at pals' houses sometimes is good, too. No reason why we can't do both, is there?

Happy Hour at my place sometime. Bring your best rose (excl. white zin).

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Where is Sharks' show tomorrow? Their http://i.myspace.com/site/images/onlinenow.gif is lacking in that department.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 13 August 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah went to bed for a "nap" at 7:30 last night and slept through until 7:30 this morning. She's a sleeper.

That is straight impressive.

I played six sets of music today (busking in the morning, two red hot ones at the beer fest, and three more at a fun wedding) and I am exhaaaaaausted. And sunburnt.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

time for chi thread to bob back to top.

― do you like farty sounds in your dance music? (kenan), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yo. Just uploaded the Tortoise boxset to my iTunes, will listen tomorrow!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. ILX is back?

I am in Mt. Vernon, IL, 11-1/2 hours out of New Orleans.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

-I found the car (impounded, recovered)

-Did not find my cell phone (lost to the Quarter, got new one from the Quarter)

-Found scraps of my dignity--also in the Quarter--but they reeked of gin sweat and--GET THIS--my first ever visit to A REAL LIVE CRACK HOUSE. It was nothing short of something else. (note: I turned down the crack and once I got over thoughts of "Holy shit! I'm actually in a New Orleans crack house!" I got the fuck out.)

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

It was at that crack house that I first became aware that I had lost my phone.

I became aware of this when I found it was not in my pocket when I went to call Courtney (or Kenan or Jenny or Jeff) to tell them that I was in a real crack house.

Once I realized that my phone was gone I thought about taking pictures with my digital camera but I reconsidered when I took stock of the crack ho's, guy on crutches and other assorted characters.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dear exceptionally hot straight boys: Do not act as though you find me fascinating and do not let me ramble on awkwardly for a surprisingly long time and do not suggest I kick your ass at chess in the near future and do not, in general, act exactly like I would want somebody who was totally into me unless you REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME, OK?

Sorry, I had to get that off my chest.

Dear Chicagoans: I am probably going to make a triumphant return to your fair city for a few days, probably somewhere around September 18th. Is there anything happening around then that I should keep in mind? I don't even know what day of the week that is -- I'm hoping it's midweekish.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chicago,
I am leaving you today for Downers Grove via Metra (on business). Not sure what I will see. The only time I've been to Downers Grove previously was for a bachelor party - we had a limo and we saw Dream Police: A Tribute to Cheap Trick. Will be back later this afternoon. Love,
Eazy

http://www.bass-schuler.com/artistimages/dreampolice.gif

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to Downer's Grove many times. You'll see lots of very big cars.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chicago

I think I'm getting a cold. That is not too cool.

-Me

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

i used to live in downers grove, and work there. it's....suburbia. the brewery i used to work at is gone now, so there isn't even that.

i am so glad to be away from suburbia. i really hated where i was living for far too long.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I learned a new word and I will now use it in a sentence.

"I saw this girl in slacks at the coffee shop this morning, she was straight callipygian."

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

(true story)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

it's....suburbia.

Bingo.

I was struck by how different an experience crossing the street is once you leave the city. These motherfuckers will kill you.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

cal·li·pyg·i·an (kăl'ə-pĭj'ē-ən) pronunciation also cal·li·py·gous (-pī'gəs)
adj.

Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i have heard that word before (had just been telling kenan that i hadn't). i just don't recognize it in speech as much as type.

it's a great word, but doesn't sound like its meaning.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

These motherfuckers will kill you.

when i used to do lots of cycling, i lived in suburbia. it was an adventure.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I used to ride my bike to Downers Grove when I was a kid. Also, for a long time the closest shopping area we had was the corner of Lemont and 75th, which drew the borders of three suburbs: Downers Grove, Woodridge, and Darien. There were two movie theaters, an ice-cream shop, a Kohl's, a couple of record stores (including a mostly used place that a guy who people mistake for Nabisco used to work at -- he now works at the Reckless in Wicker Park -- and whom my brother and I used to call "Funkenstein" because one time he was playing Parliament in the store), an Egghead Software (where I bought all my Sierra games), a Chili's, a Fuddrucker's, a Best Buy, a Barnes and Noble, etc. Good times.

Also, Downers Grove = home of Emo Phillips.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, why have YOU been to D. Grove, Kenan?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802137938.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I once thumbed through this book at Borders to see if I could catch any local references. It's about some lonely, misfit teenage girl growing up in Downers Grove. I think someone mentions Bolingbrook in passing once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

The cover makes it look like it's on some American Beauty shit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, Sept. 18 is a Monday. I can't think of anything particular that will be going on then. What will you be in town for?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

i've been to that shopping center! my one and only trip to woodrige.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Saturday, I'm up for going to any of those shows, but it would be nice to spend part of the evening at somewhere that isn't totally shout-to-be-heard loud.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, why have YOU been to D. Grove, Kenan?

Temp job, couple years ago. They paid me $14/hr to take a class on English literature and write a lengthy paper on Hamlet. I got a lot of reading done on the Metra.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

This story makes me think of David Byrne.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38710

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32651

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. My recording thing on Saturday just got canceled, so I doubt I'm going to come down now. If I did it would just be to hang out. Bummerz.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

(not that only coming down to hang out is a bad thing, but I'll probably wait and see when this session is going to get rescheduled for)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

This has not been a good day so far. Mucho static at work and $525 in car fixins.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Because of the car thing I won't be going home this weekend, though, so I can go see Sharx/NC and be in on the moving and such, if needed. I can carry things.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, Sept. 18 is a Monday. I can't think of anything particular that will be going on then. What will you be in town for?

I will be travelling, and I seem to have friends in Chicago who are pleasant to visit. So I figure I will stop there for a few days and take the train back to Portland before fall term starts up.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like my recording thing is rescheduled for Sept. 16th.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

We'll see you then.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

wtf???? from today's boston globe. scroll down for the pic.

Residents wonder if dead animal is legendary mystery beast
August 16, 2006
TURNER, Maine --Residents are wondering if an animal found dead over the weekend may be the mysterious creature that has mauled dogs, frightened residents and been the subject of local legend for half a generation.
The animal was found near power lines along Route 4 on Saturday, apparently struck by a car while chasing a cat. The carcass was photographed and inspected by several people who live in the area, but nobody is sure exactly what it is.
Michelle O'Donnell of Turner spotted the animal near her yard about a week before it was killed. She called it a "hybrid mutant of something."
"It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget," she told the Sun Journal of Lewiston. "We locked eyes for a few seconds and then it took off. I've lived in Maine my whole life and I've never seen anything like it."
For the past 15 years, residents across Androscoggin County have reported seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night. The animal has been blamed for attacking and killing a Doberman pinscher and a Rottweiler the past couple of years.
People from Litchfield, Sabattus, Greene, Turner, Lewiston and Auburn have come forward to speak of a mystery monster that roams the woods. Nobody knows for sure what it is, and theories have ranged from a hyena or dingo to a fisher or coydog, an offspring of a coyote and a wild dog.
Now, people are asking if the mystery beast and the animal killed over the weekend are one and the same.
Wildlife officials and animal control officers declined to go to Turner to examine the remains. By Tuesday, the carcass had been picked clean by vultures and there was not much left of the dead animal.
Loren Coleman, a Portland author and cryptozoologist, said it's unlikely that the animal was anybody's pet.
After reviewing photos of the carcass, Coleman said he was bothered by the animal's ears and snout. It reminded him of a case years ago in northern Maine in which an animal shot by a hunter could not be identified. In the end, wildlife officials got a DNA analysis that showed the animal was a rare wolf-dog hybrid, he said.
Mike O'Donnell, who is married to Michelle O'Donnell, said the animal looked "half-rodent, half-dog" to him.
It was charcoal gray, weighed between 40 and 50 pounds and had a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips, he said. It looked like "something out of a Stephen King story."
"This is something I've never seen before. It's an evil-looking thing," he said.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2006/08/16/1155749220_2563.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

hi ILX. sorry i haven't been around for awhile.

otto, that dog thing looks like something straight out of jim henson.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

also: is the new yorker worth subscribing to? i am contemplating it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I think so, but that's me. Which reminds me, though, I have to send in my renewal. It's like $49.95, but that's less than a dollar an issue.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

(Or maybe about a dollar an issue, since they have double-issues at least 3 times a year or so.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

i just found a thing online, some magazine house, and they claim a $30/year fee.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

just google the magazine, it's a sponsored link.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I have no doubt that that stuff exists. I think when I first subscribed I did so with a pretty substantial discount.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

i just sent you an email about the JOB INTERVIEW.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, I am having a bad day. Self medication may be in order tonight.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

sorry to hear that, dan! all your good day must've swung by me b/c i've had an amazing week of good fortune & things.
not to be That Girl or anything, but things be great. I'll try to sprinkle some of the niceness back your way.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I liked downtown Downers Grove! In the classic small-town menswear store, there was an old gent in very conventional yellow dress shirt and striped tie fixing the window displays; the Tivoli movie-theater-cum-bowling-alley looks like it'd be a fun night out; and everyone was friendly. Nice wine store, too.

Someone in Berwyn tried to drive around the gates and ran into an Amtrak train, so I spent a long time on the Metra, but I love the Metra as well.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Uh. Weekday gigs are a mixed blessing. I had one in Milwaukee last night (+ drinks at Le Tigre after getting back) and I feel Edward Norton in that Fight Club scene where he goes to work all bloody and misanthropic.

Now I have to somehow sneak out of work early and do the exact same thing tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/08/17/mn_gold_tooth_cat101.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ABOUT THE MYSTERY BEAST, PPL? THAT'S AWESOME!

Unless it's a publicity stunt by M. Night Shyalaman, then it's the lamest thing I've ever heard of. I loved the true tales of M. Night being an incredible dick on Wait Wait last weekend.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I got your myster beast right here

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I loved the true tales of M. Night being an incredible dick on Wait Wait last weekend.

Details, plz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think I had a dream last night about a horror movie starring Martin Scorsese.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Get the podcast!

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183214

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

leaf & i heard t0m h4nks on wait wait a short time ago. we couldn't believe it!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that's a funny bit, too. They reran it last week, I think. Or the week before. Marlon Brando splitting 52 pair of pants.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've come around a little bit on Junior Boyzzz. They're good pop songs, but a little low-key for my tastes. Still listening...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Your googleproofing is useless. I'm onto you, Dilts.

