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Even if it's no longer force-fed for rich people's pleasure.

http://static.flickr.com/49/136015748_b6717b14ab.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, we're back!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

tap tap tap

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

So cute! I had to carry a plush goose at this medieval fest last weekend, carry it in a procession and make the head move by means of this hidden that ran up the neck...and GROWN MEN AND WOMEN came up to me and asked whether it was real. I worry about the future of humankind.

Also, for the rest of the day I overheard people referring to me as "the goosegirl". Brush up on fairy tales, pls!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

*hidden STICK

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps they doubted your status as "Mother."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Legislating what the People can eat vs. Legislating what the People can be paid

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Considering that in my stupid costume I look about 16? Possibly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Reading about the Assiniboine tribe of Native Americans always makes me think of:

http://picci.way-nifty.com/someone/images/cinnabon.JPG

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Yeah, let's talk about that. Daley: right, wrong, or just jockeying for political position?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

One of the best decisions I've made in the last few weeks: Stealing several cinnamon buns and some fruit from the wedding reception I went to that was held at Ann Sather's. Good for breakfast the next morning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Laurel, your costume is v.v. cute. "Stupid" is hardly the word I would use. I would love to have the occasion to wear a costume at all, but to wear one that is so cute would bring me unparalleled joy. !!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, your costume is v.v. cute.

Pic plz?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say, "Assiniboine" always makes me think of other sound-alike phrases, although I've usually seen it in "Assiniboia".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Uh oh, Daley and perving killed thread. Or maybe lunch did it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

If drooling over cinnamon buns makes me a perv, then so be it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dayyyymn! I'd like to frost *that* bun, if you know what I'm sayin'.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mostly we look like this:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/lynnette_044.jpg

I have a jpg of the other costume somewhere but suddenly I can't get into my flickr account. If your account is inactive for a while, do they delete your files??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think so but i wouldn't know AS THEY STARTED BLOCKING FLICKR AT WORK YESTERDAY!!! fuckers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

lynette has some serious calves. is it wrong that i find that attractive?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I've seen a photo in Laurel in the get-up. For some reason I thought there was a new photo that Amanda was referring to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

goddamnit, the sky outside this window is turning grey again. some of these clouds look like they could be rain-bearing. i guess 2 1/2 hours of blue sky after 7 days of rain is all i get.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Those are highland calves, Otto. All the better for jumping with.

John, I don't think there are any pictures of me online, but of someone else in a different outfit...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

"hi, my name is otto and i'm a capricorn. i enjoy live music, walks on the beach and highland calves. my favorite color color is blue and my favorite bird is the duck."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I guess you're right.

http://static.flickr.com/29/48995003_62b1c5d4e5.jpg?v=0

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, uh, FYI, that's not me. And for the last week along with my highland calves I have had highland shin splints. :((

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

"hi, my name is otto and i'm a capricorn. my turn ons include live music, walks on the beach and highland calves. my turnoffs include highland shin splints, splinters, and sprinters."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

i think i need to go to lunch or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

* Isn't the Summer Lovin' song melody a direct ripoff of Shai's "If I ever Fall in Love Again," just not as good?

I'm not sure, because I haven't gotten to the last three songs yet. I pretty much start the cd over after the Black Eyed Peas tune.

* Does he really have a crack smoking problem?

No, Bob does.

* Is it any coincidence that TIMBERLAKE is working with TIMBERLAND?

No. It's Timbaland btw, and I thought that JT should change it to Justin Timbalake for this record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I went home for lunch, made a veggie burger, and while it was cooking I ONCE AGAIN gorged on straight cheese. Seriously, I can't be trusted alone with a block and a slicer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

did i ever tell you about the time about 2 months ago when all i had to eat in my apartment was cheese? i ate nothing but cheese for a weekend, i felt like i was pregnant. with a cheese baby.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I went home for lunch, made a veggie burger, and while it was cooking I ONCE AGAIN gorged on straight cheese. Seriously, I can't be trusted alone with a block and a slicer.

Yeah, this basically happens to me any time I make a sandwich. I made a veggie burger the other night, and I had just a little hunk of provolone left after topping the burger, and I was like, fuck it, I'm making nachos.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

A student just complained about the smell of cheese in my office. SORRY I ENJOY THE LASAGNA.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

damn, i'd kill (or at least maim) for some lasagna right now. it doesn't even have to be very good lasagna.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Who's Bob?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

hi bob.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/262639~Bob-Newhart-Posters.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

ew, is that from a wax museum?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Bob is Justin Timbalake's crackhead persona. He works at a job.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Huh?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hi my name is Bob and I work at my job
I make forty-some dollars a day
I used to be the man in my hometown
'til I started to lose my way
It all goes back to when I dropped out at school
Having fun, I was living the life
But now I got a problem with that little white rock
See I can't put down the pipe

And...

And it's breaking me down
Watching the world spin round
While my dreams fall down
Is anybody out there?

It is breaking me down
No more friend around...
And my dreams fall down...
Is anybody out there?

Can anybody out there hear me?
'Cause I can't seem to hear myself
Can anybody out there see me?
'Cause I can't seem to see myself...
There's gotta be a heaven somewhere
Can you save me from this hell?
Can anybody out there feel me?
'Cause I can't seem to feel myself

Losing my way
Keep losing my way...
Keep losing my way...
Can you help me find my way?
Losing my way
Keep losing my way
Keep losing my way...
Can you help me find my way?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is that his "The River" or what?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Except there was no white rock in "The River", just workin' and disappointment.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

why doesn't amazon have pictures of the ernie ball guitar strings? or perhaps somewhere in the product description they could note what gauge the strings are? i guess i'll have to find something else to buy to get free shipping on my book because i'm not buying strings from them. THUMBS DOWN AMAZON.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

and THUMBS DOWN TO YOU TOO JUSTIN TIMBALAKE for rhyming down with down.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

you get the ozzy osbourne "war pigs" award.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is "The River" by Broooooce?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

yiz

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, how does craigslist, uh, work? I've looked at it for amusement but never actually used it, and soon I will need to pick up and sell some household objects.

Do I just respond from my regular e-mail? And if I post an ad, do responses get forwarded from the fake craigslist addy to my e-mail or do you have to log-in to the site to check?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry for being dumb)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am excited for drinks and seeing youse people.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Do I just respond from my regular e-mail? And if I post an ad, do responses get forwarded from the fake craigslist addy to my e-mail or do you have to log-in to the site to check?

1. Yes.

2. Responses get forwarded from the fake addy to your e-mail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, yes, they get forwarded to your regular email.
jenny, yes, i wish i had drinks right now. my day has taken a sudden nose dive, not unlike a bowling ball off a kitchen table.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

My day is going okay; I'm just tired of school/work responsibility and want to have a little bit o' fun.

I'm trying something new today and paying attention in Business Organizations because the professor is young and cute and nerdy and I feel kind of bad for him because he's boring as milk and nobody pays attention.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yours too? Mine suddenly got shitty a few hours ago. Then worse at lunch. Now I'm just unworkable.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

paying attention in Business Organizations

Biz Org or Big Snore?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

This comment got timed out from this morning:

"Someone tell me I'm competent, please. I'm having a rough week."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't have much to do this morning so i planned out my day, paced it so that i would have SOMETHING to do all day. then about an hour and half or two hours ago i was tasked with 3 projects that are due today that are way too time intensive for any one of them to get done. tasked by 3 different people mind you. just because there's an upper management meeting tomorrow my day gets blown to hell. POOR PLANNING ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MINE, OK??!?!?

i may be late for drinks tonight. right now i'm going to go outside, smoke a cigarette, then plow though energy usage data for the past 3 fiscal years. f me in the a.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc do you work at a textbook publishing place in evanston?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I used to. Why?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a reasonable couch to own?

http://c.im.craigslist.org/LF/Pb/hWcRg45Cx7khJIULbPQ84dbUKVAt.jpg

I guess it looks kind of...hard.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

it doesn't look very comfy.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i got myspaced by a girl i went to HS with, and i found out she works at a textbook publishing place in evanston. white girl named gwen. i think she's christian. know her?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, are you getting it for free?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

No, but it's cheap ($150 for the couch plus a coffeetable and an end table).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know her, Phil, but I haven't worked there in two years, and there's lots of turnover, so it's possible she's new there. Also there are a couple of textbook places in Evanston -- the place I worked at is just a development firm, but there's also a publisher called McDougal-Littell.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh well, ok.

also, in case anyone was wondering from a few threads ago, i cancelled the reservations at spring, and ended up going to NoMi, at the Park Hyatt downtown. it was really nice. they took the foie gras off the menu, so i got the veal instead. delicious! the spicy watermelon soup was also pretty yummy.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Snoooooooooooooze Orgsssssssssss

That was a nice idea, but it didn't last long. I was doing okay and then suddenly there was some algebra and I checked out. I think this prof needs to employ puppets or something to keep my attention.

Whoa. Spicy watermelon soup sounds fucking awesome.

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

Agreed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am excited for drinks and seeing youse people.

My nipples explode with delight!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

haha Sarah's post, which I'm sure she made hours ago, just popped up on the other Chicago thread.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

The 0ptimistic has our first show tonight. I'm wearing my indie rockingist shirt!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cd4sale.it/files/thumbnails/t_24408.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

one task down, 2 to go. actually one to go since the dude who assigned me number 3 left for the day anyway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

or this one:

http://www.soniav.com/images/irs_tshirt1.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Who is gonna help me and Kr keep up with Lost for the six-episode mini-season? I've got band practice and she's got Spanish class. I guess we could just keep downloading them -- I just thought it'd be nice to watch the show on TV again. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Your tv doesn't love you like your computer does.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and I have just been watching season 2 on dvd. We have one episode left on disc 5 and then all of disc 6. What's the mini-season??

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am ready for the drinking.

Once again, my office has doors with tinted glass, which means people walking down the street tend to stop, muss with their hair, and then put their faces up really close to the glass to peer in.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, John, Jeff and I could leverage our DVR technology to your benefit. When does the season start? What night does it come on?

We probably shouldn't have you over until we have the couch. Jeff and I can cuddle on the papazan cushion, but all four of us would be kind of a tight fit.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

The mini-season is just the next season, but there are several (6?) episodes, then a break of like a month or two, then more episodes.

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

Oh and:

John, you are totally competent.

Jordan, that looks like a couch my old roommate had. It was serviceable and more comfortable than it looked but not totally awesome.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I would nix that couch. It's too much like something from a dorm lounge, except recovered in a nicer fabric. You have time to find a couch. If you dream it, it will come. Just check craigslist all the time. Also, try visiting a couple of thrift stores.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/photos/2004-04-05/sofa.jpg

Mmmm. Now there's a sofa you can get fat on.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

It comes with a free cat!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Once again, my office has doors with tinted glass, which means people walking down the street tend to stop, muss with their hair, and then put their faces up really close to the glass to peer in.

That would be awesome.

I think you guys are right about the couch. I can do better (though I will need a coffee table and/or end table too, and a tv stand, and a tv, etc.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

("Couch" or "sofa"? What do we prefer in these parts?)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Note: This is very ugly - http://madison.craigslist.org/fur/207144253.html

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and I have just been watching season 2 on dvd. We have one episode left on disc 5 and then all of disc 6.

If I had known that Season 2 was going to be out on DVD a month before the start of Season 3, I don't know that I would've spent $45 downloading episodes from iTunes. (I had heard that the DVD was going to come out the DAY BEFORE the new season started.) Oh well, maybe I still would have.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

How do we feel about divans, davenports, and chesterfields?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

D-a-v-e-n-p
o-r-t
spells Davenport.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a settee man myself.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's the only decent kind of love seat.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

This is very ugly

Haha, that is one of the few other postings I clicked on. Not only is it ugly, I cannot imagine having room for it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also a fan of daybeds, tete-a-tetes, and squabs.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

(I cheated on that last one. I have never heard of a sofa being called a "squab". Sounds like something teh Aussies made up.)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Swedes, according to Webster's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

that thing may be ugly but it comes with an ottoman. i have an ottoman that is the length of my sofa, it's useful for stretching your legs when you don't feel like laying down but very problematic when trying to make out on the couch.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever heard an ottoman called a "hassock"?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

no. sounds like a term only a bolshevik would use.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

The drinking is happening... soon?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

NOT SOON ENOUGH.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

SRLSY

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm gonna bring beer to band practice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

But... soon?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

best way to get there from the blue line would be what, off at clark and lake then walk down lake? maybe switch to the green or orange line and get off at randolph & wabash? no, that's stupid, it's only like two stops. walking. i'm walking.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to start drinking in about two minutes and stop when I fell asleep...but alas, I'm stuck at office doing STUFF and have to be sober for practice at 8.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I believe the first attendees will either get there at 4:30 or are getting off work at 4:30 and arriving shortly thereafter.

xp - the clark and lake (brown, purple... maybe orange and green?) stop is three blocks west. State and Lake red line stop is a few blocks north and three blocks west. I dunno about no stinking blue line.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

if it's practice you could conceivably get away with saying you are practicing for any contingency, up to and including being drunk when you actually have to perform.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

off at clark and lake then walk down lake?

Precisely. It's like a 7-minute walk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, sure, after I've looked it up, now you tell me how to get there from the blue line.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am usually, actually, hungover when I perform. People seem to insist on holding events on Saturday & Sunday afternoons, I have no idea why.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

If all goes according to plan I'll be catching the 4:41 train up to the Loop, and will be at the bar shortly thereafter. If all does not go according to plan I may have to wait for the 5:07 or (god help me) the 5:39 train. All that will really mean besides making me late is I will want to drink more.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

i just tore a callous on my thumb open and now it stings like the dickens i tell you. LIKE THE DICKENS!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

You callous fool.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry your dickens stings.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

i will be trying to catch the 4:41 blue line out of forest park but my bus only rarely goes from here to there in 11 minutes. it usually requires making all the lights and not having to stop to pick up anyone on roosevelt. more likely i'll take the next train out and alight the blue line around 5:15 or 5:20. couple that with john's 7 minute walk figure and i'll be there around 5:22 or 5:27. i will have a drink in hand by 5:26 to 5:31 and should have drink in gullett by 5:40.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry your dickens stings.

then you can imagine how i feel about it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus christ, Maddie took these pictures of a spider throwdown in front of our garage this morning:

http://static.flickr.com/80/243232502_fcce72e135.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/94/243232506_92bc11b134.jpg?v=0

When it comes to being a spider, the big one is not messing around.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

How do you know they're not mating?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I suggested, actually. I wonder if the one on the right could be a pregnant female?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe that little spider is just a chubby chaser.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Fat-abdomened spiders make the rockin' world go round.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

That web is really pretty. I much prefer those to the somewhat invisible random strands I walk through sometimes.

I was the first one in the office this morning. I made the coffee. I was in a good mood, because I had a pumpkin spice latte. I will now consume a slice of lemon pound cake.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

That's a quality morning, Sarah. I'm trying to be in a good mood, today -- starting out by wearing very tall shoes just for the hell of it, even though it's raining and gross AGAIN. But there are Veronica Mars DVDs coming to me today and maybe some delicious dinner takee-outey style.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I woke up at a reasonable hour today! Yay!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

King Lear (set, stylistically, in the Balkans in the early 1990s) was really good but ended past 10:30, then 11:30 with a post-show discussion, and I didn't think to see if you guys were still there then.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

i got drunk and talked about law with jenny. Yay!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

E., we weren't.

Jenny talks a good law.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

I know! I wish I had a tape recorder so I could remember all she said. Or all I said. Or anything about it at all.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

The show last night was awesome, but I am oh so tired this morning.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

K, you should carry a little reporter's notepad, or maybe a moleskine, and take notes.

I have been invited to a party/fundraiser with/for Oregon's ho-hum governor. It sounds like a terrible party but I've never really been to such a fundraiser before. Plus there are like two people who are going to be there who I enjoy hanging out with and don't see often. And a bunch of enviro dweebs otherwise. Should I go?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well apparently tMG are playing here tomorrow, but they are sold out. Dang.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, are you still interested in the Polish buffet tonight? It's cool if you're not -- I was just about to send out an e-mail to everyone with directions, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

john, i just sent you a google voicemail. Just because I can.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

waht

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I heard there's this new thing in gmail where you can see what song/artist your contacts are listening to? I think I'll pass on that, thx.

PS Chris -- fundraisers are the boringest. DON'T GO.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I heard there's this new thing in gmail where you can see what song/artist your contacts are listening to? I think I'll pass on that, thx.

Renee has that set up somehow. It's like Last.fm within your Gmail. Although she says it's not Gmail, it's ... whatever the universal IM'ing thing is ... and it just does it automatically whenever she listens to iTunes, without needing to download special software like iScrobbler.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

whatever the universal IM'ing thing is

iChat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff Pezzati was in Big Black? Huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

?? I don't get that, but I wanted to tell you that I heard that there was a "C_n_skta" clip on youtube from local Cleveland news and I watched it and I was amused.

"How do you pronounce your name?" Idiot local news anchors can't read a typo. HAHA. Also the "they could be the next Police" bit was amusing. And the zoom straight to jaymc! Oh Cleveland, so much to answer for.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Who's Jeff Pezzati? (A: the guy in Big Black I guess)

Ian's was too packed after the gig last night, so I had a hot dawg instead. I was very proud of Madison for having a hot dog stand operating at 2 am.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Next Police - I like that!

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/156478214X.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Next Police

Great band name.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously - you can say "well, we're kind of an indie pop band like the 1900s and Pit Er Pat" or you can say "WE'RE THE NEXT POLICE".

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

My plan is to keep the Touch & Go Festival thread alive by periodically saying "Jeff Pezzati was in Big Black? Huh" every couple days or so.

I first heard of Jeff Pezzati when his record label put out Gr33n's most recent album. (Gr33n = the legendary Chicago power-pop band I played a few shows with in the summer of 2001.) The whole deal was, "Isn't it funny that Pezzati is putting these guys out?" "Who's Pezzati?" "Oh, he's the dude from Naked Raygun. He has a new band out now, too, called The Bomb."

So I mean Naked Raygun was pretty important in the Chicago punk scene, certainly, but I'm just surprised that I've known about the dude for five years -- I even saw The Bomb at the Beat Kitchen once -- and had no idea this entire time that he was in Big Black.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

or you can say "WE'RE THE NEXT POLICE".

http://www.the-changes.com/

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

That joke sure requires a lot of backstory.

I liked when Dave Kendall used to say RAYGUN...NAKED RAYGUN on 120 Min. I had no clue what he was talking about.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I remembered that the worst part of being in a rock band is the reliance on a sound guy.

We played just fine, but apparently the lead vocals were unintelligible and the harmony vocals were at least 2x as loud, and the same goes for rhythm/lead guitar. And the dude mic'ed my snare and apparently pushed it way up in the mix, even though it would have been the loudest thing in the room without a mic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

That bastard.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin Seal was more my speed on 120 mins. I thought that Dave Kendall was Kevin Seal in silhouette, like a parody.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

And I hate it when people bitch about sound guys! It's just so much nicer to be able to control your sound acoustically (i.e., in the brass band world, if you're too quiet, then PLAY LOUDER).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'll shut up now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

That joke sure requires a lot of backstory.

Yeah, but there's a lot of Alb|n| fanboys over there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Gr33n is almost as funny as 0ffic3.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, send me the info, I might just make it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't have googleproofed Green if it wasn't in the same sentence as P3zz@ti.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I feel lightheaded.

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

Did you break fast??

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should put a hat on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I had granola this morning before leaving the house.

I just ate a banana and made a cup of tea to see if that helps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

How come there is a new Chicago thread and I am just finding out?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, dude, you're always the last to catch on, it seems. I usually load up New Answers and post to the one closest to the top. Maybe you've got each thread bookmarked or something.

Anyway, we started a new one because the old one wasn't letting us post on it yesterday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I often miss the Chicago one unless it shows up as a been-there color.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

DEAR CHICAGO,

YOU KNOW HOW YOU MISS ME? WELL, I MISS YOU TOO. I AM WONDERING JUST HOW LONG WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FEEL THESE FEELINGS OF ESTRANGEMENT? I was hoping to return October 1, but now I wonder...............................

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

You wonder what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I had too much to drink on an empty stomach last night. I got home and almost puked. Chris, did I seem overly drunk on the train or anything?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just don't know when I get to come home! And what I'll do once I return.

I am applying for a job at my current organization, but they are probably not going to hire for that position until they hire the head of the department, which has been something they've been trying to do for a while.

I can't stand it down here. One bit of advice I've gotten from numerous very seperate people is "You have to get out of New Orleans at least once a month for 2 or 3 days in order to be able to tolerate living here." That is 100% true, especially in my particular case.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, did I miss the reason why you're in town?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get that, but I wanted to tell you that I heard that there was a "C_n_skta" clip on youtube from local Cleveland news and I watched it and I was amused.

Link please.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Nevermind.

Self-sufficiency.

I don't get that, but I wanted to tell you that I heard that there was a "C_n_skta" clip on youtube from local Cleveland news and I watched it and I was amused.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck. I Ctrl-C'ed the URL....

OK. Here you go.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wj_kBpysbGE

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I had that grilled cheese and fries BEFORE drinking to calm my belly.

Anyway, this one coworker, let's call her Shorty, is the least liked in the office in general, but not by me. People are just plain mean to her. She was my fellow reject the other day when the entire office went out to eat lunch together. Anyway, today she called from the jobsite and offered to bring me back a potbelly sandwhich. That's too much information. Basically, we ate lunch with other coworkers (who all got food together from Panera) and then Shorty left back to the jobsite. Once she's gone, I'm left with a Head Honcho, Preggers Willquitsoon, and Bitcherina. I find out that Head Honcho warned both of them about being nicer to Shorty. Preggers says she has an excellend fakey smile she puts on whenever she asks Shorty to do something. It makes my skin crawl, because she uses that fakey thing on me ALL THE TIME, when I had been wondering what was going on because I didn't think she liked me and then she started acting so nice all of a sudden... so, there you go.

That story was pretty uneventful, sorry.

It's FridaY!!!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

How do you feel about Shorty?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

And while you think about that, allow me more bitch-time.

I can't wait to get back to Chicago! NO is sucking the life out of me. I am sad literally all the time (well, 90%). Not crying or anything, but there's just always a low-grade sadness that always feels like there's something heavy on my chest, like a mild constriction of my breathing. I'm really lonely because I have no co-workers, no office-mates to go out with after work (I'm usually the only person in the whole building!)and not really any friends. My roommates are great, but they're always busy. Meetings, food and errands distract me, but I can always feel it, even in my sleep where my dreams have increased in quantity, tediousness and detail to the point of being just like consciousness.

I've been depressed since my earliest memories anyway, and so this is not easy for me to handle.

BOO HOO HOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard the same thing about getting out of New Orleans, Jesse. Maybe you could at least drive up to Baton Rouge and, uh, go to the Ragin' Cajun waterpark?

Also, if anyone's interested here's a clip from my rock band's first show last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rol1QS_t5wk

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for asking, jesse. I like her just fine, but I understand why people get aggravated with her. I didn't like her for about a month because she didn't help prepare for the move or move or unpack. Everyone in the office pitched in, but she was nowhere to be seen. She took some time off during the unpacking period. Then when she was actually in the office, she was sitting at her new desk shopping online or going off to the "jobsite" to shop in person or buy drugs. Meanwhile, I was exhausted from moving large boxes, rolling up dusty plans, finding places for old computer monitors, etc etc. At that point, I wanted to punch her. Also, she eats other people's food ALL THE TIME, often without asking. But most of the time, she's ok.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Would you choose to be her friend (or even work friend) if you weren't thrown together by your nasty office situation?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/index.php

"You sure know you're music Chuck! The Police! Really cutting-edge familiarity of the scene."

Way to do your research fishbag.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I am desperately trying to book appointments in Baton Rouge. One guy was trying to set up a meeting with me when he came down to NO, but I lied and said I would be in Baton Rouge, so we could just meet there. Here's hoping that comes through. Maybe I could fake car trouble and get work to put me up in a hotel. Hmmmmm.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

ATTENTION

SOMEONE YSI ME
WOLF PARADE
TODAY.

THANKS

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am in Chicago because it is a place to be halfway between Toronto, where I was, and Portland, where I will be. I am in Chicago because I have some time to be not in Portland in between semesters. I am in Chicago because I have a place to stay here and people I enjoy hanging out with and it is somewhere other than home. I like home, but it's good to get out of one's headspace every so often, so to speak.

Dan, you didn't seem all that drunk, but the empty stomach thing, yeah, I bet that was a problem.

I can't believe how little I ate yesterday.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Baton Rouge Booty Call?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, the answer is... probably not. She's a fun, harmless pothead with a husband in a band, BUT she is also a total sorority girl.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah: I don't understand why my coworkers don't like me.
me: it's weird.
Sarah: Am I not LIkEABLE? WTF?!
me: you're delightful
Sarah: Thank you
me: unless maybe you're totally different at work
unless you're a "cunt" at work
are you a "cunt" at work?
Sarah: Hmm...
Only literally

permission to post this to ilx
Sent at 1:59 PM on Friday
Sarah: fine
I mean.. permission GRANTED

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had a BRBC. That is just the sort of weekend I need to get me out of this funk.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I had two Diet A&W rootbeers at lunch. I would have preferred an IBCRB.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

IBC is the shit.

On the other hand, IBS is the shits.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of geese, I want to get plans going for a CHICAGO THANKSGIVING DINNER. Who will be around? I want to try my hand at my family's sweet potato casserole.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah: I can never remember people's names
which is bad considering my job titel
title

me: i was just talking about someone today about this issue
what's your title?

Sarah: RECEPTIONIST
I'm always like, "Your APPOINTMENT is here to see you"
"You have a VISITOR"
"SOMEONE is up front for you"

me: i do a lot of outreach with a lot of meetings with people who have names
it's embarrassing

Sarah: Sometimes I can remember what company someone works for
Or I'll just mumble what they told me to the person they are coming to meet so that it sounds about the same
because I didn't ask them to repeat it (or I did and still didn't catch it)
WALLASAAHAHAH wtih OMMMBARRRTTT is here to see you

me: it's terrible when i am being all smiley bright and enthusiastic, gland-handing people and i say "OMFG I'M JESS IT'S SO NICE TO MEET YOU!" and they say, "we met yesterday at another meeting."
wait.
wait just one minute.
I NEVER gland-hand people.

Sarah: I bet you do!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I drank too much last night.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Pen and post-its. Write everyone's name down as soon as they say it. That was what I did when I was a receptionist.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

How was the after-bar bar?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Good one jmz

xposts: Yes, do tell. Did the Holiday Club go down in flames?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Who went to the Holiday Club?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse I do not have WOLF PARADE. A friend burned it for me a few months ago but I have no idea where it is now. Also I DID NOT LIKE IT VERY MUCH. SORRY.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite Gulf Coast acronyms thus far

GN0DRP "No-drip" (Greater N.O. Disaster Relief Partnership)
WEROC "We rock" (Washington Emergency Rec0very 0ngoing Cadre)
MR-GO "Mister Go" (Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet)

xpost, Jordan, you suck. For NOT LIKING IT VERY MUCH.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I SAID I WAS SORRY

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Wolf Parade sounded like watered-down Modest Mouse the one time I heard it. I think Kenan is a fan, though.

http://www.plan59.com/images/JPGs/meat47hands01.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

he YSIed me one album, but not the one i wanted. i probably didn't say that i want they're self-titled one.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Don't they only have one album??

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.plan59.com/images/JPGs/puffin56.jpg

Atkins day dream

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

No. Their first is eponymous, their 2nd is called Apologies to Queen Mary. They also have an EP.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia says they have three eponymous EPs, and Apologies to Queen Mary is their debut full-length.

On each EP there are two songs that aren't on the full-length, so you're missing a grand total of SIX songs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I love Ephemeranow.com.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh.
ephemeranow = plan59

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

good morning chicago. how is it possible that i woke up with only one cigarette? didn't kenan run out to buy me smokes at like 8 pm?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

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― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

8pm? That still gives you at least 6 hours to smoke 'em. What time to bars close in Chicago?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

thewaywelikeit.com

"APPETITE CURBING LIP SERUM."

Wow.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

there is no official last call in chicago though liquor licenses allow bars to serve until 2 am or 4 am hence the oft asked question "is this a 2 o'clock bar or a 4 o'clock bar?". i drank for 9 hours yesterday. i never did get around to ordering any food. and once again, after a night of boozing keri tabbed me out at $12. that girl is golden.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

there is a helicopter landing about 100 yards from me right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'll be.... I guess that was the album I wanted.

I think I'm going to go to a coffee shop and try to work, otherwise I'm going to freak the fuck out and cry at my desk or something. Which I could actually do, and loudly, and it would make no difference.

All I am listening to is The Smiths, Arcade Fire and Xiu Xiu, and I'm wondering if I should force myself to listen to something else.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.out.com/images/0/music_GayClassic_Nuevo_big.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, fer chrissake, can't you take 3 days off?? Get out of Dodge. Come to NY. You know you have to take a break from the atmosphere and the destruction and the losses...stop dilly-dallying about it!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Since I am probably leaving NO in 3 weeks I don't think I can take time off. It's sort of hot-and-heavy here with the meetings and stuff. But if I did take time off I can't afford to go out of town. Things are a little tight for the next few weeks, what with my tax bill.

A latte is do-able however.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I bet you could have a drink at Cooter Brown's with some of the New Orleans ILXers, Adam and them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Nick or Sarah, any idea if this address is near your place at all? 2649 W. Walton St

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty close.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I mean: maybe a half-mile one way, a half-mile another way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent, thanks (that's where my friend Scott is at).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

My debit card is arriving via Fed-Ex tomorrow, then I may go out for drinks. Who are the NO ILXers? I made a post earlier in the summer, but didn't get much response. Perhaps it's worth another try.