― Tom Hanks (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of npr, an awesome local band will be playing a version of the folk song "the cat came back" on this american life tomorrow at 7.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I made it to Spacca Napoli last night with a friend in from out of town. It was great, but be ready for a bit of a wait if you go. I had the "Funghi" aka mushroom, pizza with red sauce, mozzerella, etc. Delish! Atmosphere was a tad lacking but they had good wines (I had beer, all the same) and from the looks of things everything on the menu is good.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, sorry Kenan. In the dream, you were the victim of a number of unfortunate but very realistic, "my life sucks"-type events and that's what freaked me out. It's not like I dreamed you were riding down the street on a giant ice cream cone when vampire groundhogs started beating you with sausage links. It was just a lot of mundane but bad stuff that I don't even want to say, should I somehow make it come to pass. I will say that you didn't come to any bodily harm, however.

I didn't know real ILX was up again.

Tomorrow is the OJ's last day. The Frat Boy's last day is next week. YAY.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

by this time next week jenny will be doing the work of 3 clerks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was a bit disappointed with Spacca Napoli, actually. Of course, I was also quite sick when I was there. But the menu looked like they had about twelve pizzas that consisted of the same four ingredients in different combinations. On some the only difference was whether it came with buffalo mozzarella or another kind of mozzarella.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

...I dreamed you were riding down the street on a giant ice cream cone when vampire groundhogs started beating you with sausage links.

I dunno, you trotted that scenario out awfully quickly, if you ask me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

HAY, WHO WANTS TO VOTE IN AN ONLINE POLL??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost I'll agree that the options seemed limited. A build-your-own version would be nice. I liked that they represented for pizza bianca though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

VOTING IS MY CIVIC DUTY.

by this time next week jenny will be doing the work of 3 clerks.

I already do!!! Well, me and the other good one. But one of the old clerks who took the summer off to study for the bar came back to work while she awaits her results/looks for a job.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'll vote.

in other legal news i'm choosing not to opt out of not one but two, count 'em TWO class actions suits. the booty, should the decision fall my/our way is a $15 credit on my sprint bill and what is estimated to be $91-$151 from jerry gleason chevrolet. i need both.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

and oh yeah, this may only interest jeff but i was mistaken for a woman again this weekend. wtf? i'm six foot two for chrissakes. i've got huge hands. an adams apple the size of a baseball. I HADN'T SHAVED IN TWO DAYS FOR CHRISSAKES.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Mom?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I also will vote, though I reserve the right to vote for the most ridiculous choice if nothing else appeals to me.

Otto: what'd Sprint pull now? I might want to be in on that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

it's the hairnet and housecoat, isn't it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wharr is zee link for zee online poll?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/vote_on_the_hottie_of_publishing_mens_division_42138.asp#more

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

dan, i don't know, i originally was gonna throw it out because i thought it was junk mail but i opened it up to make sure it didn't ahve any personal information on it and it was from speer law firm, p.a. 104 west 9th st. suite 305 kansas city, mo 64105 regarding a class action suit.

i guess sprint, between 2000 and 2004 had been rounding up the minutes used on cell phones. so a 10 second call counted as a minute.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for B. L3Roy, because he has his hand in front of his face.*

*see previous comment

xpost: Oh, I didn't have Sprint service then. I thought they all did that anyway, the crooked bastards.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

i just got a boner over michael stearns.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for Michael Stearns because he looks kind of like that guy from Mythbusters and he's the only straight man in children's book publishing. And he's not wearing a pink tie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

He is also NEB.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who's stuffing the ballot box for the last guy?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

He is also NEB.

I voted for him before you said this!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

That is because all youse are SMRT and taste great.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

really laurel?!? i never thought you had an ulterior motive for posting that, especially not after reading he was a straight children's book editor. that is a children's book editor who is straight not an editor of books for straight children.

i keed. he seems nice. y'know judging by that 75 pixel by 75 pixel picutre.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

That is because all youse are SMRT and taste great.

;_;

That's what I get for screwing around all the time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN WILL I GROW UP AND TAKE MY ONLINE VOETING SERIOUSLY???/

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, Kevin, it also claims that he's single. (!)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

in the eyes of the Lord and the IRS he is.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Single" could mean "not married."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right, what Kevin said.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose. Is that the first thing you'd think, Jay, if you saw a write-up of K claiming that she was "single"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

i know you didn't ask me but if the woman with whom i'd previously lived was written up similarly i wouldn't think twice about it. i always assumed we were "married" but technically we were single. not single and unattached but single.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

But the menu looked like they had about twelve pizzas that consisted of the same four ingredients in different combinations.

As far as I can tell, this is what it's actually like in Italy and thereabouts (excepting the odd seafood or fried egg pizza).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's def supposed to be a Traditional Italian Pizzeria.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a panini lunch counter in Switzerland one morning and their menu was honestly 10 very subtle variations on grilled bread, ham, and mozzarella.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, that sounds kind of like heaven!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah it kinda was. One of the options was "American Toast", which I guess means very wide slices of bread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

fried egg pizza

I've seen this before, on a grilled pie, but I've never tried it. Grilling pizza is relatively easy and lots of fun, btw.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

the pizza in china had corn on it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. My family once ordered a pizza in Yugoslavia and it came with a huge fried egg right smack dab in the middle of it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Nick!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really into eating soft boiled eggs lately. that's all the egg news i have for today.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hi.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've never grilled pizza!

Corn pizza is...weird.

I've had some good egg pizza, incl. when it's kind of runny and gets all up in the other flavors.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

The only time I've had corn pizza was in London, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am having a rock'n'roll kind of week. Monday was day one of screenprinting FF posters. Tuesday was day two of screenprinting FF posters and band practice. Yesterday and today are Sharks recording sessions. Tomorrow is the big rock show at Hotti Biscotti.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

XPOST Okay, maybe not the only time, but it was notable because it was just presented as a normal veggie pizza, rather than "hey look at the exotic ingredients we're putting on this puppy for ya."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

What was that airplane just now? Is it the Air and Water Show or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

i am going home tonight and having 4 scrambled eggs, 4 sausage patties, 2 slices of toast (perhaps one english muffin instead), and some hash browns for dinner. i bought $120 worth of groceries two days ago and i plan on eating the majority of them tonight.

and, um, i mostly bought breakfast stuff. i just love it. wish i had time for it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is it the Air and Water Show or something?

yes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've never grilled pizza!

All it takes is a slightly different dough recipe and some foil.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

i found the corn pizza sort of okay. i put carrots on my nachos.

jesus. i can't eat 4 eggs in one sitting. that's a huge breakfast dinner thing you've got kickin' otto.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Breakfast is great.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

my ex used to work in the hancock, facing the lake. the planes used to come screaming in from over the water and bank when they got to the first tall building. which would be the hancock. i was meeting her there once and the windows were shaking because the planes were so close. it was kind of terrifying.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Is it rainy in Chicago? I've got a four hour gig in an outside richy-rich garden in MKE, and the forecast says rain.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't eat omelets so I didn't know that this was outlandish, but Kr was taken aback that the omelets at Pauline's were five-egg omelets. I guess that does sound like a lot, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK IT WE'RE GOING TO FIVE EGGS

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure i could easily polish off a half dozen eggs in one sitting. i *might* be able to do a dozen if i'm really hungry. but i don't know. but maybe. something to strive for perhaps?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

That is actually totally insane. The Original Pancake House in town (and I think there's one near Chi?) makes huge fuck-off four egg omelets (I think they're baked), and I didn't think they came any bigger than that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, weather man this morning said t-storms around 3:30 this afternoon. i work in the western suburbs and sure enough it's real dark to the north and west.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

The Original Pancake House in town (and I think there's one near Chi?)

You mean Walker Brothers?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yup. I don't know what the relationship is exactly, but the menu is exactly the same as what I know as the OPH.

(I'm out to get to the gig, later ya'll)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

the thing i hate about their 5 egg omelets, besides the use of 5 eggs, is the fact that they REFUSE to use any less eggs than that. i think the menu has 'NO SUBSTITUTIONS' all over it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY? That's annoying. I even told Kr that she should just ask them to use fewer eggs, but she just got French toast or something instead.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

New TJO album is kinda boring, just like the last one. Gal's run outta tricks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! They don't let you! It's totally gross. I would literally pay the 5 egg price for fewer eggs, but they don't budge!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

that's too bad. i like the pharrell album.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

there's also a place called "the original pancake house" in oak park. started in oregon in the early 50s. awesome sourdough pancakes but the place only takes cash. or check but for christ's sake if i couldn't remember to get cash out of the atm on a weekend morning do they really think i'd be toting around my check book?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pharrell album is better than its critics maintain but still just a'ight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

hey, how hard is it to make pancakes anyway?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

i like listening to it whilst lifting weights.

one of my new hobbies is seeing what the most popular emailed articles are on the nytimes list. right now the top two are about coffee being good for you & the fashion turns of eyebrows. i think it's sort of interesting. we want our vices to be good for us & hell, we're vain, too.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

i do the same thing with the boston globe. does the times have arrows to list if it's been a more or less popular e-mailed story as well?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

That Walker Brothers website links to a Phil Vettel article in the Trib. Restaurant critix can be kinda hilarious:

There's nothing like a great pancake--piping hot, uniformly light brown with an inner texture like a fine bakery cake. At once self-sufficient and versatile, pancakes are great adorned with a pat of sweet butter and a drizzle of maple syrup, and yet they work brilliantly with fresh fruit, flavored syrups, confectioners' sugar and candied pecans--sometimes all at once.

I get hungry just thinking about them--or I would, if I hadn't been eating pancakes for breakfast for the better part of the last three weeks. That's not blood currently coursing through my veins; it's strawberry syrup.

― Absolute Hotcake Heaven (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

(I mean hilariously over-the-top.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

what the fuck's a basted egg?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, but pancakes are NOT "self-sufficient". Even quite, quite good ones are dry if taken without any topping. I mean, they're like MOUTH SPONGES-level of dry.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

laurel otm. goddamn it i am CRAVING a 12-course breakfast right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

A basted egg is a fried egg cooked covered with a *little* water in the pan to keep it firm. Kind of like using water to encourage cheese-melting on a burger cooked on a flattop grill.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds fucking gross. SCRAMBLE 'EM!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's a neat trick for making perfect sunny-side up every time, though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

SCRAMBLE 'EM!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

When I say "covered" I mean with a little lid over it, to keep the steam (which actually does the top-cooking and keeps things firm) inside. And a "little" water is like .5 tbsp or so. It's not like poaching or anything.

xpost: hahaha

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh, well that doesn't sound as weird. i thought it was some sort of weird boiling of eggs. i didn't understand how that would keep them firm. but i don't understand a lot of things. most things in fact.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I explained it poorly initially there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.photofeatures.com/scottwalker/images/thumbs/walker_w056605a.jpg
http://www.keyespancakehouse.com/pancake.jpg
http://www.tvsquad.com/images/2005/12/dr%20house.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Also, baked omelettes are lame. FRY 'EM!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, all of these are WAY worse than mine. I could've been famous.

http://www.cartoonbank.com/CapContest/uploaded_images/A11578.jpg

“I'd mutiny, but I'm having such a nice day.”
Submitted by Dallas Schrems
Norman, Okla.

“Aye, and he replaced walking the plank with time out.”
Submitted by Thomas Roth
Atlanta, Ga.

"No, we don't get much booty, but we meet a lot of nice people."
Submitted by John Cassidy
Westbury, N.Y.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Marketing said the Jolly Roger 'wasn't jolly enough.'"
Submitted by John C----------
Chicago, Ill.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're right.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mine's awesome, because the joke itself gets a mild chuckle, but then you start thinking about pirate ships having marketing departments, which provides a more lasting giggle. None of the others have as much depth.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

My failure to submit to this contest is totally going to haunt me for the rest of my days.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just really like making fun of marketing.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Watch it, bub.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, John. Right, too, about the anachronism being very New Yorker.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I really, REALLY enjoy making fun of marketer. And I don't have to watch anything, because I use to be in the biz.

n/a: see you soon!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Marketing fascinates me, and not always in a good way. I've never worked in a marketing department before, so it was a bit of a shock to hear the higher ups talking openly about the ways they were going to manipulate people's emotions. Of course, most of my coworkers are just arty potheads who like to make things pretty, and only take orders about that sort of thing.

Further proof that this man may have been the most evil genius of the twentieth century. Or maybe just a plain ol' genius, depending on my mood.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

What was that airplane just now?

HA! I had similar thoughts while working in a high rise right next to the Sears tower... "Hmmm... I hope the air show is this weekend, otherwise I'm totally fucked."

http://www.cartoonbank.com/CapContest/uploaded_images/A11578.jpg
"oh, shit, I must drink this entire frisbee full of ketamine."*

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for B. L3Roy, because he has his hand in front of his face.*

HEY!!! Before I read your comment, I voted for him for the very same reason!

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff quote of the evening:

JH: Do we really need three decks of playing cards?
JB: We might have ten people over at our new place playing asshole.
JH: We're the assholes if that happens.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

In my late-night egg news, I have grown very fond of poached eggs. You boil a pan of water (about 3" deep) and crack your eggs into the water. Then you let them sit for about 6 minutes. Alton Brown says to acidify the water with a teaspoon of vinegar, but I have tried it both ways and found absolutely no difference.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY. Are you going to text me Courtney's phone number?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to submit my resume for this job:

National Organizer

The National Organizer provides support and technical assistance to local religion-labor affiliates and creates/develops new affiliates in the IWJ network. The organizer must have significant experience in community organizing and the ability to give training on organization building skills and campaign strategy. The organizer will also provide leadership on some of IWJ’s national campaigns. This position requires 30 percent domestic travel.

See full description in PDF format

Jenny sent me some postings for jobs with the Service Ind. Union, to which I will send my resume too, but when I tell folks about this all I get is raised eyebrows and the Marge Simpson growl of disaproval preceding a warning about how unions are absolutely horrible to work for, especially in entry-level jobs. Keep in mind, these warnings come from folks at |WJ who know unions, and who are really strong advocates of all things union.

What I hear at the debrief from the interns who worked for unions this summer, it is as bad as everyone warns. Seven day and 65-70 hour work weeks were the norm. IRONIC.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha:

Workers Center Director, New Orleans, LA
Interfaith Worker Justice is hiring a Center Director for New Orleans. The director will develop a multi-racial workers’ justice center to improve conditions for workers in the rebuilding of New Orleans, working with the faith community and organized labor. The position calls for an individual with significant community organizing experience and the ability to work with diverse communities.

I emailed our tech guy to tell him that the full job desc link is broken. How am I going to be succeeded in this position that way??

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY. Are you going to text me Courtney's phone number?

JESSE DAMMIT YES AND I EMAILED IT TO YOU TWICE. You are a fucking nag. Why can't you just call her and ask for it? God.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was away from email all day.

Call her and ask for it? Is that a joke?

― Jesse on Kenan's acct. (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I gained 11 lbs in New Orleans. My pants don't fit. I'm 5'6" and 179 pounds. I don't deserve to live.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'm 8 inches taller than you and roughly 49 lbs. lighter. together we make two healthy, fit adults.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'd rather gain pounds in New Orleans than anywhere else.

I'm pretty sure I can pick up 5 there on a good weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the length, it's the width.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse's shaped like a tuna can.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Like a cheese wheel.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

john, your caption had to grow on me a little. that said, all the ones posted aren't funny. but are new yorker cartoons meant to be funny?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Have I told this story before? Anyway, my mom went out to dinner with this dude once when I was around 10 and for some reason brought me along (I vetted all of her boyfriends - she is still married to the only boyfriend to win my approval (by playing Breakout with me - dudes dating women with kids take note))and I was BOOOOOOORED and therefore being very annoying and this guy, attempting to occupy me so he could make time with my mom, pulled out a grocery bag of New Yorker magazines that he had brought with him just should this occasion arise because there were cartoons in them, thus demonstrating a profound lack of understand of what appeals to ten-year-old girls, even somewhat precocious ones.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

dudes dating women with kids take note

Or women dating dudes with kids, even.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

...or dudes dating dudes or women dating women, etc.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Always should be someone you really love.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

i was like that with my uncle growing up. the only woman i really really like was his (now ex) girlfriend who went swimming with my brother & i. she was really fun & my mom & nana loved her homemade crab cakes.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

"homemade crab cakes"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm... crab cakes.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

i have yet to eat one. crabs have always been big in my family b/c so many family members live along the eastern shore and because my mom's cousin has her own crabbing boat. perhaps this is why i got turned off of crabs early.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

So the entire right side of my neck decided to say "Fuck you" to me this week. First, I have the worst case of razor burn I've ever head in my life, from shaving earlier this week -- not sure how it developed, actually. And then I have a horrible knot in the muscles next to my jaw, under my ear. Weird place to get muscle strain -- must've slept on it funny or something. Going on for a couple days now, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I got that same kind of neck knot thing a couple of weeks ago. My friends all tried to convince me it was the onset of Lyme disease. Bastards. It went away after like 5 days.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hypochondriac that I am, I was convinced it was a tumor.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know this fellow Chicagoan? (The W-pedia link isn't working.) I heard her on the radio today and am enamored. Her dress blog is entertaining too. We should invite her to party with us sometime.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have talked about her many times. She is totally crushworthy, but is married (with a small child, I think). No, I haven't google-stalked her, thank you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Had no idea about the dress blog, though! She lives in Ravenswood Manor -- or at least did a couple years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Weird place to get muscle strain -- must've slept on it funny or something.

I get this from stress.

Today is the stupidest workday ever. All the environments are down so it's impossible to get anything done. I admit that it's sort of fun, but I could have caught up on some desperately needed sleep this morning and not gotten any less work done.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

She can bring the husband and kid, it's OK!

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, my crush may have subsided. This is the photo I have always seen of Ms. McKean:

http://www.wordsmith.org/chat/images/erin-mckean.jpg

Dreamy, right? But now I've found a presumably more recent one, where she looks like a wisecracking neighbor on Bewitched or something:

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/images/erin-mckean-22nov05-eng-wm.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I just did a GIS and was about to say, John...

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

That second one looks like a study for a Chuck Close painting. She just seems smart and fun (and maybe cute)!

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

AA: "Now the Internet makes it easy to look up frequency of use, right? To be able to see how often new words are being used in publications and so forth. Can you give us a hint of what's coming up on the radar -- are there terms you'd like to see in the next edition, or something you tried to get into this one but got overruled?"
ERIN McKEAN: "The Internet is actually very, very frustrating. It gives us glimpses of words that are coming up, but we can't get any exact numbers. I'm trying to think what some of the newer words are. Actually I keep a running memo on my cell phone of words that we want to add. I'm looking at the word 'pathosphere,' which is kind of the realm of pathogens, things that make you sick.
"I know that I want to include the word 'turducken.'"
AA: "Spell that please."
ERIN McKEAN: "T-U-R-D-U-C-K-E-N."
RS: "And what does it mean?"
ERIN McKEAN: "It's this crazy New Orleans Creole delicacy that is served at Thanksgiving. It is a turkey, deboned, stuffed with a chicken, deboned, stuffed with a duck, deboned, and then there's bread stuffing all around all the different layers."
AA: "Sounds good for Thanksgiving."

ERIN McKEAN: "It is good for Thanksgiving."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Who's going to the Sharx/NC show tonight? I am planning on it. I am going to be setting multiple alarms so as to not repeat last Friday's aftwerwork nap disgrace.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I may be going, but probably not. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, this OutKast album really isn't that good, huh? The last track sounds like a Mogwai b-side.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to a "this american life" listening party. where/when is sharx/nc?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hotti Biscotti, at Fullerton and Central Park Ave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be there, if all goes as planned.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard the Outkast album yet, but the Pharrel album does indeed suck.

I thought that show was tomorrow (when I was originally planning on coming down)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nick effed up and got his facts wrong.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Hey, how far is Chicago from Dubuque? I may be playing an early-ish wedding gig there on Saturday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

FUN TONIGHT?????

WILL YOU HAVE FUN WITH ME TONIGHT?

__ Yes

__ No

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Show is tonight.

I'll definitely be there.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

One of the people who is hiring for the National Organizer position is my boss already and he strongly encourages me to submit my application. The position has been open forever. The pay is not great (35K-ish), but it comes with full benefits and involves travel (domestic), which is good.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Evan, you're in town?

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dubuque's about 4 hours away.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

SHIT.

THE LAST 3 POSTS FROM FROM don't call it a comeback HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FROM ME,JESSE.

― I AM JESSE (pig on the stairs) (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dubuque's about 4 hours away.

Oh, fuck that.

THE LAST 3 POSTS FROM FROM don't call it a comeback HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FROM ME,JESSE.

I figured.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered why Kenan was getting involved with organizing.

Sharks' http://x.myspace.com/images/onlinenow.gif sez 9 PM... is that accurate?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

jesse get off my account. i won't be home till late because i had a herpes outbreak today.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, I had totally prepared this total PWN where I was gonna be like KENAN DUDE YOU KNOW THAT EVAN IS IN TOWN, YOU WERE TALKING TO HIM ABOUT IT THE OTHER DAY, with copy-and-paste and shit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome, some dude just e-mailed me and offered to send me the album with the reggae covers of Radiohead. Sounds kinda cool, too. Horace Andy sings "Airbag," apparently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

it sounds not cool.