I'm considering something kind of terrible: going to church to meet people. The pastor of the local Unitarian church suggested I visit this Sunday. What has my life come to?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Playing John's album-art-association game:

http://www.highllamas.com/discography/buzzle_bee.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

My mother tells me that all the time, Jesse: no wonder I don't meet any nice young men, I haven't settled myself into a church community. Every time I get blue or lonely, again it comes up. In the city, though, it's really not a necessity. In a place that operates like a small town? Sure, I'm sure it would help plug you into a LOT of things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, Eric. I don't have that album. As much as I like the High Llamas, they're one of those bands where you probably don't need to own more than two albums by. (I have four.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my plan for the evening, I'm very excited about it:

5:30 - nap

7:00 - gym

8:00 - make dinner

8:30 - video games or maybe a movie

11:00 - meet high school friend and her boyfriend for beerz

xpost, Jesse, don't give in, there are better ways

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

It kind of makes sense for me to be going to churches (not necessarily to be going to church--think about it) considering my line of work. But I don't really want to go to church. I suppose if there's one I should go to, it's the Uni-flaky-tarians.

You know what's kind of weird? This summer has caused me to re-assess what I look for in a potential man-partner. I think I might do well to not rule out a guy with an active church/spiritual life, which I always have in the past. Not that I'm meeting any men, but I have always thougth that I could only be with an atheist or agnostic.

xpost to EZ I don't get that one. Well maybe I do. Not sure.

Can I tell you that I have sort of the same reaction to posting album art as I (used to) do to the posting of lyrics? Except more-so.

&mdash

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

My plan:

5:30 Leave work
6:15 Drink beerz at Bristol Lounge
7:00 Eat Polish buffet at Red Apple
8:30 Accompany Kr to look at some furniture a friend is selling
9:00 Drink more beerz? (Contingent on whether Kr can find her wallet, which contains her ID, which went missing sometime today.)

Posting album art is way better than posting lyrics. PROPER.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

It would be kind of exciting to meet a guy at church. That would sort of reconcile some unresolved emotional business I have regarding religion.

PROMISE ME YOU'LL STILL LOVE ME IF I FIND JESUS! (of course i'll start by looking under the couch and in the freezer. and in a christian man's pants. if i were christ, i would definitely hide in a christian man's pants.)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

There's an editorial manager here whom I've always found fascinating -- he's in a position of authority, but he looks kinda young/hipsterish: pretty skinny, always wears jeans and sneakers, Jewishly handsome, with charming silver flecks at his temples. Now he's talking about college football with one of the new editors, and it lessens the crush a bit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

fuck this shithole! I'm off to work at Marigny Perks in The Faubourg Marigny! (Somehow I always wind up working late only on Fridays.)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

If he were gay and talkng about college football that would deepen my crush a lot.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess you're right, Jesse. To me, it just indicates that he's probably not gay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jewishly handsome

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/05/SachaBaronCohenPA_228x395.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

While there are obviously good-looking Jews out there, I think I have low Jew esteem. I don't usually find obvious Jewishness to be especially handsome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

See, if you'd said Israeli handsome, I could get on board. Not sure what "Jewishly" is supposed to connote.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

My Jewdar is pretty good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

For ex., not Jewish: http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2005/12/22/munich-other.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_imagearticle395.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel -- I could go with "Israelishly handsome" for this dude. He has a Jewish surname.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent. I'm with you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I likee the semitic gurls.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Eastern European: also a plus.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.playhousemerced.com/images/posters/annpostersmall.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.voorbeginners.info/israel/time-golda-meir.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't usually find obvious Jewishness to be especially handsome.

No, but I love it in therapists and financial advisors.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Anne Frank: I'd hit it.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think we've talked about the hawtness of Sarah Silverman before.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh, plz do not get me started

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah Silverman:

http://www.jossip.com/gossip/200511-heebsilverman.jpg

Fred Silverman"

http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/whos-who/silverman-fred.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

The Israeli jailbait who was in my lower bunk at the Toronto hostel: Rrrowr.

The guy I went on a date with shortly before my vacationing expidition described himself in a personal ad as "Jewish looking", which is more or less accurate (and not a bad thing).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Man I love that Heeb cover.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not generally so inclined, but I would make babies with Sarah Silverman, given the chance.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

But you can't.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

What are you talking about? I'm the reproduction center!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/T-Vasectomy.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

ok, there's that.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Best Johnny Socko song ever.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't make it technically impossible, just far less fun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Sarah Silverman is a hot Jew.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

It does make it technically impossible, and far more fun.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

At least as a performer and in interviews, S. Silverman never lets down her defenses enough to be attractive to me.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan's kind of a hot Jew too.

So I had my emotional crash and now I'm better, but I decided that maybe I would 86 The Smiths for the rest of the day. So on my ride to the coffee shop I ejected The Queen is Dead. A few minutes later I walk into the coffee shop and LO! what is playing? Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now. They have the fucking Smiths on shuffle. I love Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others though.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Because it's so true.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeh, and remember this? I can't wait to get back to Chicago! NO is sucking the life out of me. Well on the drive over I got the phone call I've been dreadspecting and I have been asked if I could stay on any longer. I said till late October, then I really really have to get home. Then I cried in the car. Then I felt a lot better. Then I scratched my armpit and farted.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

PROMISE ME YOU'LL STILL LOVE ME IF I FIND JESUS!

I cannot make that promise. You've been warned.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, if you're staying through October, you have to take a vacay. Think of something.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have been thinking about this.

I would have to go back to Chicago to take care of some pressing matters, that's one trip. Then I HAVE TO visit my parents in the next month as I was supposed to have done this in June.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

You know what would be awesome? If I was in a glam rock band called ... THE DUCHESS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Man, that is such a bitchin' band name.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Or The Courtesans? Or how about Courtesan Chic.

Perhaps a bar name: The Shabby Courtesan.

Or an STD clinic: Cortisone for Courtesans.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

(does cortisone treat any STDs?)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Rx for Rakes

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

No ... THE DUCHESS.

OK, we just finished season 2 of Lost and I recant somewhat on my "I prefer Battlestar Galactica to Lost" stance. Season 2 was more satisfying than I expected, lots more mystery stuff revealed. I just assumed they were going to leak out a few details every couple of episodes to keep people watching, but there was some good WTFness going on. So I think Lost and BG are about even for me right now. My main problem with Lost is that most of the major characters are pretty annoying.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560233745.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 16 September 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

I knew you'd come around, Nick, but I didn't want to say anything that would give anything away.

I am drunk and wondering why I can't even talk to gurlz that come over (uninvited!) and sit down at my table.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 16 September 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

I finally feel better from Thursday. Somebody here is too old to drink that much!

Hmmm, Dan, that's puzzling. You can talk to bros and unavailable women pretty well. Maybe you should pretend they're married and just being nice.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I finally feel better from Thursday. Somebody here is too old to drink that much!

i second that on both counts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 16 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

My friday was pretty much wasted. ALthought I did try some hair of the dog after work. Worked at least until I went to bed.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 16 September 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't quite make it into work on friday. that may have had something to do with the fact that i satyed at the bar 3 hours after you guys left. i have a crush on the bartender.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Differences between Squash and Racquetball:

Ball: squash ball is softer, slower and smaller, colored black, around the size of a golf ball.

Racquets: squash racquets are longer and narrower.

Court: squash 32 ft long x 21 ft. wide; racquetball 40 ft long x 20 ft wide.

Lines: squash has out lines at the top of the court and a line 19 inches high above the floor on the front wall. If the ball hits on or above the lines on top or below the one on the front wall (called hitting the "tin") then it is out. In racquetball the ball may hit the ceiling, but not in squash, else it is out.

Interference Rules: in squash you must give your opponent the freedom to hit the entire front directly. In racquetball you must give your opponent the freedom to hit only a portion of the front wall.
Scoring: squash games go to 9 points, 11 in the Pros. Racquetball is scored to 15 points.

Service: squash serve must be hit from either the right box or left box on the floor to the opposite box, then vice-versa if you win the point you served. It must go above the line that is 6 ft. high on the front wall. Ball is served out of your hand. Racquetball serve is first bounced on the floor, and after being struck it must bounce on the floor behind the back service line and before hitting the back wall.

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

I heart racquetball.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hrm. Maybe it was racquetball, then.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think this is the first time I've posted to the Chicago thread while actually in Chicago.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

You're here? Now?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm at a "cyber cafe" over near North & Western. I was sorta supposed to hook up with a friend who lives around here, but he (and all my other non-ILX Chi friends!) is MIA. So I wandered around and found a record store and the Empty Bottle, and now I'm here.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Are you still in town?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, are you coming to the thing tonight?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I really have no excuse to not go then.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm afraid we will not be going. It was a nice day in the park though.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

But you promised you'd sing "Close To You" to me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm afraid we will not be going. It was a nice day in the park though.

Any interest in breakfast tomorrow?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Where in town are you staying?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully in the Uke village.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Any interest in breakfast tomorrow?

Jenny says yes, and I agree with her. Where are you staying? Any body have any ideas where?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I see where you are staying. Let me think.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, ask SarahNickKevinDan where to eat breakfast in yr hood and post that and the correct time for eating breakfast and we will be there.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that went late. I will sleep forever now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

Nick was the best with 'Punk Rock Girl', and the Golden Tee-like bowling game was fun, and Bridget was a great one to share the stage with.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

I gotta say Earwax is probably as good a breakfast place as any down in that area of town. Lula and Dunlay's do breakfast/brunch too if you want to take a quick ride up to Logan Square.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

I agree Nick slayed with his tune.

Whoever has my phone number should give a call if and when you go to breakfast tomorrow.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Something tells me none of you are awake yet.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 17 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm up now. Nick did indeed play his karaoke card well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am awake! I called Jenny & Jeff but no answer.

(this is Jordan at Nick's house)

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 17 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Did breakfast happen? I'm hungry and there's nothing but bags of spinach here.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

auggggghhhhfffffp.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

dear chicago

i went out on the town last night and was a very good boy and i stayed out of the o.p.p.* i found myself at a foam party at 5 am, a d i was about to go into the foam (which at its peak reached about 7 feet in depth), but i saw how wet it made people so i refrained.

*orleans parish prison. a "parish prison" is what they call jails down here.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Did breakfast happen? I'm hungry and there's nothing but bags of spinach here.

Ha ha. I just became aware of this.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's a bar called The Friendly Bar which I really like because I know the bartender so drinks are cheap and the best thing is that he introduces each newcomer to the rest of the patrons. It's a great way to meet people, which as you may know, is kind of on my mind these days. That is where I was before I wandered into the foam party.

Last night at the FB there was a woman named Besianne (Bessie) who bought drinks for everyone, so I drank free Bud Light all night. Bessie is 75, extremely Southern, tres genteel, and kind of the life of the party. At 3 AM she was still ordering Cape Cods and yuckin it up with the local fags who flocked around her like kids around the Good Humor man.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gay.com/images/personals/pictures/c/a0/73/89c3e1-2-8dbfc6-0-main.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

That is a good picture of you. Is that Courtney?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: i love you jesse
Kenan: who is that drunk girl?
me: you know who that is
Kenan: you look REALLY cute in that pic
me: it's courtney
thanks
are you drunk? why are you coming on to me
Kenan: courtney looks... i don't know
easy

Kenan: i'm not coming on to you!
me: this guy wants me
Kenan: you look cute like my special little boy.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Check out this dude's profile.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm probably the only other person on the thread who has a gay.com membership, and even I am not "premium" and so that link doesn't do anything for me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

This guy?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha Yes the infamous Man Who Looks Like a Bulge In Jeans.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

wow. It's raining like something that rains a whole lot.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

You people out here don't know how to rain.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

New Orleanians know a thing or two about rain, let me tell you little sister. It rains like a stupid cunt whoremongering sonofabitch here.

By that I mean that it rains heavily.

I'm leaving to go on what I think might be a date....

Wish me good times and luck, whoremongering cunts!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 17 September 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

A date with the dude with the bulge in his pants?

You know... I spent a lot of time today putting together a thesis statement and annotated bibliography for my seminar class. I spent a lot of time Friday and yesterday, too, and the result is a pretty tight thesis statement of an argument that I'm fairly certain hasn't been made a thousand times backed up by four YES four pages of sources, most of which I have read thoroughly and all of which I have skimmed and as a result of these efforts, I uploaded my assignment by 3:30, a full half hour before the deadline. And you know what? It's 8:30 and more than half of my class has yet to upload their assignments and of those that did, none of them exceed one page for their sources and thesis statement together and none of them actually annotated their bibliography and most of them aren't making anything even close to an original argument and all I have to say is... I'd better get all three of the available points for this assignment!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

after all that, i hope three points is a lot.

jesse, i hope you get yrself some fine new orleans ass.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit you guys I am running Linux. This is so easy and so not much different that it's a bit of an anticlimax. Why was I so afraid to do this? It's so simple that it's a little lame.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Breakfast happened, Nick and & Sarah and I went to Sunrise Cafe.

After my recording session (which went really well btw) we (me and Scott and Gag3) had a blowout dinner at Hot Chocolate. Twelve dollar burgers (topped w/eggs), beer in a wine bottle, overpriced mac & cheese, and free gourmet donuts. :) :) :)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

I take it back. It can't be lame because it runs so much faster than Windows that it's fucking hilarious.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Unix file structure that it insists on is baffling for about ten seconds, until I realize, "Oh, right, this is how computers work."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a clue what you're talking about.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

I went out for dinner and drinks with a dude. Was it a date? I certainly don't know. Whatever it was, he was a smart, ambitious, interesting guy (he's in a mid-level position with a homeless advocacy org!), but there was no physical attraction at all, so I would probably like to be his friend. He has a dog that I really want to meet.

I would like to combine the best of his personality with the cuteness of my jailbait friend. Then we might have a man for me.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

after all that, i hope three points is a lot.

No, it's three points. But I have a lot more done than my classmates, so that's a little bit comforting.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Did you know that eating cinnamon graham crackers at your desk makes things crumby, even with the help of a paper towel?

I was entertained by rock n roll karaoke.
I still want to try to play tennis sometime.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

What did everyone sing? Jeff always wants to play tennis with someone so he will probably pay with you again. Any attempt at competitive sports takes me right back to the junior high gym nightmares of my youth.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

John - Since You've Been Gone
Nick - Punk Rock Girl
Gerard - Valerie, I love You
Eric (& Bridget) - Night Moves
Jody - Gigantic

Am I forgetting some?

I missed this, but Eric & Bridget also sang Born to Run and Max did a song, all after the place had supposedly closed.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

John - Since You've Been Gone

please tell me this is the song by rainbow. i almost made it to piece, i was a couple doors down at the big horse lounge. there was some weirdness and i didn't wind up leaving when i thought i would. sorry i missed the festivities.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Rainbow? No, it's Kelly Clarkson.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://thisislondon.wippit.com/images/songs/82876700852_large.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Rainbow? No, it's Kelly Clarkson.

and joe lynn turner does another revolution in his casket. which is probably pretty creepy because i don't think he's dead.

now i have the rainbow song stuck in my head. there are worse things.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was that song too at first.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

OMGOMGOMG I was hoping it was the Rainbow version too. I heard that on the radio recently and Dan was all WTF but I was singin'. It got me out of a funk.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

But what did Sarah sing?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost But then again, I also thought the beginning of "Add it Up" was "Desperado." I was kinda drunk.

The party I went to afterwards was entertaining and crowded, but it was almost all couples getting krunk.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

huh, i just found out that it was not joe lynn turner on vocals for that album. and cozy powell played drums on it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

WHO THE FUCK IS RAINBOW?!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

AND! I saw the woman from my office who sang "You Oughta Know" this morning when I was heading to the kitchen! There's no longer any doubt in my mind whether it was her or not. I couldn't look her in the face.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

WHO THE FUCK IS RAINBOW?!?

ritchie blackmore's post-deep purple band that had that demented midget of rock n' roll ronnie james dio on vocals (until dio quit for the black sabbath gig) and later, joe lynn turner on vocals. made some forgetable albums from the mid 70s until early/mid 80s.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

WE ARE CALLED RAINBOW
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/9932/cpowe_r2.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

rainbow

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Two pairs of green shoes in that lineup. Impressive.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't sing anything. As soon as I found out what we were doing, I got all nervous. Then Nick reminded me I didn't have to sing. I could just be entertained by other people on my birthday. So, that's what I did.

How was apple pickin', Manda?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

One thing about Chicago: Random gayish guys on the street seem to "check me out" much more often here than in Portland, where really they don't "check me out" at all.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard of Ronnie James Dio.

I admire the way you guys regularly trot out bands I have never even heard of, much less heard. What was that one that Amanda and Kenan were bonding over a few months ago? Little Riverboat Gamblers or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Little River Band?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

GAH they are horrible.

THe sad news is that after much hemming and hawing, we didn't end up going to the orchard at all. It was a gross disappointment that I don't really want to remember. This weekend was kinda bleh.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, fine "gross disappointment" is an exaggeration, but I was looking forward to picking apples and eating apples and making things with apples. :(((((

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Little River Band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Why didn't you come out then? Hmmm??? Surely, you weren't busy at 2 in the morning? :-D

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I was in a mood.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Amanda. I understand that.

This morning I decided to go on bluefly or loehman's and get some longer jeans, because it seems like designer jeans tend to come in at least 34" lengths, sometimes even 36" (!)... But then on both sites, they acted like my waist size - 32" - was rare and plus-sized. They only had a handful of jeans that big, the bastards.

I'm thinking of not making any more chiro appointments, for various reasons. Do I have to call and tell them or will they just get the hint when I don't call to schedule? I'm supposed to set up two appointments for this week alone.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go apple picking. Where were you going to go?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

We might still go -- just later (who knows when!?!?) It's County Line Orchard in IN. They have a corn maze too, which -- seriously -- is super fun and scarier than you might think.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't doubt that.

http://faculty.washington.edu/kgb/horror/shining_maze_jack.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's a hedge maze though. Corn is even scarier than hedges.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't doubt that.

http://www.panna.org/resources/gpc/gpc_200308.13.2.images/bigScaryCorn.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~bjm/images/cotc_big.jpg

"He wants you too, Malachai!"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

OUTLANDER! WE HAVE YOUR WOMAN!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM, PPL.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Also, good morning.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'd do a corn maze.

John, Jody said you didn't know "Night Moves"? (And doesn't EL want 'nasta to do Little River Band's 'Reminiscing'?)

J. was a ladykiller with "Since U Been Gone" - the dozen near me went crazy. I think there's something to be said for doing the songs that sound more rockin' live than on the record, like that one and "Don't You Forget About Me". That one had some balls to it when performed by The Hootenanners.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, Kenan.

If you can, you should step outside for a moment. It's beautiful.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Eric.

Will there be a thirsty thursday this week? I want to go somewhere with fancy cocktails, like Innjoy.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've been out already for a while. I wish this was college, and me and my class could convince our professor to hold class on the lawn today.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a maize maze once! It was awesome, not to mention the fun of driving out to the country where it smells like fall, and having hot cider and cider donuts when you're actually cold and hungry. Now I want to go. :/

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

songs that sound more rockin' live than on the record

Shut your mouth. The recorded version rules, too.

And no, I'd never heard "Night Moves"! I thought I told you that.

(And doesn't EL want 'nasta to do Little River Band's 'Reminiscing'?)

First I've heard of it. The one she always talks about is Jim Croce's "Operator." And "Super Bowl Shuffle," of course.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Eric's observation that the reason that Paul Simon loves Bob Seger so much is that they both try to cram too many words into a line.

"A little too tall, could used a few pounds." (five beats)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ultrafancy Thirsty Thursday.

Priceline it, Laurel, and come visit.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM, PPL

I use this every day. Does this mean we can make stupid jokes? The only one I know is rm -r /bin/laden

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

$40 for a bunch of glasses of spectacular wine, no tax or tip, is not a bad deal at all.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

it's in the suburbs and not at all easily accessible by public transportation but if you've never been you owe it to yourself to check out hala kahiki in river grove. they don't serve beer, they don't serve food, just enormous and strong polynesian cocktails. it's a blast.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Why does motherfucking JetBlue go to Columbus and not to Chicago?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Trivia: What do Paul Simon, Will Oldham, and Isaac Brock have in common, lyrically?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds deliriously awesome. I love fall. Favorite season by far.

Does this mean we can make stupid jokes?

If I start making command line jokes... shoot me.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

ok, no more of that

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'd never heard the Kelly Clarkson song, which seemed to shock Jordan.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

RIP Trader Vics.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I met a werewolf there once.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

And his hair was perfect.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

aaaaaWOOOOOOOOOOO

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

RIP Ciral's House of Tiki.

Kelsey and I went there a couple weeks before it closed for good. I had a sloe gin fizz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

if i never type the command "fsck" again i will be happy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

No one wants to make a stab at the trivia question?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I had only heard the chorus of "Since U Been Gone" but not the whole thing.

Trader Vics is closed? After all these years? Damn. Kevin's suburban one looks good, though.

I'm stumped, John. Marijuana influences?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

They all talk about their penises euphemistically?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

They have all written songs in the first person.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i read that as "enthusiastically".

xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

they've all fallen under the svengali-like sway of one arthur garfunkle?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

They could all do a decent cover of "I Am A Rock".

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Here's an obscure clue: You'd think that Sam Beam of Iron & Wine would also have this in common, but he doesn't.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

They got their beards caught in their teeth while singing?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

They have all written songs against shaving?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

lol someone on another thread mentioned it the other day -- remember the snl sketch where Paul Simon recognizes everyone except for Art Garfunkel?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, what are people doing Sep 27-Oct 1? Tickets to Chicago are less than $200 and I have vacation time to use.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone talks about Paul Simon nowadays. When will Edie Brickell become a hipster signifier again?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. I kind of like Edie Brickell.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, what are people doing Sep 27-Oct 1?

Hanging out with you, I guess.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'll be in vermont that weekend for my nephew's baptism. i'm going to be his godfather. i find it hilarious that my sister chose the one agnostic out of both sides of the kid's family to be his spiritual advisor.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe she knew what she was doing?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

laurel, you should come the next weekend. n's band is playing the 6th i think.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Simon:

She said don't I know you
From the cinematographer's party
I said who am I
To blow against the wind

Will Oldham:

I am a cinematographer (x4)
And I walked away from New York City
And I walked away from everything that's good
And I walked away from everything I leaned on
Only to find it's made of wood

Isaac Brock:

She was going with a cinematographer
Everyone knew that he was really a pornographer
They went down to the dance and grind
And everybody was feeling fine

Sam Beam:

Beam has a penchant for making music videos, having graduated from the Florida State University Film School with a MFA degree. For a time, he was a professor of Film and Cinematography at Miami International University of Art & Design. (Wikipedia)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

TS: I Know What I Know vs. What I Am is What I Am

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

his godmother is a nun. my brother in law's aunt or cousin or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVED Edie Brickell back in the day. (Shock.) Even though "What I Am" is an ode to stupidity. I didn't listen to lyrics then.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel: I'm throwing a part on Saturday the 30th. (It's another house-concert show, half party and half music. You're all invited, I just haven't sent anything out yet.)

Edie Brickell is coming to Martyrs in October.

FUR:
http://www.magicaweb.com/weblog/kmages/PaulSimon1972PaulSimon.jpg

vs.

http://www.citypaper.net/mikecheck/will_oldham/will2.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

TS: I Know What I Know vs. What I Am is What I Am

Paul wins every time. That's not even fair.

It's a thing that I do in the back of my head.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be heading to AK on the 29th, but other than that I can't think of anything I've got going on.

John, your trivia is truly bizarre sometimes. I'm sure this is going to be something wildly obscure. How about: They should all have done versions of "You can call me Al" but only one of them has?

xpost: or, that

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, slow posting today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

my godmother is very Catholic, but she only started giving me little prayers and little saint's medals and such once i was 22 or so.

what i am is what i am are you what you are or what. omg profound.

my god, you guys are post happy this morning.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes when I wake up my hair looks like Bob Dylan's on the cover of Blonde on Blonde.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

I'm apparently getting hipster spam at my work e-mail (subject line: "grime ragga").

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes when I wake up my hair looks like Bob Dylan's on the cover of Blonde on Blonde.

i wake up like that every day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

my godmother is very Catholic

so how did you end up Jewish?

lol at Blonde on Blonde

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I can't come the next weekend, I have evening things in the 1st week of Oct and a highland gig on the 8th. Unfortunately for my chances of seeing Kevin or N's band. Although please tell N that I did see her products on the Mahar Drygoods site and they all look CHOICE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Who is N?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

(I should be around that weekend, btw.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

1. I LOVE that Rainbow song. I'm out of my head! Can't take it! Also "demented midget of rock n' roll ronnie james dio" is making me snort with mirth.

2. I also like the idea of a fancy thirsty thursday.

3. I also like corn mazes. And corn palaces. The Mitchell Corn Palace is awesome because it's the high school's gym. How cool would you be if your basketball team played in a corn palace? Pretty fucking cool.

4. I have proven myself to be unreliable at making plans (I blame school) but Laurel, if I don't have any massive assignments due that Monday, I would like to hang out some or at least meet you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I hope somebody wants to meet me, cos I'll have to work out where I'm staying. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Laurelinha: I will be around, but I am going to a baseball game with D and some others on Sat. after my class, so that's going to be my major social event for the week. [I only have one day off per week so I only have one night that I can go out (for the time being) and we already have plans that week.] Don't let that stop you, though, since there's probably a way I could meet you for a meal or something?!?! If you're coming here I want to be part of the fun!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

this is my last fm pic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/j_bdules/fabe66a3.jpg

only half my face, but still. do i look jewish?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I have witnesses that say that you look Jewish.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

You look hot, anyway.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Better if I come Oct 12-15?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

yeahyeahyeahyeah

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

laurel, you should come out for a thirsty thursday.

xpost- you can stay at my place if you want, i won't be using it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

nonononono i'll be in brooklyn that weekend!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

then hang out with her then

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

(thanks, jenny!)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, don't let me dictate your plan-making. i'm not to be relied upon for such things. october is thick with weddings and plans though, so it's making me stressed out.

:((

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

three weddings in five weeks is too much.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

that really is. though the dressing up and the boozing and dancing is fun.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

who needs a wedding to get boozed up and dancing?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Juulia is totally hot. What's more, she's really awesome. Everyone should meet Juulia. I like her a lot.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like your A-B-C-A rhyme scheme there, K.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

The key is at weddings, someone else is paying for the booze. And it's hard to justify getting dressed up when you don't have to, or to get others to do it along with you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

aw, thanks kenan.

in real life, i'm not jewish and i only have one u in my name.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I went to two weddings in two weeks last year and that was too much too. In fact, more than one wedding in about a 6 month span is too much.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say, I saw some pretty hot Jewish girls in Chicago over the weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

at weddings sometimes there are videocameras at the reception, though, to record everyone's enjoyment of the free booze for posterity.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's just hard because I work on Saturdays. I don't get paid vacay. It's hard to miss a day's pay, get a sub, abandon students, get dressed up and go out of town once, but THREE TIMES in just over a month? That's too much. I feel like I'm endangering my job. I will get dressed up for no reason at all, but I'm basically losing a day's pay in order to do that. Yuck.

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

Allegiance to job/bank account vs allegiance to friends/family/wedded love.

A tough call.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

damn, that's draining. are these all close friends that are getting married?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, no more bitching. I genuinely want to go to these weddings, which is what makes it difficult.

Two close friends (who don't know each other) and a father in law.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

oy.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

The problem with weddings is the travel. I would be happy to go to three local weddings in one month. I love weddings!

Well, generally. I have been to and been in some terrible weddings that also required travel, and that kind of sucked. They are also more fun if you know people there as opposed to the kind where it's just you and some weird cousins and a bunch of relatives that you don't really like.

Amanda, it sounds like you have extremely valid reasons not to go to all three of those weddings. I would understand if a close friend from out-of-town couldn't make it to our wedding for just those exact reasons; I would imagine your friends would also understand. Hell, most of my family didn't come to our wedding for much less compelling reasons than yours. Eh, it's life!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i've missed tons of close friends' weddings. it's more fun if you can make it and enjoy them, though.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Note: I was sort of hoping that a lot of my family wouldn't come to the wedding so it's a little insincere of me to cite that as an example of bridal understanding. And it is more to go and enjoy close friends' weddings, but, for me anyway, not when it becomes a burden to travel or causes so much stress in other areas of life that it's almost impossible to have fun once you're there. Not that this will happen to Amanda, but it sure as shit happens to me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

They are also more fun if you know people there as opposed to the kind where it's just you and some weird cousins and a bunch of relatives that you don't really like.

i disagree, my favorite weddings were the ones where i didn't know anyone. i went to two of them with my ex room mate where she was the only person i knew, i took that opportunity to make up as many ludicrous, fantastic lies as i could. my favorite was when i told people i was a dog groomer but wasn't very good at my job because it turns out i hated dogs.

over-active immagination + gin + time = me becoming inveterate liar.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I'm sure your friends would understand if you couldn't make it to all of those weddings?

Hey, Digd0wn is finally on youtube.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

It helps that I bought the plane ticket like 3 months ago and it's already paid for. I did this on purpose before i quit my other job, so I wouldn't worry about it come October. ANyway, it'll be fine when I get there. It's just all the other stuff.

I feel like Jordan right now - I am enjoying the hell out of a rather sizable salami sandwich (with fresh mozz and basil) on a fresh baguette with some chips. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Hilarious!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha dog groomer.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

There are three weddings next summer that I'll definitely be invited to, and another three that I'll possibly be invited to. (Wouldn't be offended if I wasn't, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry: FOUR that I'll def. be invited to. Yikes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

last summer i was invited to two weddings on the same day, several states away from each other. everybody was getting married at the same time, and now they're all popping out kids.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, by N's band, I'm assuming Kevin meant Nick's band, which also means my band. I don't know of this other N of whom you speak. Anyway, that show is the 3rd, not the 6th (6th is in Madison with Jordan's rock band). We also have a show in Chicago on the 12th though.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost like freakin gumball machines

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Juulia, they're popping out kids just one year later? Eep!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, seriously.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like Jordan right now - I am enjoying the hell out of a rather sizable salami sandwich (with fresh mozz and basil) on a fresh baguette with some chips. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Haha, that sounds awesome. It makes me want to change my lunch plans.

Does anyone know anything about embedding video on myspace? I see people doing it all the time, but it's giving me shit when I try to put the youtube code in a blog post.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am assuming that N is a mutual acquaintance of Laurel and Otto. And is a woman:

Although please tell N that I did see her products...

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a porn site called Youpube? There should be.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it's been longer than that, i have no sense of time. but still, people are having kids like MAD.

xp to amanda hahahahhaha

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Darling Sarah, I think he actually means a friend of his whose name starts with N, and who I met at a craft show in Brooklyn, and liked. It took me a few reads to figure it out, too, but then I thought if he meant you guys he would have said so! Sadly I'd have to be back at work on the 2nd. :(

I could take more time off if I could think of enough things to do in Chicago, but other than see you guys, I don't have any plans. I'll have to read up and get some outside interests or something.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I could take more time off if I could think of enough things to do in Chicago, but other than see you guys, I don't have any plans.

based on last week, thirsty thursday could take up about 40 hours.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't think I was completely sober at any point between then and about 2 o'clock this morning. Ugh.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've been itemizing my spending this month, because my bank account is gradually dwindling and I wanted to see what I actually spend my money on.

Not including rent or bills, 30% of my money spent between Sep. 1 and Sept. 14 was on BEER.

8% was on groceries.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds about right.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, uh, look at my myspace and figure out how it's done? I don't remember how I did it, I just pasted the code and then removed some of it because it was showing up as code...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

clearly, you were getting your RDA of carbohydrates. xp

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

what is the RDA of ethyl alcohol?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, linux is nice and all, but I'm really happy to be using OS X again.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

is anyone else reading the 9/11 conspiracy thread? This shit is bananas.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, uh, look at my myspace and figure out how it's done?

You're right, of course, I was just being ILX-lazy. Figured it out now (it wasn't working in the blog section, but the bio section was cool).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chicago,

I will be leaving shortly. It was lovely seeing you all again and meeting the people I didn't meet last time. I hope some or all of you eventually make it out to Portland.

Your friend,

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bye Chris, save travels!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/IMG_4598.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Did Brenda take that?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

no. She was busy pissing on something.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

chris, it was nice meeting you. next time you come back i hope to have something more challenging than the red eye crossword puzzle.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ "i'm so homophobic i can't even touch myself"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

You people post way too fucking much. Do any of you actually get any work done?!

Today I have been working from home/bed. It's not a bad way to get things done, but I still feel guilty for some reason.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost John-- there is some disagreement as to where that bumper sticker cam from. I say Kenan bought it, but he says I already had it, but I have no recollection of ever acquiring it.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Do any of you actually get any work done?!

Amazingly, yes. But then again I mostly post while scripts are running and shit like that. It beats just staring at the progress indicator.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Myspace may save my life and revive my hope in gays.

Where do guys like this hide themselves?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Though I am not gay, I am toying with the idea of making a Myspace.

Pros:

A lot of people I know and love are on the site, and the idea of finding "long-lost" friends from school is somewhat interesting (though to be fair, I've kept in contact with those that I really want to be in contact with.)

Cons:

I really do think they're creepy, the last thing I need is another place to waste time on the internet, and dealing with the attendant spam and such is not really appealing.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

if you do make one dan let me know so i can post a comment with the word "boner" in it. those seem to be a hit.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to Raw Yang on the way back from Chicago and it really sounds great, dudes. I am in favor of the overproduced/hi-fi version of the FFs, whatever you guys think. :>

That got me out of downtown and Tortoise took me back to Madison (thanks to John!). I've had my fill of most of the rarities comp, but I could listen to Madison Area, the epic TNT remix, and esp. Waihopai (that shit's amazing) on repeat. That Mike Watt track, on the other hand, is awful and annoying.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I would kind of like to have a myspace page, but I already used my e-mail for the band and the idea of thinking up and remembering a new e-mail address + password sort of makes me want to die.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind the Watt track. He just overdubs an extra guitar part, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard the original, but it sounds like dueling bass guitars with noodles for strings, played by hippies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I say Kenan bought it, but he says I already had it, but I have no recollection of ever acquiring it.

This is but one of the weird accusations you levelled at me when you came back. Of course it's yours. Why would I buy that? There was something else, too... I forgot what... where you were all like, "This isn't mine!" and I was all like, "Dude. Of course it's yours."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Kenan, Jesus! Stop bringing huge purple ass toys into my house!"

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure he was shocked at the gay porn too.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

This is how Jesse found out I am gay. So embarrassing.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I miss my porn. But www.pornotube.com is pretty great.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to a birthday mix someone made me. According to my real player, marc bolan was killed in a car crash 10 days after I was born. It was my first experience with tragedy.

The office is soooo quiet.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have always thought that Marc Bolan was the real Ziggy Stardust.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

This copier toner lady tried to scam me again (via phone). She was telling me she was about to ship the "balance" of my copier toner order. Riiiiggghhhttt... I wish I could have thought of something witty to say. Instead, I gritted my teeth and said, I've heard this scam before Lady! and hung up. Actually, I can't remember if I actually called her 'Lady'.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe next time I should start crying and say, You hurt me last time! I won't let you hurt me with your lies! Not again! Not again!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I need some sort of alarm device that shocks me or plays a loud sound in my ear whenever I start clenching my jaw because this is getting to be a big problem and all my teeth are going to fall out.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

the woman on the other side of the cubicle divider is trying to book travel for her supervisor. she needs to send him to minneapolis but she keeps pronouncing it "mindianapolis". it's making me angry.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost anxious, are we?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Make it a drinking game. Whenever you clench your jaw, take a shot.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

xpost anxious, are we?

This started happening around finals first semester of last year. Interestingly, it subsided over the summer. But it started up again hardcare the day that school started.

I can't figure out what's causing...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going with the catch-all excuse and say "stress".

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have jaw problems too. When I get stressed, it gets tight, starts popping, and hurts. I have anxiety issues.

Damn it. How can I have another message on my voicemail? I've been sitting here for the last hour. IT MAKES MY JAW TIGHT! GRR!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, of course, it was another prerecorded junk call.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get the scam. What does "balance" mean?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Back to the UNIX talk: One of the only reasons I dislike Apple computers are their problems with networking. My smbd process keeps hogging the CPU on our work server for no reason and I have to constantly disconnect and reconnect every time I open something in Word, Illustrator, or Acrobat. It's really fucking annoying and I wish I could make it stop. It's a memory leak, I think, and that means there really is no way to make it stop, short of some very deep fundamental changes in OS or in the structure of those applications... not sure which.

OK, nerd rant over, back to your regularly scheduled banter.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have jaw problems too. When I get stressed, it gets tight, starts popping, and hurts.

Me too. Sometimes even when I'm not consciously stressed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Anxiety issues may be the one thing that everyone I know has in common.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Chill people bore me inside of ten seconds.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's a memory leak, I think, and that means there really is no way to make it stop, short of some very deep fundamental changes in OS or in the structure of those applications...

Probably, but it's not necessarily Apple's memory leak.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

The caller acts like you've already ordered all this toner from their company. They've already sent you one (not really). Now they just need to get the other two in the mail to you. They're just giving you the heads up. Meanwhile, you're inadvertantly agreeing to purchase all three toners. They mail out two more packages of toner and you get a huge bill in the mail. Then you get in trouble. Then your accountant has a really hard time getting in touch with this fakey company and trying to get them to accept the toner back and credit the account, which didn't exist beforehand.

They try to make it seem like you always order from them. They already have your address, phone number (obviously) and your name. They also act like it's a courtesy call just to check up and see how you're doing on toner supplies.

When I first started this job, I was fooled by two similar scams TWICE. It was particularly embarassing the second time.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, now I am conscious of how extremely tense my jaw is.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I hope that isn't due to my dumb story. :-D

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

According to the current photo associated with the What To Wear to Work article on Yahoo's front page, slutty is in.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also, it's perfectly acceptable in today's working world to sit on one's desk.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Becoming aware of it - yes. Stress tension - definitely not. :> Actually it's great, because now I can at least try to relax.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I bet Christian Bale tenses his jaw like a motherfucker.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.askmen.com/men/entertainment_150/pictures_150/christian_bale/christian_bale_150.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

What about sleeping under your desk? If yahoo espouses that, can I start right away?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Slutty is in.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:PKhxIC6BCBpoEM:http://www.edgeoftheworld.org/images/press/slut.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Probably, but it's not necessarily Apple's memory leak.

From what I've read, it probably is. Not that I totally understand it at all, but it has to do with the mechanism for sending/recieving information from the server CPU... The program will stop using that processing power, but for some reason the mechanism won't stop sending requests for it? I don't know, it's almost totally over my head.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

What about sleeping under your desk? If yahoo espouses that, can I start right away?

I think for that, you need official approval from George Costanza.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

It has long been part of my view of the universe that there's a little George in all of us.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

What about sleeping under your desk? If yahoo espouses that, can I start right away?

we need an answer on this post-haste. because if it's acceptable i'm printing it off and taping it to my forehead while i grab 40 winks.

shows on school nights are killing me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dude. Never underestimate the power of the Crap Nap. That got me through many a rough morning at my old temp job.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

mens room upstairs in my building: single-banger. not conducive for anonymity or privacy in the napping dept.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm physically exhausted after the second weekend of two days of highland in the sun, and I feel like there's not enough protein in the WORLD to satisfy my chompers/give my cells something to work with. I had a hunk of med-rare prime rib for lunch and could have eaten the whole thing again...but now I need to pull something over my head and be dead to the world while muscle fibers rebuild. Alas.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost brutal!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

(I guess that counts for Laurel's post too)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

my neck and shoulders and back are so f'ing tight right now. i feel like i slept on a bed of concrete.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

and goddamn it i think i was just recruited for a root cause analysis team. like i don't have enough problems doing my own job now i have to help figure out why someone else f'ed up their job?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

when reading a news story about an alleged kidnapping, this may be a sign that your lawyer is desperately searching for a silver lining: "He also said that there was nothing illegal about having duct tape, rope, and a gun in their car. "

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's true, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

yes but it certainly doesn't help when you're accused of tieing someone up, duct taping their mouth shut, and holding them at gunpoint in your car.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

i picture their lawyer as that guy that martin short played on the snl skit where he's being interviewed by mike wallace and he's nervous as hell and sweaty and chain smoking and keeps saying "it's not me right? it's him isn't it?"

i love martin short.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

God, people are so shit. One of my colleagues has been falsely reported to one of the family protection services by a vengeful neighbor...and the agency is acting like they're guilty until proven otherwise. They've had drug tests, interviews, home visits, have to submit school & medical records. And during the home tour they were told, "you should put those bottles of wine out of sight, it might give your kids the wrong impression." WHAT IMPRESSION, THAT SENSIBLE ADULT DRINKING IS LEGAL IN THIS COUNTRY?!? And completely normal and healthy AND MODERATE?

I know the family, I've been to their house for BBQs with three generations of in-laws and all their neighbors except the problem ones. The whole thing will go on their permanent records and is retarded and evil...but if the agency didn't investigate to such an extent, the consequences for individual kids could be so much worse...

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

least surprising news item of the day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Willie is so cool.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. 1.5 lbs of pot. Isn't that enough to be charged with intent to distribute?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

if you're willie that could conceivably be deemed "personal use".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

My mom and sister Hev just called me from JFK, about to board their flight to Paris. Mumsy kept hinting really strongly (ie: out loud) that it would be a GREAT SURPRISE for me to show up in Paris to meet them. Direct flights from Chicago are supposedly not too bad right now. Um, yeah, right, mom. I'll get on that...

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

LEAVE THE OLD MAN ALONE.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF31039BC-Sun_Love.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's never going to happen.

http://www.thecityreview.com/termina3.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Only time I've been to Vegas, I took a red-eye flight and got into Midway at 6 a.m. and took the train to work. This is the only time I ever slept under a desk (not my office, but an empty one down the hall). I also threw up in the little trash can under said desk. And, later, on the paperwork table next to the ATM in the office-building lobby.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wow!

Why were you throwing up?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think it had to do with a slice of bad pizza and a glass of bad red wine at the Las Vegas airport bar, minutes before it closed for the night.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

That's kind of amazing. Could you not take a sick day?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 18 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

i am in serious trouble

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Why?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm calling to find out.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f184/moonkiss69/Funny%20pics/9116839_l.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm reclusive, angry, largely unliked, and if i lose this job, which i may very well do, i don't know what i'm going to do

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T ANSWER YOUR PHONE TONIGHT. KENAN'S IN THAT MOOD AGAIN.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I could have taken a sick day, but somehow I had that stupid (or wise) sense of responsibility - the idea that things at work would barely hold together while I was away, and would fall apart if I called in sick and took another day off. Or something along those lines. I hope I've grown up since, uh, October 2002.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Cheer up, Kenan!

I'm so happy about the weather today. I got to wear my new jacket. :-D

A bunch of people are on vacation this week, and another coworker just called in sick. I plan to read alot of my library book today at my desk, email, and figure out my entire wedding.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Cats in hats!

I am also happy about the weather, and I am wearing tights.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'll be happy about the weather too. It's only 76 right now and the high will be 86, so it's getting tolerable. Oh and tomorrow will be only 84!

Then again, I just checked weather in 60640, and you guys have a lot more to be happy about than I do.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kenan:

http://www.fascinationcostarica.com/fotos/TOCRTrailsSloth-FUT.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kenan:

http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/mayhem.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a pile of baby Eds!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Kenan!:

http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/catturtle.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

google meta chat: where you don't actually open a chat box, you just keep changing your availability message and have a conversation that way.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Wow.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night that there was already a new Chicago thread.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

google meta chat: where you don't actually open a chat box, you just keep changing your availability message and have a conversation that way.

I've done that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

You're all so sweet.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I am really sick.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMIT MY PANTS STINK.

I'M GOING TO HAVE TO GO HOME AND CHANGE.

Do you ever leave your clothes in the washer too long (esp. during warm weather) and find that they get rancid? I didn't realize I had done that, and now I have a whole batch of clothes that smell like a dishcloth.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Just look at people eating turkey legs and you will start to feel nourished and better.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Do you ever leave your clothes in the washer too long (esp. during warm weather) and find that they get rancid?

Yep, you gotta dry right away.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. Also, sometimes I'll overload the dryer so the clothes come out hot and damp, then end up stinking worse than if I just hadn't washed them at all. Ick.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's making me feel gross. I smell like turning milk.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Drink some water. Put something nice-smelling under your nose, like coffee.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

i just walked across the campus for a cup of coffee and it's like f'ing winter out there. i hate this and am totally not ready for it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Malarky.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse! You can't wear those pants! GROSS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

anyone here use verizon wireless? i think my contract with sprint is about done and i need a new carrier. sprint has never failed to disappoint me so i'm looking.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like US Cellular a lot. They are cheap and the reception is good. On the other hand, Cingular is union, so there's that. BUT we could never get a signal in our apartment when we had Cingular, which is why we switched.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.absolutenow.com/rp/Cusack_JS-188059277.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

i can't get a signal when i sit on the end of the sofa i normally sit on. i'm sick of having to change seats when the phone rings.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty happy with T-Mobile.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think I forgot to wear deodorant today! FUCK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

We can be stinky together Dan.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

You two are dead sexy.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck that, I'm totally running up to 57th and getting one of those little sticks. It will live in my desk for the next time I do this.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you should be thankful it's chilly out.

I'm wearing new deoderant today. It's ok, but I feel like it's smellier than my old one, even though that one was supposedly scented and this one isn't. I don't like smelling like deoderant so strongly.

Have any of you eaten at Jane's? I think we've had this discussion before. It looks cozy.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'd deal with it if I didn't have IMPORTANT MEETINGS this afternoon.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have dental floss and hand lotion at my desk for office use only. I guess that's not so weird. I also still have the travel toothbrush-and-toothpaste kit from when I went home with that dude last winter and had to stop at Walgreen's on my way to work, still drunk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, Jenny, I may be with you in tights solidarity soon because half a dozen pairs of specialty stockings have just arrived at my desk. I have to buy neat-O ones to tempt myself to wear 'em at all, which is as good an excuse for online shopping as any.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

laurel i may need you to do me a solid and go kick a guy's ass in brooklyn for me if my goddamn records aren't waiting for me when i get home. ORDERED AUGUST 30th, WTF??? i know media mail is slow but goddamn.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have quite a collection of things at work, including but not limited to: dental floss, hand lotion, cuticle cream, alternate hand lotion, hair product, nail clippers, a comb, a cosmetic mirror, and two kinds of lip gloss.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, just tell me when and where. I'll take Vic (no, not Vic, he's not scary at all) -- someone both big AND scary, and we'll stare the guy down.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

My desk content is limited since I'm moving offices and of course getting the fuck outta here someday, but right now I have the following personal items:

- nail file
- bag containing napkins, platic forks, salt packets and granola bars
- drink cozy that reads "I HAVE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE AND A BAD MEMORY"
- assorted snacks
- tons of blank cd's

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Is Vic taller than the (not-really-that-tall) Chris P.?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

[ilxorheightchart.xls]

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

The only Vic I know. And he's 5'5" and HOTTT. I think you'll agree.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

This young Pakistani guy just sat in my office for 45 min. waiting for the guy I share my office with. He called me Ma'am like 150 times and then, out of nowhere, asked me, "Do you think all literate people can be poets or does it take a special something in a person Ma'am?"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also TJ's salt and pepper potato chips are HELLA GOOD.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Writing center is busy today!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

East Indian/Pakistani English makes me grin. They're so proper!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, just tell me when and where.

i guess i'll give him until tomorrow. that will be 3 weeks. pass out records shop, 131 grand street brooklyn. ask for memphis mike and then kneecap him. thankie!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Vic/sleep is 6'5", I believe, but he has the eyes of something small and harmless so I don't think he's my best candidate for Looming. I'll think of something.

Kev, have you emailed/called the guy??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

if he's 6'5" it doesn't matter what his eyes look like. he can just bare his teeth and make claw his hands.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

like i said, i'll wait until tomorrow to email him, media mail shouldn't take 3 weeks. my sister sends me stuff from her bookstore in vermont via media mail and it takes about 2 weeks. if it's not at my place tonight i'll shoot him an email and let him know that i have operatives who could darken his williamsburg doorstep at any moment.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I just went to a panel on balancing work and family as an attorney and I learned that to effectively balance work and family you should:

1. Go to law school right out of undergrad so you can establish your career before you have children.
2. Be able to afford a nanny. (I thought of you, Sarah!)
3. Be married to a wonderful and supportive husband.
4. Work for a firm with family friendly policies.
5. Quit working and stay home to raise your children.

I had no idea it was so easy!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

3. Be married to a wonderful and supportive husband.

and this is why i can never be a lawyer. except in my native massachusetts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

WOW that is SO EASY.

question:

i have all of my various email sent to my gmail account, from which i am able to write replies using the email they sent to. BUT some of my students are writing back to my handymanda address, which makes me think that they can see it, which makes me not all that happy since i don't particularly want them to know my personal email address.

1) when you use different "from" addresses from within gmail, is your primary address going out as well?

2) can my students see my status message if they're gmail users too?

yikes. why can't this be easier.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

don't know, have an ilxor send you something to the address you want the students to use and reply to them as you normally would then ask said ilxor what they can see.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i18/goldie013/UnfrozenCavemanLawyer.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'll help if you need me to.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

when you use different "from" addresses from within gmail, is your primary address going out as well?

Pretty sure it isn't. I just did a test, sending something from C4n4st4 Orders to my primary address, and it didn't include any info about my primary address in the e-mail.

2) can my students see my status message if they're gmail users too?

Probably. But you can block contacts or only allow certain people to be able to see and chat with you. It's under Settings.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

so how do they know my email address?!?! yikes. i am going to email an ILXOR as a test. tell me what happens!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

kenan are you calling me a caveman? that smarts.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Weird religious stuff from the front lines:

I am trying to schedule a meeting with a Muslim woman named Laura 3dwards. She was a S. Baptist, but she converted to Islam and later married a Muslim man.

Also I am tracking down a pastor who was S. Baptist but he got kicked out because he was handing out condoms to teens.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

My IMPORTANT MEETING had pizza and salad and bevvies! And I sat next to one of the cuet production girls and didn't smell thanks to my emergency Walgreen's run.

Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer would make an ideal lawyer husband. He'll go out and bring down game for supper, because he's just a cave man, and he has those skills.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i only saw your iit email. i thought that you couldn't see the person's status unless they were on your quick contacts

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Manders: If you look under "Settings" then "Accounts" then "Learn More" in Gmail, it says --

"Note: your Gmail address will still be included in your email headers in the sender field, to help prevent your mail from being marked as spam. Most email clients do not display the sender field, though some versions of Microsoft Outlook may display "From customaddress@domain.com on behalf of yourusername@gmail.com."

You can configure a custom "reply-to" address, but it looks like no matter what your Gmail addy is going to be in there in some shape or form.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Good afternoon from sunny Nashville. If I survive being eaten by greedy bugs I'm insanely excited about seeing Chicago. I haven't been able to find a definitive statement of where Thursday's drinking is likely to be. Have I missed it, like an idiot? If not, may I direct the attention of the meeting toward this matter, which is not yet pressing but may become so within the next 48 hours, please?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

i really don't think i can handle a thirsty thursday. though odds are good that i'll be in uptown that night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

OH! I thought you were coming last Thursday and then just didn't show up. I'm open to TT locations suggestions.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

KEVIN, GO MEET TIM HE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE OF ENGERLAND.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I hope you created a To Do spreadsheet to remind yourself of all those things when family planning.

Tim, I suggested a place in my hood (Innjoy), and Eric suggested a wine tasting. The back up plan is called Old Timers. WHO WILL JOIN US AND WHERE?

Who will be in the Chicago area for Thanksgiving? I would like to organize a dinner, but I will not cook a turky (or a tofurkey). Instead, I plan to contribute a veg dish and some dessert item.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i should really be independently wealthy. not insanely rich or anything, just enough so that i can go to shows and buy books and records and beer and whatnot. i've been gainfully employed for 15 years and i think i've given it a fair shot but it's just not for me.

xpost- laurel talked me into it. where we drinkin'?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

innjoy would be fantastic as it is THE CLOSEST BAR TO MY HUMBLE ABODE.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

but it is on division and i don't like that environment.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

This weather is making me sleeeepy.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm 29 and I still don't know how to pay bills on time or keep my checking account from being overdrawn.

Division is pretty bad, but it would be so awesome for me because:
* I could get a girlie drink
* I could just walk around the corner to go home

We could just hang out inside.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for the help with gmail -- i guess there's no way around this. ugh.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Where is the wine tasting? I can go to TT but I really should eat something beforehand this time. Old Timer's is only best for me 'cause it's an easy stop on my way home. I could probably do Innjoy, too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to have to skip this TT (I thought Tim was coming last week too and just didn't show up!) because of plans involving The Mister.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

John, How come your band keeps playing festivals for things I don't eat, namely oysters and BBQ? CONSIDER YOUR FANS. :-D

I am feeling lazy.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

what, the mister is too good for thirsty thursdays?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Food fests must be where the indie rock A&R guys are.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Apols for the confusion. I am more of a drinker of drinks than a slurping taster of fine wines, but largely happy to fit in.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

do you live in logan sq. dan? innjoy is an easy walk or bus ride to the division or damen blue line stations. or you can pick up the milwaukee bus close by too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Too good? That's not it -- we just have other plans for the hanging out elsewhere.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

do you live in logan sq. dan? innjoy is an easy walk or bus ride to the division or damen blue line stations. or you can pick up the milwaukee bus close by too.

Ya, I think I've been by it once before. It's just west of Damen IIRC.

I'm not actually bitching or anything, but Old Timer's really is even easier than that believe it or not. Right in between the Metra and Clark/Lake.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

B-but I want to go somewhere with girlie drinks...

Question: Footless tights - a good idea?
At first, I laughed at them. I laughed and laughed and laughed. But now I'm starting to think they could come in handy this winter. For starters, I could wear them with boots and socks. Maybe they'd last longer because my toes wouldn't be able to poke through them.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going out wednesday, friday, and saturday, maybe i shouldn't go out thursday. i have a bank account to think about.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

John, How come your band keeps playing festivals for things I don't eat, namely oysters and BBQ? CONSIDER YOUR FANS. :-D

John, how come your band keeps playing festivals for things that I ADORE, but are too far away to easily attend?

I kind of want to go back to Hot Chocolate for a cheese & beer tasting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of the Blue Line...

I think otto and I are the only regular riders in this bunch, but have you noticed that the operators are very chatty lately? The guy that drives the train I usually catch (~8:30) the past couple of days has been just running his mouth at every stop up 'til Clark/Lake, like:

"Coming in coming in to (station name) please use all available doors please use all available doors there are other trains directly behind for Cermak and Forest Park please allow riders to exit first coming out coming out coming out (station name) please use all doors all aboard doors are closing doors are closing doors are closing next station is (next station name)" etc etc etc.

This is in addition to all the usual disembodied voice sayings on the train. It was really bizarre. Of course, he stops after Clark/Lake because half the riders get out there, but other people were giving the speaker weird looks. There is another regular Blue Line operator, a woman, who also does this.

Do operators do that on other lines? I don't ride them enough to really know.

xpost: I'm all for InnJoy! I will have a girly drink too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes you get a chatty driver. Not often on the red line, though. Unless it's really packed, and the cattle need a little herding.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Er, sorry, regular morning riders...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

i get on in the mornings at western & congress and i never hear the conductor until we pull out of harlem and then (at full volume) "FOREST PARK IS THE NEXT STOP FOR THIS BLUE LINE TRAIN, ALL PASSENGERS MUST LEAVE THE TRAIN AT FOREST PARK. FOREST PARK IS THE NEXT STOP FOR THIS BLUE LINE TRAIN, ALL PASSENGERS MUST LEAVE THE TRAIN AT FOREST PARK."

on the way home i get off at division and you don't hear the conductor until about jackson or so when the train starts getting packed and the platforms are likewise crowded. you get the "use all available doors" spiel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK fuckers. I think I may be in Chicago Oct. 10 and 11, flying out on the 12th. I think.

Also I think I'll be leaving NoLa for good on Oct. 30, driving back, getting in town on 10/31.

Thenn....flying to Charlotte on 11/2 to help Courtney move. Returning (by truck, with Courtney) on 11/5.

So it looks like this:

10-6 : NO to Mich
10-10 Mich to Chicago (mid-afternoon)(see Courtney, go to Dr., eat your puss)
10-12 Chicago to NO (PM)

2.

10-30 and 31 Drive from NO to Chicago
11-2 Fly Chicago to CLT
11-2 and 3 pack up
11-4 and 5 drive to Chicago

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit!!! i copied that from my email and didn't notice that i left some of that content in there!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

didn't want anyone to know you were flying into charlotte and not greensboro, eh?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

puss eating?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't aware teh gays were into that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yeh, the puss-eating.

i've never dined on that particular delicacy. i'm very curious about it though. i would like to try it, but i doubt i ever will.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

It is a worthy sex act. I endorse it fully.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

i've never dined on that particular delicacy. i'm very curious about it though. i would like to try it, but i doubt i ever will.

that "particular delicacy" is beginning to take on a macarthur park vibe for me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Someone left your puss out in the rain?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

i'll never have that recipe again. oh no!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand at all what you guys are talking about. Even after doing some googling.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

good news sarah, our neighborhood is pretty clear. bad news, one dude lives right next door to my friend amy! and a creepy looking dude at that!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

as opposed to macarthur park (park).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's my puss he was referring to, just in case any of you other ladies get any ideas.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

How close is Innjoy to a blue line stop? That will probably determine whether I attend.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

well, one of you let the rest of us know how it all turns out, 'k?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's 6 blocks west of the division blue line, 4 blocks south and two blocks west of damen, 7 blocks south and two blocks east of western.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's pretty much at Nick and Sarah's house.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i'm a block off, it's 5 blocks west of division, 4 blocks south and one block west of damen, 7 blocks south and 3 blocs east of western. the first set of directions will get you to the moonlight mini-mart which is where i buy my cigarettes. it will also get you to the meeting place of an a.a. chapter and i hope that wasn't a freudian slip on my part.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Five blocks ain't so bad.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

close or not i think this reveiw convinced me not to go. i'm easily swayed today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've been to that aa chapter. Not recommended. Bit depressing, what with all the drunks about.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

between the division el and innjoy there's cut-rate liquors (the slashiest of all slashies), gold star, mac's, phyllis', zakopane, and a couple of other places that don't even bother with signs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO, CHICAGO??

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

That review ain't so bad.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

The conversation always comes back to cut-rate liquors.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

to an island, a beach somewhere. curacoa maybe. there's supposed to be this little island in the harbor of willemstad that's picture postcard beautiful. i want to go there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

curacao even.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

None of those other division bars have my girlie drinks. I'm sick of beer. :-(

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.curacao-travelguide.com/photos/curacao.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am happy to go anywhere that is convenient to any train stop on any train line. I like girlie drinks and advocate them whole heartedly.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Except the yellow line, because I hate Jews.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

there's also the beachwood a block or so north of the division el. but i don't know if they would have the requisite xx-chromosomed drinks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really hate Jews. I love Jews. I do hate Skokie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

After bopping around the Uke Village and Division/Wicker Park all weekend, I feel like I have a decent sense of the geography now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

(this excites me)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't quick enough on my feet to make a joke yesterday about Juu-baiting.