― call me a cumback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds horrible, but I have to hear it anyway. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. I'll copy it for you, Jordan. I mean, it sounds like it could be not-terrible. Horace Andy! He's the guy that sings on all those Massive Attack albums.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I even downloaded a "crunk tribute to Radiohead" the other day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Was that any good? I thought about it, but I was hoping the site would let me hear an excerpt first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, not really. There was one really hot beat, though, and one or two interpretations of a riff that brought a smile to my face.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Now my gig tonight just got canceled. We're going to go busk instead. This week has been ridiculous for changing plans.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Any idea what time the bands are on tonight, hmm? 9 p.m. - but is that the Cats or is that the Zach?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

jesse get off my account. i won't be home till late because i had a herpes outbreak today.

haha

Yeah. That wasn't me. Why would a herpes outbreak keep me out later? I'd think you'd want to come straight home and put an ice pack on your genitals or something.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, do any of you dudes have HBO?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

not this dude.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have the internet. That's kind of like having HBO.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

That is true. HBO is showing Spike Lee's Katrina doc on Monday and Tuesday, and some friends of mine may be in it. Maybe these magical "torrents" will have it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh maybe. Although, most torrent-makers are probably more concerned with the latest episodes of Deadwood and/or REAL SEX.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am in town. I think the 9pm biz is for Zach and the NC.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

correction: Zach is at 8pm.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

BYE BYE INTERNET SEE YOU MONDAY!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, I had to bail on Sharks halfway through to get my friends out of the bar. It sounded really great and I didn't want to go, but man, they were drunk. Then we had Mexican food which was kind of a chore and kind of hilarious, me being the only semi-sober person.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

omg so durnk wtf

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 19 August 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

That is true. HBO is showing Spike Lee's Katrina doc on Monday and Tuesday, and some friends of mine may be in it. Maybe these magical "torrents" will have it?

My former roommate's boyfriend is in that movie. They are attending the premier in NO. He is a reporter for the Times-Pic.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Saturday, 19 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sharx feckin rule. There were these two Italian couples at the bar, young and beautiful, and speaking Italian a mile a minute, and then the band started 'Headlock' and they jumped up and down and ran to the front of the stage.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

HEY ANYONE WANNA COME TO ICE FACTORY TONIGHT FOR JAZZ? It looks like things kick off around 9:15-9:30 -- although Kr and I may be there a little after that. It's Josh Abrams/Hamid Drake/Jeb Bishop, then the Michael Zarang Group, then the Jeff Parker Trio.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds kind of fun to me but I doubt Sarah will want to go. But who knows?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

so you remember Jenny and Jeff? they live in heaven on earth. Their apartment is pretty cool, but the surrounding area is HOT. You can throw--nay, toss-- a rock and hit Jewel Osco. Besides that there is an indie pharmacy, video store, restaurants, hardware, bars, used bookstore, gift shops, coffee shops, flower shops, clothing boutiques intersting people, cute boys (and girls), iGo and so much more on their very block. I WANT.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

and godfuckit, THAT WAS NOT KENAN POSTING THAT.

― i'm sorry, i will start using my laptop instead (kenan), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hey N & S, the 0ptimistic now has a myspace dingus setup with some tunes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, used bookstore?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 August 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind picking up a used bookstore.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't read most of this thread. I will start paying closer attention... NOW.

Is an indie pharmacy a place you go to buy pot?

The Sharks/NEWKITTIES show was indeed wonderful wonderful wonderful. It's rare that I get to see a show where I love TWO of the bands on the bill. The other guy was ammusing because he was SO fuxoring bitter at everyone for not giving him their full undivided attention. He kept saying things like THIS SONG IS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ACTUALLY STILL LISTENING TO ME INSTEAD OF JUST CHATTING UP THE PERSON BESIDE YOU LIKE NOONE IS UP HERE PLAYING GUITAR AND SINGING...

In mememe nonnews, this morning on my way back to my desk, a group of five or so female coworkers all called my name to tell me my slip was showing. It's this horrible oversized granny half slip I had pulled up to my chest so the hem wouldn't show at the bottom. Oh well. I took it off at my desk and shoved it in my bag. Did I mention no one ever comes up to my desk (a.k.a. reception?).

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

So I finally got a decent phone, one that does not smell like cat pee and does not look like a beige brick and has more than three hours of battery life. I'm keeping the beige brick, though -- it came in really handy once, and might one day again, the way I seem to go through phones. Anyway -- I did it for about $50, too. See, at the Cingular store, they told me that I couldn't replace anything for less than about $200. However at Radio Shack, they told me what I should have already suspected -- that one of those cheap pay-as-you-go phones will work with any SIM card. So I got an upper-end pay-as-you-go phone, a really nice flip phone, for peanuts. I don't care much for the Motorola interface -- it's confusing. But whatever, I'll get used to it.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, internet. I'm tired.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, Jenny! I emailed you this morning. I think you're special.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

But you're a creep, you're a weirdo.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESR9sx5ClI0

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever makes you happy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

My fall class schedule rocks. I have Fridays completely off - no work, no school. A three day weekend every week! Mondays are going to suck a little, because I will be doing things from 9 am until 9:30 pm, but that's okay because I'll be well rested from my three-day weekend!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm foreeing posh breakfasts and first-showing cheap matinees for us on Fridays.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

My housemate is supposed to be looking into designing software for M0t0r0la phones, but he refuses to because he says the interface is so terrible. They actually bought him a "Slivr" and he won't use it.

I thought I might be productive today because ILX would probably be down and I wouldn't get to talk to you lovely folks. But, here we are. How long will it last?

Lame-o folk singers should get used to nobody listening, especially at a free show.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Internet working at home.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, that sounds fabulous.

So... the movers? And I hate to say this because it makes me feel petty, but they really stank. And I've been on Dead Tour so if somebody's BO gets to me, you know it has to be bad. I totally support not showering before work when your job is to carry heaving things up and down stairs, but this was the kind of funk that's cultivated through days of not bathing and judicious avoidance of deodorant. I swear to god, their miasma of funk stayed behind them after they left a room. I kept catching phantom whiffs every time I'd move a box long after they'd finished the job and gone home.

It was truly stunning.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like I've met your movers before.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I want Jeff and/or Jesse to post because they will totally back me up. Jeff passed one guy on a narrow stairwell and started choking.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, bad funk. But they worked out otherwise?

The thing about audiences talking is that you never know who's listening. Other than full-on rock shows (i.e. The Go), most shows I see at the Empty Bottle have to fight against crowd noise and talking - and in that situation, or being the guy with the guitar in a talky room, it can seem like no one's listening, but usually someone is.

A few years ago I saw M@tthew Ryan (really great songwriter) open for Kasey Chambers at Martyrs, and the crowd talked through his set, though I'm sure I wasn't the only one listening (and he was the main reason I'd bought a ticket). After a few songs he just put his guitar facing his amp and left the stage with howling feedback.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always confused by people who let themselves stink, much less let themselves stink really badly. What's the thinking there? Is it hostility to western social mores? Hostility to other people in general? Lack of self esteem? Having literally grown up in a barn?

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Did you make if for this guy's set, EZ? He talked louder in between songs than he sang/mumbled during songs. Maybe a mic problem but I don't think so.

I would have thought it was very cool had he done the feedback thing.

xpost: Social mores, and general laziness

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote (part of) a song in Garageband last night! I say "part of" because I'm not sure if I'm going to flesh it out further or not. It's like 1:28 now. Sort of melancholy electro-pop, with Erlend Oye-ish vocals -- and there may just be one hook, sung over and over (like "Poor Leno," kinda). Beat is sampled from "Without Sound" by Chicken Lips.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's a fine day
People open windows
They leave their houses
Just for a short while

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Part of me likes the idea of songs that aren't fleshed out, that are just slivers. (One of the things I like about some of Eric's songs.)

(xpost) Totally.

I didn't realize until recently that that was a house hit in like 1990 -- L3ah R3sh told me. The melody is slightly different, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

So this was by far the coolest part of my weekend:

Evan, from my band, also plays in a country band. I went to see them on Saturday. After the show, the band members, myself, and another friend were understandably hungry, 1:30 am style.

It just so happens that the bandleader is the head chef at one fancy Tex-Mex restaurant in town and owns another. He ended up breaking into the the kitchen at the former restaurant and cooking us up a shitload of Mexican food (!!!). We ate family-style in the dark restaurant and drank $$ tequila. It was completely awesome and free.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Or rather, it once had a melody, and then he did a Morrissey on it. It's hip to be tuneless.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

There were jalapeno peppers stuffed with shrimp and sour cream and wrapped in bacon. There were also corn tortillas with fajita mix, guac, pico de gallo, and sour cream.

Then I had brunch with a bunch of lesbians the next morning!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

But they worked out otherwise?

Yes and no. There were two very small guys and for some reason that I can only attribute to insanity, they didn't have a hand truck or any sort of wheeled moving aids. We don't have a lot of stuff, but by the end of the move, the newer, less experienced mover was pretty much dropping every box he carried into the apartment. He would bend down to set something on the floor and about halfway down, they boxes would just topple out of his arms. I'm sure he was exhausted, but it was still hard to watch. He also dropped a crate of records, not by accident but just putting them down roughly, at which point I thought Jeff was going to tackle him, stinkiness be damned.

So they got everything moved, and they were certainly cheap, but there were a few more casualties than I would have liked (I haven't unpacked most of the fragile stuff and frankly, I'm a little scared). They are definitely NOT the moving company for people who value or love or are generally fond of their household goods - there wasn't a lot in the way of "care" or "caution" in their services.

Still, if I had the choice of paying two stinky dudes to throw my stuff around or move everything myself, I'd take the stinky, record-dropping dudes any day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I have dreams about food like that sometimes.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

OH one of the guys was a filmmaker, and was talking about how he's trying to pitch a script for a short film and was having a hard time getting someone to fund it (fund? sponsor? pay for it, anyway) and I'm thinking MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE YOU SMELL LIKE A HOBO IN THE HOT SUN, PAL.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Or rather, it once had a melody, and then he did a Morrissey on it. It's hip to be tuneless.

What the hell. Erlend is so not tuneless. Neither is Morrissey, although I've heard that claim. Erlend's melody is just a bit simpler than the original.

Pretend the melody starts on C, cuz I don't have perfect pitch.