Thursday now looks like this: going to the fancy wine thing from 6-8 with a few folks; and then up to Katerina's a little later, because a guy I know is playing with some of the gals from Po' Girl (Canucks).

If TTs is in between those two, time or place-wise, I'd like to stop by.

Hey! And listen to this - someone forwarded me an ad from Craiglist, looking for men 30-55 who are knowledgeable about wine for a market research thing, and I'm getting 75 smackers to do that tomorrow night.

MacArthur Park is notorious for its puss-eating, though not so much after they installed the ultra-bright streetlights.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Jupe? Is that a Jewish dupe?"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN GIRL DRINK DRINKERS! How about the Blue Line Club Car? Even closer to the train (right underneath @ Damen) and they have many different mojitos, martinis, and a bunch of other fruity stuff. And beer! And food! And a halfway decent atmosphere!

http://centerstagechicago.com/restaurants/blue-line-club-car.html

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I could get with that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just went to six -- SIX! -- video stores before locating a copy of Glitter (starring Mariah Carey) on DVD. Specialty, Select, Blockbuster on Berwyn, Hollywood on Granville, Blockbuster on Devon, and finally Hollywood on Howard.

This is for an article I'm writing that's due on Friday, so Netflix was not an option.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am sad I will have missed both British ILXors when they've come to Chicago. (Some folks met up with SteveM a couple years ago, but I was sick.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Who are you writing for? Why Glitter?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

You probably could have bought a copy for $2 at a grocery store.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

Or a truck stop.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I watched Glitter and Crossroads for my "bachelorette party" which was actually a slumber party at which no one stayed overnight but everyone ate tons of Pizza Hut pizza. I'm mature.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Crossroads ruled, Glitter was pretty bad, not even Saved By the Bell bad. Just bad.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

when i first read that i mistook crossroads for the patrick swayze vehicle road house. i thought that was an odd choice for a bachelorette party but whatever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

What I liked about Crossroads is that had a parallel scene from Satisfaction, of the young girl singing a wicked stoopid song really badly while a gross older man (who wrote the song) plays the piano. Nothing beats Satisfaction though, not for me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe Britbrit wrote the song. Either way, who cares. It was entertaining enough and beat the pants off Glitter.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc: will the show you're playing this evening be somewhere easy to find /get to for someone who doesn't know town at all? If I can get my act together this evening maybe I'll come and say hello.

That aside, don't be sad, I'm not particularly interesting. Even in my blatant Britisherism.

Today, I will see Chicago for the first time. Hooray!

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

Let's try the Blue Line place tomorrow. I've always been curious about it. Who's with me?

Question... Is there a way to plug one's ipod directly into the computer or into the speakers to listen to what's already on there on a PC, without bothering with I-tunes? I tried running a cord out of the headphone jack on my ipod and into the computer speakers, which are powered, but I couldn't hear anything.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

tried running a cord out of the headphone jack on my ipod and into the computer speakers, which are powered, but I couldn't hear anything.

this is exactly how i listen to my ipod and it works fine for me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

and i'll probably stop by the blue line place tomorrow for a couple of quick ones but i'll be gone early. what time is every/anyone getting there?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'll try it again then.

I can get there a little before 5.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

YAY! I used the cord that was already plugged into my speaker. Apparently, jamming the cord I brought from home into that hole wasn't the most brilliant idea ever. It was a lot of work getting it back out.

Now I can listen to Junior Boys!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

ok cool, i can probably get there around 5:20 or so. maybe 5:30-ish. i was walking past innjoy yesterday around 5:30 and there wasn't anyone in the place. like not even staff. what time does that place open?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, but I've been there pretty early before. Maybe it was just deserted because of the weather. Usually, people are out sitting on the patio.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Usually, people are out sitting on the patio.

and blocking the goddamn sidewalk.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so happy that I can listen to Junior Boys right now.

Have any of you ever been to Volo Wine bar in Roscoe village?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Crossroads ruled, Glitter was pretty bad, not even Saved By the Bell bad. Just bad.

This is about what I was expecting, but I watched both last night (had already secured a copy of Crossroads earlier in the evening) and liked Glitter way more. I mean, Crossroads was fun in a totally campy way (like hi, I didn't realize karaoke bars had dressing rooms) but was definitely a BAD MOVIE. But I thought Glitter was genuinely interesting and entertaining, even as it conformed to the usual tropes of movies of that sort, and the 1983-era soundtrack was fucking awesome: Grandmaster Flash, Art of Noise, my favorite Stevie Wonder song from Hotter Than July, Mariah Carey covering Cherelle's "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

when i first read that i mistook crossroads for the patrick swayze vehicle road house. i thought that was an odd choice for a bachelorette party but whatever.

In the 80's that would be a totally valid choice. Swayze was THE hunk.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

My boss-lady (I first typed boxx) comes today. I'm kind of amazed--she's coming in from Chicago, arriving at 11 and flying out at 5. I feel honored or something.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

yes but i'm sure amanda would've been watching it for sam elliot. does kelly lynch get nekkid in that movie?

er, xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

(Overheard from next door in a mini-meeting of Labor3rs: "She said 'Not tonight, I got my period,' so I said, 'Well you ain't got lock-jaw do ya?'")

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

and i'll never have that recipe agaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnnnn...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

bawdy union dude's quote kills thread

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was imagining Eric singing, "Someone left the puss out in the rain..." at karaoke.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Road House v. Point Break

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. They're in full-swing over there. Apparently someone's late and they're just chatting. Just now: "Tell Randy you wanna ride him like a rodeo bull. Y'all can watch Brokeback together. Or maybe Scarface [wtf??]."

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was imagining Eric singing, "Someone left the puss out in the rain..." at karaoke.

resisting urge to make wet puss joke, trying hard.... resistance fading... will power... slipping.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Road House v. Point Break

i am an EFF... BEE... EYE... agent!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc: will the show you're playing this evening be somewhere easy to find /get to for someone who doesn't know town at all? If I can get my act together this evening maybe I'll come and say hello.

Ah, I didn't know you knew about the show, Tim! And didn't know you would already be in town for it. Hmmm, I don't know how easy it is to get to. The address is 2100 W. Belmont. It's not really near any el stops, unfortunately. But from the Belmont el stop, you can take the Belmont (#77) bus west for about a mile and a half, and you're there. Where would you be coming from?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

The weather is PERFECT here. All pusses would be dry. 72 degrees and virtually no humidity. And I've never seen the sky bluer down here.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, I've met Toby. He's a genuine Britisher, isn't he?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just went to six -- SIX! -- video stores before locating a copy of Glitter

See? Don't f. with with Tommy Mottola.

I'm a Crossroads fan.

Haven't been to Volo, but I've walked by it a lot.

There's another place - Frasca Pizzeria and Wine Bar, at the Paulina/Lincoln/Roscoe 6-way - that looks pretty swell.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't necessarily want dry pusses.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

There's another place - Frasca Pizzeria and Wine Bar, at the Paulina/Lincoln/Roscoe 6-way - that looks pretty swell.

I've had my eye on that place for a while. I park at that intersection in the morning at least a couple times a week, since it's close to band practice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Goodbye Chicago. Goodbye forever.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

later gator.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I get to have wine & cheese with more of the bigwigs today. This is a bummer, kind of, because I have a lot of work to do and stopping for a hour to go meet people will mean I probably have to stay late.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am home from work just for the hell of it -- well, because I'm going insane with tiredness and filthy apartment. So far I've watched 3 eps of Veronica Mars and had a huge roats boef sandwich from the deli, and I'm about to put new curtains up. Not working is the best!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

because I'm going insane with tiredness and filthy apartment.

could you stop by my place when yr done?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

i'm in need of distraction, can anyone help me here?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've just been reading a very entertaining flamewar email exchange between a coworker and a client. The client bullied my coworker until he couldn't take it any more. What's worse is that the client is very obviously ignorant and wrong. I'm waiting with bated breath for the next message.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

POST IT HERE!!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Chicago. Hello forever.

Why the dead thread?

I just ate fried oysters and they were esquisitos

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Dead thread = lunch

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's been dead all day except for first thing in the morning.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cunt.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Some of us work, too. Rarely, but it happens.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I can't post it. First of all I am scared of getting caught (yeah, I could blank out names and emails but that's a pain in the ass) and second, it wouldn't make a lot of sense out of context, and giving context would take forever. Being able to track things through our system helps a lot, too. Sorry.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

whoops, left the ipod playing at a pretty good volume when i went to the bathroom. when i came out there were folks hovering around the cubicles after their meeting broke in the conference room. hovering around my cube just in time to clearly and distinctly hear the chorus of the mummies "sooprize package for mr. mineo."

very, very professional.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've been out at a conference all morning, our user's group convention is this week.

New in overeating: last night Maddie and I went to a wine bar and had some delicious, filling tapas (tuna and beef tartare, braised short ribs). Then I went out with the dudes for beer and chicken wings.

Today I had a giant gyro for lunch. There is not enough gym for how I'm living.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me of the Colbert Report last night: "Some say yee-ro, some say gy-ro, I say it's a lamb sandwich -- this is 'Merica, speak english! This is the Colbert Report."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot we were having a lunch presentation today. Free food! It's corner bakery, but it's FREE.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ok. I'm going to read at my desk now.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I had free lunch yesterday during the Panel of Rich White Women Assuring Us All that We Can Have Children and Be Still be Lawyers. If you play your cards right and have a high tolerance for institutional pizza and boring panel discussions, there's at least three days worth of free lunch every week at law school.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i had a cup of coffee and a danish for lunch yesterday. today i didn't even get the coffee, been a busy couple of days.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Panel of Rich White Women Assuring Us All that We Can Have Children and Be Still be Lawyers

How did you end up in this trap, may I ask?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm imagining that they're separating your law school classes into boys and girls, and the girls talk about babies and the boys talk about using your money and power to leverage a lifetime of easy tail.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Free lunch, der. Although I did have small hope for either practical advice or some sort of feminist deconstruction of the legal job market. Disappointment on both counts!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Lemme guess: instead it's "We did it this way and this is the way all women should do it."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ institutional pizza

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.terribly-happy.com/images/pizza1.jpg

"Just like the lunch lady used to make!"

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wrong tag. Duh.

Link of the day: Panda bites man, man bites him back

At'll show him.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Not really. More of an inability to comprehend that anyone would ever need to do it any other way (such as starting law school later in life, being a single parent, not being able to afford a nanny, not having the luxury of working for a "family friendly" firm). Like "Do whatever works for you out of this list of limited possibilities only realistically available to women who can make partner before menopause and have husbandss with high-paying jobs sufficient to support the whole family."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, so it's a class issue.

Jeff needs to get on the stick.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

"No one ever said they would bite people," Zhang said. "I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don't remember much."

ROFFLEY

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

"I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don't remember much."

sounds like my prom night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

"No one ever told me they kick people in the nuts."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

1. LOL
2. Classes are classes, but different student groups or sometimes the school put on lunch hour or dinner time programs about a variety of topics that usually involve free food and are entirely optional.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

The programs generally reflect the organization that puts them on. For example, that little panel was brought to us by the Women's Law Caucus and the Famiy Law Society.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'll bet a panel brought to you by the Women's Law Circus would be more entertaining and probably just as informative.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

plus there'd probably be balloons and trained bears and what not.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why do we have rubber gloves in the office first aid kit but not aspirin?

Or more importantly, why do we have about 30 pair of rubber gloves in the office first aid kit? Forget about the aspirin.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

because more people have instance to use aspirin to rubber gloves i'd imagine.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Does Howie Mandell work in your office?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to start using the rubber gloves, and maybe when they run low, they will buy some more aspirin.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

fill the rubber gloves with stuff. what that stuff is i'll leave to your deviant mind.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.cox.net/jsadams1/Ruprecht.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

82 minutes until i can get out of here and get me another pack of goddamn cigarettes and frankly, it can't come soon enough. i starting to get snappish in regards to my cubicle mates idiotic questions and comments. usually i can appreciate them for how rediculous they are.

but really, does she think i care about star trek? and as she is a self-proclaimed "trekkie" how can she say "aren't they the same thing?" when she confused star wars and star trek. and thirdly, what makes her so goddamn sure that the following is true: "what about that other one. the one on the ship with that woman or that thing and they're fighting. i don't like it so you wouldn't either."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell does that even mean?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure of the specifics but the general vibe is this "i don't like something so i know you won't either." it's kind of presumptuous i feel. and i'm all touchy without any goddamn cigarettes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Something Dan probably knows but I just learned:

Michigan is the 11th largest state, ahead of Minnesota, Idaho, and Utah. I guess when you consider the UP, it all adds up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Michigan's motto is "If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look Around You."

Which really should've been the hidden bonus track on that Sufjan album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

And Aerosmith's most popular album was their 11th. COINCIDENCE?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc: I'm about to go record shopping in the N Clark Street - Diversey area, which may take a while. Will wander along to the venue later (maybe around 8ish?) and see if I can say hello. Er, I'm wearing a dark grey t-shirt, a light grey jacket and a Confused Britisher expression. I'll try to get back on line in a while in case you need to let me know I'm making some kind of terrible error.

If I ask for jaymc will people look at me like I'm mental? I mean, I'm used to people looking at me as if I'm mental, but I like to be prepared.

Blue Line tomorrow sounds a winner.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Tim:

I'll definitely be there at 8, but the show doesn't start until 9. Just FYI. I may be sound-checking if you arrive that early.

And you can call me John. And I will inform others that a Britisher may be in the area and to direct him to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Tim, is it common for Britishers to own coffee makers?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

based on the britishers who have stayed with me in the past, not very. and some get kind of pissy if you don't have any english breakfast tea. and margarine. why the fuck would I have margarine.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

where are you playing john?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Margarine? As opposed to butter? Gross.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

exactamundo shortcake!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I use margarine, as opposed to butter.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

You mean common as in unclassy or common as in standard-issue?

It's not unclassy, and it's not unusual, though most people I know would have the caftiere kind rather than some fancy glugging growling piece of technokit.

My mum has a percolator, and if you call my mum common, I'll cry.

John, will aim for after 8. Thanks!

Oh yes: not only is Toby a British, he's one of the most genuine fellows you could ever hope to meet.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

i never pictured you as an anglophile jordan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Is margarine seriously a British thing? I grew up with it as the default for toast.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, margarine.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

there was a really really drunk englander at cal's on sunday who was positively ROARING with delight about on-stage banter involving a fanny pack. then he started shouting requests for oasis covers. keep in mind this was at cal's so he was about 3 feet from the faces of the band.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

my grandmother was from ireland and she always used margarine. but she was an awesome lady so i can't really fault her for that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Otto: Beat Kitchen. Opening for Adam Green.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

that's what i thought. tim, if you get there early the place actually serves decent food considering it's pub grub. where in england are you from? i've got friends in london, leeds, and liverpool.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read any of this. I had to first come and write about

MY DREAM LAST NIGHT BY NICK

Sarah's mom was in town, so I decided, for some reason, that we all needed to go to the pornographic bookstore. The pornographic bookstore was in a parking lot of a strip mall, in kind of a crater that you went in through and then underground. Once we were in the bookstore, it wasn't a pornographic bookstore anymore, just a regular bookstore, and I was with Kenan and John instead of Sarah and her mom. Right away, John sped off to some other part of the store. I looked at the surprisingly extensive cd collection, Kenan came over and told me about some cd he found and then walked away. Right then, Ben Affleck came up to me and, with no introduction, started talking about his various projects he is working on these days. I got really mad at his presumptiousness and yelled "I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!" Then Ben Affleck and I got in a yelling match with each other, each trying to have the last word.

FIN

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I hate those Affleck nightmares. Hey, we've all been there.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's because I read that Peter Biskind Miramax book last week. Unputdownable!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020410/17185__changing_l.jpg

(l-r) Nick, Ben

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I meant common as in standard-issue! "[F]ancy glugging growling piece of technokit" is really funny, too. I have one of those and a caftiere*! And a proper tea pot, even. I like warm, caffeinated beverages.

* French press, you knobs.

Nick, you're weird. And Bob Newhart is on Conan tonight.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't want to get out from under my comforter this morning. it was so toasty under there. sleeping alone in the big bed kind of sucks but sleeping under that comforter is fucking awesome.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

O rly?

You've just reminded me that last night I dreamt about someone giving me chocolate candy with razor blades inside. :( My friend Evan also told me about a great anxiety dream last night, in which he sat in on my (improbably huge) drum kit on a gig and wasn't cutting it, so people came up and took away one part at a time until he was left with just a bass drum and a rack tom.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

(that was an x-post to Nick's post about the book)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

i have two french presses and a small un-fancy burbbling mr. coffee deal. i almost splurged on a $150 monstronsity last year and now i'm kind of glad i didn't because i know if i have the capability to make 12 cups of coffee at a time i'll wind up drinking 12 cups of coffee in a sitting.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Think of the productivity!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

it would be a short step from that to cutting out the middleman and snorting lines of coffee grounds off my kitchen counters.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

No. The impact of caffeine on productivity is a bell curve, I've found. Too much and you're way too distracted/ADD to work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

plus, i only have time to make coffee at home on the weekends usually. so i'm sure i'd wind up drinking 2 pots of coffee and playing video games for 17 hours or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Which really should've been the hidden bonus track on that Sufjan album.

Sufjan is a hater. A U.P. hater. Typical fucking transplanted troll. He probably doesn't even know the state motto. Probably doesn't know the state song ("Michigan, my Michigan") the bird (robin) the flower (apple blossom) or the gem (greenstone) either. Yes, that was all of the top of my head. For my next trick I will form a map of the state WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS.

(Epilogue to this post: 3 glasses of wine is a nice thing on a busy afternoon. Except now I just want to drink and not work any more.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

off the top of my head:

mass. state bird- chickadee
state flower- mayflower (i'm guessing)
state motto- "by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty" (only in latin)
state song- freebird

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any of that information about Delaware, although it says, "Home of tax-free shopping" on all the Welcome to Delaware signs.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

You're right about the bird and flower, Dan. I dunno about the rest -- they weren't in the article I edited.

Illinois
Bird: Cardinal
Fish: Bluegill (no thanks to me -- I voted for something more obscure when the vote was put to elementary-schoolers in 1986)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey, I need a new name for my electronic music dingus. All I can think of right now is Piss in a Bottle on account of the, uh, studio conditions, so SUGGESTIONS PLS. Especially Nick, because he comes up with good names.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

ALDO KELRAST=

KARATE DOLLS
STALLED OKRA
DOLLAR STEAK
TAKES DOLLAR
ORDEAL TALKS
LOAD STALKER
ASKED A TROLL
A SKATER DOLL
DARK OAT SELL
ELK SALT ROAD
LOSE RAD TALK
OLD LAKE ARTS

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), September 20th, 2006 12:46 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Dollar Steak is not a bad band name.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Texas
State animal: Armadillo
State bird: Mockingbird
State flower: Bluebonnet
State song: uh... I think it's still "Texas Our Texas," but I know there was some campaign to change it to "Yellow Rose of Texas," which I'm all for, because the other one is crap.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Dollar Tube Snake

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

uh... Steak

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

"uh... Steak" is my favorite suggestion so far.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Playing tonight:
uh...Steak
TBA
The Institutional Pizza

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Did I tell you about the guy I used to date who was otherwise an intelligent fellow who thought "TBA" was the name of a band and didn't find out otherwise until he asked his bandmates who TBA was since they played the same venues as his band, yet he had never heard them play?

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

I thought it was a disease.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just noticed that one ear of my headphones has been quietly soaking in my teacup for the last 10 minutes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

That actually made me laugh out loud.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

And not evilly as with schadenfreude, either. I just imagined you looking down into your tea cup and seeing your headphone in it and getting this look on your face like, "Oh bother." Also the thought of your headphone quietly sneaking away for a tea bath.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also, you're drinking tea, which is for gays.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

NC, off the top of my head:

Bird - Cardinal
Rock - Granite
Nickname - The Old North State or the Tarheel State
Flower - Dogwood
Animal - Grey squirrl
Gem - Emerald

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I still vote for "Stalled Okra". What's wrong with this okra? Why has it stalled? Did it's distributor cap get wet? Shit.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

its, I meant. I hate when I do that.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I just imagined you looking down into your tea cup and seeing your headphone in it and getting this look on your face like, "Oh bother." Also the thought of your headphone quietly sneaking away for a tea bath.

I laughed at the implication that it should have been thrashing or otherwise calling attention to itself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I just remembered "Two Car Funeral". That might work, since there are two of us.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I do like that one.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Michigan is The Wolverine State.

http://static.flickr.com/41/118941928_2ad83d1413.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/images/wolverine_large.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

teh cuet

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have the Xiu Xiu cover of "Don' Cha" that they could send to me?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I think I just came up with the right name. What about "Pursuance"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like Two Car Funeral better, actually. Pursuance sounds too abstract.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Pursuance the Led Zeppelin album that nobody has?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, that's Presence. Pursuance is one of the movements on A Love Supreme.

Pursuance sounds too abstract.

But the music is kind of abstract! I like Two Car Funeral too but it sounds more like a punk band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it kinda does.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

(and I was kidding, btw.)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, sorry. This hasn't been my sharpest day ever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wednesday's suck.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

I love Two Car Funeral. You can call your first album "We Fucked It Up."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I had a nice trip back to Portland, where it is raining pleasantly. My cat is very happy to see me.

Is Vic taller than the (not-really-that-tall) Chris P.?

Isn't Dan taller than me? A smidge?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

"The aptly-named Two Car Funeral couldn't seem to put together a debut album, much less the titular memorial service."

Chris is that tall. So is Dan, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

Funny you should be talking about this, I just hit my head coming upstairs from the laundry room.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am 6'3", for the record.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Minnesota, hail to thee!
Hail to thee our state so dear!
Thy light shall ever be
A beacon bright and clear!

-"Hail, Minnesota!"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote 40 haiku this afternoon for this. this. Come root for me, or join the battle yourself.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sir, you have stirred me to my core.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for you crossword puzzle kids, the first word in NC's state motto is "ESSE". Esse quam videri, be what you seem, something like that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

I met Tim. I pronounce him a top bloke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

LOOK AT THIS CHICAGO:

McDonal's is might start serving breakfast all day.

I'm going to get soooooo fat.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Note: Today is my first day of not drinking coffee* and YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME????

* Yesterday, while riding the train to work after drinking two hefty cups of coffee, I noticed that I was not only clenching my jaw but grinding my teeth and that is just not okay.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, oh chicago, please keep me awake today. i beg of you.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

so far yr lettin me down chicago. but i suppose it's just desserts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday, while riding the train to work after drinking two hefty cups of coffee, I noticed that I was not only clenching my jaw but grinding my teeth and that is just not okay.

Maybe it's not the coffee that is causing stress, but the LAW SCHOOL?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I feel differently than you. McDonald's breakfast is the worst stuff on the menu. That sausage is awful, those biscuits... ew. And then sometimes they cover it in that cheez whiz stuff. Makes me gag. But you are not alone. I know people who could eat McD's breakfast a lot, and think their hamburgers are nasty. I like their hamburgers. Pickles, thousand island, and shredded lettuce on a hamburger? Brilliant!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, that's just deserts, to you. And I'm DISGUSTINGLY peppy after a day off.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's how you're supposed to be. I don't always get that, though. Sometimes after a day off, I've only been reminded that I'd rather have another day off.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

i went to a great show at the big horse last night. i went to an afterparty after that. i left said party at 4:24 this morning. got home just after 5. made coffee and ironed a shirt. coffee has now worn off. i'm dying here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a serious question for all of you:

When you're listening to Houses of the Holy, do you skip "The Crunge"?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

only if it's on cd.

where's that confounded bridge?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what that is.

I wonder how many states list the cardinal as their bird? Virginia does. Virginia also has the dogwood flower. Carry me back there sometime.

So far at work today, I have:
* looked at stuff on Bluefly that I won't buy
* cleaned a necklace with dishsoap and a paper towel
* applied lotion, lip gloss
* took a vitamin
* made a bunch of copies of a show flier
* paid a bill online
* hooked up my ipod

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also, my new favorite phrase is exactamundo shortcake!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

So who will I be seeing at the Blueline bar this afternoon??

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

not me, i've gotta haul ass to the wicker park post office to pick up my records. oh, so laurel, no ass-kicking/evil eye giving is necessary. but it's good to know you've got my back.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

B-but that's not very far away at all!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to Be Your Own Pet at my desk.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it's not the coffee that is causing stress, but the LAW SCHOOL?

No shit! But caffeine exacerbates the existing stress and since I can't exactly quit law school... The coffee has to go. I can probably make it through the morning without drinking the terrible free work coffee, but when that headache sets in, I don't know if I'll be able to resist the Starbucks/Dunkin Donuts/Intelligentsia gauntlet that I have to run to get from work to class.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff and I are on the fence about TT. He doesn't feel much like going out and while I would normally go without him, tomorrow's his birth-em-up day and I would feel like an asshole not spending his birthday eve with him.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, that's ridiculous, the Crunge is a highlight.

I only have it maybe once a year, but McDonald's breakfast is a guilty guilty pleasure (and when on the road, a hangover necessity).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn it, how is it possible that i'll be out of town both weekends this class is being offered?

B-but that's not very far away at all!
true, but i've been awake for 27 hours at the moment. i want my bed in the worst way.

I'm listening to Be Your Own Pet at my desk.
they're playing at logan square auditorium friday with my favorite band in chicago and probably my favorite band in the world as the two openers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

tell jeff to sac up and come out for drinks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

You've been whining like a little nancy girl all morning and you're telling me to tell Jeff to sac up? WAHHH.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I discovered ratemyprofessors.com this morning. I had to make an account because my favorite English professor from college had only low ratings. Then I looked up R1chard D4vis, and got these gems:

I like jazz a lot, and he picked a lot of stupid selections to listen to, which was somewhat discouraging. Of course he's a funny, eccentric guy that everyone should meet, but I wouldn't say he's anything incredible.

Horrible professor. Everytime I hear jazz now I shreek in horror

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

You've been whining like a little nancy girl all morning and you're telling me to tell Jeff to sac up? WAHHH.

exactamundo shortcake!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!

― fonzy midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

You're funny when you don't sleep.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

So no TT this week?

Otto, I know, but I'm supposed to see Nueva Cats friday for their last show.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

i'm funnier with a full 8 hours mrs. c!

― otto fonazarelli (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

i will be there. dan, i'm sure, will be there. there is a small chance you will get to see me pass out before my first beer. come for the loss of conciousness, stay for the nachos.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Tim the Britisher will be there! Everybody but Jeff and me, sounds like.

Kenan - I eat McDonald's food about... once a year. It's usually breakfast and it's usually when I have to get up at half past crack to do something irritating like fly or drive somewhere. I use it as a motivator. I probably would like their breakfast less if I ate it more often.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, that's ridiculous, the Crunge is a highlight.

It's certainly something else. It's not boring. It may be genius. I don't know. But it's not a Led Zeppelin song, really, and it's in the middle of my favorite Led Zeppelin album.

I eat McDonald's food about... once a year.

Don't you ever have a Big Mac attack? I know I do. About once every two months, I guess.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

"my favorite Led Zeppelin album." You know, that's a pretty grandiose statement. I can't rank my favorite Led Zeppelin albums any more than my favorite... I don't know... other things that I love equally.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

no joke, i think i'm starting to hallucinate.

x-post: zeppelin III will always be my favorite.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Big Mac Attacks: Not really. Taco Bell is another story, however.

Led Zeppelin, in order: III, Physical Graffiti, I, Houses of the Holy, II, IV, In Through the Out Door, Presence, whatever else they released. It's worth nothing that III through IV on my list are very close to each other, so that while IV is ranked seventh, I still love it so much.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I love Zep's odd studio-only songs. Also, it's a prog James Brown tribute, so when I first heard it in high school, I seriously had no option but to love it.

My favorite Led Zep album is...I can't decide between Houses of the Holy and II. They all having amazing songs, though. How the West Was Won can be pretty incredible too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

And IV would probably rank higher if I didn't break it when I was 16. I love LZI because of How Many More Times, which is probably in my top ten favorite songs ever released ever.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, HMMT is great. So is (How Many More) Good Times, Bad Times.

I never have "big mac attacks".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

How the West Was Won can be pretty incredible too.

yeah, i remember i bought this on a lark and my girlfriend came home to find me playing air guitar in the living room with this at full volume. she asked if i was 15 years old.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and lz I? communication breakdown? hello, anyone?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

what is it about the chicago thread and lists?

my fav's:
III
physical grafitti
IV
houses of the holy
II
presence
coda
several whitesnake albums
in through the out door

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Communication Breakdown was another song ruined by the high school jukebox. But like I said, the first and last tracks are my jams.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. But IttOD has Fool in the Rain!!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

III is the only Led Zep album I own. I never listen to it, natch.

I only got about 4.5 hours of sleep last night myself.

If anyone's interested, C|N|ST| is playing at Millennium Park at 5:30 today. You know, as a pre-Thirsty Thursday activity. I don't know. It's free.

Also Andersonville BBQ Festival on Saturday at 6.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

When you go to Taco Bell, be SURE to order extra extra extra tomatoes!!! You're supporting Im0kalee Indian tomato pickers in FL. (Too lazy to provide a link, but I will later, or Jenny you can.)

McD breakfast is fine. The MCGRIDDLE IS AY-MAY-ZING.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Did I mention that I'm returning to Chicago FOREVER in about 40-some days? I think November 6, with Courtney in tow. (Though I will have visited twice before then, very briefly.)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/80/249046833_1068496c2a.jpg

This is the house where I currently reside.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's cute, Jesse.

John, are you playing on the Gehry stage??

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Naturally, I will probably be going to New Orleans shortly after you come back.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I will be at TT. Today is going to be a busy one so I probably won't be ON THRED much, but I should roll into the Damen stop between 5:30 and 6 if I'm lucky. I'll try to check back later for teh updatez.

otto, you are a example I would like to be able to follow. 27 hours! Once upon a time I could do it, but no longer. I may have to get in rock n' roll training.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I missed that Otto post before.

1) 27 hours is ridiculous, I would be hallucinating.

2) Circuit-bending class OMG.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

John, are you playing on the Gehry stage??

No. By that restaurant. The Park Grill or whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

28 hours and i have coffee. so far so good. work is tough, the easiest stuff is tripping me up and i'm making really basic mistakes. and those are just the ones i've caught. i'll be seeking some co-worker opinion before i submit anything.

and yeah, that circuit-bending class sounds f'ing awesome. i want to take all my danelectro pedals in there and see if i can't create some sort of monster echo/delay/flange effect.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

presence
coda
several whitesnake albums
in through the out door

HA!

John, I just caught myself up on the Lost thread and I just want to say that I completely agree with this:

I refuse to pay any attention to "The Lost Experience." Even though it's officially sanctioned by ABC and the show's creators, I don't consider it canon. I don't like having things potentially spoiled by clues in the game, even though I've already picked up a fair amount from this thread and others like it.

Except my beef is more that I really don't have time to devote more than an hour a week plus a few minutes reading an ILX thread to a god damn TV show, even one that I like a lot. Jesus.

Jeff was going to take a circuit bending class once, I think. Or he talked about it or something.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know you played guitar, Otto.

So I have to take off of work tomorrow afternoon, at least, to get up to Mpls for a show. Since I've been calling in "sick" on a lot of Friday afternoons, I was thinking of taking the afternoon of today as well, just to make it look more believable. Is that stupid?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

what is it about ~~the chicago thread~~ ILX and lists?

jordan, what are you saying about fool in the rain?

i'm not sure how much i care about lost anymore. i hope that s3 rectifies that.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Except my beef is more that I really don't have time to devote more than an hour a week plus a few minutes reading an ILX thread to a god damn TV show, even one that I like a lot. Jesus.

Ah, see, when Kr and I were coming to the end of Season 2, I couldn't wait to finally be able to read all the discussion and bizarre theories online without squinting and shielding my eyes from certain details I hadn't encountered in the show yet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

ok, lets line up according to the severity of our respective lost addictions.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

The bizarre theories just piss me off. All that brain power used figuring out a TV show.

Where I am in that line depends on the rest of youse. I am more than a casual watcher, but less than a bizarre internet theorist.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm saying that Fool in the Rain is a great, great recording.

I will probably watching some Lost this season, but I am not one of the obsessed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

ok, just making sure. because i feel rather strongly about that song.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

i would be more than happy if i am to never hear that song again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'll be absolutely needing to see every episode, even if i'm yawning and bitching at how it hasn't been the same since s1.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I admire that, Julia. It's gotta be one of the classic drum performances ever ever, for one thing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Some people def. go way overboard with the theories, and it can be kinda annoying. I do like speculating, though. During Season 1, I made a chart with all the main characters and tried to match up how they were connected to one another. And sometimes you'll read something that does make you go hmmmmm. Like, why are so many characters named Tom?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

i had a high school radio show and i think i would play that every single week. along with one or two other led zeppelin songs because it was high school, and it was a pretty long show.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Did the show have a name?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

jules in the rain?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm finding lists of resorts, theme parks, and restaurants in Orlando. Especially restaurants. It sounds like a tourist hellhole, and it would be filled to bursting with children, but good lord this is making me hungry.

xpost haha

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

nope. and it was high school radio, so it's not like anyone really listened anyway. but it was great fun to be all alone in the school late at night and turn everything way up. i really regret not having the patience to continue on with college radio (they wanted me to catalog things before i got a show, which i thought was bullshit).

xp ha.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, all you Lost people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PPCCcXarkc&eurl=

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

My longest-running name for any radio show I did in college was Takin' Retards to the Zoo, and I played the Dead Milkmen song of the same name at the beginning of every show. That lasted about three terms.

Later on, my cohost and I had a series of "prime time" shows where we didn't bother as much with names, but rather with gimmicks, like the 9 o'clock ODB track.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't know jimmy page played on the nashville teens "tobacco road" single. that makes it even awesomer!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

My radio show was The All-Skate Direction, first on Saturday mornings and then Wednesdays from midnight to whenever I shut down the station.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Re: the Lost clip. WTF. That's stupid.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also, it was stupid to post it, since anyone who reads the Lost thread saw it a week ago. I don't read the Lost thread.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I am spoiled by tall buildings.

http://www.manuelsonthe28th.com/

The 28th floor. The 28th floor. What a bunch of hicks.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't read the Lost thread.

You're just bitter because Scott started that new Season 2 thread because yours wasn't "official" enough.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

No, I fully concede that. I don't read it because I am becoming increasingly convinced that this show is coming to no good. I don't have the time to care about a show that... no, that's a lie. I have the time. I don't have the give-a-shit.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I've only watched the first season...should I quit while I'm ahead?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think I may have to go raid Borders' foreign film section for Criterion releases of Sven Nykvist movies. Soon.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

A Question:

How do I get dial-up?

I am going to see my parents in Michigan in October and I have to have internet (have to and reallllly want to). How do I use dial up?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I've only watched the first season...should I quit while I'm ahead?

sure... IF YOU TOTALLY WANT TO MISS OUT!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I've only watched the first season...should I quit while I'm ahead?

I don't know. It's been fun, I guess. But lord... they're on some Pi crap now, where the numbers predict all human fate, I think. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that, either, because you just KNOW it's all going to be like, "But that's not THE WHOLE TRUTH."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have the time for Lost haters. I haven't been this obsessed with a TV show since Twin Peaks, and it's fun to remember how serial television can be kind of awesome. All of the possibilities, the expanding storylines and tangents, etc.

Then again, it's like the one show I watch. It's not like I'm going to give it up in favor of something else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

"WE ARE NEVER GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT THE SHOW YOU'RE SO OBSESSED WITH IS EVEN ABOUT. BWAHAHAHAHA."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Well, as Rob Thomas said about Veronica Mars (and I paraphrase), "We learned a lot from Twin Peaks...for instance, we learned to SOLVE THE MYSTERY, because people will only stay invested for so long."

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

haha Laurel soooo OTM.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

yay! my new (to me) turntable is scheduled for delivery tomorrow!! it's got to the ups location in hodgkins, il this morning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Laurel, you should keep watching Lost. The thread is pretty much for the bullshit, IMHO. Mostly that mitya dude talking to himself. I'd rather discuss it in person, if I was going to.

Jesse: MichNet! I'm not sure what the regulations are like these days, but it used to be totally free if you had a modem. Might be worth checking into.

xpost: I tried watching the premiere of Jericho on CBS last night, hoping it might fulfill a little of my Lost jonesing... also, I have an soft spot for stupid portrayals of post-nuclear-war middle America (see also: The Day After and Red Dawn). Alas, it was crap. Utter crap. Just like those movies.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, but no one watched Twin Peaks after the mystery was solved. That doesn't make sense.

Also, why is the dude from matchbox twenty. commenting on Buffy the Crime-Fighter?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously pushing the button = watching the show.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I believe you mean "the writer/producer of Veronica Mars and author of Rats Saw God, a quite remarkably good YA novel."

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Also: "possessor of two first names." That never happens to girls, only to boys.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

vivian leigh?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Cheri Sylvester

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Cookbook author Deborah Madison

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Actress Lauren Holly

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

April Grace (Miss Klugh on Lost)
Maggie Grace (Shannon Rutherford on Lost)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Grace Kelly

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

molly shannon

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Elizabeth Ashley

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Evangeline Lilly (Kate on Lost)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

WNBA star Lisa Leslie

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

my grilled cheese sandwich jones is back with a vengence. mmmmmmm, melty buttery cheesey...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I want fish sticks.

Or institutional pizza.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Julie Christie

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

30 hours in and i'm falling apart. weird heart arrythmias have subsided but i'm having a hard time keeping my head from lolling around on my shoulders.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Julie Christie

the rumors are true?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

As the pages turn, my eyes are glued...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dorothy Allison

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my God you two just break down and buy black thick-rimmed glasses already.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

i had some but i think i left them at that liquor store down the street from the beat kitchen.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news324_1.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jacqueline Susann

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Dan. I will check that out when I have a little more time.

This itinerary makes me very very tired just looking at it.

LEG ONE:
October 5

New Orleans Oct 05 7:02 am TO
Chicago Oct 05 9:28 am

Chicago Oct 05 1:10 pm TO
Midland/Bay City/Saginaw (MBS) 3:13 pm

&&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdashmdash&mdash&mdash

LEG TWO:
Oct. 10

Midland/Bay City/Saginaw (MBS) 3:43 pm TO
Chicago (ORD)3:59 pm

&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash

LEG 3:
Oct. 13

Chicago (ORD)Oct 139:15 am TO
Charlotte (CLT)12:06 pm

Charlotte (CLT)1:00 pm TO
New Orleans (MSY)1:59 pm

xpost: Annie E. Casey

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

my mdashes got fucked up!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

in fact the whole thing's a typographical nightmare, but what the hell ever.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Four hour layover in Chicago? That's gotta be frustrating. And in the middle of a Thursday.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you need a semi-colon after each "&mdash."

Here's an interesting cross-section of popular girls' names in 2005:

738 Princess
748 Deja
753 Carol
773 Journey
774 Colleen
781 Tina
811 Chasity
825 Alize
830 Donna
848 Carrie

In other words, the names Carol, Colleen, Tina, Donna, and Carrie do about as well these days as the French word for "already," a misspelling of "chastity," and a brand of cognac -- not to mention fucking Princess and Journey.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

No fucking joke. Yesterday tickets were $100 cheaper no Orbitz, but today I was forced to go United's site and buy. These are NOT my ideal travel days or times. Grrrrrr.

This is going to be one fucking busy month.

First the mess you see above, followed by work work work including 1 week with my boss to transition the NO office to whoever is coming next then the driving to Chicago on the 30 and 31st of Oct then:

November 01, 2006, Flight 326 [Non-Stop]
Departing Chicago, IL - Midway (MDW) at 10:41 AM
Arriving Charlotte, NC (CLT) at 1:31 PM

And of course the fun of driving a Budget truck 1000 miles. At least Courtney will be along for that last part. YAY!

I'm just glad I have a plan of sorts. That helps quell the diarrhea somewhat.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash

—————————

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

with semi colon:
———————

without:
&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash&mdash

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Have I raved before about one of the best cheap lunches in the Loop, at Mac Kelly's?

1 small mac and cheese
1 small steamed vegetables
—————————————
$4.00

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

(Eating both at once is highly encouraged.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

How many of the Chicago Reader's "Best Neighborhood Taverns" have you been to?

I have been to half:

Carol's Pub
June's Inn
Duke's
Johnny's
Rossi's
Cal's
Old Town Ale House
Nisei Lounge
Time Out Sports Bar
Charleston

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just got a sandwich from the new Bombon down the street. It's good. The potato salad is even better.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

cal's.

what poor neighborhood's best tavern is a sports bra?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

man, i'd beat a man for some mac n cheese from feed right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I watched Hstencil do karaoke to "Crazy Train" at Carol's Pub.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think "Exactamundo Shortcake" should be a recipe. What would be in it?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

almond extract and lug nuts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm serious! Homemade shortcake of some sort. I like the almond -- we'll keep that. Some fruit combination other than strawberries. Mangoes and creme fraiche. Blackberries and honey. Help me out here.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

peanut butter and tuna? i don't know, i'm bad at these things...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

There's already a perfectly good thread for ideas like that.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Peach and chocolate chips.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

What's great about "exactamundo shortcake!" in its original usage is that "shortcake" is being used as a nickname (like "sweetheart"), which is delightfully wtf.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Blackberries and honey sounds perfect.

Lunchtime fun...
The youngest guy I work with (he's 26) just described an annoying homeowner as one of those kinds of dweebs I used to shove in lockers in high school. I suddenly felt very protective of the homeowner, especially because my coworker is fucking huge.

I am a lazy bum today. I'm so lazy that I'm even avoiding gmail because I don't feel like chatting.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, if you take the train to the loop during your lay over, I'll skip class and hang out with you. Orange line is only about 20 minutes to the loop from Midway.

Sarah, you can just sign out of chat. I do that sometimes when I am busy for realz.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I found out that not only can I catch a later ride to Mpls tomorrow, but my boss is on vacation, so no worries about leaving early.

Going to see Youngblood tonight, more to hang out with the dudes than for the show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Do you just change your status to Busy?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am excited about Lost Season 3, but I did not enjoy reading the most recent Lost thread. It kills the magic.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Calling someone "shortcake" isn't THAT crazy, one ex used to call me Petunia, Blossom, Gumdrop, lots of silly things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also hee hee that the most effective way to wake up the Chicago thread is to suggest that something can't be done. ;)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

You can do that, Sarah, or you can go to the bottom of the screen and click "Gmail: standard without chat." I never know if Kelsey is online or not, because she always has that clicked.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Calling someone "shortcake" isn't THAT crazy, one ex used to call me Petunia, Blossom, Gumdrop, lots of silly things.

Oh, I've had plenty of pet names that I've given and received, but it's funnier when it's Kevin and it's paired with "exactamundo."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of Kelsey... Kels, If you're out there, I just wanted to remind you that Nick and I will be in your hood the weekend of October 7th. We're staying at a Marriott in Minneapolis West/St Louis Park.

I think shortcake is a cute nickname.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

But yeah, what John said. It's particularly great in context.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kelsey has told me that ILE won't let her post anymore. I suggested re-registering.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

the only pet name i've ever used that meant something was "sweet pea". but there are a ton of others, kid is one i use a lot but it's not so much a pet name as a sign of affection. i call all my friends kid.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just e-mailed Kelsey, since I'm going there tomorrow.

I am going to call the next person I hang out with "shortcake" and see how it goes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

and "doll", me and the ex room mate used to call each other doll for probably the last 4 years together. we still call each other that out of force of habit.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

(problem is I'm often the shortest one in the group)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

You know what, I've actually been worried that Kr and I don't have any pet names for each other. All our e-mails are like "Hey there" or "Hey you." I try some out in my head, but they don't seem right. I thought "peanut" was going to take off, but it hasn't. Even "baby" feels contrived when I say it.

I can totally see you saying "doll," Otto.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

for christ's sake, "shortcake" is what fonzy used to call joanie on happy days. hence the correctamundo pairing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

but can you see me answering to it jaymc?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I still like it. So sue me.

John, it will be OK.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I used to not be able to do pet names, it just seemed so corny. I think you just have to start saying it and then it becomes natural (not that you have to, but you know).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

It helps if you've had pets. It just comes naturally.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have been to the Charleston, but none of the others. That list is kind of BS.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

What about dollface, Kevin? Or was it always just doll?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I want someone to call me tiger.

― go get 'em, tiger (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, are the Ficks playing in Mpls., or are you just going up there for fun? The guy who books S. Union also books a rock club up there - but maybe he told you that already.

And hey, did you all see Free to Be, You and Me growing up, or is there a generation gap? I was talking to L., my housemate, who's 28 and from red-state Indiana and had never heard of it.

I'd be tempted to do the Free to Be, You and Me soundtrack for a cover-an-album night.

John, you should call Kr "Hoss".

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't see it, but we had the record, complete with a lyrics book and pictures.

We aren't playing up there. Nick and I are going there for our annual vacation. Last year it was Wisconsin. This year it's Minneapolis.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Good for you! You'll have a great time.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

It helps if you've had pets. It just comes naturally.

It came naturally in another relationship that I had. But that could be because she was the queen of ridiculous names for me -- or people in general for that matter -- and so we fed off each other.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do you just change your status to Busy?

If you click the arrow like where you change your status, the bottom option is "sign out of chat." If you do that, you can still use the fancy pants g-mail but not be signed into chat at all.

Hoss! HAHAHAHA

And I did not see Free to Be, You and Me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

john, how do you introduce kr? do you say "this is my girlfriend" or "this is my friend" or "this is my main lady" or what? because at some point (around 27 or 28 for me) using "boyfriend and girlfriend" seemed kinda rediculous. jen would always introduce me as her "significant other" which always sounded clinical to me. so i'm curious, and i guess this is open to anyone else too, what do you unmarried, unbetrothed call your other half?

xpost- she'd occasionally call me dollface, it was always doll from me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Things I could also stand being called:

baby
lover
vagina tamer
wonderbutt

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

"lady friend"

I used significant other or partner. Then we just got married because it was easier.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

And that's the only reason. Linguistic convenience.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's why I'm getting married too.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to work that into my vows somehow.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Boyfriend"/"girlfriend" keep you young.

(I'm sure we've had this discussion a few times)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

vagina tamer:
http://www.cocamata.blogger.com.br/magnolia.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've decided I prefer the "Busy" status because then I can still see who is online and who isn't. BWAH HA HA!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

"lady friend"

ha! that's what i prefered but she didn't like being called that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy: I've heard of Free to Be, You and Me, but I'm not sure what it is, exactly: I file it away as 70s up-with-people kiddie kitsch, like Schoolhouse Rock.

Otto: I sometimes say "girlfriend," but most of the time I just say "this is Kr" and figure that they'll catch on that we're together. I mean, together-together.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of worried Nick might be too excited about referring to me as his Old Ball and Chain or his Old Woman. I have a feeling it will start entirely too early.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I hate lady friend.

These peanuts I just got out of the vending machine are the saltiest ever, I feel like I should be watching baseball.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, together-together.

it's probably because you mount her seconds after the introduction.
you're not big on subtlety are you john?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was "special lady friend" and "gentleman caller"? I'm sure I've said before that I'm partial to doll, ducks, kid, baby, kitten, sugar/shug, stuff like that. Never "honey", though -- for some reason honey doesn't work for me.

Sarah, beat him to it with "my old man".

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of worried Nick might be too excited about referring to me as his Old Ball and Chain or his Old Woman. I have a feeling it will start entirely too early.

Haha!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Never "honey", though -- for some reason honey doesn't work for me.

Yeah, it doesn't work for me, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

John is Free to Be.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I realy on Sweetie alot.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've used ladyfriend in the past, but it's a little close to implying lady-of-the-evening.

It was nice calling EF my girlfriend or my gal after a few years of ambiguity with a series of affectionate friends.

(Free to Be You and Me is better than just kitsch - it's got Mel Brooks, Marlo Thomas, feckin' badass 300-lb Rosie Grier singing a song called "It's All Right To Cry" - it's all about boys and girls not getting locked into gender stereotypes. It's pretty great. It made me the sensitive man I am.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i liked "old lady" too but mostly when i was trying to affect some sort of trailer-trash/meth-dealing biker vibe.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

"sweetie" was only used when something gross (i.e. killing a spider, plunging a toilet, unclogging a drain, etc) had to be done.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda like "old girl".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Renee sometimes calls me, in a moment of affection, "Pumpkin Brown." Other close friends have been called "Philadelphia Bunnyface."

I'm just as confused as you are.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Old girl" sounds like a nickname for a horse that will soon turn into glue.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I like Pumpkin Brown! That's very John-like!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

there was dancing and drinking in my apartment last night before i went out, it was fun being with lady friend. even if she won't be a "lady friend".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Pumpkin Brown" sounds like the most obscure blaxploitation character of all time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

In sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, but mostly for linguistic convenience, until death do us part.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's the name John assumes when worlding in adult entertainment.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

worlding? working

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah OTM about the horse.

Although the only time I've heard "old girl" was in reference to female teachers when I was in high school -- e.g., "Awwww shit, old girl's gonna give us homework AGAIN?!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Did you go to high school in the 40s?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I mostly use it when talking to dudes about girls, and not actually to/about my girlfriend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) No, I went to high school with black people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Some of my best neighbors are black people.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yes yes John we know. You had a culturally diverse upbringing.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ol'+girl

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

that's stupid.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

or brilliant, how would i know.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hm. A jaccuzi doesn't seem like the most convenient place for waxing.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

unless "jaccuzi" is also slang for something, *wink*.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

This made me laugh:

ALDERMAN SH1LLER'S SENIOR FEST

Join us on October 17, 2006 from 10:00am to 4:00pm at Cl@rendon Park there will be health screenings . . ., flu shots by the Department of Health, Music . . ., Nails by Trum@n College, State ID's, CAPS bracelets, Department of Aging activities, Bingo and more.

A senior fest! Come out and get shots! OLD PEOPLE LOVE GETTING SHOTS!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Kevin, never sleep again because you funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit this class is so boring that I accepted a piece of gum so I could have something to do.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

i've got two more hours to go then an hour bus/train ride to the post office then, perhaps, to the blue line for drinks? no. no drinks. i'll be home in 3 1/2 to 4 hours, hopefully i won't fall asleep before then.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

on the plus side i've been too tired to notice any sort of nic fit. i ran out of cigarettes around 5:20 this morning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Once you have that next cig, it's all over with.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, the fancy wine event is across the street from the Park Grill, so I think I'll catch me a little 'nasta on the way over.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

How can you people all be so busy on a Thursday? I need a nap. Not as bad as Kevin, but still.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Thass how we roll.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, i just read the back of the slip, post office closes @ 5. i won't make it. no records for me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have to write myself a note to download the DJ Shadow and the Lupe Fiasco tonight.

This thread is doing that thing again where it times out when you try to post.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

How many of the Chicago Reader's "Best Neighborhood Taverns" have you been to?
I have been to half:

Carol's Pub
June's Inn
Duke's
Johnny's
Rossi's
Cal's
Old Town Ale House
Nisei Lounge
Time Out Sports Bar
Charleston

Can you provide a link?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

not happening to me yet.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Going home for nap, then biking to a friend's show at 11ish. These youngsters and their crazy ways!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

for christ's sake, "shortcake" is what fonzy used to call joanie on happy days. hence the correctamundo pairing.

Duh.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, it's in the print ish, not online yet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

TTers, I may be late. Shit slides downhill, what can I say?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

i will not be in attendance. i need sleep.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having Hungry Thursday instead.

I have gone jogging 2.5 - 3 miles 3 times. Are you impressed?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hello!

Just checking in to say we (that's me and my delightful Chicagoan friend Jenn, who frankly is much more worthy of turning out to meet than I am) will be aiming to get to the Blue Line at 5.30ish. I'm in the same light grey jacket as I was last night, but a different dark grey shirt. Still a confused Britishish expression, obv.

I pronounce John a fine fellow, but I suppose you all knew that already.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am impressed, Jesse.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

How late, Dan? I'm thinking you're the only one coming other than Nick and I and.. xpost! Tim & his friend Jenn? Am I wrong?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't say for sure. Probably after 6.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Tim, are you impressed? I like impressing the English. Now do an American accent for me.

I want to go running again today but since I've gone the past 2 days I don't know if I should. Maybe I'll just walk. And run if the 'gators chase me.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Go, go. I've been trying to go every day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Unless you're really sore or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Now do an Ameican accent for me.

http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/

SERIOUSLY. DO IT HERE! Monk-e-mail is great!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

GRAMMAR QUESTION:

Is "in fact" always set off by quotes?

Example: You indicated that the plaintiff had, in fact, never attended any meetings at your office.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm splitting an infinitive up there, so pretend my example says: You indicated that the plaintiff, in fact, had never attended any meetings at your office.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

are you asking about quotes or commas?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

because i can't help you with either of those.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just helped a Thai architect refine his research proposal for the development of (lemme see if I get this right) software that integrates CAD models with environmentally sound building strategies. Then another guy (nice Indian dude) came in to discuss his dissertation on urban heat island effect.

MY SMALL BRANE HURTING. I wrote this post like 2 hours ago. I am posting it now.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

My greetings to everyone -- raise a glass on my behalf tonight. Perhaps I'll see you next week. (Ladies, don't forget about ANTM on Sunday.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think she means commas. I would use the commas, but I have a problem with comma addiction. Also with hyphen addiction.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

You're not splitting an infinitive there, Jenny. Maybe there's a term for what you're doing, but since there's no "to," there's no infinitive to split. Plus, "had, in fact, never" allows you to place a strong emphasis on "never," so I'd go with that.

As far as what you're actually asking, "in fact" is probably set off by commas most of the time, but it's one of those cases where if it's a short sentence that's understandable without the commas, then you can probably get away with omitting them. In this particular case, however, I would use them.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, commas. Sorry chickadees.

xpost - okay, thank you Johann!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

chickadee would be a good pet name too.
it's also the state bird of massachuesetts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Probably half the commas I delete at work are commas after introductory adverbial clauses -- e.g.:

"Today, scientists don't consider Pluto a planet."

"In the 1800s, homosexuality was frowned upon."

I might keep it in, though, if it's confusing:

"In Africa Organization of African Unity members held their annual conference last week."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

monkey
hot boy
bear
boy
doodle-bug*

those are pet names i've used or been called by Sig Oth

*i was semi-secretly super fucking delighted by this one. like a goddamn school girl!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

monkey was our pet name for linus, our pet.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've fed chickadees out of my hand in Minnesota. I climbed a ladder to the bird feeder, put seed in my mittened hand and held vewy vewy still.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

and then, with a ball peen hammer in my other mittened hand...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

You're not splitting an infinitive there, Jenny. Maybe there's a term for what you're doing

Splitting a verb phrase. Which is just fine. Some argue that this practice (like splitting infinitives) should be avoided unless it creates ambiguity or sounds awkward. I don't think it sounds awkward very often, and split infinitives and verb phrases should be used willy-nilly according to your mood.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

my bird's name is kenny. i call him

kennard
kenny wayne shep-bird
"hey bird" (which he says)
kendra
kendrina
Kendrina LaFevre (a gross tranny in greensboro was name Marina LaFevre)
bird-bird
turd bird
butt bird of the border (my ex had a porn called "butt boys of the border"

these are all names i use on a regular basis

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

brenda has fewer nicknames as i've had her for about 6 years less (even less if you count the time kenan's had her)

but i call her:

ass-cat
meow-meow
meowser
puss
pussgina
pooty cat
widdle fuzzy cuddly pudwy mussfas;dkj90f392j9!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Kenan about the splitting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, pet's pet names... I could be here all day. Jeff and I call each other some giddy stuff but I can't remember any of the good ones right now. But things like "Trey Wingo" or "Wackenhut."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I used to call my ex "azucarita". Thinking about it makes me all emo now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wackenhut!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I like (though I hope it's not too much of an affectation) to do verb splits when writing on-line.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wackenhut!!!! (isn't that a security company in greensobor?)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I try to give Beeper some class:

Beeperton
Beepington
Beeperson

And I may add Mr. to any of those, or possibly Esq.. I don't talk to the other two cats much because they don't listen/can't hear. I do say "Whassup, cat" and "Whassup, dawg" a lot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

wow. i'm bored. maybe i'll break up this boredom with some work.

i feel relaxed and lazy today. my boss came yesterday and she seemed pleased with the way things were going here in new orleans.

that is, she seemed pleased with the way |WJ's work was going in new orleans.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh! i forgot "kitty meow-meow"

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I only eat there once or twice the year, but that breakfast shit is like penicillin for hangovers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, wrong thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wackenhut is a lot of things to a lot of people. To me, it's an 7th circuit decision that gives the Board the discretion to refuse to poll employees to make sure they all got mail ballots after a union election. I think it's on the side of a building somewhere in the loop, too.

xpost - hahaha! You're totally right, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sample's nicknames include:

Sample D
Samp
Samp Downs
Sampolina
Samopoline
Merps
Merpolina
Mrs. Merpolina (Mrs. Merp-Merpolina)
Mrs. Merple
Brown Cat
Brown Belly Cat
Li'l Niffer
Pretty Face
Green Eyes
Walrus

Jeff mostly calls her Fart Knocker, but she really doesn't like that much.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. Sarah and I are skipping thirsty thursday. Sorry, I have been really tired and kind of ill-feeling all day. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Both Brenda and Dobs are "fuzzy butt". But then I feel the need to expand on that, so I say things like, "Do you know why I call you fuzzy butt? It's because you have a fuzzy butt. Yes you do." Etc. Also, "goofy butt," "silly butt," and sometimes "nasty butt".

I have some reflecting to do.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Your cats are ugly.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Board = National Labor Relations Board in case anybody fucking cared.

My very favorite NLRB decision is called Excelsior Underwear, for reasons both obvious and horrifyingly nerdy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse insists that my cat, who consensus agrees is very cute, is ugly. I don't know why. Then again, Jesse likes dudes, so there's a lot of things I don't get about him.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dobbler is adorable. Adobblerable, even.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I never said Dobbler is ugly. Dobbler is v. cute. But weird looking too.

You know what I think would be hot in a dude? An uncut Jew.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

So you're saying an uncut Jew inside a dude would be hot?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

dobbler is very cute, seems to me.

the cats living with me get called
stinkybutt
puddy tat
pookie
pretty boy
fluffykins
baby kitty
dumbass

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think having an uncut Jew inside me would give me indigestion.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think your uncut Jew would basically have to be born of a Jewess, orphaned and raised by Goyim, and then discover his true Hebraic nature as an adult but not give enough of a shit to bother with a bris. Cos otherwise I think the cut part is pretty much a done deal.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Just because it would be so rare, Jesse?

xpost, or a convert

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

No, because I am kind of fond of some Jews and I am vurry fond of uncut.