Original Opus III version: C A G F

Erlend Oye version: C C Eb C

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm not sure whether you mean "off-key" or "not melodically interesting.")

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, you spent a lot of time in Texas, right Kenan? This dude is like a full-blooded Texan.

Oh! And I somehow came out of the night with a trombone, which I'm going to learn how to play. It's very hard, so far.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jeb Bishop did some amazing things on the trombone the other night. Weird quiet things with the mute.

I was most impressed, however, with drummer Mike Reed, who played with Josh Abrams and Jeff Parker. He was so agile, he was switching snares and cymbals in the middle of the song without missing a beat, and it all just sounded really fluid and creative. I kept trying to figure out why he looked familiar until I realized that he's also the promoter behind the Pitchfork Festival.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm not sure whether you mean "off-key" or "not melodically interesting.")

I wouldn't say it isn't interesting. It's less about the notes than the voice and the delivery. Flat. A bit removed from the act of singing somehow.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, well I don't hear it as flat. But I do know what you mean about the detachment -- but I like that in this case.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hi y'all.

I start two new classes this week. We rearranged our apartment. I have an unsightly rash on my face. I visited a virtually abandoned (but still open for business) shopping mall in Akron and it was probably the high point of my trip home.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Oh, so do I. Don't get me wrong.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

The movers also broken the glass out of a large picture frame. Dropped our paper shredder hard on the ground (although it still works), and generally were careless all around with our furniture. We don't have great furniture, but I don't want you to knock knobs off and chip and scratch it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

To give them credit, they knocked some off the bill for the broken picture frame.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to hear about that, though, Jenny, since I'd recommended S. Artists - the guys who moved me were...one guy wouldn't say what he did but kept telling me his wife was a poet, and the other was in Mahjohngg (if I remember right). But after a decade of recruiting friends to help me move, it felt good to have it done so quickly (and it was November, so BO wasn't an issue).

I had a landlord on Winnemac with that kind of BO - I could always tell if he had stopped by to work on something, or had stood at the door and knocked, because of the aftersmell.

Did you make if for this guy's set, EZ?
I didn't see the guitar guy at the show - met him, and he seemed nice then, and then I heard the stories about his set.

I'd never been to Hottay Biscotti before - I had always imagined it to be more coffeehouse-with-liquor-license than bar. No biscotti! Good sound, good crowd, and nice to be at a bar that doesn't have the front-room/back-room layout of the Beat Kitch, Schubas, etc...

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

PS -- He who likes to write and record song fragments has something in common with Bob Pollard.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

P.S. If you're working downtown, Fox & Obel is having an anniversary party in their store today, with lots of fancy free food and drink and stuff.

(xpost)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I had always imagined it to be more coffeehouse-with-liquor-license than bar.

That's interesting -- the only time I've been there it DEFINITELY had a coffeehouse-with-liquor license vibe. There was a bluegrass band playing, and only a couple people were paying attention. The rest were reading and drinking coffee, and I felt like a total weirdo for ordering a Corona.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, no worries, Eric. I had read reviews on S. Artists that warned of the very thing we experienced (sans BO) so I wasn't going in totally unaware. Like I said, it was MUCH better than renting a truck, driving a truck, moving ourselves, and returning a truck AND ONLY THEN being able to clean/unpack boxes. And with the S. Artists doing the heavy lifting, Jesse was able to stand guard and keep tramps from climbing into the truck to steal our possessions. So on balance it was a positive experience since the alternative is so dreadful. They are a good stepping stone up the moving process ladder; hopefully when we move again it will be for good, and we'll be flush enough to hire one of those companies that like pack shit for you, too.

I would recommend them, but with reservations. And a stern admonition to carry your fragile things separately yourself (which we did for more delicate electronics etc.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

and we'll be flush enough to hire one of those companies that like pack shit for you, too

Funny story: two friends of mine just moved out west, where one of them has gotten a job teaching at Washington St. University. The U paid for their moving expenses, so long as they used the company that the U had a contract with. So, after moving thousands of miles, the company hadn't shown up with their stuff like 4 days after the fact. So, they call and bitch, and find out that the company will pay for grocery & living expenses (although not alcohol) up to $150 per day that they are late. A massive shopping spree ensues. They said it was almost worth it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard some HORROR stories of people who hire long-distance movers. Although, Jeff, Jesse, and my do-it-ourselves long distance move was kind of its own horror story, too.

I just hate moving. Let's never move again.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Next time you move: four bedroom ranch house, pleanty of room to breed.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

mmm. Rustic.

http://www.westerncolorado.org/ranch-house-twilight-sm.jpg

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

pleanty of room to breed.

Breed what?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, come on, you don't wanna waste those birthin' hips.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Although I hear breeding goats is satisfying. Especially if you make your own cheese.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to have an "afterlife"-themed movie doubleheader? I just put both of these at the top of my Netflix queue:

AFTER LIFE (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1999)
At a way station somewhere between heaven and earth, the newly dead are greeted by guides. Over the next three days, they will help the dead sift through their memories to find the one defining moment of their lives.

DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (Albert Brooks, 1991)
After Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) crashes his BMW convertible into a bus, he's transported to "Judgment City," where he meets the love of his life, Julia (Meryl Streep). Unfortunately, Daniel needs to defend his life on Earth before he can ascend to heaven with Julia. He frantically attempts to explain the positive things he's accomplished, but soon realizes that Julia may be too good for him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me of something... I need to send you guys an email.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

After Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) crashes his BMW convertible into a bus, he's transported to "Judgment City," where he meets the love of his life, Julia (Meryl Streep).

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03102003

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

It is a story arc that deals with a cat getting shot and going to heaven, and meeting an awesome chick there.

(I am currently reading the archives comic in their entirety)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I missed the "Heaven" caption.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Jenny, Eric: I'm usually done with work pretty early on Fridays, like 12:30-1:00ish. Let's do lunch sometime.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 21 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I would totally be up for the After Life double feature. I love Defending your life.

However, my mom will be here Thursday through Monday and then my dad that Friday through Tuesday.

My birthday is coming up. Maybe we could all do something for that the weekend of the 9th? Is everyone free then?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 21 August 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, the new Sharks demos I recorded for them are up on their website, if you want to hear.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 21 August 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I will totally eat lunch with you, Nick and Eric! That will be a) fun; and b) incentive to get up, get out of bed, and go study.

Oh, come on, you don't wanna waste those birthin' hips.

Kenan, FYI, it's not the best idea to tell a woman, especially a woman who vocally bemoans having recently outgrown her only suit, that she has birthin' hips.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. I was just kidding.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I know. I ain't mad atcha, just providing a general etiquette tip.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Nick, are you working in Evanston on Fridays? Jenny and I could go purple and join you up there.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

yup

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drh100/h108/h10887bif16.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Purp like Sizzurp

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Which, by the way, I've been looking to purchase a bottle of... but it has ceased production and not even the shittiest liquor stores have old bottles lying around.

Is there such a thing as ironic drinking?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ironic Drinking Leads To Unironic Drunkenness

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Andre? (x-p)

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 21 August 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to read an article about Chicago's Shittiest Liquor Stores - like one of those New City 'top 50' lists.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get to work. I have to admit some of them scare the bejesus out of me though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Chicago's Most Frightening Slashies"

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

That one where I saw chair-throwing and blood surely belongs on some kind of list.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Chicago's Most Frightening Slashies"

the place on division next to the post office, there was a beheading in there 6 years ago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S THE ONE!

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Are you serious? A beheading? Surely that's a scurrilous rumour.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

nope, i remember it and i heard the details of it when i was at a bbq next to the place this weekend.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, let's hear these details then. I want to know how you behead someone in a bar.

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

no kidding. i just did a half-assed google search and came up with nothing.

i return to NO tomorrow!

― don't call it a comeback (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

shit. i did it again. it is just a habit to sit down and use this computer rather than hauling out the laptop and waiting for it to start.

― jesse on kenan's (kenan), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. Radiodread came in the mail today. Toots and the Maytals do "Let Down" complete with a melodica intro.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

I may have Fridays semi-free in about a month and I live near Evanston. If you guys get together for lunch, email me. I be here.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

I played a show for a few hundred theater folks tonight and covered a Nueva Cats song, and Seth from the I. Factory happened to be there (he wrote music for one playlet) and knew the song, which was great!

OK: Me, Jenny, Nick, 'manda - at least one time this fall, we will see the first screening of some major fall movie, up in Evanston around 1 p.m.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

re: beheading- if you've been in that particular slashie you know may have noticed the regulars are a little rough around the edges. well one day a couple of the regulars had a difference of opinion and tempers flared. one regular left the bar. he came back with his machete and gave the other guy a two-handed baseball bat-style swing to the neck with it. with predictable results.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what they were fighting over.

You know what SUXX? We can't put my new CSS cd on the computer. The computer just plain doesn't like it. WTF? Who listens to cds on STEREOS any more?? COME ON!

I'm so f'n tired this morning. I didn't sleep well at all. I think my back is fucked up. I keep getting this sharp shooting pains. Then I had a nightmare that my car and a neighbor's car were both stolen right in front of me. It wouldn't be the end of the world, but in my dream I was having the biggest panic attack ever in the history of panic attacks.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

So check this out. Right after I typed that, I went to the back of the office to get some files. I see a coworker who asks me how I am, so I casually mention my back problems. It turns out she had the exact same problem. She explained to me exactly what was going on, the exercises to fix it, and how to reduce the pain in the meantime. BOO YAH! That NEVER HAPPENS! Who would think that a coworker would actually be able to solve my real life problems?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

happens all the time with me. but then i work with a lot of doctors.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

So how do you fix it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I predict I will get a lot of work done today now that I have finished reading all of the Achewood archives. That shit is brilliant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently, I have a bulging disc, as opposed to a slipped one. It can simply fall back in to place by opening the area around it, which can be done by doing back bends. I need to stretch backwards, not forwards, standing and on the ground (I think it was called the reverse dog in yoga? I'm probably just making that up). ALSO! A Cold pack helps, which my coworker had in our freezer. Now I just need to get my hands on some advil...

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. It's really nice out. I ate my lunch on the steps of this:

http://static.flickr.com/28/68113903_aeb89c59bf_m.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

That is Masaryk, who I believe was the first president of Czechloslovakia.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

It can simply fall back in to place by opening the area around it, which can be done by doing back bends.

That is kind of unsettling. It reminds me of the episode of Aeon Flux with the woman who has a missing vertebra and has to keep putting in disposable replacements.

I was sturving, so I inadvisably went to 'Old Chicago' and had a beer sausage calzone. Now I am sturfed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Where is that, Dan?