(this is apropos an IM conversation Jenny and I were having, btw)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have zero experience with uncut dicks. I don't really know how they work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Like a shar pei.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's tough for a cut straight guy to know anything about uncut wang. It's mostly an aesthetic thing for me (not just visual, but also tactile). I've heard women say they feel better, but I've never noticed any difference since the Rophinol makes me groggy.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am not talking about foreskin on the internet.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

YO WHERE MY SKINNAZ AT?!?!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Foreskin shout-outs killed thread dead

Tim, I'm sorry, but I'm still stuck at work and I think I am the last surviving Thirsty Thursday participant. You're probably sitting in the Blue Line Club Car enjoying a drink and wondering where everyone is. I could really use a drink right now myself. Life sucks!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's mostly an aesthetic thing for me

What's the rest of it? Intellectual?

< /snark >

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Maddie put forward this theory tonight:

Trent Reznor -- gay?

It never occurred to me before, but she's right. He is gay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Defend your position.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have evidence to the contrary. He tried to take a female friend of mine home one night from a NYC bar.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

re. the aesthetics:

i was distinguishing between my finding it beautiful (to the eye and to the touch) and other possible reasons one would like uncut, those being novelty (esp on a Jew), functionality (in giving/getting pleasure) or ideology (how dare you remove a piece of a baby's sexual organ?).

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Tons of non-gender specific lyrics (lots of "you" this, "you" that), never publically had a girlfriend (who confirmed instead of denied), keeps his private life very private. I guess this should be "Trent Reznor: Goth or Gay?"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Innnnnteresting, Kenan.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

He slept with Courtney Love. I read an interview (sorry to admit it) in which the interviewer spotted a half-clad lass through his semi-open bedroom door.

Fuck him.

I live about 1/2 mile from his NO homme. If he still owns it.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

I live about 1/2 mile from his NO homme.

Holy Freudian slip!

I meant "home."

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

No, he sold it before the storm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

No Trent, no Anne Rice. No justice, no peace. What does this shit hole have?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

Puddles.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Dead guys on doorsteps.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

The new Roots album made my year-end best-of list on the way home this afternoon. It's even better on the big speakers. Yes yes yes.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Predictably, the Dice Raw track is my early favorite.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

What does this shit hole have?

Brass bands and shrimp po' boys.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

I love Dice, but I didn't like that track too much. I'm down to three tunes from that record on my iPod (the second track with the odd measures, the title track, and the one with Pedi Crakk or whoever).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

When the fuck is the new Hold Steady going to leak? I check Oink, like, once a day.

xpost SRSY? And you liked the new Outkast, too? Oh, man. This record is so solid.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Things just ain't been the same since Things Fall Apart. That record felt like they had ideas for miles and everyone on fire, this feels like they're trying too hard to make it happen.

Like I said on ILM though, I can listen to ?uestlove throughout, it's just a clinic on studio beats.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently Dice Raw has an indie rock band??!?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

How do you feel about Lupe Fiasco?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Fuuuck, I was all set to put in some work on these beats before going out but my Firewire cable broke. Too late to buy a new one. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't heard anything yet!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Download "Kick Push" exactly at this very moment.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

The album is good, but that single is mad.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Listening now on myspurrce.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Nice strings, although I keep wishing they would drop out or change up or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly this is all the rap I've been listening to lately.

(I'm out to go see Youngblood, later!)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a sucker for Chi folks, I admit.

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/images/lupeskateboard.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

(okay, I'm not going out now, I'm waiting twenty minutes so I can get on the list)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I love that picture. I know exactly the kind of Spring day that is. Some people haven't let go of their overcoats yet, some are still loving their sweaters and long sleeves, but the truly optimistic wear a t-shirt.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

I love it.

Now I'm listening to the next Digdown hit, Turrence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name".

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Shrimp po' boys be damned! I want Nine Inch!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Trent a bit.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Because he's not gay?

I don't know about this new version of iTunes. Why the hell won't it show me the music that's on my iPod? All I see are options to synch it with iTunes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't like NIN.

Ray Nagin is a pretty handsome man.

I'm 3/4 through the 1st 1/2 of When the Levites Were Broke. Oy, such a flood.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

rimshot.gif

Okay, now I'm really leaving.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

night, jordan.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm listening to the next Digdown hit, Turrence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name".

That's an awesome song.

I don't know about this new version of iTunes. Why the hell won't it show me the music that's on my iPod? All I see are options to synch it with iTunes.

Just keep messing with it. All the old options are still there.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

In the state of Louisiana a home health care worker must have a criminal record that is free of felonies and certain misdemeanors. One of the folks from the Service Ind. Union informed us that one of those misdemeanors that will keep you out of the field is stealing an alligator.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO YET
I RECOMMEND THAT YOU WATCH THE VIDEO
ON MY MYSPACE PAGE
(sfw)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://pic.piczo.com/img/i118564295_45775.gif

Fuck my mouth.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Webigail is HOT.

Man, I've been repping for "Kick Push" for months. Haven't heard the released version of the album, though. I did the leaked version that Lupe got all pissed off about. I tend to like hip-hop that's highly orchestrated like that -- T.I.'s "What You Know" has the same kind of grandeur.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

I did *like* the leaked version, that is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, you should have put that on my myspace comments.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

Small Bar is a good time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

jesse, either i'm very sleepy, or i have the two funnienst people for friends ever. that myspace video almost lost me my chair.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

From Levees "[Politicians]don't know that four dogs got four assholes!"

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like Kick Push.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm the only one at work and I've been here since 7:40. I'm eating oatmeal, drinking coffee, and reading.

Dan, did you end up going to Blueline?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

When the fuck is the new Hold Steady going to leak?

Most of the songs have been previewed on their MySpace page. And the whole thing was streaming somewhere, but can't remember where...

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you don't all blow me off for TT as happened to Tim last night... :(((

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

:-(
If it helps, I felt incredibly guilty all night and could never relax. (Then I magically relaxed right at 9 and fell asleep on the couch)

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I despise flakey people. :-(

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel: never. Extenuating circumstances last night. I was sick this week. Can't go get shitty when you just got over being sick.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I despise flakey people. :-(

I'm not flaky, I'm neurotic.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

No, ok, I'm incredibly flaky. You could make a goddamn pie crust out of me.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

i almost went but wound up not going. i fell asleep on the train and woke up at california so i sent a txt to dan and nick asking if they were there or going. no response so i kept going past damen to division and went home to saw some lumber.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, just so you know, I wasn't accusing you. I didn't even know you were thinking of going. I just meant in general.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you don't all blow me off for TT as happened to Tim last night... :(((

http://static.flickr.com/50/145208684_12b6f80145_m.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was up until 2:30 last night after seeing Youngblood and I am pretty tired. It's not as bad as 30 hours awake, though, or my friend who played the show in Madison last night and then drove back to Minneapolis for work the next day.

Anyway, the band is sounding great this tour and I highly recommend seeing them in Chicago on Saturday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have to delay my trip, anyway, since the planned departure is now less than 2 weeks away and fares hiked up. Looks like Oct 12-15 now. Any questions?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, just so you know, I wasn't accusing you.

You hurt me deep inside my heart!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

But Laurel! I'll be in your neck of the woods that weekend! :((( If you must, though, you must. [sob]

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I thought you were going to be here on the 6/7/8th?? Shit. That doesn't work at all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I want one of these.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

flickr blocked, i don't know what sarah wants.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Don't make us wait too long, Laurel, or we'll forget all about you. ;)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kev -- it's a red panda.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's a FIREFOX!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm outta town all the goddamn time thanks to these people who insist on wedding one another in far-off places where they live and i don't.

(the weekend after that i'll be here AND i have thursday/friday off since it's fall braek at school...)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I guess it is a kind of panda.
http://static.flickr.com/8/8272985_b80ca7a869.jpg?v=0

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

He's so sad and miniature-bear-like!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's a fucking pokemon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to a wedding that same weekend - is yours a college one, Amanda?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

NO!
I'd have to get him some mittens though so his claws wouldn't hurt me.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. I was responding to Jordan, not Eric.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

things to try to remember before heading out to the rediculously early starting show this evening:

atm
shave
set ffl lineup
cigarettes?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, that thing looks like it jumped out of a Miyazaki movie, at the very least.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

This is the thread where Chicago discovers the red panda.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately for us, Mands, the wkend after that is a Jewish holiday and my boss will be out for three days. No way I can get that time off. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

say yr converting!
or thinking of such and want to give it a test drive.
that should work because it's not insulting at all.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

When the boss is out is the perfect time for vacation!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I posted Jesse's Jewish cock desires on the shana tovah thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, did you end up going to Blueline?

No... I was at work until after 7. Finally I left, some work still undone, with my mind spinning. I got Kev's text while waiting for the Metra.

TIM I AM SORRY

Fuck work. I'm probably going to be here late again today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bet the OJ is off sitting in a dark room somewhere, wearing uncomfortable shows, not eating, and feeling sad about something.

That's the impression of all Jewish holidays that I got from him, anyway.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

('manda, I'm asking because I'm going to Elena DiM's wedding that same weekend.)

Tim - the truth comes out. We are all different "characters" that Jaymc has created. He is the only real person.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

We all only exist in his mind. Like in that movie. And one of us is going to start killing the others.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Uncomfortable shoes, I mean. There's a prohibition on shows, I'm sure.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Tim.

I'm going to a wedding that same weekend - is yours a college one, Amanda?
YES, indeed. Elena is getting married that same weekend? NO WAY. I wonder if my friends know that?!?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Who's the OJ?

I saw that show Scrubs for the first time the other night, at the gym. It reminded me of Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Orthodox Jew

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hi hi hi Corky
http://cache.defamer.com/hollywood/mansquito.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

wtf

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think Mansquito is the best name for a movie ever. People should stop naming movies with words after Mansquito -- revert to numbers. Because you can't beat Mansquito.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Mansquito!! Oh, lolz.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's so bad, I'm almost compelled to watch it. And I thought "Manimal" was the pinacle of movies that make clever use of the word "man."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of Mansquitos, we're totally going to start sending guns and money to Venezualan rebel death squads now:

Venezuelan leader calls Bush alcoholic, sick

Ballsy, though. It certainly makes me like Hugo Chavez even more.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Man-Thing

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

GWB is a mansquito.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

NOW YOU KNOW.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I talk up how awesome the Chicago ILXors are to everyone and now this is how you behave? Sigh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, may as well try to make up for it...

Tim, I don't know if you are still in town but if you are and have nothing going on tonight, I am willing and able to do whatever.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds sexy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

And Dan means it - he's got a cute French maid's outfit. xpost

Final Nueva Katz blowout tonight.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh man dan...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I try to be nice, and this is what I get. Should have known better.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come on. We wub you Dan.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you don't all blow me off for TT as happened to Tim last night... :(((

SOLID PLANS! SOLID PLANS!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!$#@

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Should've known better
Than to fall in love with you
Now love is just a faded memory
Should've known better
Now I'm a prisoner to this pain
And my heart still aches for you

I know, I know, forgive me for the Eyore complex...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hold on to the night, Dan.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

xposts:

i'm going to see jordan's band play tonight!

amanda . . . leaf & i are getting married in DE but we'll probably have a party of some sort closer to where you live -- would you come to that?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

The Spike Lee documentary on Katrina is good/pretty fucking horrifying. I'm nearly finished watching it. Lotsa crying angry fucked over people and lotsa bloated bodies. It's really weird to see bodies floating face-down in intersections I drive through every day and in areas where I've walked.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

KELSINS: Yes I will! I was hoping not to discourage people who are getting married in remote locales -- it's not personal and I fully appreciate how everyone bothered to come to Chicago for our party. It's the three-in-five weeks that is getting to me and my wallet.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I felt the same way, Jesse.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

OMG you're getting married in Delaware????? That is so cool. What's your venue?

(I just realized that I could have just as easily gotten married in Delaware... it's only cool that you are doing it.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

WOW. Three in five weeks! That's insane! That would make me feel crazy & broke.

Jenny, we're going to do it at my parents house!! it'll be really small (& therefore "intimate") but i think it will be more meaningful & our families will be able to talk & stuff.

Can you help me decide what kind of animal this is? I'm making it for Leaf's unborn niece or nephew...
http://static.flickr.com/90/249770927_1daf218c1d.jpg

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Possum.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/recipes/possum.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

That is clearly a possum.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Perfect! That's way better than a mole. THANK YOU!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

since flickr is blocked i can only assume it's a red panda.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Possums have rustic country charm.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, you know what? Flickr is blocked at Kevin's workplace.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had thought of a possum. It seems so obvious now!`

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.iblist.com/images/covers/20166.jpg

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

I loved that book.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Or this totally awesome book!

http://www.memfox.com/uploads/possum_cover.gif

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

WTF??

TN from Paso Robles, CA
(See my other reviews ...)
I am so hooked!!! This show is definitely genuine...Real and free of superficial bs.

This is a review of Queer as Folk (American version of course) from a netflix user.

This show actively advocates the stereotypical gay lifestyle of clubs, drugs, open relationships, the impossibility of monogamy between 2 men, etc.

There was one episode in which the crew is at a bar watching "Gay As Blazes," a show about highly functional monogamous gay men who read, take part in cultural events, and eschew the party scene. The characters are caricatures and naturally all the QaF folks mock them except for the uptight high-waisted-jeans-wearing lesbian, and dull as dishwater accountant fag.

In this episode one of the promiscuous guys takes a job with a naked house boy agency. On one assignment he goes to the home of a gay couple who insist that he leave his clothes on because, "We believe in the dignity of our brothers" or something like that, and they just want to pay him a generous wage to clean the house.

These men are paragons of community service and stability: they read to blind gay men and volunteer at every gay service imaginable ,and they proclaim their belief in fidelity. But of course before long he is alone in the house with one of the men who fucks his mouth and the next day he is alone with the other who also comes onto him. So much for that.

Also featured in this episode is a gay writer who pushes for gay men to break out of their stereotypical roles, grow up, be responsible, be productive, blah blah blah. Of course 3/4 of the way through the episode we see him fucking some guy at a bareback orgy.

The heavy-handed message from this very special episode was not that it's OK to choose to make life on big party, to sleep around, to do drugs, to forgo monogamy. The message was that any gay man who tries to do otherwise is either bound to fail or is a big fat hypocrite.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

they read to blind gay men
they read to blind gay men
they read to blind gay men
they read to blind gay men

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

That makes me so sad, it's perfectly contrary to the original's intent.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost see how they run, see how they run

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was getting ready to do what Jordan did and then I saw that he did it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

And their 30th birthdays are the end of the fucking world. Characters over 30 are made fun of for being one foot in the grave.

Michael (Hal Sparks) dates a handsome stable doctor who skips the clubs and does dinner parties and such instead. They are monogamous, and despite his friends teasing and derision, he turns down the advances of men who want to play in the back room of the club. But whadya know, on that same night one of his friends goes to the bath house and finds....THE HANDSOME DOCTOR!

Shit hits, they almost break up, Michael sleeps with someone else too, but in the end they decide that they're gay men and they're bound to mess up, it's only sex, I love you, let's be happy together.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

They read to blind gay men. Exactly. It's a send-up of "grown up" gays. And of pretty much anyone who would have a social conscience beyond marching in the Pride parade.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

hey dan, is there anyplace around the logan square auditorium you would recommend for grabbing a couple of quick beers? preferably some place that isn't packed with people?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

(By the by, I am not trying to front like I'm some kind of model for responsible fagitude, but I don't appreciate the blatant message that if you're not living like these guys then you're some kind of self-loathing freak who, if he's lucky, will one day come around.)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. They are starting to run the entire series from the beginning on Logo and I thought about watching it but now I don't know. The one partial episode I saw felt kind of schmaltzy.

xpost

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Shmaltzy" is one word for it. "Shitty" is another. I can think of a lot more.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

if you're not living like these guys then you're some kind of self-loathing freak who, if he's lucky, will one day come around

Didn't you use almost those exact terms to describe me once?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention that they don't have one single non-anglo character. The closest I've seen them come is when one dude checks out a black guy.

Sure they're in Pittsburgh which might not be the most diverse area in the world, but then again, they're in Pittsburgh, so maybe Babylon and Liberty Street shouldn't look like Key West and South Beach every single night! I've never been to Pittsburgh, but I would imagine that it's not as glitzy as it seems on TV.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't you use almost those exact terms to describe me once?

I don't know. Did I? Not in this context.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite line in that review is "So much for that!"

I saw part of one episoide and saw a position I hadn't considered before.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to clubs in a nubmer of cities and I've never in my life seen the kinds of elaborate, expensive costumes, stage sets and light shows that they have at Babylon every night of the week.

xpost -- What position is that?

The nudity is one mitigating factor for me with this show.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

The one guy was on his back and had his legs straight up and the other guy was doing his bunghole, maybe while standing up?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's tempting to post a random wrestling photo here, but I won't.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

is there anyplace around the logan square auditorium you would recommend for grabbing a couple of quick beers? preferably some place that isn't packed with people?

Well, last night I went to Small Bar (Albany and Wellington, I think) for the first time. At 10 PM there were plenty of seats available, it had a great atmosphere, good jukebox, A+++++++ will drink there again, etc. But, it's a little bit of a walk from the LSA. Whirlaway, which has been discussed onthread before, is a little closer (Kedzie/Fullerton), but I've never been there. Dunlay's on the Square and Cafe Lula are both right below LSA, serve alcohol, and have little bars, but they are more restauranty and might be a little pricey. Then again, beers at LSA usually run $5 apiece with no good selection.

If you're up for a walk, Small Bar. If you want to stay close, I would pick Dunlay's over Lula (note: for drinking, not necessarily for eating... although it's not bad).

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

haha xp

I've never been to Pittsburgh, but I would imagine that it's not as glitzy as it seems on TV.

my family is from pittsburgh, and i would never never never imagine it to be describable as 'glitzy'.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently they only show you the parts that are faaabulous. The pride parade was beyond anything little old Halstead could ever dream of being host to I'm sure.

EZ-- you mean with his ankles on the guy's shoulders? I'm trying to figure this out....

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

i've been to dunlay's and lula (as well as small bar), i guess i'll just go home after work. i was thinking about heading right to the show from work since my friends are going on at 8 freaking 30. is the two-way on milwaukee and fullerton still open? you really can't beat one dollar beers.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

My mom's family is from Pittsburgh. I think of it as being very grey. The greyest, perhaps.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpost According to metromix it is.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

WHO CAN STAND TO SEE JACKASS 2 WITH THE LIKES OF ME?

I like this Onion review: "The homoeroticism of the series has been ratcheted up as well; you'd have to travel to Fire Island to find so many men eagerly exploring the possibilities inherent in anuses and male genitalia. Just about the only thing that could make this movie any gayer would be cameos from John Waters and Rip Taylor and a closing Busby Berkley-style musical production number. Oh wait, it's got those too."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Jesse, if his ankle's weren't on the guy's shoulders, they were up in that area.

I saw Ibrahim Ferrer at a fancy theater in downtown Pittsburgh. He was glitzy in red suit and 90 yrs old.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

the last time i was in a pittsburgh bar, i was with a group of people in formalwear and we were getting blind drunk because my pseudo-cousin was buying everyone drinks to show off how rich he was. he picked the bars we went to because he was showing us the town. they were ordinary bars, more or less. i don't think there are faaabulous parts of pittsburgh, though admittedly i've only experienced the straight night life. (is "night life" a weird phrase or is it just me?)

i think i'd heard that QAF was filmed in toronto or something?

pittsburgh is well-captured in, um, the michael douglas movie based on the michael chabon book in which he's always wearing a ratty pink bathrobe. now that's going to bug me. oh, the wonder boys. love that movie.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I will not be seeing that.

I'm excited to be leaving for Minneapolis in a few hours. If I wasn't doing that, I would be excited to see that new Jet Li movie (it looks like a classed up version of Bloodsport!), and then stay up late making beats w/the new firewire cable I just bought.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe I should sell this idea from a brainier angle.

From the NYT: "You may prefer a Buster Keaton gag to the spectacle of a man leaping from a trampoline into a ceiling fan, but you can’t argue with its purity of expression. At the root of the 'Jackass' project is an impulse to deny the superego and approach the universe, with all its hard edges and shark-infested waters, as an enormous, undifferentiated playpen... The Surrealists would have loved these guys."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

(is "night life" a weird phrase or is it just me?)

Well the night life
Ain't no good life
But it's my life

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was visiting a friend who lived in Squirrel Hill at the time - we tried going to The Squirrel Cage and a few other popular bars, and couldn't get into any of them - too full. So we went to a sports bar instead, also on the main drag there.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

the old main drag?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Murray Ave.! That's the one.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about Jackass 2. Definitely not going to see it in the theater. I still think gratuitous injury is funny, but I don't know if I find this appealing.

I loved Wonder Boys.

Seriouly, they go to Liberty Street which is every bit as packed and rowdy as Bourbon Street, they go to Babylon which is packed with muscley gleaming bodies, drag queens and dancers in costumes and sets that could only exist at Studio 54. And Brian's home is an ultra chic loft. And there are boutiques, and boys make out whereever they want.

In Pittsburgh?????

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA

I have to go back and fill out time sheets going back to mid-June b/c I haven't done a single one since I've been working for |WJ!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am definitely going to see Jackass 2 in theatres.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

multiple theatres?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH MOTHERFUCKER

Is there something like the Better Business Bureau, where you can report when a business totally fucks you over, but for banks? Would it still be the BBB?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking STATE DEPARTMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

USECU is the way to go nick!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

what happened? que paso?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

So in JULY (yes, three months ago), I call to cancel my SDFC credit card because it's paid off. They tell me I have a $600+ savings account attached to this card. So I say, cool, close the account and send me the money. Easy enough, right? Except it's THREE MONTHS LATER and I still have no check. I have faxed three signed requests to have the account closed, two of which they lost. One time I called and they said it was being held up by the collections department, so I asked to speak to the collections department, but they said that department didn't take calls. The next time I called, they said it was still held up by collections, so I asked to speak to the collections department, and they said "Sure!" and transferred me over. Collections said they had nothing in their records holding it up. Blah blah blah. I call last Wednesday, they say they will cut the check and mail it the next day. Today, still no check, so I call again. THEY HADN'T SENT THE FUCKING CHECK YET. They are mailing it "today."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, I'm going to eat Cheez-Its and play video games.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's nonsense.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, the bank, not the cheez its. Cheez its are yum.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

What video game?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

hopefully you'll just get teh check anyway. but if you're in doubt, keep track of when you're calling them and how often, write down names of the representatives you talk to.

if you have that info and they continue to do nothing you could draft a furious letter about how appalled you are at their customer service and demanding that if they don't take immediate action you're going to report them blahblah etc.

it's what i had to do with a health insurance company to get them to pay up on two grand that they owed. i have probably told that story before.

xp oh i love cheez-its

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't today Jeff's Bday?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!!!!!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could demand your money at gunpoint. You might get extra money that way.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

HB JEFF!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Happy BJ!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

aren't they all?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Was anyone else late this morning because of this crap?

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_265115907.html

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nick have you heard about Okami? Looks pretty awesome.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Birthday to Jeff!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could demand your money at gunpoint. You might get extra money that way.

that is easier than all that paperwork and phone call headache, it's true.

happy bday jeff.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I kinda want to play Okami. And Lego Star Wars. There's not enough time in the day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'll be damned.

I called my doctor in Chicago today to go in for a checkup and he tells me I have a package there waiting for me. It seems that I have 3 months of free Paxil!

I signed up for Glaxo's patient assistance program and got 1 three month supply, but they said that I could only do that one time. Then this magically appears! That's a nice savings of around $300!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'll be damned.

Resisting. Urge. To Make. Fred. Phelps. -esque. humor joke....

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Things I am looking forward to eating this weekend:

--shitty fast food on the way to Mpls (just because I do it so rarely)

--grilling out at 2 am after the gig

--bloody mary bar at friend's house tomorrow morning. I don't like most bloodies, but I hear there will be crazy ingredients involved. Possibly pork chops.

--brunch with dad and stepmom at the Orpheum Theatre in Madison. Never done it, but it's a $16 all you can eat buffet, and I hear lobster and omelettes-to-order are involved.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jordan, guess what.

They're starting to put up street signs in NO. They have all new bright blue signs all down Canal.

I drove in to work today and couldn't figure out what was strange, but at lunch time it became clear.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jordan

Guess what?

http://static.flickr.com/36/122982009_bb7760eb7d_m.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Third image that comes up when you GIS "chicken butt":

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://auntdodi.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/matasmall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://auntdodi.typepad.com/chicken_butt/2005/09/yum_fluffy_fros.html&h=415&w=567&sz=62&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=U4-jhzRfZKyj-M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchicken%2Bbutt%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, wow. Progress, huh?

xpost, well done

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

not really sfw

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me that's not you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

So I was just doing laundry at the Spin Cycle where they have little TVs for the folding tables and usually I find one that's not turned on but today I just used the closest one and LO Rachel Ray's new talk show was on so I pretty much watched all of it, because that's how long it took me to fold clothes and you know what? She's a fucking idiot.

Jordan wins the funny award today.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Progress. 13 MONTHS AFTER THE STORM.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://frograbbitmonkey.gerousia.com/Smileys/default/3318.gif http://frograbbitmonkey.gerousia.com/Smileys/default/kaos_pcheers1.gif http://frograbbitmonkey.gerousia.com/Smileys/default/6805.gif http://frograbbitmonkey.gerousia.com/Smileys/default/3311.gif

Happy birthday, Jefferooni!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Rachel Ray. She is serious idiot material. I think she missed herr true calling as a porn star.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sneaking out of work. Don't tell anyone, and have a good weekend y'all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Wait... we've had this conversation once already.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Biffday, Jerth!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

tv talk show host in being an idiot SHOCKA

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

hey dan, what time do you get out of work, or actually, what time do you get back to your 'hood because i'm thinking about going out for a couple of pre-show pops if the lsa prices are that crazy. i've got to go home and shave though, i look like crazy homeless guy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

or MORE like crazy homeless guy if you prefer.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Um, I'm probably going to be at work late, again. So, maybe like 6:30-7? I'm definitely not staying here past 6. I'll give a text or a call, feel free to do the same if you're heading someplace before you hear from me.

Anyone else?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

i'm thinking i'll probably get home around six, shave, get changed then head back out the door. i'm guessing i'll be in logan sq. by 7, leave the bar at 8 and head over to lsa to see my friends as they are starting at 8:30.

i've got it aaaaaaaaallllllllllll planned out. nothing can go wrong.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

whoops, plans just went in the shitter. not going out for pre-drinks. gonna hafta get my buzz on for full price at the lsa. dang people.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Kosher or not:

I'm mailing around a job description to recruit for my current position. I am on the mailing list for an org that sends out frequent notices etc. Is it OK for me to use that list to send out |WJ's job notice?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Frowny face

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

That was pretty much bound to happen. I almost think Kevin planned it that way....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's becoming more and more clear to me that i have a very limited amount of control of anything, especially my own life.

but dan, there's still a chance i'll be in yr neighborhood by 7:30 or so, i'll txt you when i know to see if you wanna grab a beer or two.

and oh yeah, beers are $5? tickets are $14????!?!!? wtf logan square auditorium, wtf??

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I think that's okay. I'd word it vaguely, something like: Great position available for community organizer with excellent communication and organization skills. Email me for more info.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea what's going on.

happy birthday, jeff. jenny: you are a treat.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Are you being sarcastic?!?!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

what, no! i haven't read anything that's going on, but that "fuck my face" cartoon basically made my week.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

that's all i came here for:

thank you, for brightening my day with a cartoon of a pre-pubescent duck on all fours, begging to give blow jobs.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

What? Where was this?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just come here to raise my instinct to "rescue" Rachel Ray from all the meanies.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, okay. Good! I'm glad my inappropriate use of myspace graphics is bringing so many people joy.

Eric, seriously. Watch her talk show and then you come back in here and tell me that she's not an idiot. I even like her recipes! I have made quite a number of them to great effect. But good grief. She's... she's an idiot, man.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Here Dan Martin.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

Evan, my friends' band Sah (the one you and M@x came and saw in a garage in Pilsen) has a song called "Man, Fuck my Mouth". Just Eff Why Eye there...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I actually snorted the first time I saw that. Excelsior gold.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Did we totally miss Tim? Can we still do something this weekend?

If not, we have to make up for it when Laurel is in town. Do something big. Something spectacular. Something the Midwest will never forget, combining the rock and roll rabble rousing of Disco Demolition Night with the all-out violent abandon of Ten Cent Beer Night.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit guys, tornado warning for Cook Co.

http://www.wunderground.com/US/IL/Chicago.html#TOR

Watch yourselves, northsiders!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit, this storm.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Itwas pouring when I got off the train, just starting to blow in and really coming down. I stopped under the bridge to put my ipod in a water-resistant little bag that I carry around, and by the time I had done that, it was just drizzling. Hooray! Dodged a bullet.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, I won't feel that way after the neighborhood is ravaged by a tornado. I think I hear it coming now!

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

You guys! Don't let anything blow away, and enjoy holing up wherever you are for the duration of the storm. I quite like being trapped in bars/restaurants by the weather, it's reassuring to be somewhere with lots of food & drink.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

I can't come to Chicago while Amanda is here in the Lyn of Brook, so that kiboshes my plans again. It'll happen someday.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I are going to Nueva C@ts final show at Bar Vertigo tonight. Everyone else come too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Some reading while I sit here on hold, from Roger Ebert:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060919/COMMENTARY/60919001

I need to get this. And from the Lee Marvin article that that article links to:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19701010/PEOPLE/41115001/1023

This is just fucking great. I'd never read it before. "Look, if I want to develop an image, I'll do it my own fucking way."