I remember 'Old Chicago' from Minnespolis. Neither old nor Chicago, but not a bad variation on the TGIF/Bennigans outfit.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah it felt kind of Chotchkie's. Could be much worse though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's out in front of where I work, at the east end of the Midway Plaisance Park.

Just to the left of the train tracks here.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go back to that area. It makes me giddy, remembering stories about the fair of 1893 from Devil in the White City (and very briefly in Ghatsby's Girl).

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

If any of yallz want to come south for lunch sometime, we can have a big old picnic. Metra electric and two buses from downtown stop within a block of here.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of fictional books taking place in old chicago, I just finished So Big. Jenny, did you say you have Sister Carrie? If not, I'll check it out at the library.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could skip out for lunch someday, but I have to be here to answer the door during lunch too. THE DUMBEST!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know what that huge golden statue near the lake at, I wanna say 63rd St., is?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

"The Republic"

http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/dc_french/republic/dcfrench_republic.html

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

The first time I came down here for an interview, I got totally lost and ended up driving past that thing a half dozen times.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, did you say you have Sister Carrie?

Yes. It's in a box, but I predict it will see the light of day within the week and you may borrow it.

Friday picnic with Dan!

Exchange I'm overhearing between Beloved Coworker and the Frat Boy that followed FB's tale of drinking a 12 pack of beer, a fifth of gin, and a handle of Jim Beam with one friend:

BCW: So how do you feel about that?
FB: Feel about what?
BCW: Being an alcoholic.
FB: Well, I've been in rehab and when I was there, I realized that I'm not one.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh classic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ denial

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

That's a lot of fucking booze, yo.

― machu picachu (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

And then, after his description of a frat brother's stupid girlfriend who is "so dumb, I don't even understand how she has a job."

Me: I know the feeling. Some people are just so dumb that I don't even understand how they function in life.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Like, seriously, how do you drink that much and have any kind of story to tell afterwards? "I don't know... I just remember a lot of staggering around. And crying. A lot of crying." I mean, WTF? I'm not Mr. Sobriety, but I couldn't drink that much.

― machu picachu (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

And then, after his description of a frat brother's stupid girlfriend who is "so dumb, I don't even understand how she has a job."

Frat boy going on about how girl is dumb means one of two things: 1) he's totally wrong, or 2) she's, like, Schiavo dumb.

― machu picachu (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

He justified his opinion starting with, "First of all, her name is Crystal..." which I have to admit was pretty funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Even at the height of my collegiate drinking habits, I and any given friend could not drink that much. Maybe, depending on how long we had. A weekend would have been totally doable, but I don't like Jim Beam that much (sorry Kenan.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I know dudes who could accomplish such drinking. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

HA, jenny!

That reminds me of when our intern said, "And check THIS OUT. The girl's name is Tatianna. What is she, BLACK?!"

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

"First of all, her name is Crystal..." which I have to admit was pretty funny.

haha I actually see where he's going with that one.

― machu picachu (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

"We named our precious little girl Crystal, in the the hope that one day, with the grace of God, she will have very pretty hair."

― machu picachu (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

but I don't like Jim Beam that much (sorry Kenan.)

Hey, I didn't invent it.

― machu picachu (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

This was also a gem:

BCW: Where did you go to school?
FB: Indiana University.
BCW: Why did you go there?
FB: Both of my parents went there.

Coming from a guy to whom we affectionately refer as "Nep" I can only say: O RLY?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Let's stone him.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

She said mamma/ why are there snowflakes?/ And I said, Crystal/ because of you..

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ain't nothin' cuter than a fat country baby eatin' peaches off a hardwood floor!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

does he understand why people refer to him as nep?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

We are too cowardly to say that to his face, although I did make a comment yesterday about, "No more free rides from your family or cushy jobs from your cousin" that he totally ignored.

Our other nickname for him is "Weinie Brain."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wienie Brain.

Neither way ever looks right to me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

there's a difference between being a drunk and an alcoholic, slight though it may be.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Weenie Brain?

I think I like that one the best even if it's wrong.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tell us, oh drunk one.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

GIS results for "weiner" are huge fun.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think weenie is correct, at least according to the google test.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd go with "weenie."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

You know what I hate? When someone asks for something on the phone, I tell them the person with the answer to that question isn't here, and then they freak out with IT'S A SIMPLE QUESTION! GIVE ME AN ANSWER! I shouldn't give in to those people. T'ain't me job, ma'am.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

This lady had a question about what kind of countertops she has in her bathroom. It was a custom job our company did before I was here, and the project manager is totally unorganized. She (PM) is also pregnant, stressed out, and at home today. NOT MY PROBLEM! I went in the computer folder for the project and it was basically empty.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I should have told her they are made of pure gold. No! NO! PEOPLE! YOUR COUNTERTOPS ARE MADE OF PEOPLE!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

You should have just told her formica.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Scrap aluminum salvaged from a trailer home.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Don't people know how to use the internet to figure stuff like that out?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes it just makes you feel better to scream at a receptionist. What, you don't ever get in that mood?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's kind of odd the homeowner doesn't know, or at least have records of her own. She chose the countertops.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

You should've just called her a "homo .... ner."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Since working here I have encountered people who couldn't remember why they were arrested, why they were fired, or why they were taken from work to the hospital by ambulance. So countertops... I can kind of see it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl3/pics/butthead.gif

"homo .... ner."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

will i ever be mature enough that getting an email that begins with this: There was an error on the July CUM Collection Spreadsheet presented at ELC. doesn't make me giggle?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

That's an unfortunate acronym. We don't even have anything that bad here, and this is the company of 1,000,000,000 three-letter acronyms.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I hope to god you're never mature enough to not giggle at a C.U.M. Spread... sheet. Because on that day, you'll be dead to me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

it's not an acronym, it's the July Cumulative Collection spreadsheet. why she chose to capitalize that i'll leave to the freudians.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh lolz

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

That's totally awesome that it's not even an acronym. Maybe she's just horny.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also: sooo many jokes to be made about collecting cum on sheets...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

The July Cum Collection is the name of the new line of banana hammocks at International Male.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

The July Cum Collection is the name of the new line of banana hammocks at International Male.

i totally don't want to see that spread.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

She craves cum, and longs to collect it. Pornography assures me that this is not unusual.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

My ring tone is "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer, which I feel is a hilarious thing to have randomly emanating from your pants as you walk down the street. I amuse myself, I really do.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

after birthday drinks for a friend followed by bean burritos after last call i have not been amused by anything emanating from my pants today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

tmi

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

also, dmy

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

God, boys are so gross.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

You know you love us.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not always gross though. and hey! i'm plotting to get out east in november with a tuesday night in nyc. get your liver ready now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Out-grossing each other is the glue that holds my closest friends and I together. We have predicted that eventually we're going to one-up each other to the point of bukkake-ing each other as a joke.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

That's... I don't know how I can add anything to that image. Oh my.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Needless to say, if your get to the point of the July CUM Collection, there's something going on apart from just grossing each other out.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

The chapter we're on in Latin class is all about "cum clauses". It has been a long summer of intensive Latin and none of us in the class are interested in being mature about this.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Based on his last post, I have determined that Dan is actually a character in a Kevin Smith movie.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

If I've got to be likened to that played-out shit, can I be Brody from Mallrats?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to go run like I do most days but instead I ate pasta primavera and got drunk, and watched Kids in the Hall. And the new Outkast is BETTER THAN EXPECTED.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

Funny you should mention that. I'm downloading it as we speak.

Meantime, I'm doing a little hacking on my phone. The usb cable for my PowerShot also fits my phone, so all I needed was the drivers -- or so I thought. But no, Motorola requires you buy a whole software suite to be able to put stuff onto their phones. So after some initial floundering, I found it, downloaded it, and set myself about editing some mp3s for awesome ringtone effect. Biggest winners so far: "Do Ya THink I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart and "Radar Love" by Golden Earring. I always thought that having the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme as a ringtone was a good idea, which led to the discovery of the night: the Curb soundtrack album is really good. It's all Italian movie soundtrack music from the 60's and 70's, complete with Morricone. I did not know that.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

handle of Jim

Does that refer to a 1/2 gallon jug? If so, wow.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

In the New Yorker profile of Larry David, they called the one Italian song "Everything's Fine, Everything's Fine" - not the opening theme, but the main transitional one.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of, I was blown away by that Greek zither music on the Third Man soundtrack. There was one tune one the Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels soudntrack that sounds really similar...the one that speeds up, when dude loses the poker game.

Coincidentally we watched 'Heavenly Creatures' the next night, in which the goth girls go to see the Third Man and hallucinate Orson Welles all over the place.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm at the "Jes Res" as they call it. It's nice. I am back to my Southern hobby of gaining weight; I ate leftovers: chicken that tasted like chicken, a chicken taco, and amazzzing meatloaf, washed down with some rank chardonnay that tasted like it was made from the juice of pureed lumber. Then I ate a marble cake with choco icing and crushed nuts.

I am in my room where the outlets by the desk are 2-prong, so I have to sit in the recliner which is upholstered in SOLID SHEETS OF HEAVY DUTY PLASTIC colored and molded to look like fabric. I ask you, "WTF?"

(*Jes Res= Jesuit Residence)

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

For my evening cocktail I wanted rum with something, but I remembered that for some reason their ample liquor cabinet is never stocked with rum. Why?

So I am having to drink vodka with my Fresca.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

So yr back in N.O. already?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

I found someone at work to tape that Spike Lee doc for me.

I heard Glenn D4v1d Andr3ws has the last scene in the film. That dude owes me fifty bucks from a gig.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

hi laurel.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am indeed back in NO.

I am going to go to the Spike Lee movie here. WON'T THAT BE SPECIAL????

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

My room. It has no alarm clock.

It does, however, have a closet with 5 priest's robes in it....

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

aw sweet

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

And the new Outkast is BETTER THAN EXPECTED.

You think so? It's my first listen through, but this is kinda stinkin' up the joint. Just makes me want to listen to any of the four or five better Outkast albums.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's not that good at all. Krista and I were listening to it in the car the other day, and she had to tell me to turn it off since it was so annoying. (I think it was on "Makes No Sense At All.")

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, kids. I do love you, and what's more I love you for Who You Are. Don't you feel special?

I'm wearing supah tall shoes today and I have a spot on my chin. Sorry I've been schtum, lately, work is intense and only gets more so -- when people ask, I've started comparing it to the trash compactor scene in Star Wars.