Get well soon, Sir Ebert.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 22 September 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

i bet ben fong is at the neuva cat show. why? because he is sweet on the girl. platonically, like.

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ebert's the best. Lucky gbx misspelled the 'n' word so jody won't come across this conversation...

I saw cloud swirling in a tornadic fashion - it was cool! This was at Barry & Sheffield at about 5:45.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

I knew about Ben and the girl because John is baaaaaad at telling secrets at small picnic tables.

I had Hop Leaf mussels for dinner and DAMN ALIVE they were good. I don't know why oysters are the aphrodisiacs when mussels look more like little vaginas.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

I knew about Ben and the girl because John is baaaaaad at telling secrets at small picnic tables.

BUSTED.

YR DEAD, DUDE

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 23 September 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

What did that weather link say when it was posted? Tornadoes?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, the band is sounding great this tour and I highly recommend seeing them in Chicago on Saturday.

I will be there.

I have to delay my trip, anyway, since the planned departure is now less than 2 weeks away and fares hiked up. Looks like Oct 12-15 now. Any questions?

Aw shoot, that's the weekend of my high school reunion. And a C/N/S/T/ video shoot.

This is the thread where Chicago discovers the red panda.

Yeah, isn't JW obsessed with them?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

What did that weather link say when it was posted? Tornadoes?

It went to an official NWS Tornado Warning. Evidently one had been seen in northern Cook Co. and they estimated it was going to cross Evanston/Rogers Park at around 6:30 yesterday afternoon. I don't think this ever actually happened but the weather was pretty nasty for a while. When I was coming back from work around that time the clouds over the north side were a very strange color and low to the ground.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/146177632_2e36eae56e.jpg

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

So that pic...hot or not? Does it seem nelly?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Inarguably the very best mussels in the city--nay, in the world--are at C@tch 35. Lemon grass broth, cilantro and a side of jalapeno dipping sauce, accompanied by their yummy sourdough and whipped butter = fucking amazing.

The mussels are usually really large and you get a nice serving of them for about the same price as at Hopleaf.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

It was dark as hell and raining like a motherfucker, too. Jeff walked one block from the bus stop and was soaked head to toe. Also, there were sirens going off all over the place, which was a little freaky. The basement of our apartment scares me and I didn't want to go down there alone. AND I was in the middle of making a cake and was reluctant to exchange its successful completion for my safety.

Speaking of cake, best cream cheese icing evar: One 7.5 oz bottle of marshmallow fluff, 12 oz of neufatchel cheese (that's a block and a half), and 1 teaspoon fo vanilla extract. Beat until smooooooth. Awesome.

And speaking of my safety, I am totally going to this restaurant. I love Eastern European food, and it's a mere one hour bus ride away.

That's a great picture, Jesse. Especially the sunglasses.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to eat mussels at C35. I also think I am ready to eat raw oysters. We just watched to recorded episodes of Check Please and I want to spend the next week eating at different restaurants. Such as Healthy Food Lithuanian.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you never on your gmail anymore?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

We had a beer and pizza party at the house last night. The Jesuit (turns out he's a priest) who was all passed out in the kitchen came and he had some really inspirational words. Something like "If you're in the business of helping people and you're worried about being cheated, then you're not really in the business of helping people." This came up during our conversation about the person who used their FEMA money to pay for a sex-change operation. His response, "So fucking what?"

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's fascinating when clergy swear. Esp. when they say "Goddamn."

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hot.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit it's hot. Heat index = 102. And it's windy which just feels like someone's farting on you.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I hate to ask, but how often have people farted on you?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

You just come make it one more time, baby.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hot.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

This town needs more severe storms like that one - in, out, lots of drama for a good half-hour.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit it's hot. Heat index = 102. And it's windy which just feels like someone's farting on you.

whoah. it snowed here! yesterday, I went running in six inches of SNOW.

SNOW, GUYS.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 23 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I made friends last night. We may be hanging out sometime. They are a couple of people who work for FEMA. FEMA is a good place to find the friendless.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Man, there were 100 people I knew from 100 different places at the N. Cats show last night. Nick shot some badass pool.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

that storm last night was really cool to watch from the 14th floor. big drama. and then it went back to normal rainish weather and i went back to watching scrubs.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I did it. I took the mysp@ce plunge. I'm sick of tracking people down, so add me and leave a comment with any of the following words in it: boner, diarrhea, queef, or nutsack.

hxxp://myspace..../fugexlac

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I missed the NC show last night. I went to see Half Nelson in Evanston, which I heartily recommend to everyone. Ryan Gosling was a revelation.

Now I'm off to play a BBQ festival in the rain.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

HURRY UP AND ADD ME DAN SO I CAN ADD A COMMENT HURRY

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD. We got a free razor in the mail - the kind with... FIVE BLADES. I know what I'm doing tonight!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff just picked up the razor and said, "Wow, this thing is shaped like Patrick Ewing!"

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know what I'm doing tonight!

Leave the cats alone ffs.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone want to hang out with a lonely bro tomorrow night when Sarah is at TOP MODELS? I am happy to go somewhere or just sit around someone's apartment and chat.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight is pasta and horror movie night: whole-grain rotini, The Omen, tomato sauce, Ju-On.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm down.

Down the river, that is.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight Is stir fry and bizarre documentary night: peppers, snow peas, onion, Hated, ground chicken, torn basil, hoisin sauce, a movie about NAMBLA.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to go to work this afternoon after I left Julia's, but instead... well, a little backstory. I seem to have recurring stomach problems. I used to pride myself on being able to eat anything, but now it seems that anything spicy fscks with me hardcore. Last night we had Ethiopian, and the first thing I did with my meal was pour the hottest hotsauce ever all over my food. Cut to me, at four in the morning, lying on my stomach, drooping my head over the edge of the bed, sweating and moaning repeatedly. Bad scene. So anyway, I got over that fairly quickly, or so I thought. This morning I ate something really pre-processed and quite nasty. I didn't seem too bad at the time. This afternoon I walked home. I fed the cats. I played with the bird. I drank a big glass of water. The glass of water seemed to be the catalyst to me feeling like ass again. Same state as last night, edge of the bed, moaning. I have managed to make it to the computer since then. I'm going to live. But I'm not going to do anything else tonight, I don't think, unless I have another miraculous recovery.

I think I should see a doctor.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, somewhere in there, I did manage to buy the new Criterion version of Playtime, so I guess I'll lie prone and let my ears and eyeballs do all the work. Not too strenuous.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight Is stir fry and bizarre documentary night

I guess what I'm saying is, tonight is illness, gentle fluids, and Jacques Tati night.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

And I have to say again how much I love the Roots album. This has been bugging me all day:

it's just a clinic on studio beats.

Studio beats? It that a problem? Oh noes. You're one of those guys who loves them for their "live drums," aintcha? Yawn.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

I just looked in the mirror. I look like a young Art Garfunkel. Goddamn humidity.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

i had to share the demetri martin toast joke with my roommate and i suck at retelling jokes so i found this on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GydbEUAA5Mg

(it's at the end, though the whole thing is funny)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, you're beautiful. Iwould have just tried to retell the joke. It won't work like that.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

"How was breakfast?"

"Unbelievable."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, there's a new Criterion version of Playtime? I might have to get that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 24 September 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

i did try to retell the joke but i just couldn't do it justice, because i couldn't remember all of it. i'm not good at telling jokes.

"sometimes when i'm having toast, i like to be incredulous."

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 24 September 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Studio beats? It that a problem? Oh noes. You're one of those guys who loves them for their "live drums," aintcha? Yawn.

No no, I didn't get that across well. I LOVE studio shit, and live drums that sound like electronic drums, and ?uest's performance is fantastic throughout.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

I met Kelsey last night! She's rad.

I'm watching that Demetri Martin thing now. It's funny, but reaaally reminds me of Mitch Hedberg.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't I sleep through the night anymore?

It's funny, but reaaally reminds me of Mitch Hedberg.

Exactly what I said. I even have witnesses. :)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

But wasn't Hedberg just doing a stoner version of Steven Wright?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just woke myself up singing "SOMEDAAAAAAY..." From "We Shall Overcome."

In my dream I was in the high school from QaF where the admin was having a hearing against the formation of a LGBT group (lifted directly out of an actual episode) and I started singing.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I loved meeting Jordan! Jordan is awesome & his band is great!!

I had to tell you, Jordan, that when I insulted "that shitty band" in front of the guy who plays in "that shitty band" I was probably a little tipsy. Not that I'm excusing anything because, honestly, I do that kind of shit sober all the time.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I wouldn't worry about it. That dude is the newest guy in the band, he doesn't have that much invested in it. And besides, I'm not sure that he heard you anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, have you been to the Midtown Exchange? I went there for lunch yesterday, that place is completely awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't! I must check it out!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

So I guess no one wanted to hang out this evening?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Fine, fuck all y'all. I'm going to go eat Thai food. Call my cell if you change your mind.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 24 September 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm down.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 24 September 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

With the brown.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 24 September 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Did you know that John Waters does a cameo in Jackass 2? It makes perfect sense when you think about about it. These guys are totally his progeny. Divine could have been a cast member.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure Kenan quoted a review of Jackass 2 upthread that basically says the exact same thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

My dream date to see Jackass 2 would be with Jesse and Kenan.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Then we could all make out and shove stemware up our assholes.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

I had to tell you, Jordan, that when I insulted "that shitty band" in front of the guy who plays in "that shitty band" I was probably a little tipsy.

This reminds me uncomfortably of the night I was a little tipsy and told the trumpet (I think?) player in MDD's that he should stop putting so much stuff in his pockets when he's on stage.

Jesse, I did some studying in the Caribou coffee down B-way from our house and wow, that place is apparantly the non-alcoholic conterpart to Sidetracks. I sat next to a couple of old dudes talking about their profiles on silver daddies dot com.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

I almost made a similar gaffe Friday night. I was sitting with Max from Sharks and T0m, of 0ffice fame, walked up. I introduced them, then thought of common ground they had to mention: T0m used to book at Bar V3rtigo, and Sharks played at Bar V3rtigo after T0m quit, and had one of their worst shows ever. So I was going into this topic, to kind of say "ha ha, Bar V3rtigo started sucking after you quit, ha ha" but after I said something like "So Sharks played here..." Tom was like "Oh yeah, I set up that show, but I couldn't make it blah blah blah." Fortunately he cut me off before I started talking about how shitty the show had been.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 September 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

He's the trombone player. What does he have in his pockets? A colostomy bag?

I think that's the Caribou that Sayjal used to work at. She called it Club Caribou. As much as I like a LOT of things about your new place, I don't know if I am interested in living in an area so densely populated by fags.

A number of guys in personals ads say they're not into the Halstead scene, my non-Halstead cred would be ruined.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

He had a lot of crap in his pockets. Keys, wallet, cell phone, pager, PDA, hand lotion, pocket calculator, spare mouthpiece, pocket address book, pocket diary, Binaca, a pen, a sandwich, slide oil, can of Coke, Chapstick.

I probably should not have investigated silver dadies dot com. I don't know that I am that interested in seeing old, naked men at this point in my life.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I can understand not being into the "Halstead scene." Like Jeff said, the worst part of living in Boystown is all the DRAMA!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's a great list, yo.

Do you get drama on a regular basis?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

I read a 1-star review of QaF that said that gay culture is in the "minstrel show" stage of potrayal in the mainstream. Das ist true, but Halstead (and Church street, and Chelsea etc) are giving this potrayal plenty of fodder. Another review put forth the gangsta rap defense, saying that this show is only a medium for the reality of how gay life really is.

Unfortunately I think both are right. This show looks at the most sensational aspects of the "mainstream" of gay life and puts blackface (fagface?) on them and parades them on Showtime.

I'm starting to get a little obsessed with this stupid American show. Laurel is right about the British version being better. Fucking American TV.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

[i'm a horrible racist because i laughed when the 50-something super-racist right wing republican homo at c@tch 35 looked around the dining room in which there were mostly black people and said, "is there a minstrel show at the Chicago tonight?"]

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I, for one, enjoy your critique of QaF and, if the public at large loses interest, I would like to continue the conversation via email. I am not being sarcastic; I think you make some really good observations that I can also see reflected in a lot of feminist criticism of pop culture.

Once can observe some level of drama pretty regularly in area restaurants and coffee shops (I don't go to any of the gay bars around here, as of yet anyway, because they are too clubby and I hate that atmosphere regardless of sexual preference but I'm guessing there would be no shortage there), the Spin Cycle (although nothing tops the Drag Queen of Uptown. Yowza), and on the street if you walk down Halstead in the evenings. This can range from the low key (the old dudes next to me in the coffee shop having an intense discussion over whether it would be appropriate for the Silver Daddy to crash a mutual friend's birthday dinner) to the annoying (the "Where are my keys?" "I have your keys, sweetheart!" drama in the pizza place) to the outrageous (screaming tantrums in the street).

I guess I'm defining "drama" as any personal conflict exposed to public scrutiny via loud conversation or general disregard for surroundings. Pretty much people acting as if they are aware and, on some level, pleased to present their pesonal lives for public viewing.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

I like Unabridged Books on that strip.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

And isn't that the Caribou that gets called Cariboy?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Unabridged is across the street from our apartment! And I don't know the legends of the Caribou, but my experience today supports that nickname.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Spray them with the cat sprayer. Filled with gin. Or DDT.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ Nat's pocket contents

That reminds me, on Saturday morning Erik put together a bloody mary bar at his house with 30 + condiment options. My drink included a crab leg, a piece of string cheese, beans, mushrooms, dried tomatoes, an artichoke heart, a rib, and a hot dog. Other options included beef tamales, asparagus, chicken wings, and pig's feet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the new Jet Li movie tonight. I enjoyed it, but one member of our group was put off by the sparseness/corniness of the plot and dialog. It's Karate Kid meets Bloodsport, with classy Chinese cinematography. Also moustaches and muttonchops.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031406/gay-atheist-liberals.gif

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/082206/museum-of-shitty-animals.gif

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

so how was everyone's weekend? i sorta missed out on saturday but friday was innerestin'.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Chicago. I am back in London, and doing my best to ignore the clinging shreds of jetlag.

We hung around in The Blue Line for a bit, and then left. Although I was, and am, sorry not to have met more of you lot, I had 1x blast in your town.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

full account of the bloody mary incident, w/pictures

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! I love the string cheese on the stick!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

More people at work are quitting or changing teams, which means...Indian buffet today!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, your life is one gustatory delight after another. I'm envious.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm working on a new project for like the first time in a year. Woo hoo!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

fuck fuck fuck, forgot to book a flight for my nephew's christening this weekend. good things flights don't get very expensive when you're booking with less than 7 days notice or anything.

bye bye bank account, it was fun while it lasted.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, your life is one gustatory delight after another.

I won't tell you about the brunch I had yesterday then.

I'm working on a new project for like the first time in a year

Work project or fun?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Halsted? Really??

― Slumming it on ilx (section241), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Work project. :(

It was a sad attempt at enthusiasm.

Hey, what was on the cover of the Sept. 18 issue of the New Yorker? I've been behind on my New Yorker reading for the past few weeks and thought I'd finally caught up yesterday -- but then remembered that I hadn't read the Bill Clinton profile. What else was in that issue?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about the NYer, but I just read the best letter ever published in the Economist:

SIR - We are Japanese-comic fans who want you to know that you made a mistake and we are embarrassed for you...The picture you showed in your article is not of a woman but is our favourite male ass-kicker, Kenshin Himura. We understand how you got confused because he looks like a girl, but he is a boy. Feel free to consult with us on any Japanese-comic articles you do in the future.

Darla, 14
Antonia, 12
Kaitlyn, 12
New York

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

So I guess no one wanted to hang out this evening?

This is the first I'd heard of such a plan. I might've been up for it if I'd known.

This reminds me uncomfortably of the night I was a little tipsy and told the trumpet (I think?) player in MDD's that he should stop putting so much stuff in his pockets when he's on stage.

Someone told me once that I had too much stuff in my pockets when I was on stage. Since then, I have made a habit of emptying my pockets right before we perform and keeping my wallet, keys, and phone in my keyboard bag for the duration of the set.

And isn't that the Caribou that gets called Cariboy?

Last week's Reader called it Queeribou.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tim, I am really sorry that we missed you! I would have enjoyed meeting an honest-to-god Englishman. I like Marmite. We could have talked about Marmite for hours.

Halsted? Really??

Yeeeesss...

Queeribou. Clever.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

So hey this Thursday Lisa Jervis, co-founder of the much beloved (by me, anway) Bitch magazine is doing a reading at Columbia College at 5:30. She's also doing one one Wednesday at Women and Children First but I have class that night and can't skip it. Thus, I will be late to Thirsty Thursday unless the reading goes until the wee hours, in which case I will be absent. Also, if anyone would like to go with me, holla.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, I enjoyed my brief stay in Chicago enormously, so I have a feeling I'll be back. I can't claim to be honest-to-god, though, and marmite is horrible.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

What? Horrible? You go to hell.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, OK then.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

The one time I tried Marmite I almost puked.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

You too, pal.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

The cover of the 9/18/06 New Yorker shows a couple in Central Park and is rendered in pastel colors. Besides the Clinton profile, the issue has articles on the science of neuroeconomics, the perils of imperfect French (Sedaris), and a dirty and engaging short story by Miranda July.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, though, I can see why it would be noxious to some people. It's reeeeeeaaaaaallllllly salty. I tend to like stuff like that, though. For instance, I adore natto. I think there's a similar taste.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Right! I want to read that issue! The "Style Issue" wasn't that interesting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had natto (I think?), but it sounds/looks kinda gross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

i ate a marmoset once, it was also pretty salty. and it made a piercing, shrieking noise when i bit into it's underbelly.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

What's natto?

I'm not sure that I even tasted Marmite - the smell of it did me in.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry I didn't get to meet you, Tim! I had to care for my sickly fiance.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

John, I've got that NYer issue if you don't have it.

That bit about "in sickness and in health" only kicks in after the wedding.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's fermented soy beans.

Nick was probably sick from eating natto and marmite.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have the issue, it's just somewhere in my apartment, I'm guessing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Natto:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Natto_mixed.jpg

Looks like snot. I like it in maki form.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Snotty soy beans killed the thread.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've tried it. Yeah, you're right, it's pretty damn gross.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like a German Shepherd got to it already.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

so where the hell is everyone today?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back and full of Indian food. The only problem is that I think they really wimp out on the spices for the buffet vs. when you order specific things.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was at meetings all morning. And I just remembered I have another meeting at 2!

Damn. I want to get some shit done in the office so I can go to the Superdome and take part in the Saints' return. I think the town's gonna shut down early.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I got to work way late this morning thanks to me forgetting to set an alarm. I've been playing catch-up ever since and only just got lunch now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

i woke up early today despite getting to bed late last night. the fact that i slept from 6:30am saturday until 9:00am sunday may have had something to do with that.

why the FUCK is the air conditioning still on in this building? can someone explain this to me?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

i slept from 6:30am saturday until 9:00am sunday

Whoa, is that even possible? I've done a couple of long 12 or 14-hour sleeps, but 26+ is ridiculous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

My man was up for at least what, 30 hours Wednesday-Thursday? Did you ever get a final tally?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

i woke up at 5:30am wednesday, went to bed at 10:00pm thursday. woke up at 5:30am friday, went to bed 6:30am saturday. woke up 9am sunday. sleep patterns took a beating last week.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

40 1/2 hours, holy shit dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

and i went to an afterparty friday at the most unbelievable apartment/condo on the west side. it's across from the western metra station in a factory, the building used to be the administrative offices for the factory but now it's a humongous 3-level living space. 60 foot ceilings, more guitars than a music shop, a collection of vintage bikes, cannisters of film everywhere.

i wish i was a trust funder.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I should have planned ahead for huge ramifications of the Saints' return. The party is starting now. I'm so rushing through this meeting and getting home. We're going to have to walk a long mufuckin ways.

Rebirth is playing on an outdoor stage. U2 and Greenday open inside. Beer.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

can i borrow that new yorker? i'm curious about mj's article. she has kind of dripped down in my fandom.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

. . . i should add that i want to revive her, but i am wary.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I often think I would like to try natto, but then I look at it and remember that that will NEVER happen.

Damn if my meeting isn't in a building in the shadow of the Dome. Now I'm going to have to walk a mile to get to the place. Maybe I'll cancel.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, I fear that if you were a trust funder you'd be dead by now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, Kels, but you live many miles from me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, I fear that if you were a trust funder you'd be dead by now.

2x, or at least you wouldn't be the bro you are now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of bros: Nick I totally didn't read the thread at all yesterday or I would have hung out. You could have watched Hated with us, since we never got around to it on Saturday.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

that's an excellent point jenny and one i hadn't considered. but i'd be willing to risk it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know what a bro is.

highlight of friday night/saturday morning: my friend amy jumping into the street to try to hail us a cab on western only to have that cab turn out to be the cpd. good times.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

bro = an amiable fellow? I don't know. BROS, BRO.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

there's that thing known as the u.s. postal service, john. they mail things.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

oh! amanda . . . if you're out there, I'm going to make your delicious stew tonight or tomorrow. the one with the rosemary & the garbanzos. i'm super excited.

yesterday i made whole wheat biscuits b/c i wanted something to drizzle the honey on. leaf recently bought said honey & i forgot how awesome honey is.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've tried to hail cop cars a few times myself.

Mmmm... biscuits. That sounds like a tasty idea.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

If you want a taste of my conversation with Tim from last week, here's him talking to Molly D. about Toby Keith.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

mmmmm stew!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Secret shame: I find Toby Keith somewhat attractive.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

i wouldn't have thought it was possible for one sentence to cause me to lose all that respect i had for you jenny. but there it is.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

"jenny has a real boner for toby keith and i can't respect that."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't call it a real boner as sort of a mildly curious interest. This all stemmed from his ten minute appearance on the Colbert Report. The only other thing I know about him is the "Boot in Your Ass" song, which certainly lessens his attractiveness.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

"jenny has a half-chub for toby keith and i'm trying not to think about it."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

My mom likes Toby Keith. I haven't really heard much, but I'm curious.

I am beginning to realize that my mom is perhaps growing more conservative in her old age. This has nothing to do with her liking Toby Keith, but just a stray thought. I think it has something to do with her being an exec who handles publicity for a major hospital network. She's pretty vociferously anti-union, for one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, about Midtown Exchange, it's like a big indoor market with 12 or so different ethnic restaurants/booths. I ate at the Holy Land Deli (unfriendliest thing you can do to your body before a 4.5 hour car ride = giant gyro w/hot sauce) but everything looked delicious. Not as cheap as I expected, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

barcello's on milwaukee ave no longer serves pineapple and pepperoni pizza. i can not underestimate how much this troubled me when i put in my order yesterday. they make a damn fine pie but it was SO MUCH BETTER when they still had pineapple. :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

my roommate made whole wheat biscuits this weekend but they turned out kind of dry. i much prefer the recipe we usually use. maybe i'll post a good vegetarian biscuits and gravy recipe to the blog sometime, because we make that all the time.

my roommate has interesting encounters with gay boys. they went to a gay bar on saturday, and apparently one guy was so taken with her that he melodramatically claimed she'd turned him bi. he proposed marriage, which she declined. she gets a lot of marriage proposals from guys, which is especially odd since she prefers the laydeez.

they met another guy who was really high, and going on and on about how he'd gone out with the intention of picking someone up, but now he was really hungry. so he could still pick someone up, but maybe he'd end up in the situation where he'd be admiring someone's cock but really preferring a sandwich. which would be a dilemma. apparently he was very upset about all of this.

i had a more mellow weekend than all that, as i usually do. 'the proposition' is an immensely violent movie, so much so that i have no idea what i thought of it otherwise. i was reeling from the various grisly deaths so much that i couldn't really judge the movie otherwise.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Toby Keith may be a genius.

Well, maybe not, but there's a definite reference to "Cask of Amontillado" a la Edgar Allan Poe in his video "A Little Too Late." I realized this, while Tim and I sat hungover on my couch.

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I gave my newest team member a ride to lunch today. I really want to corrupt him. Like, get him drunk and smoking cigarettes at a rap show. He's in his early 20's but looks about 15, lives at home, and races on the competitive go-kart circuit with 15 yr olds every weekend. He told me all about his go-kart. It was his first time trying Indian food, of course. Seriously, he's just begging for it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like a trip to the porn shop is in someone's future...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Competitive go-kart circuit? I had no idea this even existed. Bring that kid to Chicago next time you come. We'll fix him up but good.

He'll kill me for saying this, but this vignette made me think of Jesse. I can see him undergoing a similar struggle.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

One step at time!

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Karting can be way competitive, and really fast, like 70-80 mph. I knew some people who were into it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I hate go-karts. This is probably not a surprise.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

When he talks about his car or his races I always say stuff such as "Oh, like in Mario Kart?" or "So it's just like RC Pro Am, then?" I think it upsets him.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I bet you hate fun, too. And America.

xpost: RC PRO AM!!!!! Best NES game ever.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hate fun, but I do hate stinky exhaust and noise and things that are scary and go fast and I hate when I'm trying to drive a go kart and being nice about it and people bump me because I don't like to drive fast. I don't like to drive fast, okay? Is that so wrong? Those stupid things are dangerous!

Alright. There. I hate them because they scare me and other people get angry at me and it's like junior high gym all over again except with more noise and more fossil fuels.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

OK, fair enough :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. One of those games I loved enough though I could never beat, it was fun just to play the first half every time (see also Mike Tyson's Punch Out).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Secret shame: I enjoy some forms of car racing. Notably, rally. I blame the location of my upbringing.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone have a good stew recipe? i've been thinking about it for the past two hours now. i wish i had some stew waiting for me when i get home. the only thing waiting for me at home is dirty laundry. :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

car racing video games are fun.

kenan just called and he got busted using ilx at work. oops. he says hi.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I have a lot of good stew recipes. What main ingredient do you desire?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

salt, potatoes, and meat.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

and a carrot i suppose.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Kenan.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'M SO OFF WORK.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oops! Starting on Thursday (and in effect for a month) I'm sharing an office with two other dudes, so I may or may not be on less. They're cool guys but I'm going to be pretty busy working on stuff with them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Have fun Jesse, that sounds great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the basic process is:

Cut meat into chunks. Dredge through flour. Fry in bottom of a dutch oven or similar pan.
Add carrots, celery, onions and cook some.
Add potatoes and whatever else.
Add some herbs.
Add broth, cover, and cook.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm out for a meeting the rest of the day. L8r!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

how much of everything? cook for how long?

i'm buying a goddamn cookbook.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

BYE JORDAN.

Even more basicly: Floured meat, aromatics, root vegetables, herbs, broth.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I forgot what I hate about this new project (which comes around every fall): really obscure facts about current events in tiny countries that are impossible to check without actually going there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, it depends on how much stew you want. Maybe a pound of meat (you can get it already cut up), three carrots, three ribs of celery, a medium onion, and four or five fist-sized potatoes?

Fry the meat until it's a little golden brown and cook the stew for at least an hour.

Get a Joy of Cooking. It's a good basic kitchen reference. I use the hell out of mine, even with the internet at my fingertips.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kev'n: Get one Joy of Cooking -- if you only get one, it's the one to have IMO.

xpost: See? Jenny knows what I'm talking about.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's probably too much stew for one dude. I can only cook for two or more people.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

the new joy of cooking thirded, or (and) how to cook everything, by mark bittman.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

amazon, here i come!

thanks all!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

One of the many things that makes me LUV the Joy of Cooking is that it has a recipe for pasties. Because, surprise surprise: The food is extremely popular in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where it has become an icon of the region, introduced through the wave of Cornish immigrants to the United States

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

one joy of cooking is on it's way. i should have it by wednesday. and i bought a book to read on the plane to vermont this weekend.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna put a bunch of stuff in my crock pot and come home 8 hours later and eat stew. or more accurately, i want someone else to put a bunch of stuff in my crock pot 8 hours before i decide i want some motherfuckin' stew.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Someone needs to invent a psychic crock pot.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

god i have enough problems with my telepathic toaster, i don't need any more chatter coming from the kitchen.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

what i need is for someone to roll me over at about 4 in the morning and say "BITCH! YR GONNA WANT SOME STEW TODAY." then make me some stew.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

maybe without the bitch part. or the yelling. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm hungry.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you have the strangest imaginary domestic arrangements. Crock pot or no, you're still gonna have to brown the meat.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

pressure cookers are good for such things. you can work magic.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

laurel, i would love someone who would wake me up screaming at 4 a.m. just to tell me they were making me stew. it's not an imagination it's an aspiration.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

someone who would wake me up screaming at 4 a.m. just to tell me they were making me stew before falling asleep for 16 hours.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wish me luck at the Haiku cut!
http://www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/haiku.html

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Brevity - haiku should be quite brief, though they need not contain exactly 17 syllables

Heresy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

someone who would wake me up screaming at 4 a.m. just to tell me they were making me stew before falling asleep for 16 hours.

i'm guessing if there was somebody around to wake me up at 4 a.m. i wouldn't stay out until 6 a.m. and as such wouldn't need to sleep 16 hours at a pop.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Sam's Liquors tonight! What fun.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! I just saw the Red Eye for today, and the cover was, "Office Slackers!" and all about how bosses are cracking down. I'm nothing if not on top of current trends. So, yeah, I got busted for ILX, but there's a plus, too -- they moved me out of the storage room. I guess as punishment or something? I was about to ask if I could move, anyway. I always said that it was nice having my own room even if half of it was full of junk, but honestly it could get lonely and depressing. The design room is much nicer. Bright and spacious. Lots of shelving stacked full of software and books about software. A big drafting table full of impressive-looking tools. And if I want to see or speak to another human being, I can just turn around. And I got so much done today! Who would have thought that getting busted and humiliated could be such a self-esteem boost?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'm just in a good mood because I slept so well.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I arrived too late to recommend The Joy Of Cooking, which is basically the book that got me started on cooking (and look where it lead me).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

JOY O COOKING ALWAYS GETTING IN MY WAY.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Heresy

I have it on good authority that the 17 syllable rule is considered as unbreakable a rule as the one that says that poetry must rhyme.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing worse than when you guys talk about grammar is when you guys talk about poetry.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

I have it on good authority that the 17 syllable rule is considered as unbreakable a rule as the one that says that poetry must rhyme.

What? From a chink?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Considering the huge differences between Japanese and English, the rules are either carryovers from Japanese (and therefore irrelevant) or an Anglo set of rules.

In any case, it's usually a constrained writing gimmick.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Saints are gonna big fat win. Beginning of the 4th quarter, 23-3 Saints.

I was in a meeting today with a guy who lives in the Quarter who says that when the Saints play the Falcons in NO he spends the night at a friend's house because things can get violent.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Also, in Japanese haiku, it's not syllable-count, it's mora-count. Mora is the length of the vowels, and some vowels are long and count for two (just as in ancient Greek or Latin poetry).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Could it be that a new American poetry form based on Haiku and called, confusingly, haiku has evolved that retains some of the traditional Japanese conventions (brevity) while adapting others (5-7-5 syllable construction rather than the not-particularly-compatible-with-English mora-count) and developing some new ones (subject matter that's often satirical or humorous)? Why limit the growth of this American haiku form by forcing it into a structure that is neither culturally nor linguistically appropriate?

Basically, proper Haiku can never come from English so why not adapt the form and have some fun with it, you big, grumpy poetry pedants.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

In my meter class last spring, we had to make haiku with syllable-length count in English using refrigerator poetry magnets. It was awkward.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Although, do we need haiku in English, then?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

I went to Sam's Wine
and Spirits. I got some Bell's and
a box. Sam's is great.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

When I say it's usually a gimmick I mean that most people are going to spend their time counting syllables thinking they're writing profound tibits of cosmic genius. Brevity is the key. Syllable counts are shackles that guide the writing.

I enjoy syllable counts when playing with Haiku because they make the composition a game ("tennis without a net" and all that comes to mind here) that is more fun than serious poetry.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

The Northwestern prof of Japanese who was one of the three judges tonight explained that the 5-7-5 rule, as Jenny said, suits the Japanese language. To preserve it in English would be like translating Moliere or Rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac) in the original 12-syllable alexandraine meter - one that works well in French but not so well in English.

I got knocked out in the first round by a guy who took second place and was the best overall poet there - the guy works as a CPA and also is a beer vendor at Wrigley Field.

But I came back to win the Audience Choice award - which included a one-year subscription to Modern Haiku and a t-shirt.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Winter dinner
At the Olive Garden—
Three brothers, three cars.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

I regret saying anything about haiku, or even Haiku, since I genuinely, sincerely, very deeply and honestly care nothing at all about it. In the future, I will not comment.

You're welcome.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

What did Dan get at Sam's?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

a beer vendor at Wrigley Field.
Was his name Bob?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, yes, his name was Bob. From his solid stance and deliver, I was guessing he was an English teacher who coached.

When I got knocked out I said, "It's like losing to Duke in the first playoff game."

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

He had one about drinking in the rain behind the liquor store, the brown bag turning darker.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

i've seen him before on the slam circuit. he's a regular performer at the mill, i think.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

I love me some stew. I had some great stew at Earwax this weekend with SWEET POTATOES in it. I need to check out some cookbooks at the library. Nick made a great seasonal meal last night: roasted sweet potatoes and garlic greens.

While eating said meal, we watched The Proposition. Perhaps it was ridiculously gorey, but since I tend to close my eyes in anticipation of those parts, I'm not the best judge of that. I thought it was really great over all, especially the score. But also I've been kind of obsessed with that time period lately. ALSO, I want to learn more about Austrailia.

Kenan, That sucks about being caught. You know, I read that same issue of the Red Line. I was carrying it in with me to work. I almost left it out on a counter for other people, but then realized I shouldn't be putting ideas in the boss's head.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Question: Have any of you ever replaced your own hubcaps? Or paid for someone else to do it? Where did you go? My Dad told me that it's super easy. You just need to pop out the old ones and pop in the new ones, if they're plastic. However, he's not much of a car person, so I'm not sure he knows what he's talking about.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Your Dad is right.

I think you should get some like this:
http://images.kmart.com/assets/images/product/productDetail/1010000001765929.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

sarah don't you dare pay someone to do this. very easy. it's a cap, there are plastic tabs that attach it to the tire, just snap it in and you're done.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

er, attach it to the rim i guess. attaching it to the tire itself would be a deflating experience.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

What did Dan get at Sam's?

I got two 6ers of Bell's (Amber and Oberon) for my bros in Alaska. I also got a very sturdy box with a foam liner to protect said beers.

I had heard stories about Sam's but had never been there. What a place! So much wine that I wouldn't even know where to start.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Niiiiice. Oh, so you can buy them at Kmart? I guess I'd need to measure mine. Why don't they have any girlie hubcaps? COME ON! There's a market for that.

Hopefully, this will be more successful than the time I put on my gym clothes, scooted under the car, and tried to fix my carborator (sp?) with duct tape.

It's so pretty out today!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hubcaps.org/hubcaps/toyota/toycor02.jpg

This one is kind of cute.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Who is having a Halloween party?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Woah! Is that $128 for ONE hubcap??

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm high on caffeine. What was your first clue?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I had heard stories about Sam's but had never been there. What a place!

yeah, i'd been buying from them for a couple of years before i moved out here (until the mass. ag stopped allowing booze to be sold via parcel service). it was one of the first places i went when i came out here. i take it you went to the one over by north & clybourn? there's another one on north ave. in river forest (or maybe elmwood park since it's the north side of the street) that isn't as big but it also isn't nearly as crowded.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm high on caffeine. What was your first clue?

the grains of caffeine caked in your nostrils.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, y'all.

We had "quiet" rock band rehearsal last night to work on vocals. It was kinda lame. Then I went to see Clyde Stubblefield with some friends, it wz cool.

Does anyone want to be in GWALA? It's a very exclusive club started by some of us in Digd0wn, it is the Gentleman's Wing and Literature Association. We will meet at a bar once per fortnight to consume chicken wings and discuss the book of choice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

GWALA sounds great, Jordan.

I wouldn't mind being in a book club again if I got to pick all the books.

Do you sing backups in the rock band?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ben fucked up his back at IKEA which has interfered with the band. DAMN IKEA! Anyway, we're having practice tonight for the first time in several days. We'll just have to figure out a way to suspend the drums so he play lying down, if need be.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

That sucks. Maybe you could make a cd of his drum tracks from the album and he could press play while reclining on one of these?

Do you sing backups in the rock band?

No, I'm the only one who doesn't, because I am a) bad at singing while playing, and b) bad at singing while not playing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Let's cut to the chase here: Are hubcaps even necessary?

Sarah, I have noticed your Thanksgiving-related posts and have meant to respond and then keep not doing so for some reason. But YES we will be in town and YES we want to be part of a dinner making experience. Jesse and Courtney will also be here. Turkey is unnecessary, as demonstrated last year. I will happily provide side dishes and desert because I can make cake now. I can also make a mean sweet potato pie. If people are really jonezing for turkey, I'll make one of those, too.

We could host Thanksgiving at our house, but not for more than six, maaaaaaybe eight, people. Once we get above four, people need to bring their own chairs.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I knocked a hubcap off my car last winter and DAN told me that hubcaps aren't necessary.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

they are not necessary, they are purely ornamental.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S A CONSPIRACY SARAH.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds good, jenny. Maybe I could come over beforehand and learn how to make said sweet potato pie while being your lovely kitchen assistant. I have a cute apron, which I'm sure is vital.

I know hubcaps aren't necessary. I just want to spruce up the car a little bit. I finished paying it off, so now I feel like it needs a little more nurturing in its old age.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

The first way I nurtured it was by scraping it up against a fancy red sportscar. So now it has more dents AND a red line down one side. I'm pretending new hubcaps will fix that by veering the eyes away from the damage.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was just told that I will have a mentee to set a good example for, starting Monday. Her name is D1vya.

The last D1vya that worked here was gorgeous.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think technically hubcaps protect the bolts and fastenings of your wheel from water/dirt/salt, so if you have to change a tire you stand a better chance of things not being entirely corroded together.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, you all know way more about cars than I do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

John, why does that surprise you? :-D
But seriously, I don't know much about cars. I promise. That might have something to do with my first car going down in flames.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

John, what did you think of the Youngbl00d show?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

The last D1vya that worked here was gorgeous.

Having never even met anyone with that name, I find it interesting that you have worked with not one but two D1vya's within a recent span of time.

Sarah, I accept your offer of kitchen assistance. The secret to sweet potato pie is... store bought crust. Heh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was great. We saw most of the set but left a bit early because we were both pretty tipsy. It was really fun to dance to, though. And the MC was hilarious, mostly because you don't expect a dude who looks like that to be spitting rhymes so fierce.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

There is also another one who works here. There are a lot (and I mean A LOT) of Indian people here.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

AH I did not know it was an Indian name. That explains everything.

Has anybody ever been to the Sky-Ride Cocktail Lounge? How is it?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

i'm beginning to feel like i might need drinks tonight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel has a good point about hubcaps.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot think of any ideas for the first GWALA book. Anyone read anything good lately?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

the man with the golden arm is on it's way to me. i've never read it and it takes place a block from my house (frankie machine's apartment is supposed to be at division & hoyne i think).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

That looks cool.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot think of any ideas for the first GWALA book. Anyone read anything good lately?

How serious is the "Gentlemen" part? Are you looking for books that are of interest mainly to gentlemenly dudes?

The last two very good books I read were Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (dude-centric) and Homecoming by Marilyn Robinson (lady-focused). Although I'm sure I've readin something good since then, too... In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is an excellent book for a Gentlemen's club, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

OK get ready for some random rambling:

I am going to take a ride out to the burbs this evening to go to the REI store and buy a sleeping bag. Tomorrow I am going to a Chicago Fire game and possibly to Schuba's. Is there a plan for TT? Friday I am going to Alaska! What a busy week.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

(frankie machine's apartment is supposed to be at division & hoyne i think).

The Frankie Machine Community Garden is at Wood and Haddon. I passed by there the other day but didn't get the reference until just now. I kept thinking of John Herndon of Tortoise, who goes by the nickname Johnny Machine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

my ex room mate was from alaska, where are you going up there dan? and more importantly, why? i'm going out for drinks tonight and depending how long that lasts i may or may not do laundry. i'd be up for tt if anyone wants to pick a place. i'm going to vermont this weekend. gonna peep some mad leafs yo!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot think of any ideas for the first GWALA book.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/031235620X.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_V62142841_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

It is a gentlemanly group, but I'd like to think that we're a sensitive and enlightened bunch. There may be some female members (albeit strict vagitarians). Cormac McCarthy is a great suggestion, I haven't read anything by him and Maddie was just recommending Blood Meridian.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

where are you going up there dan? and more importantly, why?

Where: Anchorage, Homer, and points in between.

Why: Because two of my best friends ever live there and I haven't seen them for a few years. Also to get the hell away from the city and my job for a while.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

jen lived north of there, in the arctic circle. i'm pretty sure she spent some time in anchorage after her folks god divorced though. i think her step-sister might live in homer though. or sitka, one of those.

everything i've seen looks beautiful up there dan, enjoy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

where are you going in Alaska, Dan???

also: i really like cormac mccarthy

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

where are you going in Alaska, Dan???

Look up 3 posts! :D

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh, right. i can't keep up.

Homer is supposed to be really cool -- three people I knew in college were from Homer (which is, statistically, really weird).

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Copied from ILM:

Five Things No Bar Should Have

By Chuck Klosterman

1. Natural light. Bars are supposed to be womblike sanctuaries, separate from the blinding bleakness of mainstream society. They should always be poorly lit, and they should not have windows. If I'm drinking at 3:00 P.M., the sun should not remind me what time it is.

2. Patrons who are reading. Darkness also discourages all the bozos who think people will be impressed if they're seen reading in a bar, which is as cool as being drunk at Barnes & Noble.

3. Loud music. There is a belief among many bar owners that loud music creates intimacy (which theoretically increases the possibility of romantic interplay, thereby prompting people to return) by forcing patrons to sit closer together and scream directly into one another's ears. Everybody hates this. I have never been in a bar where people complained about the music being too soft.

4. Dogs. Never bring your dog into a bar. Ever. They're not clean, and they make the place feel like a veterinarian's office. How is it that you can't have a lit cigarette in any bar in New York or L.A., but you can have a pit bull? I understand that cigarettes cause cancer; they do not, however, rip the faces off small children.

5. Twenty-two-year-old female bartenders who "just wanna party." I already have enough problems. That's why I came to the bar.

Discuss.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I knew a girl from Alaska in college. I don't remember where she was from. Somewhere rural. I attended a reading she did that was accompanied by slides of her home in the snowy wilderness, which her dad had built.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh: Friendster tells me she was from Tok.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

1. ok
2. i like reading in bars -- did it a lot in Ireland
3. agreed
4. whatever, chuck.
5. see 5

xp dude, of course it was somewhere rural. she's from ALASKA.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Anchorage and Juneau aren't THAT rural, though.

Tok is here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

i disagree with all 5 to differing extents. different bars for different occasions.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

What about beergardens?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I disagree with Chuck about #1 and #2. Reading the Times in Hopleaf at 4 PM on a Sunday is a treat.

As for #3 and #4, they annoy me, too -- but there are always other bars. I mean, some bars (like Cody's) are DOG BARS -- but if this bothers you, go elsewhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have never been in a bar where people complained about the music being too soft.

i was in one two weeks ago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck believes in absolutes, and I don't think there should be many --if any-- absolutes when it comes to bars. Chuck can go drink by himself. Overly loud music sucks ass, although I have been in places where the music was too quiet... too quiet after we paid for it, that is.

if this bothers you, go elsewhere

xpost Exactly!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

#2 should die. What better place to read for pleasure than somewhere with a nearly endless supply of potables & take-out menus and chances for casual conversation in between chapters??

On the other hand I can't emphasize #5 enough -- but then dumb, self-destructive 22-yr old women hold absolutely no appeal for me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

#3 is OTM OTM OTM. I hate it when music is too loud to talk, because my hearing kinda sucks and I hate yelling in people's ears. I hate it when bands are too loud. Quiet bars are great and not as easy to find as they should be.

All the others, eh. And #5 is not a "problem" I've ever had to deal with.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

not related to this but i have some really great friends. i should remember this more.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

1. Natural light.
I disagree. I love natural light, be it sunlight or moonlight. I think bars are darker to give uglier folks a chance. The same goes for dirtiness. It doesn't charm me.

2. Patrons who are reading.
No skin off my back.

3. Loud music.
Depends on the bar.

4. Dogs.
I don't think I've ever seen a dog at a bar. Sometimes I feel sorry for the black cat at the Bottle.

5. Twenty-two-year-old female bartenders who "just wanna party."
Could be worse.

Here are my own bar prejudices:
1) Smoking in bars can go F itself. It hurts my eyes and makes it hard to breathe, which isn't fun for me.
2) Like I said before, it wouldn't kill bars to be just a little more clean. Good hygiene doesn't make you a sellout.
3) Old pubs and hoity toity bars need to make some sort of peace with each other so I can get a nice girlie drink in a less snotty atmosphere.
4) We need some rules for ordering drinks, because slamming into each other to get closer to the bar and get the bartender's attention can turn voilent.
5) Addendum to #4: Bars need to hire more bartenders to keep people happy. It's ridiculous when you have 20 people vying for one employees attention.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

1. Natural light. Bars are supposed to be womblike sanctuaries, separate from the blinding bleakness of mainstream society.

though i will say that there was a time, a perhaps it still exists, where i took sublime delight in walking out of the inky blackness of a bar half in the wrapper only to be stunned by the blinding harshness of the mid-day sunlight. it was like my own personal time warp or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Great, now I'm all full of rage. ha ha

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a Chicago vs NYC difference, that you can't get mixed drinks everywhere? Sure, the guy at our usual Monday night place with tattoos on his neck probably doesn't make Cosmopolitans on a regular basis, but he'll do it! And so will pretty much every other bar in any neighborhood that wants to continue to have a nightlife.

Actually our Monday night bartender makes awesome margaritas, on the spot.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think the only bar I'd feel weird about ordering a cocktail at would be the Hopleaf, just because their whole shtick is BEER BEER BEER. I wasn't aware that you really couldn't do it at some places, though. But then I hardly ever order cocktails, so what do I know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

any bartender will attempt to make your drink unless they don't have an ingredient. there are some places that are obvious shot and a beer bars though. but if i wanted a drink, i don't care where i am, i'm ordering it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Or Sarah, are your girl drinks something extra special with unusal ingredients? Maybe I'm just underestimating girl drinks!! Here, truly fancy kinds of things with, like blood orange juice or powdered sugar rims or etc are in the $12-$18 range per cocktail. Perfect for very special occasions. Only.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think bars are darker to give uglier folks a chance. The same goes for dirtiness.

Dirty bars make ugly people more attractive? :)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

maybe darker bars also give dirty people a better chance?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, Jordan, because then they can blend in with the dirtiness of the bar. They look more natural.

I guess I'm just thinking of a margarita or a martini in a martini glass or a frozen pina colada. I order gin & tonics and rum & cokes at bars, but it seems like they never have fruity drinks. Honestly, I've never asked, because I'm worried I'll just get a mean look. Which brings me to another gripe:

BARS NEED DRINK MENUS

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

That's why bars showcase their bottles (of beer, liquor, etc.) behind the bar.

I must say, though, I did like when I was at the Cali Clipper a few weeks ago and they had a cocktail menu at each booth. That was when I ordered the greyhound -- I never would've considered it otherwise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Good point. Maybe if I wore my glasses to bars, that wouldn't be such a problem.

Also, I think part of my problem is that I'm not a very assertive person, so I don't like being in an environment where I have to compete with other people to get someone's attention.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I dunno about the pina colada, but I bet you could get a margarita or a martini pretty much anywhere. In some bars you might get it in a pint glass, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I drank a couple of greyhounds last night (vodka version). It's a refreshing but not too girly drink that almost any bar can handle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, just order your drink, you won't get a dirty look. it may seem like they don't have fruity drinks but that's because a relatively small percentage of bar patrons drink fruity drinks. order what you want woman! don't relegate yourself to sailing on captain morgan's slave ship!

xpost- you'd have to be in a dive to get a martini in a pint glass without asking for it that way (for economic reasons if no other, a martini glass is much smaller than a pint glass).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, K., I was thinking of a margarita, which I have drunk in pint glasses, rather than a martini.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, that Klosterman list was taken from an article in Esquire on the best bars in America - and number one is NYE'S POLONAISE ROOM in Minneapolis. I took Kelsey there. Sarah and Nick - you should go. There and/or the Red Dragon.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

POLONAISE is not POLYNESIAN it is FRENCH for POLISH.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Going to a dark, not-clean bar can give a person permission of sorts to be not-clean and not-respectable. I think a lot of people -- people who spend all day trying to convince their coworkers/superiors/fellow human beings that they are good and respectable -- relish the opportunity to drop the bullcrap and wallow in the muck a little bit.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also, if it's dark, no one can see you being piggy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's a good point, Amanda. Just the other day I was talking about the romanticism of alcoholism, that Bukowski-esque desire to just sit unshaven in a bar all day wearing a wife-beater and then going home to a clapboard apartment and smoking and pounding on a typewriter until you fall asleep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Not to worry about fruity, Sarah -- all bars have AT LEAST orange, cranberry, and probably grapefruit juice, cos those are used in lots of basic mixed drinks. Places that also stock, like, pomegranate juice or peach nectar or whatev probably specialize in martinis and will have a menu.

Amanda: Totes. I think the wallowing is my true state and the dressed up and respectable day job is the scam I pull on Midtown.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I love natural light (the window table at the Hopleaf at 5:30 p.m.) and not-loud music.

I was reading some Bukowski poems and realized that if he had been born 50 years later he'd be a blogger.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

What is a "clapboard apartment," anyway?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Would Brautigan have been a blogger?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding (with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms), is a board used typically for exterior horizontal siding that has one edge thicker than the other and where the board above laps over the one below. It is often found in New England architecture.

In newer, cheaper construction, clapboard is often imitated with vinyl, aluminum, or fiber cement.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

It'd be pretty fucking low-rent to build an apartment out of siding.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Did I just make this up, or is "clapboard" one of those confusing words that has evolved weirdly (like "gunwhale") to be pronounced "clabbered"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason it's in the same part of my brain as "waistcoat", "gunwhale", and "primer".

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly, I've never asked, because I'm worried I'll just get a mean look.

they might hold back from giving you a mean look because they're hoping for a decent tip, but it seems that bartenders hate dealing with fruity drinks, though they generally have the ingredients. where i used to hang out/work, the bartender never charged me for anything except when i wanted a fruity drink. i would usually go with cranberry and vodkas (are those cape cods?) or amaretto sours (LOVE those) to satisfy my girl-drink urges. or lemon drop shots.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

A POLL:

Should I pay my NO parking tickets? I have 2, maybe 3, for $20 each.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

laurel- yes.
jesse- no.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Parking ticket #1- I found great parking the the Quarter. My boss was with me and we both marvelled how easy it was. That's because I was in a loading zone, but the fucking sign was hanging upside down because it was missing a bolt, and facing the wrong way.

#2- Last night I went out with my three roommates. When we parked I said, "Look around and see if there's any reason I shouldn't park here. If you say it's safe and I get a ticket, we're splitting the cost." We saw no signs anywhere, but I got a ticket for being in a bus stop.

There was another ticket, but that may have been one of the interns'.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Going to a dark, not-clean bar can give a person permission of sorts to be not-clean and not-respectable.
Exactly! That's why people in bars are more likely to be jerkwads.

I find that I act like a Fakey McNicealot when I'm working with people I wouldn't normally hang out with. When you go hang out with friends, though, there isn't that sort of tension, even in a nicer environment.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry if I'm coming off bitchy. I just have a lot of pent up opinions about bars.

I'm actually in a great mood today.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

1. Natural light.
You should have options.
Often I like darkness, but natural light is night the end of the world.

EXCEPTION: when you're at a 24 hour bar and the sun starts coming up, natural light is the very Devil. I feel like a cockroach when I'm ordering a gin and tonic and the sun shines its first rays on it.

This is a head-scratcher here in NO because most businesses leave their doors wide open (spilling out delicious A/C to pedestrians who walk on the sidewalk) but that also lets in the sun. Some places put up drapes that block out most of the light.

2. Patrons who are reading.
Meh. Whatever.

3. Loud music.
OTM.

4. Dogs.
Fuck you. Dogs are fucking awesome. There should be a 3:1 dog:me ratio!

5. Twenty-two-year-old female bartenders who "just wanna party."
Make that female OR male. Party boiz are annoying.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

1. Natural light.

Disgusting. No bar should server this beer.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I don't believe I've ever had a Natty Light.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

the litany of horrible beers i've consumed does include natty light. and USA beer and Koch's Golden Anniversary (brewed in Rochester, NY).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Mickey's, Gennessee...

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Black Label...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

One of my coworkers just yelled at me, so I'm turning my bar rage against her instead.

I keep an extra printer toner on stock for everyone, except, apparently, her. So, she asked for a toner yesterday. I said, sorry, I'll have to order you one. So I ordered it immediately. And then today she's saying WHERE IS IT? I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO ORDER IT? I did, yesterday, when you asked me to order it. It was shipped UPS and should get here today or tomorrow. Apparently she let the toner run ALL the way out so now everyone who uses that printer is printerless. She just yelled to me, FINE! NEXT TIME WHEN I NEED SOMETHING I'LL JUST GO BUY IT MYSELF!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

eazy- gennessee cream ale? you don't like?
sarah- yell back at her. don't take that shit.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I do like Gennessee Cream Ale, as I remember it - I just think of drinking that and Mickey's as some lowdown college-drunk times.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Nye's is number one?! How exciting!! I LOVE NYE'S!! Thanks to Eric, being at Nye's is when I officially fell in love with Minneapolis.

Sarah: what about ordering a "malibu & pineapple juice" or something? It's fruity, most bars have both ingredients and you're not asking for anything complicated so it could work at dingy, low-key bars.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

When I first started drinking beer, it was Natural Light. It tastes like water.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is that Esquire article recent, by the way?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Scratch that. I just found it! I'm feeling Minnesotan pride or something!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

There you are, Kelsey! I will (hopefully) see you in a week and a half! You can introduce Nick & I to Nye's.

Otto, I prefer to complain to other people online. I know she's getting reprimanded by her boss and taking it out on me. She should have given me the heads up when her toner started running a little low, not waited until the second she needed a new one to tell me. Also, why the fuck can't she just print to another printer? WE ARE ON A NETWORK.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Black Label is okay!

Old Milwaukee, Blatz, Hamm's, Premo (teh awesome), Huber, IRON CITY, Milwaukee's Best.......

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

When are you & Nick coming to Mpls?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I may have already told some of you this.

I was at Rawhide, the leather bar in the Quarter and I tried to order a mixed drink, but it was a no-go. Apparently they're too butch for mixers. So I ordered a Ketel straight up with an olive. But they don't have olives: "No salad bar here, baby."

They have:
liquor
beer
ice
glasses

This is because it's a bar for real men, not fags. Or something TWISTED LIKE THAT.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

We're driving from Madison Saturday morning (the 7th). It will just be a weekend trip. We're driving back Monday (the 9th). We're staying at a Marriott in St Louis Park.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen Iron City at two bars (the Beat Kitchen and somewhere else) lately. Is this a new trend brought on by the surging popularity of Girl Talk and Ben Roethlisberger or just a coincidence?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I spelled "Roethlisberger" correctly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Milwaukee's Best

oh holy christ, how could i forget about the milwaukee's beast...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

awesome! i was afraid it was the weekend after when i'll be in DE! yayayayayayay!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah's stories help ease the pain of working in perfect isolation.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

i bet you'll even like st. louis park . . . it seems like a cool lil' town.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. My mom had a free night at a Marriott which she gave us, but only at a certain price level (the downtown Marriotts were too high).

I long for last week when I was able to read at my desk. I really like the book I'm reading now, Perfume.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I would say that you could get away with not paying your parking tickets. I have friends with years-old NO parking tickets and nothing has ever happened. On the other hand, giving the city money (even if it's the PD) probably isn't the worst thing in the world.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse in NO update:

Last night the roommates and I walked miles to go to the Superdome where we saw Rebirth play. Then we went to a bar until halftime. Then we went home and kept up with the game on ESPN (Saints won 23-3, with the Falcons scoring only once early in the 1st quarter) and watching Queer as Folk.

Before watching QaF we changed out of our sweaty clothes that reeked of cigar smoke. When we emerged from out bedrooms, the four of us had on Tshirts. They read:

Stacey: Caution: Christ Working Ahead
Meg: Smile God Loves You
Chantelle: St. Augustine Parish Summer Camp
Me: Interf@ith W0rker Just|ce/ All Religi0ns Believe in Justice

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD, Jesse. You should have seen some of the T-shirts I had growing up. My favorite one, because I'm such a rock n roller at heart, said something like ROCK for Jesus! (or was it ROCK of Ages!?) on it in neon letters. Sadly, I only really remember the ROCK part. This says a lot about me.

I think I might need this soon.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

What about this one? Trendy, huh?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

My cousin has this one which he wears ALL THE TIME.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh gawd.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

NEW KIDS ON THE ROCK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Just a few years out of the house and I was wearing this shirt instead.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow I am going to Baton Rouge!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Joan Jett, Joan Jett...oh yeah, wasn't she on Highlander?

http://joanjettbadrep.com/Videography/images/hlhv.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you could go to Shreveport, where I lived for a while, and eat Strawberry Pie.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing on that list that I agree with is the loud music HOWEVER I have been in a bar where I wished the music was louder. I like the music to be loud enough to be a topic of conversation but not too loud to limit conversation, nawmean?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to BR on bidness.

Any recommendations on what I could do after I'm done there?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Are you also going to the Bathroom for Business?

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

YOU SHUT UP.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone see The Lake House? It comes out today on dvd.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

From my understanding parking tickets are how the Public Defenders Office gets funded, so ethically I've gotta pay the mufuggin tix. I heard on NPR that the funding depends on each year's traffic ticket take, so they don't know year to year how well they're going to be able to staff. This needs to change.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Any recommendations on what I could do after I'm done there?

Go to the Ragin' Cajun Water Park.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Russian Dolls when it came out and loved it.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

(also on dvd today)

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck

Louisiana is the only state that relies almost exclusively on local traffic-ticket revenue and parking fines — rather than a significant contribution from the state — to finance its low-income residents' constitutionally protected right to a lawyer.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-14-free-felons_x.htm

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a list of what's coming out on dvd somewhere?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I was just looking on Amazon.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Another place to look is Lackluster Online.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Or Cockthruster, whichever you prefer.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I started a NEW THREAD. Go there. Or not. You can't hurt my feelings.

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― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

boo to that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Veto.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thirded.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Jesse.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Here, truly fancy kinds of things with, like blood orange juice or powdered sugar rims or etc are in the $12-$18 range per cocktail.

I just want to mention that those are in the $7-9 range where I live.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

those things would just get in the way of the booze anyway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just liked the shoulder pads

Someone else make a thread then!!!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

When Someone Rides Free We All Pay!!!!!!!!!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

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