KEVIN & JIB: Don't forget to warn a sister when you're coming to town so I can clear my calendar & get protein-ed up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/10deathstar.html

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty good, but I still like the "Diary of a Cobra Recruit" better.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/02cobra.html

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

That is kind of annoying, yeah. Gotta be a movie throwaway.

The record doesn't sound quite as good as it did when I was drunk last night, but Mighty O, Morris Brown, Call the Law, N2U, and a couple of others still sound pretty great. It's like 1000x more listenable than Pharrel, at any rate.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

From what I hear, they should have scrapped the movie, too. Hip hop in the 30's and booze running and funeral parlors? I can't wait for it to hit Netflix so I can turn it off when it gets too ridiculous.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have no issues with hip-hop in the 30's or ridiculousness.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Which movie?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

this movie

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

IT upgraded my computer to Windows XP! It is smoooooth sailin'.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan's computer is set up in such a way that the OS is kind of like a Mac and boy howdy, I could not make heads nor tails. I wanted to see if a printer was installed, and I finally gave up. Also, I wanted to email myself a file by saving it on his computer and then emailing it to myself, but could not find the file once I downloaded it.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan = Linux H@xx0r?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

IT upgraded my computer to Windows XP! It is smoooooth sailin'.

"Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install these updates."

(I put up with that B.S. for most of yesterday afternoon.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

OK, time to face reality. I'm off to the office. And to pick up my belongings from my former apartment. Boo.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I just ordered this book from Amazon. Yay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh that book looks interesting. Let me know if it is.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I have a daydream that my cute union crush will come down the hall, see I'm here, realize that I'm really alienated and lonely in the absence of my interns, he will hug me and take me shopping for a mug to hold my writing implements.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

cherry slurpee

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I WANT ONE

Although... I dropped $4 on a 100-pack of Fla-Vor-Ices while grocery shopping this week, and we've been eating the shit out of those things. They're best when you let them melt a little bit, then crush them into slush. Mmmmm... purple flavor.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think I had a touch of food poisoning last night.

We made drunk tacos and something must have gone...awry. I spent about 1:30 - 3:00 am at least near the toilet. Right now I'm trying to come up with the blandest dinner possible for tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

White rice with a dab of butter and/or soy sauce. Steamed or broiled chicken. Actually sounds pretty good to me right now for some reason.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds pretty good. No chicken though, there's a small chance that was part of the problem (and even if it wasn't, the association makes me a little ill right now).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Then how about Kim Chee?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.justjenndesigns.com/crafts/food/kcpizza6.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is that...a kim chee pizza???

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

It appears that way!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Bananas
Rice
Applesauce
Toast

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Graham Crackers!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

angel farts

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand this thread anymore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Hey, this isn't about Chicago at all!"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

B.R.A.T.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Orange Rolls, Angel Spit

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Mi leche es muy deliciosa, y te hace bien el estomago.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

me: worker justice always ruining everything
jesse did not receive your chat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

why did i not receive yor chat? I am on gmail.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

And you're a "wide receiver," ifyouknowhatImean.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

OMG HERE HE COMES!!!!

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

HE JUST SAID, "Da-da-da...let's go see Jesse!"

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone been to My Bar at Ashland and Addison? They have $1 PBRs tonight, apparently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Drafts, too, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Do they have food too? I have a houseguest to entertain, again.

SIDE RANT: Houseguests are great to have once in a while, but one of the things I've noticed about being in this big ol' city is that people will start using your home as a travel hub a LOT. And sometimes it's great, and sometimes it really really sucks. This is in between, but it's the 3rd guest we've had in a month, and I really don't want to deal with it. The first thing we're going to do is go get him some keys made.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

No food.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I passed My Bar, I misread it as My Bad, which would be a funny name for a bar.

I'm playing at Sub-t tomorrow night with a bunch of bands I don't know as an envoi to Thax - I want to run off and see Azita later if I get out in time.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm planning on being at that Azita show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Although I'll be in a hurry, too -- I'm gonna try to flyer the Eggers/Gibbard thing at Park West first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think it would be great if Sharks could play a show with Bears.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, what's that cable show where they figure out which predator would win in a stupid hypothetical battle? Like "CHARGING ELEPHANT VS GREAT WHITE: FITE!!1!11!"

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Does this mean you're not going to put me up the next time I visit, Dan?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

The headliner could be the reunion of Bear vs. Shark:
http://www.bearvsshark.com/home.php

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a new dress and was serenaded by a small group of young Saudis today.

Know why?

It's mah birthday.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

31. A prime number. I'm not thrilled.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did I mention how it's the boringest age I've turned yet? Still, happy birthday! You are only 21 days younger than me, but that just might mean you'll live 21 days longer than me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's only been 21 days, give it some time!

Although if tonight is any indication, I don't see excitement in my future either.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

YOMANDAITSYOURBIRTHDAY
ITSYOURBIRTHDAY
GOVIRGO
GOVIRGO
ITSYOURBIRTHDAY
ITSYOURBIRTHDAY

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Eid milaad saeed, Amanda!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have a student named Saeed. Does that mean Happy or Birthday? Thanks dudes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://lost.punt.nl/upload/sayid/lost_swarthy.jpeg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday, Amanda!

For your birthday, Nicholas Cage has starred in a remake of the Wicker Man. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT ON YOUR BIRTHDAY???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

I just took 30 seconds to remember how old I was before giving up and doing the math. Math tells me that I'm 30, but will turn 31 May 2006. --But wait, it's not over yet. When you pair a calendar with math, you too can come to the conclusion that I must be in need of some quality sleep.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight I ate Jesuit dinner. I had Jesuit veal, Jesuit carrots and onion, and Jesuit creamed potatoes (all fit for a Lord and Savior). For dessert I had "Buttered" Pecan ice cream (as Blue Bunny calls their butter pecan flavor) with chocolate cake, both Jesuit of course. All washed down with Fresca.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jesuit Fresca?

Happy birthday Amanda!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

The Fresca was not Jesuit. It was fine with the vows of poverty and obedience, but Fresca is a horny fucking beverage, and it couldn't take the vow of chastity.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

I FUCKING KNEW KNEW KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN.

I KNEW IT FROM THE INSTANT I REALIZED SHE WAS A DB. I KNEW AMEDB WOULD BE THE ONLY--OR AT LEAST THE FIRST--TO ASK ME FOR A RECOMMENDATION TO SOMETHING.

I haven't opened the email yet, but there it is in the subject line. Should I lose the email and send her to my spam folder? Should I go to Ohio and yell in her cooze? I cannot write a recommendation for this girl! (It's sticky because her father is a great guy who is an important figure in our org.)

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dear [me],
The applicant below is in the process of applying to our institution and has chosen you to provide a recommendation. You may access the online recommendation form at the URL listed below. The personal access code and password, also provided below, are required for entry. If you prefer to submit a paper recommendation, please contact the applicant and ask him/her for a form. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR RECOMMENDATION AS AN ATTACHMENT IN RESPONSE TO THIS MESSAGE. Recommendations will not be accepted via this e-mail account.
Please note that [co-worker] has NOT waived his/her right to review this letter of recommendation.
Name of Applicant: [co-worker]
Email Address: [co-worker]@yahoo.com
School: School of Social Work
Department/Major: MDiv/MSW Dual Degree Divinity/Social Work

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit. I googleprooofed that!!!!

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, what's that cable show where they figure out which predator would win in a stupid hypothetical battle? Like "CHARGING ELEPHANT VS GREAT WHITE: FITE!!1!11!"

Flying Shark Vs. Flying Crocodile!

That was on Adult Swim. Flying Crocodile won. I never thought there was any contest.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

No dude. She's talking about a show on Animal Planet.

I liked that show where they pitted a zombie against a shark.

---I just slunk over to the mod board and put in a request to delete my indiscretion/clipboard error---

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I never realized that adult swim was parodying something. I'm behind in my Animal Planet viewing by sever years, at least.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

ballistic: ecks vs. sever years

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK. Overslept, and it's pouring rain outside. This is going to be GREAT.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm soaked from the knees down despite using an umbrella this morning.

HAPPY POST-BIRTHDAY, AMANDA! What does the new dress look like? What else are you doing to celebrate?
My birthday approacheth. I will be 29. It's not 31, but it's not the best number either. I want a party. I want it to involve girlie frozen drinks (um, with alcohol in them). SO SAY WE ALL.

My mom will be here this weekend. The apartment is cleaner than the top of the Chrysler building, but that's not a very hard thing to do these days.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

The storm here last night was CRAZY. I was woken up around 3:30 by hail, then again at 6:30 by the loudest thunder that ever clapped.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

An hour later, my feet are still cold and wet. ICK!

Do you want to know what is NOT a good combo?
Coffee & a grapefruit.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Really? It sounds kind of pleasant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

raining to hard for me to go get coffee. brain stuck on "unworking" setting. need coffee. get coffee = get wet = miserable rest of day. no coffee = brain sleeping, body waking = miserable rest of day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's just a bad flavor combo, Jordan. I guess it's ok if you put little pauses in between the two, but I ate a piece of grapefruit and almost immediately swigged some coffee and it was BAD NEWS BEARS.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking of going to see a physical therapist about my back, if they take my insurance. CRAZY??? Maybe.

Talk to me, yo.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I believe you. I'm sure healthy people eat grapefruit for breakfast all the time, but somehow I can only picture myself doing so on vacation, like at a hotel restaurant or something. Which is weird, because I like grapefruit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I ordered a salty dog, which is grapefruit juice + either gin or vodka + salt on the rim. Yum. I ordered the gin, because I'm not a big vodka fan, but I wonder if vodka might've mixed with grapefruit better, given the drink a little more body. Gin is already sort of tangy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I know vodka + grapefruit juice as a greyhound, and I love it. It's the best drink to order when you're kinda sick but you go out anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds yummy, John.

I didn't eat grapefruit for a long time because I thought it was such a pain to scoop out, but then one day I realized I could slice it like an orange. DOH! And then everything was right with the world again.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, it sounds like you should DEFINITELY see someone about your back.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I know vodka + grapefruit juice as a greyhound, and I love it.

I've never had a greyhound, but I'm amazed at how many people I meet who don't know the name of it. Like, they'll order vodka and grapefruit, but just say "vodka and grapefruit" and are surprised to learn it has a name.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Vodka and grapefruit or grapefruit and coffee sounds like a recipe for immediate and terrible acid reflux.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

So, can both drinks (salty dog & greyhound) have either gin or vodka?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

vodka and coffee

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

No thank you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Coffee-Vodka recipe
Scale ingredients to servings
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup instant coffee
1/2 chopped vanilla bean
1 1/2 cups vodka
caramel food coloring
Boil water and sugar until dissolved. Turn off heat. Slowly add dry instant coffee and continue stirring.
Add a chopped vanilla bean to the vodka, then combine the cooled sugar syrup and coffee solution with the vodka. Cover tightly and shake vigorously each day for 3 weeks.
Strain and filter.
*Its also best to let the sugar mixture cool completely so the vodka won't evaporate when its added.

**If you like a smoother feel to the liqueur you can add about 1 teaspoon of glycerine to the finished product.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

So, can both drinks (salty dog & greyhound) have either gin or vodka?

Not sure. I had my salty dog at the California Clipper, where there was a handy menu of cocktails at our table, with ingredients listed. Other bars may be more strict about whether it's gin or vodka and not let you choose.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, whatever. I'm sure any bar worth its salt (geddit?) would let you choose.

From Wiki:

A Salty Dog is a cocktail of vodka or gin and grapefruit juice, served in a glass with a salted rim. The salt is the only difference between a Salty Dog and a Greyhound.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting. I wonder if its helps to say "vodka greyhound" or "salty dog with gin".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

[POST DELETED FOR FEAR OF EXPOSING COMPANY SECRETS]

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Coffee-Vodka recipe aka "homemade kalhua." One of my co-servers at the Redneck Bar and Grille in NC made me a big, oversweet, horrifying bottle of that for Christmas one year.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually called the Redneck Bar?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like I'm picking up some drumset gigs with a dude who's like a local Dr. John, he plays piano and sings New Orleans r&b tunes. I'm excited!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

Btw, your pal N.G. is auditioning for us TONIGHT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, sweet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.unsignedphotos.com/images/c00114.jpg

"It's a salty dog. Drink it, you pussy."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I remember going over to that dude's apartment once in college, and it was like how I always imagined my college life should be. The place was huge, and clean. His roommates were all hot, creative, nice, etc...they had just whipped up a little, you know, roasted lamb and potatoes for dinner, which they offered up. He played me some four-track stuff he had been playing with, it was just him beatboxing and laying multi-tracked Beach Boys harmonies down, totally amazing. Going back to my own broke-down apartment and weird roommates was really anticlimactic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

You went over to Rip Torn's apartment?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, those are the kind of people who, you find out later, vivisect puppies. Don't you fret.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

My version of Jordan's hip adults were these guys I knew as a teenager who were roadies (for the Replacements, The Jets, whoever, and tech guys at the big theater in town). They owned an old-school ambulance and had a bathtub full of beer bottles on ice. My parents were excited to drop me off at their house, because the ambulance looked cool. I remember hearing plenty of bands for the first ttime at their parties - Kraftwerk, Wire, etc.

Jordan's description is perfect, though.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I have never in all my days in the booze-pushing industry heard of GIN in either a salty dog or greyhound. And I would like to never hear of it again.

Re people being surprised at the name, people are also kind of confused sometimes by the names Cuba Libre and Cape Cod, despite their being equally simple and very common drinks.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I probably can't make it to the Fake Fix tomorrow night - gotta see some folks from Madison who are playing at Silvie's (owners of M. Fools, Jordan).

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Cuba Libre is just rum and coke with a lime in it, verdad?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I didn't know until just now that Cape Cod = vodka + cranberry.

People should totally use those names more. It's classier.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, this whole Pluto's-not-a-planet-anymore thing is having considerable impact here at work today. Some editor just came into my cubicle and took away the article on Mercury so she could make corrections.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

From a Jack deJohnette interview:

JD: Yeah. And speaking of trios—this is another note, but in terms of people who don’t fit in a box, I just recently did a jazz recording with [pop singer/keyboardist] Bruce Hornsby; I think it’s his first jazz recording. It’s with [bassist] Christian Bride and myself. It hasn’t been titled yet, but a lot of people are going to be surprised by his approach. He’s taken on things like “Giant Steps,” “Un Poco Loco,” “Straight No Chaser,” “Solar,” just to name a few, and some original compositions. So that should come out at the end of year, or the beginning of next year. It was really fun, and Bruce is quite a creative guy—his knowledge and his musical taste go all over the place [laughing]. He comes to a lot of the Keith Jarrett concerts; he’s a big Keith fan. But we kept talking about doing something and we finally got in the studio and did it, and it’s fantastic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I bought some New Orleans records over lunch, got into a conversation with the clerk (who is from Baton Rouge), and he asked me to audition for his rock band...FLAM3 SH4RK!!

(I won't, but still, FLAM3 SH4RK!)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I said "can of pop" today without meaning to.

IT BEGINS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's okay, all you East Coasters still say "harrible," and I bet that'll be tougher to shake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

So that should come out at the end of year

No, it probably shouldn't. Not like Bruce Hornsby is the devil or anything, he's quite good at what he does, but I DO NOT want to hear his version of Giant Steps. Ever.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

At least I said "can of pop" and not "can of pahhhhhhp."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

i have lived in the chicago area since 1988, and i still don't say "pop". you can resist, jenny.

i don't understand "harrible"

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Harrible" makes me think of George Costanza.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

(I am a "soda" diehard)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Instead of "whore-ible" like how Chigaaaahhhgoans say it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

So was the Annie Lennox song 'Why', like, a big hit? 'Cause I don't know it, but this New Orleans all-star cd that I bought today has John Boutte covering it and it's really nice. I heard him sing it once before outside a restaurant in the French Quarter.

(the cd, which is called "Sing Me On Home" or something, is largely corny and throw-together otherwise. I got it because it has a brass band track and I'm a completist)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Instead of "whore-ible" like how Chigaaaahhhgoans say it.

Um, no. "Horrible" like "horrible," like there's a big fucking O in the middle of the word, not an A.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

The Annie Lennox song was probably a top 20 hit, but I don't think it was huge or anything. I'm going to guess it peaked at #13. I do like it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Huh, wikipedia says #34 in U.S. and #5 in the U.K. (like anyone cares what they think). I don't feel so bad for not knowing it now, but I wouldn't mind hearing the original.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I can send it to you later, Jordan. I put it on my Summer of '92 mix.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

That would be swell.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading a case that involves a baby named "J'America."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Jamerica is delicious, baby.

http://www.jamericarestaurant.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

New records I listened to today:

Bears - Bears
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
N0 Things - Trees

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i had a box of records waiting for me yesterday when i got home. i can't suggest the re-issue of the black lips "born to be a man"/"hippies" 7". goddamn it's good stuff.
also there was the "summertime" ep and "shake all night" lp from the fe fi fo fums, awesome budget rock in the same vein as the mummies.
i forget what the last 7" was. no wait, it was the touch me nots. i don't really dig it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

er, can't suggest it ENOUGH. because it's really f'ing awesome.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

How's the new d4rnielle? Pitchfork made it sound like the downer of the century.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

bears n' goats n' trees

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bears should have named their record Beers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

How's the new d4rnielle? Pitchfork made it sound like the downer of the century.

They're pretty much right. It's some sad bastard shit. The thing that really got me about it is there is only one (kinda) energetic nasally yelling "rockin" song on there, instead of the two or three or more on previous records. It's all the breathy down tempo stuff - not a bad thing, but a departure from the 10 or so other recordings of his I own. It really makes you think about breakups, or at least it did for me. We Shall All Be Healed remains my solid favorite.

The Bears record is pretty good, very orchestrated bouncy pop. N0 Things is a couple of ex-members of Liars plus one other guy, and sounds vaguely like a mix of Liars and McLusky.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Carl Wilson (very smart Toronto guy) made a good point earlier this year about the dichotomy between primitive bands (bear/wolf/goat) and yuppie bands (editors/architects/rogue traders/office).

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't listened to the new tMG to decide whether it's an actual downer or if it just obsessively signifies "downer". Mostly I keep repeating that lone uptempo song, which is a nice off kilter song.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to They Might Be Giants this morning.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

All the cool bands have initials that start with a T and are followed by an M. After that it's all gravy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 August 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

I had been telling myself that TMBG are underrated and are a better band than you might think based on their rep, but listening to Lincoln again, it wasn't as good as I remember. A lot of the lyrics were worse than I remembered. I'll still support them as really strong songwriters though, they've got a pretty uncanny handle on odd but catchy hooks.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ana Ng is pure brilliance. Flood is really goofy. I can't listen to that one anymore.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

Lincoln, Flood, and Apollo 18 were their peak. After they started playing with drummers and bassists and stuff they started to suck.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

TMBG: POO

I choose "We Want A Rock".

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Which is on Flood, so I guess I just contradicted myself. There's a lot of crap on that album too, though.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

I like their first children's album, too.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

"They'll Need a Crane," or "Narrow Your Eyes." They write good sad songs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

No, "Long Tall Weekend" is their peak. Or at least, it's their best album.

But they've never known which are the b sides and which aren't.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

I hate TMBG.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

i just got back from little miss sunshine and i think it was a very nice movie.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

I missed 2 days of Paxil because my backup was in my luggage which was in storage in a place I couldn't access until today. The past week has been really stressful, so it was a really bad time to miss 2 doses. Today was bad, buddy--real bad. Last night was worse*.

But never fear, for the Jesuits saved the day. I ran into Father Jim D. who is a LPN, a Paxil-taker and a swell guy, and he got my info and is going to call in a 1 month prescription in the morning!

*Possibly boring details of my night of psychotic sleep: Dreams that right wingers had taken over the US (ha ha) and Hillary Clinton was fighting them. She had somehow managed to get elected president and when I encountered her she was in a brawl with Bill because she wanted to remove the whiteface and let the US know that it had elected a black woman. Hillary's real name was Shaquanda.

Also I was a burn victim in part of my dream so I had to hold perfectly still which I did in reality, so when I woke up my ear was all bent and my arm was dead.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 25 August 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Woah, a friend of mine (ex-Digd0wn drummer) did the singing in this Coke commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp6FOyv6NVk

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 25 August 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

When I was 16, I visited NYC, and my cousin took me to the Ritz to see Fishbone...and the opener was...a guy with a guitar, a guy with an accordian, and a drum machine...TMBG...

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 25 August 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dreams that right wingers had taken over the US (ha ha)

when i read this, before i got to the hillary clinton part, my first thought was "brett hull and cam neely took over the us?"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

For a while there, TMBG was the most expensive concert I had ever been to ($25!).

I am working from home today, hi.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I never had a TMBG phase, and I think it's too late now.

I was listening to my friend's band's record the other day and it sounded like they have some TMBG influence, but I'm probably wrong.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think if you didn't have your TMBG before you turned 16, there's just no understanding the appeal.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)